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A Missouri looter was convicted of murder Wednesday for killing a former St. Louis police captain during a 2020 night of violence in the aftermath of the George Floyd police murder.

A jury found Stephan Cannon guilty of killing David Dorn while the retired captain investigated a break-in at his friend’s pawn shop on June 2, 2020. Cannon, 26, fired 10 shots at Dorn, 77, after the ex-cop approached the pawn shop

and shot his gun in the air to deter looters, prosecutors said. Cannon was convicted of first-degree murder, meaning the jury concluded he had premeditated the killing.

Did you get that? He FIRED HIS WEAPON INTO THE AIR, to "deter looters." This is extremely foolish. Not to pile on here, as a good man is dead, but DO NOT EVER FIRE A "WARNING" SHOT.

If you unholster and discharge a weapon, and you "fire a warning shot" this just alerts any armed thugs to your presence and makes you a target, as it did here.

The time to "warn" someone is way before you utilize a gun. When that comes out, shoot until the threat is neutrailized, or don't shoot. Warning shots are TERRIBLE practice. This is not TV, folks.

[Spktyr]

Your first warning shot should be into the center of mass of the first thug. That’s all the warning his friends should get.

[Vigilanteman]

Captain Dorn was exercising the rules of fair play. He was 77 and probably not aware that Xiden's antifa thugs did not play by the rules.

He was just doing what good cops are supposed to do.