A track worker's death at Churchill Downs is being investigated as a homicide, a spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police Department said Monday.
Adan Fabian Perez, 48, was found dead early Sunday morning in the back portion of barn No. 8. That’s several barns away from the one used by the horse I'll Have Another, which won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
“We’re treating this as an open homicide investigation,” Dwight Mitchell, a police spokesman, said in a telephone interview. “We’re interviewing witnesses to glean more information.”
Mitchell said police do not believe the death was connected to the famed horse race.
An autopsy on Perez, a native of Guatemala, was carried out, but details are being withheld, chief deputy coroner Jo-Ann Farmer said by telephone. Framer said Perez had injuries to his body, but would not give details.
