Portillo said she and a male co-worker met Shaver about an hour before he was shot in the hallway of the hotel. The three of them were all there on business and were staying in separate rooms, but Shaver invited them up to his room for a drink. Once inside, the two men started admiring one of the pellet rifles Shaver had with him.
Portillo said she warned the guys as they passed the rifle back and forth and pointed it out the window of the fifth-floor hotel room, checking out the scopes.
"I was like, 'Hey, you guys, don't be so close to the window. People may get the wrong idea,'" said Portillo.
Shortly after, the Mesa police officers were called to the hotel.
I can’t find the link but I seem to recall that the testimony at trial of the one of the people in the hotel hot tub who called the police, is that they actually didn’t see a “gun” pointed out of the hotel window but only saw the silhouette of a man standing at the window who appeared to be holding a gun.
But the fact remains that Shaver was unarmed when he was killed, shot 5 times while begging for his life.
You may not want to watch the video but you may want to read this:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/opinions/daniel-shaver-shooting-opinion-gagliano/index.html