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NARRATOR: At the Dallas Pistol
& Revolver Club in 1991,
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Trey Cooley, a young
spectator, was watching
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a shooting competition, seated
behind an air gun range.
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He was struck and killed
by a stray bullet.
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[screams]
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This is how ballistics,
lasers, and forensic animation
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solved the riddle
of the magic bullet.
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[theme music]
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14-year-old Trey Cooley.
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Look at him, and you'll
see the All-American boy.
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Trey attended Boles
Junior High School
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in Arlington,
Texas, near Dallas.
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He played cello in
the school orchestra,
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played baseball,
and was a Boy Scout.
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BUTCH COOLEY: At
that age, every kid
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has the whole world open to him.
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He could have done
anything he wanted to do.
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NARRATOR: Most of
all, he enjoyed
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spending time with his family.
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Trey and his father,
Butch, were best friends.
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BUTCH COOLEY: We did
everything together.
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NARRATOR: September 29, 1991.
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Butch Cooley woke early
that Saturday morning--
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-Get up.
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NARRATOR: --then
went to wake Trey.
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The two shared a
passion for shooting.
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-Go or don't you want to go?
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NARRATOR: Butch was
judging a competition.
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He gave Trey a choice--
to sleep in or tag along.
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Trey chose to go
with his father.
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-Trey started shooting
when he was seven.
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He enjoyed it.
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He shot his first deer
when he was eight.
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He wanted to be a
pistol competitor.
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And he was pretty good at it.
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NARRATOR: At the Dallas
Pistol & Revolver Club,
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Trey volunteered to help
out by running results
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from judges to the
official scorer.
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In between assignments, he
sat in the air gun building
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to get out of the hot Texas sun.
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He sat just inside the door
near two women who were working
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as scorers, but behind
people shooting air pistols--
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nothing more than
pellet and BB guns.
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Then, a blood-curdling scream.
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[screams]
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Trey Cooley slumped
to the floor,
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blood flowing from his temple.
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His baseball cap had a
tiny but telltale hole.
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Butch Cooley was
outside the building,
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just a few yards from his son
when he heard the screaming.
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Although Butch Cooley spent
21 years as a state trooper
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and was trained to
handle emergencies,
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no training could prepare
him for what he saw next.
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-When I got there, I
saw that he'd been shot.
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I checked his pulse.
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I knew it wasn't good.
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TONI COOLEY: Butch
walked in, and I
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asked him, what
are you doing home?
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And I said, oh, where is Trey?
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And then he came in.
And he told me.
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He said, um, there's
been an accident.
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And, um, I was thinking, you
know, well, he's cut his foot,
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cut his hand, or broke
his arm, you know.
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And I said, well, it's OK.
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He's-- he'll be OK.
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NARRATOR: Trey was
rushed by ambulance
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to Parkland Memorial
Hospital in Dallas.
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TONI COOLEY: He was
just lying there.
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Um, he was breathing, or the
machine was breathing for him.
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His little hands were so warm.
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And he just looked
like he was asleep.
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NARRATOR: Six hours
later, Trey died.
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-I just wanted to tell him that
I was very, very proud of him.
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I loved him dearly.
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-My only son, my best
friend, my fishing buddy,
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my hunting partner.
Just a void.
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NARRATOR: Trey Cooley
was seated in the club's
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designated safety area.
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It was an accident that
shouldn't have happened.
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Detective Tom Pease and crime
investigator David Taylor
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had a tough job-- to figure out
where the bullet that killed
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Trey Cooley came
from and to determine
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if the shooting was
accidental or intentional.
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Butch Cooley spent two
decades as a state trooper.
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Was it possible the
shooting had something
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to do with an enemy he possibly
made during his tenure?
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Or had the bullet
come from outside,
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from one of the outdoor
shooting ranges, or possibly,
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the nearby railroad
tracks where kids
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had a history of taking shots
at the air gun building.
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-Uh, the biggest problem
with this range or this scene
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was the size of it.
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It wasn't contained inside a
house, inside an apartment.
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It was outside, and it
covered several hundred feet.
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NARRATOR: The bullet
removed from Trey's skull
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would provide some answers
and raise new questions.
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The bullet was small, about
half an inch long, but lethal.
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Larry Fletcher is
the firearms expert
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who conducted the
ballistics examination.
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-The bullet was
not that damaged.
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Uh, the bullet was, uh, ridden--
rather remarkable condition.
