Toxicomany inspection is part of U.S. teacher murder case in Shymkent

The third check has been appointed to identify the cause of the death of the American citizen Ailer Travis John, who was found dead in Shymkent, Tengrinews.kz reports citing press-service of South-Kazakhstan oblast Interior Department. The chemicals check is meant to identify the cause of John’s death. According to the press-service, this inspection is required to confirm or confute the version on toxicomania. Criminal law experts have already made technological and biological inspections, but have not received any exact answers explaining the cause of his death. Earlier Tengrinews.kz English reported that a 23-year-old American citizen died on December 2 under unknown circumstances. The investigative group did not discover any signs of forced entry or struggling in the rented apartment, but the victim's head was covered with a plastic bag. The American had been renting the apartment in Shymkent for 3 years and working in Language Academy in Shymkent for a long time. However, he had not been teaching any classes in the last 6 months before his death and there was no information on what he had been doing in Shymkent during that period.