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Forensic Examiner: Don Tillett Didn’t Die Of Injuries
posted (January 10, 2014)
The autopsy for 45 year-old Don Tillett has been completed, and Dr. Hugh Sanchez found that he died due to his bad heart.

His report is loaded with complicated medical jargon, but tonight when he contacted him to verify, he told us that the bottom line is that he died because of an enlarged heart.

So, even though he was abducted, robbed and left for dead on New Year's Day, police are not treating the case as a homicide because he died not of injuries he sustained in the attack, but from his heart condition. They do note, however, that they continue to investigate. As we told you, he picked up 3 strangers who begged him for a ride, and when he picked them up took them a short distance in his car, one of the men clubbed him in the back of the head. He woke up in the mud and water on the banks of the Belize River between mile 6 and 7 on the Northern Highway.

He survived that ordeal after being placed on life support, and was discharged from the hospital. He died on Monday after his health took a turn for the worse.

7News understands that his family is getting advice on whether or not they should bring a civil suit against the hospital. As we've told you, they believe that the hospital should not have released him in the condition he was in.

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