Going through the neck/lower skull, and coming out the other side of the neck. Hence the blood splatter and falling motion in that direction.
Besides the aorta and carotid there is something else pretty important in the neck. The spinal cord. If the round just hit him in the aorta/carotid it wouldn't have caused him to immediately go limp and fall off his chair. Blood loss doesn't do that immediately. He would fall when the blood loss is enough to cause him to pass out.
However - hitting the spinal cord after traveling through the aorta and carotid (which it appears to have done given the massive gush of blood - would immediately stop the brains signals to the rest of his body and cause him to go limp. In fact it is possible the round hit a cervical vertebrae (probably C6 or 7) first, shattering it and blowing bone fragments into the aorta/carotid and paralyzing him.
Besides the aorta and carotid there is something else pretty important in the neck. The spinal cord. If the round just hit him in the aorta/carotid it wouldn't have caused him to immediately go limp and fall off his chair. Blood loss doesn't do that immediately. He would fall when the blood loss is enough to cause him to pass out.
However - hitting the spinal cord after traveling through the aorta and carotid (which it appears to have done given the massive gush of blood - would immediately stop the brains signals to the rest of his body and cause him to go limp. In fact it is possible the round hit a cervical vertebrae (probably C6 or 7) first, shattering it and blowing bone fragments into the aorta/carotid and paralyzing him.
Gruesome and sounds about right. If you've hunted, you see wierd things that bullets can do to critters.
Military frens who've seen combat can attest to this too, though I wouldn't blame them for not. Lots of bad memories.
There's more information going around that he allegedly had body armor and the shot ricocheted up, which would account for some of this stuff.