"Jill Walston told WNCN-TV she was a passenger in a car hit by an unknown shooter’s bullet just after 2 p.m. on Monday."
The gun hating media will certainly exaggerate the findings.... "detectives determined where the shots were coming from and recovered a spent round, which turned out to be a pellet from a high-powered pellet rifle." How do they know it was a high powered pellet rifle?
"He said the gunshot “radiated throughout the vehicle,” and he knew he hadn’t just hit road debris."
"After the two returned home they noticed the hole in the car’s passenger side, near where Jill Walston had been sitting. A sheriff’s deputy confirmed it was from a bullet, she said."
"More pellet ammunition and several rounds of BBs were found there." Pellets and BBs tells us it was most likely a pump up rifle or CO2 rifle.
What this kid did was stupid and dangerous. No one in their right mind would condone or try to defend his/her actions, but the police and news can't get their stories straight. Was it a bullet or was it a pellet? What kind of cop can't distinguish the difference in a pellet or bullet? What size is the hole? Was the hole in the glass or a steel body panel?
I'm sorry but I spent 25 years in law enforcement, (now retired) and no police press release of ours would have stated a bullet without conclusive evidence such as a shell casing at the scene, or a recovered slug.
If it was pellet than say so. But then a pellet shooting kid isn't sensational enough to boost ratings, so let's say "bullet" and maybe we should describe this kid as a terrorist too.
Maybe he was shooting slugs, the story doesn’t say. I would say he’d have to be pretty high powered to put a hole in a car moving at highway speed.