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The problem with such recollections is that it gives us no details about the actual bullet and the nature of the injury. I think we've already shown by both calculation and experiment (even if it was the Myth Busters) that a vertically fired bullet really isn't moving at what would be considered 'lethal' speeds.
I am 99% sure that a few years ago in Phoenix, there was serious or
fatal injury from a celebratory near vertical gun shot. As I recall,
the bullet entered the top of the skull. Since then there has been a
media campaign to warn people not to do this and the police have
attempted to clamp down. Thus it is known experimentally that
vertically fired bullets can be deadly.