PRESCOTT, ARIZONA
Ronald R. Scott, M.A., MSc.
FIREARMS & BALLISTICS EXPERT, SHOOTING RECONSTRUCTION, POLICE SHOOTINGS
Firearms & Ballistics Expert Witness ▪ Shooting Reconstruction Expert & Investigations ▪ Toolmarks & Comparison Microscopy ▪ Dynamics of Shooting Incidents ▪ Crime Scenes ▪ Gunshot Distance ▪ Daubert Consultation ▪ Gunshot Wounds ▪ Hunting & Firearms Safety ▪ Trajectory Analysis ▪ Gunshot Residue (GSR) Interpretation and Analysis
MR. SCOTT'S BACKGROUND
- Over 55 years of total experience with 43 years of forensic expertise in shooting reconstruction, police involved shootings, firearms, and ballistics.
- Since 2002, an independent forensic consultant specializing in Shooting Reconstruction, Police Shootings, Firearms, and Ballistics.
- Former Commanding Officer of the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab (Firearms/Ballistics) providing forensic services to 350 cities & towns, all state agencies, military services, and Federal Agencies (except FBI); and responsibility for all Police Department shooting evaluations as a member of the State Police Shooting Review Board.
- Casework and testimony in all 50 states and in Canada, Haiti, Great Britain, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, U.S. Virgin Islands, Colombia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines.
- 25+ years as a Massachusetts State Police Officer with numerous command positions including Staff Inspector, Station Commander, Troop Shift Commander, Operations Section Commander, and with the Armorer Section.
- U.S. Army veteran (1963-66); Ordnance Corps as an Explosive Ordnance Technician & Small Arms Repair specialist. Crew Chief of .50 Caliber MG; participated in Operation PowerPack (1965). Graduate of the Army Ordnance School; Paratrooper School; and assigned to Aberdeen Proving Ground (MD) and the 40th Ordnance Company. Certification & trained in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) in Vilseck, Germany.
- Mr. Scott has been retained in thousands of cases for prosecutors, U.S. Attorneys General, District Attorneys, military attorneys, defendants & plaintiffs, engineers, authors, insurance companies, civic organizations, firing ranges, Innocence Projects and private citizens.
- In December, 2021 Mr. Scott completed his 5 year appointment as a member of American Academy of Forensic Sciences Standards Board, and is a member of the International Assoc for Identification, International Assoc of Chiefs of Police, and former member of the Association of Firearms and Toolmark Examiners.
- Mr. Scott holds degrees in Master of Arts, Master of Science, and Bachelor of Science Cum Laude and was enrolled in a Master of Business Administration Degree with a one year focus on Macroeconomics, Policy and Analysis; additional law enforcement post-graduate study at the American International College he has completed the Bureau of ATF National Firearms Examiner Academy along with other nationally recognized forensic and investigative programs.
Mr. Scott testifying in New Mexico Superior Court (Torres v Albuquerque Police).