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David Balash, a former Michigan State Police firearms examiner, said the investigation also should look at the gun's angle given that Miller was shot in the chest. "What's going to be very important here is the angle of the entry of the wound to the victim (and) if there is in fact any gunpowder residue," Balash said. "I'm having a great deal of difficulty understanding how a weapon that's pointed at the ground can be turned literally 110 degrees minimum to be in an upward position to strike someone." But Godbee said Parrish's waist holster was made of a soft, neoprene-type material, and it would be possible for the trigger to be pulled while the gun was in it. He also said the barrel direction typically would have been pointing down while holstered. There still is "no justification" for her daughter's death, said McNair, 44. "She didn't do anything wrong," McNair said. "She told us she was going to a party. "I should have been baking my daughter her birthday cake." The Wayne County medical examiner's office was to perform an autopsy.
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