Citation

Dorado E, Gómez JC, Magaña C, Cáceres D, Carrillo MF. Leg. Med. (Elsevier) 2019; 37: 60-63.

Affiliation

Departamento de Cirugía, Ciencias Médicas y Sociales, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Japanese Society of Legal Medicine, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.legalmed.2019.01.007

PMID

30669104

Abstract

The present case concerns a 29 years-old male with a history of mental disorder, who committed suicide by gunshot at the posterior midline of the head. This location is very rare in suicide cases. The weapon used is the replica of a muzzle-loading Remington Revolver with homemade ammunition prepared with easily available materials such as lead fishing weights, percussion primers, and black powder from firecrackers.

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Language: en

Keywords

Atypical ammunition; Atypical firearms; Firearm wounds; Gunshot at the back head; Mental disorder; Suicide