I don't get why 4 armed officers attended a missing person case? Obviously touting firearms. I presume he just went on a walkabout, up and left his job, principal. Mid life epiphany. But them ratty Aussies turned that into a crime. So they're there to arrest the bugger. It got deadly. I don't know why the idiot neighbour got involved. Unless he was also shotgun Ted.

Or perhaps there's a bigger narrative seizing the guns again. Busting into everybody's land. Land a principal's family had held for generations. They've turned it into alt right nonsense again justifying their attempts at not having a warrant. Who knows? It stinks when they use the narrative.

Why didn't they send a postcard because he ignored the summons to principal school. An old Cletus was known for being prickly.