pretty dead brazilian

* the latest version of the dead brazilian story appears to be that he was sitting in a chair on the train when he was shot 7 times in the head. oddly, not one of those shots seems to have entered or exited via his face.

"The day after Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police at Stockwell Underground station, his grieving relatives and one of his closest friends filed into a mortuary to identify his body. They found him covered in a thin sheet and his face, unmarked, was ghostly white.

Gesio de Avila, a friend and fellow worker, looked carefully over the body, confused by de Menezes’s peaceful repose. Where were the wounds from the seven bullets to the head that killed him? “Every bit of colour had left his face, but apart from that it was normal,” de Avila said last week. “There was a bandage on his head behind his ear and when I looked closer, I realised what had happened. He had been shot several times in the back of the head. It was like he had been killed by bandits.” (link)

how on earth do you get shot in the back of the head seven times when you are sitting in your chair?