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Originally Posted by Slava
I'm not a "gun guy" so pardon my ignorance, but on the radio a few minutes ago, they were saying he wasn't sure how many bullets he had loaded. He fired two warning shots and then fired a third and the gun didn't go off. He took the clip out and after that he pointed it at Boushies head and it went off. I don't know if that's accurate, but that's the chronology given by Rob Breakenridge a few minutes ago. Does that change things, in your view? I have to say that it does in mine. If he pulled the trigger and nothing happened, and he took the clip out, he obviously didn't plan on killing this guy?
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What's the basis for that chronology though? From what I understand the only person who can attest to what happened with the gun is the defendant, who obviously has a huge motivation to keep himself out of prison. Can you really take a defendant's defense of himself at face value and treat it as the truth?
Perhaps it happened exactly as he says and it was a freak accident. But without any witnesses to corroborate that, anything could've happened and we'd never know. He could've just as easily deliberately shot him in the head and made up the story about removing the clip and the gun going off by accident in order to cover himself.