“Depends upon the laws there. If there’s Castle Doctrine and/or Stand Your Ground he might get off. If the pre-dead guy laid a hand on him on his property it’s even more like self defense.”
According to the article the dead guy didnt have any rocks and was trying to diffuse the situation.
“Crocker told police the shooting came as the culmination of a dispute over whether the group was trespassing or not, and he fired after a man approached him with rocks in his hands. Paul Dart wasn’t the one with the rocks. “I just shot the one closest to me,” Crocker said, according to police.”
I think this guy is going to have a hard time claiming self defense in this case.
“I just shot the one closest to me...”
I can see the logic in that tactic as touch-close guy is a threat simply because he’s that close. At least in a confrontation with street thugs it would make sense to shoot closest guy first once someone in the group initiated violence.
How it plays out with ill-mannered middle class rafters vs a probably crazy redneck is another story.
Best tactic of all would have been for rafters to unass the AO when they saw the landowner had a gun.