No where in the report did it say how many time the trespasser was hit.
The first single shot might have been a warning shot into the dirt.
The five rapid shots might have been as a result of the trespasser not heeding the warning to stop advancing.
We all are just speculating.
I doubt you would shoot a 74 year old man "advancing" towards you armed with a stick or cattle prod ASA.
It's not common down south to shoot trespassers at will that I know of (maybe Texas..lol)
This is not a gun rights or property rights issue for me. It appears (as written) that a jerk moved into the Bowling Green environs 20 years ago and went about immediately to extort money from his neighbors using very old statutes and has continued being a dick and has had bad blood with the old curmudgeon next door and when the old guy came onto dickhead's vaunted property armed with a stick or prod to gather his livestock, they had words and according to dickhead, old man menaced him and dickhead shot the old man firing 6 shots.
If FReeperdom thinks that's all hunky dory or that we should celebrate this (using info as given from the article) as a prudent exercise in property rights or RKBA, then ya'll can't count me out on this one.