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  Speaker 1: This is Officer Spirito Santo at Miramar PD.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: My son has been missing since Sunday, and I put
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  Speaker 3: out a missing report.
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  Speaker 4: Dwight's reported missing on October 18th, 2021. That is when
• 0:15
  Speaker 4: a missing adult case starts, and he's only been missing,
• 0:19
  Speaker 4: as far as they know, for a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 5: A teenager goes missing, and it is a race against
• 0:25
  Speaker 5: time to find him.
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  Speaker 6: Do you want to protect your wife?
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  Speaker 7: I do, but I don't want to go to jail.
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  Speaker 5: But as investigators are closing in on the truth of
• 0:35
  Speaker 5: what happened here, they come upon a devastating scene.
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  Speaker 8: There's a lot of blood over there.
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  Speaker 9: There's blood everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: The two girls, they were just standing there, but they
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: weren't moving much. And then the guy was moving around
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  Speaker 2: the fire, just throwing more gasoline.
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  Speaker 10: Do you know how much true crying I watch?
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  Speaker 9: You can't get away with nothing. There's cameras everywhere.
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  Speaker 7: Jesus.
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  Speaker 10: There's cameras everywhere.
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  Speaker 8: Miramar, Florida.
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  Speaker 5: It's a sleepy suburb of Miami, lies between the Everglades
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  Speaker 5: and the Atlantic coast.
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  Speaker 11: This is more of an immigrant community where people who
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  Speaker 11: have come to the United States for a better life
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  Speaker 11: raise their children and are sending their children to the
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  Speaker 11: local high school, hoping that they will make it to
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  Speaker 11: college and get better jobs. And the American dream lives
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  Speaker 11: in Miramar, for lack of a better term.
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  Speaker 5: But that dream of a better life for Mageline Amil
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  Speaker 5: turns into every parent's worst nightmare. Her 18-year-old son, Dwight D.J. Grant,
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  Speaker 5: is missing. And every second that he is not standing
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  Speaker 5: there with her feels like an eternity.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to, I'm on my way to the
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  Speaker 1: office right now, okay? Okay, man.
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  Speaker 5: Officers immediately ask friends and neighbors about Dwight Grant to
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  Speaker 5: find out where he might have gone.
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  Speaker 6: He's a good kid.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't disappear.
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  Speaker 7: He's a good kid.
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  Speaker 10: He doesn't drink. He doesn't smoke. He goes out.
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  Speaker 12: He has a plan.
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  Speaker 9: He goes out with his friends.
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  Speaker 13: He calls literally all of us all the time to
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  Speaker 13: let us know, like, what's up.
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  Speaker 4: How you are.
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  Speaker 14: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 10: He'll be in the morning at night.
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  Speaker 1: With your mom and kid.
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  Speaker 4: Dwight Grant lived in Miramar with his mom, Mageline Emil,
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  Speaker 4: and he split time with his dad, Dwight Grant Sr.
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  Speaker 8: Dwight Grant is a high school student. He's a great student.
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  Speaker 8: And there's no reason why he would just suddenly up
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  Speaker 8: and vanish.
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  Speaker 9: That's a kid?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, she's in pretty flyers.
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  Speaker 14: And the mother told me that she's been looking for
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  Speaker 14: her for the last day.
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  Speaker 9: She went to hospitals, too, and he's not there.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Emil takes it into her own hands and starts
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  Speaker 4: trying to do everything she can to figure out where
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  Speaker 4: her son is.
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  Speaker 11: Because he was 18, there was no kind of Amber Alert.
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  Speaker 11: but he was reported missing as an adult, and his
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  Speaker 11: family began printing up flyers with his picture on it
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  Speaker 11: and doing the hard work of trying to discover what
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  Speaker 11: had become of him.
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  Speaker 8: They go out searching far and wide for him, but
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  Speaker 8: they can't find him anywhere.
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  Speaker 5: Now, before police became involved, Dwight's mother is essentially investigating
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  Speaker 5: her own son's disappearance, and she discovers something that is chilling.
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  Speaker 2: I just looked at.
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  Speaker 3: The camera for the office and I saw two people
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  Speaker 3: hurting my son.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Emil, she was able to access with staff from
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  Speaker 4: the community the video footage that covered the outside area
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  Speaker 4: that was just to the east of her apartment and
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  Speaker 4: the stairwell. She described seeing two individuals, she thought they
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  Speaker 4: were men, fighting with her son.
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  Speaker 8: I cannot even begin to fathom the pain that the
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  Speaker 8: mother felt at that moment where she visually bore witness
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  Speaker 8: to this recording of her son being attacked. There's a
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  Speaker 8: certain amount of hopelessness that sets in, but there's also
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  Speaker 8: something else that's very key here that occurs with families.
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  Speaker 8: There's a certain level of anger.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen her son around?
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  Speaker 15: After reviewing this surveillance footage, a Miramar police.
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  Speaker 10: Officer does a foot search.
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  Speaker 9: For any sign of Dwight. Officer Dimaso Espiritu.
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  Speaker 15: Santo goes to the location.
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  Speaker 7: They go to this stairwell.
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  Speaker 15: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: There's blood everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: There's blood that's been cleaned up, but poorly. There's broken bushes.
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  Speaker 4: There are questions as to what's happened at this location.
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  Speaker 15: The officers start establishing a crime scene.
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  Speaker 10: The one piece that's missing is still this child.
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  Speaker 8: The child is not there. The child is somewhere else.
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  Speaker 8: This is initially going to be your primary scene.
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  Speaker 16: Hold on.
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  Speaker 10: You want me to get on and call.
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  Speaker 5: For rescue?
