John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, died after falling sick and hitting his head at his family’s vacation home in the Bahamas the police said. Jett was found unconscious in a bathroom late Friday morning by the family caretaker.

According to the statement the teenager was said to have a history of seizures and was last seen going into the bathroom on Thursday. Royal Bahamas Police Force spokeswoman, Loretta Mackey, said Jett apparently hit his head on the bathtub.

According to a statement from chief police superintendent Basil Rahming, Jett was taken by ambulance to a Freeport hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police said they are planning an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

Jett Travolta’s mother, Kelly Preston, and his 8-year-old sister, Ella, were vacationing at their home in the Old Bahama Bay resort community celebrating the New Year where they arrived on a private plane on Tuesday.  Michael Ossi, Travolta's attorney who is also in The Bahamas said, "A nanny attempted to revive him, all attempts were made, but he couldn't be revived. They tried as hard as they could to revive Jett." Ossi said that Jett "has had seizures in the past, but they were controlled. This one couldn't be."

Jett Travolta suffered from a lesser known condition called Kawasaki syndrome, a collection of symptoms that stem from swollen arteries which he was diagnosed with at age 2. The inflammation from this condition can lead to convulsions and seizures.

KS expert Dr. Robert Frenck, a professor of pediatrics in the division of infectious disease at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, said, "If there's a major complication, and if someone dies from it, it is a [coronary] aneurysm," he said. "It doesn't happen frequently, but that is what we really worry about. ... That can set the kids up for a heart attack." He added that the only type of seizure that can occur in patients with KS is a febrile seizure, which arises from a high fever.

Many in the media including The New York Post have speculated that Jett suffered from autism, which is also associated with seizures though the family maintained Jett suffered from KS. Dr. Bryan King, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Seattle Children's Hospital's Research Center for Health Services and Behavioral Research said, "There is a relationship between autism and seizures; as many as 40 percent of children and young adults with autism may experience seizure, and adolescence is a particular time of vulnerability." He added "There are hormonal changes that could increase the risk of seizure, and certainly there are ongoing brain changes that take place during adolescence, but no one knows why the risk increases in older children."

Ossi said that the no matter what the cause the incident "is the worst pain any parent can experience, the loss of child." Speaking on behalf of John Travolta, Ossi said, "This is the worst day of his life." He said the Travolta family doctor Dr. Mark Smith would give a statement after the autopsy.