The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator has classified the death of an Albuquerque man who died after a Taos County Sheriff's deputy handcuffed him outside a bar in August as a homicide.

An autopsy report OMI released to the Journal on Tuesday says 64-year-old Patrick Walsh died on Aug. 2 due to the "toxic effects of cocaine and ethanol in the setting of physical restraint." It also lists atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease and obesity as significant contributing factors in his death.

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