Toxicology results will be needed to determine the cause of death of a 1½-year-old boy in St. Paul on Christmas, police said Thursday.
Preliminary information is that narcotics may have played a role in Jackson Joseph Weidell’s death, said Sgt. Toy Vixayvong, a St. Paul police spokesman.
Police arrested the boy’s 38-year-old father and 31-year-old mother on suspicion of manslaughter on Wednesday. A case has been referred to the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office and is still under investigation.
Toxicology results can take six to eight weeks to come back, Vixayvong said.
Jackson’s parents found him unresponsive Wednesday and called 911. Officers responded to the 1000 block of East Fifth Street in the Dayton’s Bluff area about 1:30 p.m.
St. Paul Fire Department medics took Jackson to Regions Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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