LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities planned to conduct an autopsy Monday for a man who was found dead in a barn at Churchill Downs hours after the Kentucky Derby.

The victim, who worked at the track, was identified Sunday as 48-year-old Adan Fabian Perez, a Guatemala native, according to Jo-Ann Farmer, chief deputy coroner for Jefferson County. His body was found early Sunday in a barn just four away from where this year’s Derby winner I’ll Have Another is kept.

“There’s a suspicion of foul play,” Farmer said Sunday evening. Louisville Metro Police said the death is being investigated as a homicide, but that there appears to be no connection to the race.

“At this point we don’t have anything pointing to the fact that this had any association with Churchill Downs or the Derby itself,” said Alicia Smiley, spokeswoman for Louisville Metro Police. “We are still investigating at the stables and at the barn.”

Farmer said the victim lived at the track’s quarters for workers. Churchill Downs security called police at 4:50 a.m., Smiley said. The body was found in a barn used by Louisville trainer Angel Montano Sr.

Montano did not have a horse running Saturday either in the undercard or the Derby, which saw a record attendance of more than 165,000. A telephone call, text and Twitter message left for Montano were not immediately returned.

MORRISTOWN, Ind. — An employee at a grain facility in Shelby County has been rescued after falling into a mechanical grain bin Thursday night.

According to WIBC in Indianapolis, Buck Creek Township Fire Chief Dave Sutherlin said it happened at the Bunge Grain Co. in Morristown. The worker was helping unload grain from the bin into railcars and somehow fell into the flowing grain. Other employees shut off the mechanics of the bin and the worker was trapped “waist- to chest-high.”

Crews from various fire departments worked to rescue the employee. He was eventually freed from the grain and was being checked out by medical personnel. Sutherlin said the man was conscious, alert and seemingly in good condition.

 

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Fourteen people in at least nine states have been sickened by salmonella after handling tainted dog food from a South Carolina plant that a few years ago produced food contaminated by toxic mold that killed dozens of dogs, federal officials said Friday.

At least five people were hospitalized because of the dog food, which was made by Diamond Pet Foods at its plant in Gaston, S.C., the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. No pets were sickened, according to the Meta, Mo.-based company.

Three people each were infected in Missouri and North Carolina; two people in Ohio; and one person each in Alabama, Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, the CDC said. People can get salmonella by handling infected dog food, then not washing their hands before eating or handling their food, health officials said.