Official Rules Youth’s Cyanide Death a Suicide
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CAMDEN, N.J. — A medical examiner concluded Thursday that a 17-year-old boy who died in January after eating a cyanide-laced container of yogurt committed suicide.
Camden County medical examiner Dr. Robert Segal ruled that Thomas Lee of Haddonfield had been depressed and that the boy was one of only three people with access to the poisonous cyanide in his father’s laboratory, county prosecutor Samuel Asbell said. Hsin-yi Lee, the boy’s father, is an expert on fetal brain development and the chairman of the biology department at Rutgers University’s Camden campus.
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