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  Speaker 4: They start putting up the crime scene tape and they
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  Speaker 4: aren't expecting to see the body and they almost stumble
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  Speaker 4: across it because it was hidden behind some bushes. just
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  Speaker 4: steps away from Dwight's mother's front door.
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  Speaker 8: This almost looks like a classic, what we refer to
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  Speaker 8: as a dumping. When they actually lifted his sweater, they
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  Speaker 8: noticed that he had what appeared to be a stab
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  Speaker 8: wound to his chest. And further examination revealed that he
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  Speaker 8: had even a larger injury to his neck that was
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  Speaker 8: consistent with an edged weapon as well.
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  Speaker 4: The three main injuries, there are three stab wounds. There's
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  Speaker 4: one to the back right of the neck, one to
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  Speaker 4: the torso, and one to the abdomen.
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  Speaker 5: While officers are securing this crime scene, members of Dwight's
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  Speaker 5: family are coming out of the apartment to see what's
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  Speaker 5: going on.
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  Speaker 10: Can you go back inside for me, please?
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  Speaker 9: Please.
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  Speaker 4: Just give us a few minutes and we'll come in
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  Speaker 4: and talk to you.
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  Speaker 10: Just go back inside.
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  Speaker 9: Can you go back inside, please?
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  Speaker 2: Just do as I ask, please.
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  Speaker 10: In a few minutes, an officer will come.
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  Speaker 9: Talk to you. Go back inside.
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  Speaker 11: As a mother myself, I found it torturous to watch
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  Speaker 11: and listen to the body cam footage of DJ's mother,
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  Speaker 11: not finding out that he was deceased, but that a
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  Speaker 11: body has been found. It was so close to the
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  Speaker 11: apartment complex that she must have known in that moment
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  Speaker 11: what was awaiting her.
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  Speaker 9: Can you guys just stay inside for me, please?
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  Speaker 10: Just let us do the investigation.
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  Speaker 11: The police... I think, are fairly short with her because
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  Speaker 11: all they know here is that they have a crime scene.
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  Speaker 11: Their allegiance is to the decedent here. They want justice
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  Speaker 11: for him. You need to be in the moment. That
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  Speaker 11: is an undermanned scene. You need to get the rest
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  Speaker 11: of the police department there. You need to cut everything off.
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  Speaker 11: You need to get up the tape. You need to
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  Speaker 11: start a crime scene log. This is a crime scene now,
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  Speaker 11: so we need you to go back.
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  Speaker 4: Inside, okay?
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  Speaker 8: It's important that you confirm the ID, though, because... Who's
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  Speaker 8: to say it couldn't be somebody else? And so for
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  Speaker 8: the investigators, they have to make sure that this body
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  Speaker 8: is in fact DJ.
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  Speaker 4: There's no identification of the body at that point. They
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  Speaker 4: have a strong suspicion that it's Dwight Grant. It seems
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  Speaker 4: and appears to look like him, but it's not until
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  Speaker 4: the medical examiner's office responds and they take a photo
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  Speaker 4: of the body and they show it to Dwight Grant Sr.,
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  Speaker 4: who's able to positively identify that as his son.
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  Speaker 2: Can you guys go back in your apartments for.
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  Speaker 5: Me, please?
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  Speaker 4: The medical examiner determined multiple sharp force and blunt force
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  Speaker 4: injuries as the cause of death and the manner of homicide.
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  Speaker 11: It was absolutely apparent that DJ had bled out from
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  Speaker 11: those wounds. Those wounds were the cause of death. This
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  Speaker 11: was a homicide.
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  Speaker 4: There's also some blunt force injuries that are consistent that
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  Speaker 4: Dwight was fighting for his life.
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  Speaker 5: It makes no sense. Dwight DJ Grant was kind, smart.
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  Speaker 5: He was described as an old soul. Who could have
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  Speaker 5: wanted to kill him?
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  Speaker 17: Good morning Miramar, Dante Felix here and I'll be introducing
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  Speaker 17: you to the very wonders of Miramar High.
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  Speaker 2: All the things that make it enticing, interesting and all
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  Speaker 2: around just a fun place.
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  Speaker 1: To be around.
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  Speaker 4: Dwight was a sweet, funny, young kid. He had just
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  Speaker 4: turned 18 in September of 2021. He enjoyed Roblox video games.
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  Speaker 4: He loved anything to do with computers. Everybody that met
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  Speaker 4: Dwight was changed for the positive by him. He was
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  Speaker 4: described as kind, funny, Always nice to be around. He
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  Speaker 4: never caused trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Come when you get lost, baby.
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  Speaker 5: Dwight's body provides investigators with some clues. The stab wounds
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  Speaker 5: make one thing very clear. This was personal.
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  Speaker 8: Let's just talk about beating in and of itself, particularly
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  Speaker 8: when you're talking about striking somebody over and over and
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  Speaker 8: over and over again. That's flesh on flesh contact, and
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  Speaker 8: that's the most intimate that it can possibly be. You
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  Speaker 8: couple that with what I believe is probably the most
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  Speaker 8: violent way to die as far as a homicide goes,
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  Speaker 8: and that is sharp force injuries. Because it is incumbent
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  Speaker 8: upon the person that's wielding the blade to drive this
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  Speaker 8: blade into the body. What investigators have to do now
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  Speaker 8: is go back and talk to anybody within Dwight's intimate circle.
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  Speaker 8: The big question has to be asked, who hates Dwight
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  Speaker 8: this much?
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  Speaker 10: Nobody noticed all that blood under the stairs?
