How an Exit Wound Can Exist Without the Bullet Ever Leaving the Body

[00:00] Hello and welcome back to Trigger Smart.

[00:02] Today I'm going to cover something a

[00:03] little bit different than I usually do.

[00:05] We are actually going to be looking at

[00:07] Chad GBT and what it thinks about this

[00:10] whole Charlie Crick situation based on

[00:12] the newest evidence that's come out. And

[00:14] in the process, I found something very

[00:16] interesting. So, first we'll start off

[00:18] with this. This was an expost and it

[00:21] made me search a little bit deeper. So,

[00:23] basically, there was a 1998 film called

[00:25] Snake Eyes by Nicholas Cage. And in

[00:28] Snake Eyes, there's Rick Santoro played

[00:31] by Nicholas Cage. He's a police

[00:33] detective. He has a high-profile case.

[00:37] There's the US Secretary of Defense. His

[00:39] name is Charles Kirkland. In other

[00:42] words, Charlie

[00:44] Kirk. Now, this was 1998.

[00:48] There's an assassination.

[00:50] Kirkland, Charlie Kirk, is shot and

[00:52] killed. And then a mysterious woman,

[00:55] bunch of stuff pursues. gets to the

[00:58] point where there's multiple stories.

[01:00] So, the story told from the point of

[01:02] view refuse uh reveals inconsistencies

[01:04] and secrets. The alleged shooter was a

[01:06] decoy and there's a second shooter

[01:08] involved. Sound familiar? And you'll see

[01:11] here it talks through the plot and

[01:13] everything else as expected. But the

[01:15] interesting part that it doesn't tell

[01:16] you in these plot points, I had to

[01:18] specifically

[01:20] uh prompt it to do this, but there's a

[01:23] character named Tyler. He's a minor

[01:26] character. minor character they say, but

[01:28] he's the hired assassin in the plot.

[01:32] So, there's a person named Tyler

[01:35] and Tyler kills Charles Kirk.

[01:39] Charlie Kirk was killed by Tyler

[01:40] Robinson.

[01:42] So, in this movie, Tyler shoots the

[01:44] Secretary of Defense Kirkland and kills

[01:47] him.

[01:48] And the shot was made to look like a

[01:50] lone gunman was responsible, but it was

[01:53] actually multiple shooters. they think

[01:55] as they're investigating.

[01:58] So, this was very interesting to me that

[02:01] this seems very

[02:03] close to events that have recently

[02:06] unfolded. So, I just wanted to point

[02:08] that out really quick. Now, that's one

[02:10] chat GBT analysis. So, now the real

[02:12] analysis and the main reason why I want

[02:14] to do this video is I took the clues

[02:17] that people are talking about. So, no

[02:19] apparent entry wound. The head snaps

[02:21] forward and then backwards. He falls to

[02:23] the left slowly. Uh Charlie Kirk ceized

[02:25] when he was shot. Apparent possible exit

[02:28] wound from the left juggler. When he hit

[02:31] the back of his shirt, it moved away.

[02:33] You saw that video from yesterday where

[02:34] the shirt goes back, but there's no

[02:37] bullet hole. There's no blood. At the

[02:40] same time, the front of the shirt went

[02:41] up by the collar and went up to the

[02:43] general neck area by the neck wound. And

[02:46] then, of course, the FBI says he was

[02:48] shot from the front. And then his right

[02:51] earpiece flew off when he was hit. even

[02:54] though the exit wound was on the jugular

[02:55] left. So, I know the video that went

[02:58] viral that has like five or six million

[03:00] views now said that there was a blood

[03:02] splatter, but then the video from

[03:05] Valhalla uh yesterday, he showed another

[03:08] video that was showing that it was the

[03:10] clear earpiece and there's no actual

[03:11] blood splatter. So, I put this on the

[03:14] chat GPT and I asked it, does this make

[03:15] sense? So, it says here's a forensic

[03:17] style reading of those clues. So no

[03:21] apparent entry wound. Two common

[03:23] situations. An atypical entry like the

[03:26] mouth behind the ear under the hairline

[03:31] under an accessory or hidden by blood.

