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Look at the gaping distance between these people! Another moment's hesitation and he could have been like 15 feet away! No, there was no chance that the two of them could have caught up to this speed demon on foot.

Taking a human life is a terrible thing, but I guess there was really no alternative here. It's not like they could have run -- or walked briskly -- up to him and tackled him or anything like that. Maybe tie him up. Beat the shit out of him. Or maybe they didn't want to take any chances because he had a knife. Fine, walk right up to him and shoot him in the leg. Shoot him in both legs and roll him away from the wagon with a long stick. Sure, some of this seems brutal, but I reckon he would probably prefer it to how things did turn out.

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None of this is played as "My mom was a bloodthirsty murderer" or anything. Charlie keeps flashing back to this scene as she's about to walk up to a bad guy and shoot him, something her uncle said she wasn't tough enough to do, so the subtext is obviously "The women in our family are tough enough to do what needs to be done when we have no choice." Never mind that if her mom had walked up to the wagon man at the same rate Charlie is walking up to the present-day bad guy, she would have had her choice of limbs to shoot at point-blank.

The only way the flashback makes any sense is if they put the whole family in wheelchairs.