Apart from the soldiers, all eyewitnesses—including marchers, local residents, and British and Irish journalists present—maintain that soldiers fired into an unarmed crowd, or were aiming at fleeing people and those tending the wounded, whereas the soldiers themselves were not fired upon.
Ale všetci očití svedkovia (účastníci pochodu, miestni obyvatelia, britskí a írski novinári, iba s výnimkou vojakov) zhodne tvrdili, že vojaci strieľali do neozbrojeného davu alebo sa zameriavali na osoby, ktoré unikali alebo starali o zranených, hoci na vojakov nikto nestrieľal.