“To me, it looks loke he shot the guy in the arm.....thinking that would stop him......”
Let me think about this ....
I have eye injuries and a 300 pounder is charging me. I think I will shoot him in the arm...
Get real!
I figure his first shots were off because in the excitement, he may have been jerking the trigger instead of drawing it back slowly. I’m sure he was shaking as well. I know I would have been.
A bit of thought on this...
LEO’s left eye was damaged and not functioning normally.
LEO is right handed.
Perp had wounds / shots on his right side.
Last I was taught (admittedly, hunting classes in the 70s), you line-up the weapon under your dominant eye, track the target ^with both eyes open^ and squeeze the trigger.
The damaged eye may have caused a left-ward (over) compensation for LEO Wilson; that may explain the number of wounds to the perp’s right side.
An additional scenario is that LEO “ran the ladder” on the perp to “stop” him; starting low (leg region) and ending at center mass. Given the number of perforations, the perp may have (a) stumbled forward, or; (b) started to collapse, presenting his head in the COM target area.