11.   By Monday afternoon, officers had failed to find even the bullet casings or other evidence, said Detective Mike Coffey of the Los Angeles Police Department.

12.   Empty bullet casings cover the ground.

13.   Everywhere on the ground were shiny brass bullet casings, ejected after the rounds were fired, testimony to the intense fire-fight described by Afghan tribal troops.

14.   He was wearing fatigues and had bullet casings near where he was still seated, dead with a head wound, in rubble.

15.   Nowadays the streets are more likely to sport crushed syringes, spent bullet casings and the chalk outlines of hapless citizenry.

16.   On Thursday night, the police cordoned off the areas where the victims were found, interviewed witnesses and searched the grass for bullet casings.

17.   Police Inspector Dave Boyd said bullet casings were found in the lane behind the house.

18.   Pope Paul VI Street, through the heart of Bethlehem, was littered with bullet casings and burned-out cars.

19.   She said that the bullet casings were recovered in the store, and they matched the gun that Vernon was carrying when he was arrested outside the store.

20.   She sits behind his desk sometimes, a green bowl of spent bullet casings within reach.