Here in NM, if someone was stealing my car, this is no reason to shoot them unless they produced some sort of a weapon, gun, knife, bat or came after me over it.
Maybe 5-6 years ago, A guy saw a man trying to steal his car and chased him down the road a ways on foot and shot him. The owner was charged for the shooting. I don't recall the details of the outcome but he did some "time served" thing over it.
I am seeing a trend here that many criminals getting shot were holding BB guns. Last week, a woman was chased down by a police dog, she came out of a backyard shed holding her cell phone out like a gun and that was the end of her.
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