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Thomas B. Cole, MD, MPH

JAMA. 2004;292:557.

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Earlier this year, the murder of Christen Naujoks, a 22-year-old university student, made national headlines, though the circumstances that led to her death involved a scenario that is all too common. Naujoks had recently ended a relationship with her boyfriend, John Peck—but he was not willing to let her go. In cards and telephone messages, he was demanding and threatening.

Court documents indicated that he vowed to take one of his father's guns and kill himself on her doorstep.

In most homicides in which a woman is killed by a husband or other intimate partner, the crime is committed with a firearm. (Photo credit: AP/Wide World Photos

The campus police and the county sheriff's department advised the frightened woman about measures to protect herself; she followed their recommendation to obtain a protective order that instructed Peck to stay away from her and surrender his . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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