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Labelled Entry and Exit Marks on the Neck

Low resolution close-up of a man with his head tilted back wearing a white shirt, with red text labels reading ENTRY WOUND and EXIT WOUND pointing at two dark marks on the neck

What This Image Shows

A low-resolution close-up of a man with his head tilted back, exposing the neck, wearing a white athletic shirt with partial Reebok branding, against the blurred event banner where the letters YRE and Y.COM are still readable. Two red text labels have been added, reading ENTRY WOUND and EXIT WOUND, with yellow circles and red arrows pointing at two dark marks on the skin.

The labels are the annotator's identification, not a medical determination. Two dark marks at this resolution can be shadow, stubble, a crease, or blood, and the frame comes from compressed public footage rather than from any examination.

What makes the image worth keeping is the geometry it asserts: the two labelled points sit close to level with each other rather than one high and one low, which is the shape a near-horizontal path would leave and not the shape expected from a shot descending from a rooftop. That is the same claim the diagrams in this cluster make, here applied directly to footage. It should be weighed against the official account and the medical summaries at Wound Trajectory Angle, Ballistics and Wound Analysis, and Cause of Death.

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