It could be correct that he had 15 drinks. But the report says (bold caps added by me)I think also with the bus-drink number provided by the fraternity brothers, plus video and receipts, they have a pretty accurate number. 5 on the bus, a margarita at the first bar, I forget, but it's noted somewhere what drinks he had at Miranda Lambert's, Garth Brooks's, and Kid Rock's bars, then 1 at Luke Bryan's. The number isn't outlandish, IMO.
"By 4:55, a video at Casa Rosa in downtown Nashville shows Strain drinking a margarita, according to TABC investigators.
Those same TABC investigators reviewed footage from all the bars Strain visited that night and found he was served alcohol THREE times."
The report says it was a single frat brother who reported the number of drinks RS had on the bus. Counting RS's bus drinks was odd, IMO. I can't imagine knowing (after the fact days later) what someone else was drinking unless I was paying for the drinks OR was serving him the drinks. But assuming the frat brother did know the correct number, that means RS had most of the drinks he had before 4:30. (Since they are saying the bus drinks were bigger so really more than 5 drinks)
Still think they are working backward to make the number fit with the BAL & the hours known he was alive for the drinking. (Although the press report doesn't say when the bus left to go to Nashville -- the real starting point if there was bus drinking.)
MOO