If someone had just beat you up and you fire at them when they finished, you’re the bad guy? No way. You would have an adrenaline rush, heat of passion or whatever, it ain’t over for you just because the perps took off running.
“If someone had just beat you up and you fire at them when they finished, you’re the bad guy?”
According to the law in “most” states, yes. If the threat has abated, you cannot follow them into any alley, shoot one of them and listen to them beg, and shoot them again.
That is not self defense. That is an execution.
We are not supposed to do that here.
His big mistake was blabbing his mouth about it.
Perhaps he meant to say “then the woman said “We’re running out to our car to get our gun to shoot you dead Old Man!””
They were running away. At that point, self-defense becomes questionable. After he initially shot the woman and walked up to her, unless she had a weapon, self-defense goes out the door to shoot her twice more. Self-defense implies a need to defend, which was no longer the case.