A black teenager shot and killed by white St. Louis police officers this week died from a single gunshot that entered his back and struck his heart, a medical examiner said on Friday, which appears to contradict the police account of the shooting.
News of the preliminary results of an autopsy escalated tensions that had flared after Wednesday's killing of Mansur Ball-Bey, as protesters and family of the slain 18-year-old questioned police accounts that he pointed a gun at officers.
I would add that the autopsy said the bullet entered from the right side of his back. This suggests he was turned 45 degrees or so to the officers when he was hit. That doesn't contradict the police version where he had pointed the gun at them. We'll have to see where the shots he fired, if any, are found.
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Turned to run before being shot?
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