They do when it's a gun on a person in which they do not know is dead, and if the area is secured, and don't know the condition of the weapon ( cocked, round in chamber), they most definately do, ESPECIALLY AFTER THEYVE PUT THE CRIME SCENE TAPE UP.
Do you have law enforcement experience? I do. When the first photograph was taken the object wasn't there. If there was a weapon present the cops would have picked it up and secured it not kick it to the side. The weapon was placed there for a photo op designed for maximum ass coverage. That is why they circled it in red in the 2nd still.
Lol, sure, all crime scenes are exactly the same. Do I have law enforcement training? No. Brother did though (retired) and he agrees with my assessment. That being that unless you have times to go with the photos, they have almost no value.
If you knew how to analyze them the photos do have value. reading the evidence in the photos I established a time frame by looking at differences between two photos of the same scene. Differences such as length of shadows, repositioning of objects on the ground reported to be a gun, and a rearrangement of the legs of the corpse.
Then you should be able to give me the exact time that the crime tape went up and the time between the first photo taken and the second. Oops, you can't. Nor can you tell me what happened within that area during the time between the two photos. Oops X 2
Nice try gumshoe, trying to cover your ass ain't working out to well, is it?
I said differences between photos of the same scene has value. I didn't elaborate. I reserve the right to define what I said and what I meant…thank you!
The shadow of what seems to be a pole reflects the passage of time as it splayed about a foot over the curb near the feet of the deceased in the first photo and had grown another foot and a half in the 2nd Photo. It would be a simple matter to just put up a stick in my yard and observe how long the shadow reaches a foot and a half to determine how much time had passed between times the photos were taken. For scale, to be more precise, a familiar object in either photo can be measured and transposed from millimeters to meters or from fractions of inches to inches.
We know from news reports the shooting occurred at the time kids were close to getting out of school and the shadows in that first photo verifies that. It also establishes which photos were taken first.
I noticed also in the 2nd photo the body had been moved. The feet were spaced differently . Handling of the body would have been an opportune time to gather DNA on a throw down weapon..if indeed any of the objects shown IS a gun. It could also mean they searched the body and found a gun underneath or in a pocket.
Analysis under magnification could possibly reveal more pertinent information. That is my brief summation concerning the value of the photographs. You were wrong ins assuming they had no value.