Afterward, he returned to the store and told a witness, “I think I shot him.” He did not call the police, and neither did any other customer inside the store, WMC reported.
Harris was shot at least three times and was left to bleed out, Fowler said. His body was found two days later in a yard near the store with gunshots in the back of his thigh, Weirich said.
Murder!
I think the Old Testament was forgiving of pursuers so long as they had not lost sight of the criminal and/or the sun had not set with him still running loose [as it lessens the risk of an innocent being confused for the perp] but it became a matter for the law if the thief or evildoer eluded pursuers by getting out of sight or making it to sunset. But that doesn’t mean it was OK to murder him if he was too slow to escape and no threat. You could only justify what force was needed to get your property back.
It is one thing to shoot someone while they are on your property but quite another to chase him off your property, leaving your other beers unguarded, and risk a stray bullet hitting a bystander. Hard to justify shooting anyone in the back over a beer, though if the guy had committed a rape or armed robbery I would say good riddance. Impossible to justify not calling 9/11 in any case.