Police fatally shoot man holding an air rifle in Walmart toy aisle

[TorchTheWitch]

20. he was threatening people in the store with this "toy"

and caused a panic. People were scared shitless and called the police saying there was a gunman walking up and down the aisles threatening people in the store. One woman died as a result of the panic collapsing and dying while trying to run away from him. Apparently she had some kind of medical condition. When police arrived he was ordered to drop the gun and apparently didn't causing the shooting by police.

I'm not seeing where the police were obligated to check the gun up close and personal to see if it was a toy or not, and for the safety of themselves and the people in the store who believed it was real and were terrorized by the guy SHOULD assume it's not a "toy". Actual toy guns have to have an orange tip to signify it's a toy, and this one didn't. It was apparently some type of real BB or pellet gun, which is not a toy and doesn't look like one. People in the store believed it was real, and the guy's actions of threatening people with it - including children - as though it was a real bullet-using rifle that was armed was beyond stupid, and the panic he knew he was causing should have been a big clue that what he was doing was an epically bad idea. One woman DID die because of his terrorizing actions.

Why in the world did he not just drop it when ordered to by the police? He had to have known what the outcome was going to be by not complying, and he certainly knew that everyone thought it was a real bullet-using rifle and that what he was doing with it was causing a panic.

I don't feel one ounce of sympathy for this asshole and don't give a shit what color he is. His actions caused a woman to collapse and die trying to run away from him, and he purposely terrorized everyone in the store. My sympathy is reserved for her. She was to be getting married on Saturday, but she's dead because of this guy terrorizing her and everyone else in the store.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/walmart-near-dayton-ohio-evacuated-after-gusnshots-fired-inside-store