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  Speaker 18: How it is right now?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 4: So at this point, law enforcement is trying to recover
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  Speaker 4: and preserve any evidence that is there. DNA, fingerprints, shoe prints,
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  Speaker 4: and find any witnesses that might have any information. We
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  Speaker 4: are now two days post the incident occurring. So law
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  Speaker 4: enforcement has to make sure they are taking all steps
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  Speaker 4: as quickly as possible to preserve any digital evidence. any
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  Speaker 4: other video or surveillance.
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  Speaker 5: We know one angle of the attack on Dwight already exists,
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  Speaker 5: but investigators have to gather all of the surveillance footage
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  Speaker 5: from the apartment complex from the day that Dwight was murdered.
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  Speaker 4: The surveillance footage shows, first, a female not wearing any
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  Speaker 4: sort of mask or anything to disguise herself, and she
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  Speaker 4: has two very distinct blonde locks. who then meets with
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  Speaker 4: Dwight and goes into the staircase just outside of his apartment.
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  Speaker 4: Then there's also two other individuals that are masked, covered
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  Speaker 4: from head to toe, that are waiting in the stairwell.
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  Speaker 4: Those individuals actually pulled Dwight back into the stairwell when
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  Speaker 4: he almost ran and got away. Then you see those
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  Speaker 4: two individuals coming in and out of the stairwell for
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  Speaker 4: the next about 20 to 30 minutes. And you see
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  Speaker 4: the blonde individual acting as a lookout. And then eventually
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  Speaker 4: the surveillance footage shows Dwight's body being carried out, dumped
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  Speaker 4: over the railing and then dragged out of camera view.
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  Speaker 8: At this point in time, the police understand that not
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  Speaker 8: only do they have a spot of violence, they've got
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  Speaker 8: three unknown potential perpetrators, all dressed in black, that have
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  Speaker 8: kind of vanished into the ether. The first thread that
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  Speaker 8: you want to pull in the investigation is who is
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  Speaker 8: this mystery woman? Because when Dwight enters the stairwell, he's
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  Speaker 8: literally giving this individual a piggyback ride. It infers intimacy,
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  Speaker 8: doesn't it? So upon further examination, this young lady has
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  Speaker 8: a blonde streak in her otherwise very dark black hair.
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  Speaker 8: And that kind of makes her stand out.
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  Speaker 5: Dwight's mother tells investigators everything she knows, and that includes
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  Speaker 5: one detail from the surveillance footage that she picked up on.
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  Speaker 3: I saw two people hurting my son, and there's a
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  Speaker 3: girl that went to his school. She was the last
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  Speaker 3: person who saw him, and she was there too.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Emile went on her cell phone carrier because Dwight's
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  Speaker 4: phone was missing. And so she starts looking at every
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  Speaker 4: phone number that has contacted him right before he goes missing.
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  Speaker 4: From that, she gets a hold of Christy Parisian. And
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  Speaker 4: she actually speaks to her and finds out that that's
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  Speaker 4: the last person that saw Dwight. Christy was a good student.
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  Speaker 4: She was in an imperial fashion club. Once Christy is identified,
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  Speaker 4: law enforcement first goes and makes contact with her. to
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  Speaker 4: see what they can find out, what she knew, if
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  Speaker 4: she knew the two individuals that are on scene.
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  Speaker 5: While detectives interview Christy Parisian at the police station, there's
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  Speaker 5: another team of detectives that then go to speak with
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  Speaker 5: Christy's mom.
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  Speaker 1: Miramar Police Department. How you doing, ma'am?
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  Speaker 9: I'm waiting for my sister to go over there.
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  Speaker 19: What happened?
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  Speaker 1: Do you mind talking to us? I have a detective
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  Speaker 1: once here.
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  Speaker 15: Hello.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, how you doing? When the police show up at
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  Speaker 8: Christy's home, You can tell that she doesn't know what's
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  Speaker 8: going on. And she's trying literally to leave the apartment
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  Speaker 8: to go to the police station.
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  Speaker 9: What's up, man?
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  Speaker 20: I just need to speak to you over here for
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  Speaker 20: a second.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So right now there's an investigation. And I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: your daughter?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's my daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Your daughter, her name came up. So what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to do is we're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: keep you out of the house for now.
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  Speaker 11: Me?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing has to do with you personally, but we had
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  Speaker 1: to keep everybody out of the apartment. There's nobody else
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  Speaker 1: inside right now?
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  Speaker 15: No.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So we have detectives that.
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  Speaker 8: Are going to get a search warrant. They're waiting for
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  Speaker 8: a warrant because they know that Chrissy's involved at this
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  Speaker 8: point in time. Now, they do allow her to retrieve
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  Speaker 8: her phone.
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  Speaker 10: Christy wants to let her mother know where she is
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  Speaker 10: and what's going on. So she leaves a very flippant message.
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  Speaker 4: To her mother saying she's going to be at the
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  Speaker 4: police station.
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  Speaker 11: There is something that is so chillingly nonchalant about the
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  Speaker 11: way that she states what is occurring to her. The
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  Speaker 11: tone of her voice is just shocking. You would think
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  Speaker 11: that a homicide occurring is a salient event in a
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  Speaker 11: young adult's life. And for her, it was a Tuesday.
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  Speaker 5: Now at the Miramar Police Department, investigators are questioning 17-year-old
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  Speaker 5: Christy Parisian. about the day that Dwight Grant was murdered.
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  Speaker 5: And one thing to keep in mind is she refers
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  Speaker 5: to him by his nickname, Dante.
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  Speaker 14: If you can just, I guess, fill me in so
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  Speaker 14: I know. So basically, I went over there to Dante's house.
