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Charleston Patrolman Jerry Alan Jones, 27, was shot and killed in the early hours of Sept. 13, 2009, by a round fired by another officer after a vehicle pursuit ended on a gravel turnaround off Quick Road in rural Kanawha County, West Virginia, according to investigators and later court records.

The driver, Brian Scott Good, 31, of Milliken, had rammed a vehicle belonging to a former girlfriend on Charleston's West Side earlier that night, the Charleston Daily Mail reported. Officers chased him then but broke off after losing sight of the pickup. Jones spotted the truck a few hours later on the city's East End and tried to stop it, and a second pursuit ran out of Charleston toward Quick Road.

Officers Christopher Burford, Owen Morris and Travis Hawley joined the chase, along with a State Police trooper. When Good pulled off the road, the officers positioned their cruisers to block him in. He refused orders to get out and drove at the cruisers instead.

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department, which investigated the shooting, found that Good rammed the cruisers deliberately even though he had a route of escape. Officers fired 16 rounds in a span of about three seconds. Seven struck Good in the chest and killed him. One struck Jones just above his bulletproof vest.

Jones had been approaching the pickup on foot from the passenger side while Burford fired from the driver's side, according to court filings. Jones was taken to Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital, where he died. A passenger in the truck, Natasha Light, later pleaded guilty to charges arising from that night.

Jones had served three years with the Charleston Police Department after four years in the Marine Corps. He was the first Charleston officer shot and killed in the line of duty in about 30 years, WCHS-TV reported, and the department retired his unit number, 155.

The officer whose round killed Jones was not publicly identified until September 2011, when his widow, Samantha Jones, filed a federal civil rights suit against the city and Burford in U.S. District Court. The suit alleged that Burford fired at Good's vehicle without accounting for the location of the other officers. City Attorney Paul Ellis wrote that the city would "vigorously defend the reasonable use of force by Officer Burford, and all other officers involved." Good's mother, Patricia Harrison, had filed her own suit against the city over her son's death.

U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin granted the defense motion and dismissed the widow's complaint on March 5, 2012. The Associated Press reported that Goodwin ruled the officers had acted appropriately.

The attachment is the police dispatch logging tape from that night, about 29 and a half minutes of radio traffic. It covers the pursuit, the shooting and the response that followed, as the officers and the dispatcher transmitted it in real time. A logging tape records an entire radio channel rather than a single incident, so routine traffic having nothing to do with the pursuit runs alongside it.