It's weird why or how my mind does or doesn't latch onto certain info (reason why we post links). I guess, in this case, I can't figure out why they didn't know he had been shot until the autopsy was conducted. Maybe they didn't mess with him forensically at the scene, which would be strange (yes or no?), and the entry wound was small? Because, and I'm sorry, but if not a small wound, wouldn't being shot in the neck or head make a big mess along with splatter pattern and other gunshot evidence (like determining if residue is present which helps determine how close or far the gun was held to the victim) being found at the scene. I hope they took pictures and treated it like a crime scene. I'm beginning to wonder if they did or not. Did authorities secure his room after they left?
I know exactly what you're saying! When I initially started reading about this case, I was like, WTH can't they find a bullet wound on the victim?
Then I read more and more articles on this case and saw the phrase he was found in a "pool of blood" and that he was shot in the neck, and it hit me like a ton of bricks that when people are shot just once in other areas of their body, like the arm or chest, their immediate reaction would be to grasp that area and apply pressure to it to try to stop the pain/bleeding. They likely would have found some fabric (t-shirt, etc.) to apply to that bleeding area.
However, for Paul, apparently getting shot in the neck (I think he was likely shot in the carotid unless the autopsy report says otherwise), there was very little Paul himself could have done to stop the hemorrhage. So he couldn't put a t-shirt or anything around it. Otherwise, it'd shunt the blood from reaching his brain and he'd be braindead or suffer brain damage. SMH
It's just so horrific that this perp shot him right in the neck! Who does that except someone sadistic, especially if Paul was shot in the neck intentionally.
I think that is why LE couldn't figure out initially where Paul was shot. They didn't see any areas of Paul's body where a t-shirt, etc. was applied to stop the bleeding. And the bullet wound might have been small but lethally effective. That is another reason I think the perp is a skilled marksman. S/he knew exactly where to shoot Paul for maximal emotional torture and to prevent Paul from stopping his own bleeding. Can you imagine how helpless Paul felt if he were not in a complete state of paralytic shock that he couldn't do anything to help himself stop his neck from bleeding out? I think that must have been excruciating for a future doctor like Paul.
To me, the perp must have had some long-standing anger towards either Paul or doctors in general, if the murder was not personal. But if it were impersonal, why target only Paul? Why him?
