This is completely and utterly false. They claimed they were doing a citizens arrest, under Georgia Law a citizen arrest can only be made if the crime is personally witnesses by the "arresting" party.
The two men did not witnesses this, they only suspected he looked like someone who they thought was committing robberies. However there are no police reports of any break-ins in the area, the only police report found was one from last year (I believe, it might have been from earlier this year) of a hand gun being stolen from one of the suspects' truck.
Also he did not "attack" them, they tried to illegally detain him with shotguns, under Georgia code you are allowed to use equal force when defending yourself, you however cannot create a confrontation and then claim self-defense. By their own admission they created the confrontation, they were the only armed party. Everything they did was illegal.
So basically, it doesn't matter that he was in the construction yard, he stole nothing, damaged nothing, at most he was trespassing which the men did not personally witness, they had no legal ground to try and stop him, they created a situation that forced him to defend himself and then they murdered him when he tried to do just that.
I don't get this defense either
Surely "Citizens arrest" doesn't justify chasing someone in a truck with a gun?
If the guy has run away, he's gone. Let the police handle it.
I mean what if the dude ran home and went to sleep? Could they burst down his door and claim citizens arrest? ---