New information in the death of Arizona Wildcats offensive lineman Zach Hemmila suggests that he didn’t have prescriptions for the two medications that killed him.
Hemmila’s autopsy, released by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner this week, listed his cause of death as a toxic combination of oxymorphone, an opiate painkiller, and alprazolam, an anti-anxiety medication.
Hemmila, 22, died on Aug. 7 or 8. His death was ruled accidental.
Hemmila’s cousin, whom he was living with at the time, discovered Hemmila’s body shortly before 7 a.m. on Aug. 8, when she went into his room to talk to him, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department investigative report, obtained by the Star through a public records request.