The level of alcohol the couple drank the evening of the crime played a major part to this volatile situation. What was not established, at least in this article, is which one introduced the off duty officers gun into their argument and who shot who first.

The first probable scenario is that the firearm was the woman’s, department issued handgun, so more than likely she had possession of her gun in her purse. The question is did she introduce her gun because her boyfriend was physically assaulting her and she shot him the one time, before her boyfriend wrestled her gun away from her grasp and fired the 8-shots fired at her.

This article doesn’t state if there was any other witnesses, aside from her boyfriend, who lived to give his side of what happened. The Sergeant, who did not survive does not get to give her side of the story.
Due to this fact, it’s obviously difficult to determine exactly what happened during the night of this senseless incident.