Yea like he was placed there to walk around and be seen while the real shooter(s) did the dirty work. The rats then had their patsy they could take out and push the lone gunman angle. The one confounding factor here is the fathers phone call. Unless the kids parents were sacrificing him to the evil as many cabal adjacent puppets do when they have greater ambitions to rise up in the hierarchy.

Lots of speculation and enough confusion so that nothing can be pinpointed even though everything leads to a coordinated hit by death cult assets. A death cult specialty.