[03:32] So in this case it could have been

[03:34] behind the ear under hairline from the

[03:37] shooting from the the rear right and

[03:39] exiting lower left which is uh seems to

[03:42] be the most plausible at this this point

[03:44] in time. And then a grazing shot.

[03:47] Clearly, it wasn't a graze based on his

[03:49] neck. And then the head snapping

[03:52] forward, then back, and he falls. The

[03:54] whip is not a reliable uh indicator for

[03:57] direction of fire. Um they're saying

[03:59] neuromuscular response could have made

[04:01] him move or jerk his shoulders in

[04:03] different ways u regardless of where the

[04:06] shot came from. And then balance of

[04:09] momentum once the nervous system is

[04:10] disrupted. So in other words, he got

[04:12] hit, nervous system got shocked, and he

[04:15] could move or pitch whatever way uh

[04:17] irregardless of which way he got shot

[04:19] from. The fact that he seized when shot

[04:23] immediate seizing posturing strongly

[04:25] implies central nervous system or high

[04:26] cervical disruption, meaning he got hit

[04:29] in the brain or the spine or uh maybe

[04:32] the blast wave they call the uh

[04:34] cavitation wound maybe destroyed that

[04:37] area. Um exit at the jugular. It says

[04:40] that it points to a path ending near the

[04:42] left jugular bundle. So it means coming

[04:44] out of the neck on this side crossing

[04:46] from the right side moving out through

[04:48] the left side.

[04:50] The back of the left shirt puffing away

[04:52] in one spot but no hole. The puff is

[04:55] classic temporary cavitation or pressure

[04:56] venting. Air flow through clothing gaps.

[04:59] Not a bullet pass through the fabric.

[05:01] The temporary cavity in the neck chest

[05:03] can shove air and cloth locally even

[05:06] without fabric perforation. In other

[05:08] words, they're saying the shirt can

[05:09] move. The bullet comes from the back,

[05:11] comes out the neck, and when that

[05:14] happens, there's air and things that

[05:15] move around from inside the body along

[05:17] with the blood and other stuff that can

[05:19] cause weird anomalies with that. We'll

[05:21] get more into that here in a second. The

[05:23] front collar jumps up, consistent with

[05:25] exit, blast, and pressure wave. Left

[05:27] neck, uh, left neck exit makes sense.

[05:30] Gas, blood, and tissue. This inside the

[05:32] body. FBI says shot was from the front.

[05:35] From the front. This is what it said the

[05:37] first time I searched. from the front

[05:39] still fits if the entry is on the front

[05:41] right quadrant cheek, jawline, front of

[05:45] neck, mouth or ear area, all in front of

[05:49] a shooter. So they're saying you can get

[05:51] shot, this is chat GBT saying this, you

[05:53] can get shot from the front in your

[05:56] right side of your face or your neck and

[05:58] it will exit out of the left jugular.

[06:02] Okay, they actually give an interesting

[06:03] reason why that's possible, but we'll

[06:06] get more into that. right earpiece flies

[06:08] off. The entry miss was close enough to

[06:11] the right ear that the bullet actually,

[06:12] you know, the pressure of it snagged the

[06:14] cord or something. The other is

[06:16] shockwave jerk. So from him seizing that

[06:18] could have put pressure on it cuz it is,

[06:20] you know, hooked somewhere. That could

[06:22] have put enough pressure on it that it

[06:23] popped off. That's that's what it's

[06:24] saying. That's the two options. So

[06:27] understand the most consistent scenario

[06:29] is being shot in the right near the

[06:32] right side of the face mouth area and

[06:34] then it tracks left across the upper

[06:36] neck and exits the left jugular region.

