[muawiyah]

But the people commiting the crime did so as a group. They are each responsible for their own or other deaths that resulted in any way from their criminal acts.

If they hadn't commited the crime, nobody would have been shot.

It's all very clear to me.

[Reeses]

I agree they are responsible, just not that they committed murder by its English definition. Call it something else. Dictionaries shouldn’t require GPS receivers.