Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context? 

Context:

On March 4, 2010, John Patrick Bedell shot and wounded two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The officers returned fire, striking him in the head. He died a few hours later the next day.

Hypothesis: The officers killed John Patrick Bedell.
Yes