Young mother shoots intruder while on phone with 911

[slagmaker]

I cant hear the video at work but thought I would post this. Appaneantly this young mom calls 911 as a  man is breaking into her home, she asks the operator if she can shoot him and the operator says not till he is all the way inside and she could then decide what to do to protect her and her baby. Well he came inside and she shot and killed him.

http://gma.yahoo.com/video/news-26797925/oklahoma-mother-18-kills-intruder-breaking-into-her-home-while-on-phone-with-911-27777235.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fnews-26797925%252Foklahoma-mother-18-kills-intruder-breaking-into-her-home-while-on-phone-with-911-27777235.html

[FinsnFur]

I cant believe they had her posing for the video, with the shotgun pointed at the camera and a revolver dangling in her grips besides. WTF?
I would think that a girl as young as herself that just shot and killed a guy face to face would have perhaps a tiny bit of emotion. I mean she poised herself for the interview here like she just got back from getting bread at the store. 

Cool story though.

[Tikaani]

On the phone with 911 for twenty one minutes, a possible rape/murder about to take place and the cops still not there after that amount of time.  Don't know all the circumstances, but reminds me of the old saying "average response time of a 911 call is five minutes, average response time of a .357, 1500 fps.

John

[vvarmitr]

She had a double barrel .... been nice she got'em both.

[slagmaker]

I have to agree with Jim about having her show how she did it and such. BUT with just loosing her husband a few days earlier I could see how she would be kind of emotionless with all she had just been through. That and the fact she was protecting her baby. A mother doing that is a dangerous thing and usually show no remorse for there actions, especially justified actions

She probably had two firearms out of fear. Good for here to call 911 in that situation and stay mostly cooll headed through it all.

[Okanagan]

Her emotions may collapse later.  That concerns me even more for her.  Hope she has a support system of good people around her.

Re posing with the shotgun:  news photogs try to get people to do all kinds of unwise poses, just as reporters try to get you to say something stupid or outrageous, because it raises the interest factor -- at the expense of the person being interviewed.  Remember that if you are ever being photographed by news people.

When a rising star in the FBI (? Purvis?) captured John Dillinger, news photographers asked him to pose with his arm around the outlaw.  Exhausted long after midnight, the lawman did and the flashbulbs popped.  That photo damaged his career badly.

On the Khyber Pass someone wanted me to pose with a local tribesman while I held the man's AK-47.  I was game but an Aussie with me quickly stopped me and said, "You don't want a photo of you like that circulating no telling where, and used to make your people look bad."  He was right, and I am grateful he was thinking when I wasn't.

[slagmaker]

Heres a txt based article of what happend from fox news

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/04/teen-mom-shoots-kills-intruder-with-11-dispatcher-on-phone/#ixzz1iYTPxt2M?test=latestnews


BLANCHARD, Okla. â€"  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.

"Our initial review of the case doesn't indicate she violated the law in any way," Assistant District Attorney James Walters told The Oklahoman newspaper.

However, prosecutors have charged his alleged accomplice, 29-year-old Dustin Louis Stewart, with first-degree murder. According to authorities, Stewart was with Martin but ran away from McKinley's home after hearing the gunshots.

"When you're engaged in a crime such as first-degree burglary and a death results from the events of that crime, you're subject to prosecution for it," Walters said.

Stewart was arraigned Wednesday and was being held in the Grady County jail. A bond hearing was set for Thursday. His attorney, Stephen Buzin, did not immediately respond to a message left at his office Wednesday night.

According to court documents, Martin and Stewart might have been looking for prescription drugs. McKinley said it took the men about 20 minutes to get through her door, which she had barricaded with a couch.

She said her husband had died about a week earlier -- on Christmas Day -- after being hospitalized with complications from lung cancer earlier that month.