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 May 4 at about 3 a.m. The report confirms that both died of acute heroin and alcohol intoxication. It also said that the death was accidental.

In the postmortem examinations of Armbruster and Theil, severe pulmonary edema was found to be the leading cause of death. The symptoms include shallow breathing and fluid accumulation in the lungs, said Scott Jenkinson, Athens county coroner.

“Severe pulmonary edema usually accompanies opiate overdoses,” Jenkinson said.

Armbruster and Theil also tested positive for marijuana, codeine, morphine, Xanax and other substances in initial screening tests, according to the report.  But the presence of other substances does not imply that they were used on the night they died, Jenkinson said.  For example, THC can remain in someone’s system for several weeks.       

Theil’s mother found the two in a bathtub at about 6:18 a.m. in building 35, room 408 at Riverpark Towers, according to the report. Drug paraphernalia was found at the scene.

Both were 22 years old when they died.