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  Speaker 14: I met two guys, you know, the boys, Cat Caldwell, Ayo,
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  Speaker 14: Mail Moth. The name Andre Clements comes up for the
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  Speaker 14: very first time.
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  Speaker 7: Police knew.
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  Speaker 8: At that moment, that that's somebody that they need to
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  Speaker 8: speak with.
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  Speaker 4: Christy describes Andre Clements as her boyfriend that she's trying
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  Speaker 4: to make jealous. Andre Clements was one of the drum
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  Speaker 4: majors at the Miramar High band. He played the trombone.
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  Speaker 4: He was described as a gifted musician. He had a
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  Speaker 4: lot of friends, was very popular, had a lot of
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: girlfriends as well.
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  Speaker 21: You had already made up your mind that you were
• 18:00
  Speaker 21: going to cheat on Andre.
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  Speaker 14: You were meeting with Dwight to, like, hook up with him?
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  Speaker 7: Who did he cheat on you with?
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  Speaker 13: Somebody from school?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you don't even know who he cheated?
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  Speaker 7: I found out he was cheating on someone because I
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  Speaker 7: read his messages. I was being a spooky girlfriend. I'm like,
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to do it.
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  Speaker 15: Sorry.
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  Speaker 7: Please. Look, we both in there. I'm going to sound
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  Speaker 7: like a really pissed off girlfriend right now.
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  Speaker 19: Don't mind me. Who the f * * * is this?
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  Speaker 4: Christy says that she's going over to see Dwight because
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  Speaker 4: she's upset at her boyfriend, Andre Clements, who has cheated
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  Speaker 4: on her. And so she is going to cheat on
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  Speaker 4: him to get back at Andre.
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  Speaker 7: Could you describe them?
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  Speaker 14: They were wearing black masks and they were wearing hoodies.
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  Speaker 4: Christy Parisian tells detectives that she met these two African-American
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  Speaker 4: men as she was walking over to Dwight's house.
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  Speaker 9: There was two guys.
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  Speaker 7: Were they tall, short?
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  Speaker 14: They all had the same voices, so I would say
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  Speaker 14: around 18, 19.
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  Speaker 7: Were the boys, puberty guys. Nobody you recognized, like, from school? Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Ever seen them before? Um, no.
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  Speaker 19: They came downstairs, and they said, um, you f *
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  Speaker 19: * * ed my girl, blah, blah, blah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Who the f * * * is you? They said
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: that to the white? And who were they saying it's
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: their girl? They just said, where else?
• 19:26
  Speaker 13: So then they were arguing and then what happened?
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  Speaker 7: Christy says that they start getting.
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  Speaker 12: Because I did not want to hear anything, did not
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  Speaker 12: want to say anything, did not want to be a
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  Speaker 12: complete witness of.
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  Speaker 7: The entire thing.
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  Speaker 4: Christy says that they start getting into a fight with
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Dwight and that she just turns around and doesn't look.
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  Speaker 7: What were you doing the whole, like, 15, 20 minutes?
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  Speaker 12: I was really standing right there with my back turned
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  Speaker 12: and not wanting to see anything that's going on.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: But you could hear the... I could.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: Hear the movements. I could hear the pow, pow, pow.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: I don't know what happened. I turned back once in
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: a while and I said, stop. They didn't stop for
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: me to shut up.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Christy then goes on to reveal something even more puzzling
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: to investigators.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: I gave them the knife. What knife? It was a knife.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Come on, girl, why are you holding back on me?
• 20:24
  Speaker 16: It was a knife.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: But why didn't you tell us that before? Because I
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: was screaming. I'm sorry.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: So.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: They beat up Dante. They handed you the knife.
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: You went to the corner.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: Then they threw him over the railing. Then you handed
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: them the knife.
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: To call that an unbelievable statement is not to do
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: it justice. You would have to believe that she's making
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: out with somebody. They're attacked by people in all black.
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: He's stabbed. He's bleeding.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: He's on the ground.
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: But instead of calling for help, she said, here's your knife.
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: It defies all comprehension that you would hand somebody who
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: has just murdered somebody you were making out with, oh, here,
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: here's your knife.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: That's a big tell here for the investigators. They know
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: that she's not fleeing, even though I think any rational
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: person that had witnessed the level of violence that would
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: have been witnessed on that stairwell would have tried to
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: create as much distance between themselves and these perpetrators as possible.
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: That ain't what happened in this case.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: Christy, come on, man.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Stop lying.
• 21:29
  Speaker 17: Stop lying.
• 21:30
  Speaker 21: Honestly, you're going around in circles and you're saying one
• 21:33
  Speaker 21: thing and saying another and you keep going back and forth.
• 21:36
  Speaker 13: I'm here to kind of help you and all that,
• 21:40
  Speaker 13: but you sound like my son when he's telling me
• 21:42
  Speaker 13: your story.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: She makes up these two individuals and she says she
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: thinks they live at Building B in the same apartment
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: complex that she lived in. And what Ms. Parisian didn't
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: know is Detective Interion was a participant in the Officer
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Next Door program. So at the time of this incident,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Detective Interion lived in Building B, and so he knew
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: there were no such individuals that fit that description that
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: lived in his building.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: When pressed further by the detectives, Christy says that after
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: this incident with the two hooded figures, she meets up
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: with two friends that she just happened to run into,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: and they walk out of the apartment complex together.
• 22:25
  Speaker 21: On the way back, you came with Andre and Jazlyn.
• 22:29
  Speaker 21: And you guys went to your apartment first or you
• 22:30
  Speaker 21: guys went to Jazlyn's?
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: We went to Jazlyn's apartment first and then we got something.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: And then we went outside and they wanted to burn
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: old clothes.
