Key takeaways:
- The autopsy revealed that Tortuguita had been shot 14 times from head to toe by police near Atlanta on January 18th.
- The family is now filing an open-records lawsuit to force Atlanta police to release more evidence about the killing.
- The GBI has been investigating the shooting for nearly two months, and the family is hoping that the open-records lawsuit will help them get the answers they are looking for.
On Monday, attorneys and family members of Manuel Esteban Páez Terán, an environmental activist known as “Tortuguita”, released the results of an autopsy they commissioned. The autopsy revealed that Tortuguita had been shot 14 times from head to toe by police near Atlanta on January 18th.
The family’s attorneys said that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has prevented Atlanta police from releasing additional evidence to the family. Attorney Brian Spears said that the number of bullets and the tracks of the bullets running through the body “converge and intersect”.
The family is now filing an open-records lawsuit to force Atlanta police to release more evidence about the killing of Tortuguita, who was 26 years old. Tortuguita was at a peaceful protest and occupation of the South River Forest when the shooting occurred.
The GBI has been investigating the shooting for nearly two months, and the family is hoping that the open-records lawsuit will help them get the answers they are looking for. They are also hoping that the lawsuit will help bring justice for Tortuguita and other activists who have been killed in similar circumstances.
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