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Graham County authorities awaiting results of autopsy in death

Published on -10/1/2009, 12:35 PM

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By MIKE CORN
mcorn@dailynews.net

HILL CITY — Graham County authorities are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine if the Wednesday death of a Hill City man is a result of foul play.
Hill City police and Graham County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a house in Hill City on Wednesday afternoon.

There, said Graham County Sheriff Cole Presley, officers discovered the body of Kevin Hackerott, 48, Hill City.

“We determined it to be suspicious as to the cause of death,” Presley said.
As a result, Hackerott’s body was transferred to Hays where District Coroner Lyle

Noordhoek was performing an autopsy this afternoon. Presley said he expects to receive at least preliminary results of the autopsy sometime today.

“We’ve not made a determination to call it a homicide or a murder,” he said, pending the results of the autopsy.

The nature of the death, he said, was not immediately obvious.

“Evidence we found at the residence indicates it’s not a typical death call,” he said.

Presley also said a series of reports being circulated in the Hill City area in the wake of the discovery of the body are false. He said he has been approached by a number of people concerning a Facebook report that the sheriff’s office had issued a warning in the wake of the discovery of the body.

No television interrupt was made by the sheriff’s office, and the Facebook report was false, he said.
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Huh?: 10/2/2009
What does the line about the television interrupt mean?And refer to it as a posting on a social networking site. Calling it a Facebook report suggests creedence such drivel does not deserve.
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