All he had to do was stay out of it and he coulda got a stay of execution.
At a young age, my pops told me and my brother:
There are no live heroes
One time when I was a teen, me and my dad and my friend and his dad went to somebody's house and I think he was trying to buy something from this old man. Anyway while we're there standing outside talking to the man, pandemonium breaks loose. Some dude who I assumed was the old man's son starts attacking this teenage girl outside (I assumed he was her daughter? but I didn't know for sure).
Anyway this girl is screaming and crying trying to get away from this man, and he is grabbing her as she is trying to crawl away. It was wild. And the old man didn't do anything but he seemed distressed.
So we leave but me and my friend were mad and we felt we should have got involved.
My dad fussed us out. Said, you don't know what's going on over there, you don't get involved in something that has nothing to do with you. What if he take out a gun and shoot you?
P.S. forgot to add, the girl was a preteen going through puberty. So it just looked... weird. This man, even if it was her dad, grabbing all over her like that. I thought at the time that the man had probably been molesting her or something.