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An arrested teenager shot himself in the head while his hands were handcuffed behind his back, police have claimed.

Seventeen-year-old Jesus Huerta died after allegedly firing the shot in the back on a police car following his arrest for trespassing in Durham, North Carolina.

Police say that despite being frisked, officers did not spot that he was carrying a handgun, and a 911 operator did not tell them that he had previously tried to kill himself, even though the teen's family had passed on this information.

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(Reuters) - A teenage suspect who died in North Carolina while he was handcuffed in the back of a police car shot himself in the head with a gun he hid from an officer, according to a police report released on Friday.

Jesus Huerta died on November 19 after he was arrested on an outstanding warrant for trespassing. His family had called authorities and reported that he ran away from home and requested police search for him.

Huerta's case triggered several protests in recent months over police conduct in Durham. The release of the report followed repeated calls from Huerta's family for more details about the circumstances of his death.
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First, how do you miss a handgun frisking a suspect?
Answer: You dont, unless you do a half assed job of it.

But I am trying to figure out, if he was cuffed, how in the hell did he manage to shoot himself in the head?

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"The officer said he found Huerta slumped over in the backseat and a semi-automatic .45-caliber pistol on the floor, the report said. Huerta was pronounced dead at the scene."

How big is a .45 semi automatic pistol?

45/100 of an inch (11.43 mm) in diameter.  Think about our US Army .45 ACPs (you must have seen them in movies) it is damn near like a ring gauge if you smoke Churchills or Rothchilds.

Its a pretty good pumkin slinger. 

Thanks. Still too big to hide from a proper search, then.