In Doctor Sleep why did Billy attack the True Knots?

In Doctor Sleep when Dan and Billy attack the True Knots with guns, why was Billy willing to shoot and kill people who he never met?

He generally seemed like a nice person and didn't even given them a chance to surrender. Also he hadn't given up hunting years ago, but Dan still asked if he kept guns in his car (I guess in some parts of the US it's common to have guns with you).

The best explanation I can come up with is, after finding the dead boy's body, Billy believed everything Dan had to say. Also it was stated he just had a good sense about people (but willing to kill is a bit extreme).

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Are the True Knot vampires?

The True Knot is a group of semi-immortal, vampire-like beings who seek out people with the shine and essentially leech on their powers. Members of the True Knot extract their victims' powers with \u201csteam,\u201d and this strengthens their life force.

Was the True Knot in the shining?

The True Knot are a nomadic tribe of quasi-immortal people with dark psychic powers and they served as the main antagonistic group in the 2013 Stephen King novel and its 2019 film Doctor Sleep, which is a sequel to the 1977 Stephen King novel and its 1980 film The Shining.

Is Rose the hat a vampire?

A warning about Rose the Hat. Rose O'Hara, also better known as Rose the Hat, is the main antagonist of Stephen King's 2013 novel Doctor Sleep and its 2019 film adaptation of the same name. She is a sorceress and the semi-immortal leader of a nomadic tribe of quasi-demonic vampires known as the "True Knot".

What was the meaning of the end of Doctor Sleep?

At the end of the Doctor Sleep movie, the adult Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor)\u2014son of Jack Torrance\u2014has reunited with gifted youngster Abra (Kyleigh Curran) after a failed abduction by Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson) and her cult of basically child eaters known as the True Knot.

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