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A husband and wife who died at their home Friday afternoon in Pulaski County may have been overcome by carbon monoxide, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n
A vehicle was left running for some time in the garage of the home of Lewis Catron, 77, and his wife Carol Catron, 73, which may have led to a deadly level of carbon monoxide in the home, the Pulaski County Sheriff Bobby Jones said. a release<\/p>\n
Harold Catron was a longtime member of the sheriff’s office and was serving as an honorary deputy at the time of his death.<\/p>\n
He was the older brother of Pulaski County Sheriff Sam Catron, who was killed in April 2002 by a man allied with a drug dealer.<\/p>\n
Jones said a family member went to check on Harold and Carol Catron Friday afternoon and found them unresponsive at their home on Pumphouse Road in Somerset.<\/p>\n
The family member called 911. Police were called to respond at 3:50 p.m.<\/p>\n
The couple’s cause of death will not be confirmed pending an autopsy, but the preliminary investigation points to carbon monoxide from the vehicle in the garage, the statement said.<\/p>\n
Jones described the deaths as accidental.<\/p>\n
“We have lost two close friends who have been considered part of the Sheriff’s Office family for years,” Jones said in the statement. “Our hearts and prayers go out to the Catron family as they deal with yet another tragedy.”<\/p>\n
Sam and Lewis Catron’s father, Harold Catron, Somerset’s chief of police, died in 1964 from an injury related to a shotgun blast he had suffered a few years earlier.<\/p>\n