Here in IL, it’s jail time for murder. Period. Even if the guy was shooting into your house and hit your kid, if he’s not on your property and despite no legal duty to retreat, you’re screwed - possibly even with a CCW card.
If someone kills a person on your property while shooting carelessly, they are probably going to be arrested for manslaughter-if they are lucky and only injure someone, then then criminal negligence or some such-but in either case, they are looking at a felony conviction and probably going to jail for awhile. The reason for the 10 acre thing is because just about everyone out here has livestock of some type behind their fences, even if it is just chickens, and livestock is raised for income.
A neighbor did the 1st drone shooting out here last year when another neighbor’s kid got a drone as a gift and was flying it over other people’s fences onto their property-he was having fun using it to chase a neighbor’s goats around their pasture into the woods-neighbor warned the kid to keep the drone off the property-when it came back, he took it out of the air with a 12 gauge-the kids’s parents called the sheriff, but were told the kid was trespassing via his drone, bothering livestock-no fault of the goat owner...