Happy ending? That a guy is so terrified about what might have happened if he shot a white guy that he thinks it is better that he killed someone of his own race?
It's a happy ending in that what he feared didn't happen.
I suppose I can be terrified about what could have happened if I'd fallen off that cliff that time, but if I didn't fall, I think it's still a happy ending, isn't it? Or am I just to be forever haunted by my "what ifs"?
I think you are missing the point of the story, which is that it doesn't matter how wealthy a black or Indigenous person is, they are always at risk of being killed just because of the colour of their skin.
Wat?
He shot an intruder. If he were to have been killed by that intruder it wouldn't have been because of the colour of his skin, it would be because it was HIS house that intruder chose.