The case dates to Dec. 13, 2022, in Murphy NC, after Jason Harley Kloepfer's neighbor called 911, expressing concern that Kloepfer had hurt his wife and saying gunshots had been heard.
Video recorded on a camera Kloepfer had inside his home showed he and his wife were asleep when a Cherokee Indian Police SWAT team demanded Kloepfer come out with his hands up. Kloepfer's home camera showed him picking up a robotic camera police had placed inside before he opened the camper door. Officers said they saw what looked like a weapon in Kloepfer's hand before they fired
Kloepfer was shot twice, with one bullet going through his chest and cutting through his stomach and lining of his heart, cracking his ribs and leaving shrapnel in his chest. Court records showed a second bullet struck just above Kloepfer’s elbow.
“He’s very upset,” said Kloepfer’s attorney Ellis Boyle, who’s filed a civil lawsuit against the officers involved. “As you can imagine, it shakes your faith in the system when law enforcement officers who were sworn to uphold peace and law show up at your house for no reason, and when they finally wake you up at 4:57 in the morning, they got shot.”
As of 2024, special prosecutor assigned to review potential criminal conduct by police officers in the shooting of an unarmed man in Cherokee has decided no charges are warranted.
Video recorded on a camera Kloepfer had inside his home showed he and his wife were asleep when a Cherokee Indian Police SWAT team demanded Kloepfer come out with his hands up. Kloepfer's home camera showed him picking up a robotic camera police had placed inside before he opened the camper door. Officers said they saw what looked like a weapon in Kloepfer's hand before they fired
Kloepfer was shot twice, with one bullet going through his chest and cutting through his stomach and lining of his heart, cracking his ribs and leaving shrapnel in his chest. Court records showed a second bullet struck just above Kloepfer’s elbow.
“He’s very upset,” said Kloepfer’s attorney Ellis Boyle, who’s filed a civil lawsuit against the officers involved. “As you can imagine, it shakes your faith in the system when law enforcement officers who were sworn to uphold peace and law show up at your house for no reason, and when they finally wake you up at 4:57 in the morning, they got shot.”
As of 2024, special prosecutor assigned to review potential criminal conduct by police officers in the shooting of an unarmed man in Cherokee has decided no charges are warranted.