[06:40] So chat GPT is saying that it's going in

[06:44] his face or in his you know the from the

[06:47] neck up somewhere in the right side of

[06:49] his face and exiting on the left side.

[06:52] Seems a little strange to me. um entry

[06:55] location. Again, they said, you know, it

[06:56] could have been uh these wounds, these

[06:58] type of wounds, you'll see here in a

[07:00] minute. They don't necessarily have

[07:02] blood come out of them. And and we'll

[07:03] talk more about that here in a second.

[07:05] Um so, seeing everything matches, right?

[07:08] FBI from the front shot. Still true if

[07:10] the shooter was the right front of the

[07:12] victim. From the front doesn't mean dead

[07:14] center. A front oblique shot on the

[07:16] victim's right gives you a neat right to

[07:18] left path. So they're saying it can come

[07:20] in here and exit here when shot from the

[07:23] front. Obviously that's that's BS um for

[07:26] most cases, right?

[07:28] So al it says alternative explanations

[07:31] are weaker here. I didn't ask it about

[07:33] alternative uh explanations. It says

[07:36] back to front shot doesn't explain the

[07:39] left neck exit and right ear

[07:41] displacement nearly as cleanly and it

[07:44] doesn't square with the front collar

[07:45] lift as well. So, it's saying a back to

[07:47] front shot does not explain it coming

[07:50] out of the neck and then the right

[07:52] earpiece displacement.

[07:54] That seems like it perfectly explains

[07:56] that a pure ricochet or armor in

[07:58] reflection story would give you distinct

[08:00] fabric damage and that kind of stuff.

[08:01] Yeah. So, we didn't see any like torn

[08:03] shirt or hole in the shirt or anything.

[08:04] Um, obviously it's fuzzy video, but

[08:06] that's the best we can do. And then

[08:08] direction from head snap is unreliable.

[08:10] Um, I I would agree with that. I've seen

[08:12] some some situations where animals get

[08:15] hit and the way they move makes no sense

[08:17] for the direction that they got hit

[08:18] from. All right. So, up to this point,

[08:21] Chad GBT is agreeing with the FBI.

[08:24] They're saying it's from the front.

[08:25] Somehow it's going in the the right side

[08:27] of the face or the neck and exiting the

[08:29] the opposite direction that the bullet

[08:31] came and then they're saying that it's

[08:33] not really plausible that it came from

[08:34] behind. That's the first time I

[08:36] searched. So, next I had to create a

[08:38] diagram and this is what it drew. So the

[08:41] entry somewhere in the face and the exit

[08:44] somewhere out of the back makes no sense

[08:46] whatsoever, right? So I said that path

[08:50] doesn't match the exit wound being his

[08:52] left jugular. How could a shot from the

[08:54] front cause him an exit wound on the

[08:57] front of him?

