Snook identified himself and pointed his rifle at Powell. Snook noticed Powell holding a black semi-automatic handgun in his right hand which was extended out to the side of his body. Davis heard Snook say “Hey Henry County Police Department.” Davis then saw an older white male, later identified as Powell, without a shirt on, holding a weapon “pressed out” toward Snook, the report said. Snook stated he would cover the garage, the report said. Soon after, an inside light came on and then the garage light. There was no response from inside the residence.” Davis “then knocked on the door and then stepped off the porch. Officer Matthew Davis “rang the door bell and dogs began to bark within the residence,” the report said. Based upon the dispatched information, the responding officers wound up at the Powell home, which was the wrong address. A second 911 dispatcher called back to verify the location and spoke with the initial caller’s mother who when asked if the disturbance was “two houses south of the caller’s residence towards Gardner Road, responded in the affirmative,” the report said. The 911 caller said the suspected disturbance was about two or three doors down from her Swan Lake Road home, going toward Fairview Road on the right, the report said.
The report also noted the confusion over where the police were to be dispatched. In its report, the grand jury said it considered a range of evidence: the 911 tapes, interviews with 911 dispatchers as well as the people who made the initial 911 call and statements from Sharon Powell, the victim’s widow.
“Since the investigation is closed, we are doing open records requests to the GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) and other agencies to discover exactly what the grand jury was told and what they know and to fill in all the blanks we have at this time,” said Keith Martin, the Powell family’s attorney said Monday. The Powell family’s attorney told The AJC Monday the family is “dismayed and disappointed” by the grand jury decision.
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