Former Tyson manager commits suicide

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - One of six former Tyson Foods managers charged with participating in an immigrant smuggling scheme killed himself with his rifle, police said Friday.<br> <br> <br> Investigators said Jimmy Rowland, 36, was found with a gunshot wound in his chest Thursday, four days after he left home telling his wife he needed to get away to think.<br> <br> Bedford County coroner Aubrey Richards ruled the death a suicide.<br> <br> Rowland, a former manager at Tyson&#39;s Shelbyville plant, was indicted Dec. 11 on federal charges of conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants to work at company plants in nine states. He was free on a $100,000 bond and faced trial next February.<br> <br> A federal prosecutor has said the maximum possible sentence for any defendant convicted on all 36 counts would be 395 years in prison.<br> <br> &#34;I knew he was having his ups and downs but didn&#39;t know he was this depressed,&#34; said Doug Trant, Rowland&#39;s attorney. &#34;This is one of the worst tragedies I&#39;ve ever known.&#34;<br> <br> Authorities said Rowland had been working as a hospital nurse. His body was found in the bed of his pickup truck, parked in a wooded pasture.<br> <br> Rowland is survived by his wife and two sons.<br> <br>

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