ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 September 1987
Page Count: 5

A Unique Missile in a Homicide Victim: The Brenneke Shotgun Slug
Rao, GS
Criminalist, Metro Dade Police Crime Laboratory, FL

Rao, VJ
Associate medical examiner, Dade County Medical Examiner Department, FL

(Received 8 November 1986; accepted 3 December 1986)

Abstract

A young black male was shot to death by an unknown assailant who then fled the scene. The medical examiner who responded to the scene noted a freshly deformed metal screw in the immediate vicinity of the body. The autopsy findings of additional, very similar screws in the body, noted on X-ray and consistent with having caused the injuries sustained, revealed the missiles to be 12-gauge Brenneke shotgun slugs.

Keywords:
criminalistics, ballistics, wound ballistics, shotguns, Brenneke, shotgun slug, slotted screw, Phillips screw

Paper ID: JFS11192J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS11192J
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