https://www.foxnews.com/us/brother-...dominican-republic-reveals-cause-death-report
The autopsy results for an
Indiana mother of two who died in February on a flight home from her vacation in the Dominican Republic have reportedly been released.
A forensic pathologist told Stefanie Smith's family that the 41-year-old woman died of natural causes; specifically, a carotid artery dissection in her neck, her brother Chris Volz said in an interview with ABC News.
"It was truly a tragic medical event that happened," he told the outlet, adding that the autopsy did not suggest foul play.
Smith was on an American Airlines
flight from Punta Cana headed to a connection in Charlotte, North Carolina, when she suddenly began convulsing soon after takeoff, forcing the plane to divert to Turks and Caicos, as her friend, Maria Yannotti, previously told Fox News Digital.