Good point. No doubt that procedures were followed and they played the percentages correctly. Just didn’t work out that time. Doesn’t make it a bad decision.
It was a .22 wasn’t it? Hardly anything less predictable than a ricochet off a .22.
Yep, the .22 can be really unpredictable. I know of cases where people have been shot in the head or committed suicide with .22 head shot. It can enter the mouth and hits the inside rear of the skull just right, and spins around the inside of the skull like a race track, literally shredding the brain.