Actress Charlbi Dean’s Cause of Death Revealed - E! NEWS

Black Lightning Actress Charlbi Dean Dead astatine 32

Charlbi Dean's cause of decease has been determined 4 months aft her passing.

The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner ruled that the South African actress died of bacterial sepsis, which was brought connected from "a complication from asplenia" (the lack of a spleen) owed to "remote blunt trauma to her torso," per People.

A spokesperson for the coroner's bureau told the outlet connected Dec. 21 that sepsis was caused aft Dean was infected with a bacteria known arsenic Capnocytophaga. According to the CDC, Capnocytophaga is dispersed to radical done bites, scratches, licks oregon different adjacent interaction with animals specified arsenic dogs and cats. People with autoimmune issues and without spleens are peculiarly susceptible to these infections. 

The Black Lightning star's decease was ruled an accident, though it is unclear if an carnal wound oregon lick was liable for her infection. The aesculapian examiner has not made her afloat autopsy public.

Her brother Alex Jacobs, antecedently told Rolling Stone that Dean was progressive successful a "very, precise atrocious car accident" astir 2009, aft which doctors removed her spleen. He besides noted that his sister suffered breached ribs and a breached backmost successful the accident

"[The spleen is] progressive successful warring disconnected infections, and that could person had thing to bash with what happened," Jacobs said connected Aug. 31. "Her spleen not being determination conscionable added connected to the crushed wherefore she possibly couldn't combat it off."

Jacobs besides elaborate his sister's past time alive, explaining that Dean began experienced "minor" symptoms earlier asking her fiancé, Luke Volker, to instrumentality her to an exigency room. She died conscionable a fewer hours later.

Her member told the outlet, "This happened virtually wrong the span of a day: getting a headache, going to sleep, waking up her fellow and saying delight instrumentality maine to the hospital."