Drugs, Alcohol Investigated In Teen's Death

By: Denise Yost & Rick Reitzel | NBC4 , NBC4 Published: June 14, 2012 Updated: June 14, 2012 - 3:17 PM

Police are investigating what role drugs and alcohol played in the death of a 15-year-old boyThursday morning.

According to Westerville police, Kenneth Raymond Bores III, a resident of Columbus, was found unconscious at an apartmentat 954 Cross Country Dr. East in Westerville early Wednesday.

He was transported at 2:30 a.m. to Mount Carmel St. Ann's Hospital by Westerville medics.

He was subsequently transferred to Nationwide Children's Hospital, where his family took him off life-support on Thursday and he died.

Westerville police charged two people who were in the apartment with Bores.

Mitchell Allen Crabtree, 20, was charged with providing a place for underage consumption, a misdemeanor charge.

A 17-year-old female from Blendon Township was also charged with providing alcohol.

According to the Westerville police report, Crabtree told investigators there were no drugs in the house, and he denied seeing any drugs on the night in question.

Bores was a Freshman at New Albany high school. Principal Ric Stranges said grief counselors were at the school on Thursday and will be back for students and staffon Friday.

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