Autposy says Detriot gay activist not killed by hate crime

Autopsy results say that Andrew Anthos, a 72-year-old gay activist, did not die of a hate crime.  His family says they reject the findings. 

According to the Associated Press, Wayne County Medical Examiner Dr. Carl Schmidt said Wednesday that Andrew Anthos died of natural causes likely from a fall. 

Schmidt said presented evidence did not support reports that he had been the victim of a hate crime.  As a result, Detroit police are closing the case.

Andrew Anthos died on Feb. 23, just over a week after his family says he was beaten by a young man.  Anthos' family says the man followed him off a city bus, hit him in the back of the head with a lead pipe and called him a gay slur.

"If you want to say he wasn't murdered, OK. But you can't say he wasn't attacked, that it wasn't a hate crime," Anthos' cousin Athena Fedenis told the Associated Press.

Most media outlets and the gay community have reported Anthos' death as a hate crime.