I hate all the Monday- Sunday morning quarterbacking from people with no prior experience in shootings. If anyone could be bothered to pick a book about stress and shootings they would find out that with extreme stress situations like this, the good guy inevitably has distorted time lines and actually they see things that aren't there. I remember a situation I was in myself. A large Brindle Pitbull was stalking my neighborhood and I came face to face with it three different times. My wife had to correct my recollection as I had to correct hers as well. I then ran into das later and actually pulled my weapon. The account given to the police was to the best of my memory but days, months later I'd remember more details.
Sickens me to see supposed gun owners throwing this guy to the wolves with so little evidence and so little expertise. My ex motherinlaw argued with me that a crazy woman with a knife out in Lancaster California years ago, was killed needlessly. The woman had a knife and threatened to use it. For a long time she held the police at bay and then charged them. She was shot and killed. Her stance was they should've shot the gun out of her hand(this was before tazers were so popular). To many episodes of gunsmoke and t.j. hooker.
That's not a good excuse considering the magnitude and number of discrepancies that are apparent in this case. I'm basing this judgment off of the statements HE gave the media right after the shooting, and their conflict with the released surveillance tapes and the DA's report. Some of us have been following this case and the data very carefully.
Just a few pretty significant discrepancies off the top of my head...
He claimed they came at him shooting and saying they were going to kill him.
Did they even fire a shot? No.
They were coming around the counter at either end. He had to have a gun in either hand to repel them.
Were they? No. Did he ever have a gun in either hand? No.
He was shot, once in the arm and he heard one shot go past his head.
Did they fire any shots at all? Again, no.
He claimed to have shot the first one in the head, then emptied the .380 in him as he chased the other robber out the door because he was getting back up.
Did he? No, he chased the second robber down the street, came back in, walked past the downed subject without concern for his safety, walked over, unlocked a cabinet, retrieved his second gun, walked back to the downed subject, still not exhibiting any concern or fear for his safety, bent down and fired the gun until slide lock into the downed robbers torso. That's a pretty significant deviation from his version of what occurred.
It was also stated that he stayed out front and engaged them because he was too crippled to retreat to the saferoom with the other employees. I would think if you can chase a perp down the street and back that you could lay down covering fire and step the 6' to the saferoom entrance.
Then you have the recent revelation that he's not really a Gulf war veteran.
This case just keeps getting worse and worse. I had a very open mind at first, and was ready to chalk some of the discrepancies up to stress, but there's just too much evidence stacking up against him.
I'm a gun owner, not a gunwoobie owner
