That is untrue, if it's a psychic shooting attack(and it sounds like it is) then it fires at the same time as all the other shooting, so you have declared a target for the squad already and all shooting from a squad happens simultaneously. See page 12 and 13 of the main rulebook, the relevant rule is on the top left side of page 13 in bold under the which models can fire heading.
If he had split fire he could have had 1 model target a different unit than the rest of the squad but would have needed to declare that before actually resolving any shooting or declaring targets. For split fire if they have the special rule see page 42 of the main rulebook.
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