Conejos County Coroner Richard Martin told PEOPLE on Monday, Sept. 22,
that preliminary findings show
Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko,
both 25, were struck by lightning.
Their injuries matched what
he described as “a pretty intense electrical jolt.”
“They had a little bit of burnt marks like if
you would take a match and strike it
and then wait ’til it’s about out and
then touch it to your arm, there was
just a couple of little marks like that,”
Martin said per PEOPLE.
The full autopsy results confirming Stasko and Porter’s
cause and manner of
death are expected
to take about eight
weeks to be completed.
