'San Marcos — A former West Texas football and track star who was found dead on a balcony at the Texas State University apartment complex died of a drug overdose.

University police received the autopsy report on Friday from the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office, said UPD investigator Manuel Hernandez.

“The result was a heroin overdose,” Hernandez said.

The body of 20-year-old Zachary Evans was found Aug. 13 on a third floor balcony of Bobcat Village, 1201 Aquarena Springs Drive and a university spokesman said at the time it had apparently been there a couple of days.

Evans graduated from Kermit High School in 2005, where he excelled in track and football. He had attended Texas State between fall 2005 and spring 2007 but, his parents later told this newspaper, his life’s dream had been crushed when physicians with the U.S. Air Force Academy, which had granted him a scholarship, discovered he had a heart murmur.

His parents said he had moved back to the tiny town of Wink and gotten a job in an oilfield; and that they believed he had come back to San Marcos to reconcile with a girlfriend who lived in Bobcat Village but had recently moved out.

Hernandez said Evans’ car, which was parked at the complex, has been released to his family.

“I feel sorry for them. I’ve got kids that age too.”'