Georgia Tech baseball player Michael Hutts died of an accidental heroin overdose, according to an autopsy report released Friday.

The Fulton County medical examiner reported Hutts' blood tested positive for morphine, heroin and trace amounts of other substances, according to the report. The cause of death is listed as "heroin toxicity;" the manner of death "accidental."

The findings were released as the Tech team was in Athens preparing for an NCAA regional playoff game.

"The timing of the report makes me angry, I'll be honest about it," coach Danny Hall said. "There are so many emotions involved with it. You feel for the kid's family. I feel for my team. I feel for my coaches because it's a life cut short by a bad decision."

Hutts, a 21-year-old junior from Dunwoody in the College of Management, was found dead in his bed at his Northside Drive apartment on April 11 by fellow player and roommate Ryan Tinkoff.

Tinkoff said Hutts, a graduate of Wesleyan School in Norcross, had been drinking alcohol at about 8 p.m. the previous night, according to a police report.

Tinkoff told investigators Hutts' eyes were dilated before he went to bed and that his arm was a "purplish color" when he found him Friday afternoon. There were no marks on Hutts' arms — or anywhere else on his body — when medical examiner Geoffrey Smith conducted the autopsy the next morning, according to the report, which was released to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution after a request under the Georgia Open Records Act.

Hutts' blood contained .049 milligrams per liter of diacetylmorphine, or heroin, according to the autopsy. That's "consistent with recreational use of heroin and an accidental manner of death," said Bruce Goldberger, a professor of forensic pathology and toxicology at the University of Florida.

Tinkoff "denied actually observing [Hutts] use any type of drugs and denied moving any drugs or drug paraphernalia from [Hutts'] bedroom when he found the body," according to a medical examiner narrative included in the autopsy report.

Police found "a small piece of [suspected] heroin" in the apartment, according to a police report. Atlanta police have since closed their investigation, spokesman Ron Campbell said Friday.

Since the death, each member of the Tech baseball team has undergone drug testing twice and tested negative.

The autopsy results provided "the final chapter in a very sad story for the Hutts family and for the Georgia Tech community," Tech athletics director Dan Radakovich said in a statement. "We can only hope that lessons learned from this event will fall upon other young people who strive to make the right decisions in life."

In an April interview, Mark Hutts said he had some idea his son had used drugs. "If the knowledge that he made a mistake — if that's what it turns out to have been — helps somebody," Mark Hutts said, "I do wish that for other families."

— Staff writer Jeff Schultz contributed to this report.