Whom shall you punish in this case had you been the judge in the court of law?

An incident recently took place near where I live. Two boys probably of our age or a Lil elder came with pistols and shot the two others dead! 
The ones who died had as likely as not nothing to do with anything that the shooters were to do with. The shooters apparently came looking for a boy who has witnessed a murder in their village and gave his statement against the murderer in the law of court. The shooters, maybe the friends of the murderer, or perhaps his coworkers, came looking for the boy who gave the statement. The boy who did very likely give the statement, on finding out about the shooters approaching, in order to sneak in, came to his friends who stayed in a rented apartment. His friends all things being equal hid him in the bathroom and thought that the shooters would likely never reach them. 
What happened next, that I wasn’t a witness of, was that the shooters came and shot the three friends, who were hiding the one who gave the statement, and of which two died on the spot and one was saved by his blanket, that the bullet couldn’t surpass. 

Who then do you think is more wrong…?

The three friends, out of which two lost their lives, are they to be punished or blamed for hiding their friend? 
Or the friend who hid, to save his life is to be held responsible for the murder of his two friends, though he didn’t plan for them to die? 
Correspondingly, or are the shooters to be blamed, who obviously are worth no less than being hanged for taking two probably innocent lives? For taking the task of killing the witness probably for some money, unknowing about anything else that got to do with it.
Or probably the so-called murderer to be held for sending the shooters who couldn’t aim the correct person? Or maybe the person didn’t, at first, send the shooters at all. Rather maybe the person did not commit a murder previously that he was charged for but planned to do one after being harassed and punished for the same for a long. Is then he to be penalized? 

            To be honest,

I heard the entire story through my neighbors, the newspapers et cetera, and wasn’t a first-hand spectator of the incident. 
But at a distance, when everyone is making judgments, planning to make lesser friends as they may bring you bad luck, planning for thorough identification checks of their tenants before they rent them their properties, or planning to call the ones who died innocent, and the one who hid the one to be blamed for their death, … what I see is a group of seven people behind the mist, of whom everyone was in some proportion a culprit and in some proportion an innocent, however, the proportions may vary! 
Had I Been the judge when this case was to be held in the law of court, I would have either punished all of them, differently or would have let all of them go… 

Whom shall you punish in this case had you been the judge in the court of law?
Don’t judge me…

I am qualified to be no judge. I am a person of Mathematics instead. So I may be wrong.
But, 

but I think when we are judging someone we at times forget to look at the other half of him or her, focusing more on some aspects than others. No person is totally right or totally wrong. There is something in between the two that should be designated to them… A person is that way because he lived up to it, he read such books that thought that way, because he was brought up in a street where he experienced that all that made him think that way and… 
So maybe don’t judge at all and leave it to the phrase that I can’t tell till I wear his or her shoes his or her way! 

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