McKinley, 18, fired a 12-gauge shotgun and killed Justin Shane Martin after he entered her residence, according to a Blanchard Police Department affidavit filed in court Wednesday.
McKinley's husband died Christmas Day of cancer, Walters said. Evidence indicates Martin and Dustin Louis Stewart, 29, may have been looking for painkillers or other drugs taken by McKinley's ill husband, Walters said. Investigator found no such drugs.
Martin "aggressively" knocked on the doors of the home and gained entry by hitting one of them with his shoulder, police said. Stewart said "he heard a gunshot after Martin entered the residence," and Stewart then "fled on foot."
Martin, 24, was found between the door and a couch with a knife clutched in his gloved left hand, police said.
Stewart was charged with first-degree felony murder, Walters said. If during the commission of certain offenses, such as burglary, a death results, an individual can be charged in the death, the prosecutor said.
His buddy was killed walking in the door, so they charge him with the murder. Nice.
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felony-murder doesn't require any intent to kill or anything really related to murder. just needs a dead guy while committing a felony. it's not the same anything to murder though, ruling-wise or sentence-wise (hell, even language-wise seeing how those usually aren't actually murder). that's just what it's called.
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Wanglicious posted... felony-murder doesn't require any intent to kill or anything really related to murder. just needs a dead guy while committing a felony. it's not the same anything to murder though, ruling-wise or sentence-wise (hell, even language-wise seeing how those usually aren't actually murder). that's just what it's called.
XFD I love how people are just ignoring this
Okay everyone, just pretend like "felony-murder" is actually called "doodooheadery"
The guy is being charged with doodooheadery, not murder
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She mentioned that he was stalking her, so she called the surviving guy to work with him. The survivor was all "Dude, let's totally break into her house so you can tell her you love her." And then they broke in and he SHOVED him into her bullets.
Does anyone know if the man who is sentenced for murder is called Little Jimmy?
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Uh, felony murder is treated like murder for sentencing. It's a truly ridiculous doctrine in my opinion. The whole point of having different degrees of murder is to differentiate based on intent, but felony murder requires no intent, no mens rea at all towards the death, so it does away with the degrees.
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