Presley Walker Gerber was pronounced ᴅᴇᴀᴅ at 9:45 a.m. on September 20, 2026, inside a sober-living house in Santa Monica, eight minutes after officers were sent to the 1000 block of Berkeley Street. He was 27. The Los Angeles County medical examiner said responding paramedics made the pronouncement. Santa Monica police said the call concerned a suspected overdose, that detectives found no indication of foul play, and that the official cause and manner of death would be left to the medical examiner. An examination was completed the next day. The cause was deferred, the office’s term for a case in which more testing has been ordered and a ruling can take months. People reported that the dispatch also noted cardiac arrest. The Los Angeles Times, citing law enforcement sources, said detectives were trying to trace the source of the drugs involved and that Gerber had entered the house on Saturday night, the night before he was found.

The address was not a hospital ward. It was Resolutions Living, a seven-bedroom recovery residence in northeast Santa Monica, valued at about $7.7 million after psychologist Reza Nabavi and clinical psychologist Maryam Akbar bought it for $5.8 million in 2021. The Los Angeles Times reported that the house itself is a recovery residence, not a facility authorized to provide on-site medical care, and that the related licensed program, Resolutions Therapeutic Services, sits about a mile away. Page Six described a three-story property staffed around individual residents. Police arrived at about 9:35 a.m. The investigation, the Times said, was still early. No public document has named a substance. Until toxicology returns, “suspected overdose” is a police description, not a completed finding.

That gap is the part the public record cannot close. A deferred case is not a small death and it is not a verdict. The medical examiner has said additional studies were requested and that, because the investigation is open, the office will not disclose which ones. Families in these cases live for weeks or months with a morning they can describe and a sentence they cannot finish. Gerber’s family asked only for privacy. Allie Jenkins, speaking for Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, said they were asking for space in a very difficult and painful time. The request did not stop the certificate, the dispatch log, or the address from becoming public.

Gerber was born July 2, 1999, in the orbit of one of the most pH๏τographed women in American fashion, and he had already spent a decade being looked at for a living. IMG signed him at 15. He debuted on a Moschino runway, appeared in Calvin Klein campaigns, walked for Dolce & Gabbana, and in 2018 starred in a Pepsi Super Bowl spot that nodded to his mother’s 1992 commercial. The New York Times noted that the industry of the mid-2010s had a particular appeтιтe for the children of 1990s models. None of that résumé explains a Sunday call on Berkeley Street. It only explains why the call was never going to stay local.

What the morning does establish is narrow and harsh. He checked into a place built for people trying to stay alive. He was found there the next day. Paramedics pronounced him at 9:45. Police are investigating a suspected overdose and say they see no foul play. The examiner is still waiting on tests. The rest is what a famous last name does to an unfinished form: it turns eight minutes into a national story before anyone is allowed to say, in the only language that counts, why he died.