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I wonder what caliber the officer's handgun was. To make a kill shot from behind the fleeing truck through glass, etc. is amazing to me.
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It really should not be that amazing if you think about it. The fleeing vehicle never got moving that fast. It was moving away in essentially a straight line away from the officer. It isn't as if the officer needed to lead his target in order for the target and bullet to arrive at the same point in space to produce a hit, as would be the case if the target was moving across his path at some distance. Instead, he had a target that was slowly getting smaller with distance, but not jinking about or anything else difficult. As you saw, most of the glass went away very quickly and the officer pumped a lot of rounds into the vehicle very quickly. So glass deflection through tempered glass really wasn't going to be much of an issue if any. While the one shot was a "kill shot" as you note, keep in mind that 13 of the shots didn't even hit the suspect.