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Kendall Lee Hock was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and a firearms offense after an investigation determined that he fired the shot that killed his fiancee, Anjelica Marie Ramey, in their Dayton, Ohio, home on January 11, 2021.

Hock and Ramey were engaged and lived in a duplex in the 300 block of Pleasant Avenue. Ramey, 27, had five children and was in the very early stages of pregnancy, according to an autopsy. Hock was 24 at the time of the shooting and 25 when sentenced. His prior felony drug convictions barred him from possessing a firearm, but he obtained a handgun on January 10, 2021.

On the evening of Monday, January 11, Hock called 911 and reported that Ramey had been shot in the chest. He told police the shooting was an accident and that she had shot herself with his firearm. Ramey died inside the home.

Dayton police interviewed Hock hours later. The recording opens with a detective stating the date and a start time of 7:54 p.m., then reading Hock his rights. Over roughly two hours, Hock said he was outside the room when the handgun, wrapped in blankets on a couch, discharged as Ramey picked up the blankets. He said he ran back, grabbed her, applied pressure to the wound and shouted for a relative next door. As detectives pressed him about the physical evidence, he moved between versions, saying the gun may simply have gone off and then that Ramey may have shot herself. When detectives raised a polygraph, he said he knew he did not intentionally shoot her. The investigation and autopsy determined that Hock, not Ramey, fired the fatal shot.

Hock was indicted on January 20, 2021, on two counts of having weapons while under disability and two counts of violating a protection order. On April 22, 2021, a Montgomery County grand jury returned a further indictment charging two counts of murder, felonious assault with a deadly weapon, felonious assault causing serious physical harm, involuntary manslaughter, two counts of having weapons while under disability and two counts of violating a protection order. Three-year firearm specifications accompanied the murder, assault and manslaughter counts.

On April 29, 2022, Hock entered a plea and was found guilty by the court of one count of involuntary manslaughter with a three-year firearm specification and one count of having weapons while under disability. He was not convicted of murder. On May 25, 2022, Montgomery County Common Pleas Court sentenced him to 11 years on the manslaughter count plus 3 consecutive years on the firearm specification, a minimum of 14 years in prison. The court also ordered him to pay $2,096.12 in restitution toward Ramey's funeral expenses. No appellate decision or later development has been publicly reported.

The roughly 111-minute video is a police interview-room recording of the interview itself. It begins with a short narrated introduction naming the people involved.

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Part 2 of 2 of the recording described above.