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.
what i can’t believe is that you’ve already convicted the guy. i can raise the same stink about your view as you raise about anyone you’re so adamantly knowing the guy’s guilty and his story is bunk.
i tend to believe the guy’s version. you tend not to. i would guess you maybe’did the same thing as the kid, or had kids who’ve done this to react so negatively and just assume the guy is lying.