Its prolly not fake, but at the very least they likely knew what buddy was planning and let him do it. Hard to deny all the videos coming out where people are telling police there is someone on the roof with a gun and they just dont seem to care.

https://scored.co/c/Conspiracies/p/17teERR8Mi/not-a-psyop-is-this-really-all-a/c

But like this picture here, all I see is blood, I dont actually see any damage to his ear, is it underneath his hair lol?

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1e3ckmr/it_couldve_been_much_much_worse/

I would expect anything bigger than a .22 to blow part of his ear off, and a 22 to at least clip part of it off.

And the blood, it doesnt look like he grabbed his ear and wiped his face, to me it looks like he bit down on something and then wiped his ear with it and accidentally brushed his face along the way.

Im not a blood spatter analysis though and I admit my 3d spatial reasoning is not top tier.