LA CROSSE (AP) – A final autopsy report confirmed that a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse basketball player found dead in the Mississippi River last month drowned.
The Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday that Lucas Homan, 21, died of cold water drowning with acute alcohol intoxication as a contributing factor. Homan had a blood-alcohol level of 0.32 percent, or four times the level considered legally drunk for driving….He was the eighth college-aged man to drown in La Crosse-area rivers since 1997.