‘An Unusual Case Of Dyadic Death’- A Case Report
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https://doi.org/10.48165/iijfmt.2024.2.2.3Keywords:
Dyadic death, Head injury, Firearm injury, Perforation PeritonitisAbstract
A dyadic death is a rare but tragic form of Premeditated violence that involves the death of two people at the same time (homicide followed by a suicide), or suicide pact, where a person kills another person and then commits suicide. Dyadic deaths make up a small proportion of homicide overall, commonly in low socio-economic, less educated or illiterate families. This is a case report on one such incident where the perpetrator killed the victim with whom he had a long-standing property dispute and also his own mother who tried to stop him from doing the act, following which he killed himself by shooting himself with a .315 pistol.
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