Decatur, Alabama

From Huntsville’s WHNT19.com of February 12, 2005

Home surveillance system clears man in shooting of brother-in-law

A home surveillance tape cleared a Lacey Spring's man in the fatal shooting of his brother in law.

After watching the recording of the shooting in a home garage, a Morgan County grand jury found that Terry Lynn Davis shooting his brother-in-law was justified as self-defense.

Sheriff Greg Bartlett says Terry Lynn Davis and Jeffrey Frank Hann argued at Davis' Vansandt Road home March fifth, 2004, about a key to an automobile garage.

The video shows Hann threatening Davis with a hammer. Davis then armed himself with a .32-caliber pistol. The video shows that Hann became angry and threw the hammer at Davis. It missed and bounced off a wall. As Hann approached his brother-in-law again with the hammer, Davis shot him.

Bartlett says Davis' son, who was four at the time, witnessed the shooting.

Authorities had NOT charged Davis in the shooting, leaving the grand jury to make the decision.