Citation

Lüderwald S, Mützel E, Graw M, Eisenmenger W, Peschel O. Arch. Kriminol. 2008; 221(1-2): 36-42.

Vernacular Title

Suizid durch Gewehrschuss in den Nacken.

Affiliation

Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18389862

Abstract

A 55-year-old man was found dead on the bed lying on his side in a pool of blood with a bullet entrance hole in the nape. Behind his body, a semi-automatic rifle Remington Nylon, cal. .22 LR, was detected. As the gunshot entrance site was rather unusual for suicide, a forensic autopsy was performed, which showed a contact shot to the nape with the bullet path running upward to the left frontal area. The man had been treated with citalopram for delusional depression, so that a suicidal act seemed plausible, and the autopsy and criminalistic findings were also compatible with this assumption. A remarkable fact of the present case is that a long firearm had been used. Reports on suicidal shots to the nape are comparatively rare in the medicolegal literature and usually refer to pistols or revolvers.

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