Need some advice and what you would have done type answers.
Short story is this,
Have a pesky neighbor who plays his music loud at 4am. Called cops 4 times in one week and they ticketed them ($750).
Next day a man/boy about 6-1 and 180 pounds comes into my yard and asks me not to start my car (730 pm mind you). I say sure I'll mess with the car earlier but would appreciate if you wouldn't play your music loud at 4 am.
Kid loses it and begins cussing me out, walks towards my porch I am standing on and places one foot on porch (i'm 4 feet away max). I tell him he is trespassing and to get off my property. He proceeds to threaten to destroy me, my house, my cars, kill my dog and kill my wife if I start the car again. I continue telling him to leave, he continues threatening my wife and I. Wife yells out the window she called the cops. He eventually walks away after punching my car trailer.
So what would you have done if armed, and what would have been the point you drew your weapon and fired?
Please keep in mind I did not know the kids age but i'm close to 30, he is 16. He is bigger than me and I have had back surgery. Also I don't want any options that would put me in jail. I just want to know if I legally should have drawn on the kid or i did the right thing.
Not that this matters from a legal perspective but kid is black and i'm white. Somehow race would have come up I think.
Thoughts?
Mods if in the wrong area, please move.
Short story is this,
Have a pesky neighbor who plays his music loud at 4am. Called cops 4 times in one week and they ticketed them ($750).
Next day a man/boy about 6-1 and 180 pounds comes into my yard and asks me not to start my car (730 pm mind you). I say sure I'll mess with the car earlier but would appreciate if you wouldn't play your music loud at 4 am.
Kid loses it and begins cussing me out, walks towards my porch I am standing on and places one foot on porch (i'm 4 feet away max). I tell him he is trespassing and to get off my property. He proceeds to threaten to destroy me, my house, my cars, kill my dog and kill my wife if I start the car again. I continue telling him to leave, he continues threatening my wife and I. Wife yells out the window she called the cops. He eventually walks away after punching my car trailer.
So what would you have done if armed, and what would have been the point you drew your weapon and fired?
Please keep in mind I did not know the kids age but i'm close to 30, he is 16. He is bigger than me and I have had back surgery. Also I don't want any options that would put me in jail. I just want to know if I legally should have drawn on the kid or i did the right thing.
Not that this matters from a legal perspective but kid is black and i'm white. Somehow race would have come up I think.
Thoughts?
Mods if in the wrong area, please move.