Coroner: Autopsy on Whitney Houston completed

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office completed its autopsy of Whitney Houston on Sunday, and Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said the results won't be released for 6 to 8 weeks as they await the completion of the toxicology report.

Houston's body arrived at the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office in the Boyle Heights area of LA 11 hours after she was declared dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, reports CBS2 in Los Angeles.

The pop superstar was pronounced dead 3:55 p.m. Saturday in her fourth-floor room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Kirk Hawkins, reporting for CBS2 and KCAL9, said paramedics performed CPR for 20 minutes prior to that after they were called by a member of Houston's entourage.

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Houston was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her fourth floor hotel room.

Speaking at a press conference on sunday, Winter with the L.A. Coroner's Office said there's a security hold on the case so there will be no additional information as far as what was discovered in the room, or any details of that nature, until the ongoing investigation into her death is concluded.

Winter confirmed earlier reports and said Houston was found in the bathtub, and that she was likely removed from the bathtub and that paramedics performed CPR. There were no signs of trauma and foul play is not suspected.

Winter did not answer questions about whether or not drugs were found in the room.

The L.A. Coroner's Office will likely not be providing further updates until the end of the week, Winter said.

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[marissa0728]

In complete agreement. I don't understand why our society celebrates a life who chose to die from drugs. As far as I'm concerned she was a washed up singer/drug addict. There should be no billboards, lights, tributes of how wonderful she was. There should be billboards, lights and tributes of what drugs do to people, and the lack of future when drugs are involved, for example Whitney Houston. People should remember her life but make sure they include her life of drugs. So everybody including teenagers understand where drugs lead, NOWHERE (or in whitney's case, dead in her bathtub)

[sonofsummarex]

Only one thing is certain.
She died clean!

[smittyc]

Could well be true, but she was only 48. Her history of being a dopehead is public knowledge so even if they report she fell and drowned, she was probably high. Overall these deaths are everyday in the drug culture segment of society, Hollywood types just gets more press. When the public hears these names, the majorities first comment is drugie not singer,actor or musician. Then everybody laughs.

[Avignon-Mimi]

I don't understand why I need to know she died in the bathtub. Who cares? What kind of reporter would even want to dig that up? If that contributed to her death, then fine, add that in after the final report is filed. Until then, stop with the useless information.

[sonofsummarex]

I'm guessing she may have fallen asleep and drowned or perhaps slipped on a bar of soap and broken her neck.

[gruven13777100]

It's pretty hard to fall asleep and drown if you are sober.
Your brain would wake you up. The report I read said the bathtub was full of water so she probably wasn't taking a shower. It's possible she fell into the bathtub and knocked herself out and drown. The other possibility is that she had a deadly combination of drugs in her system that killed her while she was taking a bath.