A cause of death hasn't been determined for a 22-year-old college student who was detained for almost a year and a half in North Korea before being sent home in a coma, an OH coroner's office said Tuesday.
The coroner's office reviewed medical records from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and the air ambulance service that helped bring Warmbier from Pyongyang to Cincinnati after 17 months.
Warmbier's father, Fred Warmbier, told a news conference last week that his son had flourished while at the high school.
He was sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years of hard labour for allegedly stealing a political poster from a North Korean hotel during a tourist trip.
The 22-year-old's simple pine casket was led out in a procession that included bagpipes and a line of family members.
"North Korea needs to be held accountable for what happened to Otto Warmbier", Portman said.
A long line of mourners waited to enter funeral services early today for Otto Warmbier, the USA student imprisoned in North Korea who returned home last week in a coma that proved fatal. At the time of his death, Warmbier was in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness", and doctors said he had suffered extensive loss of brain tissue. Warmbier attended the school. Warmbier will be buried later in the day at a local cemetery.
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Warmbier's cause of death hasn't been determined. Warmbier was seen in custody by the Swedish ambassador before his trial but there was no communication after that, Portman said. His parents say that though he never spoke or opened his eyes, "the countenance of his face changed - he was at peace".
"And once detained the treatment he received was appalling". In his statement, Garrett demanded the United States take actions against the North Korean regime. Just four years ago, Warmbier graduated from the school as the salutatorian.
Otto Warmbier's brother, sister and friends were scheduled to speak at the funeral Thursday in his hometown of Wyoming, near Cincinnati.
A programme for the memorial carried a quote from Andy Bernard, a character on the US-version of the television show "The Office": "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them".
In the wake of the needless, cruel death of American student Otto Warmbier, sentenced to 15 years of hard labor essentially for a prank, Kim Jong Un is in more trouble than he can imagine.
Ria Westergaard Pedersen, 33, who was with Warmbier in North Korea, told the Danish broadcaster TV2 that he had been nervous when taking pictures of soldiers, and said she doubted North Korea's explanation for his arrest.
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