Man accused of shooting into home near sleeping child

A man who law enforcement claims fired a gun into a home where an infant was sleeping last year was arrested on Tuesday.

Michael Adam Kelley, 27, of 157 Bottle Hollow Road was charged with three counts of reckless endangerment after his case was directly presented to the Bedford County grand jury on Monday.

Kelley is being held under no bond at the Bedford County jail.

According to Det. Sgt. Scott Jones of the Bedford County Sheriff's Department, bullets found at the scene of last year's shooting matched a gun that Kelley had in his possession.

A report filed on Sept. 28, 2008, by Deputy Kevin Roddy stated that a woman who lived on Fruit Valley Road believed that someone had fired bullets into her home.

The woman told Roddy she heard what she believed were gunshots in front of her residence and a vehicle speeding off, but at the time, she thought it was a car backfiring.

However, 20 minutes after the first incident, the woman told authorities that she heard three more gunshots and awoke to find holes in the interior walls of her house. Another woman who lived inside the home also heard the shots and the car driving away.

Roddy said in his report that what appeared to be bullet holes and slugs were found in the home, but no shell casings were found anywhere outside the residence.

"There was also a 20-month-old female inside the residence during the shooting and further 2 rounds appeared to have went through the room where the infant was sleeping," the report read.

Two days later, Jones spoke to Kelley about the shooting since it involved his ex-wife, daughter and ex-mother-in-law. Kelly claimed he didn't know anything about it "and wasn't real sure where he was or what he was doing the night the incident occurred."

Jones stated in his report that Kelley had been involved in several domestic incidents with his ex-wife and family in the months prior to the shooting and that they claimed that Kelley "pulled a gun on them more than once telling them he would kill them."

However, when asked if he owned a firearm, Kelley denied it and said that the victim owned five. Kelley also refused to voluntarily take a polygraph so that he could be eliminated from suspicion.

Several months later, Kelley was arrested for domestic assault on his current wife and when deputies picked him up, he was found in possession of a Ruger SP 101. 357 revolver, which was the same gun described to Jones by the Fruit Valley Road residents.

The firearm was sent to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations lab, along with the rounds recovered from the shooting scene on Fruit Valley Road last year "and they came back a positive match," Scott said.

Scott stated he felt that because of Kelley's behavior since the shooting and the new evidence in the case that the matter should be discussed with the District Attorney's office about a direct presentment to the county's grand jury.