Police Investigate Death of 17-Year-Old

TYLER � Tyler police are investigating the death of a teenager. Shortly after 6:45 Thursday morning, Tyler Police, Fire, and EMS were called to 3017 Brookdale on an unresponsive 17 year-old. Officers were told the mother had entered her son�s room to wake her son for school and found him unresponsive. Emergency personnel on the scene were unable to revive the young man. Smith County Justice of the Peace James Meredith pronounced Jacob Aaron Green, age 17, dead at the scene. Tyler Investigators arrived and had the body taken to Southeast Texas Forensic Center for an autopsy. Preliminary results indicate that Green, a student at Robert E. Lee High School, died from an accidental overdose of prescription medication.