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Not reporting a shooting right away, dragging the bodies from where they were shot and shooting them as they lay wounded on the floor are all bad things to do.
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All quite true.
And yet it was a case where
1) The intruders were definitely thieves, possibly worse;
2) The original shooting
could have been justifiable;
3) The intruders were not "the wife or G/F ex, or better new boyfriend"; and
4) The homeowner was definitely not "just fine" when the police arrived.
Note, too, that MN has a very strong Castle Doctrine in the black-letter law (which is as far as most people ever look). Their case law is a little more nuanced than the black-letter law would indicate.
In any case, this isn't an area where we can say, "Well, all you have to do is [blah blah blah]."
In order to have a realistic hope of being "just fine" -- no matter
who the dead body in your living room belongs to! -- you actually need to know what the law is, in advance; you need to make a conscious attempt to stay on the right side of the law both before and during the event; you have to avoid doing stupid things after the event; and you have to present the facts in such a way that others understand and agree with what you did.
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