Michael Blosil, 18, reportedly jumped Los Angeles apartment building
Toxicology tests will determine whether drugs or alcohol played a role in the death of Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son, who police said jumped to his death from a downtown apartment building, a coroner's official said Monday.Michael Blosil left a suicide note before he leaped from the eighth floor of the building on Friday night, said police Lt. Paul Vernon.
Vernon said he did not have details of the note.
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"It was fairly obvious this appeared to be a suicide, based upon witness statements," he said.
Coroner's officials were investigating the case as a suicide, but an autopsy conducted Sunday did not officially determine the cause of death pending the results of toxicology tests, which could take up to two months, said Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter.
"He fell to his death from a balcony, eight stories," Winter said, but officials "just want to make sure that he wasn't drunk or something and walked out of his balcony and fell."
"Is it an accident or is it a suicide?" Winter asked. "We just want to make sure that there's nothing that we missed."
Blosil was a first-year student of apparel manufacturing at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, said college spokeswoman Shirley Wilson. A floral memorial was placed in the school's rotunda in his honor.
Blosil and other students lived at the Metropolitan apartments on Flower Street, Wilson said.
The complex, known as "The Met," has a 24-hour doorman and a balcony for every apartment, along with a spa, pool and other luxuries.
Details of Blosil's death were not immediately released, but Vernon said there was no indication that he had been attending a party or other event where he might have been drinking.
There have been conflicting reports about whether Blosil may have struggled with depression. Vernon said he did not have any information.
