I'd go that far...
That's the meaning I get from the audio too. But you have to listen to it, just a reading a transcript doesn't quite cut it.
Yep! there's a pretty full two-count between "don't move" and the first shot... the point of decision was in that two-count, and obviously the perps chose the wrong plan of action.
Just as general information for the thread, when you hear "Cha-Chink! Don't move!", the only thing you may safely move is your bowels. :D
True, but in this case the "Cha-Chink" came while he was still in the house, and still on the phone with the dispatcher.
It would be the height of folly to walk out the house with a firearm with an empty chamber, unless that firearm is a revolver, and the chamber is the one under the hammer, even then I'd cock a single action before going out and maybe a double action as well, just as he racked a round into the shotgun chamber before going out.