It doesn’t take a genius to figure this one out. The man did everything right (told someone to call the police, etc) except go back outside with the gun. There’s a million things that could’ve gone wrong when he fired the “warning shots”.....innocent bystanders, babies in cribs in other houses, all kinds of what-ifs. That would be where the “reckless endangerment” would come from. Had he stayed in the house, positioned himself at the base of a funnel point and just waited then he could’ve been 100% in the right when he picked off the gang members one by one as they came through his front door. The reality of it is he had good judgement but made a bad decision.
If I was his neighbor I would then learn from his mistake, have everyone in my family trained with their own firearm and then coerce the same thugs to my property....and finish it properly.
He had seconds to react with 20 gang members threatening to kill him and his family.
Maybe a couple of cousins with baseball bats would have helped too...
Well said..