Dear misinformed citizen, Evan Harlow did have a gun, actually it was one he had stolen from another home that very same day. Evan Harlow made all the decisions that day and every day prior to that in his short, disrespectful life. He chose to carry that stolen gun, and then he chose to confront the police with it. Furthermore instead of putting the gun down ( like he was asked and begged to do numerous times) and having the chance to be alive on May 1 2007, he chose to pull the trigger of the gun