{"id":1022460,"date":"2026-08-25T04:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1022460\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T04:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:59:14","slug":"police-close-investigation-into-death-of-ed-olivers-young-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1022460\/","title":{"rendered":"Police close investigation into death of Ed Oliver&#8217;s young son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/bills-acknowledge-recent-passing-of-ed-olivers-young-son\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bills acknowledged<\/a> that defensive tackle Ed Oliver\u2019s young son died earlier this summer, after a report regarding the tragedy had emerged a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, authorities in Houston closed the investigation regarding the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident was thoroughly investigated by detectives, and their finding [was] <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49716563\/texas-police-close-case-death-bills-defensive-tackle-ed-oliver-son\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">no criminal findings<\/a>,\u201d the Harris County, Texas, Sheriff\u2019s Office said Monday, per the Associated Press. \u201cThe case is now closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oliver\u2019s son, who was nearly two, was found unresponsive in a swimming pool in late June.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Josh Allen spoke out on Saturday against the decision to publish information about the boy\u2019s death, saying he was \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/josh-allen-is-very-very-sad-and-angry-with-how-news-of-ed-olivers-son-passing-emerged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">very, very sad and angry<\/a>\u201d that the information had come to light before Oliver was ready to share it.<\/p>\n<p>The situation sparked a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/tragedy-bills-ed-oliver-son-debate-journalistic-ethics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">discussion regarding journalism ethics<\/a>, with the prevailing view being that the story should not have been shared until Oliver was ready to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, the Bills acknowledged that defensive tackle Ed Oliver\u2019s young son died earlier this summer, after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1022461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1022460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117154386428814523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}