Louiana laws are pro self defense, so why the charge? A la Paul Harvey, there's a rest of the story:The basic facts of the case are that the victim, Ricky Moser, armed himself with an expandable baton, went to the dwelling where the defender, Kory Mattox, was present, attacked the resident who answered the front door, and unlawfully entered the residence to continue his attack on the defender. At that point, the defender shot and killed the victim with a 12 gauge shotgun. The defender was then charged with first-degree murder.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/03/l ... slaughter/In the few hours immediately prior to the killing, the defendant had escalated his taunting of the victim to a level involving scores of text messages and hundreds of phone calls.
It was this goading that apparently led to the intoxicated victim showing up in a rage at the defender’s home, leading to the killing of the victim.