[marktwain]

It cannot be fun to have to shoot someone who you let live with you.

[basil]

I don't think it would be fun to have to shoot anyone----but if it's a case of self defense, then it must be done.

My prayer is always for me to never have to make this choice, although I will if I have to.

[jagusafr]

Hmm - a real Sharpshooter. Sounds like he’d had enough of a dysfunctional “friendship”. Also sounds like the “needed killin’” defense.

Colonel, USAFR

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is one case that needs a real police forensics “fine toothed comb”, because otherwise it is totally reliant on the testimony of the shooter.

Note that the victim was locked outside. The shooter said the victim threatened him (still locked outside), so the shooter loaded his rifle.

The shooter said the victim had items within reach (still locked outside) such as a machete and gas cans. This implies that machete and gas cans were outside as well.

Shooter then *opens* the door, and sees the victim *standing there*, and the victim enters. At this point the police should ask “Was it safer for you that he was standing outside with a machete and gas cans *available to him*, or inside with you and your rifle?”

But when he let him inside, the victim made an “aggressive movement” towards the shooter, and though warned at rifle point, lunged towards the shooter.

This implies that the shooter was intimidated by the victim, so why did he let him inside? Instead, you would think that when he saw the victim “standing there” in the screen porch, he would have just shut and locked the door again.

And at some point, maybe even called the police.

A lot of unanswered questions.