Why does the mob turn on pete van horn on the twilight zone?

Answer 1

In The Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" , the mob only turns on

Pete Van Horn after becoming paranoid about the alien invaders . Keeping in mind that the mob mistakes Pete Van Horn for an intruder and they accidentally shot him not knowing that he was their neighbor and returning from wherever he had gone to assess the extent of the power outage .

It was Charlie Farnsworth who shot Pete Van Horn and not the mob who then turns on Charlie Farnsworth himself thinking that he had kept Pete Van Horn from divulging the truth which was never explained .