Possible evidence at Muhammad trial
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(CNN) -- Some of the evidence from the shooting of Dean Harold Meyers for the trial of John Allen Muhammad has become known in court filings, pretrial hearings, and a two-day preliminary hearing for Lee Boyd Malvo, the 18-year-old accused of conspiring with Muhammad in the shootings.
In the preliminary hearing, testimony focused on these areas:
• Ballistics. A Prince William County crime scene investigator testified that a medical examiner recovered 14 bullet fragments from Meyers' head. Walter A. Dandridge Jr. of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives testified that the splintered bullet was fired from the Bushmaster rifle found in Muhammad's car "to the exclusion of all other firearms."
• Fingerprints. FBI fingerprint specialist Mitchell Hollars testified that he found two fingerprints on the Bushmaster rifle, both of which belonged to Malvo. Muhammad's prints were not on the rifle.
• The car. David McGill, a forensic specialist with the Montgomery County, Maryland, police, described searching the 1990 Chevrolet Caprice after Muhammad and Malvo were arrested at a Maryland rest stop. He said the car's back seat was hinged so it would lift up. "In addition to that," he said, "while you would normally expect there to be a solid barrier between the trunk and the ... rear passenger area, that section of metal had been removed so that one could see directly through the entire trunk area from the back seat."
• Other items recovered from the car. McGill said they included a green duffel bag containing vitamins, personal items, a rifle scope, a Global Positioning System unit and a rifle magazine.
• The map. After the shooting, a map of Baltimore and Baltimore County, Maryland, was discovered in the parking lot of a Bob Evans restaurant across the street from the Sunoco station where Meyers was killed. The map contained both Muhammad's and Malvo's fingerprints, investigators testified.
