http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/us/terence-crutcher-unarmed-man-killed-by-tulsa-police-had-pcp-in-his-body-coroner-finds.html 2016-10-12 01:52:02 Unarmed Man Killed by Tulsa Police Had PCP in His Body, Coroner Finds The report confirmed what the officers said they found in the car after Terence Crutcher, a black man, was fatally shot by a white police officer on Sept. 16. === An unarmed man who was fatally shot last month by a police officer in Tulsa, Okla., had a high level of the drug PCP in his body, a coroner reported on Tuesday, confirming what the police surmised at the time. Officer Betty Jo Shelby, 42, has been The police said that Mr. Crutcher, who was black, had stopped his vehicle in the middle of a road and gotten out, leaving the engine running. He was talking nonsensically and not responding to commands from the officer, who is white. After the shooting, the police said, officers found in the vehicle a vial of phencyclidine, known as PCP, a drug that can induce powerful hallucinations. Mr. Crutcher’s was one in a series of highly publicized deaths of black men at the hands of the police, which have prompted searing debates about the roles of race and law enforcement. The shooting sparked protests, which were overshadowed days later by much larger demonstrations in Charlotte, N.C., where another black man, Keith Lamont Scott, was fatally shot by an officer. An autopsy report released Tuesday by the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said that Mr. Crutcher’s body had 96 nanograms of PCP per milliliter of blood. That is a high level, The medical examiner also reported finding traces of tenocyclidine, or TCP, a drug related to PCP, and no other illicit substances. The autopsy showed that the bullet entered Mr. Crutcher’s chest from the right side, fracturing ribs and striking his right lung and his heart, and lodging under the skin on the left side of his chest.