CHICAGO MAN'S DEATH RULED A HOMICIDE, DECADES AFTER SHOOTING
Source: AP
BY DON BABWIN
CHICAGO (AP) -- Tom Buchanan never really said what happened back in the 1940s when he was shot - but whatever it was, it finally killed him.
The weekend death of the 87-year-old retired steel worker was ruled a homicide, Cook County Medical Examiner's office spokesman Frank Shuftan said Thursday, after an autopsy revealed that the "gunshot ultimately caused the complications to his abdomen that ultimately killed him."
Shuftan said Buchanan's family members didn't have any details about the shooting. "We don't know anything about it," he said.
Buchanan's 82-year-old cousin, Mattie Matthews, said he never served in the military, so he could not have been shot in World War II. She said Buchanan, a quiet man who never married or had children, died without telling her what happened - even though she was probably the closest relative and friend that he had. All she knew about the shooting came from a conversation she overheard among grown-ups when she was a child.
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