Tennessee national guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime taskforce in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press, contradicting police accounts that said the man was facing the troops when they fired.
Authorities have said that Tyrin Johnson turned toward guard members with a gun while running from them in the early morning hours after the Fourth of July holiday in Memphis when he was fatally shot in the chest.
But according to an autopsy report shared by Johnson’s family, a single bullet went in the right side of his back and exited through his upper right chest. The autopsy findings, reported earlier by the Commercial Appeal, the Memphis news outlet, were prepared by the West Tennessee regional forensic center office of the medical examiner, which did not respond to a request for comment.
The guard members were assigned to the Memphis Safe Task Force, created by Donald Trump, as the US president last year sent troops and federal agents to Democratic-run cities that he described as overrun with crime. The taskforce was involved in four fatal shootings between May and July.
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