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Nelson_Muntz wrote:
mmdkyoung123 wrote:
DKSuddeth wrote:
now we know that the vehicles were facing same direction, along side each other from above.
The first shot shattered the front driver’s side window of the White’s vehicle, and entered the closed, darkly-tinted right front passenger window of Ms. Silva’s vehicle. The other four shots entered the windshield of Ms. Silva’s car.
The way it reads to me, the vehicles
CAN'T have been facing the same direction. they would have to be facing oposing directions if the first shot shattered the front drivers side window right?
It's like when you see two state officers in the center median, and they are facing opposite sides with drivers side windows together. My dad use to call it the BS position. Being that he figured the officers were more interested in talking than working.
Nope, sounds to me like Mr. White shot out HIS OWN drivers side window, which then went through the passenger side window of Ms. Silva's vehicle. They were both facing the same direction. Ms. Silva apparently began backing when seeing the brandished weapon, and in her haste grazed Mr. White's vehicle. The grazing probably created a moment of hesitationin vehicle movementin which Mr. White, feeling the graze, fired the shot. Ms. Silva continued to back up at that point and Mr. White followed the retreating vehicle with his weapon from his driver's side window firing more shots into Ms. Silva's windshield.
The problem is, if the report is taken at face value,
he (White) backed up first, after brandhishing, in what could be characterized as an attempt to remove himself from the situation (i.e. a "show of force" through the brandishment, then leave). Then
she (Silva) backed up into him.
This would still fit a round exiting
his driver's side window and entering
her passenger side window. Depending on where the cars halted, or if they moved between shot 1 and shots 2 - 5, if she did not stop when backing into him, but "through" him (whether grazing his vehicle or pushing his vehicle out of the way), then I could see the shot directions moving from "passenger front" side to "front passenger" side, placing the kid (in the passenger seat) in the line of fire between the two drivers' seats, at least for one shot.
One round struck Ms. Silva’s son in his knee, two others struck her in her arm."
Speculation: maybe the one that hit his knee was Shot 1, through the side windows, or one of the early shots throught her windshield, as the line of fire moved based on (what is most probably) her vehicle movement.
I don't know the local laws (I am not Admitted in California) so I don't know if the facts concerning her vehicular movement (leaving aside his actions) would constitute vehicular assault, attempted murder, or some other charge. If she made no statement to the police regarding it - and such lack of statement was based on Counsel's instruction, it could be that her inaction to make a statement was in preserving her Fifth Amendment self-incrimination protection. Or Not. I'm only reacting to what is in this thread.
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