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: So they burned old clothes by the lake.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Jazlyn Smith comes up because Christy Parisian gives her name
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: as well. So Jazlyn's a little bit younger than Andre
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: and Christy. She's 16 at the time. Jazlyn is also
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: in the marching band at Miramar. She is close with Andre.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: She sees him as a brother, a mentor, someone that
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: she can learn from.
• 23:02
  Speaker 21: Burned old clothes by the lake. What clothes did they burn?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Baby clothes. Baby clothes?
• 23:13
  Speaker 14: Why would they burn it?
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: It continues on with she was depressed about this murder
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: and the other two decided to give her a bonfire
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: to cheer her up.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: At this point, law enforcement is already aware that Christy,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Andre Clements, and Jaslyn Smith were together the evening of
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: the homicide because there's the report that was called into
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: security about a bonfire where they were lighting things on
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: fire behind Jaslyn Smith's apartment.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: The two girls, they were just standing there, but they
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: weren't moving much. The chubby girl, she was just like
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: moving back and forth, like standing in the same spot,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: but moving a little bit. And then the guy was
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: moving around the fire, just throwing more gasoline.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: Did you recognize any of them? No, because it was
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: pretty far.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: But seeing them on the news, their faces, that's when
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I could remember that they were the same ones you
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: saw that night.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: So detectives question Christy further about this bonfire.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Whose clothes did they.
• 24:24
  Speaker 21: It was their clothes.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Andre's and Jazlyn's? Okay.
• 24:29
  Speaker 21: So Andre, did he have the clothes with him?
• 24:33
  Speaker 12: No.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: It was his own clothes, the clothes he was wearing?
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, so he took off, what did he put on?
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Was he just naked then?
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: No, he had a separate pair.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: He had a separate pair of clothes?
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 24:44
  Speaker 21: So he took off his clothes and he burned it
• 24:45
  Speaker 21: by the lake?
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: Yeah, they said a little about him fighting.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: Somewhere, like having a blood pouting.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Christy Parisian is confronted with some of the surveillance footage,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: and she identifies herself in that footage. However, she still
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: denies that the individuals that are pictured alongside of her
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: are Andre Clements and Jaslyn Smith. She goes so far
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: in the interview as to say things like, I asked
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Andre and Jaslyn if they had anything to do with it,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: and she says they had nothing.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Investigators end the interview, but before Christy leaves, they ask
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: if they can take a look.
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: At her phone.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Christy gives them her passcode to her phone and allows
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: law enforcement to do a forensic download of all the
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: data on her phone.
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: It's borne out that she's not necessarily as innocent as
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: she may have let on because they start to search
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: her text messages and they find a text message that
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: she received from her boyfriend, Andre, that said murder is
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: going to happen soon.
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  Speaker 5: from a concerned citizen about this suspicious text chain among
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: teenagers at Miramar High School.
• 26:49
  Speaker 13: I'm seeing on the news that they found a body
• 26:52
  Speaker 13: over by Sherman Circle, and they keep showing the picture
• 26:55
  Speaker 13: of the kid that goes to Miramar High, saying they
• 26:57
  Speaker 13: can't guarantee that it's him, basically. But all the texts
• 27:01
  Speaker 13: are coming through that there's people from school there, and
• 27:03
  Speaker 13: they know it's him.
• 27:04
  Speaker 22: Okay.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Did you speak to a detective or anything like that?
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: No, I haven't spoke to anybody.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: I just came here because they told me that she
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: had got these texts from this girl. Yesterday, she said
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: it was the most traumatizing day of her life when
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: she seen him yesterday, which would have been Sunday. I'm
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: not saying she did anything, but I'm not saying I
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: can't come here and not show you either because she.
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: Keeps saying how many people she's.
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: Killed and she's in a gang.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Now, the big question for investigators, are these text messages just,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: you know, loose talk among teenagers or are they connected
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: to the murder of Dwight Grant?
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of text messages between Andre and Christy.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: that kind of make you raise your eyebrows. For example,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: they talk about Bonnie and Clyde syndrome, someone who is
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: romantically interested in someone who commits murder. They talk about
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: stabbing people to death weeks before this homicide occurs. At
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: one point, Christy writes a comment about what color she's
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: going to get for a pedicure so that it will
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: be red to match the blood when they stab someone
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: to death.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: Now, while the texts speak to premeditation, investigators still don't
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: know exactly what happened on the day that Dwight was murdered.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: So they turn their attention to 16-year-old Jaslyn Smith, the
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: friend that was with Christy and Andre at the bonfire
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: where they burned their clothes.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: When law enforcement goes out and makes contact with Jaslyn Smith,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: she's home, she's with both of her parents, and she
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: speaks to law enforcement on her front porch with her mother.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Joslyn's father is bedridden and unable to leave the apartment.
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: Eventually, it starts coming out that Andre had an ex-girlfriend
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: and that this ex-girlfriend had somehow hooked up with DJ
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: and that Andre needed to do something to DJ about it.
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: He told me to dress up in all black and
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: follow him.
• 29:15
  Speaker 21: Andre?
• 29:16
  Speaker 19: Yes.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: I wore a blue red and everything.
• 29:20
  Speaker 18: And we walked up the stairs and Chrissy was there.
• 29:25
  Speaker 18: Chrissy had seduced him from what I know. and Andre
• 29:29
  Speaker 18: told me to follow him down the stairs, stay here,
• 29:32
  Speaker 18: and just look intimidated, just scared. And then we're rushing
• 29:38
  Speaker 18: downstairs because he got scared and Andre said, grab him.
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: And we're both chugging him into the corner of the stairway.
