Autopsy: UNC student shot multiple times

(CNN) — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president who was killed this year was shot several times, including in her head, according to her autopsy report released Monday.

Eve Carson, 22, was found slain on March 5.

Carson’s autopsy report lists six gunshot wounds, but says two were probably from the same bullet, according to North Carolina’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Carson’s death shocked the community and drew national attention. An estimated 10,000 people turned out for a service remembering her.

Her autopsy — released after a North Carolina newspaper filed a court motion to have it unsealed — describes wounds to various parts Carson’s body. It says shotgun wounds to her head and hand “most likely represent a single shot with the hand acting as an intermediate target.”

One of the other four wounds was also a gunshot to her head.

A separate, handwritten summary of the medical examiner’s report says Carson was “shot multiple times” and found lying on her back, with one arm bent behind her head. Continue Reading.