UPDATE: World War II Vet Shoots, Kills Burglar

Update posted Tuesday, September 4:

Boone County Sheriff's investigators say Earl Jones’ house was burglarized three separate times in the past month, before he finally caught one of the burglars in the act and fatally shot him.

Jones' home had been victimized on three occassions between August 14 and August 25, said sheriff's office spokesperson Tom Scheben. 

"In the course of investigating those ongoing burglaries, investigators installed a motion activated video camera in the basement focused on the door on Thursday, August 30, 2012," Scheben said.

Looking at the clips from the morning of the shooting. detectives have been able to determine one of the three suspects entered through the doggie door and removed a wood 2x4 that was securing the door from being opened. 

"Once that was taken down, he opened the door for the remaining two to enter," said Scheben.

Lloyd Maxwell, 24, then went up the stairs from the basement to the first floor. Upon opening a door, the 92-year-old homeowner Jones shot him.

Original story posted Monday, September 3:

(Verona, Ky.) - An alleged home intruder is dead after the 92-year-old resident shoots him in the chest.

Boone County Sheriff's investigators say Earl Jones was asleep in his home on Violet Road in Verona about 2:10 a.m. Monday when he was awaken by a noise in his basement.

The World War II veteran fetched his loaded .22 caliber rifle. About 15 minutes later, a man came up from the basement, through a door to the first floor of the home, kicked in the door and was shot by Jones. The elderly resident then called his neighbors who phoned police.

"When deputies arrived at the scene they found the outside basement door ajar but no one other than Jones at the residence," said sheriff's office spokesman Tom Scheben.

Minutes later, Kenton County Police responded to a call on Courtney Road of a man who had been shot. There they found 24-year-old Lloyd Maxwell, of Richmondy, Ky., dead of a gunshot in a 2001 Chevrolet Impala.

The two uninjured men - 22-year-old Ryan Dalton and 20-year-old Donnie Inabnit, both of Dry Ridge - were brought back to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office and questioned where they admitted their involvement in the burglary on Violet Road. Police have charged them with second degree burglary and tampering with evidence for moving Maxwell's body.

Police say it is not likely that Jones will be charged, because he was defending his home from a burglary, an act protected by Kentucky law.

Jones told The Kentucky Enquirer his home has been burglarized twice before this year.