An autopsy report released late Friday for accused serial killer Patrick Tracy Burris showed four shots fired by Gaston County police officers hit their target, though one shot did most of the damage.

Burris was killed during an early morning shootout in a Dallas – Spencer Mountain Road home on July 6. Burris fired first at the officers and officers returned fire, killing him.

Investigators had previously released details that one of the officer’s shots had struck the barrel of Burris’ gun, disabling it and preventing him from firing any additional shots.

An autopsy report released by the North Carolina Medical Examiners Office late Friday showed Burris sustained four gunshot wounds in the encounter, including two graze wounds.

One shot struck Burris in the left scalp three inches below the crown of his head. The report shows the wound was downward and struck the left side of his occipital bone but the projectile did not enter the calvarium, which is the upper dome-like portion of the skull.

A second shot grazed Burris’ shoulder.

A third gunshot wound struck Burris in the chest, where it fractured two ribs and then perforated the right ventricle of his heart. The gunshot then damaged his hemidiaphragm, liver and right kidney. Bullet fragments were recovered from the surface of the kidney and the main portion of the bullet was recovered from soft tissue in his back.

Gunshot wound number four, according to the medical examiner’s officer, was actually two superficial graze wounds to Burris’ right thigh.

The autopsy report details the condition of Burris’ body from head to toe, including all of his tattoos, among them “Big Country” on his right upper arm, which was his nickname.

While the autopsy deemed Burris, at 265 pounds, as mildly obese, it turned up few other health problems other than cirrhosis of the liver.

A toxicology test was negative for the presence of ethanol, or alcohol.

A person who was with Burris at the time of his death, and for several days before his death, had said Burris had gone on a crack cocaine binge immediately after the times of the killings in Gaffney.

“In my opinion, this man died as a result of gunshot wounds,” Dr. Steven L. Tracy wrote in the autopsy report.