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I find it amazing how all our armchair firearms experts are debating the fine points of aiming, the number of shots, the placements, etc.

Just some practical info for all. When the human body goes under stress, the first thing to go is the fine motor skills. That means that your pinpoint aim is gone. That is why LEOs are trained to shoot center mass. They are also trained to shoot to stop the threat. That means if they are in fear for their life, they shoot until the threat stops. There is no such thing as shoot to wound. If you have a threat coming at you, you have maybe 1-3 seconds to decide what to do and the do it. If you are injured or in severe pain, the situation is even worse.

There is much ado about how many shots were fired. Whether it takes 2 45ACP rounds to the head, or 10 9mm rounds to the body, the officer will continue to shoot until the threat stops. His aim will be imprecise, and his adrenaline level will be astronomical.

A street situation of “do or die” is not anywhere near punching holes in paper at a range. I’m pretty damn accurate at a range, not so much under stress.

So while everyone second-guesses the officer, just imagine yourself in that situation. You have already been assaulted and wounded. The thug has tried to take your weapon, obviously not to turn it in for $50 at the local gun buy-back, and he is now charging, all 6’4” close to 300 pounds of him leaving not much question that he means you harm. So, do you count shots? How many are enough if he is still charging? Should you stop and ask if he’s done attacking you? That is why LEOs are trained to shoot center mass and shoot until the threat is stopped. You would do exactly the same.

Fact is, Wilson DID shoot Brown in exactly the way naysayers demand he should have: first in the arm, second in the arm, third in the arm, fourth in the arm, and THEN, Brown having failed to get the message & stop attacking, fifth in the head, and that having also failed, a sixth in the head.

So, for sake of argument, we momentarily grant “debating the fine points of aiming, number of shots, placement, etc”: Wilson DID, for whatever reason (be it sheer chance of gross motor skills under extreme stress, or extraordinary skill with cold calculation), place those shots as anyone could demand (there’s even word of 1-4 warning shots preceding injurious/terminal ones). He did everything exactly right by anyone’s standards - and Brown STILL came back, despite even 4 shots to the arm, to commence further assault after breaking Wilson’s skull.

Yes, indeed, it was nothing more than firing at center of mass as fast as he could. Result was, in fact absolutely consistent with the highest standards any naysayer could demand - and Browns actions resulted in nothing less than absolute justification for that last, terminal, headshot.