Coroner: Aspen man might have had fatal ‘medical event’

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — An autopsy has revealed that a 38-year-old Aspen man who was found unconscious and lying partially in the Roaring Fork River in western Colorado did not die from a fall as initially thought but might have had a “medical event” instead. The Pitkin County Coroner’s Office originally said Loren M. Ryerson suffered a head injury when he accidentally fell on the riverbank in Aspen on Sunday morning. The autopsy determined that Ryerson’s injuries were not consistent with a fall from a nearby bridge, and he might have had a medical problem while retrieving a phone that he had dropped.