Blanchard woman shoots and kills intruder

[guitar man]

BLANCHARD, Okla. -- An 18 year old Blanchard woman says she was forced to shoot and kill a man who was breaking into her home Saturday afternoon.  Sarah Dawn McKinley was home alone with her three month old son at the time.....

http://www.kfor.com/news/kfor-blanchard-woman-shoots-and-kills-intruder-20120101,0,2752550.story

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

1. It's a terrible shame...

...that Ms. McKinley and her son had to go through that. Hopefully the psychological effects will be minimal and short lived.

[MicaelS]

3. She had a bad year...

McKinley had a tough end to 2011.

Her husband died of cancer on Christmas day.

[mvccd1000]

2. If property is not worth shooting someone over...

... why do so many people take exactly that risk by turning to home invasion/robbery/etc?

For some reason, they must feel that the property they're attempting to steal IS worth their lives. Not a choice I'd ever make, but to each his own.

At any rate, I'm glad the child had the means to defend herself. (And she IS a child, or at least she would have been counted as one by the bradys if she had been the one shot.)

[era veteran]

4. 21 minutes and no police response?

Made the case for the 2nd.
Husband died one week earlier. This scumbag used that as a targeting device.

I guess someone or 2 will find fault in this.

[guitar man]

5. From the clip I saw on the news

It looked like her place is out in the country so it might take a whole to get there

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. BLANCHARD, Okla...

...is 11.1 sq miles and as of 2010 had 13 police officers. If she wasn't inside the town, 21 minutes would be optimistic.

[guitar man]

8. I grew up in rural Oklahoma

For those of us that lived out in those county roads, we knew we were on our own out there and took care of ourselves accordingly.

[DWC]

7. Solid defense of home and famly.

He broke in 21 minutes after she called for Law Enforcement help which had not arrived.

She could not have done it without a gun.

Common sense and a gun came through again.

Semper Fi,

[SteveW]

9. Poor mom. She's got a tough row to hoe. I think she'll make it. nt

[guitar man]

10. I know

Its so sad, her husband died on Christmas day then a week later a couple of scumbags show up intent on breaking in and doing gawd knows what