The authorities have confirmed the official cause of death for Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died on Sunday in Costa Rica while swimming in Playa Grande in Cahuita, a village in the province of Limón. Warner, who played Theodore Huxtable in “The Cosby Show”, was 54 years old.

The Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) of Costa Rica confirmed on Tuesday the people who completed the earlier that day showed that Warner died due to accidental asphyxiation due to submersion. This confirmed previous claims of the Local Police before an official autopsy.

“The body will be eliminated from the judicial morgue by a funeral service company hired and authorized by Mr. Warner’s family,” the OIJ told People in a statement.

The Costa Rica Red Cross revealed in a statement on Tuesday the Hollywood reporter that the first to respond were notified on Sunday around 2:10 pm of two male swimmers who need emergency medical treatment due to a “water -related incident” in Playa Grande.

According to the reports, the paramedics revived one of the swimmers, while Warner was declared dead.

“The victim seems to have entered the sea and was apparently dragged by a current,” the OIJ wrote in a statement on Monday, by people. “The man was rescued by spectators and taken to the coast, where he received the treatment of the Costa Rica Red Cross.”

“However, he was declared lifeless on the scene,” the agency concluded.

A young Warner (left) with the rest of his old
A young Warner (left) with the rest of his former “Cosby Show” co -star.

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The death of Warner, which, according to the reports, occurred during a family vacation, caused tributes of friends, colleagues and former colleagues. Tracee Ellis Ross, who played his wife in the 2011 situation comedy “Read between the lines,” said Warner “made the world a brighter place.”

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His “television father” Bill Cosby, accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment for more than 60 women and spent almost three years in prison before his conviction was overturned in 2021, he cried Warner in a telephone interview on Tuesday with News.

“He was never afraid to go to his room and study,” Cosby told journalist Jerichka Duncan about Warner’s work ethics as a child actor in “The Cosby Show.” “I knew its lines and that I was quite comfortable even with the pain of growing being a teenager.”

Warner is survived by a daughter, whose name never shared publicly.