Month after fatal shooting of McLoud girl, charge to be filed against 15-year-old girl

MCLOUD — A month after the shooting death of high school sophomore Kaylen Thomas, prosecutors have decided to file a charge against a 15-year-old girl who allegedly was reckless with a gun, a prosecutor said Monday.

Thomas, 16, was shot in the head Oct. 5 at her friend's home in McLoud. She was taken to the University of Oklahoma Medical Center where she died. The state medical examiner's office reported the death as a homicide.

Isabella Irene Sabas, 15, of McLoud, a McLoud High School sophomore, faces a charge of first-degree manslaughter, said prosecutor Adam Panter, first assistant district attorney for Pottawatomie County.

Panter said Sabas held the gun that killed Thomas in a bedroom at Sabas' home in McLoud.