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Facts about McClune death delayed until SU memorial

The release of the medical examiner’s report that could shed some light on the death of Syracuse University Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune has been delayed.

Sgt. Tom Connellan, a Syracuse Police Department spokesman, said the police department will not release any new information about the McClune case for about three weeks.

Connellan said the time is needed to brief McClune’s family on the findings of his death, which is still under investigation. McClune’s family have expressed their desire to know what happened to Andrew. Members of the McClune family will arrive in Syracuse for a memorial service to be held Feb. 18, Connellan said. SU spokesman Kevin Morrow could not be reached for comment on plans for the McClune memorial.

Earlier reports from both the Syracuse Police Department and the Onondaga County Medical Examiners office indicated the report should have been completed at the end of last week.

The meeting with the family will not be by telephone because the family has requested the meeting in Syracuse to discuss various questions about the case, Connellan said.



Onondaga County Medical Examiner Dr. Paul Gosink, the doctor who conducted McClune’s autopsy, said he could not comment on the manner of McClune’s death but he could comment on the cause. The manner of death is the ruling made by investigators of how the person died; if the death was an accident, suicide, or several other possible outcomes. The cause of death is the ruling by investigators of why the person died; what physically caused the person to die.

In the McClune case the cause of death has been determined to be multiple blunt force injuries as the result of a fall from a high elevation, Gosink said.

The determination of the manner of death is still pending awaiting the completion of the police investigation, Gosink said.

“Everything is progressing, it is just taking a while,” he said.





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