Sentencing of a Chandler man has been continued on amended charges in a shooting on Easter Sunday night in 2023 that injured a teenage girl.
Jodie Jones, 44, was formally charged April 11, 2023 in Lincoln County District Court with assault and battery with a deadly weapon and felony discharging firearm into a dwelling.
Law enforcement authorities arrested Jones later that same night of the shooting.
Appearing last week before District Judge John Canavan, the judge continued his sentencing until 9 a.m. April 30.
Assistant District Attorneys Kelly Trimble and Rachel Thompson are prosecuting the case and Jones is represented by attorney Jarrod Stevenson.
Trimble previously explained Jones was bound over in August to stand trial on amended felony charges of discharging a firearm into a dwelling and attempted first degree burglary.
Jones made his first initial appearance before Judge Kirk and then a further initial appearance before Special Judge Emily Mueller.
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Bennett in April of 2023 said the girl was airlifted to Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City the night of the shooting with what was believed to be non-life threatening injuries and remained in the hospital late that night.
Bennett said that officers took Jones into custody and transported him to the Lincoln County Jail in Chandler.
The arrest was made without incident around midnight Easter Sunday after officers obtained a search warrant for Jones.
Bennett said that it all unfolded about 6:46 p.m. that evning when the 911 Communications Center received a call about an individual shooting into a house.
The caller stated that a juvenile, 16, had been struck in the upper leg.
He said the Special Operations Team of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office was already activated to assist the Oklahoma Highway Patrol with a manhunt following a hit and run on the Turner Turnpike just west of Chandler.
“We abandoned that search and responded to the shooting which was one half mile south of SH 66 on 3420 Road (Post Road) and the initial report we had was a white male in his 40s who fled the scene on foot that was wearing a tan khaki shirt and camouflage BDU style pants,” Bennett stated.
He said, “We were able to set up a perimeter to try and locate the suspect. We were assisted by OHP, Sac and Fox and Iowa Tribal units, Wellston, Agra, Luther, Meeker, Stroud and Chandler Police Departments, the State Game warden from the area along with Lincoln County Emergency Management and Stroud Fire Departments.”
Bennett pointed out Emergency Management and Stroud Fire provided drones in the search.