An autopsy is scheduled to be performed Thursday on a Zion man found by police lying in a roadway Wednesday morning with an empty prescription bottle in his pocket, according to information released by Police Chief Stephen Dumyahn.
Zion police received a 911 call at 5:12 a.m. about a man lying still in the roadway in the 1900 block of Gilboa Avenue, Dumyahn said. When officers arrived, the 24-year-old man was on his side in the roadway and was unresponsive with labored breathing, he said.
Dumyahn added that there was a visible injury consistent with a fall, but no other injuries could be seen. There were no signs of foul play or that the victim was struck by a vehicle, he said.
According to Dumyahn, the man had an empty bottle of an anti-anxiety medication, and there was no label on the bottle indicating who it was prescribed to. Dumyahn said it was not known how long the man had been in the roadway.
Dumyahn said paramedics from the Zion Fire Department arrived on the scene and administered two doses of Narcan, which can reverse overdoses. The man was then transported to Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, where he was subsequently pronounced dead, according to Dumyahn.
The victim was wearing a coat, and the temperature at the time he was found was 1 degree with a windchill of minus-18 degrees.
The name of the man is being withheld until notification of family, Dumyahn said.
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