There was a fourth person “shot” by the lawyer. Another student who skedaddled when the noise started got back to his room and found that the book he was carrying had a bullet in it.
***the book he was carrying had a bullet in it.***
Interesting point. Years ago I read in the newspaper that Indians would often carry off books from a homestead they raided.
They used the pages to stuff between the leather of their shields as they found it would stop bullets.