The DeKalb County sheriff's deputy who told police he was forced to shoot an intruder who attacked his wife had brought the man into his home as a laborer, newly released records show.

The shoot out - described by Derrick Yancey as the laborer shooting his wife, Linda, and Yancey shooting the laborer - erupted when the man tried to rob the couple, according to DeKalb police records.

Yancey, 46, had picked up the man "to help him do some work around the house," the police says. "(He) said the male had tried to rob him and shot his wife. (He) said he then shot the male."

Details of what Yancey said happened inside the Stone Mountain home Monday afternoon emerged as other records show that Yancey was arrested twice in 2006 on domestic violence charges for confrontations with his teenage son. Charges were dropped in both cases.

After Monday's shootings, neighbors said Yancey previously had hired day laborers to help with landscaping at his home. Yancey told police he did not know the man he hired on Monday.

He called 911 after the shootings and led an officer to the basement. The officer saw an Hispanic man lifeless on the floor, "with a silver revolver lying on his left side," according to the report. Linda Yancey was lying in an adjacent doorway.

The officer spotted at least one silver shell casing on the floor, as well as a "large roll of bills, including $50 and $100 dollar bills," the report said.

The shootings of Linda Yancey, 44, and the still-unidentified man are being investigated by DeKalb County police, who would not disclose specifics.

"The detectives are not going into any details at this time," said department spokeswoman Mekka Parish. "It's all very fluid."

Yancey has not been arrested or charged.

Derrick and Linda Yancey both worked for the DeKalb sheriff's department -- Derrick, a 17-year veteran who transported inmates and Linda, who spent 13 years in the department most recently as intake officer in juvenile court.

Neither the sheriff's office nor county police officials would comment on Yancey's arrests in April and November 2006, in separate incidents involving his son Karron, now 18.

Police reports, which include some improperly redacted information, show that, in the April incident, Yancey told police that his son hit him in the face when he tried to take away the teen's cell phone, as punishment for downloading "dirty music" on the family computer.

A relative who was at the home called police, saying Linda Yancey said her husband chased their son out of the home with his pistol and threatened to "blow her son (sic) head off." Linda Yancey later confirmed the threat but said her husband was not armed when he made it.

Yancey was charged with making terroristic threats.

In November, Yancey and his son had another blow up over music. Yancey said he returned home to hear offensive music playing and confronted his son. The teen said Yancey hit him and threw his computer keyboard down, according to the report.

Police charged Yancey with simple assault and battery.

Although prosecutors dropped both cases, the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council has an open investigation into Yancey on at least one of the incidents.

Records from the council, a regulatory body for public safety employees, were not available Wednesday.

Staff writer David Simpson contributed to this article.