A 71-year-old Florida man tied a gun to a weather balloon to fake his own m****r.
A Florida man’s elaborate plot was to make his suicide appear like a m****r.
Police said the 71-year old man attached a gun by string to weather balloon so it would float away from him and look as if someone shot him.
Investigators concluded that he committed suicide after they found evidence of blood on Abrahamson’s hands which suggested he pulled the trigger himself, police said.
They also determined that because there were no signs of struggle or foul play at the scene and an autopsy showed only one entrance wound in his right hand, indicating he fired off shots while seated upright with both arms extended in front of him–a position consistent with self-inflicted gunshot wounds–they ruled out homicide.
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