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In reply to the discussion: St. Louis teen "was wearing an ankle bracelet at the time he died [View all]Travelman
(708 posts)They recovered the gun. They recovered the bullets that the guy shot from that gun at the cop. It's reasonable to assume that in the course of the investigation, they'll determine whether the guy's fingerprints are on that gun, and they'll likely do a gunshot residue test on him as part of the autopsy. And it's also reasonable to assume that there will be ballistics testing of the gun in question to see if the rounds that were discovered at the scene were indeed fired from that weapon.
Now, you can claim that this is all just one gigantic police conspiracy, that this cop just went out and decided to shoot him a young Black man, and then covered the whole thing up with a planted gun, fired off shots at himself, planted fingerprints on the gun, planted GSR on the guy's hand(s), and he was so spectacular at covering the whole thing up that he even got the guy to get arrested on another gun charge earlier this summer as part of this massive conspiracy to kill some Black teenager.
But that's awful damn tinfoily if you ask me.