The Shooting Scene at Ferguson

 Harrison Street where it intersects with Tiffin at the top of the grade from Florissant

 

 

Tiffin Street looking up the grade from Florissant.  The intersection with Harrison is at the top of the grade.  The policemen shot were standing across Florissant Street just behind this POV.

 

The view from the intersection of Tiffin and Harrison looking down the hill to Florissant.  This is a "T" intersection.  Harrison is to the right.  The "beaten zone" for the bullets is across Florissan in what is now a grassy strip behind a metal (not solid) fence.

 

Tiffin and Harrison overview.

 

Tiffin past Harrison to Clark Avenue.

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Comments

[BabelFish]

I noticed in several reports that the police say the casings they found matched the weapon they have taken from the accused. I did not see anything that states where they say they found the brass.

[robt willmann]

These photographs are very interesting. I have been otherwise preoccupied and have not kept up with this incident. An earlier news report from CBS said 3 shots, another report said 3 or 4. The St. Louis County police chief and attorney general Eric Holder said it was an "ambush". What adds to the difficulty in figuring it out is that it happened in the evening or at night.

Babelfish,
Matching shell casings to a particular gun is not the most solid science, if done by "markings" on the shell casings allegedly made by the firing mechanism of the gun.

The initial criminal complaint accuses the young man of "shooting toward an unidentified subject and striking the St. Louis County officer", and is said to be shown here--

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/15/ferguson-police-shooting-arrest_n_6873364.html

http://www.scribd.com/doc/258822236/Jeffrey-Williams-complaint

[BabelFish]

Robert, thanks for that info. My interest is around the exact site where the shooter was standing and if it is plausible that the rounds where 'lofted' over bystanders, on the way to hitting the two police officers.