Reginald Lamont Epps died of gunshot wounds of the chest and abdomen received in a shootout with law enforcement, according to an autopsy report requested by rrspin.com.

Richard Hodges, a physician’s assistant, performed the autopsy on January 22 at the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine in the presence of State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent M.K. Harper.

Dr. Jonathan Privette signed off on the autopsy on April 17, asserting the facts stated in the report were correct.

Diagnosis of the 38-year-old’s body, received after a January 18 shootout with the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office at his residence on Straight Road during execution of search warrant, shows three gunshot wounds and one incised wound of the right arm.

The wounds, the autopsy notes, are not recorded in the order they might have occurred.

The first gunshot wound is a non-exiting wound of the left chest that caused a rib fracture and lacerations of the bilateral lungs and aorta. The projectile was recovered from the right shoulder.

The second gunshot wound is one to the left arm that exited and re-entered the left chest and did not exit again. That wound caused a rib fracture and lacerations of the left lung, diaphragm, liver, stomach and right kidney. The projectile was recovered.

The third gunshot wound was one to the anterior abdomen that exited the body and caused skin and soft tissue injury.

The autopsy notes an incised wound of the right arm.

The autopsy notes medical intervention that includes ECG leads.

Preserved as evidence and released to the SBI as evidence on January 31 were the following:

• Head hair

• Pubic hair

• Bullet from gunshot wound A

• Bullet from gunshot wound B

• Blood card

• Clothing, which consisted of green, plaid boxer shorts and a white T-shirt

The autopsy, without elaboration, states, “The decedent was a 38-year-old male who was shot during an altercation with law enforcement. Significant findings at autopsy include multiple gunshot wounds of the chest and abdomen and an incised wound of the right arm. Ethanol is not present in the vena cava blood. Based on the history and autopsy findings it is my opinion that the cause of death in this case is gunshot wounds of the chest and abdomen.”

The sheriff’s office had no comment on the report this morning.