Max
06-05-2003, 11:08 AM
Autopsy results released on slain OU student
2003-06-05
Ohio University senior Terris Ross was under the influence of alcohol and marijuana when he was shot to death, an autopsy report shows.
Ross, 23, was shot with a small-caliber firearm in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 9, while he sat in a car parked outside the west-side University Commons student condominium complex. He was a senior from Fremont, Ohio, attending OU's College of Business.
Another student, 21-year-old Nyerre Mays of East Cleveland, was also shot, and suffered an injury to the hand. The assailant then fled the scene. Neither Ross nor Mays lived at University Commons. A police investigation of the killing is apparently stalled.
A preliminary coroner's report indicated that Ross was killed with multiple gunshot wounds to the neck.
A report from the Franklin County Coroner's office shows that an autopsy was performed on Ross the day after his death. The report, however, was only filed with the Athens County Common Pleas Court yesterday.
The autopsy report indicates that at the time of his death Ross had a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent, well above the legal limit for drunken driving. He also showed evidence of having used marijuana. The amounts of alcohol and THC present in Ross's system were "consistent with acute recreational administration," according to the report.
The autopsy found four gunshot wounds: one to the right cheek, two to the right side of the neck, and one exit wound on the left side of the neck, indicating three shots in all. The report indicates that the two shots to the neck are what killed Ross, by injuring his spinal cord and cutting his right carotid artery, causing him to inhale his own blood.
Athens County Prosecutor C. David Warren said yesterday that he has heard no new developments in the Ross investigation from Athens Police, and that he believes investigators are still waiting for lab reports from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCII).
http://www.athensnews.com/issue/article.php3?story_id=13174
2003-06-05
Ohio University senior Terris Ross was under the influence of alcohol and marijuana when he was shot to death, an autopsy report shows.
Ross, 23, was shot with a small-caliber firearm in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 9, while he sat in a car parked outside the west-side University Commons student condominium complex. He was a senior from Fremont, Ohio, attending OU's College of Business.
Another student, 21-year-old Nyerre Mays of East Cleveland, was also shot, and suffered an injury to the hand. The assailant then fled the scene. Neither Ross nor Mays lived at University Commons. A police investigation of the killing is apparently stalled.
A preliminary coroner's report indicated that Ross was killed with multiple gunshot wounds to the neck.
A report from the Franklin County Coroner's office shows that an autopsy was performed on Ross the day after his death. The report, however, was only filed with the Athens County Common Pleas Court yesterday.
The autopsy report indicates that at the time of his death Ross had a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent, well above the legal limit for drunken driving. He also showed evidence of having used marijuana. The amounts of alcohol and THC present in Ross's system were "consistent with acute recreational administration," according to the report.
The autopsy found four gunshot wounds: one to the right cheek, two to the right side of the neck, and one exit wound on the left side of the neck, indicating three shots in all. The report indicates that the two shots to the neck are what killed Ross, by injuring his spinal cord and cutting his right carotid artery, causing him to inhale his own blood.
Athens County Prosecutor C. David Warren said yesterday that he has heard no new developments in the Ross investigation from Athens Police, and that he believes investigators are still waiting for lab reports from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCII).
http://www.athensnews.com/issue/article.php3?story_id=13174