Police: Teen shot herself in mouth with hands cuffed behind back

[jmowreader]

Today's entry in the "are you shitting me?" file:

https://idahonews.com/news/nation-world/police-woman-killed-herself-with-gunshot-through-her-mouth-while-hands-cuffed-behind-back?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=internal

According to the medical examiner's office in Virginia, a 19-year-old woman died from a gunshot wound through her mouth while her hands were cuffed behind her back. It was ruled a suicide.

While officers tried to get control of Medlin, Wilson was left alone and reportedly was able to get a gun, possibly from inside the car where she was a passenger, "contorted" her body and shot herself through the mouth while still wearing handcuffs, according to a police spokesman.

The gun in question was a pistol, and not one the police in Chesapeake, VA, issue.

[safeinOhio]

1. They call those a

“Throw down”.

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. There's nothing suspisious about this

Nope. Nothing at all.

[jmowreader]

3. I was thinking something on the order of...

"He fell down the stairs nine times. Very tragic."

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. "The gun in question was a pistol, and not one the police in Chesapeake, VA, issue."

Oh. Well, then.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Reminds me of a San Diego hanging suicide

where the police decided she was able to hang herself even though her hands were tied behind her back. Her family cried, "No way" for years and had to fight the coroner and sheriff over it. They finally got justice...she was murdered by her brother in law.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2018/04/04/rebecca-zahau-verdict-adam-shacknai-responsible-coronado-mansion-death/486598002/

[grantcart]

12. Obviously extremely rare, there are cases of staged suicides including this famous one:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/03/the-hanging/309210/

I did find your excerpt to encompass a lot about the human condition regarding a case where the family was angry at the police for coming to the conclusion that it couldn't have been a suicide and got them to reopen the case only to find out that while they were correct that it wasn't a suicide it was a family member who murdered the poor victim.

[BigmanPigman]

13. Wow, what an interesting case.

Good thing I'm not a detective since that case boggles my mind.

[Bettie]

6. It is just so odd

that their body cameras are never functional when this stuff happens.

Such terrible luck, golly gee.

[Igel]

9. Or those body cameras that don't record where the police aren't.

The report, at least, says she was left alone. No police bodies, no police body cams.

[Bettie]

10. So, you really buy that with hands cuffed behind her back

she managed to put a gun in her mouth.

Must be pretty limber.

Also, the body cam would have recorded audio had it been on.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. Sounds like the old line........

"stabbed in the back 9 times. Worst case of suicide I've ever seen................."

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. A more recent one

Remember those spate of mysterious Bank of America employee deaths?

They were rather weird but no serious investigations were held, including that of the man who was ruled a suicide by shooting himself in the head with a nail gun...8 times.

[USALiberal]

11. First, where did gun come from, 2nd, is it physically possible to do this based on trajectory? nt