I put his wife's statement in quotes, "He's sick." I wasn't implying that his wife said anything about a weapon or lack thereof.
Thank you, I understood you to say she said he had no weapon, but rereading the post you said it yourself. Of course, that's pretty immaterial (that we now know he had no weapon). The officers had no way of knowing that, no way of knowing if his wife was telling the truth about his illness, etc.
susie