Unarmed man shot by cop in North Carolina

A 24 year old man by the name of John Ferrell died under tragic circumstances late one night. Ferrell was in a late-night car crash where his car went off the rode and into a ravine. He managed to survive the car crash and kicked out the back window to escape. He went to a home and repeatedly knocked on the door. The woman at the house called the police. When the police arrived Ferrell approached the police officers unarmed and was shot to death 10 times. The police officer is being charged with manslaughter.

Response:

The second I read the article I automatically thought about the Trayvon Martin case which was an instance of an unarmed man being shot to death and debating whether the shooter(who made a spur of the moment decision) should be charged with their mistake. Personally, in this instance I think the police officer should be charged with something greater than manslaughter. The police didn't even give Ferrell a chance to explain himself: they just went ahead and shot him. It was mentioned in the article that the police officers thought they were responding to a breaking and entering charge which ended up not being true. I think this whole situation turned deadly due to misunderstanding. Still, I think the polices were wrong to draw weapons automatically and against an unarmed man.