Police: Bayview suspect actually shot himself

This just keeps on going... ANOTHER example of why people should refrain from jumping to conclusions based on next to no evidence, from SFGate,

A young man who died in a confrontation with San Francisco police officers on Saturday in the Bayview neighborhood appears to have fired the fatal shot from his own pistol, authorities said today.

Chief San Francisco Medical Examiner Amy Hart said the office's preliminary findings show that 19-year-old Kenneth Wade Harding was struck by two bullets, one that entered and exited his left leg and one that entered his neck and lodged in his head.

The bullet that entered Harding's head, apparently killing him, was a .380-caliber bullet, Hart said. But San Francisco police officers use .40-caliber ammunition, said Commander Mike Biel, and .380-caliber bullets cannot be fired from department-issued weapons.

Additionally, the medical examiner's office found a .380-caliber bullet in Harding's jacket pocket, Biel said.

"Based on the findings of the medical examiner, at this time we believe he was fatally wounded by a .380-caliber bullet," Biel told reporters this afternoon. "We believe the fatal wound to Mr. Harding's body was self-inflicted. The investigation is still ongoing as to whether or nor this was accidental or an intentional act."

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