Morticians describe the devastating toll assault-style weapons inflict on bodies

Not much stuns mortician Hari Close after embalming more than 12,000 bodies over 30 years.

Not much stuns mortician Hari Close after embalming more than 12,000 bodies over 30 years.

But Close was left speechless last spring when he was tasked with preparing the body of a man who had been shot in the head with an assault-style weapon.

Close worked alone in his funeral home in Baltimore for 26 hours over three days, hoping plaster, clay and other materials could give the man’s family the closure that comes with an open-casket funeral.

But there was not much he could do. The top half of the man’s head was gone. 

“Imagine a full face, cut in half. It looked like half of an egg,” Close said. “There was nothing there.”

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