Bosma day 21

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A photo of a hand holding a gun was used to positively identify Dellen Millard, through fingerprints at the Tim Bosma murder trial today. Police took Dellen Millard’s fingerprints when he was arrested May 10th 2013 and in February of the following year, they sent a picture of a gun they found on one of his computers to the fingerprint experts at Toronto police.

The photo is a closeup of a section of what looks like a gun, with Walther PPK 9mm etched in the metal. You can see the ridges on the finger holding the gun; ridges that would leave fingerprints.
When Toronto police got the photo they had no idea what case it was linked to. The fingerprint data base always brings back 20 possibilities to be checked by an expert. Dellen Millard’s fingerprint came up in the system.

Earlier the jury also heard from a gunshot residue expert. He found gunshot residue in the top tray of a yellow toolbox, meaning that a gun, or someone who touched a gun was inside the box. He also testified that he had never seen so much gunshot residue inside a vehicle as he did inside Tim Bosma’s truck. He concluded the gun was fired inside the vehicle, the concentration of residue was highest in the roof above the passenger side, which is where the gun would have gone off and next the roof above the driver. The expert could not say however, where the shooter was sitting in the truck.

We also starting hearing from a video analyst today who took surveillance footage from several businesses and compared Dellen Millard’s Yukon and Tim Bosma’s pickup truck to images caught in the footage. There are videos from near Tim Bosma’s house, near where his phone was found in Brantford and near Dellen Millard’s farm in Ayr. That witness will be back on the stand tomorrow morning.