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ORIGINAL: Gauge
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ORIGINAL: ThirdWheelWanted
(I snipped the rest because I agree with it.)
You really think he was that far away? He looks a lot closer to me. After he went down and rolled, he wound up right at the officer's feet.
Well, OK, let's assume Powell was 6' tall. The first shot came as Powell reached the drivers side headlight on the car in the parking lot. Powell takes a step and begins to fall, all things considered, lets just say he doubled over and fell because that is what it looks like, so that accounts for about 4' in distance, he hits the ground and kind of does a somersault. When the body rolls out it is briefly extended, appearing to cover the remaining distance within a foot or two of the officer, so add 6' feet to our 4' and that is 10'.
This is nowhere scientific by any means, it is a simple guess. The officer did back up from his original position and move back to the car, so this is taking into account where the officer was originally and where Powell was shot the first time.
I agree with Gauge on this, and I used more math to come up with my estimate. First, I estimated the size of the squares of concrete two different ways, and came up with 4 1/2 feet each time (the most accurate way was to count the number of red brick laid alongside one of the squares, with each brick being (normally) about 8 inches long). With that number in mind I estimated the length of Powell's steps, toe to toe and counted the number of concrete squares from where the police parked (using the darkened area where cars had driven out of the parking area as a reference point) to get Powell's starting point near the corner of the low concrete wall around the parking lot. That was approximately just over 30 feet from where the cops got out of the car. Then counting the number of steps Powell took before he crossed the wall into the parking lot, and the number of steps after, and allowing for the diagonal direction of Powell's approach toward the passenger officer, I estimated the distance to be about 12 feet at the time of the first shot.
An interesting thing I saw was that although someone mentioned there being 12 shots, I only counted nine, but 5 of those came AFTER Powell was already on the ground.
You should know by now that the number of shots fired is virtually always revised upward, sound worse that way.
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