It’s been almost 25 years since Shania Twain released her iconic song “That Don’t Impress Me Much.” In the song, she namedrops the dashing Brad Pitt, but has she met him yet?
Unfortunately not.
In the YouTube series ChickenShop Date, host Amelia Dimoldenberg asked Shania if she’s ever met a rocket scientist, to which she replies, “No. I wrote about Brad Pitt. I never met Brad Pitt.”
Shocked, Amelia asked, “Have you still never met Brad Pitt?”
“No. I think he’s avoiding me, honestly,” Shania answered.
“That Don’t Impress Me Much” was featured on Shania’s third studio album, Come Over. Released in 1997, the album spawned other hit singles, including “You’re Still the One,” “From This Moment On” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman.”
Shania’s latest album, Queen of Me, dropped last month.
Roger Daltrey hasn’t given up on his planned biopic on TheWho’s late drummer, Keith Moon. In fact, in a new interview with NME he shared the latest update on the project, which he insists “will be made.”
“I’m at a draft that’s ready to go to directors,” he tells the mag. “I’m waiting on a reply from a director that I was talking to prior to starting writing the script. I’m very pleased with the script, it will be made. … as soon as he’s finished the film that he’s on, he will read it and I’ll get a reply from him. Hopefully we’ll get it made ASAP.”
Daltrey says getting the film made has been “tricky,” noting several writers tried and failed at writing scripts. He decided to do it himself and “write the kind of story I had in my head of how to tell a story that engages people, that really does expose the full Moon.”
Daltrey says Moon, who died in September 1978, was an “extraordinary character,” adding, “He was flawed, like we all are. But he was wonderful and he was an absolute uncontrolled genius. And people like him are greatly missed in life today, because life is so full of f****** mediocrity, it’s unbelievable.”
It was time for Zach to meet the families of the four remaining women on Monday’s episode of The Bachelor, which led to an emotional departure.
Zach’s cross-country adventure to meet the families kicked off in Vermont, where he met Gabbi‘s family, most of whom were a little skeptical about the possibilities of Gabbi finding her Mr. Right in the space of just a few weeks — except for her father, an “enthusiastic romantic” who believed it was possible to fall in love in just a few months — even in a day — if it’s the right person. After getting her family’s full support, Gabbi told Zach she could “definitely see a future” with him.
Zach’s next stop was New York City to meet Ariel‘s family, where he faced some tough questions, particularly from her overprotective brother, who grilled Zach on how well he really knew his sister. What’s my sister’s birthday,” he asked, followed by, “Do you know my sister’s middle name?” As expected, Zach couldn’t answer either question.
Ariel’s dad wasn’t pleased with Zach’s admission that while he had a strong connection with his daughter, he couldn’t guarantee how he’d feel in the coming weeks. “Why am I expected to be a 100 percent while the other answer couldn’t be 25 percent,” he shared in a confessional, while telling his daughter that he would support her anyway.
Afterwards, Ariel told Zach that she was “falling” for him.
Stop number three was Charity‘s hometown of Columbus, Georgia, where some of the family’s toughest questions were for her — whether she was ready for an engagement and how she would react to not being Zach’s final pick. Charity was comforted by her mother, who said that in Zach she saw “nothing but good things.” Later, Charity told Zach that she was “falling in love” with him.
Zach’s final stop was Austin, Texas — Kaity‘s hometown — where the stakes were high following a confessional where she said her decision on whether to move forward with Zach depended solely on how her mother felt about him. After speaking with Zach, Kaity’s mother told her that he “checks all the boxes,” and that she would “one hundred percent support this moving forward.” Kaity also told Zach that she was falling in love with him.
At a highly emotional rose ceremony, Zach made what he called “the hardest decision I’m gonna have to make” and sent Charity home.
Here are the women going to fantasy suites:
Ariel, 28, a marketing executive from New York City, N.Y.
Gabriella “Gabi,” 25, an account executive from Pittsford, Vt.
Kaitlyn “Kaity,” 27, an ER nurse from Austin, Texas.
The Bachelor returns Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET when your favorite ladies from season 27 will confront Zach one last time on The Bachelor: The Women Tell All, followed by a new episode on Monday, also at 8 p.m ET on ABC.
