Patrick Lyoya, 26, was shot and killed by a Grand Rapids police officer on April 4. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (FOX 2) - An independent autopsy performed on Patrick Lyoya showed that he was killed by a gunshot to the back of the head.Related: Patrick Lyoya's funeral scheduled for FridayDr.
Werner Spitz was retained by attorneys Ben Crump and Ven Johnson to perform an autopsy after 26-year-old Lyoya was shot and killed by a Grand Rapids police officer on April 4.According to Spitz's report, the bullet "entered the back of his skull near the midline.
The bullet traveled up and to the right side of his skull and lodged near his right temporal bone."Spitz said he believes the gun was pressed against Lyoya's head because the bone was fragmented. "The only injury on this body was a typical bullet wound of entrance," he said. "He was fully aware at one point, or over periods depending on what transpired before that gun being held to his head."Spitz said the shot caused Lyoya's brain to swell.Kent County has also performed an autopsy on Lyoya, but those results haven't been revealed.The independent autopsy confirmed that Lyoya was shot in the back of the head after video showed the police shooting.Police released four different angles of footage from the shooting – video from a body cam, a surveillance camera, a patrol vehicle camera, and a cell phone. Read: Here's what the Patrick Lyoya shooting videos showedLyoya was pulled over on Griggs near Nelson because the license plate on his car didn't belong to the vehicle, police said.
During the encounter with the police officer who has not been named since he hasn't been charged, Lyoya ran around his car and into a yard.