Did you get what time of night this was? Did you also get how many times? What sane kids do $hit like this? We as kids would have NEVER!
I can only imagine what that man and others were thinking.
Details are always important. There are always two sides to every story. But it’s going to be pretty hard to defend using deadly force on a (presumably) unarmed kid just playing mischievous games. I admit I’ve done similar things as a kid. Albeit not in the middle of the night. That was later in my teens.
You are a female, I never saw girls doing it since they didn’t hang out with the boys and instead sat at home being nice, but we boys did it.
Circa 1979, my cousin and I were doing it at 1 AM. Stupid yes, but seemed funny to us at 12.