Get competent legal advice, pronto!
Do NOT expect any leniency, sympathy or help from law enforcement.
I know one thing for certain- you cannot escalate the situation. If you are attacked with fists, for example, and you resort to a club in defense, then YOU have escalated the situatuon and YOU are now in the wrong.
Basically, you must retreat until you either escape or cannot retreat any further. THEN you can defend yourself.
It’s stupid, but that’s Minnesota.
I wish you good luck.
I appreciate all the advice I’ve been given thus far in this thread. I am awaiting a return phone call from the county attorney and will discuss further with that person. I will also ask him whether a RO or OFP is warranted and what “extra protections” if any that may give me.
The manager of the community I am in is getting him served with a no trespass order for the community, so if I want to I can ask the police to enforce aggravated trespass on him (charge him) if I witness him in the community.
What I see right now is that it looks like the clear and present danger inside my home (not just on property), unless a gun or knife is involved on the other party’s part (taking aim at me), but basically if I see imminent danger that appears to have no other reasonable outcome other than the threat or use of deadly force in my immediate dwelling, then I have to retreat (which is what I did in the original case.
This guy threatened to bomb my house and kill my family, so I’m a little nervous right now.