Patrick Dennehy died of gunshot wound

WACO, Texas -- Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy died of gunshot wounds to the head and was killed in the field where his body was found, according to a preliminary autopsy report released Wednesday.\nDennehy's official cause of death is homicide, the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas said in its report.\nThe report does not specify how many times Dennehy was shot, whether he suffered any other wounds or when he died. The complete autopsy is expected to take several more weeks.\nThe one-page preliminary report was released Wednesday to Belinda Summers, a justice of the peace in McLennan County, where the remains of the 21-year-old athlete were found Friday in a grassy field about four miles from campus. Dennehy had been missing about six weeks.\nInvestigators had searched earlier in the week at nearby gravel pits, a site police say was provided to them by Carlton Dotson, Dennehy's roommate and former teammate, who is charged with murder.\nDotson was arrested July 21 after telling FBI agents he shot Dennehy when Dennehy tried to shoot him, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.\nAfter his arrest, Dotson told The Associated Press that he "didn't confess to anything." Dotson, 21, remains jailed without bail in his home state of Maryland pending extradition to Texas.\nDotson's attorney, Grady Irvin, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Wednesday.\nDennehy was last seen on campus June 12; his family reported him missing June 19. The next week, his vehicle was found abandoned in Virginia Beach, Va.\nA funeral service tentatively is scheduled for mid-August in San Jose, Calif., near where he grew up. The service had been expected next week, but Pastor Dick Bernal of the Jubilee Christian Center said he had been told that forensic work would continue through Thursday or Friday.\nA campus memorial service is planned for September at Baylor University, a Baptist school with 14,000 students.\nDotson transferred to Baylor last year from Paris Junior College in east Texas. Dennehy, because of NCAA eligibility rules, had to sit out a year after transferring from New Mexico, where he was kicked off the team for losing his temper.\nA committee of three Baylor Law School professors will investigate allegations an assistant coach told Dennehy his education and living expenses would be paid if he gave up his scholarship for a year. Baylor tuition and fees cost more than $17,000 a year.\nThe committee also will examine whether Dennehy received $1,200 to $1,800 from an assistant coach toward a loan for his Chevrolet Tahoe.\nBaylor athletics department spokesman Heath Nielsen said Tuesday that the university stands by basketball coach Dave Bliss' statements denying any knowledge of NCAA violations.\nDennehy's roommate, Chris Turk, who does not attend Baylor, said Dennehy "hinted" that one or more coaches helped him buy his vehicle. Turk said Dennehy told him that a coach paid for his vehicle repairs.