Nicole Brown Simpson’s throat was slashed by someone wielding a knife in the right hand after she was stabbed several times in the neck and the head, the coroner testified Wednesday. The coroner also told O.J. Simpson jurors the fatal wound to Nicole Simpson’s neck caused massive blood flow and relatively quick-but not instantaneous-death. “I would say she died within a few minutes, probably much less than a minute,” Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran said. “She would have gone into rapid shock with this massive injury.” The coroner said the first wound to her neck-a stab that could have killed her without quick medical attention-may have been committed by an assailant standing face-to-face with her. Lakshmanan demonstrated by facing prosecutor Brian Kelberg and lifting his right hand near Kelberg’s neck.
