Malcolm-Jamal Warner reportedly was swimming with 8-year-old daughter when he drowned

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Gray News) – Malcolm-Jamal Warner was apparently not alone when he drowned in Costa Rica over the weekend.

ABC News stories that the 54-year-old actor was swimming together with his 8-year-old daughter when surfers noticed them struggling within the water.

According to police stories, one of many males dove in and introduced the kid again to security on his board whereas a volunteer lifeguard pulled Warner and one other surfer to shore.

Mike Geist, a lifeguard teacher on the seashore and one of many males who helped within the rescue, mentioned he began emergency care on Warner, however that was ineffective.

“There were two doctors who were also here just on vacation,” Geist mentioned. “Between the three of them, they were able to perform CPR for more than 30 minutes, probably more like 45 minutes, and unfortunately, it was not successful.”

Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department mentioned the actor was on a seashore on the Caribbean coast that Sunday afternoon. He was swimming at Playa Cocles in Limon province when a current pulled him deeper into the ocean.

Costa Rica authorities are calling Warner’s demise an unintentional drowning.

Warner labored for greater than 40 years as an actor and director. He was greatest recognized for his position as Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” through the Nineteen Eighties and ‘90s.

His remaining credit got here in TV visitor roles, together with a dramatic four-episode arc final yr on the community procedural “9-1-1,” the place he performed a nurse who was a long-term survivor of a horrible hearth.

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