Teen’s sudden death investigated

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CLOQUET - Physicians are looking into three possible causes that led to the unexpected death of an Esko High School senior early Saturday, according to the student’s mother.

Physicians are looking into three possible causes that led to the unexpected death of an Esko High School senior early Saturday, according to the student’s mother.

Barbara Krzenski said her 18-year-old son, Jordan Tucker, may have died from an undiagnosed heart arrhythmia, a virus that affected his heart or Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, which causes electrical abnormalities in the heart.

“There’s no definite conclusion, other than it was his heart,” Krzenski said Thursday.

About 300 students attended a candlelight vigil for Tucker on Wednesday night, and 600 people gathered for the visitation earlier that day, Krzenski said. Tucker’s funeral was scheduled for this afternoon in Cloquet.

Tucker, an honor student and athlete, died unexpectedly in his sleep early Saturday.

Many students at Esko Lincoln High School wore blaze orange jackets, vests, shirts and hats Tuesday in his honor. Tucker co-founded the school’s “blaze orange Fridays” during deer hunting season.

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