“I have to get her ashes back,” William told the outlet. “Once they have her, they’re going to call me, and they’re going to make arrangements with me,” William told. “Her birthday was on June 9 and she passed away on June 10.” “I am overwhelmed and confused and in shock,” William told the outlet. Embassy officials explained her death had been ruled as a heart attack, reported. Leyla was found dead at 53 in her hotel room and according to William, the U.S. “With everything going on in the news right now, we think she’s a casualty of what’s been happening,” he said.

“I truly believe if my mother was not in the Dominican Republic, she would have been alive right now.” “My family wanted her to not go on this vacation,” William explained to. The trip was Leyla’s second time visiting the island and as she prepared for her solo adventure, William said he and his family warned her not to go. “I called her on a Sunday and wished her a happy birthday,” William told.

Her son William Cox said he last spoke to his mother on June 2, just a few days before she set off. Leyla Cox of Staten Island had traveled to the popular tourist destination on Wednesday, June 5 for her birthday and never returned, reported. A son is desperate for answers after his mother mysteriously died while on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

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