American Military News by Steve DeVane - The Fayetteville Observer December 07, 2020
‘It was such a brutal crime:’ Autopsy report shows 82nd Airborne soldier was decapitated
A Fort Bragg paratrooper who was murdered in May had been decapitated, according to an autopsy report.
Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez, 21, was killed in May while he was camping with fellow soldiers on an island at Cape Lookout National Seashore. He was from Chino, California, and was a human resource specialist in the 82nd Airborne Division’s 37th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team.
The autopsy report, which is from the Division of Forensic Pathology at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, lists the cause of death as “homicide by undetermined means.†It was digitally signed by Dr. Randall K. Falls Jr. on Nov. 4.
The autopsy examined a severed head, as neither the torso nor any extremities were available, according to the report. It showed evidence of multiple chop injuries, a broken jaw, cuts and a fractured cervical spine.
“While decapitation is, in and of itself, universally fatal, the remainder of the body in this case was not available for examination, and therefore potential causes of death involving the torso and extremities cannot be excluded,†the report said.
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