MOULTRIE —
A 22-year-old man was found unresponsive in his room Wednesday afternoon and later died.
A Colquitt County sheriff’s deputy was called to a house on Highway 133 South about 3:05 p.m. Wednesday about an unresponsive male. Arrienne Miller told the deputy she found Joshua Bowles, 22, lying on his bedroom floor.
When the deputy went to the room, he found Bowles had a cell phone cord wrapped around his right arm and a syringe in his right hand. The Moultrie Fire Department and Colquitt County EMS was called to try to revive Bowles. He was taken to Colquitt Regional for treatment but died there about 4:50 p.m.
Colquitt County Coroner Verlyn Brock said doctors did everything they could to resuscitate Bowles, but he died at the hospital. His body was sent to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy to determine the cause of death, which may take six weeks or more to determine through toxicology tests.
Miller told the deputy Bowles was dropped off at the house about 2 p.m. and went to his room. She heard him talking on the phone at one point but then did not hear anything else from him.
Witnesses did tell the deputy Bowles had been known to use Oxycontin, but Brock said it was not known if drug use or a drug overdose was what caused his death. Funeral arrangements are pending and are being handled by Cobb Funeral Chapel.
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