All he had was a shotgun. No one should have died.
“All he had was a shotgun”??? You think that if someone was holding you with “only” a shotgun that you would come out alive? The scumbag probably started killing the hostages as soon as the commotion began. Depending on the type of shells, at close range he could have easily killed several with one shot or several quick shots.
Besides that, the shotgun is the only weapon they KNEW he had, he may have had more.
Don’t under-rate a shotgun. 00 at close range is nasty.
In any situation under 25 yards, a shotgun would probably be my weapon of choice.
Except him.