Reply #138: Shooting a running man in a crowd is pretty risky in terms

[evermind]

of collateral damage.

But if (as someone posted above) they'd followed him from his home, I'd have thought they could have stopped him before he got to a tube station... but who knows? Just have to wait until the full official story is released and see how it stacks up then, I suppose.

Also, the anonymous police sources that told the Times and other media that he was one of yesterday's four would-be bombers were presumably wrong, given that police have now released cctv photos of all four suspects (there wouldn't be much of a point, I'm assuming, in releasing a photo of a suspect they've just shot).