@article{ref1,
title="Suicides and suicide attempts following homicide - Victim-suspect relationship, weapon type, and presence of antidepressants",
journal="Homicide studies",
year="2008",
author="Walsh, Sabrina and Schaechter, Judy and Nie, Carrie and Olson, Lenora M. and Hemenway, David A. and Azrael, Deborah R. and Barber, Catherine W.",
volume="12",
number="3",
pages="285-297",
abstract="This study used linked, official data for population-based surveillance of homicides, suicides, and homicide-suicides in four U.S. states and four counties. Among 1,503 homicide incidents, less than 5% (n = 74) were followed by the perpetrator's suicide and 1% (n = 18) by a nonfatal suicide attempt. However, among men who killed their female intimate partner with a firearm, 59% also took their own life. Homicide-suicide perpetrators did not test positive for an antidepressant more often than other male suicide decedents (15% vs. 19%). Most (54%) perpetrators of nonfirearm homicides who attempted suicide lived; nearly all (93%) firearm perpetrators who attempted suicide died. Among men who killed their female intimate partner with a firearm, homicide-suicide was the norm. Better enforcement of existing laws designed to protect abuse victims by removing firearms from domestic abusers may also prevent abusers' suicides.<p />",
language="",
issn="1088-7679",
doi="10.1177/1088767908319597",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767908319597"
}