I agree that shooting at the police over an inoperable van being towed was quite extreme, with the ultimate consequence...however, this incident began because of code “enforcement” and his neighbors. Not the now dead subject.
At what point do neighbors get to decide what happens on your property and then have the ability to bring the full weight and measure of the government down upon you? Does an inoperable van meet that threshold?
Looking at the link provided above, there aren’t any neighbors that even have direct line of sight from him.
This seems like something malicious carried out with the thinnest of veils towards “community standards”.