
Originally Posted by
Aloha_Shooter
From what little I could get from the article, it sounds like a good shoot. The brothers FAFOed and got the Darwin Award. There doesn't seem to be any reason to assume the charges were dropped for social justice reasons, more likely the DA in question overcharged by jumping immediately to Murder 1. I don't know if there's a statute governing his failure to notify the police of the shooting but if there was anything to prosecute him for, it would be that, not murder. I expect he wanted to get away from the scene in case the brothers had backup coming -- he'd already been harassed as it was -- but he should still have reported it to the police once he got to a safe place.