bullet fragments
Projectile debris recovered
Bullet fragments are pieces of a bullet that has broken apart, typically upon impact with a target or hard surface.
Bullets may fragment by design—expanding ammunition breaks into pieces to cause more damage—or incidentally when striking bone or barriers.
Forensic investigators recover bullet fragments to match them to weapons: They found bullet fragments in the wall behind the victim.
- shrapnelScattered explosion fragments
- casingEnclosing cover or frame
- shell casingAmmunition's metal container
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- entry woundWhere something pierced body
exit wound · ricochet · splinter · metal · debris · hollow point · forensic · gunshot · gunshot residue · trajectory · impact · lodged · extraction · evidence · crime scene · chain of custody · copper · lead
- Trace Evidencehair, fiber, fingerprints, DNA, blood
- ballisticsballistics, cartridge, trajectory, casing, projectile
- Assassinationsassassination, assassin, Kennedy assassination, Lincoln assassination, MLK assassination
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