Trayvon Martin autopsy quesion. Was he Shot before?

Autopsy report. Bird shot in the head? :confused: So someone shot this guy before? His parents didn’t get him treated and get the pellets out?

Am I reading this diagram right? Whats that area marked EK on his side? He had tats already. It’s illegal to tattoo minors in most states.

Google doesn’t seem to find references to a prior shooting.

CNN has the full written report.

Some kids find other kids to do it for them, at home. Like prison tattoos, only worse.My daughter has a small heart on her arm she’d like to get rid of…

I see my OP link stopped working.

heres a CNN link with the autopsy diagram. It’s a slideshow but the diagram is the first slide.
http://www.hlntv.com/slideshow/2013/06/03/trayvon-martin-crime-scene-evidence-photos-george-zimmerman?hpt=hp_bn17

  1. Maybe it wasn’t worth it, if it’s only birdshot. In that case, it wouldn’t be causing him any harm.

  2. But where is the mention of birdshot coming from? Possible I missed something, but I only see the chicken scratch on the page with the body diagram.

…bird shit?

  1. Kids also can’t drink, but we know you can always find some way to buy it from less scrupulous vendors, if they can’t find older friends. Also, can’t they usually get parental permission?

…plus, Florida!

Ugh, you’re dead and the ME says you have an “unremarkable penis.” No way of defending yourself!

Looks like “Black Short”, describing his hair. Or am I also supposed to believe that he was shot in the eye with “Brown”?

ETA: The “external examination” also says “Short black hair covers the scalp.” No mention of “bird shot” anywhere in the report.

Further ETA: “EKG” on his side is probably related to “cardiac monitor pad on the left flank.”

In addition to the other possibilities, 16 and 17 year olds can get tattoos in Florida with parental consent.

Probably shrinkage, due to the refrigeration.

Geez that handwriting is pathetic. I think you nailed it with black short. That L on the report has a gap in it like a dotted I. Shot/Short are so similar and the “or” is just a ridiculous scribble.

Thanks

You’d hate to see my handwriting, it’s even worse than the pathologist’s.
When one becomes accustomed to writing a lot, in extremely short amounts of time, such as physicians have to do, the handwriting quality goes right out the window. As long as one knows what one wrote and one’s staff knows what is written, that is good enough.

Have you ever a doctor with good handwriting.

He knew that his findings (written in draft by hand) would be transcribed or that he’d dictate it once he ‘washed up’. The rough draft is simply included to show there’s no cover-up; to show no one’s hiding anything. It adds no information.

Based on television shows, I was under the impression that the medical examiner dictated into a microphone during the post mortem. Is that not the case?