I dont believe that this really is a true story,but here goes anyway

In 1994 at the annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science,AAFS.The President Dr Don Harter Mills astounded his audience with legalcomplications of a bizarre death.

On March 23, 1994 a medical officer examined the body of Ronald Opus.
He concluded that Mr Opus had died as a result of a shotgun wound to the
head. Mr Opus had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending
to commit suicide. He had left a note to the effect indicating his
despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted
by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly.
Neither the shooter nor the the deceased was aware that a safety net had
been installed just below the eighth floor level to protect some
building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to
complete his suicide the way he had planned. Ordinarily a person who
sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the
mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing
suicide. The fact that Mr Opus was shot on the way to certain death,
but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net,
caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands.
In the room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast eminated, was
occupied by an elderly couple. They were arguing vigorously and the
husband was threatening the wife with a shotgun. The husband was so
upset that when he pulled the trigger he missed his wife and the pellets
went through the window striking Mr Opus in the head, on his way down.
When one intends to kill a subject "A" but kills subject "B' by mistake
one is guilty of murder of subject "B"

When confronted with the charge of murder the old man and his wife were
adamant and both said that they thought the gun was unloaded. The old
man explained that it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife
with an un-loaded shotgun during the course of their arguments. He had
no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr Opus appeared
to be an unfortunate accident; that is, if the gun had been accidently
loaded. The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the
old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the
argument and fatal shooting. It transpired that the old lady had cut
off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of
his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the
expectation that his Father would shoot his Mother. Since the loader of
the gun, was aware of this, he was guilty of murder even though> he
didn't actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one of murder on
the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus. Now comes the
exquisite twist. Further investigations revealed that the son was in
fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the
failure of his attempt to engineer his Mother's murder on March 23rd
1994 he went to the the top of the ten story building and jumped off,
only to be killed by a shotgun blast through the ninth story window.
The son had actually murdered himself.

A True Story.

Here is the video

but the story said he was shot in the head
the video shows him being shot in the body
typical american bullshit

Also, one version has the wife pulling the trigger, the other the husband. Did they have two off-spring and do them both in on 2 separate occasions? Bit of a dysfunctional family if you ask me

and different names

Is one not the story and the other a film based on it?

They change bits you know?

Next you will be saying the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was true to life

one would have thought that even changing the names would not give them reason to change where the jumper was shot it is an integral part of the story

its like doing noah and saying he released 2 snakes rather than ravens

You mean it isn't

The only good Yank is a dead one and if they've started making plans to engineer their own deaths, I'd say break out the Champagne.....