Thursday, October 27, 2011 | 10:30am-11:45pm | MQH 324
Mark Bennett, ” Shooting Incident Reconstruction”
Criminalist, Oakland Police Department

About the Speaker

Mark graduated from University of London in 1989 with a Masters Degree in Forensic Science. He worked for the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory in London, where he trained as a firearms examiner in the “Gun Room” firearms unit. He has worked as a firearms examiner for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and is currently the Supervising Criminalist in firearms at the Oakland Police Department Crime Laboratory. He is a member of the Association of Firearms and Toolmark Examiners and the California Association of Criminalists. He has worked on many hundreds of murder cases including the murder of police Sergeant Dale Green in Tallahassee Florida, the “Black Muslim Bakery” murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey and the March 21st 2009 murders of four Oakland Police Officers.