Teen killed by officer had taken psychedelic drug, autopsy finds - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Surveillance footage released to the Star-Telegram Sunday by an employee of Classic Buick GMC shows a teen breaking into the Arlington dealership. The 19-year-old college student who was fatally shot by an Arlington police officer last month at a car dealership had a synthetic psychedelic drug and marijuana in his system, the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office reported Wednesday. Christian Taylor of Arlington, a sophomore football player at Angelo State University, was shot four times by rookie officer Brad Miller, 49, early Aug. Security video from the Classic Buick GMC dealership shows Taylor jumping on and vandalizing a new Ford Mustang in the parking lot. Taylor was killed just two days before the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, who was black, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. Brown’s death galvanized the “Black Lives Matter” movement. The synthetic drug found in Taylor’s system, 25I-NBOMe, is supposed to mimic the effects of LSD. Taylor had 0. 76 nanogram of the drug per milliliter of blood in his system at the time of his death, according to the medical examiner. A 2013 report by the Drug Enforcement Administration says the drug was linked to the deaths of at least 19 Americans from March 2012 to. Source: www.star-telegram.com
