That's a hard ground hit, like maybe deadly. I know a guy who protected his mother and himself from her boyfriend when he was 14 and nearly spent his life in prison over it. Long story shortened, the boyfriend was well known by local police and beat on the mother and "C" (the man I know) often. One day, when the boyfriend was doing this, "C" had enough and let the air out of him with a round of buck shot. Local police basically told him good job, he did what needed to be done, but it was an election year for a state DA and a judge, both who were running on "tough on crime" platforms, and they basically railroaded the then 15-year-old "C" to prison for murder, 70-life, to show just how "tough on crime" they were. It was such a corrupt, fucked up situation, the local cops are the one who managed to bust him out about a year later.