Attorney-Parents Question County Coroner’s Report –

By Terry Miller
Caree Harper attorney for Kendrec Mcdade’s family said the coroner’s report showing bullets hit his arms and hip contradict police assertions that no shots came from behind.
The parents of Kendrec Mcdade also read the autopsy report of their son, Kendrec, who was fatally shot March 24 by Pasadena police, and said they were concerned that he may have been shot from behind.
“Mr.McDade suffered one shot to the left hip/ back area, and several shots to the rear of his arms. Thus, the police account that there were no shots to his back area were inaccurate- again.” Caree Harper said.
Harper held a press conference Saturday at her LA Office about the “brutal overkill of Kendrec Mcdade, the autopsy report and action they plan to take next.”
The autopsy report, released by the L.A. County coroner’s office Friday, and obtained by Beacon Media News shows that the unarmed McDade was shot four times at point-blank range by one officer and was alive and handcuffed after being struck by a total of seven bullets.
A diagram in the autopsy report indicates one bullet entered McDade through the back, but the report states that bullet’s trajectory was “front to back and downward.”
“No matter how you want to twist it there were one, two, three and a possible fourth shot” to the back, Harper concluded in a telephone interview Monday morning.
Harper also was angered that the report ( autopsy) stated that offricer Gomez was present during the autopsy.“ Why was he there?” she pondered.“He’s (Gomez) one of the most corrupt cops on the force.” Harper said. “He has issues” she concluded.
In a federal lawsuit, McDade’s parents, Anya Slaughter and Kenneth McDade, also allege their son was left on the street for a prolonged period of time after the March 24 shooting without receiving first aid. The coroner’s report didn’t address this issue.
However, the report did say that McDade was alive for 90 minutes after the shooting and attornery Harper questions the allegations by Pasadena PD that McDade was combative. “He was fighting for his life,” she said.
Harper also referenced a couple who witnessed the shooting aftermath and allegedly heard one of the officers say “ mother f……er” directing his comment at McDade.
McDade, of Azusa, was killed when Pasadena Officers Jeff Newlen and Mathew Griffin responded to a report of an armed robbery at a taco truck in northwest Pasadena. One of the officers pursued McDade on foot and the other from his vehicle.

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