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: We pushed him in and we were fighting.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Jaslyn Smith tells law enforcement she doesn't think that any
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: murder is going to happen. Jaslyn is told that they
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: are going to have a complete change of clothes and
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: then be prepared to get rid of all of the
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: clothes that they used and burn them after. Jaslyn thinks
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: that any weapons that are brought are just there for intimidation.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: She doesn't think anyone... is actually going to get hurt.
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: André took the weapon, and they were tussling, and he
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: told me to hold down the blade.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: And he.
• 30:40
  Speaker 19: He hurt him.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Which one? He hurt him.
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: He hurt him very badly.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: And then he told me to help him move him.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Jasmine.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Now, Jaslyn's mom is clearly upset by what she's hearing,
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: but she decides to come back and give her daughter
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: some motherly advice.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Do you know how much.
• 31:09
  Speaker 9: True crying I watch? You can't get away with nothing.
• 31:18
  Speaker 10: There's cameras everywhere.
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: She's not wrong, because in this particular case, they actually
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: have videography. of her daughter along with this perpetrator, Andre,
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: and along with Christy emerging from that stairwell on videotape.
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: They can place them there at that specific location when
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: Dwight's life was taken.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: This is some.
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: Stupid s * * *.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Stupid.
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: Oh, it's some girl?
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: It's some boy?
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: What? What adds even more to the senselessness of all
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: of this is that all of this violence appears to
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: be over Andre's ex-girlfriend, not even over his current girlfriend,
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Christy Parisian.
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: But like, would this stop?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: I need for you to keep talking.
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: It stopped, and it was over, and everything stopped.
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: I was trying to.
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: Just pretend and forget that it didn't happen.
• 32:26
  Speaker 15: I already knew that if something like this was gonna happen,
• 32:29
  Speaker 15: I already knew the cops were gonna show up sooner
• 32:31
  Speaker 15: or later, and I already started preparing.
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: Myself for the worst, Ma.
• 32:35
  Speaker 10: What do you mean by preparing yourself for the.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Worst, Jess?
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: If they sent me away, Ma. Because by everything I've
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: already said, I'm an accomplice, and I know this, and
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I can't.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: I can't.
• 32:54
  Speaker 15: I just.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Jaslyn Smith is then interviewed by detectives in the back
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: of the squad car with her mother present.
• 33:13
  Speaker 21: I'd like for you to kind of tell me, step
• 33:15
  Speaker 21: by step, on how everything occurred.
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: We had walked up the stairs... We had walked through
• 33:22
  Speaker 10: the front gates of the complex. Immediately when we got
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: in there, we had walked over to where the stairwell
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: was while.
• 33:29
  Speaker 15: Keaton was telling me to move this way to avoid
• 33:33
  Speaker 15: a camera and to avoid being seen. And then he
• 33:35
  Speaker 15: got a signal from Chrissy to walk downstairs.
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: We walked downstairs and he had a weapon with him.
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: He told me to hold the weapon. He had approached.
• 33:48
  Speaker 15: The boy And Chrissy had moved back and walked down
• 33:54
  Speaker 15: the stairs.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: And who was the first one to say something to
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the boy?
• 33:58
  Speaker 19: Andre.
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: Andre.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: And do you remember exactly what it was that he said?
• 34:01
  Speaker 15: No, but I do remember him saying, I'm pretty sure
• 34:06
  Speaker 15: you know why I'm here and exactly.
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: Who I am.
• 34:10
  Speaker 15: So we're not going to sit here and pretend that
• 34:12
  Speaker 15: you don't know any reason why I would be here or.
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: Who I am.
• 34:16
  Speaker 15: Okay.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: What did the boy say to you back then? He said, you.
• 34:22
  Speaker 15: Andre had also taken off his mask.
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: Boyd tried to make a run for it.
• 34:29
  Speaker 15: I ran and I helped Andre to tackle him and
• 34:32
  Speaker 15: put him onto the ground.
• 34:34
  Speaker 10: We're just holding him down. I'm telling him to calm down,
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: calm down. We just want to talk. Had him into
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: a corner.
• 34:41
  Speaker 15: Crazy came back down with the weapon and gave it
• 34:44
  Speaker 15: back to me and I'm just.
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: Standing there holding it, using it as a form of intimidation.
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: Andre is talking.
• 34:51
  Speaker 15: To him, saying everything he has to get off of
• 34:53
  Speaker 15: his chest and saying how mad he is.
• 34:56
  Speaker 10: And then he proceeds to say, you know what I have.
• 34:59
  Speaker 22: To do, right?
• 35:01
  Speaker 10: That I have to hurt you. Like, I have to
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: get you back for what you did.
• 35:06
  Speaker 15: And the boy is like, you don't have to do this.
• 35:10
  Speaker 15: I won't bother you. I won't say nothing. I haven't
• 35:12
  Speaker 15: seen you guys. I won't say anything. Nothing.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: DJ, I.
• 35:20
  Speaker 11: For all intents and purposes, pleads for his life, says
• 35:22
  Speaker 11: you don't need to do this. There's an out there.
• 35:26
  Speaker 11: This is classic premeditation because they went there with the
• 35:30
  Speaker 11: instruments to commit the crime. And then there was a
• 35:33
  Speaker 11: pause before committing the crime.
• 35:36
  Speaker 16: He was just standing there and he was explaining why
• 35:38
  Speaker 16: he was mad. And the boy tried to run against
• 35:41
  Speaker 16: Andre Constance. And he had him right there, right where
• 35:46
  Speaker 16: he wanted him. And then Andre had continued his little
• 35:49
  Speaker 16: rant or his speech of what he was giving the boy.
