Literal Definition of Spearheading

A Brazilian man is lucky to be alive after he astonishingly managed to shoot himself in the brain with a fishing spear.
Emerson de Oliveira Abreu was fishing off the coast of Rio de Janeiro when he took the devastating shot. The spear ricocheted off some rocks - and slammed into Abreu's head.
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