ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 5

Suicide by Air Rifle and Shotgun
Connolly, JT
Forensic pathologist; medical examiner investigator; and director and chairman, and neuropathologist, Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, MI

Pickelman, J
Lieutenant, Michigan State Police Crime Laboratory, MI

Bauserman, SC
Forensic pathologist; medical examiner investigator; and director and chairman, and neuropathologist, Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, MI

Cohle, SD
Forensic pathologist; medical examiner investigator; and director and chairman, and neuropathologist, Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, MI

(Received 5 August 1986; accepted 24 September 1986)

Abstract

We report the case of a 39-year old white male who committed suicide by shooting himself with an air rifle and a shotgun. The ballistics of air guns and rifles, with particular reference to the Sheridan air rifle, are reviewed. Only two cases of multiple firearm suicide have been reported; both involved simultaneously fired handguns. Ours is the first case, to our knowledge, of an air rifle and a shotgun used in sequence to commit suicide.

Keywords:
pathology and biology, suicide, ballistics, wound ballistics

Paper ID: JFS12425J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12425J
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