• 35:54
  Speaker 15: And then explained to the boy that he was going to.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Kill him.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Jaslyn lays out what happens to Dwight Grant very matter-of-factly.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: She doesn't seem to show any emotion or have any
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: remorse for what's happened at this point.
• 36:14
  Speaker 15: Andre asked for the weapon after explaining to him that
• 36:21
  Speaker 15: he was going to kill the other boy.
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: And I just handed it to him. I'm like, I
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: don't know about this, but I'm like, okay, maybe you're joking.
• 36:31
  Speaker 15: And he had taken the weapon and he had pushed
• 36:35
  Speaker 15: the other boy to the corner and he was begging
• 36:38
  Speaker 15: not to get hurt.
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: Andre told me to come here and help him. And
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: I was like, okay. And I'm just holding him. And
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: then Andre proceeds to rapidly punch him.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 36:51
  Speaker 15: After a while, Chrissy said, there's a lot of cars here.
• 36:55
  Speaker 15: There's a lot of people watching.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: There's kids out.
• 36:56
  Speaker 10: You need to hurry it up. So I'm like, Andre,
• 36:59
  Speaker 10: do what you gotta do. Just hurry it up. We
• 37:01
  Speaker 10: gotta go.
• 37:03
  Speaker 15: Andre is looking at me, and he.
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: Still has a weapon in his hands. And the other boy,
• 37:08
  Speaker 10: he has.
• 37:09
  Speaker 15: Jaslyn Smith gives a very accurate description of where the
• 37:11
  Speaker 15: injuries are on Dwight's body.
• 37:38
  Speaker 17: You had said that the weapon Andre was using, he
• 37:43
  Speaker 17: used it to stab the boy. I'm assuming it's a
• 37:48
  Speaker 17: knife then that he had?
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: It was a knife and there was a longer sword.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: A longer what?
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Sword.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: A sword. So it was a small knife and then
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: a long sword.
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: There were apparently two weapons at the scene. She does
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: confirm that there was a smaller knife. that she knew
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: that Andre used to stab Dwight with.
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: The boy was just like, you're going to kill me.
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: Just choke me out or like end it because he
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: kept going in and out. He's like, choke me out,
• 38:23
  Speaker 10: end it. And Andre stabbed him again.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Jazlyn Smith describes that Dwight Grant begged for them to
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: end his life. to just do it, to kill him already,
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: because he was in so much pain.
• 38:38
  Speaker 22: He still wasn't, like, dead. And he was coming in
• 38:44
  Speaker 22: and out. So Andre looked at me, and he was like,
• 38:47
  Speaker 22: just hold him. And I held down his one arm
• 38:52
  Speaker 22: and one leg.
• 38:54
  Speaker 15: And Andre had taken the largest one and stabbed him
• 38:58
  Speaker 15: right through the chest.
• 39:00
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Jaslyn was very consistent in both of her interviews, which
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: is something that can tell investigators that's what actually happened.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: She's not making things up. She's not trying to remember
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: a story. She's consistently saying the same thing over and over.
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: She states that Andre took the sword and he drove
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: it into Dwight's chest. And of course, that eventually leads
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: to Dwight's death. None of this trio showed any mercy
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: particularly Andre Andre.
• 39:34
  Speaker 10: Was holding him by the mouth and the nose and
• 39:37
  Speaker 10: had a hand over his chest where he had stabbed
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: him and I was holding his legs quieted down and
• 39:45
  Speaker 10: then he slowly.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Just died.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Law enforcement was able to identify via Amazon purchase records
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: a snake eye tactical weapon set that Andre Clements has purchased.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Law enforcement was first made aware of this weapon set
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: because an anonymous teacher submitted a photo of this large
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: black and red knife and three smaller dagger type knives
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: that Andre Clements had taken a picture and sent to
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: another student. So that's how law enforcement knew what type
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: of weapon was a possible murder weapon in this case.
• 40:25
  Speaker 15: He had told me to get Chrissy and get cleaning supplies.
• 40:29
  Speaker 15: And at this time, we both had not eaten. We
• 40:32
  Speaker 15: both were exhausted.
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: So he's like pushing back here into the bushes and
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: just leaving. We'll figure out what to do with him
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: at a different time. And I'm just like, okay. Because
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: prior to this, he had told me that this was
• 40:46
  Speaker 10: the first person he had ever killed.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Have a seat. On October 23rd, 2021, less than one
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: week after Dwight Grant's body was found, Christy Parisian and
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Jazlyn Smith are arrested for his murder.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: When Christy and Jazlyn were picked up, they were transported
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: to the Miramar Police Department. The car was audio and
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: video recorded for that entire transport.
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: Jaslyn and Christy start talking about the fact that they
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: are going to go to juvenile detention, that they're going
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: to have to wear uniforms.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: That they think that they're going to get some sort
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: of a probationary sentence based on their involvement in this.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: They also talk about, where's Dre? Why hasn't he been
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: picked up? They make comments like, about, well, if they
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: picked us up with a police car, they're going to
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: send a whole SWAT team after him.
• 42:33
  Speaker 20: Law enforcement tried to take Andre Clements into custody the
• 42:47
  Speaker 20: same night.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: They did.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: Jaslyn Smith and Christy Parisian. They were not able to
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: do so. Mr. Clements turned himself in to the Miramar
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Police Department the next day.
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: You're going to go with this gentleman.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: Hey. Hey, one second.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I'm pushing you under arrest. You have an active warrant
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: out for your arrest. You understand that?
• 43:15
  Speaker 15: Yes, sir.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Do you have anything on you that's going to stick me,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: poke me, or hurt me?
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: No.
