A coroner’s report obtained exclusively by NBC News says a 22-year-old man shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a Louisiana police car -- contradicting the police version of how the man died earlier this year. According to the full final report of the Iberia Parish coroner, which was released nearly six months later, says the bullet that killed Victor White III entered his right chest and exited under his left armpit while the police say White shot himself in the back. The State Police issued a cursory preliminary incident report stating that White had been shot with a .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun, but that no weapon had been found when White was searched prior to the shooting.

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