Something tells me this is going to get entertaining.
1) Someone with a gun (seen or otherwise) is considered the highest threat level- grievous bodily harm/death. Thus, the ONLY response is a weapon capable of inflicting the same- a gun. Tasers or less lethal options can be used but there still must be the option to use a higher level of force.
2) With 4 or 5 officers on seen, all seeing the same thing, all trained the same way, when that level of force is necessary, will, in all likelihood, fire as many rounds as they are trained to. It simply wouldn't be feasible to discuss, 'Hey Jim, you fire first... then Bob, you go second.... no wait, Dave, you go second then Bob'.
3) There is a 'database' of people that suffer from mental illness but it is updated by law enforcement agencies bot health regions. However, it doesn't change the level of force used in a circumstance like this.
Again, there is a lot we don't know so it's pretty difficult to assess what really happened.
According to Burninator though, it was just young man that was shot 20 times (see how an over simplification is misleading?).
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