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GONZALEZ, Jessica <br />ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF-CORONER <br />AUTOPSY REPORT <br />13-02615-BB <br />Page7 <br />There is internal surface beveling of this rib with a corresponding <br />fracture. The bullet then perforates the right middle lobe of the <br />lung, the pericardia! sac and grazes the heart, causing a full <br />thickness lacerated defect of the apex of the lateral left ventricle. It <br />then perforates or grazes the inferior edge of the left lingula, before <br />exiting through the anterior left 4th rib, and the overlying skeletal <br />muscles, subcutaneous tissues, and skin of the inferior left chest <br />(of the inferior left breast). <br />C. EXIT: The inferior medial left breast has an irregular-shaped, <br />horizontally-oriented gunshot exit wound that measures 1 x ¾ <br />inches, and is centered 2 ¼ inches left of the chest midline and <br />18 inches from the top of the head. <br />D. BULLET: None recovered at examination. However, there is a <br />small copper-colored bullet jacket fragment identified within the <br />blood of the left chest cavity. <br />E. DIRECTION: Given the standard anatomic position of the body, <br />the direction is back-to-front, right-to-left, and downward. <br />V. GUNSHOT WOUND OF LATERAL LEFT BACK: <br />A. ENTRANCE: The mid lateral left back has a 5/16 inch in diameter <br />gunshot entrance wound, centered 18 ½ inches from the top of the <br />head and 5 ¼ inches circumferentially left of the back midline. It <br />has a circumferential peripheral pink abrasion that measures <br />3/16 inches in width. There are also patchy peripheral pink <br />contusions that range from 1/16 to¼ inch in width. <br />B. PATH: The bullet perforates the skin of the mid lateral left back <br />and enters the left chest cavity through the gunshot defect of the <br />6th intercostal space and superior edge of the 7'h rib, it then <br />~ <br />512712013 bl (13547) Etoi M . Davenport , M.D., Forensic Pathologist