HOOVER, Alabama - In a lawsuit filed last week, a Hoover woman claims that police waited more than an hour and a half to enter the home where an armed intruder was attacking her 39-year-old daughter.

On Sept. 19, Virginia P. Jamison filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city in the March death of her daughter, Kimberly Jamison Ozburn. They shared a home at 2305 Queensview Road in Hoover.

The lawsuit lays out this account of the March 19 attack:

Armed with a gun and a knife, Jimmy Lee Frizzell, 55, forced his way into the home at 9:25 p.m. Ozburn called 911 to report the attack.

Moments later, Frizzell put the gun to Ozburn's head and fired two shots, but the weapon misfired. Ozburn and her mother retreated to a bedroom, pursued by Frizzell who subdued Ozburn and sat atop her with a knife pointed at her chest.

Jamison escaped the room and called 911 at 9:28 p.m.

At 9:30 p.m., Hoover officers arrived at the scene, and Jamison immediately explained what had happened and told them where Ozburn and Frizzell were.

"(Jamison) pleaded with the officers on scene to immediately enter the residence, but they refused," the filing says.

Officers called the house phone and Ozburn's cell phone several times between 9:38 and 10:52 p.m., but the calls went unanswered.

At one point, officers tried to open the locked front door, despite Jamison's insistence that they should go through the unlocked side door.

Police entered the home at 11:15 p.m., and Ozburn and Frizzell were pronounced dead minutes later.

A Hoover police spokesman declined to comment on the pending litigation. Attempts to reach the city attorney for comment were unsuccessful.

After the March attack, Hoover police said they had received at least two calls - including one from Ozburn and one from her mother - just before 9:30 p.m. about an argument inside the home. Both callers said Ozburn was being stabbed.

A police spokesman said officers were on the scene within five minutes. They lost contact with Ozburn, but entered the home "a short time" afterward and found her dead on a hallway floor. Frizzell was dead in a bed.

At the time of the shooting, police said they believed the attack was fueled by domestic issues.