the Ballistics Chief of the Criminal Records Bureau of the National Civil Police to order a ballistics test so as to “establish the weapon to which the shells found at the crime scene belong, or if a comparison can be made with those in the archives.” 166 He also submitted the analysis conducted by the Technical Scientific Department of the Public Prosecution Service. The file contains no evidence of a response to this request. 109. On April 12, 2005, the investigating agent asked the Head of the Civil Registry of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal for information on Messrs. L.L. and M.M. 167Although the file contains no evidence of a response to this request, it does contain the identification numbers (I.D. cards) and information on the occupations of those individuals. 168 Similarly, on April 19, 2005, the agent asked the Department of Arms and Munitions Control of the Ministry of National Defense whether it had any record of a firearms license being issued to Messrs. L.L. and M.M. 169 In response, on May 3, 2005, the Department reported that it had not issued any firearm licenses to those individuals nor were any firearms registered in their names. 170 110. The file shows that the Assistant Human Rights Prosecutor, the DICIR investigator and the Assistant Prosecutor of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, carried out the “procedure of preparing a layout plan” at the crime scene. 171 Subsequently, on April 25, 2005, the Crime Scene Specialists Unit of the DICRI made a sketch of the location where Mr. A.A.’s body was found, based on information provided by the Assistant Prosecutor of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa who visited the scene on the day of the incident. The DICRI Investigator then sent a report to the Assistant Human Rights Prosecutor on April 29, 2005. 172 111. At the same time, in a brief of April 28, 2005, the investigating agent assigned to the case asked the District Prosecutor of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa to send the negatives of all the photographs taken at the crime scene on December 20, 2004. He also requested that the agent of that office who visited the crime scene render a report on specific points of the procedures carried out on that occasion. 173 On May 4, 2005, the Assistant Prosecutor of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa submitted a report in response to that request. 174 112. On May 9 and 11, 2005, May 24 and 29, August 17 and September 29, 2006, and March 13, 2007, the investigating agent and his assistant took several statements. 175 Similarly, on August 25, 2006, the Assistant Prosecutor and the DICRI investigator the Technical-Scientific Department of the Criminal Investigations Directorate of the Public Prosecution Service (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 1175 and 1176). 166 Cf. Letter of August 1, 2006 from the Assistant Prosecutor of the Human Rights Section to the Head of Ballistics of the Criminal Records Bureau of the National Civil Police (File of attachments to submission brief, page 986). 167 Cf. Letter of April 11, 2005 prepared by the investigating agent of the Office of the Human Rights Prosecutor of the Public Prosecution Service, addressed to the Head of the Civil Registry of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and received on April 12, 2005 (File of attachments to submission brief, page 834). 168 Cf. Report of August 30, 2005 prepared by the DICRI Investigators (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 931 a 934). 169 Cf. Letter of April 19, 2005 from the Agent of the Human Rights Prosecutor to the Head of the Department of Arms and Munitions Control of the Ministry of Defense (File of attachments to submission brief, page 850). 170 Cf. Letter of May 3, 2005 from Infantry Colonel DEM and Head of the Department of Arms and Munitions Control, to the Agent of the Special Prosecutor for Human Rights (File of attachments to submission brief, page 857). 171 Cf. Record of the procedure to prepare a map (File of attachments to submission brief, page 848). 172 Cf. Letter of April 29, 2005 from the DICRI investigators to the Assistant Prosecutor of the Special Human Rights Prosecutor (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 858 and 859). 173 Cf. Letter of April 28, 2005 from the Assistant Prosecutor of the Public Prosecution Service to the District Prosecutor of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa of the Public Prosecution Service (File of attachments to submission brief, page 849). 174 Cf. Letter of May 4, 2005 from the Assistant Prosecutor of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa to the Assistant Human Rights Prosecutor of the Public Prosecution Service (File of attachments to submission brief, page 855). 175 Cf. Statement of May 9, 2005 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 860 to 862); Statement of May 11, 2005 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 863 to 867); Statement of May 11, 2005 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 868 to 870); Statements of May 24, 2006 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 954 to 958); Statements of May 29, 2006 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 962 and 963); Statement of August 17, 2006 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 1053 to 1058); Statement of August 17, 2006 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 1068 to 1073); Statement of August 17, 2006 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 1074 to 1080); Statement of September 29, 2006 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 1104 and 1105), and Statement of March 13, 2007 (File of attachments to submission brief, pages 1165 to 1167). 34