He called in the burglary to 911 before he went out looking for the guy.Zergrush wrote:You sound like you know a lot about the shooting
What do you know that the judge doesn't and what's your source?
(McKeeman is the judge who presided over the trial.)"If he intended to commit a felony, he wouldn't have called 911," when he encountered Rzechula, McKeeman said.
I read the judge's comment as saying if he had set out from his house with the intention of finding the guy and shooting him down, he would not have called 911 first. The judge was addressing the issue of premeditation.
However, it is obvious that he didn't call 911 after the shooting and report it, like a law-abiding citizen engaged in legitimate self defense is expected to do. If he had stayed on the scene and called it in, then it would not have taken two days to discover a body:
Earhart shot Ryan Rzechula in the back on Nov. 16, 2009. Earhart, 39, encountered Rzechula about three hours after a break-in at his Arlington house, a quarter-mile away. Earhart had gone looking for the burglar and his wife's missing jewelry. He suspected that Rzechula, 25, was responsible for the break-in and called 911.
Prosecutors alleged that Earhart shot the unarmed man as he was running away, ignoring Earhart's commands to stop. Rzechula died in a creek bed. His body was discovered two days later. Detectives found jewelry in his pocket that was stolen from Earhart's house.