Way to misrepresent the cause and effect.
He knew he was sneaking into a home under conditions where his presence would be seriously unwelcome. He shouldn’t have been there and he knew it, and she knew it, and she denied inviting him, and she denied knowing him, and he made a movement which a reasonable person could conclude had unacceptable odds of grave harm, and the homeowner had reason to believe someone was about to die, and he had but a split second to decide who that would be.
Sometimes poor choices result in a terminal conflict of [more or less] legitimate interests. Tragic at best. Still entirely understandable.
“Deserves” doesn’t apply, but still a perfectly reasonable consequence.
I’m not saying its an unreasonable consequence. My problem with some who are either a) celebrating the outcome, or b) implying the kid got exactly what he deserved.
I would not even have to go that far:
In my own brilliantly misspent yoot, I have had the occasion to hear the boots on the stairs, and the familiar ka'chink, and the panicked gathering of clothes, and the ungainly naked leap from a second story window, and the run (like who flung the chunk) for the tree line...
I knew the risk going in. I knew exactly what those 'boots on the stairs' meant. Had I hid under the bed, or made any move other than the one I did, I would be very dead right now.
Ya just don't mess with a man's daughter. And doubly so in his own house. That a man might be reasonable under that condition is laudatory - But certainly not expected. In fact, what happened is 'what is to be expected'. And every pimple-faced horn dog knows it going in.