The Medical Examiner’s Office in Roanoke has identified the body found in Pittsylvania County last week as Courtney Turpin Servais and has ruled the cause of death a homicide, according to Pittsylvania County Sheriff Mike Taylor. Servais, 30, of Danville, was reported missing Dec. 19. She disappeared after her car was involved in a reported hit-and-run on U.S. 360 in Pittsylvania County. A cadaver dog from a Northern Virginia search-and-rescue group found Servais’ body on Christmas Eve in the 17000 block of Old Richmond Road/Route 360 in Red Oak Hollow, about 2 miles from the Pittsylvania County and Halifax County boundary line.

Heart disease and excessive weight killed Yvelt Occean after he struggled with police in April, and not the shocks of a police Taser that officers used to subdue him, authorities have concluded. After nearly eight months of investigation, the state medical examiner’s office has ruled that Occean, 31, died from coronary artery atherosclerosis—the principal cause of coronary artery disease—about 2½ hours after being shocked with a Taser on April 5 in New Kent County.

The Medical Examiner’s Office in Roanoke has identified the body found in Pittsylvania County last week as Courtney Turpin Servais and has ruled the cause of death a homicide, according to Pittsylvania County Sheriff Mike Taylor. Servais, 30, of Danville, was reported missing Dec. 19. She disappeared after her car was involved in a reported hit-and-run on U.S. 360 in Pittsylvania County. A cadaver dog from a Northern Virginia search-and-rescue group found Servais’ body on Christmas Eve in the 17000 block of Old Richmond Road/Route 360 in Red Oak Hollow, about 2 miles from the Pittsylvania County and Halifax County boundary line.