Young Scooter’s cause of death revealed

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died on Friday (March 28) after fleeing from the police.The Atlanta Police Department stated in a press conference at the time that a 39-year-old died after he injured his leg on a fence as he fled from police responding to a 911 call at a home on William Nye Drive.

The man was transported to Grady Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Scooter was later confirmed as the deceased male, according to Variety.Now, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office (via The Independent), Scooter’s cause of death was a “penetrating injury of the right thigh” that led to major blood loss.The autopsy additionally noted that the rapper injured himself on a wooden fencing material or woody debris.

His death was listed as an accident.The Atlanta Police Department previously said that officers responded to a 911 call over “a dispute with a weapon,” as “it was advised in the caller marks that shots were fired.” A female was also reportedly “dragged back inside the location.”“Once officers arrived they knocked on the door.

A male opened the door and immediately shut the door on the officers,” Lieutenant Andrew Smith added. “During [the officers’] process of [then] establishing the perimeter, two males fled out of the rear of the house.”“One male returned back into the house.