Not sure what you're implying.
The witness said he heard the young man say,"Oh you're gonna shoot me?"
Does this not suggest the cop had pulled his weapon and was pointing it him?
If so, this begs the question, was the young man armed?
UIW spokeswoman says Robert Cameron Redus had hit the officer before the officer shot him to death.
I’m implying that there is a big difference between, “what are you gonna do, shoot me?” followed immediately by gunshots and the gunshots follwoing “less than a minute” later.
There is not enough information in the article to cause one to say that the cop did not, in fact, fire in self defense.
And I’ve known my share of “straight A students” that also belonged in Jail.