Medical Examiner Dr. Frank King told a Criminal Court jury on Thursday afternoon that Officer Julie Jacks was shot multiple times, but the fatal wound went in at the back of the head.
Dr. King said she was also shot in the right wrist, the right upper arm, the back of the left arm, the back of the left hand, the left thumb and the left fourth finger.
Dr. King was the final witness for the state, which is seeking the death penalty against Isaac Jones.
The defense was to begin its proof later Thursday in the case being heard in Chattanooga by a Nashville jury.
Dr. King said Officer Jacks also had blunt force injuries to the face. He said some of them could have been caused by being knocked to the pavement, but others were from being hit in the face.
Officer Jacks was killed at the corner of Vine and Kilmer near Parkridge Hospital after being shot with her own gun on May 6, 2002.
Authorities said Jones was taken to Parkridge for a mental evaluation after he began acting strangely at Chattanooga State, where he was taking his final exam before completing a pharmacy technician program. He bolted from a hospital exam room and scaled a barbed wire fence while wearing only a tshirt and boxer shorts before encountering Officer Jacks.
The trial was delayed about 30 minutes after Jones' attorneys said his handcuffs were so tight they were causing his hands to swell. Officers loosened the handcuffs.
Afterwards, Judge Doug Meyer asked Jones if he was OK, and he said he was. He was also checked out by the jail medic.
Dr. Nancy Watts, Jones' pharmacy professor at Chattanooga State, said he was a good student, though he was shy and sat near the back of the class. She said he had been honored for Who's Who at an awards ceremony the Tuesday night prior to the slaying.
She said he had good grades and was headed for Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Watts said the only abnormal thing she had noticed about Jones was shortly before the incident she once saw him smiling and giggling to himself. She said she asked him "where he was."
She said on the day of the incident, he came into class to take his exam and uncharacteristically said, "Good morning" to the students who were poring over exams.
She said he spent only 10 minutes on the test that should have taken an hour and a half to two hours. She said when he turned in his paper he told her he was prepared and had "aced it."
Dr. Watts said she found he had written his name on the paper and that was all. She said he still passed the course because his other grades were high enough.
She said Jones made a motion as if to give her a hug, but she found it inappropriate and stepped back. She said that also alarmed him, and he asked what was wrong. She said she told him, "You're scaring me."
Dr. Watts, who was the first defense witness, said Jones then went out the front door of the Omniplex. She said she told several other school officials about his unusual behavior, then he showed back up. She said he was very agitated. "I could tell that everything was starting to escalate. He was saying things that absolutely made no sense."
She said he kept asking what day it was and what time it was.
Dr. Watts said she closed the door to the classroom so he could not get to the students, and she said a secretary summoned campus security after seeing the look on her face.
She said Jones inquired about the test and told her he had "smoked grass" and needed a drug screen. She said she sat him down and tried to calm him. She said numerous people were crowding around to see what the commotion was about.
Dr. Watts said she asked if she could look in his book bag. She said it contained only books, but she kicked it out of the way.
She said by the time two security officers came up, he was cursing and spitting violently on the floor. She said he kicked one shoe high in the air. She said he appeared to have "Superman energy."
The witness said Jones bolted over a chair, but the guards caught him and placed him in handcuffs.
Dr. Watts said, "My opinion was he was in psycosis."
She also said she felt that possibly the marijuana he took had been "laced." Tests showed only marijuana in his system.
Dr. Watts said Jones was making so much noise that it was decided to walk him out the back door. She said a number of school officials arrived on the scene, including president Jim Catanzaro.
She said when two squad cars from the city police finally arrived, she told the officers, "It was my opinion that he was a danger to himself and to others."
She said she was surprised when the officers said they were taking him to Parkridge rather than Erlanger Medical Center.
She said Jones became even more agitated. She said, "It was terrifying to me. He began screaming like a wild animal."
Sandy Kluttz, Chattanooga State dean of student life, said she knew Jones as a mild-mannered, quiet student. But she said that day she heard reports of him walking around with his hands raised, shouting, "Oh, Father."
She went down to where he was on campus and found him "wailing with a wail like I've never heard before. It was really bizarre."
She said part of the time he would be making religious references, then he would launch into a stream of obscenities.
She also said he was spitting in a methodical way - to the right, then to the left.
The witness said, "It is really disconcerting to see a student make it that far, then lose it at the end."
She said she told the officers his behavior was "very different that who he was."
She said she believed he had a "terrible drug overdose or a mental breakdown."