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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The metabolisation process ceases upon death. If the poison has spread to the brain and other vital organs then it had to have happened while the body was still living.

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