Yes but how is this relevant to anything? This is one person making a bad decision. Not one shred of evidence that maliciousness was involved at all. Again, you seem pretty broken up over this but completely oblivious to other more pressing crime issues.
No evidence of maliciousness. But there is evidence of a CHANGE OF HEART during that confrontation.
Ten minutes of doing the right thing, then SOMETHING agitated him into UNLOCKING THE DOOR and going into the darkness with a weapon.
It could have been a stroke victim. A crime victim with a knot on head and/or broken jaw. He had no idea what he was shooting.
I remember once in the trailer park, this crack head came into the screen room, tried jiggling the door, knocking, pounding, pulling, asking for someone, demanding he come out. My brother and I were home. I had twin glocks pointed 12 inches from the door head level, my brother had a mossberg shotty at torso level.
But we didn't OPEN the door. We were safe in our home. Any one comes THRU the door, well, you can imagine how that story ends, right? But because he never entered our home, we repressed any anger and frustration we had - and told him to get outta here, wrong house, police are on their way. He ran away and never came back.
That's how you handle it (although today I'd have better position behind cover, of course). Dude tried to get in. He was a junkie punk intent on bad things. But no way did we bring the party to him. You avoid shooting people ANYTIME YOU CAN. You don't unlock safety and run into the darkness firing.
That shooter shouldn't own guns. He's shown he cannot control his emotions with them.
