In the Glussky district, a man bragged about a homemade weapon and was wounded in the head.

Photo by the State Forensic Examination Committee, February 27, Mogilev. In the Glussk district, a man bragged about a homemade weapon and was injured, according to Irina Rachkovskaya, official spokesperson for the State Forensic Examination Committee for the Mogilev Region, BelTA reported.

The 53-year-old resident of the Glussk district sustained a gunshot wound to the HEAD during a drinking session and survived. Investigators, along with forensic experts, were investigating the circumstances of the injury.

The incident occurred last September in a village in the Glussk district. A village woman, returning home from work in the evening, found her partner lying on the couch in the yard. The man had been a heavy drinker, and his partner assumed he was intoxicated.The man was simply sleeping due to ALCOHOL intoxication and did not worry. In the morning, she noticed wheezing and blood coming from her partner's head and called an ambulance.

He was taken to the hospital in serious condition. On the same day, a medical examination revealed an open penetrating head wound and a foreign body in the parietal region of the brain. For further medical care, the patient was transferred to a MINSK healthcare facility, where, during surgery, doctors removed a 2.5 g foreign metal object from his head.

Investigators, together with specialists from the State Forensic Expertise Committee, conducted an examination at the villager's place of residence and interviewed people with whom he had communicated the day before.

"A ballistic examination was conducted at the State Forensic Expertise Committee on the foreign object removed from his head. it was established that the foreign object was a bullet from a 5.6x16R small-caliber rimfire cartridge, designed for firing from rifled firearms. According to the expert's conclusions, the presented" The bullet was fired from a homemade firearm," said Irina Rachkovskaya.

Forensic medical examinations revealed that the man 's blind gunshot wound to the head could have been sustained as a result of a single gunshot within two days of his hospitalization and is classified as a serious bodily injury due to the life-threatening nature of the wound.

Investigators recreated the events of that day. The victim was twirling the pistol near his head, demonstrating it to his friend, when a shot was fired, causing the victim to fall onto the sofa. The friend, frightened, ran away. A short time later, his second friend arrived. He assumed the man was drunk and asleep, but noticed the homemade pistol lying on the ground, took it, hid it at home, and later broke it and threw it into an artificial reservoir. The victim's friend is now facing criminal charges for illegal actions involving firearms.

Law enforcement officers recovered the discarded device and sent it for ballistics testing. Forensic experts confirmed that the cylindrical metal object found in the pond was homemade and a short-barreled, hand-held, smoothbore firearm, suitable for firing shots. The bullet removed from the villager's head was determined to have been fired from this homemade weapon.