This guy stepped over the line...

[Great-Kazoo]

I said borderline lured.

I say this because his own admission was that it was several minutes between the boy and the girl..... Instead of calling the police in this time frame as any rational human being would do..... he drug the boy out of the stair well and onto a tarp, probably to not alarm any other intruder coming down. Remember, he said he wanted them both dead.... a dead body at the bottom of the stair well would of made the girl freak out.

He sat back down and waited, this is his own admission. Therefore I perceive these actions as borderline luring the girl into the basement.

As for how I would of handed the situation.... he had plenty of time to phone the police before his first encounter with the boy. Calling the police would of been my first move......

Secondly, its 1pm on Thanksgiving..... not typical armed robbery hours. I would of probably waited to see who it was before firing at someones legs, could of been anyone, but lets just say I am an idiot and I shot someone in the waist.... as they tumbled down the stairs, I walk over and realize that this is a young man, unarmed, myself or my wife would of phoned the police while I grabbed my IFAK.

If while I was treating him I heard more footsteps, I would of dropped what I was doing and grabbed my fire arm... chances are he would of told me that it was his dumbass fawking cousin, I would of told them to stop moving. (escalation of force)... by this time I'm very sure police would of already been on the scene, probably before the girl was heard upstairs when 911 gets a phone call that someone is shot.

I agree until there is a clear threat, you do not discharge your firearm. Yes it could have been your drunk BIL who never gave you back that key.

With that out of the way............................................... .........................................
Exactly what time is a typical robbery, after lunch, appetizers? Dude, i'd like to hit that bitches house over on stafford but like 20 minutes to wopner.
Uninvited people in your home very rarely have "good intentions"