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nor traces poking, no bone fracturing or dislocation of articulations, nor bullets wounds
other than what is previously detailed.
Discussion:
• The deceased Hamza Al Khateeb had received 3 bullet wounds, the first one had
two entrances and two exits perforations, entering at the left upper arm, exiting,
and re-entering at the left side of the chest, exiting in the front part of the chest,
between the nipples. The second entered in the right side of the waist area and
exited in the back close the last rib on the right. The third entered and exited in the
lower third of his right upper arm.
• All three bullets caused perforations with edges pointing inside the body at the
entry locations, pointing outside when exiting the body, abrasion traces were
formed around bullets’ entry locations, they were absent for bullets’ exit locations,
which is an important evidence of bullets entry and exit locations.
• Bullet wounds occurred while the person of Hamza was alive.
• The perforation created by entry of bullets is relatively big and deformed, which
leads us to think it had possibly gone through some kind of an obstacle before it
hit the body of the victim, or had entered the body in an angle.
• The bullets hit the body in different areas, left and right upper arms and torso; this
indicates that both shooter and deceased were moving around, or, the possibility of
having more than one shooter.
• The two bullets in the boy’s chest and waist might have caused instant death,
while the right upper arm wound is not deadly.
• Bullets have caused damage in bones and internal chest and abdomen organs, and
were the direct cause of internal bleeding and death.
• Shooting originated form a third party, the shooter was at the same height of the
victim at the moment of shooting.
• Shooting occurred from a distance of more than one meter away from the victim.
Conclusion:
• Death is due to severe internal bleeding resulted from wounds of three bullets.
• Perforations are caused by bullet entry and exit at the lower part of the left upper
arm, re-entered the chest from the side, and exited at the middle of the sternum.
• Perforations are caused by bullet entry at the top right waist area, exited at the
lower back area.
• Perforation are caused by bullet entry and exit in the right upper arm.
• Shooting has originated from one or several third party sources. Shooter(s), as
well as the victim might have been moving at the time of shooting.
• The bullets have damaged internal chest and abdomen organs and caused severe
bleeding ended in death.
Death is a result of the damages caused by bullets shots from a fire arm.
4.
The committee formed of three doctors (names mentioned above) was mandated to
prepare a comparative study of Hamza Al Khateebs’ cadaver photos taken at the Teshreen
Military Hospital in Damascus on April 30th 2011, to be compared with the same cadaver
photos taken at the National Hospital in Daraa on May 24th 2011, the Committee produced
a 2 pages report related to its mandate as follows:
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