I just listened to the ME's testimony again and the following is my understanding.
He did not say which wound occurred first. He said that would be speculation and not his job. He said that the defensive wounds had to have occurred before the slit throat and gun shot.
Transcript of some of Dr Horn's testimony
Mechanism of death - how did he die? Primarily blood loss. AFter you lose blood, lose ability to provide oxygen to brain and heart - dizzy, loss concsiousness then death.
3 specific injury could have led to death. . . stab wound to chest - slit of throat and shot to the head rapidly fatal.
projectile going thru front of brain - lose consciousness and then go down
Slashing of the throat - it is most severe injury - most bleedng from jugular
Most fatal - chest? middle - significant injury it would cause death without med attn but not loss conscious immediate
One to neck and head -
cause loss conscious immediate
One tothe chest would not.
Defensive wounds to hands - occurred before fatal injury to head or throat.
TA attempted to grab the knife.
Sequencing of events . . . one to head an slit of throat -
Throat and head wound TA couldn't have purposeful movement - he would have been unconscious
first wound would have been one to chest
First would have
Stab could have occurred then the
Throat and head he will not attempt to defend himself after those. Can't say if head injury if he was alive . The neck he was alive - lots of blood. Chest wound he was alive
Wound going thru the head - no hemmorage thru brain or wound tract thru brain . . . may have been an indication person was already dead.
Afternoon recess - 10 min after 3 return.
Gunshot wound -track of the bullet from fontal bump to facial skeleton of the left maxilary bone of the left cheek. Did autopsy in June 12 2008, found therewas no gross evidence of significant intercranial hemmorage. bleeding thru the brain. The brain is really non-existent - it has become liquid -it is very dfficult to examine. Didn't you take slices? yes - it is softened but not liquified - it is still there but the state it was in. Autolized brain - liquified brain tissue. Multiple serial sections - as best as I can - running a knife thru the brain toinspect it. Does not reveal presence of grossly apparent trauma - nothing is clearly defined - no metal fragments, no foreign bodies.
People w/injuries to their brains they are not incapcitated - having something going thru brain - it had to have passed thru the brain. skull is perforated where the brain is it had to have passed thru brain. passed thru right frontal lobe - it had to pass thru the brain a hole into the skull and exit from skull cavity intothe face. There is no way it could have avoided the brain. You are sure of that? YES!
The person with an arrow thru the brain coming into the ER - heard those stories - those are different - not with projectiles - with an arrow it is much lower velocity and doesn't cause as much damage as a bullet. I coudn't document the damage because of the decom
It doesn't make sense that the gunshot wound came first. . . don't remember having conversation with Det. Flores = did you never speak to him?
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