article_snippet.sent: Robert Bates said Robert Bates meant to use the gun but ended up firing a handgun instead of a Taser instead.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Bates' attorney said Bates' attorney client is left-handed.
article_snippet.sent: I shoot long guns left handed and
article_snippet.sent: handguns right handed," Bates' said in a written statement to investigators.
article_snippet.sent: After Bates' announced at the scene he was going to use he , he "used he nondominant hand, and it was the gun," said Clark Brewster, Bates' attorney.
article_snippet.sent: he said that he saw the laser sight on the shoulder, assumed it was the Taser," Clark Brewster said.
article_snippet.sent: Clark Brewster also said Clark Brewster client's left hand was holding a pepper gun.
article_snippet.sent: In Clark Brewster statement to investigators, Bates' said Bates' had grabbed a "pepper ball launcher" to try to slow or stop Harris, who was running away.
article_snippet.sent: Bates' did not say explicitly where the Taser the Taser was on Bates' body.
article_snippet.sent: But Bates' admitted to grabbing the wrong device and said Bates' was "startled" by the recoil of a pepper gun.
article_snippet.sent: Bates' was carrying Bates' personal gun, a Smith & Wesson .357 five-shot revolver, and a Model X26 Taser, Bates' said in his statement to investigators.
article_snippet.sent: Jim Clark of the Tulsa Police Department -- which is separate from the county sheriff's office for which Bates' volunteered -- said Bates' was the "victim" of something called "slip and capture.
highlights_snippet.sent: Attorney: Robert Bates assumed the gun was a Taser because he saw a laser sight on it .
  