[CodeToad]

“He did not have the right to go back and shoot the guy. That’s murder.”

Sure he did. What sorry State do you live in that requires you to flee a bad guy?? If you return and he is there you do NOT have a responsibility to flee, which means the threat is there, so *bang* *bang* *bang*

[mlo]

"Sure he did. What sorry State do you live in that requires you to flee a bad guy??"

Nobody said anything about fleeing.

"If you return and he is there you do NOT have a responsibility to flee, which means the threat is there, so *bang* *bang* *bang*"

Having no obligation to flee does nothing to establish that a threat exists.

[mlo]

Here's the deal. In Washington, there is no duty to retreat (i.e. Stand Your Ground), and the Castle Doctrine would extend to the place of business anyway. But none of that matters because failing to retreat is not what he did wrong.

He was faced with a trespasser in his shower. Nobody is going to believe a guy in the shower was a deadly threat, not as long as he's staying in the shower. Washington law does not grant the authority to use deadly force to expel a trespasser. It also does not create a presumption of a deadly threat because they are in your "castle", as some states do. So the only reason deadly force would have been justified is if the homeowner was facing a deadly threat himself. He clearly wasn't, hence the murder charge.