I wonder - and I don’t know RL at all - if he himself had nothing to do with the crime, but was at home and heard the fight or the shrieks and, being an old man, simply was afraid to go out and check/help? We all have our own feeling about RL, I view him as a man who can get mean when drunk, but still has some chilvary when sober, especially with younger women. It so from his video interview. JMO.
So for such a person to admit that he, having guns at home, got scared of getting out to help, was hard. But then, when he realized that violence happened (we don’t know what he knew or saw or whether he did, but it was his land), he thought about his own alibi and asked his relative to help.
Sometimes it is scary to be a witness. Ron was a single old man living alone at a big parsel of land and maybe, did not want to risk his life or physical integrity.
There is one more thing that doesn’t match. I always thought that maybe, just maybe, the prototype for YBG sketch was older, and DC simply showed a younger version of him? Because they didn’t have enough facts for the court. Well, RL had thick hair, but outside of that, there was nothing similar between him and YBG. There was little similarity between him and OBG sketch, either.