Feb 25, 2008 9:38 pm US/Eastern
Pathologists Disagree On Ellerbe's Wounds
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
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Michael Ellerbe, 12, was shot and killed in 2002 as a suspect in a stolen car pursuit in Uniontown.
KDKA
Testimony continued today in the lawsuit filed against two state troopers accused in the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy.
Michael Ellerbe was shot as a suspect in 2002 during a stolen car pursuit on Christmas Eve in Uniontown. Samuel Nassan and Juan Curry, the troopers involved in the shooting, were cleared of criminal wrong-doing.
Former Allegheny County Cyril Wecht testified Ellerbe was shot once, but former Wayne County Michigan Medical Examiner Werner Spitz says the boy was shot twice.
"In regards to the shots, there's no hocus pocus in the number of shots because as I said the location of the wounds and the orientation of the wounds and the appearance of each shot," Spitz said.
Wecht's firm was hired by the Fayette County Coroner to do the autopsy. He says the arm wound was just an exit wound abrasion.
"If you look at my autopsy report, and this has been in place long before attorneys got into the picture, it's described as a superficial wound. In fact, the word abrasion was used and an abrasion is a scratch. So there was no perforation, there was no depth to it at all," Wecht said. "I respectfully and very strongly must disagree."
Testimony resumes in the Ellerbe case tomorrow.
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