Mystery Death of Beaumont Elementary Student Will Take “Months” to Solve

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says that an investigation into the death of a local 8-year-old boy may still take several more months to solve.

Jarrod Lee Kuhn, Jr. died at the age of eight on May 18, just two months shy of his ninth birthday.  His principal at Tournament Hills Elementary School tells Banning-Beaumont Patch he went home sick from school two days earlier on a Wednesday, and never returned.

Both the Beaumont Police Department and the Riverside County Sheriff's Department are waiting on results from a coroner's autopsy to find out what exactly happened.

Deputy Angel Ramos now says that the "cause of death is pending for further testing."

"It could take several months for results to come back," he said in an email to Patch this Wednesday.

Police say they were dispatched to the boy’s home on High Ridge Drive, near San Timoteo Canyon Road and the I-10, on the afternoon of May 18.

“[Cal Fire] advised they had received a report of an unresponsive child and upon arrival discovered the child had no signs of life and pronounced the child dead at approximately 2:33 p.m.,” police spokeswoman Darci Mulvihill said.

A parent at the school  with funeral costs said her nephew had tried to play with the boy the day he went home sick, but couldn't because he wasn't feeling well.

“Jarrod said he didn’t feel well,” she said, relaying the information she was given from her nephew, who added the boy had to sit down under a tree rather than go out and play.

Kuhn is survived by his parents and sister, according to an online obituary  posted by Weaver Mortuary.

Since the passing of Kuhn, the community has come together to support his family through several donations.