Posted on 01/05/2012 6:18:11 AM PST by Former Fetus
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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LOL! This is what I call poetic justice!
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its Oklahoma, there Mr AP Writer....why would there even be a question???
That is normal in most jurisdictions.
“In real life, no law is necessary for self defense.”
True dat
One of those unalienable rights we have
If Oklahoma followed Chicago Obama’s advise, relations of deceased would be allowed to sue homeowner in civil court for damages.
“... why would there even be a question??? “
You are using common sense. Liberals don’t have any.
“The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.” ...GK Chesterton
Really, now?
I'd like to see you move to NJ and repeat that.
We will do what we have to do to survive. But it is better if the State recognizes our rights and does not punish us for exercising them.
I watched the local newscast of the event on one of the links....the idiot reporter actually says the victim took the protective sense of motherhood to “a whole new level”.
Because....I guess this young women is the first mother in all of human history to kill a man to protect herself and her child?
It’s a terrific story....too bad a moron was sent to cover it.
The obvious answer is that NJ is not real life.
Nicest thing I could say about this reporter, is that we are living in the age of unlimited abortion... a mother defending her child, rather than killing him, could possibly surprise a reporter!
The fact that this woman asked permission is the sad thing. That we are not taught from an early age what our natural rights are is the source of many of the problems we suffer. The moment someone forces entry into your home they forfeit their rights including the right to life and your moral obligation not to harm them dissolves in my opinion.
Massachusetts has the same cranial-anal inversion as New Jersey. It’s awful.
She did good, but really poetic justice would have been shooting them both.
A deserving young, brave mother -
A fund has been established in Sarah McKinley’s name. Donations will be accepted at the Chickasha Bank and Trust, located at 1525 N. Council Road in Blanchard. Donations can also be mailed to the same bank at P.O. Box 548 in Blanchard, Okla., 73010.
Read more: http://www.koco.com/news/30136855/detail.html#ixzz1ibwvBYgY
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