(SAN DIEGO) — With a Virginia-class submarine as his backdrop, President Joe Biden on Monday, along with the prime ministers of Australia and the United Kingdom, outlined a multi-phase plan to deliver state-of-the-art, nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, as part of the what’s called the AUKUS partnership to help counter China.
“AUKUS. It’s an unusual name, AUKUS, but it’s a powerful entity. You know, when our country’s first announced AUKUS 18 months ago, I’m not at all sure that anyone believed that how much progress we’d be able to make together and how quickly we’d accomplish it,” Biden said at a U.S. Navy base in San Diego, using the acronym for the three countries combined.
The partnership was established in 2021 with the goal of providing Australia with nuclear-powered submarines, which can travel farther and stay under water for longer than other subs.
The announcement appears to be one the administration’s most direct efforts to counter China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific. In his remarks, the president underscored the importance of AUKUS to ensuring the Indo-Pacific remains “free and open.”
“Our unprecedented trilateral cooperation, I believe, is testament to the strength of the long-standing ties that united us and to our shared commitment of ensuring the Indo-Pacific remains free and open, prosperous and secure, defined by opportunity for all. A shared commitment to create a future rooted in our common values. That’s the objective the United States shares not only with the UK and Australia, it’s shared by our friends in the region,” Biden said.
The president stressed throughout his remarks that the subs are nuclear-powered, and will not contain nuclear weapons, and that the technology, while complicated, is completely safe.
“I want to be clear to everyone from the outset. Right off the bat, so there’s no confusion or misunderstanding on this critical point. These subs are powered, not nuclear-armed subs, they’re nuclear-powered, not nuclear-armed. Australia’s a proud non-nuclear weapon state and is committed to stay that way. These boats will not have any nuclear weapons of any kind on them. Each of us standing here today, representing the United States, Australia and Great Britain is deeply committed to strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime,” Biden said.
Biden laid out the broad strokes of the three-phases plan, starting with the actions getting underway this year to begin to train Australian personnel on the nuclear subs, which Biden said requires “years of training to master.”
“Beginning this year, Australian personnel will embed with U.S. and U.K. crews on boats and a basis in our schools and our shipyards. We’ll also begin to increase our port visits to Australia. In fact, as we speak, the nuclear-powered sub, USS Asheville, is making a port call in Perth as we speak,” he said. “And later this decade, we’ll also be establishing a rotational presence of U.S. and U.K. nuclear-powered subs in Australia. to help develop the workforce Australia is gonna need to build and maintain its fleet.”
“And with the support and approval of Congress, beginning in the early 2030s, the United States will sell three Virginia-class submarines to Australia with the potential to sell up to two more if needed, jumpstarting their undersea capability and decade earlier than many predicted. But the ultimate goal isn’t just selling subs in Australia, it’s developing something new together. We’re calling it the SSN AUKUS. This new state-of-the-art, conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarine that will work, that will combine U.S. submarine — U.K. submarine technology and design with American technology,” he added.
In his remarks following the president, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese underscored just how significant it is that the U.S. is partnering with them on nuclear-powered subs, and sharing the propulsion technology.
“This is the first time in 65 years and only the second time in history that the United States has shared its nuclear propulsion technology, and we thank you for it,” Albanese said to Biden.
Biden highlighted the agreement would also be positive for workers in all three countries, as they each worked to ramp up production and operation of the subs.
“This partnership is going to mean an awful lot for good paying jobs for all workers in our countries, including a lot of union jobs,” Biden said.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called the partnership “the most significant multilateral defense partnership in generations.”
“Joe, Anthony, we represent three allies who have stood shoulder to shoulder together for more than a century. Three peoples who have shed blood together in defense of our shared values and three democracies that are coming together again, to fulfill that higher purpose of maintaining freedom, peace and security now and for generations to come,” Sunak said in his closing remarks.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING
INTERLEAGUE
Atlanta 6, Baltimore 5
Washington 7, Houston 6
Oakland 8, Colorado 7
LA Dodgers 11, Cleveland 4
Arizona 11, Texas 8
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Minnesota 1, NY Yankees 0
Baltimore 11, Detroit 7
Tampa Bay 9, Detroit 5
Toronto 16, Boston 3
LA Angels 8, Seattle 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
NY Mets 9, Miami 3
Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 0
San Francisco 11, San Diego 9
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Detroit 117, Indiana 97
Minnesota 136, Atlanta 115
Memphis 104, Dallas 88
Miami 119, Utah 115
Houston 111, Boston 109
Milwaukee 133, Sacramento 124
Golden State 123, Phoenix 112
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Buffalo 4, Toronto 3
Colorado 8, Montreal 4
Dallas 5, Seattle 2
Courtesy of Laquonda Green, Tay McGee, and Michele Williams, and ABC News
(NEW YORK) — Five alleged members of a powerful Mexican cartel were charged with aggravated kidnapping and murder on Friday in connection to the kidnapping of four Americans, and the killing of two of them, in the border city of Matamoros.
