Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Botetourt County authorities release 911 tape in fatal home invasion shooting
No charges will be filed in last week's shooting.
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Audio: 911 call of shooting
Click the play button to hear the 911 call made by Jody Hoover, in which he can be heard shooting Jerry Lee Jones Jr in what the Botetourt County Commonwealth's Attorney Joel Branscom determined was a justifiable homicide.
Editor's note: This audio represents close to 13 minutes of conversation between Hoover, his wife and a 911 dispatcher. Hoover hands the phone to his wife while he retrieves his gun.
Other voices heard include those of Jerry Lee Jones Jr, and radio traffic from deputies being sent to the scene. The dispatcher can also be heard relaying information to deputies.
Portions of the recording, including long stretches of silence or inactivity, have been edited out.
Some may find the audio disturbing.
Jody Hoover, 46, shot and killed Jerry Lee Jones Jr., 35, after Jones broke into Hoover's home Friday night in the Nace area of the county, according to a news release from Sheriff Ronnie Sprinkle. Hoover's wife, mother-in-law and two sons were home when Jones threw a chair through a glass sliding door and came into the house. No one else was injured.
Jones' blood-alcohol content was more than four times the legal limit when he died, the news release said. The sheriff's office determined that Jones had been drinking with another man, Joe Harper, when he became violent while in a vehicle. Harper dropped off Jones near the Hoover home, the news release said.
The sheriff's office and Botetourt County Commonwealth's Attorney Joel Branscom reviewed the evidence, including the 911 tape, and decided not to charge Hoover, the news release said.
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