I think you’re mistakenly applying legal principles to a situation where any civilized society would recognize exceptions to them in extreme cases. Anyone facing a situation like that is always going to act in favor of protecting a human life in jeoopardy even if there is a high degree of uncertainty about it. Firefighters, for example, frequently put their lives at risk to enter a burning house even when there is no evidence that anyone is at home.
This is war. Let’s not forget the way the Trump electors were put through hell or how many conservative officials families were harassed by leftist mobs converging on thier homes.