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Let me start by saying that I'm not a US citizen nor living in the US (I live in a country where guns are illegal), and I'm not familiar with the difference between the gun laws in different states. However, I've read multiple cases in which someone knocked the wrong door and got shot by the homeowners. In some of these cases, the shooters were even acquitted, such as the Killing of Yoshihiro Hattori.

Suppose I invited someone into my house in US. Instead of giving my correct address to them, I deliberately gave them the address of my neighbour, tricking them to knock the wrong door. My neighbour thought they were trespassing and took out a gun and shot them to death.

Consider the following two possibilities:

  1. I knew my neighbour had a gun and I deliberately tricked them to knock the wrong door with the hope that my neighbour would shoot them to death.
  2. I didn't know my neighbour had a gun and I just wanted to play a prick on them, assuming them to leave safely after discovering they knocked the wrong door.

In either case, my neighbour did shoot them to death.

Now, what crime did I commit respectively in the two cases?

Let me start by saying that I'm not a US citizen nor living in the US (I live in a country where guns are illegal), and I'm not familiar with the difference between laws in different states. However, I've read multiple cases in which someone knocked the wrong door and got shot by the homeowners. In some of these cases, the shooters were even acquitted, such as the Killing of Yoshihiro Hattori.

Suppose I invited someone into my house in US. Instead of giving my correct address to them, I deliberately gave them the address of my neighbour, tricking them to knock the wrong door. My neighbour thought they were trespassing and took out a gun and shot them to death.

Consider the following two possibilities:

  1. I knew my neighbour had a gun and I deliberately tricked them to knock the wrong door with the hope that my neighbour would shoot them to death.
  2. I didn't know my neighbour had a gun and I just wanted to play a prick on them, assuming them to leave safely after discovering they knocked the wrong door.

In either case, my neighbour did shoot them to death.

Now, what crime did I commit respectively in the two cases?

Let me start by saying that I'm not a US citizen nor living in the US (I live in a country where guns are illegal), and I'm not familiar with the difference between the gun laws in different states. However, I've read multiple cases in which someone knocked the wrong door and got shot by the homeowners. In some of these cases, the shooters were even acquitted, such as the Killing of Yoshihiro Hattori.

Suppose I invited someone into my house in US. Instead of giving my correct address to them, I deliberately gave them the address of my neighbour, tricking them to knock the wrong door. My neighbour thought they were trespassing and took out a gun and shot them to death.

Consider the following two possibilities:

  1. I knew my neighbour had a gun and I deliberately tricked them to knock the wrong door with the hope that my neighbour would shoot them to death.
  2. I didn't know my neighbour had a gun and I just wanted to play a prick on them, assuming them to leave safely after discovering they knocked the wrong door.

In either case, my neighbour did shoot them to death.

Now, what crime did I commit respectively in the two cases?

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In US, if I trick a person into knocking a wrong door and the homeowner shoots them to death, what crime would I commit?

Let me start by saying that I'm not a US citizen nor living in the US (I live in a country where guns are illegal), and I'm not familiar with the difference between laws in different states. However, I've read multiple cases in which someone knocked the wrong door and got shot by the homeowners. In some of these cases, the shooters were even acquitted, such as the Killing of Yoshihiro Hattori.

Suppose I invited someone into my house in US. Instead of giving my correct address to them, I deliberately gave them the address of my neighbour, tricking them to knock the wrong door. My neighbour thought they were trespassing and took out a gun and shot them to death.

Consider the following two possibilities:

  1. I knew my neighbour had a gun and I deliberately tricked them to knock the wrong door with the hope that my neighbour would shoot them to death.
  2. I didn't know my neighbour had a gun and I just wanted to play a prick on them, assuming them to leave safely after discovering they knocked the wrong door.

In either case, my neighbour did shoot them to death.

Now, what crime did I commit respectively in the two cases?