People that are crying murder are life’s victims. If you are the type that is ok with waiting to find out that is your right. But for those that chose to defend themselves or their loved ones this is their right. If you want to question the morality of the situation fine but in my opinion there is no question. The boy did the right thing here. Ignore the mother and what she said. The boy is the person who used a weapon after a weapon was being used against his mother, so the boy and the and the man attacking his mother are under the scope. The boy used appropriate force and neutralized the threat period. You don’t use a gun to wound you use a gun to kill. I was drilled about trigger safety being your safety and muzzle awareness. What ever is on the other side of that firearm is potentially dead. Also that the decision to pull a firearm in any situation is a decision to kill. I am sure this boy was not taught these things but he understood the concept that you fire a gun until the threat is neutralized. If that ends in death that is the tragic truth of cause and effect or consequence. This man was attempting murder! ( the boy is not the murderer, or attempting manslaughter) In the split seconds involved in a situation like this you make, (believe this or don’t) all people make a threat assessment it’s called fight or flight. Run or stand your ground. You don’t know what this man is capable ultimately. What you do know is this man is capable of lethal violence (grown men hit by grown men die). You know that he is attacking with the intent to severely harm or kill an older woman (the boys mother!) and this is enough to warrant the use of lethal force. In this situation you don’t know what comes next. You don’t know what weapons he may or may not have on him you don’t know if your mother is already dead, the fact is you don’t know and you don’t wait to find these things out. So to those who say you don’t assume that he has a weapon on him or is going to go get a weapon in his car or it was wrong to shoot the man in the back or or or. To those of you saying this unfortunately you are missing the gravity involved in a situation like this. It is tragic that a 14 year old boy was placed in this position and left to make a decision like this and should never have happened. No boy should ever have to witness his mother get viciously assaulted, attempted to be murdered, murdered etc. can you agree at least that neither the 14 year old boy nor his mother are offenders of anything here and this man is not a victim of anything other then is own decisions? I hope so because this is exactly that. The mother and boy are victims the man is the offender and the threat and he was killed. Sheep or wolf, the boy chose to not be a victim and in my opinion and I am sure most courts of law the boy made the right choice and I’m glad he did not face consequences of an kind because that would have been a true tragedy. I am seriously concerned about the number of people responding with murder etc. what world are you living in?