A 31-year-old man found himself running from bullets after a mother found him in her 16-year-old daughter’s bedroom, police say.
The teen, who was identified in the affidavit as K.P., told police that her boyfriend had been coming over three times a week after her mother left for work at 5:30 a.m.
But on Monday morning, Fowler kicked in the locked bedroom door and fired a shot at Vail as he tried to get out of bed, according to the affidavit. Vail ran toward the hallway, while Fowler fired a second shot at him.
Michael Lewis, police chief for Paoli, about 50 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, was called about 7:20 a.m. to a nearby trailer home, where he found Vail lying on the front porch, according to the affidavit.
Investigators found bloodstains on the bed and sheets, as well as on the walls and floors of Fowler’s house. They also found a handgun.
Lewis told NBC affiliate KFOR that the 16-year-old girl and a young child witnessed the shooting. Lewis was not immediately available for comment Tuesday.
Garvin County Sheriff Larry Rhodes told the TV station that Vail’s wounds are not life threatening.
Rhodes said Fowler called 911 to report that she had shot a man inside her house, the TV station reported.
Police did not say whether Fowler knew Vail before the incident.
It’s unclear how long Vail and the teen had been dating, or whether they had sex.
In Oklahoma, like a majority of states, the age of consent is 16. State law also says that a person cannot be convicted of rape if he or she had consensual sex with someone older than 14 — as long as the defendant is not older than 18 at the time of the sex.
The age of consent in a minority of states, such as Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming, is 18.
It’s 17 in Texas, New Mexico, New York, Nebraska, Missouri, Louisiana, Illinois and Colorado.
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