Yes she did have a bullet wound to her heart requiring surgery repair the damage. There was a British General who was hit in the heart during the Boer War. When he passed away many years later the bullet was still in his heart. A heart shot will be fatal most of the time but not instantly fatal. The only shot that will be instantly fatal is a hit to the medulla oblongata that shorts out the computer running the body.MechAg94 wrote:I noticed you didn't say that lady got shot THROUGH the heart. Where was the actual wound? A bullet passing through the heart is normally fatal I would think.CHL/LEO wrote:Not true - there are many, many documented cases where individuals have been shot in the heart and not died until they bled out. In fact, a female LAPD officer was shot point blank in the heart with a .357 magnum during a home invasion and struggled with her attackers until she fought them off. She survived to tell about it.The human body has only a few areas where an injury causes sudden death: the heart...
In the Dallas area a LEO struggled with a suspect and during the fight the officer shot the suspect in the heart. Before the suspect bled out from his injuries he continued to fight with the officer, take his weapon away and kill him. We were (and still are) taught that the only instantly incapacitating shot is to the cerebellum, a part of the brain that controls voluntary movement that lies at the base of the skull. During sniper training we would fire at targets that had a dot placed directly below the nose and right above the top lip to indicate where we needed to aim to hit that area.
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- Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:34 am
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- Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:21 am
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Re: Man shot 32 times before dying
If it was a .38 loaded with 158 gr RNL ammo the bullets tend to pass through if they don't hit bone. There are documented cases of people surviving multiple gunshot wounds. I met a gentleman years ago who was a WWII veteran of the Pacific who had been hit in the torso multiple times by Japaneese machine gun fire and survived.
You have to make hits to the central nervous system, (medulla) spine, or supporting structures (pelvis, legs, ankle) to effect a quick stop.
You have to make hits to the central nervous system, (medulla) spine, or supporting structures (pelvis, legs, ankle) to effect a quick stop.