The body of actor Dwayne Adway’s daughter has been sitting in a morgue for weeks.
Her demise was ruled a suicide, but her parents are doing everything in their power to prove otherwise.
Authorities contend Daelena Mackay, whose father Dwayne Adway had many TV characters in hits like “CSI,” “NYPD Blue,” “ER” and “The Steve Harvey Show,” took her own life after she was reportedly discover May 23, hanging by a scarf in her bathroom.
A man who called 911 asserting to be Daelena’s boyfriend said he attempt to revive her after finding her body, but she could not be saved.
“I’m trying to apply pressure to the LAPD,” Adway told The Post Saturday. “They are dead set on staying where they are and not looking more into the case. This looked like to be happening a lot in LA with black and brown girls who die and are written off as suicides.”
Her mom has also Insisted Mackay, 20, had suspicious injuries, and decried the lack of an autopsy in the case.
“‘Her body tells a different story than what police are telling us, with bruises and bleeding from two puncture wounds approximately an inch apart that go from the front of her body straight via to the back and other bleeding,” Elaine Mackay told the Daily Mail.
All of these findings that I discover because I was left no choice but to have to examine her body myself, the county coroner left out of his report. Only toxicology was done by county coroner, no autopsy.”
Adway not permitted, contending Saturday that an autopsy is not likely to focus on the manner in which Daelena died.
Mackay was living at the El Centro Hollywood building while studying at Los Angeles City College, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.