I have been in my share of stuff as well over decades of hard living, but would you make up total nonsense like this?
Here are some of his earlier claims, people forget that he claimed to have been wounded in a desperate shootout and was wearing a bandage over the wound until the police made clear that he was the only one that had fired a gun. When you watch the video you realize that the guy is totally fantasizing and making it up up and lying.
Throw these claims in with his phony war hero stuff and you have a real nutcase.
>The robbers began shooting at him, with one bullet grazing him on the arm, he said he heard another round whiz past his ear.
Ersland recalled: All of a sudden, they started shooting. They were attempting to kill me, but they didnt know I had a gun. They said, Youre gonna die. Thats when one of them shot at me, and thats when he got my hand.
Ersland grabbed the semi-automatic Kel-Tec .380 in his pocket.
And thats when I started defending myself, he said. The first shot got him in the head, and that slowed him down so I could get my other gun.
Ersland also kept a much larger pistol in a nearby drawer, which he was able to retrieve, a Taurus Judge revolver. At that point, the second robber took off. However, the other robber was now getting up off of the floor, despite the head wound.
Ersland emptied his clip into the chest of the wounded robber, who turned out to be 16-year-old Antwun Parker.
I went after the other guy, but he was real fast and Im crippled, said Ersland. Once outside, he saw a third black male sitting in a car with what appeared to be a shotgun.
Ersland said: I pulled out my Judge and pointed it right between his eyes and he floored it.
A SECOND VERSION
>All of a sudden, they started shooting, he said. They were attempting to kill me, but they didnt know I had a gun. They said, Youre gonna die. Thats when one of them shot at me, and thats when he got my hand.
Ersland said he was thrown against a wall, but managed to go for the semiautomatic in his pocket.
And thats when I started defending myself, he said. The first shot got him in the head, and that slowed him down so I could get my other gun.
But as one robber hit the floor, Ersland said, a bullet from the other robber whizzed past his ear.
The pharmacist said he then got his second gun from a nearby drawer, a Taurus Judge.
After he had the big gun, Ersland said, the second robber ran.
But as he started to chase after the second robber, Ersland said, he looked back to see the 16-year-old he had shot in the head getting up again. Ersland said he then emptied the Kel-Tec .380 into the boys chest as he kept going after the second robber.
I went after the other guy, but he was real fast and Im crippled, Ersland said.
Outside the pharmacy, he said he saw what he thought was a third black male in a car with the engine running and reaching for what appeared to be a shotgun.
I pulled out my Judge and pointed it right between his eyes and he floored it, Ersland said.
I saw the video. The pharmacist certainly didn’t do himself any favors by lying and changing his story so many times. But in no way do I see this rising to murder 1.
It was the gun-wielding robbers that chose to create that incident that day. He finished it. I really don’t care that he emptied a second gun into the (mostly dead) perp. I don’t care if it was the extra shots that actually killed him (and really... that’s ~massive~ speculation on the part of the medical examiner).
Sure, I wish he was a more sympathetic figure. It was a douchebag thing to do to claim military service he didn’t have. It was stupid to bother lying about any of it. He should have been more honest about all of it. But all that said... there’s nothing here that rises to murder 1. OR any charge at all in my book.
Here’s the question: Who would I rather have as a neighbor? This pharmacist or the goons that robbed him? I’d take him in that, any day.
“I have been in my share of stuff as well over decades of hard living, but would you make up total nonsense like this?
Here are some of his earlier claims, people forget that he claimed to have been wounded in a desperate shootout and was wearing a bandage over the wound until the police made clear that he was the only one that had fired a gun. When you watch the video you realize that the guy is totally fantasizing and making it up up and lying.
Throw these claims in with his phony war hero stuff and you have a real nutcase.
>The robbers began shooting at him, with one bullet grazing him on the arm, he said he heard another round whiz past his ear.
Ersland recalled: All of a sudden, they started shooting. They were attempting to kill me, but they didnt know I had a gun. They said, Youre gonna die. Thats when one of them shot at me, and thats when he got my hand.
Ersland grabbed the semi-automatic Kel-Tec .380 in his pocket.
And thats when I started defending myself, he said. The first shot got him in the head, and that slowed him down so I could get my other gun.
Ersland also kept a much larger pistol in a nearby drawer, which he was able to retrieve, a Taurus Judge revolver. At that point, the second robber took off. However, the other robber was now getting up off of the floor, despite the head wound.
Ersland emptied his clip into the chest of the wounded robber, who turned out to be 16-year-old Antwun Parker.
I went after the other guy, but he was real fast and Im crippled, said Ersland. Once outside, he saw a third black male sitting in a car with what appeared to be a shotgun.
Ersland said: I pulled out my Judge and pointed it right between his eyes and he floored it.
A SECOND VERSION
>All of a sudden, they started shooting, he said. They were attempting to kill me, but they didnt know I had a gun. They said, Youre gonna die. Thats when one of them shot at me, and thats when he got my hand.
Ersland said he was thrown against a wall, but managed to go for the semiautomatic in his pocket.
And thats when I started defending myself, he said. The first shot got him in the head, and that slowed him down so I could get my other gun.
But as one robber hit the floor, Ersland said, a bullet from the other robber whizzed past his ear.
The pharmacist said he then got his second gun from a nearby drawer, a Taurus Judge.
After he had the big gun, Ersland said, the second robber ran.
But as he started to chase after the second robber, Ersland said, he looked back to see the 16-year-old he had shot in the head getting up again. Ersland said he then emptied the Kel-Tec .380 into the boys chest as he kept going after the second robber.
I went after the other guy, but he was real fast and Im crippled, Ersland said.
Outside the pharmacy, he said he saw what he thought was a third black male in a car with the engine running and reaching for what appeared to be a shotgun.
I pulled out my Judge and pointed it right between his eyes and he floored it, Ersland said.”
He faced a armed robber,the robber died, end of story.