And at the point where they actually start to do so, he has every reason to leave the house and start shooting. And to keep shooting until they are all down, for that matter. It would, then, have been quite obviously self-defense.
When he admitted to shooting the kid “accidentally” he lost his case.
>>>>When he admitted to shooting the kid accidentally he lost his case.
Exactly. To invoke a SD defense, you have to say “I shot him on purpose because it was only thing I could do to save my life, my son’s life, etc.”