DATE: 03-28-01 ‘TIME: 911 CALL AT 1348, ARRIVED ON SCENE AND PRONOUNCE DECEASED AT 1411. Case #: 1181R01 LOCATION: 25281 COUNTY ROAD 24. INVESTIGATION: DISCHARGE OF A WEAPON RESULTING IN DEATH. INVESTIGATORS : SHERIFF LEROY L. YOWELL AND UNDERSHERIFF ALAN L. YOWELL ON MARCH 28, 2001 UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL WAS PAGED, VIA THE TELEPEONE INTERCOM, TO COME TO DISPATCH IMMEDIATELY. DISPATCHER TAYLOR HANDED UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL THE 911 TBLEPHONE RECEIVER AND STATED "SOMETHING ABOUT A SHOOTING". UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AND THE CALLER STATED "PLEASE HURRY", UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL STATED "WHERE ARE YOU AT? ‘THE CALLER STATED "THE WILLIAMS RANCH, THREE MILES EAST, NO WEST, NO EAST OF PUNKIN CENTER ON HIGHWAY 94 AND THEN THREE MILES NORTH" UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL ASKED "WHAT HAPPENED" AND THE MALE CALLER STATED "MY SON ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HER". SHERIFF YOWELL AND UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL RESPONDED TO SCENE AND THE KARVAL AMBULANCE WAS PAGED TO RESPOND. LINCOLN COUNTY DISPATCHERS HAD NUMEROUS TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MALE CALLER, "MIKE", AND ADVISED EVERYONE RESPONDING THAT HE THOUGHT SHE WAS SHOT IN THE NECK AND THAT HE DIDN'T THINK SHE WAS BREATHING. AT 1411 SHERIFF YOWELL, UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL, AND THE KARVAL AMBULANCE ARRIVED AT 25281 COUNTY ROAD 24. A FRANTIC MALE STANDING ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE RESIDENCE WAVED THE. EMERGENCY VEHICLES TO THE NORTH SIDS OF THE RESIDENCE. A WOMEN WITH BLONDE HAIR COULD BB OBSERVED LAYING PRONE ON A PIECE OF EGG CRATE FOAM MATTRESS, WITH BLOOD IN HER HAIR AND ALONG THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER NECK. UNDERSHERIPF YOWELL AND EMT'S PATRICK LEONARD AND MICHELLE LEONARD CHECKED THE FEMALE FOR ANY SIGNS OF A PULSE AND OR SIGNS OF LIFE. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS NO PULSE OR RESPIRATIONS, AND UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL , A DEPUTY CORNER, PRONOUNCED THE FEMALE DOA. BMT PATRICK LEONARD AND UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL OBSERVED THAT THE FEMALES LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS ON THE TRIGGER OF THE SCOPED RIFLE THAT WAS AGAINST HER LEFT CHEEK. HER FINGER WAS REMOVED FROM THE TRIGGER OF THE 22 RIFLE, THE BOLT WAS OPENED AND THS LIVE ROUND REMOVED. ANOTHER RIFLE, LEVER ACTION, COULD BE OBSERVED LAYING ON THE GROUND NORTH OF THE EGG’ SHELL AND THE DECEASED FEMALE.DIRECTLY WEST THERE WERE THREE LARGE SQUARE HAY BALES WITH PAPER SHOOTING TARGETS ATTACHED. TO THE EAST WAS A 2001 FORD PICKUP, 335BHO COLORADO, WITH THE TAILGATE OPEN WITH ANOTHER RIFLE AND MISCELLANEOUS SHOOTING SUPPLIES LAYING ON IT SHERIFF YOWELL WAS WITH THE DISTRAUGHT MALE. SHERIFF YOWELL THEN APPROACHED THE SCENE AND UNDERSHERIFF YOWELD INFORMED HIM THAT THE FEMALE WAS DOA. SHERIFF YOWELL ADVISED THAT THE MALE WAS MICHAEL D. WELLS DOB 10-30-62, AND THE DECEASED WAS HIS WIFE JILL A. WELLS DOB 08-10-63. SHERIFF YOWELL ADVISED THAT THERE WERE TWO BOYS AGES 6 AND 2 IN THE RESIDENCE. TANNER WELLS NMBA AND JAKE 2 YEARS OLD. SHERIFF YOWELL STATED THAT THE 6 YEAR OLD TANNER, HAD BEEN LAYING ON THB EGG SHELL MATTRESS ALONG SIDE HIS MOTHER AND WAS ALLOWED TO SHOOT HIS FATHERS LEVER ACTION 22 RIFLE. MIKE WELLS WAS GOING TO THE TAILGATE OF THE PICKUP TO GET TANNER'S CHIPMUNK 22 RIFLE WHEN HE TURNED AROUND AND SAW TANNER STANDING UP COCKING THE LEVER ACTION RIFLE AND THE GUN FIRED AND HIT JILL WHO IMMEDIATELY WENT LIMP MICHAEL WELLS SAID TANNER DROPPED THE LEVER ACTION 22 RIFLE ON THE GROUND AFTER IT FIRED. MICHARL PICKED UP TANNER AND TOOK HIM INSIDE THE HOUSES AND THEN RETURNED TO ASSIST? JILL. MICHAEL STATED JILL APPEARED LIFE LESS AND EE IMMEDIATELY WENT TO THE HOUSE AND CALLED 911. SHERIFF YOWELL NOTIFIED DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY WILLIAM SYLVESTER AND LINCOLN COUNTY CORNER DON BENDER, BOTH RESPONDED TO THE SCENE. SHERIFF YOWELL AND UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL PHOTOGRAPHED THE SCENE, AND TOOK ALL THE RIFLES INTO EVIDENCE. THE EMT'S AND OTHER EMERGENCY PERSONAL ASSISTED WITH HELPING THE DISTRAUGHT MICHAEL WELLS AND BOYS. UNDERSHERIFF YOWELL INTERVIEWED TANNER WELLS AS HE SAT ALONG SIDE HIS FATHER IN THE HOUSE. TANNER STATED HE HAD BEEN SHOOTING HIS DADS GUN AND WHEN HE WENT TO RELOAD THE RIFLE IT WENT OFF. TANNER SAID THAT HE THOUGHT HIS MOM HAD HURT HER HEAD AND WAS GOING TO DOCTOR. THE RESIDENT AT 2581 COUNTY ROAD 24 IS OWNED BY BOB WILLIAMS OF KARVAL AND IS LEASED BY MIKE WELLS THAT LIVES AT 266 CORNELL DR WOODLAND PARK COLORADO. CORNER BENDER REMOVED THE RODY AND THE SHERIFF AND UNDERSHERIFF RETURNED TO THE SHERI ‘ OFFICE AND PLACED THE RIFLES INTO EVIDENCE. 5 lun \ooal UNDERSHERIFF ALAN L, YOWELL