Provoked shooting by police as a mechanism for suicide.
We report a case which was processed by the Philadelphia Office of the Medical Examiner in which a person with a previous known suicide attempt clearly provoked the Philadelphia police into shooting him. We believe that this is but one of many such incidents in which the victim provokes another into administering fatal injury. This is a mechanism of suicide which, we believe, is exemplified by the case presented.
D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D013405:Suicide