Texas Teen`s Death Ruled Suicide by Snakebite

11/13/2015

AUSTIN — A Texas teenager who died in a SUV earlier this year committed suicide by letting a deadly monocle cobra repeatedly bite him, according to the autopsy report obtained by KVUE-TV’s Tony Plohetski.

The Travis County Medical Examiner’s office report said Grant Thompson, 18, had “several bites” from the cobra on each arm and the bites showed no sign Thompson ever tried to pull away when the snake bit him.

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