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BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — Authorities don't plan to file charges against an Oklahoma woman who fatally shot a New Year's Eve intruder at her house while she had a 911 dispatcher on the phone, but the intruder's alleged accomplice has been charged in the death.

A 911 tape released to Oklahoma City media outlets Wednesday reveals that 18-year-old Sarah McKinley asked a Grady County dispatcher for permission to shoot the intruder. McKinley's 3-month-old son was with her when she shot Justin Shane Martin, 24, at her Blanchard mobile home.

"I've got two guns in my hand. Is it OK to shoot him if he comes in this door?" McKinley asked the dispatcher.

"Well, you have to do whatever you can do to protect yourself," the dispatcher is heard telling McKinley. "I can't tell you that you can do that, but you have to do what you have to do to protect your baby."

Oklahoma law allows the use of deadly force against intruders, and prosecutors said McKinley clearly acted in self-defense. According to court documents, Martin was holding a knife when he died.

 

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Originally Posted by interventor1212:

The idea the state would prosecute a mother protecting her child from violent armed thugs is horrendous, or any citizen in his home, for that matter. 

 

The state should be required to reimburse her for the cost of rounds expended and any other reasonable costs.  She saved their justice and penal system considerable costs. 

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I agree, but would it be a different story in New York or some of the other states.

Some states do not have laws allowing you to defend yourself in your home.  They state you must attempt to retreat from the threat before attempting to defend yourself, or your child.  Hard to do when the wolves are at both doors.  People have been imprisoned for retreating to the basement then firing.  The prosecutor stated they could have crawled out a window to retreat from the intruder. 

She found the first dog's body three days after her husband, Kenneth McKinley, 58, entered the hospital with complications from lung cancer on Dec. 5. He died on Christmas Day.

 

Martin knew Kenneth McKinley had recently died of cancer and suspected there were narcotics in the house, Stewart said.

 

A high school dropout who learned to ride and break horses at age 8, she started living with Kenneth McKinley about three years ago, she said.

 

The relationship turned romantic; a marriage license was issued in November.

Regardless of her age and that of her husband, she was spot on in what she did.  It is a shame that she felt she had to call and ask the police for permission to do it.  Its also a shame that the second barrel of that double barrel shotgun didnt find a good bead on that second guy.  Those two knew she was home and, seeing that they were going at both doors, were probably as much after her as the drugs.  Why would they leave her no way to get out the back door?

 

Cut and dry self defense.....

Sometimes, the froggies surprise me!  From Le Monde, this story took off.  About 90 percent of the comments were in favor of her shooting the miscreants.  A few were hesitant, and only one, a socialist naturally, was against it.

 

My poor translation:

 

"An young woman alone with her baby, the night of the New Year's Eve in  Oklahoma. Her name is Sarah McKinley, 18 years old. A man tries to force his door. She calls 911 (helps). She takes her weapon (12-gauge shotgun), and awaits when he enters.  The officer, at the end of the wire, told her she' should be waiting until she can draw in all legality. That, under the terms of the " Castle doctrine" , doctrines of the " château" (or self-defence) in force in 30 States. In  other places, the victim is requested to show they tried to be put at shelter, rather than to draw immediately. In its " château" doctrine of Oklahoma, too isolated so that the police force has time to intervene, Sarah McKinley follows the instructions. She puts the baby in her room, with a feeding-bottle not to more hear the tears and she waits. The baby has three months. His/her father died the evening of Christmas, of cancer, according to the TV. Twenty minutes occur. The man ends up arriving there. Sarah McKinley aims, car, and kills him."

 

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