I read the article... and it’s too bad that the defendant turned out to be so squishy with the truth. He didn’t help his case any to lie about things. But in no way do I see a murder charge here. So what if he fired five more times after the initial head shot? Big deal... it didn’t make the perp any deader.
So what, too, that the perp that was shot had no gun of his own. The other perp did, and he was just faster on his feet. If I see a gun, both perps are fair targets, and I’m going to keep firing until I’m sure the threat is gone.
This is a gross injustice.
It was the partners day to carry the gun.
Mike
You bring up a good point ... was the perp that collected five more ‘pills’ already dead or just severely wounded? If he was already departed, I don’t think blasting away at a corpse is illegal. Weird maybe, but illegal? Misdemeanor at best. Now if the perp could have eventually recovered from his head shot, IMO it is still self-defense because you can bet that a year or two down the road they would find the pharmacist in a ditch with several bullet holes in his back.
But what I am most concerned about is this: the dead kid was black. So is the majority of the prison population. A white guy in prison for killing a black guy won’t last two weeks.