[RogerFGay]

I believe they were trying to arrest him over the child support. They shot him over holding a family hostage and attempting to shoot the police. Slight difference.

Not much. He was trying to escape police who had broken into his home to capture him, because he was allegedly behind in his child support payments. Everything else followed that.

[MEGoody]

"He was trying to escape police"

It IS a crime to resist arrest. Add to that the hostage taking and shooting at the cops, and this guy is a candidate for getting thrown under the jail instead of in it.