‘We deserve to know’: autopsy of ‘Cop City’ activist shot by police incomplete two months on

Manuel Paez Teran's family says several other state agencies have also failed to release information regarding the death of the activist

Attorneys for the family of Manuel Paez Teran, known as Tortuguita", have disclosed to the Guardian that a local Georgia medical examiner's office has still not completed an autopsy of the 26-year-old nearly two months after the environmental activist was shot and killed by the police.

Among the issues at stake in the high-profile case is the question of whether Teran fired a gun first at officers, although it remains unclear if the autopsy would provide this information. Paez Teran died as police raided a camp in a forest near Atlanta, Georgia, near the construction site of a massive police and fire department training facility known as Cop City".