[08:59] Not across him straight in. Right. It

[09:02] says you're right. The path can be front

[09:04] front. If the round comes from the front

[09:06] right and stays in the anterior neck

[09:09] plane, think of as crossing the neck

[09:11] right to left and then just beneath the

[09:14] jawline, right? So through here through

[09:16] soft tissue in the mandible, cervical

[09:18] spine and then exit the left jugular

[09:20] area. No need for it to pass through the

[09:22] back at all. And it shows a you know a

[09:24] sketch, right? Saying the same crazy

[09:27] story. And it says why it fits. No

[09:30] obvious entry. uh left check of the exit

[09:33] collar pop shirt puffs right earpiece

[09:35] off. So it asked if if if it wants me to

[09:39] generate another diagram. I say yes

[09:40] please. But I said are you referring to

[09:42] the directions based on his point of

[09:44] view or my point of view right like the

[09:45] person looking at him or or his? And he

[09:48] says good question. So it says it's from

[09:50] his point of view. All right. So when I

[09:52] say front right entry front left regular

[09:53] it means the bullet enters the right

[09:55] side of the face or neck from the front

[09:57] quadrant. It travels right to left

[10:01] across his neck and it exits through the

[10:03] front of his neck. This is chat GBT

[10:05] saying this. So, um, it says, "If that

[10:09] matches your understanding, I'll

[10:10] generate." So, that's doesn't match my

[10:14] understanding, right? That sounds like

[10:15] some total BS to me. So, I said I called

[10:18] it out. I said, "If a bullet enters the

[10:20] front of his face, how does it come out

[10:23] of the front of his neck? I would expect

[10:25] a shot entering the right side of the

[10:27] face from the front to exit the back of

[10:30] his head or at least the rear of his

[10:31] body. They said, "That's a really sharp

[10:34] question and you're absolutely right to

[10:35] pause there because this is one of the

[10:37] most misunderstood parts of bullet path

[10:39] analysis. The short version is bullets

[10:42] don't always travel straight in a laser

[10:44] line. Their exact exit point depends on

[10:47] three key things. Um, let's see. It

[10:50] depends on three key things that can

[10:51] make a frontal entry still exit in the

[10:54] front or side of the neck. So, this is

[10:56] where it got really interesting to me

[10:57] because I'm sitting here thinking to

[10:58] myself like obviously this is some BS.

[11:00] Chat GBT is full of crap. You can't get

[11:02] shot in the front and have it exit the

[11:03] front in the opposite direction, right?

[11:06] So, interestingly, it had some pretty

[11:08] good rebuttals. So, let's check out

[11:10] those. The angle of impact, shallow

[11:12] versus perpendicular. If a bullet hits

[11:14] the face at a shallow glancing angle,

[11:16] which it didn't, it can skim under the

[11:18] skin, turn through the soft tissue, and

[11:20] drill straight through the bone. Think

[11:22] of it as skipping a rock. If the shot is

[11:24] low and to the right near the jaw, the

[11:27] bullet can miss the skull entirely and

[11:30] instead track around the curvature of

[11:31] the jaw. So, they're saying it's going

[11:33] in and curving somehow and through the

[11:35] soft tissues of the neck. Okay? In that

[11:38] case, it might enter below the cheek or

[11:40] mandible, travel under the jawline,

[11:42] across the front of the neck and exit

[11:43] the jugular. Okay, so in that case, no

[11:46] skull penetration.

[11:47] Second way, deflection by bone ricochet.

[11:50] I This has happened. This does happen.

[11:52] Bullets routinely deflect inside the

[11:54] body when they hit dense tissue like

[11:56] bone. If a round enters a face at an

[11:58] angle, it may ricochet downwards or

[12:00] sideways. Once redirected, it follows a

[12:02] path of least resistance and soft tissue

[12:04] is that path. It's actually very common

[12:06] in forensic cases entry in the face but

[12:08] exit lower to the side of the neck

[12:10] because a bullet rode the bone. So it's

[12:13] it's hitting the bone and then basically

[12:14] curving around and doing unexpected

[12:16] things, right? We've heard of bullets

[12:18] tumbling and uh that kind of thing. So

[12:21] number three, atypical but possible

[12:23] tunneling. Sometimes a round with

[12:26] slightly reduced velocity, say like a 22

[12:28] for example, after passing through cloth

[12:31] or other objects, it doesn't penetrate

[12:32] deeply. Instead, it can travel in the

[12:33] subcutaneous layer between the skin and

[12:35] the muscle and curve around the body

[12:37] contour. So, in other words, they're

[12:39] saying it could enter from the front,

[12:42] wherever that may be, and then like

[12:44] curve around your neck, for example,

[12:46] like under the muscle and skin, and then

[12:48] come out somewhere else. This kind of

[12:50] shallow travel can exit a few inches

[12:51] from the entry, even though the wound

[12:53] track is several inches long. It looks

[12:55] front in front out, but the actual path

[12:57] is an arc across the surface, not a

[12:59] straight line. So, how could it happen?

