It was almost a month ago when James Rayl, 22, tried to walk through the front door of his former flame Allyson Duckro who lived at 2907 N. Kuther Road. Ring cam video captured on July 31 at 11 a.m. shows the man, wearing a baseball cap, blue hoodie, gray t-shirt and shorts as he stands in front of the door, ringing the doorbell repeatedly. He folds his hands behind his back and waits as the minutes tick by. Ex-boyfriend James Rail, 22, waits impatiently at Alison Dacre’s front door moments before her father shot him three times when he tried to break in. After waiting several minutes outside the door, James Rayl, 22, tries to get into his ex-girlfriend’s house Rail opens the screen door and tests the handle, then throws his body weight against the door. The voice heard on the recording on the other side is Mitchell Dacre, Alison’s father, who warns Rayle to stop. “I have a gun,” he says, but the girl keeps banging on the door. Finally he throws his shoulder in, breaking the barrel lock and opening the door a few inches. That’s when Dad lets loose with three rounds hitting Rail in the left shoulder, right shoulder and back. Rail flinches as he is hit, then stumbles back into the front hallway and collapses in the corner of the house in front of the garage door. A few minutes later, a neighbor, Jeffrey Hereford, is seen walking across Ducrow’s front lawn, saying, “Don’t shoot me.” In front of this house on North Kuther Street in Sidney, Ohio, Rail was killed trying to force his way through. James Rayle, 22, tried to force his way into the home of his ex-girlfriend Alison Dacre when her father shot him three times, killing him. Then the neighbor says, “He doesn’t have a gun.” About eight minutes later, Shelby County Sheriff’s officers arrive, but by then Rail is dead. Herford disagrees with the grand jury’s decision not to indict Mitchell Dacre. “If he got into the house, why did he shoot through the door,” Hereford says. But in the 911 call obtained by WHIOTV 7 News, Allyson Duckro can be heard praising her father. “Dad, there was nothing you could do, you saved my life,” she says. He had broken it off with Rayle a year and a half before his fateful phone call home, but he had called a leftist answering machine the night before. The video, 911 call, voicemail and other evidence were presented to a Shelby County grand jury, which voted 8 to 1 not to indict Mitchell Duckro under his “Stand Your Ground” and “Castel Doctrine” laws. Ohio allows homeowners to use deadly force when threatened. “Multiple tips, including tips provided by Mr. Rail’s family, were investigated by the sheriff’s office over the course of the week and no new information was found,” Shelby County Sheriff Jim Fry said in a statement. Reil’s family disagrees with the decision not to prosecute. His sister, Jessica Marie Colbert, says her brother had no bad intentions that day and shouldn’t have been killed. “Mitch Dacrow shot him in the back and killed him,” he wrote on Facebook. “I hope your days are more miserable than ever. You are a disgusting excuse of a man along with your daughter.’
