cops shoot folks for far less. do you get on those threads and bitch?
Less than what? What's surprising about you and most others on this thread is that you are swallowing the family's alibi, hook, line and sinker. They have a powerful motive to make themselves look as innocent as possible, and apparently there are no witnesses other than family.
I've personally known of cases where teenaged boys broke into, or were let into a girl's home by the girl and were then discovered. No one was shot.
There is a knee-jerk desire to make every self-defense case seem 1,000% justified. This one stinks to high heaven. But you believe whatever you choose to believe. There may never be evidence to prove or disprove anything about this one; just a family's alibi.