“The question is whether he crossed the line from self-defense to execution. According to the DA he was waiting, they were unarmed, did not surprise him, made no attempt to harm him, and then he drug the bodies across the floor, putting finishing shots into their heads, I really don’t know if a jury is going to believe self-defense if those are the facts.”
Dead men (and/or women) don’t talk. How many times have perps been wounded, recovered and then sued the victim for shooting them? If you are going to end up broke or in jail anyhow, may as well polish them off and have the satisfaction that the perps won’t be up to no good ever again. Glad they’re dead; they were serial burglars.
Also, if this was a couple of older, scuzzy looking perps, there wouldn’t be this outcry. But the perps were young, pretty good looking teens, so now the cries of outrage. Kind of like killing two Bambi’s, or a good looking Bonnie and Clyde. If they were ugly or a minority, or both, no problem. Doesn’t change the fact that they were rotten to the core; good grief, they were cute and rotten to the core. There’s a difference you know. /s
“When the female stopped moving, he dragged her by her clothes and into the workshop, too. There, he said, he noticed she was still gasping and didn’t believe she should suffer, so he gave her “a good clean finishing shot,” he said. “She gave out the death twitch.”
One thing that can be learned from this; don’t move the bodies.
Waiting, nearly everyone in similar situations will wait. No one who is smart goes rushing towards the intruders, you wait for them to come to you so that you have the tactical advantage. Key word- wait.