He couldn’t have killed him, he was unconscious. At that point, the victim’s life is no longer in danger. The assailant might have died from his wounds anyways and Jerome would be off the hook. It was his choice to disable the man, and instead of calling police getting another loaded gun and firing five more shots into the unconscious man on the floor.
You have the benefit of emotional distance and the clarity of hindsight. The pharmacist did not. Under life-and-death stress it is ~exceedingly~ difficult, really impossible, to think clearly and objectively. You do what instinctively feels right, and you only have precious fractions of seconds to choose. It may not, however, look rational to somebody looking in from the outside. It’s completely unfair to make “perfection” a standard that everyone must live up to in those situations.
“He couldn’t have killed him, he was unconscious. At that point, the victim’s life is no longer in danger. The assailant might have died from his wounds anyways and Jerome would be off the hook. It was his choice to disable the man, and instead of calling police getting another loaded gun and firing five more shots into the unconscious man on the floor.”
Not a man but a Murderer was shot,I have no pity for these subhuman crawlers.