A Chandler man charged with two felonies in a shooting that injured a teenage girl is due back in court today (April 20).
Jodie Andrew Jones, 44, was formally charged in Lincoln County District Court April 11 with assault and battery with deadly weapon and felony discharging firearm into a dwelling.
Jones made an initial appearance before Associate District Judge Sheila Kirk on April 11 and she set the cause for today. On April 10, Judge Kirk had set his bond at $250,000.
In Count 1, he is accused on April 9 without justifiable or excusable cause of shooting a teenage girl in the leg with a shotgun, which is a deadly weapon.
Count 2 charges Jones on the same day intentionally discharging any firearm or deadly weapon at or into any dwelling or at any building used for public or business purposes, by shooting a shotgun into a dwelling where the girl and other individuals were present.
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Bennett reported the day after the shooting the girl was airlifted to Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City with what was believed to be non-life threatening injuries and was still in the hospital late that night.
Bennett said that officers took Jones into custody and transported him to the Lincoln County Jail in Chandler. He was arrested on the charges he now faces.
“We don’t have information yet on why Jones shot into the house, that is still under investigation,” Bennett emphasized.
The arrest was made without incident around midnight Easter Sunday after officers obtained a search warrant for an individual “we believed was involved in the shooting. We also recovered the shotgun we believe was used in the shooting,” Bennett explained.
“Officers hadn’t talked with Jones initially because they suspected him of being under the influence of narcotics,” Bennett noted.
Bennett said that it all unfolded about 6:46 p.m. Sunday 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 Lincoln County Emergency Management and Stroud Fire provided drones in the search.
In an affidavit filed in the case, Lincoln County Sheriff Investigator Larry Stover, Sr., states that when he talked with the teenage girl’s father about the shooting he advised Stover that Jones was a relative and that he lives at the next residence to the north.
The father reportedly further advised Stover that he doesn’t associate with Jones and he hadn’t seen nor talked to him in about two years other than seeing him walk down the road.
Jones was reportedly first spotted by the girl’s mother who advised her husband to come outside. Jones was at the gate to a pasture on the northeast corner of the property carrying a dark colored shotgun and was walking toward the house, the girl’s father told Stover.