https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EwnQW3tUpc
According to the above video, the shooter was a regular who repeatedly though of himself as the handicap parking police and has confronted other drivers for using that space.
Remember, when you are carrying you are bringing a gun to the fight, so you should avoid confrontation, not initiate it. I don't think the shooter should have been arguing with the woman in the car. The victim came out of the store and shoved the shooter, then backed away from the guy.
As he sat on the ground, the shooter drew and fired. At the moment the trigger was pulled, his life didn't appear to be in danger to me. It looked like he shot in retaliation for being pushed to the ground.
If he were on trial and I was on the jury, as a CPL holder I'm not sure I wouldn't vote to convict.
This video was helpful to me as they showed the incident in slow-motion.
After the victim drew his weapon, and the thug saw it, he didn’t move away to de-escalate. Rather, he moved back a half-step or two, as if to reconsider the situation. Then, while the victim was pointing the weapon at the perpetrator, he actually moved forward slightly. If he’d have been trying to disengage, he’d have kept backing up, or even ran away, or put his hands up. Instead, he reversed his backward motion and had begun to move forward.
I don’t know if he moved forward because he was about to recommence his attack, or whether he was just adjusting his balance. But his backward motion had stopped, and even reversed slightly.
If I’d have been the victim, on the ground, with the perpetrator right near me, having already suffered one physical assault already, seeing the thug even involuntarily twitch a muscle that brought him perceptibly closer would have led me to fire my weapon at him.
As it is, the victim showed remarkable restraint. The thug didn’t drop, but kept on moving. But the victim accurately perceived the thug was, having been shot, now moving away from him, and the threat, if not eliminated, was on the decrease.
The thug earned its toe tag.