He would not be taken alive and the officers were not going to murder him with the massive amount of witnesses and news helicopters overhead. The day before, Kathleen High School was locked down with 1600 students nearby. Some students snuck out and one matched the description of the suspect. Black male, white t-shirt, dreadlocks... only the pants were different. They showed this guy jumping a fence near the high school and several cops took him into custody. They didn't shoot him because he didn't point a weapon at them and he put up his hands. I don't have the entire video, but here is a shot of him being loaded into a police car.
After this innocent student was taken into custody, you can bet that the search teams were not just going to shoot anything that moved.
Click the picture below to hear the audio of 110 shots fired by nine men in 8 seconds. The perp was hiding behind a large tree, (see photo below). The "overkill" crowd needs to hear this as Deputy Williams was shot 8 times and if you do the math, each of the nine SWAT members average less than that. The weapon he pointed at the police was the sidearm of the Deputy he killed and he had his spare magazine, too.
According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, Deputy Williams was cut down by eight gunshots, one of which was a contact wound, where the muzzle was touching his right temple.
The shots include:
• One shot in his right wrist.
• One shot in his left bicep.
• One shot in his left rear thigh.
• One shot in his right leg.
• One shot in his right buttock.
• One shot in his right upper arm.
• One shot at close range behind his right ear.
• One shot -- a contact wound, where the muzzle was touching his skin -- near his right temple.
In case anyone missed this info, Deputy Williams is survived by his wife and three children, a twin son and daughter, 16, and a 19-year-old son. Deputy Williams was shot to death on his wife's birthday.
