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J. C.'s version tends to confirm the most complete condensation toward which I was working as an exercise objective. The maximum justifiable (though still admittedly hypothetical) condensation is to restrict the known shooting events to the ones for which there was physical evidence observed by non-resident third parties:
- the living room window shots
- whatever shots were fired in the front yard outside the front door
These are the only two events for which investigators found spent shells and specific gunshot damages.
If they're pushed late / later in the evening (as, e.g., J. C. claimed) it makes for a compact series of events promoting panic and motivating the rushed evacuation to Hopkinsville.
This basically leaves two additional scenes to either explain or dismiss:
- whatever happened earlier in the evening to start this whole thing (first sighting / first shooting)
- whatever happened (and when, and where ... ) at the time Ms. Glennie fell / fainted / whatever
According to almost all accounts the first of these additional two events or scenes involves Taylor. It seems to me this condensed overview reveals a distinction between the Taylor-involved version of events and the Sutton-enumerated version of events. The trickiest bit relating to these seemingly divergent narratives is the fact Ms. Glennie herself cited Taylor as a shooter after 2200. If it weren't for that it would be tempting to consider a two-part evening storyline with Taylor heavily involved in the earlier part, J. C. taking his place in the last part, and Lucky heavily and prominently involved throughout.
- the living room window shots
- whatever shots were fired in the front yard outside the front door
These are the only two events for which investigators found spent shells and specific gunshot damages.
If they're pushed late / later in the evening (as, e.g., J. C. claimed) it makes for a compact series of events promoting panic and motivating the rushed evacuation to Hopkinsville.
This basically leaves two additional scenes to either explain or dismiss:
- whatever happened earlier in the evening to start this whole thing (first sighting / first shooting)
- whatever happened (and when, and where ... ) at the time Ms. Glennie fell / fainted / whatever
According to almost all accounts the first of these additional two events or scenes involves Taylor. It seems to me this condensed overview reveals a distinction between the Taylor-involved version of events and the Sutton-enumerated version of events. The trickiest bit relating to these seemingly divergent narratives is the fact Ms. Glennie herself cited Taylor as a shooter after 2200. If it weren't for that it would be tempting to consider a two-part evening storyline with Taylor heavily involved in the earlier part, J. C. taking his place in the last part, and Lucky heavily and prominently involved throughout.