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Of course there's tragedy all around in this situation, this is neither the first or last example of dysfunctional law enforcement.
In a first step, maybe the son was in a stolen vehicle. Maybe they were running away. Neither is an offence tied with a death penalty, and especially not without trial. What if they'd been kidnapped or coerced?
Now to the tricky part, with media telling of people disappearing in the streets, or just increasing violence, being armed isn't unreasonable. And possibly even legal. Not subject to the death penalty, and not without trial.
If they were running away, they're not endangering the police - why were they killed? Not in enforcing the law, not in self defence.
There's plenty of reason for a relative to feel injustice has been done. And it's well known the police systematically avoid and deflect correcting such misjustice, as well as harass those seeking that.
It's not a far reach to take matters in your own hands, especially in your grief finding you've lost what to live for.
Mind you, if the police were doing their job properly, they wouldn't neither feel the need to shoot-to-kill, nor would they be targeted by vigilante retaliation.