A Texas Department of Criminal Justice warden was found dead in a Madison County unit’s pool only two weeks after taking the prison’s top spot.

A TDCJ spokesperson confirmed Monday that Clarence Mosley, 45, was found dead in the Ferguson Unit’s employee pool a little after 1 p.m. Sunday. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 1:50 p.m.

The Ferguson Unit is located about 5 miles south of Midway.

Jason Clark, a spokesperson for TDCJ, said the death appeared to be accidental.

Mosley’s body was taken to the Southeast Texas Forensic Center in Conroe for an autopsy to determine why Mosley fell in the pool, Madison County officials said.

Lew Plotts, Madison County’s Precinct 2 justice of the peace, said his office received preliminary autopsy results Monday but tests as to the cause of Mosley’s death were inconclusive.

“The return I got said they were waiting on different (tests) they had to do and they hadn’t reached a decision yet,” Plotts said. “They always wait until they get pretty much everything unless they see something immediately that they know caused the death.”

Plott said Wayne Brewer, a major at the Ferguson Unit, was first on the scene and attempted to pull Mosley from the deep end of the pool.

Mosley, an employee with TDCJ since December 1985, had only been warden of the Madison County unit since July, Clark said .

Mosley was found in the pool by his wife just after 1 p.m.

She called 911 while a correctional officer at the unit attempted to pull Mosley from the pool, Clark said, but was unsuccesful in removing Mosley from the pool.

“They entered the water and tried to bring (him) up to the surface but they were unable to move him,” Clark said.

When EMS personnel arrived at 1:15, Clark said they pulled Mosley from the pool and began CPR, but were unable to revive him.

Clark said TDCJ’s Crisis Response Intervention Support Program was deployed to provide post-trauma counseling.

Mosley lived in TDCJ housing near the unit. Clark said the pool was for staff who live on the unit’s grounds.

“Offenders do not have access to that area,” Clark said.

The 4,355-acre Ferguson Unit in Midway is located 20 miles northwest of Huntsville on Farm-to-Market Road 247 in Madison County.

The unit employees nearly 600 correctional officers and staff and has more than 2,300 inmates at the all-male facility.

Mosley had formerly worked at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont and the Hightower Unit in Dayton.

TDCJ officials are calling Mosley’s death accidental, however, an investigation by the Office of Inspector General into the incident is underway.

Clark said Mosley was found in the pool with his clothes on.

“He still had his cell phone in his pocket,” Clark said.

Deputy Ryan Poe with the Madison County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene, Plott said.

Guardian EMS, a contract emergency services provider for the county, also responded.