By Colin Kalmbacher |Law & Crime |
A teenage woman in Virginia allegedly shot herself through the mouth while both of her hands were handcuffed behind her back, according to law enforcement and the chief medical examiner.
Local NBC affiliate WAVY reports that 19-year-old Sarah Wilson was the passenger in a car pulled over during a late afternoon traffic stop in the summer of 2018 that eventually led to various drug charges for the driver. Police say they attempted to arrest Wilson’s boyfriend, 27-year-old Holden Medlin, after witnessing him swallow a “golf-ball”-sized bag containing an unknown substance.
A subsequent search of the car allegedly turned up 11 oxycodone and suboxone, a syringe, additional drug paraphernalia, a rifle, and several boxes of ammunition, court documents obtained by the outlet claim. The couple were reportedly approached by two police separately–one of whom was a uniformed patrol officer; the other assigned to the vice narcotics squad of the Chesapeake Police Department (CPD)