....Dr. Stephens conducted the autopsy on the victim on September 12, 2001. She determined that the victim had been shot two times, once in the chest and once in the abdomen. The victim died as a result of these gun shot wounds. The first wound examined, wound A, was found in the right side back of the chest, and followed a bullet path ending in the left side of the body. Dr. Stephens described the path of the bullet in detail, indicating all bones and internal organs struck by the bullet. In her opinion, the victim's chances of surviving wound A were less then fifty percent even had the victim been in the emergency room and subject to immediate emergency care.
Wound B indicated that the bullet entered the body in the middle of the upper torso, a little to the right of the midline of the body, and lodged against the back body. Again, Dr. Stephens described the path of the bullet and the resulting damage to the internal organs. She said that wound B would also have been fatal “without immediate excellent medical care.” Each of the wounds could have been fatal by itself. The victim did not die immediately from the wounds. He was resuscitated and kept alive on the way to the emergency room, but he was beyond resuscitation by the time he arrived there....
