Citation

Zech WD, Kneubühl B, Thali M, Bolliger SA. J. Forensic Leg. Med. 2011; 18(2): 88-90.

Affiliation

Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Berne, Buehlstrasse 20, 3012 Berne, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jflm.2010.11.005

PMID

21315304

Abstract

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.

Language: en