Leesburg 911 call from Riley’s residence made available

LEESBURG — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is continuing its investigation into the shooting death last week of Lisa Marie Riley. According to GBI officials, no one has been charged with a crime. Riley’s husband, Yathomas Riley, is jailed on an unrelated offense.

Authorities have released audio of the 911 emergency call in which Yathomas Riley is heard reporting the incident to the Lee County EMS:

Caller: 911? I had just come in from out of town and my wife, I don’t know what’s going on, but she’s in a room and she’s got blood coming out of her.

(Sound of a child crying in the background)

Dispatcher: Okay, where are you at?

Caller: 578 Northhampton, Leesburg.

Dispatcher: You said your wife is bleeding? Do you know from where?

Caller: She shot herself.

Dispatcher: Is she conscious?

Caller: Man, she’s out.

Dispatcher: She’s not breathing?

Caller: No, she’s knocked out.

When the dispatcher asked Riley if his wife was cold to the touch, Riley replied that she was. The dispatcher asked the caller to “hold on” while he dispatched an EMS unit, then switched the phone call to a second operator, who asked if there was evidence of a break-in or foul play. Riley doesn’t provide a clear answer on the audio.

Riley told the dispatcher he’d “gone out last night,” and had returned that morning to find his wife injured on the floor with his 9-month-old son bloody from “rolling around” on top of her.

EMTs arrived in little more than five minutes from the beginning of the call and a voice who identified himself as “John with Public Safety,” asked Riley to step away from Lisa Riley and into the hall. When the husband asked why, John replied, “Sir, she’s dead.”

Yathomas Riley, a professional boxer, who in 2010 was arrested in Miami Fla. and charged with the attempted murder of his “on again-off again” girlfriend Koketia King, 31. According to the Miami New Times, King was shot once in the buttocks and once in the head but recovered from her wounds. Riley said they were self-inflicted; King said Riley shot her. Riley was released after spending nearly two years in jail because of insufficient evidence.

Lisa Riley (formerly Amidio), a physician specializing in emergency medicine, had served as a “cut woman” in Riley’s corner during several of his fights, the New Times states, and the two had later married. Previous to the Northhampton shooting, the couple had moved to Leesburg. Lisa Riley worked as an emergency physician at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany and her husband operated Riley’s Boxing Gym on Dawson Road.

Ron Katz with Joe DeGuardia Star Boxing in Bronx, N.Y., which promoted Riley as a light-heavyweight fighter, said he was “shocked” to hear the news of Lisa Riley’s death. He said he doesn’t believe Yathomas Riley had anything to do with it.

“They (Lisa and Yathomas Riley) would fight like crazy sometimes, but he’d be lost without her,” Katz said. “It’s not so unusual for fighters to butt heads with people and (Riley) was the same. He was a little nuts, like every other fighter.”

According to Katz, Lisa Riley had been “instrumental” in the effort to free Yathomas Riley from jail in Miami, working with the lawyers and doing whatever she could for the cause.

“Yathomas is a street guy,” Katz said, “But he’s not a bad guy.”