CHARLOTTE — The autopsy of the man who ambushed police in east Charlotte in late April has been released.
The Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner said Terry Hughes died from a dozen gunshot wounds.
A toxicology report also found marijuana in his system.
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Hughes used an assault rifle to shoot at police from a home on Galway Drive.
The incident occurred on April 29 as a U.S. Marshals Task Force attempted to serve a warrant on him.
Four officers were killed in that ambush: CMPD officer Joshua Eyer, U.S. Marshals Investigators Alden Elliot and Sam Poloche, and Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks.
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