This three day course introduces the students to shooting scenes and reconstruction. It details how to document, process and collect evidence from a shooting incident along with how to take that documentation and attempt to reconstruct estimated shooting angles, locations and sequences. During the course, students will test the accuracy of their equipment and their reconstruction skills through multiple practical exercises. Topics include: photographs specific to a shooting scene, collection and packaging of evidence related to a shooting, documenting suspects and victims, gunshot residue tests, identifying bullet holes and strikes, diagramming a shooting scene, specific equipment used in shooting scene documentation, determining impact angles among other topics. The course culminates with the students creating a reconstruction diagram based on their observations and documentation.

Terminal Learning Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate how to accurately process and document a shooting scene yielding information that could be used for future reconstructions of the incident.

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Required Equipment: Each student should bring their agency issued digital camera, batteries, battery charger, tripod and any additional camera related equipment they have. Camera batteries should be fully charged prior to the start of class. Cameras can be shared between multiple people from the same agency. Students should also bring any shooting scene related equipment they are issued such as trajectory rod kits, trajectory lasers, etc.