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Ricardo Alfonso Cerna (died December 19, 2003) was a man who committed suicide with a gun while being videotaped in an interrogation room in Muscoy, San Bernardino County police station. He was 47.

 

Cerna was stopped for a traffic violation on December 19, 2003 where he, after fleeing the scene, shot the chasing officer Michael Parham twice, non-fatally. He was arrested two hours later and taken into custody where he shot himself in the left temple with a handgun. Deputies had forgotten to search him for weapons.

 

The Latino community was outraged, suspecting Cerna's death to have been murder rather than suicide, with the policemen as the perpetrators. The Police Department had agreed to show the security camera footage to the media, but so as to avoid public sensationalism, only a handful of reporters had been permitted to see it.

 

The said footage was never intended to be made public, but evidently it had been illicitly leaked.

 

The video has spread over the Web and is notorious for depicting a death that was out of people's standard views on gun deaths, since it was not as gory as in typical Hollywood movies: Cerna shoots himself in the side of the head at point blank range with a .45, resulting in no blood spatter and only a strand of brain matter bursting out of the wound and then hanging off the side of his head.

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