John Tomlin Autopsy

What does "perforation; left eye" mean

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"Penetrating or perforating ocular injuries can be due to injury from any sharp or high velocity object.
Tomlin also had subdural and subarachnoid hemorrhage, lacerations and contusions of the brain, and skull fractures.
Nicole Nowlen said that she watched John convulse and die immediately after Dylan shot him in the head. I would have to assume that the bullet either entered or exited at least part of his left eye.

Your eyeballs are usually round, a perforated eye basically means it has exploded or is no longer a ball.

My assumption would therefore be that he was shot by a bullet or shrapnel in the eye. My girlfriend is a doctor and coincidentally she was telling me about a guy who came in with a perforated left eyeball after he had been stabbed in the eye by his girlfriend.