métis leader john bruce claimed that only two bullets from the firing squad actually hit scott, wounding him once in the left shoulder, and once in the upper chest. a man came forward and discharged his pistol close to scott's head, but the bullet only penetrated the upper part of the left cheek and came out somewhere near the cartilage of the nose. still not dead, scott was placed in a makeshift coffin, from which he was later reported to cry: