I've just got a picture of both women fighting to the finish,,both on the floor,one just about sitting half-propped up by the door,just feet away from her opponent who's lying down after the first shot ( delivered ) ,then the second fatal one. Which would see both women dying almost simultaneously.
Of the rifle-------I don't know,,because it looked as though it had been placed there,and if EP did that,then they got it wrong,,because I'd like to bet that the photographed " scene " WASN'T how it actually was.