Cause of death determined for Oklahoma teen military hopeful found on side of road

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A aesculapian examiner's study concluded that nan manner of decease is still not known aft a 19-year-old Oklahoma teen was recovered dormant and wearing thing but his shoes on a road connected Labor Day 2023.

Noah Presgrove was recovered dormant on a agrarian agelong of US-81 in Jefferson County connected Labor Day successful 2023. He was past seen live astatine a statement he attended pinch a group of friends that night, but astir a twelvemonth later, nan family says that nary 1 has travel guardant and told them really he ended up dead, on nan highway.

Presgrove had precocious graduated from precocious school, 3 months early, pinch plans to enlist successful nan subject alongside his cousin. 

The aesculapian examiner released nan autopsy results to nan Presgrove family connected Monday, which nan family shared pinch Fox News Digital.

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Noah Presgrove, 19

Noah Presgrove's assemblage was recovered on a Oklahoma road connected Labor Day of 2023 and nan mode of his decease is still unknown.  (Madison Rawlings/Kristen Smith)

"In information of nan circumstances surrounding nan death, autopsy examination, and toxicology result, nan decease of Noah Alexander Nichols is owed to aggregate blunt unit injuries. The decedent was recovered naked wearing only a brace of shoes connected nan broadside of a road connected nan greeting of September 4, 2023. There were nary conveyance parts aliases debris observed connected nan scene. At this time, what transpired connected really nan assemblage was recovered connected nan roadworthy having aggregate blunt unit injuries is unknown. Therefore, nan mode of decease is deemed undetermined," nan study read. 

The study besides said that investigators wished Presgrove died from "multiple blunt unit injuries." 

"Further investigation revealed that nan decedent was astatine a location statement and drinking connected September 3, 2023. Then he rode an ATV ranger conveyance pinch respective men that had a rotation complete incident. The decedent was live pursuing nan incident and returned to nan statement wherever he sewage into an statement pinch his girlfriend. The decedent near nan location statement and was not recovered until nan greeting of September 4, 2023, connected nan broadside of nan highway," nan study continued.

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Noah Presgrove

What led to nan decease of 19-year-old Oklahoma teen Noah Presgrove is still not known astir a twelvemonth later.  (Madison Rawlings/Kristen Smith)

Madison Rawlings, Noah's sister, told Fox News Digital that nan report's finding does not adhd up.

"I’m not judge who nan woman he is ‘supposedly’ arguing with. That is simply a mobility I reached retired astir pinch nan aesculapian examiner," Rawlings said. 

When nan decease was first reported, nan Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation described Presgrove’s decease arsenic "suspicious."

A spokesperson for nan Oklahoma Highway Patrol, who person taken complete nan investigation, told Fox News Digital that nan investigation is ongoing and that they do not person immoderate accusation they tin stock connected this case.

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"At nan extremity of nan day, what we cognize is that he mislaid his life," Lindsay Fowler, 1 of Noah's cousins told KFOR. "He was recovered connected nan broadside of nan highway. And it appears that he was dumped location and personification knows what happened. And we want to cognize what happened."

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