We're trying to be considerate even taking the time to get your side of the coin, but please consider our perspective as well.
Someone screaming bloody murder and being on edge for a great amount of time in village chat is a quick way to get us to shoot first and ask questions later.
It doesn't help that our immediate locale of nabs are littered with varying scents and stories of having been killed and raided until they got their respective palisades up.
Most of our village couldn't be assed, but I'd say this again:
My burial services are open. What's done is done, take it or leave it.
We were not screaming anything about murder. I dunno, if asking for and ID in allcaps while threatening guy with calling for a chopper while asking him to turn his engine off is equivalent of "YOURE SO DEAD WE'RE GONNA KILL YOU" then i guess i understand how communication works wrong. The time we've joked about applying force (he even replied back with "OH NO POLICE BRUTALITY" to us) would be kinda a reason if we'd lay a finger on him, but the only thing we did is initiating and ending combat right away without even putting zigzag or stuff that would lead him to assume we're being agressive. And if he would even care to say "ok guys this is not fun anymore" we'd just stop. But nope, he went along pretty nice.
Yeah, sure, your local spruces are murdered and stuff. It would kinda pass as reason to somehow react with "uh oh guys stop and get away or we fight" if we'd remain silent. Instead, you corner 3 explorers that have no fighting capabilities/experience outside of foxes and badgers that are outright pointing their place of living, that kin you, and murder the hell out of us without saying anything. I dunno, if we'd want to kill that dude, he would be dead that moment when we hopped in his boat - nothing would stop me from chopping him. Instead, we just sit with him expecting him to react the same as we did when we kidnapped him, having small chat joking about "ok now turn here, we chased our Uber driver for 20 minutes and he cant even drive", not even aggroing him, and you guys go all trigger happy.
If killing three core members of small village is what you call justice or whatever you use as coverup for reason to go full bloodlust mode then i dont know why the heck someone should even trust this claim about protecting newbies around you either because this is a lame excuse or you have rather twisted views on what justice is. And if anything, its more like you owe us a burial. We've lost mirkwoods that we grinded prior to meeting you, our hunting gear, armor that we crafted so we can start hunting, weapons for aforementioned activity and bunch of time worth in charachters that now resulted in us having to halt bunch of our progression because we cant do shit.