Lexington County Coroner to Reveal Elena Moore's Cause of Death Friday
The coroner said Moore’s death was natural and linked to cardiac dysrhythmias, and autopsy findings showed no traumatic injury.
- Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher announced Friday that 39-year-old Elena Moore died from natural causes, specifically complications of cardiac dysrhythmias and premature ventricular contractions.
- Police discovered Moore's body on June 17 in a wooded area near Lakeside Middle School in Lexington after a resident reported seeing her enter the woods days earlier.
- An autopsy conducted June 20 revealed no evidence of traumatic injury, though Fisher confirmed Moore had a history of heart and mental health problems with no medication in her system when she died.
- Fisher criticized Lexington Medical Center for releasing Moore in a "full-blown mental health crisis" via taxi on June 11, despite her husband offering to pick her up.
- Though Moore died of natural causes, Fisher framed the case as a reckoning on the county's mental health crisis, noting suicides have overtaken overdose deaths in Lexington this year.
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Elena Moore died from natural causes following mental crisis, says coroner
"This is mental illness. Her heart condition, she probably could have lived through that heart condition with her medication, but she was in a full mental health crisis. So many people missed it. The only person that really tried to help this girl, to get her help through the system, is her husband. That's it," says Fisher.
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