Or one shot each to the face, neck, stomach, liver, and lung? We'll probably never find out for sure.
You are most likely right that we will never find out for sure.
Way back in the day, I got a university degree in journalism--I worked as a newspaper writer for about 6 months then transferred to the advertising sales side of the business for the extra cash potential.
However, all through j-school, and throughout my brief tenure with the San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune, it was stressed that anything I reported as true had to be absolutely verifiable. Guesses were not allowed. Suppositions were not allowed. If I reported that the bad guy had a .38 Special Smith & Wesson, and it later turned out that he had a Colt, I was in for a serious butt-chewing. Report 5 shots, there had better have been 5, not 4 and not 6.
Accuracy seems to have left the building. Journalism, as a profession dedicated to reporting the simple facts without inserting personal feeling or values, seems to be a forgotten art.
I'm glad I'm old and probably won't have to witness its final demise.
Crusader