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I'm also sorry you lost your friend, and if the article is accurate I think the shooter was a little quick on the draw, and deserves some penalty. Fullest of the law or not I guess others will decide.

Ringing someone's doorbell after bedtime is 'up to no good.' Given it's a mischeivious 'no good' rather than criminal 'no-good'. But nonetheless the point was to harass people. And in this day and age of home invasion robberies, people ARE scared, and testing those limits is dangerous. Kind of like it isn't wise anymore to flip someone off while driving.

I'd like to think that in that situation I would not have answered the door, but I don't know. I wasn't there. And 6'0" and 190 is plenty intimidating to some of us smaller folk. In fact...I dread halloween. The little kids are cute. But then the teens come out, with masks completely covering their faces, and they're in groups. I hate to answer the door. But if I don't I get 'tricks'.

My condolences to both families, poor decisions on the parts of both have tragically changed many lives. Lets hope we all learn how to modify our behavior so that it doesn't happen again.

Thanks for your reply. Durham62 is my son and he is very upset, naturally. I agree that this game was a bad idea and in this day and age obviously can be fatal. Emotions are high about the incident and all the facts are not yet public. There of course is a lot of information going through the local grapevine and in due course the facts will come out. As I said earlier on this thread with another poster who had some harsh and uninformed things to say, these boys were good and the facts will tell if legally there was justification for the homeowner to come out and use deadly force. Morally I think he was horribly wrong. As to whether the boy was facing his killer or running away this too will be public soon enough and obviously is a very important detail.