[kinghorse]

They are hauling off a big tree trunk. There may be bullet fragments in the tree.

[battlecry]

Did they arrest a tree???

[Bush2000]

They are hauling off a big tree trunk.

Oh, shit. Now they've done it. The Earth First freaks will be all over them like a cheap suit.

[DmBarch]

They are hauling off a big tree trunk. There may be bullet fragments in the tree.

There is no way there could be more than a couple of shots, if any, from a standard .223 in that trunk before the police were called. The round is just too loud for that urban neighborhood. You could have a handload with a small amount of fast powder at perhaps 1700 fps with much reduced noise. That also might account for the short ranges used for the killings.