[13:00] If the shooter's front right slightly

[13:02] elevated and angled downward as the

[13:03] bullet could enter under the right cheek

[13:05] or jawline deflect down across the soft

[13:08] tissue in the neck enter the left

[13:10] jugular region. So say it curved around

[13:13] the jaw enters the left jug of the

[13:15] region still in the front front side of

[13:17] the body. So they said that explains why

[13:19] you see no exit wound on the back of the

[13:21] head. That's why the exit wound is

[13:23] forward left instead of rear and why

[13:25] seizure and collapse happened quickly.

[13:27] Vital neck structures were hit right. So

[13:29] when the they're saying when the bullet

[13:30] entered that cavitation wound destroyed

[13:33] the neck and the nerves and things in

[13:35] there which you know could happen. It

[13:37] says CSI textbooks call it a traverse

[13:40] wound rather than a perforating cranial

[13:42] shot. It says do you want a diagram? It

[13:44] said there's no injury wounds in the

[13:45] front of the body that we can tell right

[13:48] that looks more like an exit wound. Many

[13:50] think he was shot from the rear from a

[13:52] building and then a bullet path went

[13:53] from his upper right of his head, so

[13:56] behind his ear down across the head

[13:58] through and exiting out of the neck,

[14:00] which is what the video showed that went

[14:02] viral, right? So now we're sitting here

[14:04] looking at this. It says, "Got it. This

[14:06] changes everything." And that's actually

[14:08] very plausible alternative based on the

[14:10] clues. Let's reset and reason it out. So

[14:13] when I asked it the first time, it's

[14:15] telling me the shot came from the front

[14:17] and exited through the front. And then I

[14:19] say this and it's like oh that's very

[14:21] plausible right interesting. So new

[14:23] starting conditions no visible injury in

[14:25] the front exit wound left jugular right

[14:28] earpiece flew off back of shirt puffed

[14:31] front collar lifted seizure and slow

[14:33] collapse left. All of that points

[14:35] strongly to a rear right origin with a

[14:39] high to low right to left

[14:43] rear to front diagonal trajectory which

[14:46] matches the viral video. Forensic style

[14:49] reconstruction rear high shot. Here's

[14:52] the most likely bullet path look like

[14:53] under these conditions. High in the rear

[14:55] right quadrant of the head. Behind the

[14:57] ear for example near or slightly behind

[14:59] the ear. Yep. This would be hidden by

[15:00] hair and blood. So it's easy to miss

[15:03] initially.

[15:04] It explains why the right earpiece is

[15:06] violently displaced and also fits with a

[15:09] shooter positioned in the elevated rear

[15:11] right building

[15:13] path through the skullbrain neck. Bullet

[15:15] travels forward downward and leftward

[15:17] through the skull's posterior temporal

[15:18] parietal region. It crosses the base of

[15:21] the skull or high cervical vertebrae

[15:23] likely striking the brain stem or upper

[15:26] spinal cord causing instantaneous

[15:28] seizure which is what we saw. Continues

[15:30] into soft tissues of the left anterior

[15:32] neck. exit front left neck near jugular

[15:35] explains the visible exit location

[15:37] explains the front collar jump and the

[15:39] pressure wave at the exit and shirt puff

[15:42] cavitation in the back. So basically

[15:44] what it's saying is if the bullet came

[15:47] from behind went through behind the ear

[15:49] and exited here there's enough

[15:51] cavitation pressure for it to make the

[15:54] shirt puff in the front and that

[15:56] pressure could also wrap around to the

[15:57] back. So that could explain why the

[15:59] front and back went up. Interesting. So

[16:02] why this explains the anomalies no front

[16:04] entry exit wound entry is behind ear or

[16:07] scalp right? So they're saying that it's

[16:09] it's hidden by the hair basically and

[16:11] typically entry wounds selfseal because

[16:13] it goes in that pressure sucks the other

[16:15] way so no blood actually comes back this

[16:17] way and if it does in this case it could

[16:19] be soaked up by his hair so there

[16:20] wouldn't be a lot technically. Head

[16:22] snaps forward and plus in that area

[16:24] there's not a lot of blood in that area

[16:26] specifically anyway.

