[Fatal chest injury from a shotgun slug: homicide, accident or suicide?]

  • Birol Aydin
  • Friedrich Schulz
  • Reinhold Ottens
  • Klaus Püschel
  • Michael Tsokos

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Abstract

A 78-year-old hunter was found dead beside his raised hide with a gunshot wound to his chest. In the present case, the reconstruction of the shooting event revealed an accident. Disregarding all safety rules, the hunter had placed his superposed rifle-shotgun on the chair and pulled the barrels of the cocked gun towards his body. One of the triggers interlocked with the button of a camping chair's cushion and a shot was fired. Furthermore the morphology of wounds from shotgun slugs is discussed on the basis of the autopsy findngs.

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Original languageGerman
Article number3-4
ISSN0003-9225
Publication statusPublished - 2007
pubmed 17539589