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Autopsy: Dennehy shot twice in head Posted: Wednesday August 13, 2003 12:36 PMUpdated: Wednesday August 13, 2003 1:32 PM
WACO, Texas (AP) -- Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy was shot twice in the side of the head and did not have alcohol in his system, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday. Both gunshot wounds were above the right ear, but the autopsy report does not say how close the gun was when it was fired. A separate ballistics report has been sent to the McLennan County Sheriff's Office. The first bullet exited Dennehy's forehead above the left eye; the second bullet exited behind the left ear, according to the autopsy by the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas. The report does no say how long Dennehy had been dead. The 6-foot-10 Dennehy had been missing about six weeks when his body was found July 25 in a field near a rock quarry four miles south of the Baylor campus. According to the final autopsy report, the drug screen was negative. Dennehy had no alcohol in his system but tissue samples were unsuitable to test for marijuana. Jessica De La Rosa, Dennehy's girlfriend of two years, told The Associated Press that she was not surprised when authorities gave her details of the autopsy report that the toxicology tests were negative. "I had no doubt in my mind that (drug use) was no part of this," she said from her home in Albuquerque, N.M. "We're still having a hard time that he's not coming back to us." Dennehy's stepfather, Brian Brabazon, said he knows only some of the details of what happened to Dennehy. "It probably will be hard to hear, but I do want to know," Brabazon told The Associated Press on Tuesday from his home in Carson City, Nev. Carlton Dotson, who played basketball at Baylor last season and lived in Dennehy's apartment a few months, has been charged with murder. Dotson, 21, remains jailed in his home state of Maryland, awaiting transfer to Texas. Dotson was arrested July 21 after telling FBI agents that he shot Dennehy after the player tried to shoot him, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. Dotson's estranged wife, Melissa Kethley, was expected to testify Wednesday before a McLennan County grand jury in the Dennehy case. She told the Star-Telegram that Dotson has told her nothing about Dennehy's death. "All he says is this will be over soon and he'll take care of me now and forever," Kethley told the newspaper for a story in Wednesday editions. Investigators found a .32-caliber gun and a box of bullets near the body, but the pistol was Dennehy's and had not been fired, the Waco Tribune-Herald has reported. Dennehy, 21, was last seen on campus June 12, and his family reported him missing June 19. His vehicle was found June 25 without license plates in a Virginia Beach, Va., parking lot, about 160 miles from Dotson's hometown of Hurlock, Md. After Dennehy disappeared, allegations of NCAA violations surfaced from some of his family and friends who said a coach gave him money for a car and apartment rent and that his tuition was taken care of, although he was not on a scholarship. Basketball coach Dave Bliss and athletic director Tom Stanton abruptly resigned Friday. Baylor president Robert Sloan said school investigators discovered that Bliss was involved in two players' receiving improper financial aid and that staff members did not properly report failed drug tests by players. Sloan said Stanton had no direct knowledge of any violations.
A newly appointed search committee has started looking to fill
those two positions.
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