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"This incident was not a typical accident," the Blanco County Sheriff's Office wrote in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday.
"Although the preliminary investigation indicated this was an unfortunate accident, the Sheriff's Office is still investigating this accident as a criminal matter until they have sufficient evidence to rule out criminal activity," the letter said.
Since Chao's death has remained the subject of a criminal probe, the Blanco County Sheriff's public information officer told the attorney general that reports, 911 logs, audio and video evidence as well as other material should not yet be released to media outlets that requested them, including CNBC.
The Sheriff initially thought it was an accident. That was the preliminary assessment a few days after the incident.
Seems like they looked at it more and have concluded that "Chao's death was not "a typical accident"
I'd imagine that Blanco county has open records requests coming out of their ass, and are probably concerned with complying with the law and loking for a backstop. Some support from the AG.
So that's what looks to have happened. Sheriff writes a letter to the Texas AG requesting an opinion. Sheriff apparently tells the AG that the situation warrants further criminal investigation so they are going to reject the requests on the basis of on a ongoing investigation.
So that seems like where we are at. It's being investigated so nothing further unless the investigators / DA decides to release it.
Will be interesting to see where this goes, and also whether this remains a local investigation.