Test & Experiment: Blood and Tissue Spatter
August 31, 2007 – 2:23 am
(Shooter firing a .45 Cal. Pistol on the pig’s head)
There was a steel drum bottom covered with plastic vinyl wallpaper to approximate ship’s wall material about six (6) feet away from the target.
The walls and floors were covered with Manila paper to establish the spatter after the shooter fired the gun. The barrel of the gun almost touched the live pig’s temple or in forensic parlance, it was a simulation OF A CLOSE CONTACT FIRE IN WHICH THE INVESTIGATING AGENCIES CLAIMED WAS THE POSITION OF THE SHOOTER. It was suicide on account of that factor. The object of the test was to establish whether or not at close contact fire would propel the blood & brain tissues toward the target located six (6) ft. away from the live pig.
(Shooter had fired a .45 cal. Pistol aimed on the pig’s head)
The pig’s head jerked on upwards and away or at a direction towards the simulated wall target at an instant upon firing the gun.
The test only proved that the .45 cal. Pistol upon the shooters firing, the gun’s recoil was backwards and the barrel positioning upwards in split second time. The test was simulated for close contact on the pig’s temple area. This showed Phillip’s two contusions found on his head was not caused by the muzzle imprint of the gun or from a stabilizer as the investigating agencies claimed.
The forensic & ballistic consultants were gun experts themselves testified during a Senate hearing that the contusion was ante mortem, meaning it was inflicted prior to the gun’s firing. Forensic doctors also reported to the Senate committee that Phillip was shot after he was pistol whipped and could have been already incapacitated when the fatal shot was fired on his head.
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