14 Shots

"He took off, running about 10 blocks south on 100th toward Walford."

I also have a great deal of difficulty believing that somebody whose blood alcohol is twice the legal limit would be able to run ten blocks.

Stagger, maybe. But if he was being chased by people intent on mayhem, they'd have caught him well before he'd covered ten blocks.

Bug made a lot of bad decisions in his life. The way he spent his last night was just one of them...

You're right. There's enough blood in the brain for 30 to 45 seconds of resolute action after the heart stops beating. If not sopped the kid could have hit the officer in the head with the pipe after he received "fatal" wounds. In the famous Miami shootout one of the criminals received fatal 9mm hits, but killed an agent before he died. Shoot 'til the adversary goes down, and brain/CNS hits are best. The # of shots fired canard is for the poisoning of the minds of stupid/ignorant potential jurors-to-be. And saying "he only weighed 190 lbs."! Vile idiocy - you compute the weight of the adversary to know how many shots are legit - one shot per 50 lbs.? Puhleeze...

Thirty years ago, when I worked emergency admitting at a small hospital, a man (white) was brought in with five bullet wounds from a shootout with the police. They took his clothes and shoes from him since he was still walking around making threats, even though he was handcuffed. Several of them stayed with me, as I interviewed him so surgery could prep him for the removal of the bullets, which I don't think were very high caliber, although I really don't know since there weren't any exit wounds that I saw.

He was very belligerent, very active physically, and very drunk. He had a sheet wrapped around him, and threatened to drop it, figuring I'd be embarrassed, I guess, he was completely lucid, and quite profane. No police officers were shot, his aim must have been horrible, but he did have a rifle earlier that he was using against the police.

All this is to say that shooting someone is no guarantee he's not a threat anymore. After reading this, I'm sure this criminal in the ER would have taken at least 14 bullets to kill...as it was, after surgery and a few days chained to a hospital bed, he was taken away, I heard to prison. Must have been a parole violation....or something.

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