Mysterious Shooting Death in Pueblo

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I have been forwarded a cutting from the Pueblo Chieftain, Tuesday January the 30th 2007.

The story is about a woman who was found dead in a vehicle after it exited the I25 on a northbound offramp leading to U.S. 50 bypass near Belmont.

What was initially thought to be a road traffic accident was found (at autopsy) to be a gunshot fatality, the wound being to the head. According to the article it is not clear what the circumstances of the shooting were.

Residue tests were scheduled.

Is there any word on this case (maybe Larry Ashcraft has an 'ear' on this?)
 
Well they hadn't ruled out suicide, but I am curious to know what was found in the end.
 
A number of years ago there was a case of a woman found in her car, dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
Turns out that a guy fishing on a nearby lake fired a rifle into the water, the bullet bounced off the water, travelled almost a mile to the highway, passed through an open rear window and hit the woman driver in the back of the head.
Rule 4: Know your target and what's behind it!
 
I've always wondered why people about to commit suicide don't go down to a party supply place and buy about 40 helium balloons first.

Think about it. Tie all 40 to the gun. Shoot self. Leave everybody going "***?" :neener:.

Ahem. But I guess they're not in a position to think of the comedy element...
 
I just heard on our local news that a guy who was ice fishing at a local resevoir was killed this morning when he bent over and his handgun fell out of his shoulder holster and hit the ice causing it to fire a bullet through his chin and into his head.
No word on what type of handgun it was.

Biker
 
They didn't say, but that was my first guess. I'm gonna try to find out.

Biker
 
Readers Digest story I read LONG ago:

A woman was driving in the left lane of an expressway alongside New York Harbor. She makes several perfect lane changes across three lanes of heavy traffic and ALMOST makes a clean exit at the off ramp (Just like your story). But of course, she crashes. Autopsy reveals a .303 bullet in her head.

Eventually it's traced to a guy on a boat in the outer harbor, shooting at sharks with a Lee-Enfield.

I wonder how many of these stories are Urban Legends?
 
I know for a fact that one such water deflection is true, because it was a case in a law book I had in South Africa. In that case a man was shooting at ducks sitting on the water and the bullet deflected off the water surface and killed a man in a utility shed on the other bank. He tried to use the defense that he could not possibly have known that his bullet would deflect like that and also he could not possibly have known that the shed was occupied.
Of course, his defense did not hold water ;)
 
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