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in April of 2023 Dr Michelle Dupri a former investigator and forensic pathologist who's performed more than
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3,000 autopsies oversaw the examination of Steven's body the injuries can tell us so much about what happened and in
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this case they did they did Dupri says the autopsy confirmed stevenh died from a single blow to his forehead severely
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fracturing his skull that's a big gash that's 7 and 1/2 Ines almost there would be another
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gash in this posterior area from hitting the pavement so hard literally split his
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skull it split his skull they were also able to put to rest some rumors including the one that
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Steven had been beaten with a baseball bat it wasn't a baseball bat no those type of injuries would cause something
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that we call pattern injuries and we don't see that here this is a linear fracture um as well as this is here just
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as important is what they found upri says is what they didn't find we didn't find fractures of any part of the body
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except for the head there was a little road rash which you would expect any signs of a struggle no any signs of a
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beating no any injuries below his head other than the road rash none whatsoever she says that eliminates the
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possibility Steven was hit by a car headon Dupri says the findings also refute early theories that Steven's body
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might have been staged were you able to determine whether Steven was struck and fell or he might have B struck and then
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placed there we don't believe that he was placed there we believe that whatever happened happened right
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there