Given his seemingly unlimited access to guns and that early scene of him on the bridge, the show really wants audiences to believe that Tyler takes out his frustrations on the jock population by shooting Bryce Walker. This is bolstered by initial police reports that say Bryce died via gunshot. But then Bryce's true cause of death is revealed: blunt force trauma, ruling Tyler out. Tyler did, however, play a minor role in how everyone found out about Bryce's death — he anonymously called a tip into the police when he spotted the body in the water.