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Eric McLean was finally taken into custody the morning after the shooting.” Erin McLean went to Nashville with her two sons.
Sean Powell’s birth mother, Debra Flynn, says it will be difficult to ever forgive Erin McLean. Sean may have kept quiet about knowing his student teacher, but those who knew him say he bonded with Erin McLean right away over their shared interests in drama and poetry. Erin McLean isn’t talking. Debra Flynn reserves her deepest anger for the man who fired the gun: Eric McLean.
Erin McLean isn’t talking. Erin McLean was apparently so distraught by the killing that a few days later she attempted suicide with non-prescription drugs at her mother’s home in Nashville.
Two weeks later, that mysterious girlfriend placed a call to Debra Flynn’s phone.” She said her name was Erin McLean and that she had some terrible news.
The first hint of scandal was contained in Erin McLean’s frantic call to 911. Erin McLean: He used to be one of my students.
Eric McLean’s trial is now expected to begin next January. Among the objects of his assault: Erin McLean and Sean Powell.
What is clear is that by last winter, 29-year-old Erin McLean and 18-year-old Sean Powell had begun a close relationship that only grew closer over time.”
Erin McLean and her two boys are still living in the Nashville area.”‘ Her attorney says she deserves a second chance.
Erin McLean was also working hard.” If you see Sean Powell and Erin Mclean in such a negative light, how do you view your self? I love both my parents, but I am not sure even I am that loyal.
Erin McLean has lost a teaching job in middle tennessee amid claims of inappropriate contact with another teenage boy.
“Just absolutely floored,” Brown said. That’s because Erin Meyers is really Erin McLean. “These teachers are feasting on our children in school and something has to be done,” Flynn said.
Erin McLean has moved in with relatives in Nashville with the couple’s two young sons, ages 11 and 7. ERIN MCLEAN: My husband just killed someone. ERIN MCLEAN: He shot him with a shotgun.
ERIN MCLEAN: I think he`s dead.
ERIN MCLEAN: Oh, my God. ERIN MCLEAN, WIFE OF ERIC MCLEAN: He`s gone off in his car.
I`ve got an ambulance, a fire truck and police department on the way. ERIN MCLEAN: The guy who`s shot is sitting in his car! ERIN MCLEAN: His head, he`s shot in the head.
Erin McLean is #20 on the Canadian women’s softball team. They wanted to create a family.
Tanya McLean: Very, very smart. In the last few years, facing the pressures of raising two young sons, family finances, and her graduate study, Eric McLean says Erin began to change. Erin and Eric McLean and their two sons seemed the picture of the all-American family. March 10, Eric McLean shot and killed Sean Powell, his wife’s former student and 18-year-old lover. Eric McLean: I think about him a lot.
The student never did move in, and over on Coker Ave. when Eric McLean placed a call to 911.
Whatever was going on, few seemed to know Sean Powell was involved with a former teacher. The name she had heard was Erin Myers - Erin McLean’s maiden name.
Erin McLean’s attorney paints a far different portrait of the McLean marriage than Eric does. Blackburn provided Dateline with letters and cards from Eric, written before the shooting, that appear to show he was abusive to her.
There was a crucial seven minute interval between Eric McLean’s phone call to 911 and the shot that killed Sean Powell. Some observers say Erin McLean’s testimony about the night of the shooting will hold the key to what happens to her husband.
Now out on bail and working on a farm, Eric McLean’s fate will soon be in the hands of a jury. He’s charged in the killing of 18-year-old Sean Powell, the boyfriend and former student of McLean’s wife, Erin. It appears the marriage itself may not exist much longer: In the past week, Eric McLean’s lawyer told us that Eric is planning to file for divorce from Erin.
Blamed little Eric for that. Eric McLean: Where I just sometimes would wake up and - and she was sittin’ on top of me just hitting me.”
Erin’s husband Eric admitted to shooting Powell in March in front of the McLean home in March.
During that 911 call, Erin told the dispatcher that, Eric has shot someone. GRACE: That was a very emotional and exclusive interview Eric McLean gave to NBC News.
Eric, then 31, no longer deferred his dreams and was finally studying to be a music and band teacher.”
Gary Blackburn: Sean made provocative statements of some kind to Eric ” Remember - Erin was in the house.” Sean was in his car.”
Gary Blackburn: Erin came outdoors and saw Eric standing there behind the vehicle, holding the rifle. She, too, wanted to be a teacher.
Even though Erin and Eric had been struggling financially, another son, Ian, was born.”
As for what went on during the seven minute gap between 911 calls, Blackburn says Erin doesn’t know that much because she was in the house when the fatal shot ran out.
