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The question I would ask his boss, the Sheriff, is this:

You held up two rifles in the news conference — one an AK47 and the other a plastic pellet gun.

Can you, an LE professional, tell them apart??? How??? Which is the quickest way???

Then why couldn’t your 24 year experienced deputy who is also a gun expert and trainer???

Or was he just in the mood to kill someone that day like he had been for months???

I’ll bet Gelhaus knew that it was a toy and he shot anyway. He had been itching to pull the trigger for a long time and this was his moment and he had to act quickly before it passed.

And by shooting prematurely before Andy got turned around to see that the gun was really just a toy he can claim that he really didn’t get a good look at the gun and assumed it was real.

And that bogus assumption gave him the green light to shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot.

He wasn’t in fear for his life. He was in fear that this opportunity would slip through his fingers. He had to shoot Andy before he got too far turned around where his kid features and the toy features of the gun would become too incontrovertibly apparent for him to feign ingorance as he is doing now.

Gelhaus wrote training articles for SWAT Magazine. In 2008, he wrote in SWAT: Today is the day you may need to kill someone in order to go home. If you cannot turn into the ‘Mean Gene’ for yourself, who will? If you find yourself in an ambush, in the kill zone, you need to turn on the ‘Mean Gene.’