Cause of death of Barack Obama’s personal chef Tafari Campbell revealed

The Obama household’s “beloved” private chef, Tafari Campbell, died of unintentional drowning while paddleboarding in a Martha’s Winery lake, an post-mortem confirmed Tuesday.

Campbell’s reason for demise has formally been dominated to be “submersion in a physique of water” — and his method of demise has been decided to be an accident, in keeping with the Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner of Massachusetts.

The outcomes of Campbell’s post-mortem haven’t been made public as per state coverage, Timothy McGuirk, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Government Workplace of Public Security and Safety, told The Washington Post.

Campbell, 45, a former member of the White Home kitchen workers, had been paddelboarding on Edgartown Nice Pond off Martha’s Winery, the place the Obamas personal a summer season property, on July 23 when he misplaced his footing, went underwater and by no means resurfaced.

In response to an eyewitness, Campbell was not carrying a life vest and was not tethered to his paddleboard. Efforts to rescue him in time have been unsuccessful.

Campbell had traveled to Martha’s Winery to go to household. Barack and Michelle Obama weren’t residence on the time of his drowning.

The preliminary investigation by the State Police discovered no proof that Campbell’s demise was suspicious, with no indicators of trauma noticed on his physique, reported The Boston Herald.

Within the wake of their worker’s demise, the previous first couple put out a joint assertion mourning Campbell.

“Tafari was a beloved a part of our household,” the Obamas wrote. “Once we first met him, he was a gifted sous chef on the White Home – inventive and enthusiastic about meals, and its capacity to convey individuals collectively. Within the years that adopted, we received to know him as a heat, enjoyable, terribly variety one who made all of our lives somewhat brighter.”

“That’s why, once we have been on the point of depart the White Home, we requested Tafari to stick with us, and he generously agreed,” the tribute went on. “He’s been a part of our lives ever since, and our hearts are damaged that he’s gone. In the present day we be part of everybody who knew and beloved Tafari – particularly his spouse Sherise and their twin boys, Xavier and Savin – in grieving the lack of a very great man.”

In later comments posted on their particular person Instagram accounts, Barack and Michelle hailed Campbell as a “buddy” blessed with “immense presents.”

“I’ll miss his every single day,” the 62-year-old ex-president wrote.

Campbell, from Dumfries, Virginia, had beforehand labored as a sous chef on the White Home, starting beneath George W. Bush and staying via Obama’s two phrases. He was later employed because the Obama household’s private chef.