This is interesting, to me at least

Trying to find more news about last night/this morning to see what jibes with what I'd heard and the reporting is all over the place. There is a forty minute variable in what time the shooting occurred. Depending on what news source it comes from, it was either a gun battle or the assailant has a replica gun. The police officer in pursuit was or was not in an unmarked car and he did or did not identify himself as an officer. The assailant was responsible for a string of armed robberies in the area or this was his first time. He was either being followed because his vehicle matched the description of the serial robber or the officer in the unmarked car witnessed a crime in progress or he was about to be pulled over for running a red light.

I do not understand this. Their information all comes from the same source, why are there so many variations?