‘Doctor’ Hired by Mike Brown’s Family to Help Perform Autopsy is a Fraud
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Sean Brown / on August 20, 2014 at 1:07 pm /
One of the medical examiners hired by the Brown family’s attorney to perform an independent autopsy on the slain teen is apparently not who he claims to be.
According to
Fox4, the prefix of “Dr.” in front of Shawn Parcells’ name is actually a pseudonym, and he doesn’t hold a medical degree of any type. Parcells is actually the owner of a for-hire autopsy company that operates out of Kansas City named National Forensic Autopsy and Recovery Services, and he says that the lawyers for Brown’s family contacted him because of his “expertise” in gunshot wounds.
Parcells claims to be qualified to work in his field and gained experience working with a previous medical examiner.
“I am a forensic pathologist assistant and medical investigator,” he told the news affiliate.
But according to Dr. Erik Mitchell, Parcells’ claims are fishy and misleading.
“That is a degree that does not exist in my knowledge, except in the mind of Shawn Parcells,” Dr. Mitchell said.
[Parcells explaining the bullet trajectory]
Dr. Mitchell also takes issue with the title Parcells’ gave himself, explaining that since the position is licensable someone can’t just simply make the claim to it. “You can assist somebody; in this way I can say, for instance, I have paid my taxes, so I am an assistant President of the United States,” he said.
However, Parcells says that he’s qualified from experience, even though he admits to not having a certification as a pathology assistant. He claims to have worked as a forensic assistant to former Jackson County Medical Examiner, Dr. Thomas Young, for a year between 2005 and 2006.
“And that’s honestly where I gained a lot of my experience,” Parcells said, but it doesn’t seem to add up either.
Parcells claims to have started training in 1997 as an intern with Dr. Young, then he was rehired in the mid-2000’s. However, Dr. Young doesn’t exactly agree with Parcells and released a statement regarding his work with him:
“Shawn hung out at the Jackson County Medical Examiner’s office but was not trained by me.”…. “He has been representing himself in a way that is not appropriate by giving forensic pathology opinions when he is not qualified to do so.”
Dr. Mitchell seems to agree with Dr. Young, and said that his experience isn’t in the field he claims to be an expert in.
“He has none of the qualifications that are required. He has experience as a morgue technician, somebody who would move bodies around, clean up after an autopsy,” he said.
Parcells says that the attorneys for Browns family are only covering his travel and lodging expenses, but that he’s providing his services free of charge.
[Parcells explaining that Brown may have had his hands in the air]
On Monday, while explaining the autopsy reports to a group of people, Parcells
said that the manner in which the bullet grazed Michael Brown’s arm could have meant he was facing the shooter with his arms in the air or that he had his back to the shooter, which
is in contrast to what multiple other experts who have reviewed the results have said and there’s been nothing else to corroborate this theory. However Parcells did say after that “We still have to look at the other (elements) of this investigation before we start piecing things together.” It should be noted that the highly respected Dr. Michael Baden
did not enlist the help of Parcells. The attorneys for the Brown family contacted him
on their own accord and paid to have him come to Ferguson to assist Dr. Baden.
Originally Posted by Yoyodyne
‘Doctor’ Hired by Mike Brown’s Family to Help Perform Autopsy is a Fraud
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