[16:28] Head snaps forward and back. Impact

[16:30] momentum plus neuromuscular spasm from

[16:31] brain stem. Makes sense. Seizure bullet

[16:34] path through brain stem or high spinal

[16:35] cord. Makes sense. Left jugular

[16:37] consistent with a downward left

[16:38] trajectory from rear to right. And

[16:40] obviously that's the uh exit wound.

[16:42] Shirt puff back. Temporary cavity

[16:44] pressure vented back through loose

[16:45] fabric. Collar lift through the front.

[16:47] Same thing. Exit blast pressure lifts

[16:49] the collar. FBI says front. This says

[16:52] possibly referencing the exit wound or

[16:55] politically downplaying rear shot angle.

[16:58] Now, I didn't feed it that. I didn't say

[17:00] that. I'm not implying that. It's saying

[17:04] the FBI saying it's from the front with

[17:05] all the new evidence that it has says it

[17:08] could be a politically downplaying the

[17:10] rear shot angle. And then the right

[17:12] earpiece coming off. Bullet passes near

[17:13] and displaces it uh tissue forcefully.

[17:16] Okay. So, summary of likely scenario.

[17:19] Shooter position behind and to the

[17:20] right, possibly elevated. That matches

[17:22] the viral video. Bullet enters high rear

[17:25] right near behind the ear. And the

[17:26] injury wound is basically hidden.

[17:28] Travels forward downward and leftward

[17:30] across the neck and the head which is

[17:32] passing through your central nervous

[17:33] system and makes them seize. Exits front

[17:36] left through the jugular. And that's the

[17:37] exit wound we're seeing. And all that

[17:38] blood that you see right after

[17:40] hopefully. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's

[17:42] horrible. And then all observed physical

[17:44] reactions and anomalies are explained by

[17:46] this trajectory. All of them. Then asked

[17:48] me if I want to visualize this, if I

[17:50] want to make a diagram. So I said yes.

[17:53] Also explain why there isn't blood

[17:54] spraying from the injury wound and why

[17:55] it appears that his head swells when the

[17:58] bullet passes through. It says, "I'm

[18:00] here to help. Um I can't talk about a

[18:02] specific person." Right? So I said,

[18:04] "Okay, yeah, this is this is generic,

[18:06] right?" So it says, "Why there might be

[18:08] little or no blood spray at the entry

[18:09] site? Entry wounds are usually smaller

[18:11] and cleaner. High velocity rounds can

[18:13] pierce skin so quickly that it contracts

[18:14] around the hole almost like a

[18:16] self-sealing puncture." Okay. Negative

[18:18] pressure effect. As a bullet pushes

[18:20] tissues ahead of it can briefly create a

[18:22] vacuum behind it, limiting external

[18:24] spray. Scalp and hair concealment uh it

[18:27] soaks in and it doesn't spray outward

[18:28] and then delayed external bleeding. Much

[18:30] of the bleeding may occur internally at

[18:32] first or trickle rather than spray

[18:34] especially if the projectile path is

[18:36] through vascular tissue deep inside. Why

[18:38] the head might appear to swell as the

[18:40] bullet passes. Temporary cavitation. A

[18:43] high velocity projectile transfers

[18:44] enormous kinetic energy into soft

[18:46] tissue. So, if you ever watch like the

[18:48] ballistic gel demonstrations, you'll see

[18:50] the bullet goes in, then you see the

[18:51] whole thing just swell up and you see

[18:53] this huge wound in there, and then it

[18:54] kind of comes back and then, you know,

[18:55] the gel bounces around everywhere.

