BLANCHARD, Okla. -- Sarah Mckinley is responding to rumors circulating about a recent home invasion where she shot and killed 24-year-old Justin Martin. Mckinley says Martin and Dustin Stewart came to her home trying to get inside.
Some blogs lit up with people saying there is more to the story, like Mckinley had an intimate relationship with Martin and he was actually the father of the child, not her deceased husband.
Mckinley says, "I do not know Justin. I've seen him maybe three times before and for short encounters. I can prove who my son's father is, if I need to do that, I can get a DNA test or take a lie detector test."
Her deceased husband, Kenny Mckinley, is on the birth certificate.
Some went so far as to suggest Mckinley is not the innocent widower and single mother she as she has been portrayed.
"This is a national story and people will say things and have an opinion. I understand that. A lot of it is from his family and friends (of Martin) and of course they are going to stick up for him," she said.
On New Year’s Eve, an 18-year-old Oklahoma mother shot and killed an intruder to protect her 3-month-old baby, after she had just lost her husband to cancer on Christmas day. Now, John Rich of Big and Rich is on a mission to find this young mother and give her some much-needed help.
“I’d like to find this woman who shot the intruder,” he said via Twitter. “Her husband died from cancer on Christmas day and she has a newborn. How do we find her?” In a later tweet, he said,” Thx for helping me find this young woman. Can’t imagine how she feels. 18 yrs old, baby is 3 months, husband just passed. Now this? 2MUCH.”
Though Rich still hasn’t been able to secure the woman’s direct contact, he’s confident that he will be able to find and help her.
The young woman, Sarah McKinley of Oklahoma City, says a man named Justin Martin showed up at her husband’s funeral claiming to be a neighbor. But when he showed up at her home on New Year’s Eve with another man, Dustin Stewart, he was armed with a 12-inch hunting knife and attempting to break down her locked doors.
In a desperate attempt to protect her infant, McKinley grabbed a 12 gauge and a pistol and dialed 911, asking a dispatcher if it was OK to shoot Martin if he got into the house. According to reports from ABC News, the dispatcher said, “I can’t tell you that you can do that, but you do what you have to do to protect your baby.”
Moments later, Martin kicked down the door and ran at McKinley with a knife, but the young mother shot and killed him before he could inflict harm on her or the baby. Police have deemed this a justified shooting because Martin was an unauthorized person in someone else’s home. And while McKinley told reporters that she didn’t want to do it, she said she knew it was going to be the intruder or her son, and she wasn’t going to allow the latter to occur.
Rich is keeping his Twitter fans updated, promising, “I’ll let you know the plan to help her once we see what her situation is. I’m ON IT.”
A teenage mom took action recently when an intruder broke into her Oklahoma home. Sarah McKinley shot and killed the man after calling 911 and speaking to a dispatcher who, upon being asked by McKinley if she should shoot the suspect, answered that she should do whatever necessary to ‘protect her baby.’ McKinley says she did just that.
According to the 18-year-old’s account, two men began beating on her front door, prompting McKinley to take her three-month-old baby and lock herself in a room with a gun before calling emergency dispatch.
When the intruders finally got through the door, the mom had no more time left to wait for police and made a judgment call.
“I waited ’til he came in the door, and when he did I shot him. I didn’t know what else to do … I wanted [the police] to hurry and get here before I had to do it, but they didn’t get here quick enough,” she said.
