Different strokes. I looked at his background. Impressive. I suspect that is part of the reason he wasn't charged.
and imagine... ten years from now... you're in your yard watering your lilies and suddenly you have a stroke. unable to get your hands out of your pocket with your messed up arm, you limp next door to ask ol' Joe for help.
Someone else has been knocking and running, and your timing sucks. You're only a foot in his yard when he comes storming our of the yard into the 9pm yard screaming and waving around a pistol. You try to tell him you need him to call 911 and you cannot open your door, and suddenly he starts screaming and firing his gun.
As you fall to ground & hold your chest with a gaping bullet hole, you suddenly realize that maybe people SHOULDNT be able to fire bullets into a silhouette presenting zero threat. Maybe people SHOULDNT be allowed to get away with "oh, he was scared" when the only threat is - drum roll please - in his imagination.
So yeah, that could happen. A teenage girl could be roofied and asking for help. Hendrix created fear for his life, IN HIS MIND, when there was none in real life. dude, you seriously would want a neighbor who will FIRE BULLETS into the darkness because of some irrational threat that exists only in his head? Scary... I wouldn't want that dude living in my state.