An Fulton County Medical Examiner's investigator says the Georgia Tech baseball player found dead in his apartment recently died accidentally of morphine toxicity.
She said yesterday she could not provide the toxicology report, only the cause and manner of death. She would only identify herself as Investigator Galloway.
Pitcher Michael Hutts was a 21-year-old management major who was listed on Georgia Tech's dean's list last year.
Ryan Tinkoff, Hutts' teammate and roommate, told police he noticed Hutts' eyes were dilated before Tinkoff went to bed around midnight. Tinkoff said he entered Hutts' room about 1:30 p.m. the following day when Hutts did not respond to knocks on the door. According to the report, Tinkoff found Hutts non-responsive and his arm was "purplish."
Tinkoff also said Hutts was drinking the night before and was known to use heroin. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Police said they also found empty beer cans in the apartment, and an empty bottle of liquor and a bottle of pain pills in Hutts' room.
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