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Agents at the Wooded Roadside, Late Afternoon

Four law enforcement officers at the edge of a wooded area beside a paved road in late afternoon light, focused on something within the dense foliage

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Four law enforcement officers stand at the edge of a wooded area beside a paved road, lit by low, warm late-afternoon sun casting long shadows. One wears the navy FBI EVIDENCE RESPONSE TEAM shirt; another has an identification badge clipped to her hip pocket. Two are wearing nitrile gloves, one pair black and one white. Their attention is on something inside the dense foliage rather than on the open ground.

Gloves on and attention directed into the brush is the posture of handling rather than searching. The light also dates the frame within the day — this is late in an afternoon, not a morning sweep.

The timing of the search along this corridor is one of the specific questions researchers have pressed, because the rifle recovery is central to the case against the accused and the sequence has never been laid out publicly in detail. See Gun Discovery Sequence, Rifle Found After Feds, and Discovery Delays.

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