Malcolm-Jamal Warner, an actor and artist who rose to fame as a child as Theodore Huxtable on “
The Cosby Show,” died Sunday in a drowning accident in Costa Rica, according to local police.
He was 54.
Warner was swimming at Playa Grande near the town of Cahuita in the province of Limón on the Caribbean coast around 2:30 p.m. local time, when a current pulled him deeper into the ocean, according to the Associated Press.
Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Police told CNN on Monday people who were on the beach tried to help Warner, but he was declared dead by the Red Cross. Another man is in critical condition after being pulled into the current with Warner, authorities said.
On Tuesday, the Judicial Investigation Police said an autopsy of Warner had been completed, with the manner of death classified as accidental, and the cause as “asphyxia by submersion” (or, drowning). Warner’s body will then be released to a funeral service selected by his family.
