Coroner: No Drugs, Alcohol in Sponseller’s System

Columbia, SC (WOLO)– Final autopsy results were released Friday for Tom Sponseller, the former President of the State Hospitality Association who was found dead in a Downtown Columbia parking garage last month. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts says toxicology tests showed no evidence of drugs or alcohol in Sponseller’s system prior to his death. Watts says gunshot residue on Sponseller’s hand, as well as a bullet fragment confirm Sponseller died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.