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Medical examiner: Garrett Warren died by accidental drowning

By CBS New York Team

/ CBS New York

Medical examiner: Missing 13-year-old died from accidental drowning

NEW YORK -- The city's medical examiner has released the cause of death for the missing 13-year-old boy.

Garrett Warren's body was pulled from the Harlem river on Thursday.

The medical examiner says he died by accidental drowning.

Warren went missing over a week ago with his 11-year-old friend Alfa Barrie.

Search crews found Barrie's body on Saturday in the Hudson River at 102nd Street and Riverside Drive.

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