jksmith269
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I posted last week about my little brother dieing, and I would be pulling for the Dolphins the rest of the season in his memory. I'd like to give the details of his death because it could happen to you or someone you love.
My brother Jeff was an addict his entire adult life, and spent most of that time in and out of Jail. He died on 10/26/2010 about 3 blocks west of the Ga Dome behind an abandoned house. When he first died we were told it looked like an accidental overdose, that there was no real trauma to him. Well they did the autopsy and we had his body shipped to Fl for the funeral. the day he arrived in FL my brothers and I went to see him, to see if he'd need a hair cut etc. what we found was well shocking to myself. He had numerous abrasions to his face, and 3 of the marks were indention into his skin, the same size, shape and roughly the same depth from looking at them. while 1 of the marks was vertical and the other two were horizontal I could tell they were caused from the same thing. I could also tell from the lack of bruising around the marks (one of which was near his left eye) that the injuries had to have occurred just before he died or right after. Well my brother and I went back the next day to take photos of the marks because they bothered me so much, it was totally inconsistent with what the M.E. had said.
Well yesterday I was able to get the Doctor who oversaw the autopsy (the actual autopsy was preformed by a medical student) on the phone and we were discussing the case, and he was going over his notes and the photos they took during the autopsy (all both of them) well he asked me to email him the photos we had taken, and he called me back and said "Mr Smith I'm very disturbed by these photos" he said he could tell the marks were sustained just before my brother died probably seconds before his heart stopped beating, and that he was most concerned with some bruising around his neck, he said and I quote "the bruising appears to be strangulation marks". My brother was not a small man, and would have fought tooth and nail which concerned the doctor there was no defensive wounds, but in another photo that we had showed a fist sized bruise on his Left Jaw in-between his go-tee and his left ear. I pointed this out to the doctor and asked him, if a person can be knocked unconscious if struck in that area with one blow (I knew the answer being a huge boxing fan) he said yes. the toxicology report won't be in for a couple more weeks, but the one that was done the day he died showed THC, and Opiates. So I asked the Doctor if a person that is "high" if they are knocked out, is there a chance they could stop breathing? he said yes there is, which would also allow a person to strangle them and there be no defensive wounds.
So why am I telling you all this? the reason why is because the M.E. was ready to rule it a drug overdose, when now they are leaning towards ruling it a homicide. The system as it is now does not care about drug addicts, and more often than not when a addict is found dead they rule it an overdose if drugs are found in their system. If you ever lose someone close to you and you have questions about it, don't let them push you away until you are satisfied with the evidence that they provide. I know that with the marks on my brother's face and neck they should have never been overlooked.
So my theory is he was doing drugs with someone, and for what ever reason the other person or persons struck him knocking him out, then strangled him.
The Girl who found his body called my sister when she found out we had been asking questions about the marks on his face and neck and said she was worried that when she found him she had tried to slap him to wake him up, when at the scene she told the police she had not touched the body.
My brother Jeff was an addict his entire adult life, and spent most of that time in and out of Jail. He died on 10/26/2010 about 3 blocks west of the Ga Dome behind an abandoned house. When he first died we were told it looked like an accidental overdose, that there was no real trauma to him. Well they did the autopsy and we had his body shipped to Fl for the funeral. the day he arrived in FL my brothers and I went to see him, to see if he'd need a hair cut etc. what we found was well shocking to myself. He had numerous abrasions to his face, and 3 of the marks were indention into his skin, the same size, shape and roughly the same depth from looking at them. while 1 of the marks was vertical and the other two were horizontal I could tell they were caused from the same thing. I could also tell from the lack of bruising around the marks (one of which was near his left eye) that the injuries had to have occurred just before he died or right after. Well my brother and I went back the next day to take photos of the marks because they bothered me so much, it was totally inconsistent with what the M.E. had said.
Well yesterday I was able to get the Doctor who oversaw the autopsy (the actual autopsy was preformed by a medical student) on the phone and we were discussing the case, and he was going over his notes and the photos they took during the autopsy (all both of them) well he asked me to email him the photos we had taken, and he called me back and said "Mr Smith I'm very disturbed by these photos" he said he could tell the marks were sustained just before my brother died probably seconds before his heart stopped beating, and that he was most concerned with some bruising around his neck, he said and I quote "the bruising appears to be strangulation marks". My brother was not a small man, and would have fought tooth and nail which concerned the doctor there was no defensive wounds, but in another photo that we had showed a fist sized bruise on his Left Jaw in-between his go-tee and his left ear. I pointed this out to the doctor and asked him, if a person can be knocked unconscious if struck in that area with one blow (I knew the answer being a huge boxing fan) he said yes. the toxicology report won't be in for a couple more weeks, but the one that was done the day he died showed THC, and Opiates. So I asked the Doctor if a person that is "high" if they are knocked out, is there a chance they could stop breathing? he said yes there is, which would also allow a person to strangle them and there be no defensive wounds.
So why am I telling you all this? the reason why is because the M.E. was ready to rule it a drug overdose, when now they are leaning towards ruling it a homicide. The system as it is now does not care about drug addicts, and more often than not when a addict is found dead they rule it an overdose if drugs are found in their system. If you ever lose someone close to you and you have questions about it, don't let them push you away until you are satisfied with the evidence that they provide. I know that with the marks on my brother's face and neck they should have never been overlooked.
So my theory is he was doing drugs with someone, and for what ever reason the other person or persons struck him knocking him out, then strangled him.
The Girl who found his body called my sister when she found out we had been asking questions about the marks on his face and neck and said she was worried that when she found him she had tried to slap him to wake him up, when at the scene she told the police she had not touched the body.
