Shooting reconstruction may also include the laboratory analysis of the evidence recovered at the scene.
Once all reasonable explanations have been considered, one can evaluate the significance of witness or suspect accounts of the incident.
In many cases valuable evidence necessary for reconstruction analysis exists at the crime scene.
Should this evidence go undocumented or unrecovered during the initial processing of the shooting scene, the information it can give investigators may be lost forever.
Some of the questions typically answered by a shooting reconstruction investigation include (but not limited to) the distance of the shooter from the target, The path of the bullet(s), The number of shots fired and possibly the sequence of multiple discharges at a shooting incident.