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Single wound produced by simultaneous discharge of both shells from a double-barrel shotgun
M G Medich1, S D Cohle, M Burritt
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI.
Journal of Forensic Sciences
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
We present the case of a man who was killed by simultaneous discharge of both barrels of a double-barrel shotgun. Externally, there was a single wound simulating a wound made by a discharge of a single barrel. Test-firing of the shotgun against cloth, paper, and naugahyde targets revealed defects similar in shape to the wound in the victim. Simultaneous discharge of both barrels from a double-barrel shotgun may simulate the wound made by discharge of a single barrel.