A young Oklahoma mother shot and killed an intruder to protect her 3-month-old baby on New Year's Eve, less than a week after the baby's father died of cancer.
Sarah McKinley says that a week earlier a man named Justin Martin dropped by on the day of her husband's funeral, claiming that he was a neighbor who wanted to say hello. The 18-year-old Oklahoma City area woman did not let him into her home that day.
On New Year's Eve Martin returned with another man, Dustin Stewart, and this time was armed with a 12-inch hunting knife. The two soon began trying to break into McKinley's home.
As one of the men was going from door to door outside her home trying to gain entry, McKinley called 911 and grabbed her 12-gauge shotgun.
McKinley told ABC News Oklahoma City affiliate KOCO that she quickly got her 12 gauge, went into her bedroom and got a pistol, put the bottle in the baby's mouth and called 911.
"I've got two guns in my hand -- is it okay to shoot him if he comes in this door?" the young mother asked the 911 dispatcher. "I'm here by myself with my infant baby, can I please get a dispatcher out here immediately?"
The 911 dispatcher confirmed with McKinley that the doors to her home were locked as she asked again if it was okay to shoot the intruder if he were to come through her door.
"I can't tell you that you can do that but you do what you have to do to protect your baby," the dispatcher told her. McKinley was on the phone with 911 for a total of 21 minutes.
When Martin kicked in the door and came after her with the knife, the teen mom shot and killed the 24-year-old. Police are calling the shooting justified.
"You're allowed to shoot an unauthorized person that is in your home. The law provides you the remedy, and sanctions the use of deadly force," Det. Dan Huff of the Blanchard police said.
Stewart soon turned himself in to police.
McKinley said that she was at home alone with her newborn that night because her husband just died of cancer on Christmas Day.
"I wouldn't have done it, but it was my son," McKinley told ABC News Oklahoma City affiliate KOCO. "It's not an easy decision to make, but it was either going to be him or my son. And it wasn't going to be my son. There's nothing more dangerous than a woman with a child."
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A great story. Good job to this woman! Glad her child is safe.
What...conformists. Ugh, just the thought of all those teeming masses of vapid fools gathering in that depressing building made him want to vomit out the window. Why wouldn't his treasured snow day come and deliver him?
He glanced at his Haruhi Suzumiya wall scroll hanging in the drab twilit grey of the rain and sighed. Why couldn't people be interesting, like in his animes? Surely there had to be some people out there who were psychic or had some kind of special ability or, heck, even just really talented at something. Why couldn't he have that? Surely they must be out there.
And if his school didn't have them, he didn't even want to bother going anymore.
"Honey, dinner's ready!" The shout came from downstairs and he couldn't help but lash back.
"In a minute Mom, God!" He needed some time to collect himself before going downstairs again.
Now first things first. No, I did not get a white christmas. Good job. But I don't really celebrate christmas, just winter. Secondly, I finished high school several years ago. I am definitely not a sophomore anymore. Also, I've never watched Haruhi Suzumiya, nor do I really appreciate it, though I do, as you've no doubt gleaned, have a particular affection for anime. Actually there's a list on my profile, but Haruhi is not on it because I don't find it interesting. That said, I certainly sympathize with the search for interesting people, and am fascinated by all sorts of weird and macabre topics.
Also, I don't have a mother. She abandoned me when I was three. Me and my sister live together to keep things going. And while I am a fan of Evanescence, I don't blast it in the obsessive manner you're describing here. Lastly I sleep in a room on the downstairs at ground level, not upstairs, because I consider it more tactically advantageous--far from the windows, facing a wall, close to an exit.
I applaud your quite amusing, but factually ridiculous snark nonetheless.
So thank you, worthless piece of humanity that you are. I hope you feel so much better about yourself because you put someone down repeatedly in ways that were both untrue and nonsensical, whilst having a good laugh with your online "friends" at my expense.
riveting
Hey mods, does this count as name-calling?
i would really like to know more about them, i'm doing some research!
you seem to be the best person to ask, after all
"So thank you, worthless piece of humanity that you are."
No, thank you, you still-mentally-16-years-old smug son of a bitch! you're a comedy goldmine!
i hope you're never, ever banned! i can keep mining the laughs out of you.
foreverrrrrrrr :)
Edited at 2012-01-05 06:53 pm (UTC)
Tactically advantageous for what? Right now I'm picturing you sitting in a dimly lit room with your back to the wall with your gun cocked in anticipation of an imminent home invasion robbery. If you need a "tactically advantageous" spot to sleep you either need to move to a different neighborhood, become active in your community to improve your neighborhood, or talk to a therapist about your paranoia. Or maybe lay off the psychedelics. Just because you're hallucinating that someone is trying to climb in the window doesn't mean someone really is.
Oh God, that just reminded me of this:
Simply asking you to 'marry' me is for the sheep. We are more advanced than that.