Jacob Pruitt

First Name: Jacob
Last Name: Pruitt
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that at his own residence . . . said deceased did feloniously shoot him self in the abdomen with a rifle gun inflicting a wound of which he died

COD Short Description: 
shot self in belly with rifle
Original Record: 
2594

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