Medical examiner testifies Daunte Wright died from single gunshot wound to the chest
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Former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer Kim Potter killed Daunte Wright by firing a single bullet to his chest, a county medical examiner testified Monday at her criminal trial.
Dr. Lorren Jackson, assistant medical examiner at the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office, testified that the gunshot wound was the sole cause of death for Wright. The manner of death was homicide, he testified.
"Was this a survivable injury?" the prosecutor asked Jackson.
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