I read part of the story in the Toronto Star today. The bad guy had a sawed off 22, not a shotgun. He shot at his own wife several times and missed. The gun was probably a piece of shit. Then he proceeded to beat her with the gun, causing her to need several stitches. Then he wanders off and when cornered, takes a hostage, a girl who just happened to be in the wrong place.
He gets shot and killed a half hour or so later.
I'm thinking, his gun wasn't loaded or working at that point, or he would have used it on his wife.
Had the cop known or thought of that, he might not have had to kill the guy.
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