title: [Fatal chest injury from a shotgun slug: homicide, accident or suicide?].
abstract: 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. Disregarding all safety rules, the hunter had placed his superposed rifle-shotgun on the chair and pulled the barrels of the cocked gun towards his body. 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.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin des Universitätsklinikums Hamburg-Eppendorf.
authors.forename: Birol
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Aydin
authors.forename: Friedrich
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Reinhold
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ottens
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Püschel
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsokos
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D002423:Cause of Death; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005389:Firearms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006708:Homicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000473:pathology*