Possibly. My issue is that he had existed the building surrounded by hostages. A round would easily pass through him and hit a hostage. Whatever the case, he apparently was not armed.... so, why shoot at all. There was no claim in the written story that he was holding a gun to a hostage.
Freeper reoprted afterwars perp held bloody gun.
No, the perp was armed. But he wasn’t shooting at the moment and there were many innocent people about.
from other online news reports, the impression i get is that the manager was shot just around the time that the suspect entered the building, not when he left, and so that would have been a considerable time beforehand. This report gives what seems to be a mistaken impression that the shot that killed the manager happened as the suspect was leaving the building. I only wanted to point out that this report is actually a bit ambiguous in regards to the timeline of the fatality vis a vis the suspect exiting the building.