Cyrus Mann, the Philadelphia police officer dismissed after fatally shooting an unarmed 306-pound man in 2012, got his job back last year in part because an arbitrator said no evidence or witnesses contradicted Mann’s version that he shot the man at close range as they struggled in a West Philadelphia alley.

But although the Police Department has publicly said Mann shot Hassan Pratt, 28, in the chest, medical records say otherwise. Pratt’s autopsy report shows that doctors determined Pratt had actually been shot from behind – twice in the back and once in a buttock. It also says three bullet holes in Pratt’s clothing and the bullet wounds in his body showed no gunpowder residue, which forensics experts say indicates that the shooting was not at close range.

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