• – Marks cases where all the victims were relatives of the perpetrator W – A basic description of the weapons used in the murders :F –
Firearms and other ranged weapons, especially
rifles and
handguns, but also
bows and
crossbows,
grenade launchers,
flamethrowers, or
slingshots :M – Melee weapons, like
knives,
swords,
spears,
machetes,
axes,
clubs, rods, stones, or bare hands :O – Any other weapons, such as
bombs,
hand grenades,
Molotov cocktails,
poison and
poisonous gas, as well as
vehicle and
arson attacks ::A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used ::V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used ::E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used ::P – indicates that an anaesthetising or deadly substance of any kind was the only other weapon used (includes poisonous gas) ==References==