Coroner: Houston autopsy results on lockdown

Whitney Houston

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Whitney Houston

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Posted: 02/12/2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Coroner's officials say they will not release any information on Whitney Houston's autopsy at the request of police detectives investigating the singer's death. The official did say Houston's body was found in a hotel bathtub but it'll take weeks to determine how she died.

Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter told reporters Sunday afternoon that police had requested that no details about Houston's autopsy be publicly released. He said toxicology results would take weeks and the results were needed to determine how Houston died in a room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday afternoon.

Winter declined to release any details about what investigators found in the room, but said coroner's officials were not ruling out any potential causes of death

Beverly Hills Police Lt. Mark Rosen said Sunday that his agency may release more details about Houston's death on Monday, but it will depend on whether detectives feel comfortable releasing any information.

A member of Houston's entourage found the 48-year-old singer unresponsive in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Saturday, just hours before she was supposed to appear at a pre-Grammy gala.

Winter said there were no signs of trauma on Houston's body.

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