The family of a Marshfield High School senior found dead at a relatives house over the weekend has been hit again with tragedy.
A family member tried to wake Dwight Adam Stewart, 18, on Saturday morning but he was already dead. Webster County Sheriff Roye Cole says Stewart had been at several gatherings Friday night and preliminary autopsy results show he had been drinking, smoking pot and had taken prescription pain pills.
Stewart, who recently lost his father in a traffic accident, was scheduled to graduate this summer.
Cole says the exact cause of Stewart's death won't be known until toxicology results come back in four to six weeks. Cole says Stewart had recently been complaining about headaches and it is possible that he may have had a brain hemorrhage.
"We had an autopsy done Saturday and the results appear to be consistent with a drug overdose. There is a very slight chance that he died of a brain hemorrhage, so, until toxicology results come back, we won't know,” said Cole.
Cole says investigators are talking with people who had been at the gatherings with Stewart and other witnesses and that multiple people could be charged with distribution of a controlled substance and/or providing alcohol.
"People need to realize that if a person dies from drugs they've bought or were given, the people that supplied them can be facing some very serious charges in a court of law."
A family member tried to wake Dwight Adam Stewart, 18, on Saturday morning but he was already dead. Webster County Sheriff Roye Cole says Stewart had been at several gatherings Friday night and preliminary autopsy results show he had been drinking, smoking pot and had taken prescription pain pills.
Stewart, who recently lost his father in a traffic accident, was scheduled to graduate this summer.
Cole says the exact cause of Stewart's death won't be known until toxicology results come back in four to six weeks. Cole says Stewart had recently been complaining about headaches and it is possible that he may have had a brain hemorrhage.
"We had an autopsy done Saturday and the results appear to be consistent with a drug overdose. There is a very slight chance that he died of a brain hemorrhage, so, until toxicology results come back, we won't know,” said Cole.
Cole says investigators are talking with people who had been at the gatherings with Stewart and other witnesses and that multiple people could be charged with distribution of a controlled substance and/or providing alcohol.
"People need to realize that if a person dies from drugs they've bought or were given, the people that supplied them can be facing some very serious charges in a court of law."
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