Read the state laws, each State is different.
I think this one would be justifiable as well. Pulling up in front of somebody's house, yelling challenges and racial epithets, etc., could be taken as assault, a felony. You are legally permitted to use deadly force to stop a felony in progress in Texas, or to prevent a felon from fleeing.
The colors of the respective parties is immaterial, other than that race was an element.
Continuing to yell and threaten when they saw the homeowner was armed is really, really stupid. Continuing to yell and threaten after shots had been fired is suicidal.
I'm on the homeowner's side.
“Pulling up in front of somebody’s house, yelling challenges and racial epithets, etc., could be taken as assault, a felony. You are legally permitted to use deadly force to stop a felony in progress in Texas, or to prevent a felon from fleeing.”
Sitting in a car and yelling threats and challenges does not give anyone the right to shoot you dead... either in NY or Texas or anywhere in the US. Thats only in Quentin Taratino movies.
Race had everything to do with this case. Most of all, what had the black boy done to provoke this - the statement said the son came running into the house around 11PM. Furthermore, I know for a fact that if black boys came to fight, they would have settled this or street fought. The father took the law into his own hands, which is against the law.