Amazing how the guy dropped at the instant of the shot sound.
Saw this on channel 2 over-the air news at 7 in Denver. They'll probably edit out the actual shot in later broadcasts.
Seven-Eleven at Perry and Colfax this afternoon.
Robber enters with gun, manager and one customer in store, one employee in back, and a delivery person delivering baked goods. Employee in back goes into a hiding place, calls 911, runs out the back door.
Police start arriving, gunman takes the bakery person hostage. Police demand he lets the hostage go, he does not. Has her by the collar as he tries to leave the store.
Video shows him with the hostage close up (body contact), gun to her head. He looks around, starts to retreat back into the store, is shot just before he regains cover behind the door jamb.
He falls instantly. I mean bang and gravity took over. Hostage was left just standing there.
Police say he was shot "just above the shoulders," which to me means a shot to the spinal cord or darned close.
From what I saw, the officer had no choice at that point but to end the threat. No blood or gore or even the bullet hole in his hoodie was seen in the video. No details on the weapon used or distance involved.
I was stunned at how quickly he just went limp. I had heard before that a neck shot like that would instantly incapacitate a person, but seeing it in real time was amazing.
I'm not being bloodthirsty here (you all know that's not my style), just documenting it before they edit it out of the later news. I hope the Officer can take comfort in the fact that the decision to shoot was entirely justified, to my mind.
Terry, 230RN
