At the last minute he drops the gun and tries to crawl away.
I'll go watch it again, but it looks like he decided against WHATEVER was in his mind and tried to get away.
An idle kid with a long gun in a store at 8 in the morning is just asking for (at least) serious psychiatric help
Would you say that these guys are just asking for (at least) serious psychiatric help?
It was eight in the evening, not morning. Nevertheless, Crawford was behaving strangely. There are other witnesses who have said he was waving the rifle around and these people couldn’t tell it was an air rifle and not the real thing.
What has really been hushed up is what he was doing in Beavercreek’s Walmart when he lived 40 miles away in Hamilton. There is also a discrepancy in the story about just who he was talking to on the phone. The family says it was his Dad, a woman claims she was on the phone with him and is his girlfriend, and a second woman also claims to be his girlfriend and is the person who drove him to the Beavercreek Walmart. Much of the information available in the hours after the shooting has been set aside in favor of his family’s wrongful death narrative. Our local paper is no help, since it charges for what it calls ‘premium content”.
“At the last minute he drops the gun and tries to crawl away.”
That jump he took is when he was first shot, you can hear people yelling OMG! OMG! You can’t hear the shot. He was shot and that made him jump.