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Autopsy indicates officer shot unarmed teen William Chapman from distance
Source: The Guardian
Autopsy indicates officer shot unarmed teen William Chapman from distance
Eighteen-year-old was not close enough to police officer Stephen Rankin to pose
a threat, says family lawyer, as report obtained by Guardian shows he was cuffed
Jon Swaine in New York
Monday 24 August 2015 12.15 BST
An unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot in the face by a police officer from several feet away during their confrontation outside a supermarket in Virginia earlier this year, the findings of his autopsy indicate.
The typical signs of a close- or body-contact shooting were not found around the bullet wounds William Chapman sustained in the head and chest when he was killed by Officer Stephen Rankin in the parking lot of a Walmart in Portsmouth on 22 April. Chapman was the second unarmed man to be shot dead by Rankin.
“There is no evidence of close-range fire to visual inspection,” wrote Wendy Gunther, an assistant chief medical examiner for Virginia. Gunther said a definitive ruling would be made by the state’s department of forensic sciences.
A copy of Gunther’s report was obtained by the Guardian from a source who was not authorised to release it to the media, along with a separate toxicology report from state forensic investigators that said Chapman’s blood showed no traces of alcohol or drugs.
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Eighteen-year-old was not close enough to police officer Stephen Rankin to pose
a threat, says family lawyer, as report obtained by Guardian shows he was cuffed
Jon Swaine in New York
Monday 24 August 2015 12.15 BST
An unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot in the face by a police officer from several feet away during their confrontation outside a supermarket in Virginia earlier this year, the findings of his autopsy indicate.
The typical signs of a close- or body-contact shooting were not found around the bullet wounds William Chapman sustained in the head and chest when he was killed by Officer Stephen Rankin in the parking lot of a Walmart in Portsmouth on 22 April. Chapman was the second unarmed man to be shot dead by Rankin.
“There is no evidence of close-range fire to visual inspection,” wrote Wendy Gunther, an assistant chief medical examiner for Virginia. Gunther said a definitive ruling would be made by the state’s department of forensic sciences.
A copy of Gunther’s report was obtained by the Guardian from a source who was not authorised to release it to the media, along with a separate toxicology report from state forensic investigators that said Chapman’s blood showed no traces of alcohol or drugs.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/24/william-chapman-autopsy-stephen-rankin-police-shooting-virginia
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