I think the problem is the ignorance of the reporter. Of course the bullet hit the phone, not the casing. The reporter probably doesn’t know the difference. I was tempted to edit the story before posting.
I'm sure it was the reporter. Changing the story is a no-no, however. Let it stand. Let we readers see the ignorance that's out there in MSM land.
Speaking of editing the story - we saw the story on a local television station, and it was severely edited. I asked hubby after the news clip if he didn’t think something was missing from that story, such as the who, what, when, where, and how of the bullet.
This is the first I’m hearing of the area in which the victim lives, that hunters hunted in the woods near their home, and that gunshots were heard frequently there.
There was no mention of a possible source of the bullet in our local station’s story. It was as if it simply materialized out of thin air, fell from the sky, and struck the man’s cellphone.