Christian Taylor, 19, who was fatally shot in August by a white Texas rookie police officer at a Dallas-area car dealership, reportedly had traces of synthetic psychedelic drugs and marijuana in his system, a combination that can cause hallucinations, according to the autopsy report, viewed by Reuters.
Video of the Aug. 7 incident showed Taylor pacing through the closed car dealership before jumping on top of a parked Ford Mustang. At one point the Angelo State University football player was shown kicking in the car's windshield, then climbing into the car through the broken windshield. He then exited the parked car and crashed his Jeep Cherokee into the dealership. Taylor was unarmed when he was fatally shot by Arlington Police Officer Brad Miller, a rookie, who reportedly broke protocol by ignoring his supervisor's instructions and entering the dealership on his own.
Miller was fired from the Arlington police force four days after the shooting.
According to the report, a synthetic drug called NBOMe was found in Taylor's system. The drug, which goes by "N-bomb" or "25i" on the street, is "known to cause distorted perceptions, agitation and hallucinations" and has been "associated with random and bizarre behavior in users," according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The autopsy also revealed that Taylor was shot four times.
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