True self-defense shooting with #1 buckshot

Some promote #1B as being the best defense load, which is why I am posting this info. The complete report of this shooting can be found in the book, "GUNS SAVE LIVES" by Robert Waters.

This case was investigated by one of my old police buddies in 1999 (we were the two designated snipers on our high crime area Florida PD some years prior to that time). I read his official FDLE report of the shooting investigation he conducted as a Special Agent of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the main points of which follow.

A fleeing felon broke into a home late at night armed with a stolen .32 revolver. The homeowner shot the felon once with a 12ga pump loaded with #1B as the felon pointed the .32 revolver at him. Some of the pellets hit the felon in the left front chest and neck (exact number of pellets striking him not stated in the report). The felon did not fall or show any other sign of being hit other than exclaiming "Oh", dropping the revolver, and walking out of the house. He walked, did not run, 74 feet towards a wooded area before collapsing. He soon died, primarily from loss of blood from the neck portion of the wound. None of the #1B pellets exited the body.

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True self-defense shooting with #1 buckshot