As long as he contacted LEO's leaving the scene is completely appropriate.philip964 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:27 am Wow that is some story.
So it was the Sheriff, not the DA that arrested him and put him in jail for 55 days. It was the judge who decided on bail of $500,000 for a self defense shooting.
Someone fires 11 times at you with with semi automatic rifles and you return fire with a single shot from .22 caliber bolt action rifle and that is the only round you have with you, the one in the chamber and your charged with murder. Please.
Only negative for our sharpshooter here is he left the scene, rather than calling 911 rendering aid and waiting for the Sheriff.
Good job DA and Grand Jury.
Rendering aid to someone you shot opens you up to both civil and criminal liability particularly if your efforts are futile and a GJ is going to wonder if you were really so badly in fear of you life that you had no alternative to shoot is likely to send you to trial rather than swallow the liability themselves for not doing so.
I would probably render aid but I'd know what I was getting myself into in doing so.