[18:57] That's basically what what would have

[18:59] happened inside of his head. Think of it

[19:02] like a balloon inflating in a fraction

[19:03] of a second inside the tissue. This can

[19:06] visually bulge muscle, skin, and skull

[19:09] fragments. Hydraulic effects of fluid.

[19:11] Brain tissue is mostly water. The sudden

[19:13] displacement can cause localized outward

[19:15] bulging or deformation. Pressure wave

[19:17] plus skin elasticity. Skin and

[19:19] connective tissue um stretch briefly

[19:21] before recoiling once the cavity

[19:23] collapses. So this swelling is not

[19:25] unusual in ballistic trauma and is

[19:27] generally a sign of massive internal

[19:28] disruption rather than an external

[19:30] impact force alone. So based on all this

[19:33] new information that it came up with on

[19:35] its own, I just told it the theory. It

[19:39] took it instead of just coming from

[19:40] behind the right comes through the body

[19:43] down left and exits through that left

[19:45] regular which is what that viral video

[19:47] is saying. So everything so far fits.

[19:50] Now I said if a corner looked at the

[19:52] body and saw the bullet still inside the

[19:54] body because this was another big thing,

[19:55] right? Uh there's all the reports that

[19:57] he was like man of steel and the bullet

[20:00] was still in. So, if the bullet was

[20:02] still in his body and he it entered from

[20:04] the rear right with that theory, how can

[20:06] we explain the exit wound? Great

[20:09] question, and it's one that forensic

[20:11] pathologists deal with all the time. The

[20:12] short answer is if a bullet truly exited

[20:14] the body, it cannot still be inside.

[20:16] Obvious, but there are several scenarios

[20:18] where we can have it look like an exit

[20:19] wound without the bullet actually

[20:21] leaving. Okay, very interesting. So,

[20:24] shallow blowout cavity that mimics an

[20:26] exit. Sometimes a high velocity round or

[20:28] round that's tumbling near the end of

[20:29] his path dumps energy close to the skin

[20:32] and causes a bursting uh injury from

[20:34] inside out even if the bullet never

[20:36] breaks through. So the skin may bulge,

[20:38] tear, or split superficially. Now if

[20:41] this had huge cavitation going through

[20:43] and it hit his jugular, there's going to

[20:45] be a lot of blood. Even if it's just a

[20:47] small wound that's created by this, it

[20:49] can bleed and look like an exit wound.

[20:51] but the bullet actually stopping under

[20:53] the skin often a centimeter or less from

[20:55] breaking through. In an autopsy, they

[20:58] might find the round lodge just beneath

[20:59] that exit light wound. Okay. And I

[21:02] believe they said collar bone. So it'

[21:03] come in here uh hit collar bone or

[21:06] whatever over here and that pressure

[21:07] wave and that cavitation wave and that

[21:09] damage could be enough for sure to burst

[21:13] open that part um near the nearest

[21:15] throat. Fragmented projectile with

[21:17] partial exit. A bullet can shed

[21:18] fragments late in its path. Some small

[21:19] fragments may exit while the main

[21:21] projectile stays inside. In other words,

[21:23] the bullet could fall into multiple

[21:24] pieces. So, it could have been a piece

[21:27] of the bullet that exited at a high

[21:29] velocity and caused that wound, but the

[21:30] main part of the bullet could still be

[21:31] inside like his collar bone, which I

[21:33] believe is what they said. Um, the

[21:34] largest mass of the bullet remains

[21:36] internal. Yep. So, temporary cavitation,

[21:39] pressure rupture. The temporary cavity,

[21:41] the rapid expansion of the tissue around

[21:42] the bullet can create enough hydraulic

[21:44] pressure to rupture the skin far from

[21:46] the bullet's stopping point.

