What if the victims laptop revealed an intimate relationship with the victim? What if the laptop showed the shooter had borrowed $10,000 from the victim and had never paid it off?
They search the victims residences in crimes like homicides so they can determine if there was any personal connection or relationship with the killer etc.
Sure. But, wouldn't that evidence come from actually searching the shooters papers and effects. Then a warrant could have been issued for the victim if evidence presented itself. This is opposite. This is info based on the shooter; 'evidence or knowledge' she wouldn't know if she hadn't illegally entered his apartment.