Posted
3/05/2005 05:09:00 PM
by Douglas
The D.A. of Potter county has exhumed the body of someone that died in a car crash to perform an autopsy to determine that he died of. . . < drumroll please >
blunt force trauma. Preliminary autopsy results show that a man killed in a wreck in January died of blunt-force trauma, a finding that helps prosecutors build a criminal case, said Randall County Criminal District Attorney James Farren.
The victim, Joshua Ray Casey, 19, of Hereford died in a one-vehicle wreck Jan. 20 near Canyon.
No autopsy was ordered at the time, but prosecutors later asked to exhume Casey's body because they needed a definite ruling on the cause of death, Farren said.
Isn't killing your drinkin' buddy bad enough? And what the hell else is a 19 year old guy going to die of in a single vehicle car wreck when the driver has been drinking? Heart attack?