I can say that after reading the article one thing is certain, the Matthew Stewart is going to do serious jail time and will be lucky if he avoids the death penalty. Not that I don’t believe him that he thought he was defending himself from home invader thugs but that he went after them so aggressively and continued to fire on them while chasing them out the door. If he had not done that he may have had a chance of beating the charges (a very very small chance).
Now on to what I find more interesting which is that this guy did all this with a 9mm handgun! I would have thought that these guys would have been armored up to the max with the ballistic shields and level 3 body armor along with submachine guns (MP5’s or M-4’s) so I’m a little puzzled as to how he managed to not only kill one cop but wound 5 others.
Must have been a real Barney Fife type squad. Or it may be that most SWAT teams train based on the assumption that the victim, uuuuh I mean bad guy, will be relatively static and confused and most likely retreating. The minute they encountered someone that actually charged into the teeth of their raid it rattled them so bad that they lost all discipline and it resulted in a rout with these guy trying to crawl over each other trying to get away. Would be interesting to hear what the truth is but I’ve long given up on expecting that from the government.
I can at least say that Mr. Stewart must be a true Scotsman to have fought so well against those odds and most likely spent considerable time at the range, either that or he was one damn lucky shot.
“I can at least say that Mr. Stewart must be a true Scotsman to have fought so well against those odds and most likely spent considerable time at the range, either that or he was one damn lucky shot.”
These aren’t mutually exclusive. :-)