I am not convinced the screaming was TM or GZ. Obviously, it was one or the other (perhaps even both).
So GZ was screaming for help while grabbing his gun out of his holster, tries to clear his hand (in his statement to the police) as he pulled the trigger? Also said TM slammed his head into the pavement and that was when he shot him. Then in another statement he said he was being smothered, couldn't breathe, then TM saw the gun, started to go for it but GZ was able to stop him from doing so. I'm confused by GZ statement here along with the screaming through all this. :twocents:
I am not even sure that is an accurate representation of the facts of GZ's testimony, but I'll grant that is how you process it.
X, Y, and Z happen during a traumatic event. If I state that it was Y, X, Z one time and X, Z, Y another it does not mean I am lying. My memory is doing the best it can to handle something it is not used to processing.
I have been a witness to crimes and I had no reason to lie, but my memory of the events changed as I retold the event numerous times. Unless you have a videotape of the event there will be inconsistencies no matter how honest and relatively infallible the person retelling the account may be. IMO