Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

You are never allowed to use deadly force to protect private property. You are even more at fault for relying on a neighbor's notification, and then just wildly firing into the air.

Your post should have asked: What can you do? Defend the charges. Go to court, enter your not guilty plea if appropriate, arrange bail or OR, set up and attend your court hearing[s] and trial date, file your motions as applicable, go to trial if you can't resolve it with a plea bargain. You can raise all your defenses with whatever admissible and credible witnesses, evidence and facts are available for legal arguments for plea bargaining or at trial. If you don't know how to do these things, then hire an attorney that does, and can likely get a decent plea bargain for you. If serious about doing so, feel free to contact me.