(October 3, 2008)—Austin police think a 7-year-old boy found dead hanging from a hook in a school bathroom may have been playing a game students call "run and jump."
Police reports released Thursday about the February death of Tevin Park-Flowers say that students at the Not Your Ordinary School sometimes ran along benches lining the walls of the bathroom in a game students called the game "run and jump" because they liked to jump from bench to bench and try to touch the ceiling.
Tevin had been excused from a school assembly on Jan. 30 to go to the bathroom.
When he didn't return, a male teacher went looking for him and found the boy caught on a hook by his shirt.
Police said the shirt collar cut off his oxygen.
They also considered suicide or homicide but found no evidence to support either possibility.
An attorney for Tevin's parents said he had "lingering questions" about the boy's death.
Police said in February they considered the death accidental.
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