The death of George Floyd should be categorized as “undetermined” instead of “homicide,” said a former medical examiner during the trial for officer Derek Chauvin, who was accused of killing Floyd. “In my opinion, Mr. Floyd had a sudden cardiac arrhythmia due to his atherosclerosis and hypertensive heart disease … during his restraint and subdual by the police,” Dr. David Fowler, who previously headed a medical examiner’s office in Maryland, said on Wednesday during Chauvin’s trial in Minneapolis. He said that fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd’s system—as well as the paraganglioma tumor he suffered from—contributed to his death. Fowler also noted that Floyd’s death could have been caused by possible carbon monoxide poisoning from being close to a police car exhaust, Floyd’s enlarged heart, and other factors. Floyd was 46. “All of those combined to cause Mr. Floyd’s death,” said Fowler, an expert witness for the defense. “He had significant narrowing of all …