[Wings-n-Wind]

Arkancide.....

Gotta be.....hmmmm

[FormerACLUmember]

Shot twice? Who discovered the body... Hillary Clinton's Park Police from Ft. Marcy?

[Sender]

That second shot is the hard one.

[Montfort]

It is the second shot that makes one wonder, isn't it?

But that Medical Examiner in Arkansas would have no problem ruling twelve shotgun blasts in the back as suicide. Perhaps there are similar medical examiners in Ukraine.

I think it would be safer to assume that suicides of people about to testify about embarrasing intelligence matters are murders, and then let the evidence rebut the presumption, if possible.

[Semper Paratus]

He must have been really pissed about something.

[dead]

Guns are real evil.

This one obviously liked its first taste of human blood and went back for more after its owner was dead. I'm surprised it didn't take out a few cops or EMTS before being subdued.

[Roses0508]

He shot himself TWICE in the head!?!?!?

Is there some reflex of the brain stem that insures you pull the trigger the second time?

[DTA]

>>>>Kravchenko was found dead with two gunshot wounds to the head<<<<

ping

[DainBramage]

The first one was practice. It usually indicates a high degree of intent ot kill oneself.

The only indication more serious is when one shoots one's self, sets one's body on fire,

and drives one's car off a very steep cliff with a brick on the gas pedal.

[expatpat]

Sounds like the Ukraine is more corrupt even than Pinellas County, Florida.

[Brilliant]

Killed himself??? Hmmm... I don't see why shooting yourself in the head twice would be fatal.

[Willie Green]

They say in the note he described himself as "a victim of the intrigues of Kuchma and his entourage".

Woke up this morning, my head was so bad
The worst hangover that I ever had
What happened to me last night
That girl of mine, she loved me so right oh, oh
She loved me so long and she loved me so hard
I finally passed out in her front yard
It wasn`t wine that I had too much of
It was a double shot of my baby`s love

Double shot of my baby`s love, yeah, yeah, yeah
Double shot of my baby`s love, yeah, yeah, yeah
A potion that I had too much of
It was a double shot of my baby`s love

It was such a thrill it was hurting me
I was sufferin` in ecstasy
She had me turnin` flips and-a shoutin` out loud
A sip of her love and I was walkin` on a cloud
One night a week is-a plenty enough
It`s a good thing for me they don`t bottle that stuff
Well, my heart begins to fly like a dove
When I take a double shot of my baby`s love

Double shot of my baby`s love, yeah, yeah, yeah

[yellowhammer]

Maybe his aim was off a little with the first shot. The first shot could have just inflicted a superficial wound which required him to follow up with a second shot with better aim.

[Drew68]

In all seriousness, multiple gunshot suicides while rare are not unheard of in the annals of forensic pathology.

[tang-soo]

Kravchenko left a suicide note blaming former President Leonid Kuchma for Gongadze's death, Ukraine's investigators say.

Was the suicide torn into 23 peices?

Was the suicide note found in an otherwise empty briefcase a day after the case was inspected by an investigator and at that time found to be empty?

Did the suicide note not have any fingerpints on it?

Was the suicide written by hand in a manner that would lead a worldwide recognized expert testify that "not only was it a forgery, but a bad one at that"?

Was the scraps of the note missing a piece that when reconstructed would be where a signature would normally be found? ie more difficulty to forge.

Did the supposed author of the note somehow manage to pull the trigger a second time after shooting himself in the head?

Did the supposed author of the note have a coworker and supposed friend show up the night of the death to his home and visit his wife? And at the same time present the gun used which was later proven to be a lie?

I could go on with twice this much, but if you've hung around here for a while, you get the point.

[reagan_fanatic]

Should've jumped from the roof of a 10 story building. That pretty much eliminates the possibility of having to do it over.

[b4its2late]

Shot himself twice huh? That's got to be some kind of record outside of Arkansas.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"Ukraine minister 'killed himself' (shot himself in the head twice)"

Well, Meriweather Lewis (of Lewis and Clark fame) committed sucide down on the Natchez Trace by shooting himself in the head twice. He did so with just one muzzleloading flintlock pistol, and he had to reload to get the job done right on the second try.

[Fresh Wind]

Did he take the time to wipe the fingerprints off the gun after the second shot? After the standard of tidiness established by Vince Foster, one would expect no less.

[WilliamWallace1999]