Ponchatoula Police Chief Bry Layrisson says an officer found dead earlier this week, while on duty, died from a medical condition.
Layrisson says autopsy findings revealed that Corporal Pricilla Dean Pierson died from heart complications.
Cops were called to Rouses in Ponchatoula Tuesday after workers said Pierson was found unresponsive. She was declared dead a short time later.
She was a six-year veteran of the Ponchatoula Police Department, a mother and a wife.
The chief says Pierson had a blockage in an artery.
She was married Ponchatoula Police Captain Larry Pierson.
She had three children and two step-children.



