HE WAS ALMOST ON TOP OF HER...It is hard to get a good shot when you’re on the ground fighting with a maniac...
Was she injured?
“fighting with a maniac”...intent on getting your gun and killing you.
The Tueller Drill teaches that I’d a bad guy is within 7 yards of you with a contact weapon, he can cover the distance and hit or stab you faster than you can put him down with a gun.
Ideally she should have drawn when he started advancing with the hammer, and fired when he charged, but as I said earlier she was probably more afraid of what prosecutors would do to her.