If Person A shoots Person B and Person B dies from an infection from this bullet wound, then .......

[Zsofia]

Likewise David Gumby was shot in the back by Charles Whitman from the top of the UT library in 1966; he died in 2001 and was ruled a “homicide”.

[simster]

@Peter_Morris

Moderator ping-pong?

face it - no one wants this baby, but they can’t find an amicable way of getting rid of it.

[Futurist110]

@Iggy

And on the other hand, if there is an intervening act that is the more proximate cause of death then the shooter may not be held liable for murder/manslaughter.

Suppose Person A shoots Person B. Person B is stabilized in the hospital and is scheduled for a surgery as a part of his treatment. During the surgery the doctor cuts an artery resulting in severe blood loss, an act of serious malpractice, resulting in Person B having insufficient oxygen flow to his brain. Person B dies as a result. Person A would not be help liable for the death even though Person B would not have been in the hospital save for the shooting.

Yes, this certainly makes sense. However, there is no intervening act if a doctor was not negligent, correct?

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

There’s no superseding intervening cause even if the physician was negligent. See post 20.