This argument is as old as the news media.
Why was (whomever) shot for just stealing (whatever)?
People aren’t shot for petty crimes, they’re shot for threatening others with death or serious bodily injury. Everyone's heard the statement from the idiot bystander, "Why could't they have just shot him in the leg?" Or, my personal favorite, "He was shot for just stealing a TV!" All nonsense from the uninformed.
The ad hominem argument that anyone who supports this man’s actions must be some knuckle dragging, trigger happy, illiterate, inarticulate, drunken hillbilly is ignorant. Maintaining life is not as important as liberty. Don’t be cowed by the desire for political correctness.
Ultimately, two people are dead and one person may or may not be going to jail for their deaths. The two dead people are the ones responsible for their own deaths. Had they stayed home smoking crack they would probably still be alive. Again, they’re the ones who decided to engage in high-risk activity. They knew, or should have known, that within the full spectrum of possible outcomes were both “getting away with it” and “dying from gunshot wounds.” They chose to accept the risk, obviously hoping for the former and not the latter. I have no sympathy for them and hope the shooter “gets away with it.”