The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner said this week that 34-year-old singer Aaron Carter died from drowning in his bathtub after taking pills and huffing spray paint.
Officials said that Carter drowned “due to the effects of difluoroethane (aerosol propellant found in spray cans) and alprazolam (commonly referred to as Xanax).”
“On the morning of November 5, 2022, Mr. Carter was found submerged in the bathtub at his residence, located in Lancaster, by his reported housekeeper who called 911 and was instructed to begin CPR,” the statement said. “Paramedics were called to the location and Mr. Carter was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:14 a.m.”
Following the investigation, Carter’s body was sent to the department’s Forensic Science Center for examination, and the deputy medical examiner completed a full autopsy on the body.
“Following the completion and receipt of relevant test results, the cause of death was certified on April 14,” the statement concluded. “The manner of death was certified as accident.”
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department issued a statement last month insisting that there was no evidence of foul play after Carter’s mom released graphic photos of his death scene to the public.
“Homicide detectives are continuing their investigation into the death of Aaron Carter. To date, there has been no evidence of foul play found during the investigation,” investigators said in a statement, per Rolling Stone. “The results of Mr. Carter’s autopsy are still pending. The investigation remains ongoing.”
Jane Schneck was frustrated that Carter’s death wasn’t being investigated as a potential crime, so she published images of the 34-year-old’s bathroom on her Facebook page Wednesday. These images included shots of a bathtub filled with discolored water where Carter’s body was discovered plus other images of clothing, towels, and soiled water all over the floor.
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The green-hued water is thought to be the result of the body decomposing before it was discovered by Carter’s housekeeper.
“I want to share these death scene photos with you all because the coroner wrote it off as an accidental drug overdose. They never investigated it as a possible crime scene because of his addiction past,” Schneck shared on Facebook. She argues that police “allowed people to go in and out” and were “tromping” through the room when it should have been treated as a crime scene.
“Aaron had a lot of death threats and many many people who were making his life miserable,” the singer’s mother continued. She said that the specific way that bath towels were folded and placed on the bathroom floor could be clues to proving that Carter’s death was staged to look like an overdose.
“A proper investigation was not done,” Schneck asserted.
The singer’s on-again, off-again fiance Melanie Martin found messages on Carter’s phone showing a text exchange between him and an identified person who was allegedly demanding $800 for an unknown substance. She told TMZ in January that this exchange was proof that the death could have been a homicide.
Amanda Harding contributed to this report.
