There's are two things that argue against presuming Taylor was never a shooter at all ...
The first is Ms. Glennie's claims to Andre in 1959. Her story (via Davis) is that Taylor was standing guard at the front door and shot at a visitor who approached. I find it hard to believe Ms. Lankford would mis-remember with whom she'd been during such an intense event.
This is the 1959 story which leads to Mrs Lankford claiming that Taylor was responsible for that door screen shot, leading to them believing the entity had jumped onto the roof, Taylor stepping out the front door to check if it been hit, then the 'hair-grab' and Elmer Sutton pushing in front of Taylor, seeing the 'creature' and shooting same, point-blank, with seemingly little damage.
This bears no resemblance to Mrs Lankford's original aaccount:
"On Sunday night Aug 21, 55 about 10:30 P.M. I was walking through the hallway which is located in the middle of my house and I looked out the back door south & saw a bright silver object about two and a half feet tall appearing round. I became excited and did not look at it long enough to see if it had any eyes or move. I was about 15 or 20 feet from it. I fell backward, and then was carried into the bedroom".
Furthermore, we now have John Suttons' crucial testimony the 'hair-grab' incident was a consequence of Elmer's window screen shot.
Given the fact that Mrs Lankford apparently also claimed the beings first arrived in a 'hands raised', friendly gesture, yet stately didn't observe any creatures until later and even then it was either:
a) original statement; "a bright silver object about two and a half feet tall appearing round",
or,
b) 1959 account; "looked like a five-gallon
gasoline can with a head on top and small legs. It was a shimmering bright metal like on my refrigerator"...
It would surely be conclusive that John Sutton's version is the more likely.
Perhaps now a reasonable point to reaffirm we have established their is significantly less to the previously proclaimed gunshot hits, especially via Isabel Davis.
As more recently highlighted, Isabel Davis' refutal to Mrs Lankford's suggestion that there was possibly never more than one creature observed, is entirely baseless.
Isabel cites now patently erroneous claims that both Elmer Sutton and Billy Ray Taylor participate.in warfare when nore than onn 'threatening' being was confronted.
The only source of witnessing any shots striking the 'aliens' is 'Lucky' Sutton.
He is the only participant who claimed to have seen a threatening 'face at the window', a subsequent 'creature' on the roof and in the anecdote given to Ledwith, also responsible for shooting one at point-blank range, when the shot sounded like, 'hitting a bucket'.
Any other newspaper reports of gunshots, albeit unsupported by evidence, are also attributed to Elmer Sutton.
Of paramount importance, he is also seemingly the sole source of John Sutton's pistol fire striking the beings and 'bouncing off' them.
According to the newly discovered, 20 August 1976, 'Evansville Press 'article:
"I saw something in the field and I fired at it with a pistol," he says. "I fired every bullet, nine times".
Sutton says that he was never sure whether he hit whatever he saw and that he's not sure what he saw."
It's maybe now all in a clearer perspective, especially as we need to keep in mind that 'little men', whether from Mars or elsewhere, really do need a 'flying saucer', or other mode of spaceship to have got there, that night.
Courtesy of the faulous research by your good self, it's also now comprehensively documented the events that night evolved amidst many meteorite reports.
Still... there remain puzzles... and will come back to these..