A day after investigators in Washington state said an autopsy showed a Mexican migrant killed by police wasn’t shot from behind, a lawyer for the man’s family said a second autopsy contradicts the police claims.
Antonio Zambrano-Montes, 35, was shot twice from the back during a Feb. 10 standoff with police in Pasco, Washington, according to a new autopsy described Thursday by attorney Charles Herrmann. The finding contradicts a claim made Wednesday by Sgt. Ken Lattin of the Tri-Cities Special Investigation Unit, a squad of officers from four police departments assigned to investigate the killing.
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Coroner Dan Blasdel declined to address the discrepancies between the two autopsies. He did, however, suggest the pathologist who performed the family’s autopsy may have been biased.
“The pathologist that did the second autopsy is basically a pathologist for hire. How much credibility he has is questionable,” said Blasdel. “It’s going to be very interesting to get him on the stand at the inquest.”
