There was no clear sight on anything, first instruction should have been to come out from the woods, as you could not see his hands.
He would have needed to drop the axe where the officer could have seen it to begin with.
Dropping the Axe would have freed up his hands for a concealed gun.
Every single thing the officer did was wrong, including taking only one shot. Was that a head shot and not center of mass? Reports detail his death only as "on the spot", which I can infer as being 'died instantly'.
There was no clear sight on anything, first instruction should have been to come out from the woods, as you could not see his hands.
He would have needed to drop the axe where the officer could have seen it to begin with.
Dropping the Axe would have freed up his hands for a concealed gun.
Every single thing the officer did was wrong, including taking only one shot. Was that a head shot and not center of mass? Reports detail his death only as "on the spot", which I can infer as being 'died instantly'.