A man is in jail after he fatally shot his ex-girlfriend at a DeKalb County home and then called 911 early Tuesday, police said.
Brian Bacon, 41, was booked into the DeKalb jail shortly before 10 a.m. on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault. Roughly 10 hours earlier, he had called 911 to report a shooting at a home in the 4500 block of Rowland Court, just south of Rockbridge Road, police spokesperson Blaine Clark said.
At the scene, officials said police found the caller with a woman who had been shot around 12:15 a.m. She died at the hospital and was identified by the DeKalb Medical Examiner’s Office as Lena Hardy, 31.
Investigators eventually determined that Hardy was shot by Bacon, who was identified as the 911 caller, Clark said. Officials confirmed that Bacon was previously in a relationship with the victim.
Arrest warrants obtained Wednesday reveal that Bacon gave responding officers multiple accounts of what happened before Hardy was shot.
He initially claimed that he and Hardy went to a restaurant and a bar, then returned to his home, where she later left and came back with a gunshot wound, according to the warrants. After officers discovered a shell casing and bullet hole in the kitchen, officials said Bacon changed his story.
The warrants stated he then claimed that he and Hardy got into an argument during which she pushed him, causing the gun he had in his waistband to fall to the floor and discharge. Later, he altered his account again, stating that he was attempting to place the weapon on the counter when it discharged, authorities said.
The warrants confirm Bacon placed a firearm in a kitchen cabinet, where detectives later found it.
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