BLOCK 100
HEAVY ARMOR 100
So I looked up the whole story and, as the BBC reports:
“Sir you have a fucking bullet in your brain”
What, was there no blood to tip him off?
He was likely shot through the nose to conceal the entry wound and bled from the hole deep inside his nasal cavity. To him it would look like he just had a bad nose bleed, hence the elbowing in the face assumption.