Okla. Mom Sentenced for Killing Her 2 Teenage Children as They Slept, Injuring 14-Year-Old Daughter

Amy Leann Hall pleaded guilty to killing her son, Kayson Toliver, 18, and her daughter, Khloe Toliver, 16 in 2018, while they were asleep

An Oklahoma woman who pleaded guilty to killing her teenage son and daughter while they slept and shooting her 14-year-old who survived has been sentenced to life in prison.

On Monday, Chief Judge Ronald A. White of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma sentenced Amy Leann Hall, 43, to life in prison for killing her 18-year-old son, Kayson Toliver, and 16-year-old daughter, Kloee Toliver in 2018, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced in a statement.

Hall, of Okmulgee, was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of murder and 240 months in prison for one count of assault with intent to commit murder. The sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

Hall pleaded guilty on Nov. 28, 2022.

In the early morning hours of November 1, 2018, Hall entered her son’s room and shot him in the head while he slept, killing him instantly, according to investigators, the U.S. Attorney said in the statement.

Next, Hall proceeded to the bedroom where her 16- and 14-year-old daughters were sleeping and shot them both in the head.

Kloee was brain dead and was taken off life support.

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Hall’s 14-year-old daughter, whom police did not identify, survived after she was grazed in the head and neck area, police said at the time.

The 14-year-old escaped to the bathroom where she was later able to convince her mother to turn over the gun, according to law enforcement.

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“She kind of talked [Hall] down,” Okmulgee County Sheriff’s investigator Duston Todd told PEOPLE at the time. “That is heroic to face somebody like that who tried to kill you.”

Deputies were called to the scene around 6:30 a.m. by Kayson’s friend, who was staying over and sleeping in his room.

“This is something they all woke up to,” Todd said. “Everybody was surprised.”

After the shooting, Hall left the family’s home and, after a four-mile, high-pursuit chase exceeding 110 miles per hour on a local highway with police, was taken into custody, Todd said.

Hall’s 16-year-old daughter never regained consciousness and died from her injuries four days later at the hospital.

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According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE, Hall initially told police she didn’t know why she’d shot her kids.

Later, she said she thought she was defending them from her estranged husband — whom she had claimed was abusive, accusing him of a range of criminal acts, amid their contentious divorce — and “some part of me thought I was saving them.”

Divorce documents, obtained by PEOPLE, show that Hall and her husband had been embroiled in a bitter custody dispute in 2016.

The allegations of violence against Hall’s ex have not been substantiated, Todd said.

Hall’s plan, she told police as described in her probable cause affidavit, was to kill her children and then herself, but “[her daughter] interrupted the plan, taking the pistol from her,” the affidavit states.

Speaking with police, Hall acknowledged her crimes. She said she “was so sorry.”

“This crime was gut-wrenching and there is no question the sentencing is just,” FBI Oklahoma City Special Agent in Charge Edward J. Gray said in the statement. “It is absolutely heartbreaking to think a mother could be capable of shooting her own children while they slept. The FBI is responsible for investigating the most serious crimes in Indian Country and along with our law enforcement partners, we will continue to aggressively pursue these cases.  We are committed to protecting all of the tribal communities we serve, helping victims, and ensuring that justice is met for violent offenders.”

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