Ah, we are led to believe that the victim's only transgression was that he climbed up the fig tree and acted strangely. It was only at the end of the article, like a trivial afterthought, that we learn this eccentric tree-lover "charged the deputies with a machete". Like "Motorist" Rodney King, this gentle sort will go down in journalism annals as "Climber".
Ummm, That was a seperate unrealted incident fRiend.
You might want to go back and reread that last paragraph.
The climber and the machete-wielder are two different guys, I think.
Don't "skim", read every little word, and you won't find yourself up a tree!
In that case the deputy should be charged with lousy shooting.