BBC reported that the man was shot as he was 'reaching for his bag' after the chase had already been underway.
Luckily, the investigation will be carried out by people other than we armchair generals. My brother is a Chief of Detectives (ret.) from a major city's police force. He explained to me that witness statements rarely are in agreement, and therefore are used preferentially as a backup to more empirical evidence. When witness statements are used as the primary form of evidence, it's a safe bet that no one is 100% sure of the details.
Poor bugger picked a bad time to go off his meds.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop taking amphetamines"
I knew this would happen sooner or later. I just knew a few idiots on the plane that were completely oblivious to the events that led up to the shooting would be surprised and upset about another passenger getting shot, then start talking about how they didn't hear that guy say anything.
They didn't hear him say anything because they weren't paying any frickin attention to what was going on in the first place