Court date set for man accused in shooting

A man accused of firing a gun into a house last year has been appointed an attorney and has had his next court date set.

The public defender's office will represent Michael Adam Kelley, 27, who was charged with three counts of reckless endangerment after his case was directly presented to the Bedford County grand jury on Monday.

His next court appearance was scheduled for Dec. 3 by Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell. Kelley is being held without bond at the Bedford County jail.

Kelley was arrested Tuesday morning following an investigation by Det. Sgt. Scott Jones of the Bedford County Sheriff's Department.

Jones said that bullets found at the scene of a shooting last year on Fruit Valley Road matched a gun that was found in Kelley's possession several months after the incident.

According to a report filed last September by Deputy Kevin Roddy, a woman on Fruit Valley Road believed that someone had fired bullets into her home.

Two incidents of gunfire and a car speeding off were reported to authorities and bullet holes were found in the walls inside of the home.

"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," Roddy's 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."

Kelley denied owning a firearm to Jones, but several months later, Kelley was arrested for domestic assault on his current wife and when deputies arrested him, 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.