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Birdshot, a type of shotgun pellet, lodged in his eye.

It was in these woods, just outside Glacier National Park, that the teenage boys learned to hunt, fish, dress a deer and pick birdshot from Hungarian partridges.

His autopsy report describes over 70 small penetrating wounds consistent with birdshot or buckshot — a type of lethal ammunition typically fired by 12-gauge shotguns — some of which caused fatal injuries to his heart and lungs.

Buster Murdaugh also testified that guns were left around the property “with the safety on” and that he never loaded one shell of larger buckshot and a second shell of smaller birdshot in his shotguns.

Cheney, about 30 yards away, spotted a bird and fired — spraying 200 birdshot pellets at Mr. Whittington, who fell to the ground with wounds to his face, neck and chest.