Please don’t make this personal. There’s no reason to. I don’t care how this turns out one way or the other.
And “maybe” is absolutely consistent with waiting for all the facts.
Plus, the officer has not been exonerated yet. Not to say he won’t be — but it hasn’t happened yet.
But since you want to speculate — by guess is that the perp was shot shortly after the officer won the struggle for his weapon. The perp may have made a show of giving up (maybe even intended to) but the officer in that situation is battling instinct versus training.
All speculation at this point, of course.
From what I heard the perp reached through the window and there was a struggle for the gun in which the perp took a bullet. He staggered off and as the cop got out of his car the perp charged him again, which is why there were so many shots fired.