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Zákeřné palné zbraně v rukou sebevrahů

Title in English Insidious firearms in the hands of suicides
Authors

KRAJSA Jan HIRT Miroslav SCHNELLER Karel

Year of publication 2013
Type Conference abstract
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Description During of less than a year were at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Brno dissected two dead men, who committed suicide by using a so-called "insidious" guns - firing pencils. In the first case a 44-year-old man committed suicide on the banks of the river Morava. His body was found in a river near shore, it was determined browning like a probable cause of death by viewing doctor. It was found hole of entrance wound in the right temporal landscape during the visual inspection in autopsy, it was found shot in the left temporal landscape by following X-ray examination.The weapon was found the next day by divers in the river at the place of discovery of the body. In the second case it was a 67-year-old man, who was from about 30 years after spinal cord injury in a wheelchair , and who committed suicide at home. A hole entrance wound was located in the hard palate in the mouth, the projectile went into the cranial cavity, hit the parietal bone and then it slid into the occipital landscape in the sinus sagittalis superior, where it was found.

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