Heather Ann Thompson

And when he turns suddenly and he assumes a combat position and, to use his own words, lays down a pattern of fire and takes out first Troy Canty in the chest, then Barry Allen in the back as he is running, then James Ramseur through the arm and the bullet goes into his lungs as he's trying to flee, he misses Daryl Cabe.

And the most chilling part of this story is that he then walks over to Daryl KB, who at this point is cowering on his seat.

And he says, you look all right.

Here's another.

And he shoots him point blank range, severing his spinal cord.

I would have shot them all again and again.

My problem was I ran out of bullets and I was gonna gouge one of the guy's eyes out with my keys afterwards.

You can't understand this.

I know you can't understand this.

That's fine.

The only reason I didn't do it is because Tia changed as well.

So, yeah, the thing about his confession that he will eventually make after being on the lam for nine days on the run from the law is an extraordinary piece of video.

He is confessing to everything he did audaciously, aggressively, and it all comes down to, for him, he didn't like the look.

in Troy Canty's eyes?

Or has he put the gleam in his eye?

And he ultimately decides not to go over there and gouge his eyes out after he's already shot him in the chest because he had changed the look in his eye.

Well, the look in his eye was terror.

And bewilderment.

And so the confession is this astonishing piece of tape that also really resonated with me in terms of the contemporary moment we are in because we are watching someone tell us exactly who they are, exactly what they did, and it will not matter.

Up will become down.