Assault is when you defend yourself against a guy brandishing a rifle.
"Nooo I was just walking towards while wielding a knife, I wasn't ingenting on using it, you started this".
Damn good thing Kyle had psychic powers, able to look into the future and know the dude was a pedo, wish I had terminator sight like that, able to immediately know what people have done. Were the two other people he Merced pedos as well?