• J Forensic Leg Med · Jul 2014

    Homicide-suicide in Brescia County (Northern Italy): a retrospective study from 1987 to 2012.

    • Andrea Verzeletti, Maria Cristina Russo, and Francesco De Ferrari.
    • Istituto di Medicina Legale, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Piazzale Spedali Civili 1, 25123 Brescia, Italy. Electronic address: andrea.verzeletti@unibs.it.
    • J Forensic Leg Med. 2014 Jul 1; 25: 62-6.

    AbstractFrom January 1987 to December 2012, 19 homicide-suicide events were registered at the Brescia Institute of Forensic Medicine (Northern Italy), leading to 39 deaths (20 homicide victims and 19 suicide victims). The homicide victims were females in the total of the cases (100%), while perpetrators were exclusively males (100%). Only one event involved foreigners as both victim and perpetrator, all the other cases regarded Italian people. The average age was 37.3 years for the homicide victims and 41.57 years for the offenders. Perpetrators usually used a firearm both for murder (65%) and suicide (84%). In 66% of the cases the homicide-suicide events occurred at home; homicide victims were strictly bound to their perpetrators (husband, boyfriend or ex boyfriend, father) in all the events. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved.

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