The shooter is facing
felony charges for "criminal mischief" and "wanton endangerment"
http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-dispute-emerges-over-drone-shot-down-by-kentucky-man/“Within a minute or so, here it came,” he said. “It was hovering over top of my property, and I shot it out of the sky.”
Police were called to the scene; Meredith now faces felony charges of wanton endangerment and criminal mischief, with a court date set for September.
It also appears he lied about how close the drone was to his home.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...shot-down-drone-was-higher-than-alleged/The pilot of the drone shot down Sunday evening over a Kentucky property has now come forward with video provided to Ars, seemingly showing that the drone wasn’t nearly as close as the property owner made it out to be. However, the federal legal standard for how far into the air a person’s private property extends remains in dispute.
According to the telemetry provided by David Boggs, the drone pilot, his aircraft was only in flight for barely two minutes before it was shot down. The data also shows that it was well over 200 feet above the ground before the fatal shots fired by William Merideth.
There has been no evidence shown that any pictures were being taken of his daughter nor his property.
For a crowd that talks so much about "rights" and "obeying laws", some seem quick to jump to conclusions with very few real facts.
