Costa Rican authorities say it could take months to determine Miller Gardner’s cause of death

Costa Rican authorities believe it could take two or three months for investigators to determine Miller Gardner’s cause of death because of overloaded forensic laboratories in the Central American country.

Costa Rican authorities believe it could take two or three months for investigators to determine Miller Gardner’s cause of death because of overloaded forensic laboratories in the Central American country. Miller, the 14-year-old son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, was found dead on Friday morning at a hotel in Manuel Antonio. According to Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ), the whole family fell ill, likely from food poisoning from something they ate the night before at a different hotel than where they were staying. The OIJ’s Marisel Rodríguez told CNN that Miller Gardner was found dead by a family member in his hotel room at the Arenas Del Mar resort and that, although preliminary reports suggested the cause of death could be “asphyxiation due to intoxication related to food poisoning,” asphyxia was later ruled out by forensic medicine – a division of OIJ – as there was no obstruction of the airways. Dr. Kevin Gannon, the medical director of Manuel Antonio Urgent Care, a health care service located on the same beach where the Gardner family was vacationing, told CNN on Wednesday that a team consisting of a doctor, a nurse and a driver traveled to the hotel. “When the team arrived, they found a 14-year-old male, without vital signs in the hotel room, with indications of vomiting, but we cannot confirm that it was exactly from him,” he said. Gannon said advanced CPR was performed by certified personnel for about 30 minutes without a response.