Very difficult buy this story. If the shooter was 1.5 miles away, how could he even know that he’d shot somebody?
Moreover, if he didn’t turn himself in to the authorities, how could the cops have traced the projectile to his rifle?
>>Very difficult buy this story. If the shooter was 1.5 miles away, how could he even know that he’d shot somebody?
Moreover, if he didn’t turn himself in to the authorities, how could the cops have traced the projectile to his rifle?<<
He probably had no idea he’s shot someone. But in farm country, a circle of 2-mile radius might only contain five to ten people, and more than likely only one or two owners of muzzleloaders. The neighbors probably could have guessed who it was if told it was a muzzleloader and an accident.
“Oh, yeah, that must have been Luke over yonder; he’s a little slow and has one of those muzzleloaders, I hear.”
Not quite the same as tracking down the shooter in a city.
By the way, another explanation for the 1.5 miles (a distance which I find hard to believe) is that he could 1.5 miles away down the road, but just over the hill and only about X yards as the crow flies. Around here, a house can be a few hundred yards from another house, but still two or three miles down the road to get to it. Just a suggestion as to another possibility...
Amish - so it's a small rural community. Something this horrific and inexplicable is immediately the only news in the area, and people are doing nothing but talking about it, thinking about it, and trying to figure out what happened.
So, some guy who knows he's a mile and a half away from where it happened remembered he fired his rifle right at th time the girl was calculated to have been shot. Or - someone knew he fired it because they saw him or heard the shot. In any event, very quickly it's known who fired the rifle.