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SBRH33 t1_iu1cr6n wrote

Reply to comment by 1up in Deputy arrested for illegally selling guns used in Roxborough HS shooting by dc122186

Firearm Serials.

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1up t1_iu1eecx wrote

The guns can be connected to the shooting just by their serial numbers? I get that if the guns were actually recovered at the scene of the shooting or from a shooter but I don't think that was the case with these guns.

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Kodiak_85 t1_iu1k4ii wrote

The guns were tested for ballistics and matched spent (fired) rounds found at the scene of the shooting. Every gun leaves a unique imprint on every bullet it fires. Similar to a fingerprint.

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Sage2050 t1_iu22eea wrote

That's a lot less reliable in real life than it is on TV. They caught 3 of the 4 shooters, one of them probably had the guns.

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SBRH33 t1_iu3ql20 wrote

I was spitballing. I thought he actually somehow removed them from evidence impoundment to sell them, where the serials would have been recorded. But he's a sheriffs office dep. They have no access to that stuff.

What likely transpired was that one of the boys they already had in custody for the murder at RHS coughed up his name to investigators and then they nabbed him with the crime guns as he was getting rid of them.

Dude was already on LE radar and was a major player in the streets.

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