Pistol thrown to the ground by shooter after fatal self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest

Zech, Wolf-Dieter; Kneubühl, Beat; Thali, Michael; Bolliger, Stephan (2011). Pistol thrown to the ground by shooter after fatal self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Journal of forensic and legal medicine, 18(2), pp. 88-90. Oxford: Elsevier 10.1016/j.jflm.2010.11.005

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We report the case of a 46-year-old man found dead in his apartment in a chair with a gunshot wound in his chest. All circumstances pointed to suicide as the manner of death. Finding the weapon, a SIG Sauer P228 pistol, about 2 m away from the decedent with an obstacle between weapon and corpse however generated speculation about third party involvement. Scene investigations and ballistic calculations showed that with a high probability the weapon must have been purposefully thrown away by the decedent after he fired the lethal gunshot.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Legal Medicine > Forensic Medicine 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Legal Medicine 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Legal Medicine > Forensic Imaging
UniBE Contributor:	Zech, Wolf-Dieter, Kneubühl, Beat P., Thali, Michael, Bolliger, Stephan
ISSN:	1752-928X
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 14:10
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:01
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.jflm.2010.11.005
PubMed ID:	21315304
Web of Science ID:	000288480800009
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/1545 (FactScience: 203320)