Nice platitude if it's not your stuff being stolen.
Automobiles are todays horses and horse thieves were shot or hanged. So, building upon the SCOTUS Bruen decision, where is the historical precedent that citizens dealing with horse thieves is unlawful?
We’ll have to wait, and then only possibly learn, what took place. Doesn’t sound as if he was killed because he was messing around with the guy’s car; there was a “confrontation”, the nature of which has not been described. Being surrounded by three thugs who’ve declared their intent to beat the hell out of or kill someone would in my view justifiably elicit a deadly response.