Slayer’s Autopsy: No Drugs, Alcohol

An autopsy of George Jo Hennard, who crashed his pickup into a restaurant and shot to death 23 people last week, showed no signs of alcohol or illegal drugs, police said Monday.

Hennard, 35, was shot and wounded by law officers in the restaurant before he fatally shot himself in the head, according to results of an autopsy performed in Dallas and released Monday by Killeen police.

Hennard had a history of drug use. He was kicked out of the Merchant Marine for smoking marijuana. But the autopsy found no evidence alcohol or illegal drugs were in Hennard’s body at the time of his death, Killeen police said.

Hennard’s father had suggested last week that his son might have had a brain tumor that caused his violent rampage on Wednesday. But after the autopsy, police said that “other than the self-inflicted gunshot wound, the rest of the brain shows no abnormalities.”

In Texas on Monday, victims’ families were burying their loved ones. Three victims were buried in San Antonio, and several other services were held in Killeen and Austin. Several funerals were held over the weekend.

At Ft. Hood near Killeen, about 350 friends, relatives and colleagues of Lt. Col. Steven C. Dody gathered at a chapel on the Army post for his funeral. Red, white and blue carnations adorned the front of the sanctuary near Dody’s flag-draped coffin. He was the only soldier killed in the massacre.