“I am NOT sticking up for the perp...”
Yes, you are.
You’re saying he stole her stuff fair and square and she has no right to do something about it.
100% correct. I am saying that she has no right to use deadly force to stop a fleeing felon. She has the right to use deadly force to defend herself and her property, and if she ran over the guy as he was attempting to reach into her vehicle, I'm OK with that.
It's similar to the guy who caught a man and a woman breaking into his home. He shot them both, then put another bullet into the guy as he laid motionless at the bottom of a stairway. The first shots were justified, the last shots got him a murder charge. This is the slippery slope that I refer to.
http://www.samson-law.com/homeowner-charged-seconddegree-murder-teens/