Click the play button on the video window to the right to see the storyThe Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the autopsy reports for two men allegedly shot and killed the by an 8-year-old boy.
Vincent Romero is the child’s father and Tim Romans was a man renting a room at their home.
Romero’s autopsy report reveals he was shot four times.
A bullet grazed his left arm, and penetrated the top of his head, the left side of his head, and the right side of his upper back.
Two of those gunshot wounds caught the eye of Yavapai County’s Medical Examiner Philip Keen.
Keen is Arizona’s senior forensic pathologist.
He said the shape of the wound on Romero’s back may indicate the assailant was slightly to the right and below Romero.
Romero was found face down on a flight of stairs leading to the second floor of his home.
That would place the gunman at the bottom of the staircase.
The shooting happened after Romero came home from work .
In crime scene photos he is shown wearing a hard hat and safety goggles.
He may have a gunshot wound in his back but the report also indicates that “on the front of the hard hat there is a round defect.”
After reading the report Doctor Keen said that tells him a bullet went through the front of his hard hat placing a gunman in front of him.
Tim Roman’s autopsy report outlines six gun shot wounds.
Saint Johns Police found him outside on the front porch.
One bullet struck the right top of his head, a bullet grazed the left side of his head, then there is a wound in the back of his head.
His lung and heart were hit by two bullets, one entered the right side of his chest, the other the left side.
He also has a gunshot would to his forearm.
Pima County Pathologist Cynthia Porterfield wrote “Examination of the entrance wound reveals no evidence of close range firing” for three of Romero’s gunshot wounds and five of Roman’s gunshot wounds.
Doctor Keen says they define “close range”, in part, by determining if there was any gun power residue on the victim’s skin.
He said since there is no gun powder residue it is not in “close range” which would mean the gunman was at least two to two-and-a-half feet away.
Pima County also released the toxicology reports which shows a check for alcohol and drugs in both men came back negative.
Saint Johns Police say the 8-year-old used a single shot 22-caliber rifle to shoot both men.
That means he would have had to reload and fire before each of the ten shots.
