Posted on 12/02/2016 4:30:24 PM PST by BBell
Ballistic evidence and autopsy results show Ronald Gasser, the man authorities say admitted to fatally shooting Joe McKnight, did not fire on the former NFL player while standing over him, Jefferson Parish authorities said.
"The wounds are not consistent with being shot from above while on the ground," Jefferson Parish Coroner Dr. Gerry Cvitanovich said, as he discussed McKnight's autopsy during a press conference Friday (Dec. 2).
The information contradicts a witness account given at the scene of McKnight's death Thursday at a Terrytown intersection. The witness had said she saw Gasser shoot McKnight twice, then stand on top of McKnight and fire once more.
"Mr. Gasser was in his vehicle when he fired three shots," Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said at the same press conference. "That witness account, and we talked to that witness, is factually incorrect. It did not happen."
Cvitanovich said one of the three bullets that struck McKnight, 28, entered his chest and traveled through his liver and kidney before exiting out his right lower back. Another bullet struck McKnight in his right shoulder and punctured his lung. The third bullet hit McKnight in his left hand, the coroner said.
Normand said three shell casings were found inside Gasser's vehicle. Gasser, 54, was sitting in the driver's seat of his blue Infiniti coupe when he fired three times at McKnight. The former NFL player was out of his Audi Q7 and "positioned at the passenger window of the Infiniti," authorities said.
Normand said the incident potentially began as road rage that started on the Crescent City Connection.
"Preliminarily it may have been simply cutting one off in front of one, recklessly, while driving on the bridge," Normand said. He declined to comment on whether Gasser gave any statements to authorities.
The two men continued onto
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So let me see if I have this right. Protest but get out of line and you go to jail. Admit to shooting Joe McKnight and the sheriff gives you a ride home?
Or unarmed citizen meets thug?
Clueless too. I thought everyone had heard of ballistics. Apparently not.
Is the passenger window glass inside or outside the vehicle?
We have to wait and see. So far the only information being let out is what the they know for sure.
don’t know what happened to the rest of the post.
Oh well
Thank you for that.
Like I said, I am reserving my judgment until more of the facts come out.
The windows were down.
False narratives muck up everything. Just like with the “gentle giant”.
I called that didn’t eye? :)
I don’t believe any first report about black/white altercations. As Donald would say, the Press is so corrupt.
That’s what it looks like from the description. Shot in the chest, bullet goes through a kidney, he must have been coming right through the guy’s window.
Simply beautiful. I didn't know he trained.
Yes, the patient, kind man walked up to the other driver’s window to wish him a happy holiday season. Do you ever tire of being wrong about these things? You sound like you have virtually no experience with real life.
Did ya read the story? The dead guy was found at the side of the other driver’s door. All three shell casings were found inside the vehicle.
This is what I wrote on the first FR thread:
From TMZ:
Law enforcement says Gasser is currently detained and being questioned about why he shot the 28-year-old football star.
At this point, he has NOT been formally arrested.
Cops say Gasser stayed at the scene of the shooting until cops arrived. Once law enforcement got to the scene, he handed over his gun without further incident.
No other gun has been found. They were standing in the middle of a street arguing when Gasser fired his gun twice. A witness claims Gasser said,You aint going to do that again before firing. I dont know how credible that is, but that kind of action contrasts with him waiting for the cops.
We need more info to see if this guy was a psycho or felt threatened.
TMZ got it wrong.
False news, anyone?
Interesting how witnesses can get the facts so wrong. First reports made it sound like the shooter pulled the football player out of his car and executed him. The facts didn’t add up.
“Interesting how witnesses can get the facts so wrong.”
This is not a case of someone innocently getting the facts wrong. This is intentional lying.
I want to know who this “witness” is. What’s his agenda?
There is an obvious political agenda out there, to present blacks as frequent victims of white ("supremicist") violence and intimidation, even though documented crime statistics show the case to be, for the last 50 years, overwhelmingly the reverse.
Blacks are no less reluctant than white leftists to lie to advance their agenda.
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