GREENVILLE, Texas — The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is investigating the death of an 11-year-old boy in foster care who had been living at a state-licensed residential treatment center when he died last November.

The child, who court records refer to as O.R., had been living at Thompson’s Residential Treatment Center in Greenville for two weeks when he died during a group outing to a movie theater the day before Thanksgiving.

O.R. was found unresponsive and bleeding from the nose in his seat at the end of the film. The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office later determined he died from complications with his intestines related to a surgery he’d undergone as a baby to fix a birth defect in his abdomen. The complication caused a bowel obstruction. The office dete

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