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Sadly, here in Oklahoma City we just had a similar situation involving an older gentleman in his pharmacy. He foiled the plans of two armed scumbags when he returned fire from both robbers. He was able to kill one of them inside his drugstore. The other, he chased outside and down the street. He wasn't able to catch robber number 2. He ran back to his business, where robber number 1 was still laying inside. The Korean war vet retrieved another handgun from behind the counter and shot robber number 2 another 4 or 5 times. When he did this, he was partially out of camera view. He was charged and convicted of murder, even though has was still fearing for his life because he didn't know whether robber number 1 was playing possum or actually dead on the floor. His business had been robbed several times within the period of a year. The D.A. said it was overkill because robber number 1 could not have protected himself from the pharmacist's last few rounds. It was shown by autopsy that the first round that robber number one was hit with was the fatal wound. He was already dead when the pharmacist shot into him with the last few rounds. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that you cant kill a body once its already dead. desecration of a corpse would have been a more appropriate charge, not murder.

Yep!!! I thought that was terrible he was blamed for that..

Auuugh “and shot robber number 2 another 4 or 5 times” should’ve read “and shot robber number 1 another 4 0r 5 times”
Sorry