PUBLISHED: 21:27 EDT, 14 October 2023
UPDATED: 08:56 EDT, 15 October 2023
'I'm sorry. I had a bad day' witnesses recalled the injured man appealing from the ground.
Witnesses told police that Hammond at one point flashed some kind of badge 'as if he were a police man,' and said something to the effect of, 'You are lucky I didn't shoot you in the head.'
Hammond called 911 as he was driving himself toward the county courthouse, and freely admitted to dispatch that he'd shot the two men.
'He believed he was justified in doing so because Ryan Martin menaced him and because Sam Gomez might have had a weapon,' the affidavit states.
During a lengthy interview, Hammond told detectives that he shot both men, consented to a search of his car, said he could see Martin was unarmed before he shot him and said he had meant to shoot Martin a second time, but the gun malfunction stopped him.
He also told detectives that he shot the man from the hotel because he thought the man 'may have been planning an ambush which he recognized as military tactic.'
Police have charged Hammond with second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and fourth-degree assault.
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