If the wound is big enough, you get a sucking wound. A sucking wound is when the diaphragm contracts and expands, it sucks air into the chest cavity through the wound instead of sucking it down the throat into the lungs. The lungs collapse and you die from suffocation. A gunshot wound is big enough, but I don't think a knife wound from a stab would do it. Being long and skinny, the flesh would swell and close the wound.
Now if you think about it, something like a knife entering the chest cavity should put someone into shock pretty quick. Once that happens, the chances of a scream are remote.
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