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Who was James Rayl?
Chilling Ring camera video shows a man shooting and killing his daughter’s ex after she tried to break into his home.
The fatal shooting of 22-year-old James Rayl took place in Sydney, Ohio, USA on July 31.
He was trying to break into his ex-girlfriend’s house at the time, newly released doorbell video obtained by WHIO-TV 7 shows.
Rayl, who was wearing a cap, a blue hoodie, a gray T-shirt and shorts, rang the bell several times at first.
He then opened the screen door and tried the handle, before throwing his weight against the door repeatedly, even after the family inside him told him to leave.
As he does so, the father of his ex, Mitch Duckro, can be heard warning Rayl that he was armed. After he finally forced the door open, Rayl apparently turned around and had his back to Duckro when three shots were heard.
Haunting camera footage then captures Rayl turning around and trying to walk away even after he was shot.
Rayl flinches as he is hit and stumbles down the stairs and down the path before collapsing on the front lawn.
Several minutes then pass before neighbor Jeffery Hereford comes into frame, walking slowly across Duckro’s front lawn and is heard saying “Don’t shoot me.”
It took another eight minutes for local officials to arrive, but by then Rayl was already dead.
Family
Jeffrey disputed the family’s account and claimed that Rayl never entered the house.
He was the first to check on Rayl after the family rejected the dispatcher’s response to do so.
“If he entered the house, why did he shoot through the door?” he asked him.
Under state “Stand Your Ground” laws, Duckro was cleared of any charges as the grand jury voted 8-1 in his favor.
A subsequent autopsy found that he had received two shots to the shoulders and a third fatal wound to the back.
