PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A preliminary autopsy performed on the body of a Massachusetts man pulled from a Providence river has found no evidence of foul play.
The results released Thursday by the Rhode Island medical examiner's office show that 23-year-old Gregory Hart appears to have drowned in the Woonasquatucket (woon-as-kah-TUCK'-et) River.
Police say they are still investigating Hart's death as
suspicious - routine when there's no obvious reason for death - until the medical examiner gets toxicology reports and can make a final determination.
Hart's family has been highly critical of the investigation and do not believe the death was an accident.
Hart, a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who was from Dedham, Mass., was last seen Sunday morning in
Providence, where he and friends had visited a bar.
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