A black college football player killed by a police officer likely used a synthetic psychedelic drug and marijuana prior to the deadly confrontation at a Texas car dealership, according to an initial autopsy report released Wednesday.
The report shows there was THC, one of the active components of marijuana, and a synthetic drug that causes hallucinations in his system.
The autopsy also showed Taylor was shot four times.
BREAKING: Autopsy report released on Christian Taylor, unarmed teen shot by rookie Arlington officer. Taylor shot 4x pic.twitter.com/CqbNIJ9FVQ— Jeff Smith (@JeffSmithNBC5) September 2, 2015
The 6-foot-tall, 19-year-old attended Angelo State University in San Angelo in West Texas, where he was to start his sophomore year on the team.
Taylor was unarmed when Arlington police officer Brad Miller shot him on Aug. 7. Miller was fired days later.
Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said Miller's actions were responsible for "cascading consequences" that led to the shooting, and expressed his own "serious concerns" about the necessity of shooting Taylor. He said that the decision to fire Miller was based on Miller's poor judgment to enter the dealership alone.
The Tarrant County district attorney has said it will bring a case against Miller, 49, to a grand jury. The district attorney did not immediately return calls requesting information about what impact the autopsy report may have on the case.
Autopsy finds N-Bomb, street name for a deadly psychedelic drug with LSD-like effects, in Christian Taylor's system. pic.twitter.com/8Ct2e1rmW5— Mitch Mitchell (@mitchmitchel3) September 2, 2015
Security footage from the lot shows Taylor breaking out the windshield of a car and then driving his vehicle into the glass showroom. There is no video footage of the shooting itself.
Inside the showroom, Miller ordered Taylor to get to the ground. Instead, Taylor cursed at the officer and advanced toward him. The officer fired when Taylor was about 10 feet away, Johnson said in a news conference last month.
There was no physical contact between the officer and Taylor before the shooting. Chief Johnson added that a bulge in one of Taylor's pockets that officers noted later turned out to simply be Taylor's wallet and cell phone.
Additional reporting by Mashable.