Medical Examiner Testifies at Trial for Arizona Rancher Charged in Shooting Death of Illegal Immigrant

Ranch owner George Alan Kelly faces charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Krista Timm (R), a forensic pathologist with the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office testifies at Santa Cruz County Superior Court in Nogales, Ariz., on April 2, 2024. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

NOGALES, Ariz.—An illegal immigrant suffered massive internal injuries from a single gunshot wound the night he was found dead on the property of an Arizona rancher accused of his murder, according to a forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy.

However, the exact time of death remains a mystery, Dr. Krista Timm, a forensic pathologist at the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office in Tucson, told a jury in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on April 2.