http://www.wsls.com/sls/news/local/article/full_911_call_from_deadly_self-defense_shooting/33181/#fragment-1Text from 911 call released by the Botetourt County Sheriff’s Office below:
Dispatcher :“Whats wrong tonight sir?“
Hoover: “There is a strange man outside our home, and he is hollering, and he is crying out. I don’t know what’s wrong with him.“
Dispatcher: “Can you see anything about what he looks like?“
Hoover: “No, it’s dark and raining”
Dispatcher: “OK.“
Dispatcher: “Did he have a vehicle or was he on foot?“
Hoover: “He is on foot.“
Dispatcher: “Has he come to your door or window?“
Hoover: “He is at our door”
Dispatcher : “He is at the front door?“
Hoover : “He’s at our back deck”
Dispatcher : “He’s at the back deck? OK hold on one second for me.“
Hoover: “I’m gonna give you my wife, I am gonna go get my gun.“
Wife : “Hello?“
Dispatcher : “Ma’am hold on one second for me ok?“
Wife : “ok”
(Yelling in background)
Wife : “Oh my god”
(Yelling in background)
Dispatcher : “Ma’am what’s wrong?“
Wife : “He’s trying to break down the door.“
Dispatcher to someone else : “He’s trying to break the door down Kenny, right now.“
Dispatcher : “Ok ma’am, we’ve got deputies headed that way”
Wife : “Alright, thank you”
Dispatcher : “Dont hang up with me ok?“
Wife : “OK”
Wife : “I think he’s got a gun… get out of the way, get out of the way!“
Dispatcher : “He’s got a gun”
Wife : “I don’t know if thats what hes got.“
Dispatcher : “Ma’am can you see the gun?“
Wife : “No, I don’t know if thats what it is he’s trying to break down the door, I can’t tell”
Dispatcher to someone else : “She cant tell, she’s on the house phone”
Dispatcher : “Can you ask your husband what kind of gun it is?“
Wife : “Hes beating the door”
(Husband yelling in background..“I’ve got a gun”)
Dipatcher : “Ma’am, can you see if he has a gun or not?“
Wife : “We have louvers on the door, and the door is shut. It’s a sliding glass door”
Dispatcher : “Ma’am is he able to get in the door?“
Wife : “Not right now, he is trying”
Dispatcher : “Whats he doing now ma’am?“
Wife : “He’s asking what day it is”
(husband in background…“April 10th, Friday”)
Wife : “He’s talking about something about Vietnam and 1969”
Dispatcher : “He’s talking about Vietnam?“
(husband.. “I don’t want to hurt you ok?“)
Dispatcher : “Is he talking to your husband rationally?“
Wife : “No he is not”
Dispatcher : “OK”
Dispatcher : “Does your husband know him?“
Wife : “No, like I said we can’t even see who it is”
Dispatcher : “Ok… did you hear a vehicle pull up or did he just walk”
Wife : “I did not even know until he was on the back door, I cant tell because its dark outside”
Dispatcher : “Can you ask your husband to look and see if he has a weapon?“
Wife to husband : “They are on the way, they are on the way.“
Dispatcher : “Yes they are coming now, we have several officers on the way.“... “Ask your husband to look to see if that man has a weapon?“
Wife : “I do not want to look because he is beating on the door, and I am afraid if I open the screen he is gonna come through.“
Dispatcher : “What is he doing now?“
Wife : “I don’t hear anything now.“
Dispatcher : “Where is your husband – still at the back door?“
Wife : “We are standing here in the kitchen, he is trying to get into the sliding glass door”
Dispatcher : “He is trying to get in the sliding glass door?“...“and what side of the house is the sliding glass door on?“
Wife : “it is in the back of the house”
(Husband to man..“I dont know you”)
Dispatcher : “Tell your husband to keep talking to him”
Wife : “Hes talking about busting the door down.. and he’s talking about a watch, hes giving us a few minutes.. he’s counting”
Dispatcher : “He’s counting down?“
Dispatcher to someone else : “The guy outside the house is counting down. he’s counting, and he’s gonna bust the door down”
(Husband to man…“I dont want to hurt you”..man to husband..“open the door”)
Dispatcher :“What kind of gun does your husband have?“
(husband to man…“I cannot let you in”)
Dispatcher :“Ma’am?“
Wife : “Its like a rifle.. a shotgun”
Dispatcher:“The husband is at the door talking to this guy and he has a shotgun”
(yelling)
Dispatcher : “What just happened?“
Wife : “Hes out on the deck, I hear him walking around.“..(Loud Banging)..“Oh my gosh!“..“He’s trying to get in.. YOU HAVE GOT TO GET SOMEBODY HERE!“
Dispatcher : “They are on the way.. I promise, ok they are coming as fast as they can. What door is he beating on the same one?“
Wife : “The sliding glass door in the back”
Dispatcher : “OK. Do you have any neighbors or anything like that, that you have had dealings with that you know have been in Vietnam?“
Wife : “No”
Dispatcher : “OK, OK”
(Hoover to Jones: “Please just go away.“ (man yelling outside - inaudible).. “please”)
Dispatcher : “is he talking to your husband?“
Wife : “He’s beating on the door. I can even see the glass, it’s gonna break.“
Dispatcher : “I can hear it.. I have officers on the way. Just stay on the phone with me, everything is gonna be alright”
(husband to man..“I’m Jody, who are you!“)
(man yelling)
Wife : “He’s saying he does not care who my husband is.. are you a soldier?“
Dispatcher : “OK.“
Wife : “We’ve got a rod iron table out there. I think he’s got a chair.“
Dispatcher : “He’s got a chair…He has a chair in his hands?“
Wife : “He’s counting”...“Oh my God.. Oh God!.. He’s getting ready to come in.“
(Loud noises…Yelling)
Wife : “Oh my Lord!“
(Screaming)
Wife : “Oh my God!“
Wife : “(inaudible).... Oh.. get somebody here quick”
(police radio…“shots fired from inside the house”)
Dispatcher : “Ma’am..
Wife : “Yes”
Dispatcher : “What happened?“
Wife: “He just came through and my husband shot him and he’s still moving.. Oh Lord”
Dispatcher to someone : “The husband shot him”
Dispatcher : “Where did he shoot him?“
Wife : “I don’t know.. I don’t know!“
Dispatcher : “Where is your husband?“
Wife : “He’s standing here in the kitchen to make sure he doesn’t come in”
Dispatcher : “ok.. I want you to tell your husband to put the gun down”
Wife : “what if he comes in to try and attack us?“
Dispatcher : “Ma’am if he shot him he is not going to get up.. tell your husband to put the gundown please.“
Wife to husband : “she says to put the gun down”
Dispatcher : “Is he laying on the ground?.. is he breathing?“
Wife : “We cannot tell, it is still dark”
Dispatcher : “Is he on the back deck?“
Wife : “Yeah, he is laying on the back deck I guess”
Dispatcher : “OK”
(police scanner noise)
Wife :“Oh my God”
Dispatcher : “(inaudible)..ok ma’am its going to be ok.“
(police scanner)
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