The perp can’t harm anyone else. Ecstatically happy ending.
The outcome of the lawsuit is probably best case. (That there even was a lawsuit is regrettable.) I am not defending Norgard’s actions, nor did I intend to vilify his target, I just find the death of a young man, and one whose (possibly misguided) parents loved him regrettable. I find the entire episode regrettable.
Mr. Norgard was not “blind drunk”, his blood alcohol level was 0.188. Until fairly recently the standard for “drunk driving” was 0.150. Nowadays 0.08, about half of what Mr. Norgard had. One beer results in a blood alcohol level of around 0.05. A blood alcohol level of 0.188 is about what would result from four beers in two hours.