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Updated: 9:03 PM CDT May 24, 2021
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. A self-inflicted gunshot wound leaves behind several key indicators.
An imprint of the muzzle of the gun if it’s held directly against the skin.
Held slightly further away, soot from the muzzle flash of a gun will land on the skin.
Held slightly further than that and stippling, or the deposition of gunpowder to the skin where the powder abrades or scrapes the surface of the skin, leaves little punctures or red marks.
Derontae Martin had none of those things.
But the Madison County Sheriff’s Department announced the results of a preliminary investigation on its Facebook page four days after his death stating the 19-year-old died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a Fredericktown home April 25.