Hu, nothing said about the distance the cops were shooting at, but that is either the luckiest criminal or the worst case of police marksmanship ever...
Not that I'm an expert with shooting short guns, I have a few, but have never really worked hard to become really proficient with them, but me thinks I could kill a dude given fifty+ shots.
The one thing no one has commented on...this whole thing was started over two guys arguing over, yep, just like in the movies, a woman. One guy gets shot at a party over a fight about a woman, the guy who shot him gets turned into Swiss Cheese by the cops because he shot a guy over a fight about a woman. We get kicked out of the garden of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit who was given to unsuspecting us by, you guessed it, a woman. I'm sensing a pattern here...

(I'll leave it up to ya'll as to what pattern you think is happening...

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