The Attorney General’s Office of Tamaulipas announced the charges a day after the Gulf Cartel allegedly took responsibility for the kidnapping. The five men were found tied up near a pickup truck on Thursday morning and a handwritten note was found placed on the windshield of the truck, whose author or authors say they belong to the Gulf Cartel, the dominant organized crime group in this part of Mexico.
ABC News has geolocated that location as the same area where the U.S. citizens were kidnapped one week ago.
The note said some Gulf Cartel members were responsible for the kidnapping and killings and apologized for their actions.
“We have decided to deliver those involved and directly responsible,” the note said, presumably referring to the five men found tied up at the scene.
Multiple different law enforcement agencies, along with members of the Mexican army, responded to the scene.
Police allegedly found two weapons inside the truck when they detained the five men — an AK-47 and an AR-15 — as well as four AK-47 magazines, three AR-15 magazines and cartridges of different calibers, according to a copy of the police report from Mexican authorities obtained by ABC News from a source close to the investigation.
Police found the men inside the truck with their hands tied with belts, along with the note, according to the police report.
Multiple sources close to the investigation said they believe the note left on the windshield to be legitimate.
Neither ABC News nor U.S. officials have been able to independently verify the authenticity of the note.
ABC News has reached out to the FBI for comment.
The four kidnapped Americans — Eric James Williams, Zindell Brown and cousins Latavia “Tay” McGee and Shaeed Woodard — drove Friday morning into Matamoros, in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas just south of Brownsville, Texas. McGee had traveled from South Carolina to Mexico for a cosmetic medical procedure.
Soon after crossing the border, “unidentified gunmen fired upon the passengers in the vehicle,” and then put the four Americans in another car and fled, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said.
Mexican investigators believe the kidnappers may have wrongly believed the Americans were rival human traffickers, a source close to the investigation told ABC News.
The two survivors — McGee and Williams — were found Tuesday morning in a wooden house in the Lagunona area, outside of Matamoros, Mexican officials said. Williams was shot in both legs while McGee was largely unharmed, family members said.
One of the deceased was also found inside the house, and the second was found outside it, a source close to the investigation told ABC News.
During the three days they were held, the Americans were transferred to various places, including a medical clinic, in order to create confusion and avoid rescue efforts, according to the governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal.
The two survivors were being treated at a hospital in Brownsville following their rescue. The bodies of the two Americans killed were repatriated to the U.S. on Thursday.
A 24-year-old suspect arrested earlier this week in connection with the incident has now been formally indicted on an aggravated kidnapping charge, the Attorney General’s Office of Tamaulipas said on Friday. The man was allegedly acting as a lookout when authorities finally located the four missing Americans.
The office also announced a homicide charge in the killing of Arely Pablo, 33, a Mexican bystander who died after being hit by a stray bullet during the kidnapping.
The alleged cartel members have been indicted in connection with the kidnapping, the Tamaulipas attorney general announced Monday.
(NEW YORK) — A new study has found that, amid record low infant mortality rates in 2020, rates of sudden infant death syndrome, known as SIDS, increased for the first time in five years, and there was a sharp increase in the rate of sudden unexpected infant deaths, or SUID, among Black infants between 2019 and 2020.
The study, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics with research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that the SUID rate per 100,000 live births was highest among Black infants in 2020, surpassing the SUID rate among non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaskan Native infants, which had been declining since 2015.
Black babies recorded 214 deaths per 100,000 while American Indian or Alaskan Native infants recorded 205.1 deaths per 100,000, nearly three times the rate of non-Hispanic white infants, which were recorded at 75.6 deaths per 100,000, according to the research.
The lowest SUID rates were observed among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Asian infants with 59 deaths per 100,000 and 23.3 deaths per 100,000.
