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Yavapai County medical examiner releases information in Miller shooting

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A Hutchinson man who was fatally shot by a Forest Service law enforcement officer in Arizona tested negative for a range of illegal and prescription drugs and had a blood alcohol level within the legal limit, according to an article in today’s Arizona Daily Sun.

The findings from the Yavapai County Medical Examiner’s Office raise more questions than answers in the shooting of 51-year-old Tyler Miller, who was shot alongside the highway near his wrecked vehicle.

Miller was walking along an Arizona highway naked and bleeding before he was fatally shot by a federal officer.

The FBI’s Phoenix office says a U.S. Forest Service officer initially stopped to help Miller on Highway 89A in Oak Creek Canyon, about 100 miles north of Phoenix. According to family, Miller was heading to a retreat in Sedona when he crashed his truck. A deputy wrote Officer Krista Kuhns sounded “shaky and was speaking loudly” over a radio and then shots were fired.

The toxicology report released by the medical examiner’s office found that Miller tested positive only for nicotine, a category of pain-relieving drugs that includes Tylenol, Advil and aspirin, and Naloxone, the drug used to reverse opioid drug overdoses. However, he tested negative for opiates — which are naturally occurring — and oxycodone, a synthetic opiate.

Miller’s blood alcohol content was 0.05 percent — below the legal limit of 0.08 percent for driving.

 

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