I guess the thought of hiring the deck and shooting the guy in the foot/ ankle that was exposed under the car then the body head when he hit the ground from that never occurred to him. Rounds would be staying low also. Tunnel vision when the chips fell and thinking went out the window. That's when training comes in. Yes more rounds are always nice. The problem is they don't train practice and they do uses them along with reloading. So slowing them down and having to make the shots count would likely cause then to make shots count and train more.
without getting to hung up on this one event , it does make a good example for a bunch of things.
as one of my cop friends says about 0500-1700 shifts the guy on 1700-0500 sees all the crap
they were chasing each other around not a one way battel and it was as I understand it , Dark in parking lot without other people
also Chevy impalas have about 6 inches of ground clearance and if your feet are by a tire are you going to see them , going that low makes you not mobile
there are times to go low and shoot legs , dark shoes on dark pavement under a low car in the dark maybe it would work but if your dancing around trying to get each other exchanging fire back and forth do you take the risk that laying down and loosing all your mobility is the way to win or do you do as much evading as you do firing back.
I clearly wasn't there but the way I read the encounter he was hit a second time and so he was fighting for his life and trying to stay alive , he was landing hits also but since little to no part of the torso was exposed they weren't stopping hits till the end.