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Man found dead after motorcycle crash in Charles County, Md. | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
A Maryland man who state police had previously said might have been a homicide victim was instead killed in a motorcycle crash in Charles County. | |
Police had previously said that the man died in what they were calling a “potential homicide” and that there was evidence at the scene of the Sunday afternoon crash on Route 5 in Hughesville to indicate that he might have been shot. | |
But by mid-day Monday, police had changed their findings. | |
In a statement, police said an autopsy had found that the man was “not shot, but died as a result of injuries sustained in the crash.” | |
The man has been identified as Robert T. Anderson, 44, of Patuxent River, Md. The chief medical examiner’s office in Baltimore found that Anderson died “as a result of multiple blunt force trauma injuries sustained in the crash,” according to the statement from Maryland State Police. | |
Authorities went on to say that the wound that had been found on Anderson at the time of the incident that they thought was a possible gunshot wound was later found to have been “caused by a puncture that occurred during the crash.” | |
It was not immediately known what caused the puncture. | |
The incident began about 2:15 p.m. along Route 5 near Route 231. Police said they received a call about a crash. | |
When troopers arrived, they found a 2015 Harley Davidson motorcycle that had run off the left side of the road and hit a guardrail. Police said the driver, later identified as Anderson, was ejected from the motorcycle. | |
Anderson was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. A forensic examiner had noticed a “suspicious injury that may have been caused by a gunshot,” police said. Police said there was “trauma” to the man’s body that was “indicative of a gunshot wound.” | |
But the autopsy determined that Anderson’s death was “an accident as a result of the motor vehicle crash.” | |
The crash remains under investigation. |
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