Overview

• The Hawaii Police Department autopsy lists acute respiratory failure, sepsis, hypertensive/atherosclerotic heart disease, and morbid obesity among its findings.
• Toxicology testing found no evidence of drugs or alcohol above reporting limits.
• The report does not assign a definitive cause or manner of death, and investigators have closed the case.
• Clinical notes say Bell complained of difficulty breathing before he died, and exam findings document resuscitation efforts including AED pads, an airway, IV access, and an intraosseous line.
• Performed June 19 and completed July 10, the autopsy became public on August 19, following Bell’s June 12 death at age 46 on Hawaii’s Big Island.