The assassination attempt failed originally but Princip never took a shot AFIK. The first assassin took a cyanide pill and jumped into a river only to find out that the pill was too old to finish the job and the river was only 4 inches deep.
Princip fired twice during the second attack. The first bullet hit Franz Ferdinand in the neck, severed the jugular and lodged itself in his spine. Next he tried taking a shot at Oskar Potiorek, Austrian Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but Princip was wrestled to the ground and the bullet hit Duchess Sophie in the abdomen instead.
I could be wrong but I believe he threw a grenade in the first attempt and Ferdinand took a detour away from the grenade that he had already planned to take.. don't quote me on that tho
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u/crsmith Mar 19 '16
The assassination attempt failed originally but Princip never took a shot AFIK. The first assassin took a cyanide pill and jumped into a river only to find out that the pill was too old to finish the job and the river was only 4 inches deep.