Crime & Safety
Drug and Alcohol Overdose Ruled Cause of Death of 2008 Oakland Mills Graduate
Baltimore County Police have released the autopsy results for Julio Salgado, who was found dead in his Towson apartment in September, citing drugs and alcohol as contributing factors.
Julio Salgado, the 21-year-old Oakland Mills high school graduate found unresponsive by his roommates in his Towson apartment in September, died as a result of Oxycodone and alcohol intoxication, Baltimore County police said this week.
The manner of death of the 2008 graduate was ruled accidental, said Baltimore County Police spokeswoman Det. Cathy Batton.
Emergency responders found Salgado unresponsive in his Towson apartment on Sept. 13 after two of his roommates dialed 911 just after midnight,
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Police did not investigate the death as suspicious and were awaiting autopsy results to confirm Salgado’s death was indeed accidental, Batton said.
Salgado was a senior at Towson University at the time of his death, but was born in El Salvador. According to the Towson campus newspaper The Towerlight, he attended Frostburg State University and before transferring to Towson.
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The Towerlight also reported that some students and faculty had expressed concern that the police had not immediately determined a cause of death for Salgado.
According to The Towerlight, Salgado is the father of an infant boy named Giovanni.
His obituary is posted on the website for Witzke Funeral Homes in Columbia. According to the site, Salgado is survived by his girlfriend, Kendria, and parents Jose and Yesenia Salgado.
A Facebook page was created in memory of Salgado and has 619 members with numerous comments from friends and family.
