BREAKING: 32-year-old Houston Tipping suffered a spinal cord injury after a hard landing during a grappling exercise with a student.
The Los Angeles Coroner's Office said the officer that died during a training exercise at the Los Angeles Police Academy in late May was an accident.
Additionally, in his report, Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Lawrence Nguyen said he found several other medical-related injuries during the autopsy including a laceration on his left scalp from a C-clamp placement during spinal surgery and fractured ribs that appeared to be from CPR with a LUCAS device.
The medical record provided to the Coroner's Office said that Tipping was"possibly dropped" on his head. Tipping immediately"went limp" according to an investigator with the Coroner's Office. "It is also possible the student landed on top of the decedent," officials wrote in the investigator's narrative.