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To right. slashed the lung and pierced the ascending aorta. gunshot wound 10 was on the right side of williams chest. less than an inch from the midline. the bullet that caused it had a downward trajectory came from left to the right. and went through the sac around the heart and ripped the superior serena cava the major vein that drains blood from the heart. wound 11 is lower on williams chest and on the left side. about two inches from the center of her body. and was caused by a bullet coming ...

An unknown fact based upon known facts combined with the experts knowledge gained if education, training and experience. and experts opinions can be the difference between finding something beyond a reasonable doubt and not. they should be examined carefully. having considered dr. filas opinion, i believe hes either wrong about the time from the chest injuries until death. or hes wrong that wound 1 to the head was post-mortem. on the one hand his estimate of the time from the chest injuries to d...

There is no evidence that brelo ever shot his gun toward the malibu from its passenger side. wound 15-b is a penetrating wound to russells left upper chest. the bullet that caused this wound came in from russells left and went right front to back. where it entered the heart and would have killed russell within anywhere from several seconds to a minute. wound 15-c is a penetrating wound to russells left -- im sorry, right upper chest. about three inches from 15-b. but on the other side of midline...

The back toward the front of russells body. wound 1 was immediately incapacitating to russell so that he could not move and by itself would have killed him within minutes. wound two was another penetrating wound to russells head on the side. entering two inches to the right of midline, just above the right ear. and injuring the brain stem which controls respiration and heart rate. dr. weems testified that this bullet caused a nearly immediate death. like wound 1, the path of this bullet was down...

Have caused russells death. dr. felo did the autopsy of melissa williams. he identified 24 gunshot wounds six of which taken in isolation were fatal. wound 8 was caused by a bullet that entered just under the collar bone. about two inches to the right of midline and into the lung. that wound has a trajectory straight in. and from left, her left to right. the projectile that made wound 9 entered williams chest on a downward trajectory went left

Hearts right ventricle and lacerated williams right diaphragm and kidney. about two inches below wound 11 is wound 12. the bullet that came in here scuffed the heart, and went through the left lobe of the liver and the stomach. wound 12 has the same basic path as wound number 11. downward into the chest and from left to right. the last of williams unequivocally fatal wounds number 13 is in her right abdomen one-half-inch from midline. the path of the projectile that came in here was upward and f...

Penetrating shots to the chest and abdomen and for which, dr. weems could not determine necessarily the wound paths. but of these, 15-b from a bullet that pierced the heart and lung and 15-c from a bullet that perforated the heart would each be fatal by itself. wound 1 at the top of the head is from a bullet that entered there, less than an inch left of the midline and lacerated among other structures the left basal ganglia, which controls movement. weems testified that the trajectory of that wo...

Timothy russell had 23 gunshot wounds. the medical examiner who performed his autopsy, dr. weens, numbered the wounds sequentially in head-to-toe order, not the order they were sustained. so that wound number one is at the top of russells led. wound number two, lower on the head and so on down to 15-h. of the 23 both wounds 1 and 2 to the head would be fatal. taken alone. the nine wounds labeled at 15-a to 15-h together would be fatal combined. these are wounds that were

Peri mortem. meaning the injury happened around the time of death, but whether it came before or after the cessation of life the legal definition of death, cant be determined. dr. fela did agree that the term "peri mortem" is an accepted term of art in pathology and is not just a hedge for a doctor unwilling to opine whether an injury is pre- or post mortem. dr. felas testimony that wound 1 to her head was sustained after death, after the cessation of respiration, pulsation and all of her other ...

S to say before death. he testified that wound 12 is most likely premortem. williams also had one head wound that could be said in isolation to be fatal. wound 1, not depicted on the mannequin, is just above her left ear. the bullet came straight in and penetrated the brains left temporal lobe. if this injury was incurred alone, it would have caused instant unconsciousness, and williams heart would have stopped beating within minutes. yet, the parties experts differ on whether the lethal shot to...