A fatal case of shotgun injury caused by one pellet

Abstract

A 73-year-old man was shot to death due to the misjudgment of his comrade while deer hunting. There were two wounds on the victim's body. One was a gunshot wound which had perforated his left brachium and constituted the entry wound on the outer brachium and the exit wound on the axilla. The other was the re-entry wound on the axilla just on the inner side of the former exit wound. These wounds were made by one pellet from nine-pellet-type buckshot ammunition. No other gunshot injury was found.