The mysterious death of a Hudson Correctional Facility inmate found Sunday wasn’t solved by an autopsy released Wednesday.
Wesley Shandy, 44, an inmate from Alaska, was found unresponsive in his cell at the privately run prison.
The forensic investigation will continue, said Mark Ward, an investigator with the Weld County coroner’s office who has been assigned the case.
Microscopic evidence in the next week will help determine whether he could have died of natural causes, and toxicology tests will determine whether drugs or alcohol Shandy might have consumed in the prison caused his death, Ward said.
His death also is being investigated by the Alaska Department of Corrections, the Colorado Department of Corrections, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the medium-security prison’s operator, GEO Group of Boca Raton, Fla.
Shandy was serving a 19-year sentence for manslaughter, felony drunken driving and witness tampering in a case involving the 2005 death of his fiancee, Roxanne Herndon.
