“The gun was to be loaded with dummy rounds, not blanks, and reportedly had at least three dummy rounds in it.”
The reporting is moving fast on this story, but that’s news to me. Was that included in the press conference with the Sheriff and the DA, or in a separate media story?
Pretty sure I read it in an article that was quoting from a press conference. They said most rounds found in the gun had a hole in them to indicate dummy rounds. Another one may also have been a dummy, but lacked the hole.
It’s also logical. In a close-up shot as this scene was staged for, they would want dummy rounds in there visible to the camera.