Virginia officials say a woman shot her self in the face while handcuffed during a traffic stop

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Business Insider

Virginia officials say a woman shot her self in the face while handcuffed during a traffic stop
Kelly McLaughlin, Insider March 18, 2019

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Officials in Virginia say a 19-year-old woman died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the face while her hands were cuffed behind her back.

Sarah Wilson was handcuffed during a traffic stop in Chesapeake, Virginia, on July 25, 2018, when she took a gun out of her boyfriend’s car, “contorted” her body, and shot her self, Chesapeake Police Spokesman Leo Kosinski told WAVY in August 2018.

On Friday, after an official investigation into the incident, Virginia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to WAVY that Wilson committed suicide and died from an “intra-oral gunshot wound.”

At the time of Wilson’s death, Kosinski said that one officer involved in the traffic stop was wearing a body camera but it had been knocked offline.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.my/sarah-wilson-committed-suicide-handcuffed-chesapeake-police-2019-3/

[Laffy Kat]

1. Right.

[uriel1972]

2. Somehow there are still doubts in my mind... nt

[DFW]

3. The usual reaction in Chesapeake, VA when cuffed for a traffic violation?

I'd say officer Kosinski deserves at the very least a charge of accessory after the fact, and the arresting officer needs a manslaughter charge unless he can demonstrate the contortion necessary to perform what he claims he saw. Too bad his cam "malfunctioned" at the wrong time, since it sounds like a performance that could have won America's Got Talent.

[tblue37]

4. Not the first time such an unlikely scenario has been claimed. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Suicide by Cirque du Soleil?

Hands cuffed behind, I'm trying to imagine the contortions to shoot yourself in the face. "Too bad" that the body camera "got knocked" offline, uh-huh.

[CTAtheist]

6. This was after she stabbed herself in the back 9 times....

... right?

o.O

Obvious case of cop murdering a suspect.

[Javaman]

7. this is right up there with a "two shot suicide".

they are trying to sell us a bridge.

[DonViejo]

8. Locking...

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