Late Ga. Lottery winner’s injuries ‘consistent with a fall’
A recent Georgia Lottery winner who was found unconscious in a Forsyth County road and later died suffered injuries “consistent with a fall,” police said.
The cause of death of Charles Barrett “was not related to any type of trauma,” police Chief Casey Tatum said in a news release Wednesday.
Barrett, 59, was found near a business on Ga. 9 on April 22, according to Cumming police. He died four days later in the intensive care unit at Northside Hospital Forsyth.
Hospital personnel determined Barrett suffered superficial injuries to his head and to one of his knees, consistent with a fall, Tatum said.
“Preliminary autopsy results are consistent with preliminary medical results and information collected during the investigation that Barrett’s visible injuries were superficial and no trauma was suffered,” Tatum said.
Barrett won $17,000 from a lottery scratch-off ticket about a week before he was found unconscious, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Some of Barrett’s financial cards were used while he was in the hospital, Tatum said. The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office is investigating that part of the case.
No one has been arrested in connection with the case, Tatum said. Police are calling it a death investigation and the toxicology report is pending.
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