This story seems quite fishy to me. First of all, he just wanted to grab a cigarette from his mother's car at 2:45 in the morning? And how long did it take him to look for the cigarette, if a neighbor had the time to notice his behavior, think it suspicious, call the police and have the police show up before he found something? But the thing which really stands out to me about this story is it is only reported (at least in the summary) the man was shot in the leg. Since when do multiple officers demand compliance, not get it and feel like they are threatened enough to the point of discharging their weapon like a "firing squad" with "Bullets were flying everywhere" and not aim for the torso? This whole story stinks to me. I'm not saying the officers were necessarily right to open fire, but I suspect there's more to the victim's story than he's telling.
There have been a few questionable shootings involving LE around Lawton and in Comanche County.
One city cop shot a man he was chasing at 2am because he thought the sunglasses the man was carrying- odd for a man to be carrying sunglasses, odd too they looked an awful lot like the type that cop routinely had hanging from his pencil slot on his uniform- looked like a pistol. This cop later shot a fleeing handcuffed man and was fired from the LPD.
Two Deputies were searching dumpsters behind an apt complex for a felon. One would flip the lid open the other pop up and check the interior- this is where pieing would have been safer for both the Deputy and the suspect. They finally found him in one and as soon as the deputy saw the suspect he shot. The suspect was unarmed and it was later claimed it looked like he had a pistol. My thought was the deputy trained to shoot don't shoot with 'traditional' targets.
I think we all remember the home owner shot in his yard Chicago/Dallas/ Portland because he had a cell phone in his hand.
72 year old Dallas homeowner shot by rookie cop 6 times as both investigated a burglar alarm.
All of that is to say we sometimes dwell on the high stress decisions made by LE who often are new to the Force, or have not had enough training in more varied shoot-don't shoot.
Now the hail of bullets that missed with the one hit low in the leg-
If you have any pistol training you would know that aiming at one point, the torso doesn't mean you hit that POA, the torso. Your two hands 'fight' to control the weapon. Your non firing hand can 'pull' or 'push' the weapon off target when using sloppy technique. Low shots are from the non firing hand pulling back on the lower part of the pistol- most times as part of anticipating recoil.
I've had students 'dirt buffalo' a .40 round repeatedly at 15 yards, the closest we shoot pepper poppers, and not realize it, not until the relay standing behind the firing line confirmed the observation did he believe it possible.