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Dr. Ariel Goldschmidt, the medical examiner of Allegheny County, who conducted the autopsy on Thomas Matthew Crooks, confirmed Thursday he was killed by the sniper.

Goldschmidt confirmed that gunshot residue samples were taken.

He determined Crooks died as a result of a high-velocity gunshot wound to the head after conducting the autopsy the morning of July 14.

The entrance wound was just above Crooks’s lip, he testified.

Then on July 22 his body was released to the funeral home at the directive of the county coroner.

Goldschmidt also revealed that prior to his review of the body it was x-rayed and handled by the FBI.

The medical examiner also said that he does not believe that Crooks’ body was impacted by a ninth or tenth shot when pressed by Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., on whether there were additional wounds discovered during the autopsy.

Previously Higgins released an independent report indicating that the stock of Crooks’s gun could have been hit by gunfire and the resulting shrapnel from the strike could have injured the shooter.

But the doctor dispelled that suggestion during the hearing Thursday.

Higgins also had raised issues he encountered after he tried to view Crooks’ body on August 5 as part of his own personal inspection.

The former police captain said his request to view the body ‘caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact.’

It was at this point that he learned that the FBI had ‘released the body for cremation 10 days’ after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

Higgins says ‘nobody knew’ that the body had been returned to the family, including the county coroner and local enforcement. He writes that the coroner still had ‘legal authority over the body’ when the FBI made this decision and accuses the agency of ‘obstruction’.

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