2024-07-23 13:55:03
Autumn Crittendon (aka Autumn Oxley), who appeared on the fifth season of MTV‘s 16 and Pregnant reality show, died Saturday at a home in Henrico, VA, police confirmed to Deadline. She was 27.
Police and paramedics were called to the home at 3:12 p.m. Saturday on a report of a medical emergency, according to a statement from the Henrico Police Department provided to Deadline. Crittendon was found unresponsive, and attempts by paramedics to revive her were not successful. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Henrico County PD have classified the incident as a death investigation and are working with the medical examiner to determine the exact cause and manner of death.
16 and Pregnant followed Crittendon’s pregnancy and birth of her eldest son Drake in the show. She went on to have two more children.
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Crittendon’s sister Misty initially announced Crittendon’s death on Facebook, but has since deleted the post.
Crittendon is the latest 16 and Pregnant cast member to pass away in the past several years. Valerie Fairman died in Season 2 in 2016 at age 23 from a drug overdose, Jordan Cashmyer, who appeared on the show in 2014, died in 2022 of fentanyl and cocaine intoxication. Most recently Sean Grainger, the father of Selena Gutierrez’s baby in Season 6B, died in March in an ATV accident at age 20.
Additionally, Derek Underwood, the father of cast member Farrah Abraham’s baby, died in 2008 in a car crash shortly before the baby’s birth.