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BOSTON - The B adidas campus oston Marathon bombers fired 56 bullets at police during a violent confrontation days after the 2013 attack, a ballistics expert testified Tuesday during the federal death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.State Police Lt. David Cahill said 56 shell casings from a 9mm, semi-automatic Ruger handgun were found at the scene of a battle in Watertown between Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, and police April 19, 2013. The same Ruger gun had been used to kill Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier hours earlie adidas campus r, Cahill said.Police fired 210 bullets during the battle, the lieutenant said. Boston bombing trial focuses on dramatic shootout with Tsarnaev brothers 02:48 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev s af1 lawyers say it was Tamerlan who shot Collier and used the gun during the battle with police. Dzhokhar is charged in the bombings, in Collier s shooting and in the Watertown confrontation. Tamerlan, 26, died after the shootout. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured in the marathon bombings.A close friend testified last week that he let Dzhokhar borrow the Ruger handgun about two months before the marathon bombings after Dzhokhar told him he wanted to rob some students from the University of Rhode Island. The friend, Ste