1.   Although ballistics tests have not been completed, authorities said the shootings appear connected by both proximity and timing.

2.   Ballistics tests could link the gun that killed McLaughlin, as yet unrecovered, to other gang shootings.

3.   Ballistics tests should show whether the bullet holes in the Mercedes came from shots the deputies fired.

4.   Ballistics tests determined that the shells from the motel murder matched the gun used to kill Lebewohl.

5.   Ballistics tests determined that Tillery was shot by a fellow officer.

6.   Ballistics tests to determine whose bullet killed Jones have been inconclusive.

7.   Ballistics tests are pending, the prosecutor said, but his remarks indicated they would be anticlimactic.

8.   Ballistics tests were ordered.

9.   Ballistics tests and a witness account suggested that Gaines was running from Colecchia when the shots were fired, investigators have said.

10.   Ballistics tests linked those guns to the shots that killed Hawkins.