Saturday, April 3, 2010


This unfortunate gentleman was stopped at a checkpoint by ANA soliders. They wanted him to give one of the soliders a ride and the guy refused, so they shot him. He came in in bad shape. They put a chest tube in which drained at least 400cc of blood immediately (as you can see he has a hemothorax on chest xray) and he died of hemorrhage within an hour of arriving. They poured tons of fluid and blood into him, but his low blood pressure eventually went away. They do not have a cardiothoracic surgeon, so not a lot they can do. I was not there for this event, but I heard the story as we rounded on his grandson, who was in the back seat. The bullet went through his grandfather and hit the young boy in the shoulder. Fortunately it was just a flesh wound, but a sad story.

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