Whatever was going on seemed to end. Then he would get the boys ready for school ” come home, get the boys from school, sleep a couple of hours before going through the same routine again.
Norman McLean: Eric was real close with the family. Even when she’d come back, she would sort of hang off and stay by herself more.
The husband, Eric McLean, was born in 1975 and grew up in and around Knoxville in a deeply religious family. He never saw a stranger.
Eric McLean: Like that. She didn’t want the family or anything anymore.
Eric McLean: I didn’t feel like I could do anything anymore.” In March, Eric McLean shot and killed Sean Powell, an 18-year-old former student of McLean’s wife, Erin.”
Whether Eric McLean shot Sean Powell is not in dispute. Shortly after the shooting, police charged Eric McLean with first-degree murder, alleging Eric had planned the murder when he bought the rifle. So clearly, he didn’t get the rifle to shoot Sean Powell.
Right from the start, Eric McLean insisted it was not intentional. Eric McLean: Yes! Though he wouldn’t provide details, Eric McLean’s attorney, Bruce Poston, says he will prove the killing was unintentional. No one involved in the fatal incident that night has given all the details about what happened - including Eric McLean, whose attorney would not let him talk about the shooting itself.”
Nothing ever got better. Eric McLean: She treated little Eric horribly.” Then, by last winter, Sean Powell became a regular visitor to the McLean home.
Now the most McLean can get is 25 years in prison. Poston: They looked at the evidence and said no.
In late April, a grand jury indicted McLean for the lesser charge of second-degree murder. The events leading up to the murder begin with a seemingly calm Eric McLean calling 911 to report an intruder.
Eric McLean: Uh-huh. While Eric McLean still finds it too painful to talk about, friends say he told them he actually witnessed his wife’s infidelity with Sean Powell. Brian Mulkey: He just said he walked in, and they were in the bedroom, and he just turned around and walked out.
Eric McLean: I still love her, but I know we can’t be together anymore.” Eric McLean: Well, I just can’t talk to her anymore ” She’s just not the person I thought she was.”
Eric McLean: I just feel really bad about the whole thing. When we sat down with Eric McLean again, two months after the killing, he continued to insist that if the whole story was known, he wouldn’t be seen as cold-blooded killer. Eric McLean: It was fine.” It was great.”
Eric McLean: Uh-huh. Eric McLean: She told me that she was thinking about having affairs.
Lauer: Explain that. But as you’ll find out, that interview was just the beginning of what Eric McLean had to say about his marriage, his wife’s secret affair, and what led up to that terrible night at 2424 Coker Ave.”‘
Eric McLean: Yes. They were at a party and he saw her dial her voicemail.
Eric McLean: Some guy who’s stalking my wife. When police arrived the “intruder” was dead and Eric McLean was gone.
The attorney for Eric McLean, 31, acknowledges that McLean killed Powell. “So this trial is going to be about what really did happen and why _ not who,” attorney Bruce Poston said.
On the evening of March 10, McLean called police to say an intruder was at the couple’s home. Eric McLean fled in his car, which was later found at the high school.
Eric McLean is one semester short of completing a bachelor’s degree in music education. Norman McLean described his son, one of his eight children, as “an excellent person,” who was not violent, but he acknowledged that his son “had a lot of burden on him for months now,” referring to his wife’s affair.
“Everybody has a breaking point and there is only so much you can endure before you get to that place. McLean was arrested Sunday, walking along railroad tracks about 6 miles away, still carrying the suspected murder weapon, a shotgun.
Eric’s charged with killing Powell in March. said Jeff Darnell, the Pioneer Christian Academy’s headmaster.
Erin’s attorney says Erin made a lapse in judgment, and the whole thing has been blown out of proportion.
A question the courts will answer. In a call made to 911 last week, Erin’s sister tells dispatchers Erin has been in a mental hospital twice in the past 6 months.
Caller: Yes. McLean’s husband, Eric McLean, is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of 18-year-old Sean Powell as the teenager sat in a car outside the couple’s home March 10. According to police, the husband, Eric McLean, called them to report an intruder was at his home.
He`s no stranger to a courtroom. What McLean says is, He ignored me when I tried to speak to him, and he shot him.
BROWN: Exactly. Seven minutes later, his wife on that emergency call never said, “Oh, my god, this boy is about to kill me or he`s about to hurt my husband.”
Eric ultimately is the one that pulled the trigger and should be punished for it. ERIC MCLEAN: I mean, I pretty much knew.
ERIC MCLEAN: I don`t know.
What Eric said in terms of being the shooter was something that - not tripping up any cards that weren`t going to be played eventually. This case is all about what happens to Eric McLean during those seven minutes before the shooting.
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