the other obvious question is why 5 shots at point blank range? we are talking less than a few feet. a shot to the head will kill instantly. at that range you cannot miss. one or two shots is fine. a third to make sure i guess is okay. you normally shot in 3 rounds anyway. but 5 to me says it was rushed or done in anger. a single shot would have ended this.

the scary thing though is that you can now be chased and shot for suspicion. this never used to be the case. british police never used to shoot people based on a judgement call of possibilities. it was done as a last resort. but now it seems that tomorrow i could have 20 armed guys point their weapons at me, take me to the ground, unload a few shots into the back of my head, then say "oh it's alright we thought he had a bomb ho-hum, sorry about that" and people will eat it up.