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MONGOOSE wrote:

doncb wrote:"The article states that they were shooting while driving away. This makes returning fire quite legal."

If someone is firing at me, I don't care what direction they are headed. They are still a lethal threat and should be dealt with as such.

I understand that the bullet struck the trunk and then went through the back seat. The kid was unfortunate enough to be sitting in the path of the bullet.

You may be correct. I was instructed to never fire or advance on a retreating subject.

Just because a person appears to be retreating does not mean they are no longer a threat. They can still fire, or just be re-positioning to get a better angle of fire, circle back around, etc. Each situation will be different and you must rapidly assess each one as it is occurring.

As for shooting someone in the back, there is no law or rule that says you can't if they are perceived to be a threat to your or another person's life. A good example is if someone got between you and your spouse and you had to shoot the person in the back to stop the attack on your loved one.

So, whoever taught your class either made the statements blatantly without regard to individual circumstances, OR, you misheard/misunderstood the instructor in their statement. I would not rule out the latter as there is a lot of information thrown at students in a short period of time, so we often have students who think they hear one thing when we actually said something else.

Depends. They could have still been a threat if they had the gun pointing back toward the victim. Without additional info we don't know for sure.