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NARRATOR: This is a
.45 caliber bullet
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after striking a cement wall.
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It is badly mangled, especially
when compared to the bullet
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that killed Trey Cooley.
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That lack of damage could be
telling, except for one thing.
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This was not a typical
.45 caliber bullet.
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-This particular bullet is
a hand-loaded or handmade
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bullet-- it's not a
commercial-made bullet--
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in which they could add
other materials to the lead
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and make it much harder.
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Uh, it can withstand a lot
of damage, uh, upon impact.
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NARRATOR: Who makes and
uses these types of bullets?
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Butch Cooley knew.
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-Competitive shooters like to--
to load their own ammunition,
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uh, probably the reason
being, uh, the cost savings.
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NARRATOR: Most of the
competitive shooters
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on the outside ranges that day
were using handmade bullets.
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So there was little doubt that
the bullet came from somewhere
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here rather than from kids
on the railroad tracks.
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Police collected the weapons
and ammunition samples
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from the shooters
in the competition.
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When Larry Fletcher examined
the bullets used that day
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on the outside ranges, he
noticed something else.
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-The powder charge which,
uh, increased the velocity
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of this particular
type of bullet.
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NARRATOR: Basically,
the shooters
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use bullets with more gunpowder.
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More gunpowder means these
bullets travel farther
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and faster than a regular
.45 caliber bullet.
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Fletcher's next task was to
match the bullet that killed
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Trey to one of
about a dozen guns.
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Each of the guns from
the shooting competition
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were test fired and
compared to the bullet
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taken from Trey Cooley's skull.
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Fletcher had trouble
getting an exact match
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because the extra gun powder
created extremely high
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temperatures during
the firing of the gun,
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actually melting some of
the distinguishing marks.
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But Fletcher noticed a red wax
on the bullet that killed Trey.
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All shooters use a lubricating
wax, but only one of the guns
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used a red wax.
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Larry Fletcher found the gun
that fired the fatal shot.
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-At that point, I was
pretty much convinced.
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NARRATOR: A pistol competitor
named Dan Smith was using
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that gun on the day
of the competition.
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And he was firing on
this outdoor range,
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just behind the
air gun building.
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But Smith told
police he couldn't
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have fired the fatal shot.
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LARRY FLETCHER: He felt that all
his shots had made the target,
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that there were
no errant rounds.
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NARRATOR: But something just
didn't add up to Butch Cooley.
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He spent his entire
life around guns
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and won awards for
marksmanship and gun safety.
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He knew shooting ranges
are supposed to be safe.
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Accidents aren't
supposed to happen.
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It just didn't make sense.
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Police were satisfied that Trey
Cooley's death was an accident.
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The ballistics report
said the fatal bullet
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came from a gun fired
from an outdoor range
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during the competition.
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But how?
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The owner of the gun said
he didn't miss a shot.
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And the range was designed
to contain any errant bullet.
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First, there's a
barrier between the air
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gun building and
the firing range.
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It's called a berm.
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It's a small mountain of
dirt, about 12 feet high.
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The berm sits right
behind the targets
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in the event a shooter misses
either to the left or right.
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Directly above the targets
are a series of wooden planks,
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fastened end-to-end
and side-by-side.
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These are called
baffles and they're
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designed to catch bullets fired
a little high of the target
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before they leave the range.
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Then there are two
additional sets
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of baffles, one just
a few yards in front
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of the firing line and
another, called an eyebrow,
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directly over the firing line.
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Ken Buster is a safety
management consultant
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with years of
experience as a shooter
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and with a special
expertise in firing ranges.
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-Between the eyebrow, the
baffles, and the height
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of the berm, the vast
majority of any stray bullet
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would be stopped.
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-Safety should be the number
1 priority in everybody's mind
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anytime that you--
that you participate
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in marksmanship as a sport.
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Something was wrong there.
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NARRATOR: Butch Cooley
began a personal crusade
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to learn the truth.
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He needed to know how a bullet
could bypass the range's safety
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features and kill his only son.
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Butch hired Attorney Mike
Schmidt to find out where or if
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the safety system had failed.
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Schmidt put together
an investigative team.
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Steve Irwin was
the first member.
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As an accident
reconstructionist,
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his job is to create an exact
computerized three-dimensional
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scale model of the air gun
building and the firing ranges.
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Using laser technology,
precision measuring devices,
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and sophisticated
computer programs,
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Irwin would also uncover
the path of the bullet.
