Why It’s Possible A Bullet From Juarez Shootout Could Hit UTEP’s Bell Hall
Several members of the ABC-7 newsroom were skeptical when UTEP’s president said campus police believed a bullet from Saturday’s shootout in Juarez, Mexico hit a building on UTEP’s inner campus.
Given that the bullet entered a window in the door on the southern side of the Bell Hall and embedded itself into a doorway about five feet inside the building, the bullet could only have been fired from a limited area. Drawing trajectories out from where the bullet struck inner office door out through the outer building door, a limited area of origin emerges. Extending this area into Mexico, we create an area that shows where the bullet may have been fired from.
In the red shaded region from the map lies the area where the shootout occurred Saturday night, lending credibility to the possibility of the origin of the bullet being from Mexico.
Trajectory only tells part of the story, the distance between the shootout and Bell Hall is only .6 of a mile – well within a stray bullet’s traveling range.
Also, the red shaded region contains very few obstructions, and more importantly, slopes down from the campus toward Mexico. There is about a 115-foot elevation difference between the two sites, which means the bullet would be traveling predominantly through clear air.
We’re not saying it DID come from Mexico, but we’re saying it’s definitely possible.
ABC-7 meteorologist Jennifer Myers has a minor in mathematics and a strong background in physics
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