One thing with such an international community... the laws and customs are quite different everywhere. Here if a person leaves such a situation it is considered to be fleeing the site of a crime. Demanding they remain until authorities arrive would not be considered kidnap. I’m not gun-happy, but I do firmly fall into the ‘defend your animals with whatever legal means you can’ camp. And senseless losses really upset me, far more than predator losses or culling a sick animal.
I hope the rest of the flock recovers from the shock. My free range Boy and his ladies are still traumatized by their recent predator loss experience. He is alarming at everything slightly different, freaked right out when the bull “snuck up” on him, and he is still looking for and calling to his missing girls. Also, I noticed our bull is quite sensitive to things like that. He was nuzzling the bodies trying to get them back to normal.
.. although it might be easier bringing the standard poodle... and a little less crazy looking 
I wish I had the space to run my flock the way Shad does ~ though I'm far more squeamish & abhor senseless deaths. I also don't like dogs ~ what happened is one reason why. I know the owner is to blame [dogs are banned in all our National Parks] & if I owned a gun I'm not sure I wouldn't take a pot shot ~ I'm an awful shot so everyone would probably be quite safe...
but chickens are just so bloomin' defenseless... 
... but Maggie and Daffy are almost everyday... so I mostly get pale blue eggs..
