Autopsy Shows Kidnaped Boy Was Suffocated
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An autopsy has found that an 11-year-old Inglewood boy who was kidnaped on his way home from school in late May was suffocated, a coroner’s spokesman said Tuesday.
Spokesman Bob Dambacher said the death of William Tillett, a fourth-grader at Bennett-Kew Elementary School, was listed as a homicide and the cause as asphyxia.
William’s body was discovered behind a Hawthorne apartment building on May 24, several hours after his parents reported to police that he had not returned home from school.
Police said there were indications that William had been bound but no signs of life-threatening trauma. An earlier autopsy was inconclusive.
The investigation into William’s death is continuing, police said. No arrests have been made.
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