Bay Maximus
Banned
Why did he approach him? I don't understand why it isn't obvious to you and others why the answer to this question is so necessary.
Unless he was threatening someone's life or limb with a bag of Skittles the answer to this is irrelevant. He is not a law enforcement officer. He is a civilian who happened to have a gun.
Also, you and others keep assuming that the dispatcher told him not to talk to the kid or do anything. Why? Where is this procedure detailed?
Because law enforcement will not tell a citizen to put himself in harm's way. Citizen's arrests are for emergency circumstances.
Why was the kid on top of the man beating him, if the eyewitness account is correct? Does confronting him justify the beating? Can he not act in self defense EVEN IF the shooter approached the boy to ask him what he was doing? Did the shooter threaten the boy? Did the boy feel threatened?
The answers to these questions lie the difference between getting manslaughter and homicide. Either way he belongs in jail, not on a sofa.