Posted on 11/16/2009 7:00:15 AM PST by AtlasStalled
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Michael Scott is BLACK???? Was BLACK????
I would like to see the before and after homicide rates of cities from which democratic presidents originate.
Huh? Monday mornings arrive every 7 days. Is he saying he expected this?
He must have threatened to turn republican or else he had a relationship with Obozo.
UPDATE:
Cops Say He Shot Himself in the Head: (major eyeroll)
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/11/man-found-dead-near-merchandise-mart-downtown.html
How many times? /sarcasm
Somebody suicided him.
Murder or Suicide? How You (and Your Detective) Can Tell the Difference
by Michelle Acker
Was it murder or suicide? That’s the question that launches many a mystery novel. Your antagonist may wish to confound police and detectives into believing that a death was self-inflicted; it’s your detective’s job to determine otherwise. So how can you keep the reader confounded while giving your detective enough clues to solve the mystery?
First, let’s look at the definitions involved:
* Murder: When someone knowingly causes the death, or injuries resulting in death, of another person.
* Manslaughter: When someone causes the death of another through extreme indifference to human life.
* Self-Defense: When someone causes the death of another in order to protect himself or his family.
* Suicide: The deliberate taking of one’s own life.
These definitions are pretty consistent, but with the right information, the boundaries can be blurred, either accidentally or by design. For instance, murders can be made to resemble suicides, or manslaughter can become murder if sufficient motive and premeditation can be proved. If your antagonist is cunning enough, a suicide could be staged to look like a murder.
This article will give you some basic information, such as types of weapons used and what the choice of weapon says about a person, helping you set up an effective and believable murder for your protagonist to solve.
Firearms
The first and most often used weapons are firearms. Firearms, which include a wide range of handguns and rifles, account for three out of every five murders committed in America. Most handguns are fast and easy to use and require little, if any, training. With a gun, it doesn’t matter how big, or physically able you are, anyone from a small child to an elderly person can pull a trigger. Women rarely commit murder, but when they do, a gun is most often the weapon they chose because it eliminates the physical differences between the sexes, allowing a hundred pound woman to kill a three hundred pound man, when any other weapon must be used at close range and can easily be taken from her.
When it comes to suicide, 64% of men and 40% of women make firearms their death of choice because it’s quick and relatively painless.
Following are a few ways to tell murder from suicide.
* Where on the body the injury occurred: A shot to the side of the head, in the mouth, or to the front of the chest is usually suicide. Wounds located anywhere else are most likely homicide.
* Distance of gun from the body: Most suicide shots are at contact or near contact range, causing a burn mark around the wound and leaving gunpowder residue (which can be wiped off). At contact range, and if the gun is fired just above a bone, such as the skull or the sternum, a star-like wound is produced. Anything further away is likely homicide.
* Angle of the shot: Most suicide shots are angled slightly upward.
* Number of shots fired: After one shot, even if a suicide victim isn’t dead, he would likely be unconscious or physically unable to fire a second time. Multiple shots usually indicate homicide.
* Presence of gunpowder residue on victims hand: If a man shot himself, there would be powder residue from unburned carbon on the hand that fired the gun.
* Shots through clothing: A suicide victim will rarely shoot through clothing. If he shoots himself in the chest, which is unusual, he will open his shirt to expose the skin. Shots through clothing suggest homicide.
* History, a note, other factors: If the victim left a suicide note, or was known to have personal problems, or if there was evidence of drug use or drinking, suicide is likely.
* Evidence of a struggle: If there are scratches, cuts, bruises, homicide is likely.
How fast a person dies depends significantly on where the wound is located and how quickly he can get help. A shot to the head might kill, or it might not. A shot to the abdomen might take hours to kill the victim, or he might bleed to death in half that time. A gunshot victim can be rushed to the hospital, have a bullet removed from his abdomen, be well on the road to recovery, then die a week later from some unforeseen infection. Anything can and does happen, which makes any scenario you come up with feasible for the needs of your story.
http://www.writing-world.com/mystery/suicide.shtml
Sounds like a Chinese Quality Control drill [down].
“Chicago Way”
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Mayor Richard Daley reappointed Scott to the Chicago Board of Education in 2001. 
Singer Jeremih Felton (from left), Chicago Board of Education president Michael Scott and Chicago Public Schools chief executive officer Ron Huberman at press conference about the school system's annual Back-To-School Campaign at Robeson High School today. (William DeShazer/Chicago Tribune)
Cops: Preliminary investigation indicates Scott shot himself
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/11/man-found-dead-near-merchandise-mart-downtown.html
MmmmHmmmm.
Nah, just one self inflicted gunshot wound. Then he jumped in the river.
That suicide swan dive must have been difficult with cement around his feet and his hands taped together. sarc/off
I like how you think, Red!
maybe he meant “Most people are surprised when Monday comes and they still have a job.”
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