What happened then is still very much unsettled. Because it happened in a span [?] no more than 40 seconds even the participants couldn't be sure. It was a [?] of reflexive action -- and a bloody one. No one could later say who [?] shot first, but Doc Holliday seemed to have scored the first hit. His bullet [?] through Frank McLaury's stomach sending McLaury's own shot wild through Wyatt's coat-tail. Billy Clanton [?] at Virge, but his shot too went astray when Morgan's report entered his rib [?]. Billy Claiborne had run at the first blast and was already out of sight. [?] Clanton, too, panicked and threw his gun down, pleading for his life. "Fight or [?] out like Claiborne!" Wyatt yelled and watched him desert his brother Billy, arms flailing [?] he reached the door of the photography shop. But, from that angle, behind the [?]' backs, Ike withdrew a hidden gun to pop a shot towards Wyatt before disappearing. [?] sound distracted Morgan; the moment was enough for Tom McLaury to send a bullet [?] Morgan's side. Doc instantly countered, blowing Tom away with blasts from both barrels of [?] shotgun. Desperately, wounded and dying, Billy Clanton fired blindly into the gunsmoke encircling him, [?] Virge's leg. He then fell lifeless from a final volley from Wyatt's Buntline Special..
[?] abrupt silence followed.
Townspeople ran from their homes and shops to see what had [?]. John Clum and the Citizen's Committee called for wagons to convey wounded Morgan and [?] to their respective homes; doctors followed those wagons.