Other elements didn't add up either. The first officer on the scene testified at the trial that she had to ask Combs what happened several times, and that it took him about 10 minutes to get around to telling her. But as Combs' attorney pointed out, she made no mention of this when giving a statement to detectives just hours after the incident. It wasn't that. From what I was told, it was a feather-trigger gun, and people were running, they were kicking the gun, and what I was concerned about was somebody else getting shot.
People sometimes make odd decisions in stressful situations.
Unfortunately, his explanation was undermined somewhat by the testimony of another witness, one not questioned by police immediately after the incident, who insisted in court that a female police officer told Clea to move the gun. No other witness made this claim, and Clea adamantly denies it. With little elaboration, Judge Clarke pronounced him guilty of third-degree murder in the death of Roy Shephard. Devlin was sitting in the back of the court room. And he said, 'You're good, Devlin, I'll give you that.