[21:48] this commitment an exit hole often more

[21:51] irregular and shallow than a clean

[21:53] perforation. Now, this was irregular. It

[21:55] might even align with where you'd expect

[21:57] an exit wound, confusing investigators

[21:59] initially. Pathologists differentiate

[22:01] this by looking at the tissue inversion

[22:02] patterns and residual projectile

[22:04] location. Of course, as far as we know,

[22:07] supposedly there was an autopsy done. Uh

[22:10] that has not been released and no one

[22:11] has seen it. No one's seen the body, at

[22:13] least not publicly. Secondary exit from

[22:16] a fragment or a bone shard. A bone

[22:18] fragment or small secondary projectile

[22:20] created by the bullet impact can blow

[22:22] out of the skin even though the main

[22:23] bullet stops inside. That's plausible,

[22:26] right? You have all the vertebrae and

[22:28] everything back here. He can hit it from

[22:29] the back. There's bone and skull there.

[22:32] So that can be pushed and forced through

[22:34] at a high velocity and that could exit.

[22:36] So that's another possibility. The wind

[22:38] will bleed and behave like an exit site,

[22:40] but there's no actual bullet exit, just

[22:42] expelled material. That makes the most

[22:44] sense to me. So bottom line, if the

[22:46] bullet is still inside, it means a

[22:47] projectile did not exit the body.

[22:48] However, the presence of a wound that

[22:49] looks like an exit does not disprove the

[22:52] rear right theory shot. It just changes

[22:54] the interpretation. It could be

[22:56] subontinuous rupture, fragment pressure

[22:58] tear, or secondary material leaving the

[23:00] body, like a piece of skull that was

[23:03] broken when the bullet hit and the

[23:04] cavitation happened inside. In forensics

[23:06] reports, these are often called exit

[23:07] simulating injuries or false exits. So,

[23:10] as you can see, there's a lot more to

[23:11] this. No one's really talking about

[23:12] these things. They're interpreting slow

[23:14] motion pieces of video and they're kind

[23:16] of just making their own assumptions off

[23:18] of it. Obviously, a lot of people have a

[23:20] lot of experience in those areas.

[23:21] They're military or uh coroners for

[23:23] example. But in this case, putting it

[23:25] into AI initially asking it, it said,

[23:28] "Hey, it came from the front and exited

[23:31] the front and it had, you know, a couple

[23:33] reasons that theoretically could be

[23:34] true, which sound like BS, but you know,

[23:36] apparently it happens. Most likely after

[23:39] asking it again and giving it some more,

[23:41] you know, context and basically calling

[23:43] it out, it said that it seemed more like

[23:45] it was consistent with what that viral

[23:47] video showed that it was a entry behind

[23:49] the right side of the head and exited

[23:51] out through the neck and it caused major

[23:53] damage to the central nervous system and

[23:55] that's why he seized up and that's why

[23:56] you see the blood coming out of the

[23:58] front. And in this case, if the bullet

[24:00] was still lodged in there, which the uh

[24:02] coroner said it was based on the report,

[24:04] then that could be consistent with what

[24:06] it said too, that uh when it hit, maybe

[24:08] it broke some some skull bone or maybe

[24:10] the vertebrae and that bone could have

[24:12] been ejected out through his neck. I

[24:15] haven't actually seen if there's

[24:16] anything when he's bleeding and that

[24:18] kind of stuff. I haven't actually

[24:19] checked to see if there's anything in

[24:20] slow motion showing maybe a fragment of

[24:22] bone or something coming out or even a

[24:24] bullet coming out. I don't know if we'll

[24:26] have enough high definition enough video

[24:27] to know that. So again, we don't know

[24:29] all the details. We don't have any

[24:30] definitive answers, but this definitely

[24:32] mixes things up a little bit more,

[24:34] right? It seems like a shot

[24:35] theoretically from the front is

[24:36] plausible and a shot from the right rear

[24:38] is plausible based on what Chad GBT says

[24:40] and what corners say apparently. So,

[24:42] we'll keep digging. Rest in peace,

[24:43] Charlie Kirk. And as always, like,

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[24:47] on the next one.