Gunshot

Gunshot  (death cause)
A common death cause, especially in the US

A gunshot can be used to frame a murder of journalists, investigators and whistleblowers as suicide or robbery.

Selected Examples

People who probably have been murdered and have their death been framed as suicide afterwards are:

• Mark Minnie, who was shot dead nine days after publishing a book about a 1980s VIPaedophile network involving members of the South African government. It was ruled a suicide, but he told people close to him that if anything like this happened, to treat it as murder.
• The death of Vince Foster is a well known suicide that is widely believed to have been murder.
• Steve Kangas was a spook turned whistleblower who was one of the first political campaigners on the internet.

COVID-19

In July 2020, CBS12 reported that a victim of a gunshot to the head in Florida was counted as a COVID-19 death.

Multiple gunshot suicide

A shot in the head or heart is commonly understood to be immediately fatal. But one should also consider that aiming in such a situation may not be very accurate and people who are shooting themselves, may survive one or more bullets; a suicide with 4 gunshots to the head has been reported. So if somebody died by two gunshots (or more) to the head, it still is possible that it was a suicide; more information is needed to assess the situation.

 

Gunshot victims on Wikispooks

Title	Death date	Location of Death	Description
Shinzō Abe	8 July 2022		Japanese deep state actor and PM who aggressively re-militarised the country
Hafizullah Amin	27 December 1979	Afghanistan Kabul Tajbeg Palace	Assassinated as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council (Afghanistan) in 1979
Anis Amri	23 December 2016	Italy Sesto San Giovanni	Supposed perpetrator of the 2016 Berlin attack, termed "Not independently notable" by Wikipedia.
Galip Balkar	11 March 1983	Yugoslavia Belgrade	Assassinated by Armenians while Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Louis Barthou	9 October 1934	France Marseilles
J. Clifford Baxter	25 January 2002		Enron Corporation executive who resigned in May 2001 before allegedly "committing suicide" the following year. Prior to his death he had agreed to testify before Congress in the Enron scandal.
Eddy Benavides	1965	US Dallas	Shot in the back of the head in a club in Dallas in 1965, possibly due to mistaken identity
David Blundy	17 November 1989		British journalist killed in El Salvador shortly after having written a piece on Contadora island
Charles-Victor Bracht	7 March 1978
Jean de Broglie	24 December 1976		The investigation into his 1976 assassination was soon classified as a military secret.
Manuel Buendía	30 May 1984	Mexico Mexico City
Mārtiņš Bunkus	30 May 2018	Latvia Riga	Assassinated lawyer who had worked on suspect financial institutions in Riga
Roland Carnaby	29 April 2008		A senior spook who was shot by a Houston police officer following a high speed motor car chase and died of his wounds.
Paul Castellano	16 December 1985		"The Howard Hughes of the Mob"
Sal Cincinelli	17 July 2019	Texas Austin
Kurt Cobain	5 April 1994		Highly influential frontman of the rock band Nirvana
Sam Cooke	11 December 1964	Los Angeles California	Singer and Civil Rights activist. He was good friends with boxer Muhammad Ali and activist Malcolm X. Shot dead in Los Angeles motel, possibly as part of COINTELPRO.
William Cooper	5 November 2001	United States Arizona Eagar	Announced around 10 weeks before 9/11 that "Whatever they're going to blame on Usama bin Laden - don't you believe it...They will soon do something outlandish to gain the support of the Sheeple".<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> He was killed by the US Marshals Service less than two months after the event.
Anastasio Somoza Debayle	17 September 1980	Paraguay Asunción	Third generation "our son of a bitch"
Silme Domingo	1 June 1981		Assassinated labor activist, probably killed on orders of Ferdinand Marcos
Denis Donaldson	4 April 2006	County Donegal	Sinn Féin member exposed in December 2005 as an MI5 employee. Assassinated in 2006.
Waldo Dubberstein	May 1983		US spook shot in the head after becoming entangled in Edwin Wilson
Klaus Eberwein	12 July 2017	US Florida Miami	A Haitian government official and businessman who was found dead with gunshot in head, a week before he was due to testify before the Haitian Senate’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.
Kathy Ferguson	10 May 1993		Co-defendant in the Paula Jones law suit against Bill Clinton. Died violently.
Daniel Forestier	March 2019	France Ballaison	A DGSE agent who was assassinated in 2019
Francisco Ortiz Franco	22 June 2004	Mexico Tijuana Baja California	Mexican journalist assassinated within months of starting to write about drug trafficking.
Helric Fredou	8 January 2015		A French policeman who reportedly shot himself just after the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Anastasio Somoza García	29 September 1956		With the help of the US Marine Corps started a family dictatorship that maintained absolute control over Nicaragua for 42 years.
Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado	2 November 1995	Colombia Bogotá	Spooky Colombian diplomat who attended Le Cercle. Assassinated in 1995
François de Grossouvre	7 April 1994	Paris	The spook in charge of Operation Gladio in France.
Walter Guinness	6 November 1944		Lord Moyne. An Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. Was Minister of State in UN Mandate Palestine in 1944 when he was assassinated by members of Lehi
Philip Haney	21 February 2020	California Plymouth	A DOHS whistleblower who suddenly died in February 2020
Frank Hegarty	May 1986		IRA member recruited as British informer. Executed in 1986 with direct involvement of Martin McGuinness.
Ernest Hemingway	2 July 1961	United States Idaho Ketchum	American author hounded by the FBI
Bill Hunter	23 April 1964	United States California Long Beach	A reported who investigated the JFK assassination. Shot dead by a policeman, reportedly accidentally.
JFK	22 November 1963	United States Dallas Texas	The last US president to effectively seek to promote the welfare of the US population.
Kenneth Johannemann	31 August 2008		A janitor at the World Trade Centre who saw explosions and rescued someone from the base of the buliding who had been burned by one.
George F. Baker Jr	11 December 1977		A "prominent socialite" shot dead in 1977. 1001 Club. His son was presumed dead after flying a small plane.
Steve Kangas	8 February 1999	US Pittsburgh	A spook turned whistleblower who was one of the first political campaigners on the internet. Probably murdered by the US Deep state.
Denis Kirejew	5 March 2022	Kiev	Ukrainian negotiator in early peace talks, shot for allegedly having shown pro-Russian tendencies.
David Koresh			A cult leader shot dead in the Waco siege.
Andrei Kozlov	14 September 2006		On the Friday before he was assassinated, stated at a banking conference that "Those who have been found out laundering criminal money should probably be barred from staying in the banking profession for life. Such people disgrace the banking system."
Victor Kravchenko	25 February 1966	New York US Manhattan
Ivar Kreuger	1932	France Paris	Swedish match tycoon who was shot dead in a Paris hotel in 1932
Walter Krivitsky	10 February 1941	US Washington DC	A spook and defector
Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz	26 June 2008		Operation 40 pilot
Maxim Lazovsky	28 April 2000		Named as suspect in the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. Shot by unknown assassins.
Thomas H. Lee	23 February 2023	New York United States Manhattan	US businessman friend of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Gunshot to the head.
Bing Liu	May 2020	US Pennsylvania Pittsburgh	An assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was found dead in his home in an apparent murder-suicide
Anton Lubowski	12 September 1989	Namibia Windhoek	Namibian anti-apartheid activist assassinated by South Africa's Civil Cooperation Bureau
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