Tacoma police remain tight lipped about the circumstances of a suspicious death of a 12-year-old boy while they await the medical examiner’s determination on his cause of death to aid their investigation.
The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the boy as Preston Hemingway-Lux of Tacoma. He was pronounced dead Sept. 19 after Tacoma Police Department officers and Fire Department personnel responded to the 4000 block of South Lawrence Street in South Tacoma for a report of an unresponsive boy.
The Police Department initially shared on social media that detectives and crime-scene technicians were investigating the incident as a suspicious death. Officer Shelbie Boyd on Wednesday declined to share any details of what the boy’s condition was when officers arrived at the scene over concerns it could affect the investigation…