Toxicology reports from the Montgomery Examiner’s Office have confirmed the cause of death of the two students found in the bathtub of a Riverpark Towers apartment as a drug overdose.
According to the Athens County Coroner report, Kelly P. Armbruster, an Ohio University senior, and Christopher A. Theil, a first-year Hocking College student, died at approximately 3:00 a.m. on May 4. The report confirms that both died of acute heroin and alcohol intoxication. The manner of death was accidental.
Armbruster and Theil also tested positive for other substances in initial screening tests, according to the toxicology laboratory report.
Theil's mother found the two in a bathtub at 6:18 am in Riverpark apartment 408 of building 35. According to the report, drug paraphernalia was found at the scene.
Both were 22 years old when they died.
Reader Comments
With drug paraphernalia consistent with heroin present, why on Earth would APD initially come out and say the two drown in the bathtub?
Top notch work!
You can shoot up/get drunk/whatever, fall asleep in the tub and drown and it's not a drug overdose. It's a drug-related drowning, but still a drowning.
I thought they wouldn't confirm how they died until after the coroner's report? All I remember them initially saying was that no one else was at risk and that no foul play was suspected.
But Curiosity is right, you can OD, pass out and drown very easily in a bathtub full of water, especially if you're already drunk and have other substances in your body.
They didn't drown. That was ruled out a long time ago. They overdosed and slipped under water afterward.
can't sue the landowner for faulty tubs if drugs were the issue.
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