Aminulrasyid Amzah, who died four months shy of his 15th birthday on April 26, 2010, was not shot at close range.

According to Klang’s Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital pathologist Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim, the gunshot wound found on Aminulrasyid was round and not "star-shaped as is the case if the shot was made from less than one foot away".

He said that there were also no burn marks, that are typical of close-range gunshot wounds.

"I was also told by the investigating officer that there was a bullet hole at the back window of the car (driven by Aminulrasyid)," he said.

Khairul said the teenager had died "seconds or minutes" after a bullet entered the left side of the back of the skull, went through the part of his brain that controlled automatic respiration and exited the skull and lodged under the skin, near the right eyebrow.

azlan "The bullet penetrated the front of the skull but not the skin, leaving a bruise at the median of the right eyebrow," he testified today.

He told the Shah Alam Sessions Court that other wounds found include superficial scratches, likely from friction from a blunt object, bruises likely due to impact from a blunt object and a laceration on the knee likely due to impact with the dashboard.

He said when he received the body at 5.55am on April 26, the body was already stiff, indicating that the deceased had died more than four hours prior to that.

Blood-stained T-shirt

At about 11.15am, the court stood down because the room was overwhelmed by the smell of dried blood after Khairul opened an enveloped containing Aminulrasyid's T-shirt. 

The yellow T-shirt with round collar was heavily stained with blood, that had also seeped through two layers of paper that the garment had been wrapped in, out into the envelope.

Also tendered as evidence were the deceased's blue shorts and chequered boxers, both stiff with dried blood and wrapped with three layers of paper each, samples of his hair, blood and a bullet slug retrieved from his body.

Aminulrasyid was shot at around 1.30am of April 26, 2010 at Jalan Tarian 11/2, Shah Alam, about 50 metres away from the junction to the lane where he lived.

Corporal Jenain Subi, 48, is charged with culpable homicide that carries a maximum punishment of 30 years in jail.