We're not in an orderly line the trailers aren't thin ones they're the stuff you see hauling lots of storage. If we're all still in a line after a handful of minutes then something is pretty weird. Even if Midnight had the knowledge that skull would react violently to that you're still not fast enough to dodge a shot a point blank. You're not superman speed here. Skull didn't even pull out his shotgun he shot it right through its holster and doing anything before he did that would mean you preemptively attacked Skull, and it would null my entire post even if it did. 

I'm calling it as that I'm not changing my verdict. I am not doing this because I have anything against Evil. This is a cause, and effect reaction. I've even freely stated that killing Skull for this is a legitimate possibility but it would end the rp because the biggest boss gets pissed off at losing the man who makes his chemical weapons. I don't like to try, and rail road roleplays, and I try to give my players the benefit of the doubt (see Sakura King getting wrecked by a car despite being an air based veteran hero.) but this is still a roleplaying campaign and reckless actions do have their pluses, and minuses.

Edit: Anyways the shot isn't even the valid point. The thing that set all this off is the syringes that stopped the poison. Verd smashing them is what put him in the spot that he is in.