Oklahoma teen Noah Presgrove's family reacts to his cause of death that 'leaves ... trends now
The family of an Oklahoma teen found dead on the side of the highway has spoken out saying his newly released autopsy leaves many questions around his death unanswered.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was wearing only his shoes when his body was discovered on a desolate stretch of US-81 near Terral, Oklahoma, on September 4.
He was last seen alive about a mile away at a four-day 22nd birthday party with friends over the Labor Day weekend that was heavily documented on social media.
An autopsy declared his cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head and police said his death was no longer being investigated as a murder, but the teen's family feel they are still looking for answers.
'It still leaves a lot of things up in the air. An accident occurred, and we don't know what that accident is, so the next approach is figuring out how [it] played out,' his brother Dailen Presgrove said to PEOPLE.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was wearing only his shoes when his body was discovered on a desolate stretch of US-81 near Terral, Oklahoma, on September 4
An autopsy declared his cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head, but the teen's family (pictured with sister) said they are still looking for answers
'It doesn't make sense that the investigation has been going on for so long, and there were so many people around, and, yet, there's still so much uncertainty.'
'And it doesn't make sense that a good person like Noah is gone in such a cruel and unknown way,' he said.
Photos of police chalk outlines showed his teeth were found scattered across the highway, some a dozen feet from his body.
Farther away still is a spot of blood - the only blood found at the scene despite the extensive injuries all over his upper body.
Presgrove suffered massive blunt force trauma to the back of his head, causing skull fractures but not killing him, according to correspondence with investigators shared with DailyMail.com.
'It is strange,' the teen's sister, Madison Rawlings, told PEOPLE. 'I see the injuries, I just don't know how [they were] caused.'
While his cause of death has been determined, his manner of death is still being investigated, but did rule out him being hit by a vehicle.
After almost eight months of silence, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, which is leading the investigation, finally gave its first update since last September.
'Currently, the OHP is not investigating Presgrove's death as a murder,' it said.
'The investigation is not over, and anyone with
