Coroner: Death of boy, 10, at Ill. school suicide

Feb 4 05:59 PM US/Eastern

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - A preliminary coroner's office ruling says a 10-year-old boy reportedly found hanging from a coat hook at his suburban Chicago school took his own life.

The Cook County medical examiner office released a daily ledger Wednesday afternoon that notes "hanging" and "suicide" as the cause of death for fifth-grader Aquan Lewis.

Messages seeking further comment were left with the medical examiner's office and Evanston police.

Aquan was found unresponsive in a bathroom at Oakton Elementary on Tuesday afternoon, and he was pronounced dead at a hospital Wednesday morning. The school's janitor said the child had been pulled off a hook.

Police had earlier refused to provide details about the case beyond calling it "an isolated incident."

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