Q: So why only two? Why not three?
A: Because I was afraid to say three, I said "some two, two three." I was afraid to say three people wouldn't think I was some kind of psychopath."
The defendant's explanation that he deliberately fired two bullets and not three because he was afraid of being portrayed as a "psychopath" who fired indiscriminately, as he put it, is puzzling, when the defendant emptied, in practice, an entire cartridge during the entire incident. It is not clear what the substantial difference is, in the defendant's view, between two and three bullets, when the police are aware that the defendant fired a total of ten bullets, both in the air and in the deceased. Therefore, I do not accept the defendant's explanations in this context, and I am afraid that the defendant provided these explanations in order to support his version that he was not aware of the two bullets fired at the deceased during the struggle on the floor.
- According to the defendant, the emission of the bullets was made possible by the fact that his finger was still in the trigger reserve of the pistol after the two rounds of fire were fired in the air, when the deceased pounced on him, a struggle developed between them and the two wrestled on the floor, while the deceased tried to snatch the gun from his hand. In these circumstances, in which the two were struggling while moving and the deceased was pulling the defendant's hand, forces were used that caused the trigger to be pulled and the bullets to be unintentionally discharged.
In this context, it is worth referring to the testimony of Sgt. Gil Alon, who explained that this is technically unreasonable, taking into account the characteristics of the defendant's Glock pistol in which the shooting was fired. This is what he explained in his testimony (pp. 320-321 of Prut):
"The witness, Mr. G. Alon : It's a Glock 19, at the moment the gun is not ready, the trigger is back, as soon as I step on it a bullet will come in... The trigger will move forward for the first shot, after firing the trigger will go back to this position it will be a little forward and then each click will shoot but do you see this thing? He has a Shabbat, if I press from the side now it means not perfect from here he didn't shoot because this gun doesn't have a barrel, the Glock doesn't have a barrel it's a patented Glock shot, so you have to press both the small stool and, I mean if I accidentally press from the side he won't shoot, it's one,...