The Caddo Parish Coroner s office completed its investigation into the March 16 death of 31-year-old Caddo Correctional Center inmate Casey Louis Simpson Jr. concluding that Simpson died from diabetic ketoacidosis with acute renal failure secondary to new-onset diabetes mellitus.
In the autopsy conducted March 17, It was also determined that Simpson had hypertensive cardiovascular disease, although this did not contribute to his death.
Simpson, according to information released Monday from the Caddo Parish Coroner s Office, had complained of poor health for approximately four days prior to his death.
He was evaluated, the information states, in the medical facilities at CCC on two occasions in the days preceding his death.
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Coroner: Inmate at Caddo Correctional Center died of problems with diabetes
Coroner: Inmate at Caddo Correctional Center died of problems with diabetes
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) A Louisiana coroner says an investigation showed that an inmate died last month of problems related to diabetes.
Casey Louis Simpson, 31, was found unresponsive March 16 in his cell at Caddo Correctional Center, where he had been jailed several months. Emergency workers tried to resuscitate him, and he died hours later in a hospital.
An autopsy was done March 17, and the Caddo Parish coroner said about two weeks later that no evidence of trauma was found.
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