Reply #3: um...no, it's because some birdshot went into his heart. that means,

[goodboy]

he was MUCH closer than we were told, and that he was far far more fucked up in terms of injuries than we were first told. That's why the delay in notifying L.E. well, part of it. They needed to get him outta there before the cops got there, and Dick needed to sober up.

These weren't 'superficial' pock marks from a 30 yard shotgun facial.

He may've been 30 feet away or closer. That's why he had to be life flighted Corpus Christy. I'll betcha anything he wasn't "joking" with the staff. I'll bet he had serious, deep facial and neck wounds, which were downplayed as "peppered" and we just weren't told about the fact that those bb's went into his chest cavity and into his vital organs.