“There’s been a long-standing disparity in sudden unexpected infant death with non-Hispanic Black Americans having more than twice the rate of the general population, and then an even higher increase in the rate compared to non-Hispanic white (babies),” Rebecca Carlin, M.D., who co-authored the commentary released with the study, told ABC News. “In a lot of ways, the pandemic only increased a lot of the causes of that disparity.”
When asked if the results of the study were surprising, Carlin told ABC News that she doesn’t think so.
“I think that these authorities have been so long-standing and they’ve been so difficult to address that any event that increases disparities generally, it’s not surprising that it would also increase disparities in SUID deaths,” she added.
“Sudden unexplained infant deaths” includes deaths categorized as “sudden infant death syndrome,” “accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed,” and “unknown cause.”
“Sudden infant death syndrome” is a term coined to define sudden and unexpected deaths of infants less than 1 year old due to an unknown cause, or a cause not obvious before their death, as defined by the CDC.
This study included SUID rates and its sub-categorizations, including SIDS.
In the commentary released with the study, the authors discuss that the results of the study highlighting the SUID disparities between races reflected a current societal phenomenon.
“This rise further increases the already existing disparities in these deaths, with the rate among infants born to non-Hispanic Black families now 2.3-fold higher than the general population and 2.8-fold higher than infants born to non-Hispanic white families,” the study’s commentary authors wrote.
Researchers found the disparities while studying the increase in SIDS from 2015-2020. After four years of a steady decline in SIDS from 2015 to 2019, they saw a 15% rise during the first pandemic year, from 33.3 deaths per 100,000 in 2019 to 38.2 per 100,000 in 2020.
While there is no known cause for the spikes in SUID and SIDS cases from 2019-2020 for non-Hispanic Black infants, the commentary speculated on factors that may have contributed to the increase.
“These disparities are likely multifactorial, reflecting poverty levels, lack of access to prenatal and well-child care, and education regarding safe sleep and other practices, including the feeding of human milk, which can reduce the risk of SUID, and social norms related to these practices that vary between communities,” the commentary read.
Carrie Shapiro-Mendoza, Ph.D., one of the researchers of the study, agreed with those disparities and voiced what she thinks are contributing factors to the spike in a statement sent to ABC News.
“We know that the COVID-19 pandemic and related mitigation efforts (e.g., stay-at-home orders) disproportionately affected racial and ethnic minority communities compared to non-Hispanic white communities. It may have led to more unsafe sleep practices like bedsharing, thereby increasing the occurrence of SIDS and other sudden unexpected infant deaths,” said Shapiro-Mendoza, who holds a master’s degree in public health.
“More research is needed to address persistent racial or ethnic disparities in SUID,” she added. “By better understanding the factors that influence the trends in these rates and finding new approaches to encourage safe sleep practices, we can help reduce future infant deaths.”
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently sent a letter to Florida’s surgeon general debunking his claims about COVID-19 vaccines.
Last month, Dr. Joseph Ladapo had written his own letter to the federal health agencies, saying he was concerned about adverse effects from mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. He claimed there had been an increase in reports made to the CDC’s database, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
In the system, anyone — be it a healthcare professional or the average citizen — can report an event they think might have been related to a vaccine they received. It serves as an early warning system for federal health officials to sift through the unverified reports to confirm if an investigation or further action is necessary.
In response, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said their agencies are constantly monitoring data to see if there are any potential risks — but added that Ladapo focusing on a rare, minor events can cause misinformation to spread and can undermine public health efforts.
“It is the job of public health officials around the country to protect the lives of the populations they serve, particularly the vulnerable,” the FDA and CDC wrote in their letter. “Fueling vaccine hesitancy undermines this effort.”
Here is what’s in the letter and why an expert says it can be dangerous to fuel vaccine hesitancy:
“The claim that the increase of VAERS reports of life-threatening conditions reported from Florida and elsewhere represents an increase of risk caused by the COVID-19 vaccines is incorrect, misleading and could be harmful to the American public,” the letter states. “Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination do not mean that a vaccine caused the event.”
Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told ABC News the insistence that a report made to VAERS means the vaccines are not safe is a perfect example of correlation without causation.
“The reporting system is the beginning of a series of investigations that then try to assess whether there might be a causal relationship as opposed to a coincidental relationship,” he said. “And that’s one of the most misunderstood aspects. Just because there’s a report in VAERS does not mean that the vaccine caused the event that’s reported.”
