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Red Circle Marking a Claimed Exit Trace

Low resolution cropped photo of seated spectators at an outdoor event with a hand-drawn red circle around a small white mark on dark trousers in the lower left

What This Image Shows

A low-resolution vertical crop of seated spectators at the outdoor event, with a man in profile wearing a blue shirt and glasses and a young woman seated behind him. A hand-drawn red circle in the lower left marks a small white spot on a dark surface, apparently trousers.

The file name given to this image states the claim being made: that the circled white mark is something leaving the frame after impact. That cannot be established from the pixels. A single bright spot on dark fabric at this resolution is equally consistent with a specular highlight, dust, a piece of paper, or compression noise, and it is stationary in a single frame.

It is retained as part of the record of the frame-by-frame review of the courtyard video, alongside the other circled-detail images in this cluster. The claims that can actually be tested — the acoustic timing, the wound geometry, the recovered fragment — are treated at Acoustic Two-Event Split, Wound Trajectory Angle, and ATF Fragment Inconclusive.

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