In November of 2007 a man known as Samuel James Cooper was arrested for bank robbery and later murder when his gun was linked to the previous killings of 5 innocent people. The bullets from the killings of Ossama Haj-Hussein and Leroy Jernigan were found identical. Later, testing linked fired projectiles and cartridge casings were all matched up and found to have been fired from the 9mm Ruger P89DC handgun Cooper gad dropped running from the bank robbery. The ballistic evidence and Coopers confession were all key evidence to the trial.
Ballistics helped solve this crime and hopefully help make the conviction of Cooper easier by being able to have the bullets and cartridges from the crime scenes and having the same type of gun match up to each other. Knowing that a certain gun cab only fire a certain bullet and having those two match up to be identical the jury should hopefully see that Cooper is guilty of all 5 murders.
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Justine Horton
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