No charges? He was charged and tried for the shooting. Found guilty of a firearms discharge offence and has spent months in prison. He was found to have acted in self-defence. The jury verdict was contradictory though, having been found not guilty of the main charge he should have been found not guilty of the other charges but it looks like a classic case of the jury disagreeing and bargaining on the charges to achieve a unanimous verdict.

The video of the incident is fairly clear that he was afraid for his life and had attempted to make an escape. The prankster is lucky he didn’t die.