According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the Oklahoma City Police Department’s probe into the Chesapeake Energy co-founder’s death has declared the incident as a “vehicular accident”.
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The deadly crash on March 2 occurred one day after Mr. McClendon was indicted on a single count of conspiring to rig the price of oil and gas leases.
“Despite those troubles, it’s impossible to overstate McClendon’s role in the revitalization of Oklahoma City”. “The information out there at the scene is that he went left of center, went through a grassy area right before colliding into the embankment”. It slowed upon impact, possibly because it hit softer ground after leaving the roadway, the police said.
However, a report by the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Office released Wednesday stated that McClendon’s manner of death was an accident and his cause of death was due to multiple blunt force trauma from the crash.
He died after his 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe, traveling 78 miles per hour in a 50-mph zone on North Midwest Boulevard in Oklahoma City, veered across the oncoming lane and struck a bridge abutment.
There’s no evidence that Aubrey McClendon, the oil industry veteran who died one day after being charged with antitrust conspiracy, meant to kill himself when his vehicle hit a wall at high speed in March, police say.
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Three months later, police said they have wrapped up their investigation and “have not found anything to lead us to believe Mr. McClendon’s death is a suicide”. An analysis detected the presence of doxylamine in McClendon’s liver.
