His crime was becoming judge, jury and executioner.
Back in '09 when it happened, I frame-synced the two interior camera tapes. After coming back inside, at no time does the pharmacist evidence any hint of perceiving the kid as a threat. He does go into "hunt and destroy" mode and advances continuously up to within the kid's "threat" reach while dumping lead into him.
No one said the kid was an "innocent victim". If Ersland had left the kid's fate to the courts -- or his first bullet -- (IOW not taken the law into his own hands) he would have been in the clear.
BTW, I understand they caught the armed punk. Murder one for him should be a slam dunk...
Also FWIW, when hit in the head by the .380, "Antwun" fell forward, face-down. When Ersland walked past and when he was hosing him, he was standing within inches of the kid's head...
When he got hit in the head, good chance he stopped being Antwun.
If the kid fell forward face down how ws he shot in the front by Ersland.