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"Get your hands in the air, get your hands in the air, I want to see your hands!"

The suspect let his hands hang down below his hips In his left was a paper bag with the store’s logo In his right was a S his options

"Don’t think" I was surprised by how calun Drop it now"

I had trained for hours and hours with the firear over shoot/don’t shoot scenarios until they all blurred together This was different My hands trembled They had never done that with FATS And my vision--I could see only as directly in front oftunnel

"For God’s sake drop the gun"

The suspect raised his hands

I fired once

A spread of double-aught buck hit the suspect squarely in the chest The impact froainst the glass door of the convenience store He caros folded and he pitched forward onto his face He was still holding the gun and the bag shoulder high, away from his body

The woman screamed

The man shouted an obscenity

I un at the suspect When I reached his un body, I kicked the Smith & Wesson out of his hand

"Four forty, shots fired, suspect down, officer requires assistance" I was shouting I didn’t mean to shout I simply couldn’t help myself

"You killed ’im, you killed ’im," the woman railed

"He had his hands up," theto surrender"