1.25 miles
The Physics of Bullets
Fired Into the Air
Police investigators have determined that the police officers who were injured near the Art Museum on July 4 were struck by 40-caliber bullets fired from the same gun. According to police, a 40-caliber bullet, fired unimpeded straight up into the air, could travel about 1.25 miles before tumbling back to earth.
Investigators also believe the shots that struck the officers may have been fired by someone a mile or more away. About 71,000 residents live within a one-mile radius of the Art Museum.
1.2 miles
1,121 ft.
Where officers
were struck by bullets
548 ft.
0.4 miles
City Hall
Comcast Technology Center
Approximate
height of a
40-caliber bullet fired into the air
Art
Museum
SOURCE: Philadelphia Police Department
JOHN DUCHNESKIE / Staff Artist
The Physics of Bullets Fired Into the Air
1.25 miles
Police investigators have determined that the police officers who were injured near the Art Museum on July 4 were struck by 40-caliber bullets fired from the same gun. According to police, a 40-caliber bullet, fired unimpeded straight up into the air, could travel about 1.25 miles before tumbling back to earth.
Investigators also believe the shots that struck the officers may have been fired by someone a mile or more away. About 71,000 residents live within a one-mile radius of the Art Museum.
1.2 miles
1,121 ft.
Where officers
were struck by bullets
548 ft.
0.4 miles
City Hall
Comcast Technology Center
Approximate
height of a
40-caliber bullet fired into the air
Art
Museum
SOURCE: Philadelphia Police Department
JOHN DUCHNESKIE / Staff Artist
The Physics of Bullets
Fired Into the Air
Police investigators have determined that the police officers who were injured near the Art Museum on July 4 were struck by 40-caliber bullets fired from the same gun. According to police, a 40-caliber bullet, fired unimpeded straight up into the air, could travel about
1.25 miles before tumbling back to earth.
Investigators also believe the shots that struck the officers may have been fired by someone
a mile or more away. About 71,000 residents live within a one-mile radius of the Art Museum.
1.25 miles
1.2 miles
1,121 ft.
Where officers
were struck by bullets
548 ft.
0.4 miles
Art
Museum
City
Hall
Comcast
Technology
Center
Approximate
height of a
40-caliber
bullet fired
into the air
SOURCE: Philadelphia Police Department
JOHN DUCHNESKIE / Staff Artist