Schaffner explained someone may have a medical event after receiving the vaccine, but that doesn’t mean it was triggered by the vaccine at all, rather it just happened to follow. He likened it to a rooster crowing before the sun rises.
“We all know that the rooster crows before the dawn, but we don’t think that the rooster made the sun come up,” he said. “So that was coincidence. How do we distinguish coincidence from causality? Because we know if we silence the rooster, the sun will come up anyway.”
Schaffner said that the fact VAERS exist, and people can make those reports is evidence that federal officials are being transparent, not that there is anything to hide.
He added that people can tune into meetings of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice to hear the data “presented very carefully, with the proviso that we’re going to present the various data and then show you how we have further analyzed the data and done further investigations to address various issues of vaccine safety.”
In October 2022, Ladapo recommended against men between ages 18 and 30 receiving the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines due to a “modestly increased” risk of cardiac-related deaths in an analysis posted online. The study was widely criticized by the medical and scientific community due to its poor methodology and never having to go through the rigorous standards of peer-review.
The agencies wrote in their letter that cardiovascular experts found the risk of strokes and heart attacks was lower in people who were vaccinated against COVID-19, not higher.
Last year, Ladapo also formally recommended against COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy children.
However, multiple peer-reviewed studies, listed in the letter, show that the risk of death, serious illness and hospitalization is higher for unvaccinated people in all age groups.
According to the agencies’ most recent estimates, also shared in the letter, those with the updated, bivalent booster had a 9.8-fold lower risk of dying from COVID-19 than unvaccinated people.
Additionally, they were estimated to be 2.4 times less likely to die from COVID-19 than those who are vaccinated but have not received the updated shot.
“COVID continues to be one of the 10 leading causes of death,” Schaffner said. “We can keep two thoughts in our mind at the same time. Yes, it is true that children are less seriously affected than, for example, senior citizens.”
He continued, “However, although they are less affected, it doesn’t mean they’re unaffected. Indeed, they are infected severely enough.”
Schaffner advised parents who are concerned to directly speak to their children’s pediatricians about the COVID-19 vaccines.
“Speak to the physician in whom you do have confidence and trust the person who has been there for you and your children in the past and is there for them now, and will be in the future,” he said.
In a statement to ABC News, the Florida Department of Health blasted back against the federal agencies and claimed the letter is not truthful.
“The response from the federal government is just another redundant display of the same apathetic talking point of ‘safe and effective,'” a spokesperson said in a statement. “Googling their fact sheets would have achieved the same result. While the Feds gaslight the American public, Florida pushes for the truth.”
The statement continued, “Three inquiries remain unanswered: 1. Access to raw patient-level data to allow for unbiased research. 2. Adequate attention surrounding the risks detected by numerous researchers around the world. 3. Public transparency from the CDC, FDA, and Big Pharma.”
(NEW YORK) — The sudden collapse of two regional U.S. banks in three days has some Americans wondering if their bank could be next.
President Biden addressed the nation Monday morning to reassure Americans — “Your deposits will be there when you need them” — and pledging to take action to “reduce the risks of this happening again.”
The federal government took “extraordinary measures” to make sure customers of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank would be made whole and have access to all of their money immediately — whether it was FDIC insured or not.
Biden stressed that these banks were not being bailed out by taxpayers, as was the case during the 2008 financial crisis
“No losses will be — and this is an important point — no losses will be borne by the taxpayers,” he said. Instead, the money will come from the fees that banks pay into the government’s Deposit Insurance Fund.
The good news is that most Americans are covered by the FDIC because the majority of people have less than $250,000 in any one specific bank account.
The FDIC is an independent government agency that was created by the Banking Act of 1933 during the Great Depression to restore trust in the American banking system. Since then, no bank customer has lost insured funds due to a bank failure. The FDIC is funded by premiums paid by banks and savings associations.
The agency will insure up to $250,000, per depositor, in qualified accounts at insured banks. For example, a married couple with a small business may have up to $250,000 insured in an account in one spouse’s name, up to $250,000 in an account in the other spouse’s name and up to $250,000 in a business account. The balance of a joint account can exceed $250,000 and still be fully insured.
