Ashley Flowers

But the second ME says that if she was drinking heavily, the 10 and a half hours between that morning and the time when she actually died was enough for the alcohol to work its way through her system.

And he says in the report that the knot on Shankwala's forehead is consistent with blunt force trauma.

And that could have led to the brain swelling and the damage that killed her.

Maybe.

And like the Emmy acknowledges the fight and the video in his report.

But he also says that he doesn't know if maybe Shanquilla fell and like hit her head in the bathroom.

He doesn't specify.

I think basically he's like, listen, she could have gotten a head injury from anywhere.

I can't tell you where it came from, so.

Which is why her cause of death ends up getting ruled undetermined.

I know.

So according to the North Carolina autopsy results, Mexican officials only did a partial autopsy.

What does that mean?

I, too, was confused by what that meant.

So I we actually reached out to an expert and asked them to break it down.

Dr. Joseph Filo, this forensic pathologist in Cleveland, says that a partial autopsy isn't very thorough and it doesn't require removing major organs like a full autopsy would.

And Dr. Filo looked at both reports in the case, and he said that the medical examiner in Mexico didn't even take out her spine.

So he says heavy drinking can cause some of the brain swelling that both autopsies found.

And that swelling wouldn't have been enough to kill Shankwella, but that along with head trauma and lack of oxygen could be deadly.

Is it possible that the fight played a role in Shankwella's death?