I wonder if the Officer even identified himself as being a Policeman? Or just started in with the yelling instantly, soon as he say Mr. Creach approaching and armed?
Fatal situations where the perp is the only wittness, are inherantly less than ideal for the best recounting sometimes.
I had a situation about fifteen years ago, where on my own property, an un-marked car, plain clothes LEO of some sort, he comes to a four-wheel-drift skidding stop, opens the door, is behind his door for cover, aiming ( appeared hysterical and very unsteady ) some large automatic at me, and screaming and cursing for me to get on the ground.
He did not bother identifying himself, and the situation occured middle of the day on a Sunday.
It all worked out okay, but left me with a better understanding of how things might not.
He could have shot me and then said whatever accounting or story he liked.
I was not armed.
When all was said and done, and I having been comliant and easy-going about it all, I asked him what it had been about, and he mumbled something about an annonomous tip about someone removing property from this location.
I then asked, "What address was your 'tip' indicating, do you have it written down, or, do you remember?"
He looked at me in a sneer, and left.
He was no kid, and appeared to be in his 40s.
So, I have no idea what it had been about, I had simply been changing the Oil on my Truck...old Industrial district, at my Business, in my own Parking Lot, courtyard.
No I am not confused IMHO...
