TY - JOUR PY - 1975// TI - Homicidal death by air rifle JO - Journal of trauma A1 - DiMaio, V. J. SP - 1034 EP - 1037 VL - 15 IS - 11 N2 - A fatal injury of the brain from a penetrating air rifle is described. Deaths due to air rifles are extremely rare; only four other cases were found in the recent English-language literature. All deaths resulted from pellet wounds of the brain. The portal of entry for the pellet was the eye in two instances and the frontal bone of a child in the other two. LA - SN - 0022-5282 UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ID - ref1 ER -