On a late September night in 2019, 33-year-old NYPD officer Brian Mulkeen was killed in the Bronx during a plainclothes patrol near the Edenwald Houses. Mulkeen, assigned to the Bronx Borough Anti-Crime Unit, and his partners stopped a man later identified as 27-year-old Antonio Williams. Williams ran; Mulkeen chased and caught him, and a physical struggle followed. Mulkeen radioed that Williams was reaching for a weapon.

In roughly ten seconds, multiple officers fired a total of 15 shots. Mulkeen was struck and later pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center; Williams was also shot and killed. A .32-caliber handgun was recovered on Williams, though investigators determined he had not fired it. The Bronx District Attorney’s office investigated and cleared the officers of criminal wrongdoing, and Mulkeen was posthumously promoted to Detective First Grade.

What additional details about the encounter or the officers’ actions would help explain how two officers’ rounds struck Mulkeen?