Months after a 12-year-old boy was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a Tacoma apartment building, a police investigation remains on hold pending the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office’s ruling on his cause and manner of death.
The Medical Examiner’s Office has declined to release any information about its death investigation beyond the boy’s name, Preston Hemingway-Lux, his age, city of residence, the general location of where he died and the date of his death, Sept. 12, 2025.
In an interview with The News Tribune on Friday, his mother, Castonya Taylor, said medical examiner’s officials told her they found an issue with her son’s heart that would not have been detected in regular doctor visits and that his death was a “freak accident.” She said the last she heard, the office was conducting genetic testing…