A woman whose father shot dead her ex-boyfriend as he tried to storm into their home has revealed he ‘changed’ when he moved back from California and she was forced to ‘block him off everything’ during the breakup.
Allyson’s ex-boyfriend James Rayl, 22, was shot three times by her father Michell Duckro, 52, after he showed up unannounced to their home in Ohio on July 31.
Rayl had dated Duckro’s 22-year-old daughter previously but the pair broke up a year and a half before the tragic incident.
New footage obtained by DailyMail.com shows Allyson recalling the chilling shooting as she spoke through what happened moments before her father fired at her ex-boyfriend.
As James persisted and tried to force his way in by breaking down the door, she claims she ran and hid before hearing the harrowing gunshot.
Allyson also explained that she and James had broken up in 2019 because he was ‘just being a d***’ and in the aftermath, she was forced to block him off her social media.
She told the police officer: ‘I don’t know how he broke the glass of the door, but he broke the glass. The door frame slipped off. He started to get in.
‘And then I freaked out and ran and hid because I didn’t know what to do.
‘I didn’t even see when he shot or anything, I just heard it. I literally hid most of the time. I screamed a bunch, and then I really started freaking out.’
New footage obtained by DailyMail.com shows Allyson explaining her relationship with her late ex-boyfriend who was shot at her home in Ohio
Mitch Duckro, 52, and his daughter Allyson, 22, can be seen here talking to Shelby County Sheriff’s officers for the first time
She added: ‘I though the was always very nice. He was okay in high school but after he got back from California, he was just different.
‘His close friends or whatever he just started treating like c***and nobody wanted to deal with it.’
Allyson, who laughed and smiled with the detective as she recounted her experience of the day, said that Rayl would often say things to upset her when they were together.
The 22-year-old said: ‘He would just tell me everything that was wrong with me. He would say that no one was going to love me anymore.’
She also said that Rayl had liked to take acid when they were together, but she didn’t know if he still took drugs or whether he had a new girlfriend, having not been in contact with him for a few years.
Rayl left his ex-girlfriend a voicemail the night before the shooting, saying he wanted to see how she was doing.
Chilling Ring camera footage caught the moment Duckro fired through the front door of his property on North Kuther Road, killing unarmed Rayl.
He told police that he shot the man three times through the window part of the door after telling James to get off his porch.
According to Allyson, her father said ‘I don’t like that,’ when Rayl started twisting the doorknob – so he went retrieved a gun from his bedroom.
In the clip, Rayl can be seen trying to push his way into the property, as Duckro says ‘James no, get off my porch’ and then ‘I have a gun’ before shooting him.
He then staggers away from the door before collapsing in the driveway of the property, with only his feet visible on the camera.
Callous neighbors just stare at Rayl as he lays dying on the front porch of his ex-girlfriend’s family property in Sidney, Ohio, on July 31
Neighbors are also seen running out after hearing ‘four or five’ gunshots but left Rayl dying on the floor for at least seven minutes before law enforcement arrived.
Jeffery Hereford can be seen walking across the Duckro’s front lawn, saying ‘don’t shoot me’, and ‘he don’t have no gun’.
He then said ‘he’s dead, he’s shot’ and ‘he ain’t moving’, before he and two others discuss him for seven minutes as Rayl lay dying.
Recalling the ordeal, Duckro’s wife Stacie, 51, teared up and admitted her daughter was ‘terrified’ as she watched Rayl trying to get into their home.
‘He tried to get my daughter,’ she said in the interview.
As her husband was confronted with the man banging at the door, the mother said she pushed her daughter down a hallway to protect her from Rayl.
Rayl did not speak or make a sound during the ordeal, Stacie told detectives.
The mother was in floods of tears during her police interview. Speaking about Rayl’s tragic death on her doorstep, she added: ‘I can’t imagine what his parents are going through.’
She also said she’s worried for her husband Mitch, who suffers with anxiety – as this is the ‘last thing he would have ever wanted to do to anybody.’
Stacie told neighbors that they already called the emergency services and initially was told not to approach as they thought he had a gun.
She can then be heard screaming ‘he tried to get to our daughter’ and ‘he tried to break in’.
Allyson appears to be smiling in an interview with officers, and was heard in a 911 call telling her dad he ‘saved her life’ after Rayl allegedly tried to break into the home
After waiting several minutes outside the door Rayl tries to bust into his ex-girlfriend’s home as the occupants shouted at him to stop and ‘get off’ the porch
Stacie (left) burst into tears during the detective interview as she recalled the ordeal at her house in Ohio
Hereford then asked ‘did you shoot him?’ before they shouted back ‘yes!’ at him, and he replied ‘he’s not moving, he ain’t going nowhere’.
Two other neighbors can also be seen standing around looking, as they waited for the police.
They said ‘he’s barely breathing, he’s having a hard time breathing’ and ‘I don’t see any blood’ before wandering over to Rayl’s body, adding ‘he’s dead’.
The Duckro’s $436,000 property in Ohio has also been put up for sale since the incident.
Rayl was pronounced dead at the scene by first responders, with an autopsy ruling that he sustained two gunshot wounds to the shoulders and a fatal wound to the back.
In his final voicemail to his ex, Rayl says: ‘Hi Ally it’s James, I just wanted to reach out to you because I just wanted to see how you’re doing.
‘And maybe hear from you if that would be alright I guess. It’s been a while since I’ve talked to you and I don’t know, I feel like, I don’t know what I feel.’
The Duckro’s $436,000 property in Ohio has also been put up for sale since the incident, with the family apparently planning to relocate
James Rayl, 22, waited at the front door of Allyson Duckro moments before her father shot him three times when he tried to break in
Duckro reportedly replied to him saying ‘what’s up’ after receiving the voicemail, despite claims by the family that it was ‘scary’.
Sources have also claimed that Allyson had previously worked with the Sheriff’s department as a dispatcher.
A grand jury ruled 8 to 1 that Duckro should not be indicted on a felony charge, under the ‘Stand Your Ground’ ruing in Ohio State legislature.
The legislation and ‘Castel Doctrine’ laws allows homeowners to use lethal force when threatened.
On the 911 call Allyson Duckro can be heard praising her father, saying: ‘Dad, there’s nothing you could have done, you saved my life.’
In a joint statement Shelby County Prosecutor and Shelby County Sheriffs office said: ‘The front door was a solid wooden door with a deadbolt.
‘The deadbolt was found to be in the locked position and the casing to the lock side of the door was broken.
‘Three holes were found in the decorative glass window in the door and three hollow point 9mm spent cartridges were found on the floor. The weapon was located on the mantel of the fireplace.
‘The occupants of the residence were identified as Mitch Duckro, Stacy Duckro and Allyson Duckro, and initial interviews of the Duckros were conducted at the scene.
‘Mitch Duckro indicated he fired the weapon and admitted to discharging it three times. Allyson Duckro said she was familiar with James Rayl, as they dated each other until they broke it off a year and a half earlier.
‘She made law enforcement aware of a voicemail that Rayl had left for her late in the previous evening.’
Rayl’s family have launched a ‘Justice for James’ campaign, saying that he was ‘murdered’ by Duckro and that ‘justice will be served’.
His sister, Jessica, also posted online: ‘Mitch shot him in the back and killed him. And we know more than just that Mitchy.
‘I hope your days are more miserable than they’ve ever been. You’re a disgusting excuse of a human being along with your daughter.’
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