Malcolm-Jamal Warner Was Swimming With His Daughter, 8, When He Drowned

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More info is rising about Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s tragic loss of life.

Moments earlier than The Cosby Show alum died in an unintentional drowning off the coast of Costa Rica July 20, police confirmed to ABC News that he had been swimming together with his 8-year-old daughter.

According to authorities, surfers seen the father-daughter duo struggling and dove into the water to assist. And whereas a surfer used his board to convey the little lady to security, per ABC News, a volunteer lifeguard pulled Warner to shore, the place he was given 45 minutes of CPR.

In addition to Warner and his daughter, a second man received treatment on the scene and was later taken to an area clinic in important situation.

“The scene was left in the hands of the police authorities for the corresponding procedures,” the Costa Rican Red Cross informed NBC News in a July 22 assertion, occurring to notice that “two people were dragged by a water current at the beach” and that each sufferers had been out of the water on the time the paramedics arrived.

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Shortly after, Costa Rican National Police confirmed to ABC News that Warner’s official cause of death was asphyxia.

In the times following Warner’s loss of life, friends and former cast members—together with Bill Cosby, Tracee Ellis Ross and Raven-Symone—expressed their heartbreak over the tragedy.

“I love you, Malcolm,” Ross wrote in a July 21 Instagram submit alongside footage of the pair. “First I met you as Theo with the rest of the world then you were my first TV husband. My heart is so so sad.”

As for how Warner wanted to be remembered himself? Two months earlier than his loss of life, he shared precisely what he needed his legacy to be.

“I will be able to leave this earth knowing and people knowing that I was a good person,” Warner stated throughout a May 21 episode of the Hot & Bothered with Melyssa Ford podcast. “[My dad] said to me often, ‘You know people love you, and people [are] always talking about your career and your success and all of that, but what really makes me the most proud is that you are a good person.'”

Along together with his iconic position as Theodore Huxtable on the NBC sitcom, the actor additionally starred on a number of main collection together with Reed Between the Lines and The Resident.

“I remember my mother said to me one time that, ‘Mr. Cosby gave you immortality,’ so I know on one lane there’s legacy there,” he shared. “But then, because I’ve had this full life after that show, there’s another lane of legacy that I get to leave.”

Keep studying to look again at Warner’s life in images.

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