An autopsy of Carson Crimeni showed no injuries or health problems that would account for the 14-year-old Langley teen鈥檚 death last week, at least according to third-person information received by his father, Aron, on Tuesday.
鈥淭hey called me from the funeral home,鈥� Aron told the Langley Advance Times.
Carson was found in severe medical distress in Walnut Grove Community Park on Wednesday night (Aug. 7) by police who tried to revive him while waiting for paramedics to arrive. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
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The coroner ordered an autopsy. But no obvious cause of death was discovered, according to Aron.
鈥淗e was perfectly healthy,鈥� Dad shared. 鈥淭hey found no cause of death [from the preliminary examination]. He wasn鈥檛 choked.鈥�
A blood toxicology test to determine if drugs can be detected has been ordered, Aron added. But he was told that will take, at best, several weeks.
Crimeni expects the results will show his son died from an overdose.
鈥淭hey ruled out anything else,鈥� he said.
Andy Watson, spokesperson for the BC Coroners Service, would not comment on the open investigation.
鈥淎ny details from testing we conduct or order will be included as part of our coroner鈥檚 report, which will be available only at the conclusion of our investigation and will answer how, where, when, and by what means this male teen came to his death,鈥� Watson said.
鈥淭his investigation is in its early stages and remains open.鈥�
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Sleepless nights for grieving dad
For the single dad, the time since his son died has been a series of sleepless nights spent grieving for his only son.
Aron explained that because he was working in construction, his son had been staying with his grandfather on weekdays.
鈥淚 have to be out the door at 6:30 in the morning,鈥� Aron related.
It was also convenient for Carson to stay with his grandfather Darrel, who lived just down the street from Walnut Grove Secondary, where Carson attended.
But with Carson getting old enough to travel by himself on public transit, it had recently become possible for him to move in with his dad, who lives in the Willowbrook neighbourhood, and take the bus to school in Walnut Grove, Aron explained. They鈥檇 been living together about a month.
On Wednesday, Aug. 7, Carson didn鈥檛 make it home, to his dad鈥檚 place, by a pre-arranged check-in time of 7:30 p.m.
After multiple messages to Carson鈥檚 cellphone went unanswered, his father and grandfather started searching. Aron drove along the bus route his son would have taken, and Darrel focussed on the nearby park.
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Aron described getting a phone call from Darrel around 9:30 p.m. that night, telling him that Carson had been found in the park.
鈥淗e said paramedics were working on him,鈥� Aron recalled. At first, he thought it might be something like a fracture 鈥� serious but survivable.
Not until he arrived and found Carson had been placed in an ambulance for transport to hospital, did he fear the worst.
鈥淭hey wouldn鈥檛 let me look in the ambulance,鈥� he recalled. 鈥淚t鈥檚 bad, when they do that.鈥�
He was horrified to later learn that videos of his son, in obvious distress, had been posted on social media, with people laughing and the teen barely able to walk or talk.
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鈥淲e, as a family, have been given a lot of information and it鈥檚 heartbreaking,鈥� Aron said.
Based on what he has seen and heard, Dad believes Carson died because some bullies wanted to abuse him.
鈥淭his is a bully thing,鈥� Aron said.
Carson had struggled in school, due to ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), which meant it was hard for him to focus in a classroom setting, his father explained.
But when it came to one of Carson鈥檚 passions, like playing hockey, or video games or 鈥� most of all 鈥� cooking, it was a different story.
鈥淚f you put him in a kitchen, he had a laser-like focus,鈥� Aron recalled.
鈥淚鈥檓 bad [about cooking]. We would go to the store, and I鈥檇 get something frozen and he would pull on my sleeve and and drag me to the meat aisle.鈥�
Carson was an accomplished cook at an early age, preparing a full chicken dinner from scratch at the age of 13.
鈥淗e was either going to be a chef or a veterinarian,鈥� Aron predicted.
He remembers his son as someone who would make an effort to make other people feel better by getting them to laugh.
鈥淚f anyone looked [unhappy], he would be funny.鈥�
Aron repeated the family appeal for witnesses to help police in their investigation.
He also urged people against taking justice into their own hands.
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Langley RCMP have set up a tipline at 604-532-3398 for people with information about the case.
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