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Two weeks ago, Kevin Patrick Moran, 22, an honors student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was killed by a bullet as he attempted to put out a fire at the beleaguered Isla Vista branch of Bank of America (TIME, April 27). It was widely reported that he had been shot by a sniper, while he and other moderate students dealt directly with the attacking radicals.

Last week Santa Barbara County Sheriff James Webster reported a different version: as his men began moving into the area around the bank to disperse the students, one cop's rifle went off accidentally, the bullet ricocheted off the ground and may have killed Moran. To dispel any whitewash charges, Webster promised a televised inquest into the death.

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