An independent autopsy confirms that Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of the head by a Michigan police officer while facedown on the ground, lawyers for the Black man's family said Tuesday.
Lyoya was killed after a traffic stop in western Michigan on April 4. He and the white officer physically struggled on the ground before the 26-year-old refugee from Congo was shot.
“We can confirm that Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of his head,” attorney Ben Crumpsaid. “That is now scientific evidence of this tragic killing and what his family believes was an execution.” Crump, who has secured multimillion-dollar settlements for families of other Black men killed by police, said Lyoya could have lived until his early 80s — a “long and fruitful life.”
Lyoya's death has outraged his family as well as many people who have watched video of the confrontation with an officer.
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