SHOOTING DEATH Loose wire prevents recording of 911 call

BURTON, Ohio (AP) -- A 911 call reporting that an intruder broke into a man's home and shot him was not recorded on tape because of a loose wire, officials said.
Daniel Ott was shot and killed Friday morning in his home in Burton Township in Geauga County east of Cleveland. His girlfriend, Maryann Ricker, reported the intruder.
The recorder may have been broken since the county's dispatch center moved into the new sheriff's office in December, Chief Deputy Scott Hildenbrand said.
A recording "would have been nice to have," he said.
The rural county rarely has serious crime so investigators had no need to preserve a 911 recording before. The last homicide in the county was in February 2000.
Ricker, 35, told investigators that the masked intruder tied Ott, 31, with duct tape Friday morning. Ott freed himself and was shot as he struggled with the intruder, Hildenbrand said.
An autopsy on Saturday confirmed that Ott died of a gunshot blast.
There was no evidence of a break-in or robbery, Hildenbrand said.