A 19-year-old woman involved in a traffic stop
committed suicide after shooting herself through the mouth while her
hands were cuffed behind her back, Virginia police said.
Sarah
Wilson and her boyfriend were arrested during a stop in Chesapeake in
July 2018 after cops allegedly found drugs in the 1996 Lexus the couple
were driving. Police said they handcuffed Wilson and, while attempting
to apprehend her boyfriend, 27-year-old Holden Medlin, he became
combative and ran away from the scene.
Cops then reportedly left
Wilson handcuffed with her hands behind her back as they ran to catch
Medlin. While unattended, police say, she was able to grab a weapon out
of the Lexus, "contorted" her body and shot herself through the mouth.
An internal investigation was launched after her death, which has since
been concluded, though police have declined to comment on its outcome.A medical examiner confirmed on Thursday that Wilson died of a suicide -- but friends and family continue to doubt the official story.
“In all of her life I have never known of her to shoot a gun, own a gun, or even hold a gun,” Wilson's mother, Dawn, told ABC 13 last year. She told the station she spoke to witnesses who told her the police were responsible for her daughter's death...........https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-shot-herself-in-the-head-while-cuffed-with-hands-behind-her-back-during-traffic-stop-police-say
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