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Autopsy finds drugs in body of college athlete slain by cop

ARLINGTON, Texas -- An initial autopsy report has found that a black college football player killed by a police officer had used a synthetic psychedelic drug and marijuana prior to the deadly confrontation at a Texas car dealership.

Christian Taylor was unarmed when Arlington police officer Brad Miller shot him on Aug. 7. Miller has been fired.

The report released Wednesday shows there was THC, one of the active components of marijuana, and a synthetic drug that causes hallucinations in his system.

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The autopsy showed Taylor was shot four times.

Security camera footage recorded before police arrived at the car dealership shows Taylor kicking in a car windshield, jumping up and down on cars, and then driving his SUV through a glass wall into the lobby of the dealership.

It was inside the dealership that Arlington police say officers first spotted Taylor and ordered him to the ground.

"As officers stood outside the building, they may verbal contact with Mr. Taylor through the glass wall - instructing him to lie on the ground," said Police Chief Will Johnson. "Mr. Taylor was not compliant."

The six-foot-tall, 19-year-old attended Angelo State University in San Angelo in West Texas, where he was to start his sophomore year on the team.

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