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Who Killed Him!!! by chatwithjide(m): 1:23pm On Jun 03, 2016 |
"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.
Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story building
intending to commit suicide. He left a note to the 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 deceased was aware that a safety
net had been installed just below 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, but
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.
In the room on the ninth floor, 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 and both said that they thought the
shotgun was unloaded.
The old man said it was a 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, if 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 son's financial
support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use
the shotgun , loaded the gun with the expectation that his father
would shoot his mother.
Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of
the murder even though he didn't actually pull the trigger.
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. |
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