Former US swim champion Jamie Cail died from fentanyl intoxication, Virgin Islands police reveal

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The 42-year-old former American swimming champion who was found unresponsive by her boyfriend in St. John earlier this year died from accidental fentanyl poisoning, the Virgin Islands Police Department has revealed. 

In a statement released over the weekend, the department said in the early morning hours of Feb. 21, its detectives were notified of the dead-on-arrival case at the Myrah Keating-Smith Clinic on St. John involving Jamie Cail of New Hampshire. 

"On Tuesday August 22, 2023, the Virgin Islands Police Department received a copy of Jamie Cail’s Autopsy Report from the Medical Examiner’s Office," police said in a case update posted on Facebook. "The report stated the Cause of Death is Fentanyl intoxication with aspiration of gastric content. Manner of death is Accidental." 

Police said just after midnight on Feb. 21, "a male left a local bar to check on his girlfriend at their residence. Upon his arrival, he discovered his girlfriend on the floor."

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Jamie Cail of the United States performs during the Pan Pacific Swim Championships in Fukuoka City, Japan, on Aug. 11, 1997. (Al Bello  /Allsport)

"With assistance from a friend, the male was able to get the female to a nearby vehicle and transported the female to the Myrah Keating-Smith Clinic," the police statement continued. "Once at the clinic, CPR was rendered and 911 was notified, however, the female succumbed to her ailment." 

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Former swimming champ Jamie Cail was found