Archiv für Kriminologie
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Archiv für Kriminologie · Mar 2007
Case Reports[Fatal chest injury from a shotgun slug: homicide, accident or suicide?].
A 78-year-old hunter was found dead beside his raised hide with a gunshot wound to his chest. In the present case, the reconstruction of the shooting event revealed an accident. ⋯ One of the triggers interlocked with the button of a camping chair's cushion and a shot was fired. Furthermore the morphology of wounds from shotgun slugs is discussed on the basis of the autopsy findngs.