A 12-year-old boy from New York died less than 24 hours after arriving at a camp for troubled youth in North Carolina .
Det. Sgt. Andrew Shook and Det. Stony Gonee of the Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office arrived at Trails Carolina on the morning of Feb. 3 to find the minor, CJH, “laying in the floor of the bunk house on a mat” wearing a red hoodie and with his pants and underwear “laying next to his right shoulder,” according to a search warrant obtained by Inside Edition Digital.
The body was in “rigor mortis” according to the detectives, who noted that during interviews, “camp counselors were asked how his pants got into this position and they did not know,” says the warrant .
Trails meanwhile is pushing back on any suggestion they are at fault and said in a statement earlier this week: “We ask that speculations cease, and the family be allowed to grieve without further interference by those seeking to capitalize on a child’s death in order to advance an agenda.”
The detectives “noted possible petechial located in the lips and possible eyes,” and when they rolled the boy’s body he “began to foam at the mouth, which could’ve indicated that he ingested some sort of poison,” according to the warrant.