Bobbi Kristina Brown died from a combination of alcohol, drugs and drowning – but it’s still unclear whether her death was murder, suicide or an accident. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office in Atlanta released a statement Friday morning – on what would have been Bobbi Kristina’s 23rd birthday – about her death as it prepares to release the full autopsy report.
According to the statement, Bobbi Kristina died of lobar pneumonia, which was caused by the combination of drugs found in her system, drowning and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy – a neurological condition resulting from a lack of oxygen to the brain.
The 22-year-old only daughter of singers Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta town house on January 31, 2015, and died in hospice care on July 26 after spending months in a coma.
Her death was eerily similar to her mother, who drowned in a hotel bathtub after taking cocaine in February 2012. The two are now buried next to each other in the same New Jersey cemetery.
The office says it reviewed medical records, investigative files and other documents to determine how Bobbi Kristina likely died.
The medical examiner’s office says marijuana and alcohol were involved in the death, along with medications used for sedation or to treat anxiety.
