The Region - News from Feb. 16, 1987

An autopsy has apparently revealed no immediate evidence of drugs or alcohol or any physical ailment that might explain the rampage of a 17-year-old Costa Mesa youth shot to death by sheriff’s deputies after he wounded an administrator and two teachers at his Arizona prep school, a school official said. Richard Powell, assistant headmaster of the private Orme School in Mayer, said detectives gave him the results of an autopsy conducted on Jarrett Huskey and said there “no drugs at all” found in the body of the newly elected captain of the boarding school’s football team. Huskey was shot to death after he allegedly was cornered by lawmen and drew a gun on them in the barnyard of the nationally known private secondary school. Powell said Huskey had been caught drinking on the school’s tennis courts and subsequently advised that he probably would be suspended as a result. But Powell said he believed the drinking incident was “parenthetical” to the shootings, in which one teacher was critically wounded and lost a kidney.