Possession of a gun leads to a shooting. Hmmmm.
I’m thinking he was waiving the gun around and that it was why someone reported him. If he was legitimately carrying it, he only had to obey the cops commands and get things straightened out.
I usually take grief for defending cops.
But if I catch an armed man on my property, or even in my house, and I chase the the man out into the street, and shoot him in the back...guess what happens to me.