Via SayUncle and KDT:

Homeowner fired to protect his wife during invasion

So we have two 19yr old adults, one with a prior criminal history, and one carrying a weapon, put on masks and break into a 70 yr old mans home and he shoots them both.

The takeaway points from the article:

Homicide investigators are looking into the case, which will be turned over to the commonwealth's attorney's office for review. No charges have been filed against Jackson.

- The defender is not yet out of the woods with the police.
- The assailants are referred to throughout the article as "teens"
- There is some fluff at the bottom of the article that tries to play the misguided children card.

"It changed the rest of my life," Jackson said. "I'm so sorry for the people I hurt. I know they were someone's sons. I raised children. But I had no choice. I thought I was dead and my wife was dead."

There are many in the self-defense community that refer to these sorts of shootings as "killing goblins" or some other dehumanizing term. This doesn't benefit anyone. Just as it is wrong to paint the assailants as angels, it is also wrong to trivialize their killing. Jackson doesn't sound proud, happy, or boastful. It sounds like he did what he had to protect his family.