TERRE HAUTE, Ind.-
Epilepsy complications likely caused the death of a federal prison inmate convicted in the 1984 machine-gun slaying of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg, a coroner said Wednesday.
An autopsy found no signs of foul play in Monday’s death of David Lane, 68, and linked it to his epilepsy, a neurological condition affecting the nervous system, Vigo County Coroner Roland Rohr said.
“It’s consistent with a silent seizure causing death,” he said.
Lane was serving a 150-year sentence for violating the civil rights of Berg, who was gunned down in front of his Denver residence in June 1984.
Lane and co-defendant Bruce Pierce were convicted of civil rights violations in 1987 in the shooting of Berg, who was targeted by a Nazi-like group known as The Order for comments on his radio show about white supremacists and their beliefs. Berg was Jewish.
