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       Here is an interesting story:

       On  March  23,  1994,  the  medical examiner viewed the body of
       Ronald  Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to
       the  head.  The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten story
       building  intending  to  commit suicide. He left a note to that
       effect  indicating  his  despondency. As he fell Past the ninth
       floor,  his  life  was  interrupted  by a shotgun blast passing
       through  a  window,  which  killed  him  instantly. Neither the
       shooter  nor  the decedent was aware that a safety net had been
       installed  just below at the eighth floor level to protect some
       building  workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able
       to complete his suicide the way he had planned. Ordinarily, Dr.
       Mills  continued,  a  person who sets out to commit suicide and
       ultimately  succeeds,  even  though  the mechanism might not be
       what  he  intended is still defined as committing suicide. That
       Mr.  Opus  was  shot  on  the way to certain death nine stories
       below  at  street  level, but that his suicide attempt probably
       would  not  have  been  successful  because  of the safety net,
       caused  the  medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on
       his hands.

       The  room  on  the  ninth  floor  from  where the shotgun blast
       emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were
       arguing  vigorously, and he was threatening her with a shotgun.
       The  man  was  so  upset  that  when  he  pulled the trigger he
       completely  missed  his  wife  and the pellets went through the
       window,  striking Mr. Opus. When one intends to kill subject A,
       but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder
       of  subject  B. When confronted with the murder charge, the old
       man and his wife were both adamant. They both said they thought
       the  shotgun  was  unloaded.  The  old  man  said  it  was  his
       long-standing  habit  to  threaten  his  wife with the unloaded
       shotgun.  He  had  no  intention  to murder her. Therefore, the
       killing of Mr.Opus appeared to be an accident, that is, the gun
       had been accidentally loaded.

       The  continuing  investigation  turned up a witness who saw the
       old  couple's  son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to
       the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off
       her  sons financial support and the son, knowing the propensity
       of  his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun
       with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother.

       The  case  now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for
       the  death  of  Ronald  Opus.  Now  comes  the exquisite twist.
       Further  investigation revealed that the son was in fact Ronald
       Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of
       his  attempt  to  engineer his mother s murder. This led him to
       jump  off  the  ten  story  building  on March 23rd, only to be
       killed  by  a  shotgun  blast  passing  through the ninth story
       window.          The          son          had         actually
       murdered  himself, so the medical examiner closed the case as a
       suicide.Very                                               tidy
       of him. A true story from Associated Press, by Kurt Westervelt.



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