I agree that it appears stagged, but those situations happen, and more often than you would expect. For those of you who carry, that situation would not have gone well for the shooter. Most likely he would be justified in the shoot (criminally), but would lose the wrongfull death suite that would follow. The act of leading the vehicle away to a dead end road after being followed is considered manufacturing the situation. The shooting while justified (gun v bat), is what would be called "fruit of the poisonous tree". If the situation were real he should have led them to a police station or similar. That being said, you come at me with a bat.... You just brought a bat to a gunfight!