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Part 2: Missouri family believes Black teen's suicide was murder

FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. - A self-inflicted gunshot wound leaves behind several key indicators. An imprint of the muzzle of the gun if it’s held directly against the skin. Held slightly further away, soot from the muzzle flash of a gun will land on the skin. Held slightly further than that and stippling, or the deposition of gunpowder to the skin where the powder abrades or scrapes the surface of the skin, leaves little punctures or red marks. Derontae Martin had none of those things. But the Madison County Sheriff’s Department announced the results of a preliminary investigation on its Facebook page four days after his death stating the 19-year-old died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a Fredericktown home April 25. His mother, Erica Lotts, who had recently moved to Ferguson from Park Hills, has never believed his death was a suicide. She hired Dr. Jane Turner, a former pathologist for the St. Louis Medical Examiner’s Office, to conduct a second autopsy. “There are no findings on my examination of a contact gunshot wound or a near contact gunshot wound or a near gunshot wound or close or even intermediate,” Turner said. “This entrance wound is what would be called in forensic pathology a distant entrance wound. “The end of the gun would have been 2 or 3 feet or more away.” Martin’s family and friends say the Madison County Sheriff’s Department along with the coroner’s office has not been returning their calls seeking more information. They also believe James Wade, the man who owns the house where it happened, knows more than he is letting on. They're also concerned about his social media posts, which they find racially offensive. In an exclusive interview, Wade tells the I-Team he had nothing to do with it, is not a racist and wishes the police would clear his name so he could talk to Martin’s family himself to clear the air.