Permit me to add one more thing about Taylor’s boyfriend. I tend to believe his assertion that the police did not first announce themselves. So he thought it was a home invasion.
He had a valid gun permit. So it’s a good guess that he had a clean record. And no drugs were found in the apartment. So the boyfriend had no reason to fear a police search.
Why would such a person decide to get into a wild shoot-out with the police? His actions only make sense if the cops didn’t announce themselves properly, and so he thought it was a home invasion.
He may well have thought he was shooting at an intruder. But, once he started shooting, the police had a legal right to shoot back.
And, there is no way of knowing if police announced themselves or not since there is no video of the incident.