Bullet went straight through murder victim's head, trial hears
Breaking News.ie Friday 18th March, 2011
The Deputy State Pathologist has told a murder trial that the bullet used to shoot a young carpenter in Limerick in 2009, traveled straight through his head piercing his brain and fracturing his skull.Dr Khalid Jabbar said 25-year-old Daniel Fitzgerald also sustained a through and through gunshot wound to his thigh, which damaged the main arteries, causing significant blood loss.Dr Jabbar told the jury the injury would have "hampered his ability to survive" the gunshot wound to the head.Mr Fitzgerald was shot dead outside his uncle's home at Ballysimon in Limerick on December 8, 2009.He had spent the day working with his uncle in the city and returned home with him to have dinner with his aunt and cousins. As he was leaving at around 9.30pm, a car pulled into the property.Mr Fitzgerald's u...
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