The radiographs of the body showed shadows of a bullet in
the upper part of the left shoulder and fragmented particles of
a bullet in the right part of the head. Autopsy of the head revealed
the track of the bullet, causing a fracture with internal
beveling in the vault of the skull bones, with radiating fissure
fractures (Fig. 4), and lacerations in the right and left hemispheres
of the brain causing a subdural, subarachnoid hemorrhage
and resulting in fissure fractures in the right anterior and
middle fossae, together with a fracture with external beveling
in the right part of the posterior fossa of the base of the skull
bones. The bullet was fragmented inside and perforated out of
the body through the described exit wound, with part of the
shot settling under the head scalp opposite the exit wound.
We extracted the retained part of the bullet and kept it preserved
through a chain of custody for further examination
by the criminal lab.