Officer involved shooting statements should obtained as fast as possible for a whole bunch of reasons.
You’ll note in homicides and major crime incidents they’ll interview the entire family, suspects, friends witnesses and officers within hours if possible and or as soon as they are located etc. Even wounded or injured people will be interviewed as quickly as possible.
This reeks really bad.
Yeah, definitely, as fast as possible... but I don’t have any trouble with allowing a bit of time, a few hours tops, for the officer to calm down and get his head on again.
And, as a fan if ID channel and Lt. Joe Kenda, Homicide Hunter, if a victim, family member, or witness is in clear, obvious and extreme distress, I don’t mind giving them a bit of time to get collected. Doing so seems reasonable.
But all that being said, it is very curious how that other officer came up and told him the routine of a couple of days. I don’t know if there is anything, ah, sinister, I guess at work there, but a couple of days is a too much.
I wonder what would have happened if the other officer came up and said, don’t worry, in a couple of days you will be in in a jail cell charged with murder!