gotta know your regulations before you pull the trigger. he should have been more patient and let them enter the home and then killed them both.
When I was a kid my Grandfather made it clear to me and my siblings that if we were to trespass on a neighbor’s property we could be shot. Needless to say we never did and had respect for those boundaries. I remember an old house that was rather decrepit and deteriorating on the corner. It was completely fenced with a locked gate with NO TRESPASSING posted all around. Yeah... we were intrigued and always wondered about the inhabitant of that house. It was a little old lady, but I am sure to this day that she was packing and ready to shoot. My Dad said most people where he grew up had shotguns with ... I think he said rock salt???? No matter scared all of us enough we kept to ourselves and off the property of others.
unless your state has a stand your ground law.
those laws save people from stupid prosecutors every day.