Sadly, the laws in many jurisdictions state that even a robbed homeowner may not fire at a fleeing miscreant.
Of course, most of those criminals are never caught — unless they report to the ER with a load of birdshot in their asses.
If this does go to trial, hope the jury consists of former robbed homeowners.
Prosecutors will probably weed them out.
“hope the jury consists of former robbed homeowners.”
AMEN. If I was on his jury, I’d acquit him. We had a guy try to break in our home Sunday night while we were at church. He was later caught. From the description of what happened we got from neighbors, he was trying to get us and not get in our home. Had I been home, he’d be dead now. I would have chased him down the street to kill him.
People like that deserve death and I’m a little disappointed the homeowner didn’t kill him. We can’t have people running around like that and expect our free society to function.