Posted on 09/01/2022 3:15:30 PM PDT by marktwain
On May 4, 2022, a corpse was discovered at about 7 a.m in Lake County, Florida. Ernie Wayne Wilburn was the man who had died. He had been shot with a .22 caliber air rifle.
Detectives identified the man as 44-year-old Ernie Wayne Wilburn.
Lake deputies say there were witnesses inside the home but they could not explain what happened to Wilburn.
Detectives deemed Wilburn’s death suspicious.
The police believed the death suspicious. An autopsy was done. The proximate cause of death was a puncture to the left lung through the rib cage.
When deputies arrived at the house to investigate, they found Wilburn dead on the living room floor, covered with a sheet and with furniture pillows piled on top of it. Deputies said it was clear the body had been moved because of the location of the blood-like stain on the floor.
Deputies also added that when they read the search warrant, Hill asked if it included a particular area of the property. Deputies said it did, and when they searched in that area, they found the Ruger .22 caliber air rifle.
Ernie Wayne Wilburn likely suffered from a collapsed lung, pneumothorax. This type of wound is often called a “sucking chest wound.” First aid for such wounds is taught in the military. Sucking chest wounds are a common bullet wound suffered in combat.
In sucking chest wounds, air enters the chest cavity, taking up space. The lung in the cavity collapses and has difficulty expanding against the air, which now occupies the space it would normally expand into. This makes it very difficult to breathe.
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Ruger markets .22 caliber air guns made by Umarex.
If this was in Arkansas, it would be ruled a suicide
“Ruger markets .22 caliber air guns made by Umarex.”
These are hard hitting pellet guns.
They aren’t enough for armadillos
Airgun control now! We gotsta save th’ chirren!
Florida man too stupid to keep himself out of prison.
I have a .22 and .177. Gamo and Benjamin. I wouldn’t want to take one in the chest from either of them.
“They aren’t enough for armadillos”
I believe you.
We don’t have armadillos in Indiana though.
It’s always about the cheerun
Hill told investigators that he shot Wilburn because the other man “annoyed” him, though he didn’t think the air rifle could kill a human. However, the owner of the home reportedly told detectives that he had previously spoken to Hill about not shooting the weapon inside again after Hill shot a pellet that tore through several wall panels, meaning he allegedly knew the weapon’s power.
If I guess which rifle it is, a Chinese copy of the classic Diana RWS 34 break barrel rifle. Not a super high power gun, but far above a BB rifle.
My Diana 48 is far more powerful, punching through 1/2” pine without problem.
Air rifles are way beyond toys or just skin stinging level.
G Gordon Liddy spoke of doping hollow point pellets with nicotine (how do you do that?) for a lethal weapon after he lost his right to own powder burners.
I’ve got a 48 also, great trigger, excellent accuracy and as you said, hard hitting.
They’re coming. I seem to see them further north on the highways every year. They’re fully in TN and a little bit of KY.
We travel between GA and KY frequently.
I figured they are on their way here. We even have an occasional sighting of a black bear in Indiana.
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