{"id":18556,"date":"2025-07-23T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18556\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:09:07","slug":"malcolm-jamal-warner-drowning-the-cosby-show-actor-was-swimming-with-8-year-old-daughter-who-was-rescued-when-he-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18556\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm-Jamal Warner drowning: &#8216;The Cosby Show&#8217; actor was swimming with 8-year-old daughter, who was rescued, when he died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Malcolm-Jamal Warner was swimming with his 8-year-old daughter on Sunday off the coast of Costa Rica <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/malcolm-jamal-warner-best-known-playing-theo-huxtable-cosby-show-dies-54\/17228843\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when he drowned<\/a>, police tell ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Surfers spotted the actor, best known for his role as Theo Huxtable in the hit TV sitcom &#8220;The Cosby Show,&#8221; and his daughter struggling and dove in to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A surfer used his board to bring Warner&#8217;s daughter to safety and a volunteer lifeguard pulled Warner and another surfer to shore, where Warner was given 45 minutes of CPR, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police told ABC News on Tuesday that an autopsy on Warner has been completed. The Forensic Pathology Department said that the autopsy confirmed <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/cosby-show-actor-malcolm-jamal-warners-cause-death-released-police\/17244958\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner&#8217;s cause of death, which was described as asphyxiation by submersion,  and was accidental<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both surfers survived, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Warner died near Cocles, a beach in Limon, Costa Rica, after getting caught by a rip current. He was 54.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ABC News contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malcolm-Jamal Warner was swimming with his 8-year-old daughter on Sunday off the coast of Costa Rica when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15941,49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-18556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-15941","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}