Seems very believable to me, I think most in this situation just wing it. As far as only hitting the robbers hand that sounds on par considering even the trained police miss entirely about 80% of the time under 21ft. You tube is full of this type situation. Here's one, a bit of a coincidence but the bad guy was hit in the hand.
No way I could have only fired on him once.
You’re kidding, right? Watch it again. The bad guy displays his firearm (specifically, he pulls his right hand out of his pocket and a handgun is clearly visible in his right hand) prior to the clerk showing that he is armed. The clerk was suspicious of the bad guy as he entered the store because the bad guy was concealing his right hand. Is concealing your right hand a threat? Yes, it potentially is a threat, obviously by the scenario that transpired. I was a police officer for a couple of decades, and would have seen the same potential threat. What if it was a cell phone? Well, then the clerk doesn’t have to draw his firearm; he can just put it back where he keeps it and no one is any worse off. Finally, the clerk did not preemptively shoot someone; he justifiably used deadly physical force when confronted by an individual threatening the imminent use of deadly physical force against him. This is justified all day long. I hope you never find yourself on a jury passing judgment on someone who used justifiable deadly physical force against another.
