""All persons who are relevant witnesses, like his mother and hospital staff and airline personnel who had contact with him, would have to testify"

The following day, Bradley Neely, the chief inspector of the coroner's office, told the Associated Press that death seemed "suspicious...Whenever there is a suspicious death we would have an inquest to determine how the person died," Coroner Linda Virgill held a September 13 news conference and said a coroner's inquest would begin October 23.