Jordan Barela/Times-Enterprise Grady County emergency personnel responded to a scene at 495 Rich Rd. in Cairo last week where a man scheduled to stand trial for murder was found dead.

THOMASVILLE — Preliminary autopsy results are weeks away on a Grady County man found dead at his home the day he was to stand trial for murder.

Preliminary autopsy results on Jamey Lynn Wolford might not be known for two months, Marko Jones, assistant special agent in charge of the Thomasville regional Georgia Bureau of Investigation office, said Monday.

“Right now, it appears to be suicide,” Jones said, adding that a firearm was recovered at the death scene.

In addition to the manner of death, the preliminary autopsy report will include toxicology results.

“The reason we have to wait is for the medical examiner to make that determination,” Jones said, in reference to the cause of death.

The autopsy is being performed at a state crime lab in Macon.

Jury selection was to begin the morning of Monday, Dec. 12, in a case in which Wolford, 34, was charged with felony murder, aggravated assault and voluntary manslaughter in the April 2015 shooting death of James Eric Poppell, 31, at Azalea Mobile Home Park in Thomasville. He was released on a $200,000 bond.

Jury selection was to begin at 9:30 a.m. The Grady County Sheriff’s Office was notified at 9:45 a.m. about a death at the Wolford residence at 495 Rich Road in northeast Grady County.

Wolford’s body was found by a family member behind a structure at the rear of the residence.

Wolford and Poppell argued on the front steps of a residence at the mobile home park. A GBI agent said Poppell, at the time of the shooting, charged at Wolford.

Wolford told authorities he shot Poppell with a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun. Poppell, who was not armed, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The shooting scene was the residence of Poppell’s ex-wife and the couple’s children, the GBI agent said in 2015.

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