Another example: if the same two co-owners jointly own both a $375,000 certificate of deposit (CD) and a $125,000 savings account at the same insured bank, the two accounts would be added together and insured up to $500,000, providing up to $250,000 in insurance coverage for each co-owner.
FDIC insurance coverage includes checking and savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, retirement savings, cashier’s checks and money orders. FDIC insurance does not cover financial products including stocks and bonds, mutual funds, crypto assets, life insurance policies, annuities, municipal securities, safe deposit boxes or their contents or U.S. Treasury bills, bonds or notes, which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
Banking experts say one way to boost your FDIC coverage is to “spread the wealth” and open accounts at several banks to hedge risk, particularly if you have more than $250,000 in deposits. You can also check https://edie.fdic.gov/the FDIC’s siteto see whether your funds are insured.
How do you know if your bank is financially fit? Currently, banks with over $250 billion in assets must undergo stringent “stress tests” annually to ensure they have enough cash on hand to weather an emergency, such as a deep recession or a run on the bank. These tests are part of the banking reforms that were implemented to restore confidence in the U.S. banking system after the financial crisis of 2008.
In 2018 under the Trump administration, some of those rules were rolled back, allowing banks with less than $250 billion in assets to be exempt from the tests, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. In the wake of those two bank failures, President Biden said he will ask Congress and regulators to strengthen the requirements once again for small and mid-sized banks.
(ATLANTA) — Attorneys for the family of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, who was fatally shot by police during a sit-in protest against the upcoming Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, say an independent autopsy report found that Terán’s hands were raised during the fatal shooting.
Terán, who went by “Tortuguita” and used they/them pronouns, was shot and killed by police on Jan. 18 as officers raided campgrounds occupied by environmental demonstrators who had allegedly been camping out for months to protest the development of the forest for the upcoming police training center dubbed “Cop City” by critics.
The training center is set to take up more than 85 acres, with the “remaining portion of the 265-acres property as green space,” according to the center’s website.
Officers claimed that when Terán refused to comply with verbal commands, the protester fired the first shot at a state trooper, who was injured. Other law enforcement officers returned fire, hitting Terán. There is no body footage of the incident, officials say.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said a handgun recovered from the scene had been purchased by Terán. The GBI is investigating the incident.
The autopsy, commissioned by Terán’s family, found that Terán was “facing the multiple individuals who were firing their weapons” at Terán “during the entire interval in which the shooting occurred.” It also states, “At some point during the course of being shot, the decedent was able to raise” their hands and arms up in front of their body, with palms facing toward their torso.
The independent autopsy added that it is “impossible to determine” if Terán had been holding a firearm, or not holding a firearm, before or after being shot the multiple times.
Both Terán’s left and right hands show exit wounds in the palms, according to the autopsy.
Terán, who was 23, “was most probably in a seated position, cross-legged, with the left leg partially over the right leg” when they were killed, according to the autopsy.
“Manuel loved the forest — gave them peace. They meditate there,” said Belkis Terán, Manuel Terán’s mother, in a Monday press conference. “The forest connect them with God. I never thought that Manuel could die in a meditation position. My heart is destroyed.”
The family accused the Georgia Bureau of Investigation of withholding information about Terán’s death, including a first autopsy conucted by the Dekalb County Medical Examiner. Terán’s family is suing the city of Atlanta for the release of more documents concerning the case, saying that the GBI is selectively distributing investigative material “to justify Manuel’s death by law enforcement.”
“I want answers for my child homicide,” said Belkis Terán. “I’m asking for answers for my child homicide. I am suffering for my right to this answer and that I have not been given and I deserve. I deserve answers.”
A spokesperson for the city declined ABC News’ request for comment as “it would be inappropriate to comment on any potential pending litigation.”
The GBI told ABC News in a statement that the agency withholds evidence from the public “to preserve the integrity of the investigation.”
“All the facts, to include any information brought forward by the family’s attorney, will be assessed along with all other investigative information by the special prosecutor,” the agency’s statement read.
It continued, “The GBI cannot and will not attempt to sway public opinion in this case, but will continue to be led by the facts and truth.”
The center, which has been the center of unrest and protests for years, will be used for specialized training for both law enforcement and fire department service workers.
Supporters of the center say it will boost morale and improve officer training. Demonstrators argue that the center is further militarizing the police and may lead to more instances of police brutality and violence.
ABC News’ Will McDuffie and Jianna Cousins contributed to this report.
