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This 5-day school covers basic firearms related topics and is presented to ensure all participants have a fundamental understanding of the principles necessary to conduct a proper investigation and/or reconstruction of a shooting incident. Students are introduced to the tools, equipment and techniques that are used in shooting incident reconstruction. Techniques introduced during lectures are further developed through extensive use of hands-on, classroom exercises. Case studies and shooting range demonstrations add additional facets to the lecture topics. Students are presented with actual cases of officer-involved shooting incidents to critique and interpret.
Topics to be covered include: shooting scene documentation, impact angle determination, gunpowder and gunshot residue evidence, bloodstain evidence, weapons testing, unintentional discharge, bullet penetration, shots fired through glass, projectile trajectory, calculations for reconstruction, trace evidence, intermediary targets, ricochets, and bullet defects.
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