Autistic boy Braylen Noble’s ’cause of death not yet able to be determined’ after his body was found in swimming pool

THE body of the three-year-old boy with autism who was found dead in a swimming pool showed no signs of trauma in an initial autopsy report.

Braylen Noble’s body was recovered from an apartment complex swimming pool in Toledo, Ohio, on Wednesday after he was believed to have fallen out of an apartment’s third-floor window and went missing, cops said.

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Braylen Noble went missing after he reportedly fell out of a third-floor window[/caption]

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An initial autopsy report has not found a definitive cause of death[/caption]

Officials said further investigation is needed before an official cause of death is determined.

“The autopsy on Braylen Noble showed no anatomic cause of death and no gross evidence of trauma. Drowning has not yet been ruled out as a cause of death, but further studies and investigation are needed before the final ruling is issued,” said Cynthia S Beisser, the Deputy Coroner with the Lucas County Coroner’s Office.

Authorities have also not ruled out drowning, WTOL reported.

The coroner’s office is waiting to perform toxicology and microscopic tests, which will conclude if there were substances in his system that may have contributed to his death, the outlet reported.

The coroner has not provided a timeline for when those tests will be completed, the outlet reported, and the initial autopsy results are not a final ruling on Braylen’s cause of death.

Searches for Braylen began last Friday when his mother, Dajnae Cox, called 911 to report that he had fallen out of one of their apartment’s three large windows that had been open and disappeared.

The half-drained pool where the body was found had been previously searched “numerous times” by cadaver dogs, law enforcement, and rescue workers, cops said.