Wow, from reading that Obit and the friends writtings, he was a well respected, polite, church going hard worker...not the typical drug head crook profile?
It seems like drugs take alot of good people down a bad road.Wow, from reading that Obit and the friends writtings, he was a well respected, polite, church going hard worker...not the typical drug head crook profile?
Not arguing that for sure but those types are usually the last ones you see getting involved with drugs.It seems like drugs take alot of good people down a bad road.
corrected..Thank You...in my door...(that was my original intent)I'd say no reason for anyone to be kicking IN my door, not beating ON it. Just beating on it isn't grounds for death, but invading my home IS.
Its kind of weird to me that he would be charged with murder 1. I think he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, because he is obviously a scum bag, but putting charges that don't fit the crime is a good way for him to get off scott free if they are not careful. If he has a lawyer with half a brain he will skate right out of that murder 1 charge.
First degree Burglary, B&E, Conspiracy to commit a felony and attempted murder/deadly weapon. all stacked on him sounds a bit more realistic.
just my $0.02, for what its worth.
Here's a question... if she was illegally squatting in the trailer, does that change her right to use deadly force in this instance? I think it's not as cut-and-dry... given that he was wielding a large knife and and she was a young, widowed mother with an infant, she could still be covered by standard self-defense laws instead of Oklahoma's castle doctrine, however.
Either way, if he was forcing his way in with a large knife on a woman he knew was a recent widow... he got what was coming to him.
i just wonder why the cops werent there within the 20 minutes she was on the phone with the 911 dispatcher? thats a pretty good amount of time, unless this was like way out in the country or something like that. can local PD respond to these types of calls outside of city limits? or does it have to be the sheriffs dept or highway patrol?
http://www.news9.com/story/16448996/accomplice-charged-in-blanchard-shooting-death
Stewart told police he and Martin devised a plan to burglarize the residence.
Stewart told investigators Martin knew Sarah McKinley's 58-year-old husband recently died of cancer and they expected to find prescription pain pills in the home.
Sounds like good peeps..................not
Having worked for a rural county sheriff's department previously, I can tell you that sometimes there may only be one deputy on duty at a time. Our county even had an "on call" deputy that calls were transferred to during non-peak periods. It could take as much as 30-45 minutes to respond from one side of the county to another. If the OHP trooper assigned to that county was on another priority call, it could easily take 20+ minutes. That's why you need to be self reliant if you live out in the boonies.
I rely on the LEO to take the report and to arrange to have the body removed...thats all, nothing else. They can take there time gettin to my house if they want.I agree but in needs to be amended to say "That's why you need to be self reliant, period."
TPD sometimes takes a while too, not because they don't want to be there, but they can't make it there that quick.
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