Fatal bullet hit teenager in back, records reveal
They also show that 2 security guards failed to identify themselves before firing at Travares McGill at a Sanford complex.
January 29, 2006|By Rene Stutzman, Sentinel Staff Writer
SANFORD -- Security guard William Patrick Swofford told investigators he opened fire on 16-year-old Travares McGill last summer because he felt he was in imminent danger. McGill was coming at him in a car, tires squealing.
But a review of more than 600 pages of evidence shows that the bullet that killed McGill hit him in the middle of the back and that Swofford kept firing after the car was no longer headed toward him.
The fatal bullet, one of three to hit McGill, tore through his back, ripped open his aorta and penetrated his heart, according to an autopsy report. Seconds later, McGill's car slowed, began to coast, then plowed into a nearby fence.
Neither Swofford nor his partner, Bryan Ansley, was injured.
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