A case of suicide-by-cop

Legal Medicine
Jens FalkMarkus A Rothschild

Abstract

A young man was shot dead on the street by police officers. The results of the investigation indicated that the use of firearms had been provoked with suicidal intent by the victim. A 25 year old man intruded with his car into a row of six police vehicles that was in the midst of an operation. Upon stopping at a traffic light he left his vehicle and pulled out a weapon which was later determined to have been a blank cartridge pistol. He took aim at the officers in the following vehicle from a distance of not more than 2 m. Despite repeated orders to put down the weapon, the man did not comply. Thus, as a result of the presumed threatening situation in which four officers were involved, several shots fell that were fatal for the individual. In the postmortem examination the cause of death was determined to be haemorrhagic shock due to penetration of the aorta by a projectile. On the basis of the results of the investigation a particular form of suicide was presumed since a depressive disorder in some form had been present. The man had expressed suicidal thoughts several times and had taken conspicuous leave of his wife on the day of the incident.

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Jul 27, 2001·The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care·N SarhillD Walsh

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Nov 15, 2013·Archives of Suicide Research : Official Journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research·Lauren DeweyLouis Schlesinger
Dec 2, 2008·Journal of Forensic Sciences·James R Gill, Melissa Pasquale-Styles
Jun 1, 2012·Suicide & Life-threatening Behavior·Steven StackDavid Lester
Aug 11, 2011·Journal of Forensic Sciences·Amber R Neitzel, James R Gill
Apr 6, 2017·Journal of Forensic Sciences·Kyla M JorgensonJoshua Lanter
Jan 17, 2014·Medicine, Science, and the Law·Eva De Koning, Michel H A Piette

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