The Call

           

             This is the case of a 29-year-old white female who was the alleged victim of an accidental shooting in her home on August 16, 1999. Three minutes after a 911 received a call, officer Ron Lehman was pulled away from his regular routine and was sent to a normally quiet neighborhood to investigate a report of an accidental shooting. When he arrived at the house there was a man, about 30 years old, wearing a green shirt. He was standing on the front lawn of the house smoking a cigar and talking on the phone. As Lehman opened the car and stood up, using the cruiser as a shield, the man ended the phone call and walked quickly toward him. Lehman's right hand instinctively dropped to his hip, ready to draw his 9 mm just in case there was need to but he realized that the man was unarmed. The man then told the officer what had happen and they both walked to the bedroom where the murder had took place. At the scene the officer seen the man wife. She was lying on her stomach on the floor, naked from the waist down. Her head was turned away from him and she seem as if she was looking for something under the bed. but this didn't really matter much anymore since a the young woman was now dead, Near her right hand was a 45-caliber Smith & Wesson automatic pistol. On the nightstand next to the bed was a loaded magazine and several bullets. The crime scene investigators came and searched everything but didn't find anything it was then when the police then started to investigate and talked to family member and they went through all the process. After the autopsy was done to the woman the forensic then  found out on the lateral aspect of the right side of the head is a circular wound measuring 11 millimeters across.... The use of firearms was analyzed and evaluated because when the forensic did the autopsy on the woman he saw that there was powder burns indicating that the shot was fired from about 18 inches away from her head and the bullet traveled in an almost horizontal path through her brain, instead of what her husband had told the police. This is how the court found out that it was a homicide and that her husband had killed her.