Wait...you said “a zippered case.” Was it in his hand, when they arrived?
*** “In the background of a call to 911 played for the jury, Mosher (the cop) can be heard yelling, “Put your hands where I can see them now. Drop it! Get on the ground! Get on the ground!”
The shooting wouldn’t have happened, he said, if Scott had complied with the commands issued by police to get on the ground.*******
Oh - here is from another article:
And he was carrying two guns — the second was found as paramedics took him to the hospital.
The article later states:
After Scott was shot, Wentworth Eatherton [a witness and CCW] said, he saw a gun in a “gun rug” fall from Scott’s right side and slide about four feet in front of him.
He said he later noticed the gun was gone. He said the gun in a holster shown to him in a photo by Chief Deputy District Attorney Christopher Laurent wasn’t the gun he saw. *****
Although there are other conflicting things in the article. And it may be the witnesses are confused, or the reporting sucks.
In this article it doesn't say a zippered case - but I'm pretty sure I had read that elsewhere. But then how could the witness have see the gun? And that it wasn't the same one in the photo in a holster?
Oh - here is from another article:
And he was carrying two guns — the second was found as paramedics took him to the hospital.
The deceased (Scott) was a West Point graduate and veteran. He was described as “confrontational” in the store. One witness said that it appeared he had opened a package of bottled water to see how many he could get into a backpack that he was thinking of buying. An employee saw the gun and told him that he had to leave the store. He said something like “I'm an Army Vet and have a permit.”
Me? I would have said “Oh, well I have a permit, but if that is your policy - I'll leave. And never come back.”
I also wouldn't have been pulling out bottles out of a package before I bought them. Heck - I wouldn't even open up the snack box to keep my kids quiet. Although I did leave a cart full of groceries at the store when they whined one time. “Okay - that's it. We're leaving, and no snacks when we get home.” (Whispered to the check-out gal to hold the cart - I'd be back in 10 minutes after I dropped the kids off at home).
Well - got a bit off topic here. But yeah - you need to keep your wits about you when you carry. Although after immediately shooting an intruder in your home - I'm guessing you may have used up all of your wits for those 20 seconds. Shock, adrenalin, tunnel vision, hearing loss. And obviously the cops were pretty amped up as well, approaching a home and having shots ring out, and then see a person with a gun.