Saturday, May 4, 2013

Marco McMillian's Autopsy Report released


Finally, we learn some info about Marco McMillian's death. In the autopsy report, Lawrence Reed confessed to killing Marco and dumping his body in the river.

But that's not all:
The report says blunt force trauma most likely contributed to Clarkdale mayoral candidate Marco McMillian’s death, but the cause of death is listed as “asphyxia by undetermined etiology,” which is the medical branch dealing with causes. That means McMillian died from a lack of oxygen, but exactly what caused that could not be determined.
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Without naming Reed, the autopsy report said the man who was in the wreck in McMillian’s SUV “admitted to killing Mr. McMillian and dumping his body near the levee.” Authorities have previously said that Reed was alone when he crashed McMillian’s vehicle.

The report said McMillian’s body was unclothed.

The report also said there were abrasions and lacerations on McMillian’s head, back and legs and multiple “areas of second and third degree burns.”

A previous report, the preliminary finding from the autopsy on Feb. 28, said the cause of death was pending and that the trauma to McMillian’s head was “non-lethal.” That document also said the burns happened “peri-mortem,” meaning at or near the time of death.

The May 1 report said it could not be determined if the burns happened before or after McMillian’s death.

McMillian’s family released a statement March 3 that said his body was “beaten, dragged and burned,” leading some to assume it was dragged by a car.

But the coroner, Scotty Meredith, said at the time that McMillian was not dragged by a car, though he was dragged out of a vehicle by someone and his body left near the levee.
So, at this time there's no hate crime charge, but there are still some questions about the motive and what's really going on with Lawrence Reed.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

After reading this I thought I was in a third world country were there are no laws like ours. This is an outrage. I saw this one movie and in it the Blacks were the one killing the gay Black men. This stinks.

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