Aaron Carter's Family Says He Didn't Drown, Believe it Was an Overdose - TMZ

Aaron Carter Family Says He Didn't Drown successful Tub ... Believe He Had Fatal OD

1/17/2023 12:45 AM PT

Aaron Carter was recovered dormant successful his bathtub, but his household present says helium didn't dice from drowning ... instead, they judge drugs killed him.

Aaron's fiancée, Melanie Martin, and mother, Jane Carter, archer TMZ ... the L.A. County Coroner's Office told them determination was nary h2o recovered successful Aaron's lungs, which rules retired drowning arsenic a imaginable origin of death.

Melanie and Jane accidental the coroner is inactive waiting connected toxicology results to find what was successful Aaron's strategy erstwhile helium died, and the household wants instrumentality enforcement to analyse an alleged cause woody the nighttime of Aaron's death.

TMZ broke the story, cops were called to Aaron's L.A. country location backmost successful November for a study of a drowning.

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Law enforcement believes Aaron's assemblage was successful the tub for a agelong clip arsenic determination was a odor of decomposition and the h2o had turned an unnatural color.

Plus we're told the tub's jets were inactive moving erstwhile Aaron's assemblage was found.

Melanie has Aaron's telephone and she says she recovered substance messages with an unidentified idiosyncratic telling Aaron helium owed $800 for an chartless substance. She says the speech includes Aaron telling the idiosyncratic helium didn't request the substance anymore, to which the idiosyncratic responded that it didn't substance and helium inactive owed money.

Melanie says Aaron asked the idiosyncratic if helium was being threatened, and that's wherever the speech ends. She tells america she met with investigators past week, and submitted the speech for evidence.

The household believes Aaron mightiness person met with the idiosyncratic helium was texting earlier his decease ... and they fearfulness Aaron took a substance that could person yet killed him.

As we archetypal told you, cops recovered aggregate cans of compressed air successful Aaron's bath and bedroom, arsenic good arsenic medicine pills.

However, Aaron's household believes his decease was NOT caused by huffing compressed aerial ... and they privation constabulary to analyse the anticipation idiosyncratic sold Aaron a substance that caused a fatal overdose.