The press release is written in such a way that it makes no mention of relevant facts such as those you have delineated, which, if true as you state, seem to imply that the wounded friend was actually shot by a 9mm wielding cop - not the now-dead shotgun-wielding man.

Amazing to me how so many people reading this press release gussied up as a WNT "news article" seem to think they had been given all they needed to know about everything.