Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fairly straightforward compared with many of the messy youth shootings that confront E.R. doctors nowadays. Yet the woman's attempted suicide proved to be an epiphany for the young physician who attended her. It not only altered his life and career but also would affect countless other victims of gunshot wounds--and would have a major effect on the national debate over gun control...
Indeed, according to Wintemute, gunshot wounds are about 7 1/2 times as likely to result in death as attacks with a knife--and 145 times as likely as blows from feet or fists. Gunshots tear through flesh and bone with the force of a tornado, destroying everything in their path and, depending on the kind of bullet, spreading damage well beyond their trajectory...
...energy goes into leading a crusade against the "national epidemic" of gun violence--which, with 35,000 deaths a year, he says, "ranks among the top-10 killers of Americans, after cancer, heart disease and automobile deaths." It is an extremely costly epidemic too; the annual bill for treating gunshot wounds inflicted only in assaults is more than $63 billion...
...pretty good." Meanwhile, it sounds like that caretaker will get stiffed out of the $50,000 in reward money that had been offered up in Miami and New York. Barreto said today the caretaker did not technically lead police to Cunanan but was only reporting that he heard a gunshot in the houseboat that he was checking out. Miami police have been furiously hedging about the most famous report--that two searches of the sealed-off houseboat came up empty before Cunanan's dead, still-bleeding body was found. With no other suspects and no Cunanan trial looming...
MIAMI: SWAT teams surrounded a houseboat tonight some two miles from Gianni Versace's home after a caretaker surprised an intruder and then reported a gunshot. Aboard the boat, police after two initial searches found the body of a young man closely resembling Andrew Cunanan who had killed himself with a gunshot. Two investigative teams are currently on the boat, and attempts to positively identify the body are underway...