This photograph was taken while observing this vehicle – a critical piece of evidence – being removed from a crime scene involving a shooting. Given the varying angle of impacts created by the projectiles, an expert reconstructionist can use this photograph to determine that the bullet trajectories indicate movement during the shooting, either by the perpetrator or the vehicle.
By definition, a “shooting reconstruction” is the “development of a likely or probable sequence of events in a shooting incident.”* It is NOT a reenactment or re-creation. By applying scientific principles during the analysis of forensic evidence from a shooting incident, the most probable sequence of events can be determined, and reveal:
- Trajectory (flight path of a projectile)
- Angle of Impact
- Distance determination
- Vertical and Azimuth components
- Cartridge case ejection patterns
- Trace evidence
- Projectile and cartridge case comparison to identify a firearm used during a shooting or if more than one firearm was used
- Sequencing of shots
- Dynamics of gunshot wound(s)
- Equivocal deaths, whether suicide, homicide or accidental
* Source: Edward E. Hueske
Shelly Rice, CSI/Forensic Reconstructionist
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