Author: mopress

The entry wound is to the left back, below and medial to the scapula,
centered 14 3/4 inches below the top of the head, 4 3/4 inches to the
left of posterior midline, 6 1/2 inches below the upper surface of the
shoulder, and about 1/4 inch above nipple level….The wound is also
surrounded by a slightly eccentric deposit of black soot and powder
tattoo marks which fan upward and to the left of the defect for 1.1 cm,
and downward and medially for 8 mm….Eight loose flakes of gunpowder
are present surrounding the wound in an 11.5 cm diameter.

The bullet is easily palpated along the right lateral torso, 20 1/4
inches below the top of the head…4 inches below nipple level….

Subsequent autopsy reveals the bullet entered the left posterior chest
cavity by fracturing the posterior 7th rib which is fragmented and
splintered. Bone fragments are carried along the track of the
bullet through the left lower lung lobe, along a 1.5 cm wide
hemorrhagic track through the lung. The bulle then passed across
the left lateral vertebral column at the level of the 8th intercostal
space without producing any fracture, and perforated the aorta.
The track through the aorta contains bone splinters, and an 11X1X5 mm
detached copper petal of the bullet jacket. The bullet then
passed through the right lower lung lobe, the right hemi-diaphram, and
through the liver where a 4.5 cm wide stellate track is present from
the dome of the liver to the anterior right lobe. The bullet then
perforated the anterior reflection of the diaphram and fractured the
anterolateral right 7th rib, lodging in the 7th intercostal space.

The recovered bullet is semi-jacketed, with a 9mm wide base, and one
petal of the jacket missing. The other petals of the copper
jacket are curled backward, exposing the lead core. The number
"1082" is inscribed in the open lead core of the bullet, and the bullet
is placed in a small envelope, labeled, and released to… The
detached copper petal recovered in the aorta is also released to…

The gunshot wound produced a 1,000 cc left hemothrax, and a 650 cc
right hemothrax. The path of the gunshot wound was back to front,
left to right, and downward.

A few other acute injuries are noted to the body:

• Present along the lateral left upper arm, centered about 3 inches
  below the upper surface of the shoulder, is a 5X4 cm wide injury
  composed of stippled lines of punctate pink abrasions which lie about 5
  mm apart, and run upward from anterior to posterior.
• Along the lateral right forehead is a 6 mm sparse red abrasion.
• Along the anterior right chin, 1 1/4 inches below the corner of
  the mouth, 3/4 to the right of anterior midline, is a 1.2 X 0.7 cm
  abrasion.
• Along the right anterior chest, beginning two inches below nipple
  level and 1 1/2 inches to the right of the anterior midline, and
  running downward to the right, is a 5 X 0.1 cm red scratch abrasion.
• Along the mid back of the right upper arm is a faint 3 cm wide blue contusion.
• Along the mid medial right forearm is a 3 X 2 mm red abrasion

In early 2002, Rocha was assigned to my math class, since he was having
problems with his grades and had a slight learning disability.
Rocha seemed to be cocky and non-caring about school….One day he
confronted me and pulled out a large roll of cash and showed it to
me. He asked me "How much do you make?" He flashed this
roll in my face and said he made enough money to buy a grade from
me….I decided to front him out in front of the class. I told
Rocha that he would just get busted and use all his money getting a
lawyer to get out of jail. Rocha would always say "No cop is
going to take anything away from me or take me down. I ain’t
goin’ to jail….We attempted to work with him and tried to intervene
as needed….Some of the female students said they were afraid of
Rocha…I became upset when I heard people in the neighborhood saying
that Rocha was a good boy and an innocent young man….

Subject says she bought two rocks of crack from the guy who later leaped the fence.

I was standing outside of my friend [G’s name withheld by editor]
house. She lives two or three duplexes away from me. I saw
a suburban pull up to a stop sign. The officers pulled in front
of it. They all got out. One of the officers yelled, "don’t
run Ricky." A person ran. It was a young boy,
tennager. I didn’t see him. A female officer took off after
the one who ran. About a minute later she brought him back.
The female officer was wearing shorts. She had blond hair.
She walked back from by the Suburban, he didn’t make it that far.
I’m sure it was the same person who ran. The other officers were
with the other guy in the Suburban. He was still in the Suburban,
in the driver’s side. They were standing on the driver’s
side. The blond officer was on the passenger side with the other
boy. She was the only female officer out there.

She was by the stop sign and she put the boy down. Me and [G]
were walking back towards my house. We were by a metal
fence. The metal fence meets up with the stop sign sort of.
I live across from Quicksilver. We were on the opposite side of
the street from where the Suburban was.

Det. Walker asked me if I saw a fight or struggle. No, I saw the
officer holding the man with one hand, the left, and she had her gun
with her right. All I could see was his shoulder that she had him
by. I couldn’t tell which shoulder. Then her gun fired
once. She was standing up, kind of hunched over, and he was
already on the ground. I saw the fire come out of the officer’s
gun….

Signed and notarized June 10, 2005