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-You wind up starting
at, unfortunately,
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the-- the young
boy getting shot,
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and then working
your way backwards.
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NARRATOR: Police had
already identified
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some important clues.
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The outside wall of
the air gun building
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was riddled with bullet
holes from all angles.
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Irwin needed to know exactly
which one was the culprit.
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Police also found bullet
holes inside the building--
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in a sheetrock strip to
protect the lighting fixture
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and in a wall that
separated the indoor range
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from a storage shed.
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There was also a fresh gouge
in an ordinary ceiling tile.
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Irwin's laser survey equipment
traced the bullet's path
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from where Trey was sitting
through all those points--
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from Trey through the sheetrock
strip, off the ceiling tile,
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and through the back wall.
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It seemed unlikely, but
it matched the evidence.
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-It-- it was roughly
a straight line.
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But I couldn't see
from the interior wall
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to the exterior wall.
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And it-- it wasn't until we
got it back to the office
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and got it mapped
that-- that it formed
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this remarkably straight line.
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NARRATOR: A straight
line that led directly
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to one of the bullet holes
in the aluminum siding
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then down to the shooting
range behind air gun building.
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It led to the range where Dan
Smith was shooting, but oddly
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enough, not to the firing line.
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The laser pinpointed
a path that landed
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10 yards in front
of the firing line.
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When Ken Buster was brought
into the investigation,
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he immediately inspected
the firing range
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to see if there was any way
a bullet could get past all
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of the range's safety features.
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Buster delivered
a scathing report.
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-At the time and
now, I still think
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that was the worst range
that I have ever seen.
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NARRATOR: He found dozens
of potentially deadly safety
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flaws.
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KEN BUSTER: The berm
separating the back range
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from the front range was
not the standard height,
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which is supposed to be 20 feet.
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NARRATOR: The berm behind
the air gun building
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was only 12 feet high.
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The baffles were
far below standard.
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The wooden planks
should have had
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a steel or concrete backing.
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And look closely at
the planks themselves.
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They had separated,
leaving big gaps.
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A bullet could
easily pass through.
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KEN BUSTER: In this case,
the baffle might well has not
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have been there and
served no purpose at all.
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NARRATOR: And Buster was
appalled by the bullet
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holes in the back
of the building.
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KEN BUSTER: Several of these
holes had been plugged.
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That means to me as a safety
person, as a range person,
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as a long-time
shooter that they knew
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that bullets were getting
out of that range.
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And they accepted that fact
and continued to shoot.
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NARRATOR: The laser analysis
projected the bullet path
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to the middle of
the outdoor range,
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well in front of
the firing line.
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How could this be?
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It was due to a
monumental blunder.
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During the competition,
shooters were required
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to fire from several distances--
first, from the firing
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line at 25 yards; then they
moved forward to 20 yards;
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and finally, to 15 yards.
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The laser study showed
that the fatal bullet
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was fired from the 15-yard line.
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The architectural model
shows the problem clearly.
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By firing from the
15-yard line, shooters
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had to move in
front of the eyebrow
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and the first set of
protected baffles.
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And Irwin's computer also showed
another frightening reality.
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From the 15-yard
line, you could see
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the back of the
air gun building.
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KEN BUSTER: If you can
see it, you can shoot it.
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And any projectile that might
leave the range in that area
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was going to hit that building.
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NARRATOR: The laser
showed the bullet flew
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under the last baffle, over the
berm, and into the building.
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It involved a
bizarre trajectory.
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It meant that the shooter missed
the target high and to the left
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by more than 5 feet--
a terrible miss.
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How could a trained
marksman miss a target
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by that much from
only 15 yards away?
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Part of that answer was
found in the gun itself.
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Close examination revealed
it had been modified.
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-It's like taking a standard
car, making it a hot rod.
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NARRATOR: Some competitive
shooters filed down
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parts of the gun
to make it easier
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to pull the trigger quickly.
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DAVID TAYLOR: They've, uh, got
it set to where they go off
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so easily, where they fire
two rounds instead of one.
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It feeds so fast.
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NARRATOR: The result is
called doubling, which
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sometimes occurs
as the gun recoils.
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A recoil is the backward
force created by the explosion
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pushing the gun up in the air.
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Each type of gun
recoils differently.
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-A .45 creates a recoil
up and to the left.
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NARRATOR: Kirk
Parks had the task
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of producing the
computerized proof,
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a fact-based animation
of what happened.
