The officer shot Reed Wischhusen, 32, three times as he rushed towards him with the firearm held aloft.
Police officers had gone to Wischhusen’s dirty and smelly house that he shared with his father in Wick St Lawrence, north Somerset, in November last year following reports about him converting blank firearms.
L4, who had remained downstairs with the other two officers, told the jury: “After a short while I heard a loud bang, a loud noise.“P3 immediately ran back downstairs with the words of ‘withdraw’. Pausing and sounding emotional, the officer replied: “I thought I was going to die. I can recall saying things like, ‘Drop the gun, put the gun down, armed police’.”Mr Rees asked: “As he rushed downstairs towards you, where was his gun?”
A neighbourhood officer, known as N8, said he felt “extremely vulnerable” after hearing the first shot because he was only carrying Parva incapacitant spray.
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