When you shoot a kid and your story changes, it is usually bad news.
Agreed. I also worry about being that terrible a shot with a rifle. How does a rifle shot miss the driver and hit a front seat passenger at a distance so close that the vehicle was a danger to either yourself or another cop? You don't take the shot if you are in whatever condition/position the shooter was in that resulted in that bad a miss at close range. Something does not seem to add up, to put it mildly.