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His firm specializes
in forensic animation.
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Parks videotaped hundreds of
.45 caliber pistol shots using
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the same type pistol
and ammunition.
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He used this footage to
create an exact computerized
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reproduction of the
recoil for the animation.
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-And we shot the video
from the top of the weapon.
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And we shot it from the side.
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And we shot it from the front.
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NARRATOR: Next, Parks
created wire-frame models
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of a competitive
shooter in action,
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and then animated Irwin's
laser studies of the firing
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range and the bullet path
to complete the picture.
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KIRK PARKS: It produced
the exact results
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necessary to generate
the bullet path that
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was surveyed-- up
and to the left.
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DAVID TAYLOR: I can't say for
sure that the gun doubled.
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But all of the evidence, uh,
seems to indicate that it did.
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And it fired during the
uncontrollable recoil.
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NARRATOR: This
forensic animation
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was able to show what
happened to Trey Cooley
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on the morning of
September 29, 1991.
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But the animation
showed that the bullet
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took a remarkable journey, one
which almost defied belief.
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When Trey Cooley entered
the Dallas Pistol & Revolver
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Club on September
29, 1991, the range
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was a tragedy just
waiting to strike.
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Outside on the firing range
behind the air gun building,
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Dan Smith, one of the last
competitors of the day,
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steps up to the 15-yard line.
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This moves him in front of
two sets of safety baffles.
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Using a modified
gun, Smith takes aim
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and squeezes the trigger.
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In a fraction of a
second, another shot
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is fired during the recoil
phase of the original shot.
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It happened so
quickly, the shooter
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doesn't know it left the gun.
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The bullet misses the
target high and to the left.
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Traveling upwards, it passes
underneath the last set
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of protected baffles and
just 3 inches over the berm.
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It's speeding at
1,200 feet per second.
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The bullet blasts through
the aluminum siding,
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goes through a storage room,
misses a broom and some pipes
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by less than an inch, and then
breaks through a second wall,
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entering the air gun range.
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Then the bullet does
something unbelievable.
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It strikes an
ordinary ceiling tile.
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And for some unknown
reason, it doesn't
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blast straight
through into the roof.
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Instead, it skids along
the tile for 7 inches
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before mysteriously
changing direction, making
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a 10-degree turn and
begins a downward path.
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It slows to about
900 feet per second,
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penetrates a plaster wall,
and enters Trey Cooley's head.
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[music playing]
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The Cooley family filed a
negligence suit against the gun
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club and individuals involved
with the competition.
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The judge who presided
over the civil case
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was impressed with the visual
and computerized evidence.
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-I've been on the
bench 6 and 1/2 years,
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and I would say that's
in the top 2 or 3 or 4,
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in terms of just the--
the professionalism
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and the effectiveness
of-- of the,
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uh demonstrative evidence
brought into court.
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NARRATOR: The Cooley's attorney
says the forensic animation
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and model explained this tragedy
in a way nothing else could.
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-I could not have
possibly gotten the result
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that I got on behalf of the
Cooley family without them.
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NARRATOR: The
animation also helped
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Butch Cooley understand what
had happened to his son.
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But there is still little
peace for Trey's dad.
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-What's peace?
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It is taking one day at a time.
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NARRATOR: Change just
one thing and Trey
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Cooley might be alive today.
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The range.
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-It wouldn't have happened
because I would not
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have allowed that competition to
occur on that particular range.
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NARRATOR: The gun.
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-They may not even
be aware that it's
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double-firing or
slam-firing on them.
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They may think it's
properly functioning.
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NARRATOR: The bullet.
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-If it had been a softer bullet,
they may not have ricocheted
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as much, would not
have had the velocity.
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NARRATOR: Or if the
shooter had been standing
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at the proper firing line, the
shot would have hit the baffle
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or flown over the building.
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But why did this fatal
bullet change direction
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as it hit the soft ceiling tile
instead of blasting straight
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through as it did
with the hard walls?
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00:21:40,999 --> 00:21:43,534
-Bullets can do
incredible things--
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things they're not
expected to do.
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NARRATOR: These thoughts
haunt Butch Cooley.
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No explanation can
ease the pain felt
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by a father who
woke his son early--
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-Want to go or not?
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NARRATOR: --one
September morning.
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-No, no, I want to go.
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00:21:56,748 --> 00:21:57,782
-I should have let him sleep.
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