King County, WA, ME determined cause of death for two teens and father found in Renton apartment in Dec 2021 - Starvation

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Could be months before cause of death known for two teens, father found in Renton apartment

Dec. 13, 2021 at 4:58 pm Updated Dec. 13, 2021 at 5:40 pm

By Daisy Zavala
Seattle Times staff reporter

It could take months before the cause of death is known for two teen girls and their father whose bodies were found in their Renton apartment Saturday, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Autopsies performed Monday on the three did not “uncover any obvious manner of death,” so further laboratory and scientific testing will be needed for the medical examiner to determine an official cause and manner of death, according to the Renton Police Department.
Sisters Adriana Gil, 17, and Mariel Gil, 16, were found dead Saturday in the living room of their home on the 300 block of Factory Avenue North. The body of their father, 33-year-old Manuel Gil, was in an upstairs bedroom...

 

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Renton man, teenage daughters starved to death, medical examiner determines

June 30, 2022 at 1:43 pm Updated June 30, 2022 at 9:27 pm
By Daisy Zavala Magaña and Sara Jean Green

The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined that a Renton man and his two teenage daughters, who were found dead in their apartment in December, died from starvation, according to Kent police.

The bodies of 33-year-old Manuel Gil and his daughters, Adriana Gil, 17, and Mariel Gil, 16, were discovered Dec. 11 by their landlord. At the time, Renton police said it appeared the girls died around Dec. 5 and their father died around Dec. 10. Autopsies failed to determine how the three died and additional laboratory examinations were conducted.

Due to the timing of the deaths, Manuel Gil’s death was ruled a suicide, according to Renton police Detective Robert Onishi. With no way to determine what the two girls’ state of mind and intent was, the manner of their death was ruled undetermined by the medical examiner, he wrote in the news release.
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Alvarado keeps thinking back to several instances officials failed her daughters, she said. Calls were made to Child Protective Services over concerns regarding the girls’ safety and well-being, she said.

They had grown distant and had lost a lot of weight rapidly, Alvarado said. Their father convinced them to cut ties with everyone and the outside world as he was believed to have followed an extremist sect of the Black Hebrew Israelite faith categorized as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League.

“I couldn’t get anybody to help me get my teenage daughters from [him] and it shouldn’t be like that,” Alvarado said Tuesday. “I know it can get sticky with parents going back and forth, but it’s that or what happened to my girls.”..