Question

An elderly woman in her mid-70's was walking to the local drugstore. On her way, a man shoved her as he walked by and stole her purse. She was not injured in the altercation but was clearly shaken up. About 10 minutes later, she began to experience shortness of breath and chest pain. She was taken to the emergency room. While she was being examined, she developed and irregular heartbeat and died.
What is the manner, cause, and mechanism?

Answer 1

Answer:MANNER: HOMICIDE

CAUSE: HEART ATTACK

MECHANISM: ARRHYTHMIA

Explanation:An Arrhythmia is an issue where your heart rate start to have problems , it may start beating too quickly than usually or slow down below what is normal or have an irregular patterns.When the heart beats faster than normal, this is referred to as tachycardia.

Homicide refers to killing someone and murder falls under unlawful homicide. Lawful homicide can be when police shot someone because they want to shot back.

Under the common law, murder can be intentional if a person can't justify why they killed the victim and if the person committed murder with malice aforethought. Malice aforethought isn't limited to killing driven by hate or out of spite it can also happen if a person intentionally inflicted severe bodily harm that caused the victim to die or if a person acted recklessly with a disregard for the victim's life and as a result the victim ended up dying like in this case a man who shoved this old lady disregarded her life and because of that the old lady died hence it is homicide