(CNN)The Orange County Sheriff’s Office issued its final report Tuesday on Bob Saget’s death, saying it will comply with a court-ordered injunction blocking the release of further details of the comedian’s untimely death.
“A court order was issued yesterday prohibiting the release of certain materials collected during the course of the OCSO investigation into the death of Bob Saget. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office will comply with the order but remains committed to transparency and compliance with the Act on Access to Public Records,” OCSO said in an email.
Saget’s family filed a lawsuit against the Orange County sheriff and coroner’s office last month, demanding that some investigative documents related to his death be withheld from release. A Florida judge on Monday issued an injunction blocking the release of additional recordings related to the death investigation, CNN previously reported.
According to the OCSO’s latest incident report on Saget’s death, also released Tuesday, Saget’s family requested security at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando, Fla. and performed a wellness assessment of Saget on his Jan. 9 check-out date after they couldn’t reach him. Hotel security contacted local authorities after noting that Saget was “unresponsive and feels cold.”
Responding authorities found the room okay, with no “evidence of a struggle, foul play of any kind, or that anyone else was in the room at any point during his stay,” the report said.
“Mr Saget was lying on his back on the right side of the bed, partially covered by the sheet and bedspread, with his left arm loose across his torso and his right arm at his side. The sheets, bedspread and pillowcases on the bed were white and there was no sign of blood or bodily fluids on them or anywhere else in the suite,” the report reads, adding that Saget appears to have a slight swelling and bruise over his left eye.
The report notes that while the door between Saget’s adjoining room was unlocked, the guests present had checked out two days earlier and there was no evidence of entry thereafter. According to the report, Saget’s room opened just after 2:00 a.m. local time on Jan. 9, a time that coincided with his departure from his show in Jacksonville that evening, and only reopened around 4:00 p.m. when security personnel at the Hotels came to check on him.
“No one entered or left their room until the afternoon, at the request of his family, security forces entered,” the report said.
Four legally required drugs were found in Saget’s luggage, the report said.
An autopsy performed the following day by Chief Medical Examiner Joshua Stephany “revealed a fracture at the base of Mr. Saget’s skull, evidence of hemorrhage around the brain, and showing the transmission of force that fractured the orbital bones at the front of the skull.”
Stephany “explained that the amount of force required to cause the fracture, coupled with the fact that the skin on the back of the head was still intact, led him to believe that the injury was most likely caused by “something hard, covered ‘Caused was soft,’ and he cited a fall onto a carpeted floor as an example,” the report reads.
Stephany concluded that such a blow would have “numbed” Saget and caused symptoms such as dizziness, confusion and slurred speech. Stephany told investigators Saget was unable to drive the two hours back from Jacksonville that he reportedly drove in his rental car after sustaining such a traumatic brain injury, the report said.
After the autopsy, investigators returned to the hotel to re-examine the scene “to locate specific locations or objects in the room that may have caused the trauma.” Nothing definitive has been identified, the report said. Stephany noted that Saget’s head injury likely occurred within hours of his death, but could have occurred in the days prior, the report said. A series of interviews conducted by authorities with people associated with Saget in his final days found no evidence of drug or alcohol use or unusual behavior, the report said.
A photo taken at the request of valet parking at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando in the early hours of Jan. 9 shows no visible signs of injury or trauma to Saget’s face, the report said.
The cause of death was determined to be blunt head trauma. The cause of death was found to be an accident, the report said.
CNN’s Joe Sutton contributed to this report.
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