Hetty, everyone should listen to the video of the press conference at the link — it is stunning.
The driver of the car that pulled up in front of the deputies said that it was clear that it was a kid carrying a toy gun — no doubt.
But most stunning was the fact from the autopsy that the first shot that Gelhaus fired dropped Andy. It was the one that went through his chest and into his heart.
The next 7 shots fired at him were after he was down on the ground.
The bullets that went into his buttocks went travelled the length of his body indicating that they were fired when he was already lying on the ground.
This was beyond eggregious.
That is the reason I maintain that he murdered the kin, willful and Wantonly, with malice aforethought.
The bullets that went into his buttocks went travelled the length of his body indicating that they were fired when he was already lying on the ground.
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UC, thanks for the tip to listen to the press conference. You were right; it was 8 minutes but worth it. I had read that one witness said that Gelhaus continued to shoot at Andy while he was on the ground, but I thought it was probably hyperbole. However, the ballistics tell the story. One bullet went into his buttock and through the length of his body, clearly indicating that he was shot while already on the ground. Gelhaus just unloaded into him, without thought for whether it was really necessary to use SO much firepower to subdue this terribly dangerous subject. (BTW, I read somewhere else, can’t remember where or I’d link it, that the family’s attorney said that the family’s private autopsy shows that the ballistics indicate that Andy did NOT “start to raise his gun” as the deputy had said. I was always suspicious of that statement from Gelhaus as it smacked of CYA on his part.)
Feel like crying now. Or throwing up. I’m raising two kids a mile from where this happened. Sure feel good and protected by our Sheriff’s dept. right now....