A teenage mother shot and killed an intruder after a 911 operator said she was allowed to defend her infant son and herself with force.
在911话务员跟她表示为保护小孩她有权采取措施后,一个少女妈妈枪击了入室者。
Sarah McKinley, 18, killed Justin Martin with a single gunshot wound on New Year's Eve when he forced his way into her Blanchard, Okla. home and came at her with a long hunting knife, ABC News reports.
据美国广播公司新闻报道,这个18岁的少女妈妈名叫莎拉·麦金利。新年夜当晚,一位名叫贾斯汀·马丁的男子闯进她在俄克拉荷马州布兰查得市的家中。 在马丁拿着一把长长的猎刀向她逼近上来时,莎拉果断开枪。
The deadly encounter occurred about a week after the young mom's husband died of cancer, according to TV station KOCO. Martin darkened McKinley's door on the day of her husband's funeral, several days before the shooting. He claimed he was a neighbor who wanted to say hello, but she didn't open the door.
据KOCO电视台消息,一个星期前,莎拉的丈夫因癌症去世。然后马丁就盯上了莎拉。就在莎拉丈夫的葬礼那天,他在莎拉的门口做了标记。然后骗莎拉说,他只是个邻居,过来打个招呼而已。但莎拉没有开门。
Martin returned with an accomplice on Dec. 31, and they tried to force their way into the modest house. When McKinley heard the men trying to break in, she called 911.
12月31号那天,马丁又带了一个同伙,想要强行闯进屋里。莎拉一听到动静就拨打了911报警。
She also holed up in her bedroom with a 12-gauge shotgun and a pistol, while she put a bottle in her three-month-old son's mouth.
然后,莎拉躲在卧室里,给三个月大的儿子塞上奶瓶,并掏出一把12口径的霰弹枪和一把手枪。
"I've got two guns in my hand -- Is it okay to shoot him if he comes in this door?" McKinley asked the 911 operator.
“我手上有两把枪。如果他闯进来,我能不能开枪?”莎拉向911接线员问道。
"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 McKinley when she asked a second time. The call went on for 21 minutes as the men powered their way into McKinley's house.
“我不能给你一个确切的答复。但是,为了保护孩子,你可以采取必要措施。”莎拉问了两遍后,那个接线员这么说道。电话通了21分钟后,两个家伙强行闯进了莎拉的家里。
Eventually, Martin kicked in the door and charged at her with a knife, but McKinley fired before he could injure her.
然后马丁踢开房门,拿着刀子抵住了莎拉。但是,莎拉眼疾手快,已抢先一步开了枪。
Police found Martin slumped over a couch that McKinley had used to barricade the door and pronounced him dead o the scene, TV station News 9 reports. They said McKinley's use of force was justified.
新闻频道报道说,警方赶到时,马丁已经瘫软在莎拉用来杠门的沙发上。莎拉表示,这家伙中枪后立刻就毙了。不过,警方也已承认,莎拉的行为属于正当防卫。
Martin's alleged accomplice, Dustin Stewart, fled when he heard the gunshot and later surrendered to police, according to The Oklahoman. Stewart was charged with burglary.
据俄克拉荷马州的警方透露,马丁的同伙达斯汀·斯图尔特一听到枪声就逃跑了;不过,后来很快被捕,并被判处“入室盗窃罪”。
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