Because of this:
This kind of scenario does not work, even in the movies. If you are a criminal and your otherwise perfectly planned armed robbery goes to crap and the police is blocking all exits, just go ahead and do the basic time for Armed Robbery instead of adding kidnapping and a host of other charges and even go spend the rest of the day on the morgue.
I’m trying to figure out where they hit him. Torso somewhere it seems.
In the neck, according to the article Scrappycrow posted below.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-shot-police-denver-7-eleven-dies-article-1.1586352