Should have gotten back to this sooner, but real life and other stuff took over. I am coming to a decision regarding this matter.
The issue I am having with this is that lethal force was used by the LOV/AiA side, without any form of initiation or declaring themselves. The person with his hands up is being asked to drop his gear, while his hands are up. He asks for a warning shot, which is given. The response to the warning shot is a aimed gunfire at the person giving the warning shot.
If it is true the person shooting had no way of knowing what happened and only saw his friends with his hands up and heard a shot being fired, it is up to him to make sure he follows procedures and doesn't just shoot as response. In all fairness, waiting for 3 seconds longer would have made it clear his friends live was not at risk.
If the person with his hands up knew he had a friend in the area, he should have warned about that, used it to his advantage to the guys telling him to put his hands up. By simply saying: ''I've got some backup and they will be worried if they don't hear from me, I don't want this to end badly, let me tell them it's okay '', the heat could have been taken off, while at the same time the chances would increase for all sides to just walk away from the tension.
What happened is unacceptable. If you are playing together and one of you gets hold up and then asks for a warning shot, in no way is it appropriate to answer to that by shooting, directly, at the guy giving the warning shot. Especially not without any warning or initiation from your side.
The sniper from AHR side responded to his life being threathened by shooting at the hostage, then gets killed. From their side, compliance was issued to the person with his hands up and compliance was failed to meet as soon as shots were fired. Killing the hostage was not a tactical thing to do, seeing as his own life was in imminent danger, but it is not against any rules.
Then the person holding the hostage up gets killed as well as soon as he picks up the weapon. The shots at the sniper were uncalled for, as there was no initiation on him. The shots at the guy picking up the gun are understandable from a certain perspective (him becoming a possible threat), but they follow after a situation in which shots should not have been fired. Therefore the lethal action against this player was also uncalled for. At any point in this scenario, even after the AHR sniper and the guy with his hands up were already dead, you could and should have used a position of cover to make your presence known, to calm down the situation and increased the chance for both sides to walk away.
My call:
A ban will be issued on LOV Gricey for RDM. You acted in a hurry and your actions were to hostile for the situation at hand. You should have used restraint and remembered the following:
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[COLOR= #6b29ee](7.1.4)[/COLOR] Killing someone must be carried out with high roleplay, put your hands up or I will shoot etc is considered low RP and may lead to a ban for RDM.[/SIZE]
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[COLOR= #6b29ee](2.2)[/COLOR] RDM - Random Death Match Definition: Shooting at someone without engaging in any form of quality role play (eg. Giving enough time for them to comply with your order) is considered RDM. (Punishment is a ban) [/SIZE]
I do not consider this high roleplay. You lurked in a bush and at the first shot you hear, decide to use lethal force on anyone in the situation that is not on your side. If the shot fired was indeed a hostile one, this response would be appropriate. However, you decided to kill people based on a very limited understanding of the situation at hand. There was no initiation from your side, no chance given to comply with any orders, just pure aggression.
Any charges against Mattt Ajazuri are rejected.
To AHR I say the following:
I bloody hate countdowns and consider them very horrible RP. Just putting that out there. Also, to the AHR sniper. If your life is under imminent threat, don't waste time killing a hostage, get in cover and take out the real threat. No rules broken there, just borderline fail RP which I would like to see improved.
Approved and action taken, 08-04-2016
This decision has been made after enquiring multiple staff members about their view on the situation