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As thriller surrounds the 2023 Labor Day demise of Oklahoma teen navy hopeful Noah Presgrove, a forensics skilled broke down the medical expert’s most up-to-date findings and shared his principle on what precipitated the 19-year-old’s demise.
Dr. Michael Baden, an American doctor and board-certified forensic pathologist recognized for his work investigating high-profile deaths, instructed Fox Information Digital that Presgrove’s demise is a horrible case and that the medical expert’s report revealed many particulars surrounding the night time he died.
“He had lots of inside bleeding. So, his coronary heart stored pumping for somewhat bit after he was struck. But when there is a risk 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 may so much rely upon what his situation was when he will get again to the get together,” 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 gaggle of associates that night time, however almost a 12 months later, the household says that nobody has come ahead and instructed them how he ended up alongside the freeway.
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Practically eight months after the demise of Oklahoma teen Noah Presgrove, the household remains to be trying to find solutions about this demise. (Robyn Smith)
“My household is powerful, however at the moment 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, instructed Fox Information Digital.
In accordance with the medical expert’s full report, after additional investigation, it was decided that Presgrove was ingesting at a home get together the place he was concerned in an ATV rollover incident. The investigation revealed that Presgrove returned to the get together the place he acquired into an argument together with his girlfriend after the ATV incident.
“Nobody new has stepped out with completely different info, so it’s a ready sport.”
“That’s the solely a part of the party-goers’ tales that match. Each that we now have had the chance to speak to claims {that a} wreck did occur, however he was fully wonderful; nonetheless undecided on who the girlfriend is,” Rawlings mentioned.
“I don’t know what to imagine, truthfully. Do I believe they deliberately killed him? No. Do I believe they have been drunk and acquired right into a struggle with him? Sure …,” Kristen Smith, the mom of Noah’s greatest good friend, Hayden, instructed 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 might not have even been conscious that he was severely injured.
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“The difficulty could be if he had any important accidents from the ATV, akin to inside bleeding. And he is too intoxicated to think about going to a hospital or a physician or one thing,” Baden mentioned.
With the quantity of alcohol believed to have been consumed on the get together, Baden mentioned the others on the get together might not have even realized Presgrove was damage when he returned, since his accidents have been largely inside.
“They assumed no matter variations of look he had was as a result of he was ingesting and never due to the ATV damage, which might not have precipitated him to break down or something till sufficient inside 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 might trigger the extent of the accidents to his head and backbone could be a automobile wheel coming over him, you understand, or a truck, extra probably 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 car comes and hits him within the head whereas he is on the aspect of the highway.”
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Noah Presgrove, 19, was sporting solely his footwear when his physique was found on a desolate stretch of US-81 close to Terral, Oklahoma, on Labor Day of 2023. (Kristen Smith)
Baden added that Presgrove might not have even realized how damage he was primarily based on his blood alcohol stage.
“So, the one factor alcohol does, it is an anesthetic agent. And it could cowl up ache brought on by damaged bones or a lacerated lung,” Baden mentioned.
He mentioned after studying the complete medical expert’s report, he believes an auto incident contributed to Presgrove’s demise.
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What led to the demise of 19-year-old Oklahoma teen Noah Presgrove remains to be not recognized almost a 12 months later. (Madison Rawlings/Kristen Smith)
Authorities categorized Presgrove’s method of demise as “undetermined,” although Baden says he believes the circumstances surrounding the teenager’s demise are “in keeping with a hit-and-run.”
“If someone struck him, stopped, checked out him and did not do something about it and took off … that is a hit-and-run. That might be a murder form 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 someone hit him and did not cease.”
Presgrove had not too long ago graduated from highschool three months early with plans to enlist within the navy alongside his cousin.
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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 number of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality instances in U.S. historical past, from the federal government’s 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the 2014 demise of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the preliminary Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives Matter motion.
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