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Gustaf Kilander and Graeme Massie

Jamie Cail death - live: Investigators ‘anxiously awaiting’ autopsy and toxicology results as probe continues

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Sudden death of former US swim champ Jamie Cail under investigation

Investigators for the US Virgin Islands Police Department are “anxiously awaiting” Jamie Cail’s autopsy and toxicology result, according to officials.

Glen Dratte, director of communications for the department, told CNN that it was “crucial” to be accurate.

He told the news network that all deaths were looked into by the Criminal Investigations Bureau but added that there were “a lot of moving parts” in the probe.

Cail, 42, was found unresponsive by her boyfriend in the St John home they shared at 12.08am on 21 February, US Virgin Islands Police Department says.

Cail’s partner and a friend took her to the nearby Myrah Keating-Smith Clinic where she was given CPR. She was pronounced dead at about 2.39am, police said.

Her death is under investigation by the island’s Criminal Investigation Bureau. A cause of death has not yet been revealed.

Cail, from New Hampshire, was a top high school and university athlete who was part of a relay team that won a gold medal at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships.

She later swam for the University of Maine.

According to police, her unnamed boyfriend had been out at a bar on the night that she died.

Her distraught family and friends have paid tribute to Cail as a “beautiful person” with a “huge heart”.

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