Brickbat: I Had No Suspicions

Police Scotland initially declared the death of Brian Low to be "non-suspicious and medical-related." But a medical examination found "he had injuries consistent with being fatally shot." His death certificate says he died of a shotgun wound to the neck and chest. Three months later, police arrested a man in connection with the death. Scotland's Police Investigation and Review Commissioner has confirmed it is looking into the way the crime scene was handled.
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Of a shotgun wound, or with a shotgun wound?
medical-related
It was a therapeutic shotgun blast?
Fully vaccinated. All 12 gauges' worth. 100% safe and effective with no downsides.
“non-suspicious and medical-related” holes in the skin = scabies
Some horse paste should fix him right up.Lead poisoning?
To be fair, police were conditioned to steer away from attributing any death to a shot.
To be fair, I suspect with all those fine gun control laws, they are not used to seeing those type of injuries.
Perhaps they should institute a 6 month tour of Chicago in their training.
Did Mr. Low hack the Clinton’s emails? And was he found in a suitcase after being shot?
Several years ago our area had a guy who was found dead in his car, in a Mall parking lot. He'd been shot in the back of the head twice with a .44. There was no weapon found in the car. The ruling was suicide.
They missed an opportunity to test him for asymptomatic Covid. They might have been able to log it as a Covid death. What a waste.
The Grand County coroner is disputing the number of COVID-19 deaths the state is reporting for the county.
Brenda Bock told county commissioners on Tuesday that the state is reporting two additional COVID-19 deaths in Grand, which she believes should not be included.
In disputing the numbers, Bock explained that a couple who died of gunshot wounds late last month have been included in the state’s numbers. The state told Bock those deaths are included in the count because the two tested positive for COVID-19 within 30 days before their death.
Bock called the state’s reporting “false and misleading.”
“The two cases were autopsied, and the cause of death was listed as ‘blunt force injuries due to a gunshot wound,’” Bock said of what police determined to be a murder-suicide,. “Nowhere did the pathologist say COVID was the cause of death.”
Well, shotguns are illegal in Scotland so it couldn't have been that.
Too bad they didn't make death illegal.
Seems off kilter.