[berkeleybeej]

I posted this on the other thread, but seeing as this one is more active, I repost:

Article says she was shot in the lower back - Sounds like a less skilled shooter.

The article also says that it was NOT a high powered weapon.

Question re "high powered" - The weapons that the police displayed at their press conference today as samples included an AR-15 and a long gun with scope. Are these both "high powered"?

[Shooter 2.5]

The media considers anything over a .22 rimfire to be "high powered".

[sheik yerbouty]

Not compared to 7.82 NATO.

[mamelukesabre]

Technically, anything with a rimless cartridge, or a bottle necked cartridge, or not loaded with authentic black powder is "high powered". That means practically everything is "high powered" save for the old 22 rimfire and some old fashioned lever action carbines that shoot pistol ammo.

[GirlShortstop]

Sounds like a less skilled shooter.

Maybe because its a different vehicle (truck ditched)?

[El Gato]

The article also says that it was NOT a high powered weapon.

Actually it says "appears" not to be a high powered rifle. But, since they haven't recovered the bullet yet, or hadn't when the article was written, there' a lot of speculation and very little usefull evidence behind that statement. It might have been a bad shot, maybe a sudden gust of wind or something, that just grazed her side, with the entrance and exit wounds not all that far apart, leaving little distance for the bullet to yaw or deform, in fact the natural yaw, could have taken the bullet away from her spine and towards the outside, producing a through and through wound, with fairly small exit and entrance size.