As thriller surrounds the 2023 Labor Day dying of Oklahoma teen army hopeful Noah Presgrove, a forensics knowledgeable broke down the medical expert’s most up-to-date findings and shared his idea on what brought on the 19-year-old’s dying.
Dr. Michael Baden, an American doctor and board-certified forensic pathologist recognized for his work investigating high-profile deaths, informed Fox Information Digital that Presgrove’s dying is a horrible case and that the medical expert’s report revealed many particulars surrounding the night time he died.
“He had numerous inner bleeding. So, his coronary heart saved pumping for a bit bit after he was struck. But when there is a chance that in an ATV accident, he may need a punctured lung and was bleeding slowly. After which, as he is strolling alongside the freeway, the bleeding will get worse, and he collapses, after which a truck hits him and causes all of the accidents, on that account. However that will lots rely on what his situation was when he will get again to the social gathering,” Baden mentioned.
Presgrove was discovered lifeless alongside a rural stretch of US-81 in Jefferson County on Labor Day in 2023. He was final seen alive at a celebration he attended with a bunch of mates that night time, however practically a 12 months later, the household says that nobody has come ahead and informed them how he ended up alongside the freeway.
“My household is powerful, however immediately is tough. All of us miss him deeply. Nobody new has stepped out with completely different info, so it’s a ready sport,” Noah’s sister, Madison Rawlings, informed Fox Information Digital.
In line with the medical expert’s full report, after additional investigation, it was decided that Presgrove was ingesting at a home social gathering the place he was concerned in an ATV rollover incident. The investigation revealed that Presgrove returned to the social gathering the place he acquired into an argument along with his girlfriend after the ATV incident.
“That’s the solely a part of the party-goers’ tales that match. Each that we’ve had the chance to speak to claims {that a} wreck did occur, however he was utterly high-quality; nonetheless unsure on who the girlfriend is,” Rawlings mentioned.
“I don’t know what to imagine, actually. Do I believe they deliberately killed him? No. Do I believe they have been drunk and acquired right into a combat with him? Sure …,” Kristen Smith, the mom of Noah’s greatest pal, Hayden, informed Fox Information Digital. Smith shares a birthday with Noah, who would turned 20 on Tuesday.
Baden mentioned that because of the stage of alcohol in Presgrove’s system, he could not have even been conscious that he was severely injured.
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“The problem can be if he had any important accidents from the ATV, comparable to inner bleeding. And he is too intoxicated to suppose of going to a hospital or a health care provider or one thing,” Baden mentioned.
With the quantity of alcohol believed to have been consumed on the social gathering, Baden mentioned the others on the social gathering could not have even realized Presgrove was damage when he returned, since his accidents have been largely inner.
“They assumed no matter variations of look he had was as a result of he was ingesting and never due to the ATV harm, which might not have brought on him to break down or something till sufficient inner bleeding had occurred, because it was a small leak, a small laceration to the lung,” Baden mentioned.
“As a result of the one factor that would trigger the extent of the accidents to his head and backbone can be a automotive wheel coming over him, you recognize, or a truck, extra doubtless a truck and doubtless on the bottom. And I believe both he was internally bleeding and intoxicated, strolling alongside the freeway, and he collapses, and he is mendacity there, and the automobile comes and hits him within the head whereas he is on the aspect of the highway.”
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Baden added that Presgrove could not have even realized how damage he was based mostly on his blood alcohol stage.
“So, the one factor alcohol does, it is an anesthetic agent. And it may well cowl up ache brought on by damaged bones or a lacerated lung,” Baden mentioned.
He mentioned after studying the total medical expert’s report, he believes an auto incident contributed to Presgrove’s dying.
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Authorities labeled Presgrove’s method of dying as “undetermined,” although Baden says he believes the circumstances surrounding the teenager’s dying are “in keeping with a hit-and-run.”
“If any individual struck him, stopped, checked out him and did not do something about it and took off … that is a hit-and-run. That may very well be a murder sort of factor. So, they’re hesitant to categorise it both as an accident or a murder,” Baden mentioned. “It is a very unhappy case … nevertheless it’s in keeping with a hit-and-run state of affairs being that any individual hit him and did not cease.”
Presgrove had lately graduated from highschool three months early with plans to enlist within the army alongside his cousin.
Baden, the host of HBO’s “Post-mortem” collection, was the chief medical expert of New York Metropolis from 1978 to 1979. He has additionally been concerned in a few of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality circumstances in U.S. historical past, from the federal government’s 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the 2014 dying of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the preliminary Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives Matter motion.
