NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A New York medical examiner said swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay was strangled and drowned in a Soho hotel room.
The New York Post reported Thursday initial autopsy reports indicating Cachay, 33, who was discovered dead Dec. 9 in an overflowing bathtub in her hotel room at Soho House, may have died of an overdose of the drug, Xanax, were incorrect.
Cachay's partly clothed body was found with neck wounds, bleeding in her eyes and a bite imprint on her hand, the Post reported.
Nick Brooks, 24, Cachay's boyfriend and son of Oscar-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks, was earlier indicted by a grand jury for strangling Cachay but likely now will face murder charges, the Post reported.
Brooks has been held in custody since his arrest on Dec. 10.
Friends who knew the couple said Cachay, who started the swimwear line Syla, had been attempting to break up with Brooks, and a note from Brooks found in Cachay's purse indicated he had resisted those efforts, the Post reported. UPI
