GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC) – An autopsy done on Mikayla Rae VanderLaan has confirmed initial Sheriff’s detectives’ findings that showed the four-year-old Grand Haven area girl was the victim of an accidental suffocation. The child was playing alone in her bedroom at a unit in a mobile home park off of Mercury Drive near 144th Avenue last Sunday night when she stepped on a toy to reach a high item and got entangled by the cloth belt of a robe hanging on a closet door. The autopsy was conducted by Ottawa County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. David Start at Spectrum-Blodgett Hospital. Her mother and stepfather have been cooperative in the investigation, which remains open, and anyone with any further information on the matter is asked to contact Silent Observer.
Autopsy on Grand Haven Area Girl Confirms Accidental Death Conclusion
Jul 17, 2015 | 6:55 PM
