I have a doctor friend here in Waco. The other day he walked into his exam room and asked the patient what was wrong and the patient told him he'd been shot and asked him hadn't he seen it on the news? When he told me where and when I actually had seen it on the news.
Just thought ya'll might be interested in the details.
The gun was a .45 and I don't know what make or model. I also don't know what kind of ammo or whether the bullets were hp, lead or jacketed. My guess from the results is plain lead.
The shooter stood in front of the victim's car and shot through the windshield. He was right there at the front bumper, very close (which begs the question "WHY DIDN'T YOU HIT THE GAS, DUDE?!")
The first shot went into the fleshy part of the victim's upper right arm. It went below the bone and did not hit any arteries. Just muscle and tissue. The bullet stopped under the skin on the back side of his arm and did not exit.
The victim then turned away from the shooter and the next two entered his upper left back shoulder blade area. One of them stopped and lodged right there and the second one made a right turn and shot over and hit one of his vertebra and then continued traveling under the skin and stopped without exiting over on his right side back. I believe the vertebra was slightly fractured. All bullets are still in the kid mostly right under the skin. I think doctors typically leave those kinds of subcutaneous bullets right there unless they start causing problems.
I say "kid" but he is legally an adult but still a teen.
Just thought ya'll might be interested in details. I try to get my doctor friends to tell me details of any gunshot wounds they come across. Of course they don't give me details of the victim's name or anything!
I was guessing that the bullets were lead because none of them exited and I would think that if they were jacketed solids they would have exited. I was also thinking that if they were JHPs they would have caused more damage. I'm pretty sure he wasn't wearing heavy clothing as it's been hot here lately.
Oh and the victim was treated and released from the emergency room. He said that it hurt a little but not that bad.
Just thought ya'll might be interested in the details.
The gun was a .45 and I don't know what make or model. I also don't know what kind of ammo or whether the bullets were hp, lead or jacketed. My guess from the results is plain lead.
The shooter stood in front of the victim's car and shot through the windshield. He was right there at the front bumper, very close (which begs the question "WHY DIDN'T YOU HIT THE GAS, DUDE?!")
The first shot went into the fleshy part of the victim's upper right arm. It went below the bone and did not hit any arteries. Just muscle and tissue. The bullet stopped under the skin on the back side of his arm and did not exit.
The victim then turned away from the shooter and the next two entered his upper left back shoulder blade area. One of them stopped and lodged right there and the second one made a right turn and shot over and hit one of his vertebra and then continued traveling under the skin and stopped without exiting over on his right side back. I believe the vertebra was slightly fractured. All bullets are still in the kid mostly right under the skin. I think doctors typically leave those kinds of subcutaneous bullets right there unless they start causing problems.
I say "kid" but he is legally an adult but still a teen.
Just thought ya'll might be interested in details. I try to get my doctor friends to tell me details of any gunshot wounds they come across. Of course they don't give me details of the victim's name or anything!
I was guessing that the bullets were lead because none of them exited and I would think that if they were jacketed solids they would have exited. I was also thinking that if they were JHPs they would have caused more damage. I'm pretty sure he wasn't wearing heavy clothing as it's been hot here lately.
Oh and the victim was treated and released from the emergency room. He said that it hurt a little but not that bad.
