Autopsy Results Released on Stabbing Suspect

 

State Police have released the results of an autopsy on the man suspected of stabbing a father and son at a campground in the Town of Black Brook.

41 year-old Stephen R. Gourlay of Peru was pronounced dead at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, according to a State Police news release. 

The Vermont Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy and determined Gourlay’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and torso.  The death was ruled accidental.

Gourlay had been hospitalized since sustaining critical injuries when he collided with a residence on the Clintonville Road in the town of AuSable as he was attempting to flee from State Police.

He was being pursued as the suspect in a double stabbing at Taylor Pond State Campground on April 24.

45 year-old George Goyotte and his 20 year-old son Richard were stabbed in the chest during a dispute at the campground.  Both men have since been released from the hospital.

-Chris Knight, 5-11-09


 
 

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