If someone is poisoned then shot, how does the medical examiner determine what killed him?

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You know those TV Shows / Movies where they see a bullet wound and think it was a gun then the medical examiner tells them that he was poisoned before being shot? How does he determine that?

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Poison affect more than one part of the body while gunshot is restricted to one area.

If somebody is poisoned, then shot in the chest, other organs will shows signs of the poison, too. The death is determined by which one (poison or gunshot) caused important organs/system to stop working first.

Regardless of which, somebody must really hate you to made sure that if the gunshots didn’t get you, the poison will.

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