Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Cosby Show actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning

Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner passes away

Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department said Monday that Malcolm-Jamal Warner drowned Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He was swimming at Playa Grande de Cocles in Limon province when a current pulled him deeper into the ocean.

“He was rescued by people on the beach,” the department's initial report said, but first responders from Costa Rica's Red Cross found him without vital signs and he was taken to the morgue.

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