An ex-physician who was convicted three times for the murder of an Alabama animal trapper was struck and killed by a vehicle in Tucson.
David Nash, 59, of Tucson, died of blunt force trauma last week, the Pima County medical examiner's office confirmed Friday.
Results of a toxicology report will take at least four weeks to complete, Dr. Eric Peters said.
Nash was crossing the southbound lanes in the 5500 block of North Oracle Road near West Kanmar Place about 11:40 p.m. on Jan. 26 when he was hit, said Kameron Lee, an Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman.
There is no indication that Nash was suicidal, Lee says. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Nash hired two cousins in 2011 to kill Ralph McNeil, known as "Critter Man," Alabama authorities say.
Nash was tried three times in the case. According to Montgomery County prosecutors, Nash, was dating a woman who was in a custody dispute with the victim. Nash and his girlfriend were accused of paying a pair of cousins $9,000 to kill McNeil.
Nash was convicted twice but the convictions were successfully appealed on legal technicalities including juror misconduct and contradictory evidence, WSFA-TV in Montgomery reported.
The third time, Nash was found guilty of a lesser charge of felony murder. But his defense attorneys argued it was not a proper downgraded charge for capital murder.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals set aside the conviction, vacating the sentence. Because a judge granted a motion for judgment of acquittal on capital murder for hire, Nash was released from jail last March.