• 43:19
  Speaker 15: No.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Do you have anything on you that you're going to
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: want to give to mom before you go?
• 43:25
  Speaker 15: Listen. Okay.
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: Good? Yeah.
• 43:27
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: I'm going to go right this way.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Clements surrenders. He asks to speak to an attorney. He
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: doesn't give a statement at that time. He is taken
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: to a holding cell, and he asks when he will
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: get a psychiatric evaluation.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: Now that Christy has officially been arrested and is in custody,
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: investigators need to interview her a second time.
• 43:50
  Speaker 21: I can tell you that Some of the things that
• 43:53
  Speaker 21: you told us on Tuesday, we know for a fact
• 43:57
  Speaker 21: to not be true. Right now, I think the best
• 44:01
  Speaker 21: thing for you to do is to be honest.
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: Be upfront.
• 44:04
  Speaker 10: Let's start being honest about the leathers.
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: Of this month.
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So that Monday, you dropped me off
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: home and you found out that his ex-girlfriend was messing
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: with someone else.
• 44:19
  Speaker 21: Who's he?
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: Who are you talking about? I don't know who I'm
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: talking about.
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: He's Andre.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Andre.
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: Is that the Andre Clemens? Mm-hmm. I'm sorry.
• 44:32
  Speaker 12: I understand.
• 44:33
  Speaker 15: Don't worry.
• 44:34
  Speaker 10: You want to protect your wife?
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: I do, but I don't want to go to jail.
• 44:39
  Speaker 23: It kind of puts you in a predicament, right? You're
• 44:42
  Speaker 23: sitting here talking to us because of him, but you
• 44:44
  Speaker 23: want to protect him?
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: No.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: Christy did express some sort of fear and almost paranoia
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: about Andre knowing that she was the one that spoke.
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: Andre and I were talking about how with the girl
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: I went to high school. And Andre, we had this debate,
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: and he found out that and Dante had sexual relations.
• 45:09
  Speaker 12: With each other, and he got really upset about it,
• 45:12
  Speaker 12: texting her, telling her, so one was this, blah, blah, blah.
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: How did you find out that had sex with Dwight
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: or Dante? So basically, we were talking about it in
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: the car, and he.
• 45:24
  Speaker 18: Was like, so I know has holes and stuff like that,
• 45:27
  Speaker 18: and I was like, yeah, of course we don't keep holes.
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: He was like, yeah, I know that Dante had one
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: of those holes. I'm like, I know that, and he's like, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: Some of these text messages.
• 45:37
  Speaker 10: That occurred prior to the homicide really.
• 45:40
  Speaker 14: Took away the argument of, oh, I just thought we
• 45:43
  Speaker 14: were going to beat him up.
• 46:05
  Speaker 11: Because it's very difficult to take a text like murder
• 46:09
  Speaker 11: is going to happen soon as a, I didn't mean
• 46:12
  Speaker 11: it like that. Especially once somebody is actually murdered.
• 46:18
  Speaker 12: Fighting him, beating him up or something.
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: A classic high.
• 46:21
  Speaker 12: School, you know, boy, boy, I mess with your girl,
• 46:24
  Speaker 12: you mess with my girl type fight thing. But I
• 46:26
  Speaker 12: didn't know it was going to be like actual murder. So,
• 46:29
  Speaker 12: you know, I saw the message. I put, so yeah, help.
• 46:33
  Speaker 12: I didn't think it would be actual murder.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: When Christy is downplaying what the plan was for the
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: murder of Dwight Grant, she was doing that to minimize
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: her own involvement as well as to try and protect Andre.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: Because at the time when everybody is arrested, they're still dating.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: She is still in love with him. From the 5,000
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: some odd messages they exchanged from just October 1st to
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: October 19th, she is head over heels for Andre.
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: After that, he was just like, so how are we
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: going to do this?
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: Christy actually relates to the police that there was a
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: plan in place. Apparently prompted by Andre, she was told to,
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: in effect, seduce Dwight, compel him to enter the stairwell.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: Christy is then going to wait a couple of minutes,
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: and there was some sort of prearranged signal where Andre
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: and Jaslyn would then come down and confront Dwight.
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: It's locked on this door.
• 47:42
  Speaker 19: They go upstairs. Nancy and I are in the staircase.
• 47:46
  Speaker 19: Start to kiss. Hands on boobs, hands on behind, and
• 47:52
  Speaker 19: they come down.
• 47:54
  Speaker 11: Chrissy was the bait. He sends his own girlfriend out
• 47:57
  Speaker 11: to be bait for this homicide, and then he and
• 47:59
  Speaker 11: Jaslyn come upon them later and attack.
• 48:04
  Speaker 12: He pulls out the big red and black knife, which
• 48:08
  Speaker 12: we found out by now, the big.
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: Red and black sword knife thing we got from Amazon.
• 48:14
  Speaker 20: I didn't know it was a part of him killing,
• 48:18
  Speaker 20: putting an actual stabby stab device into the boy several
• 48:22
  Speaker 20: multiple times.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Did you see who actually stabbed Dante?
• 48:27
  Speaker 15: Okay.
• 48:27
  Speaker 7: Several times?
• 48:31
  Speaker 21: Several times.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: You know, one thing you start to wonder when you're
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: seeing all these interviews is, did Christy have a moment
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: where she thought she could intervene and stop what was happening?
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: And detectives are curious about that, too.
• 48:47
  Speaker 21: At no point did you feel like, you know, maybe
• 48:49
  Speaker 21: I should call 911, maybe I should, like.
• 48:52
  Speaker 17: And even after.
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: Everything, not only the murder itself, but being arrested and
• 48:57
  Speaker 7: charged for it, Christy doesn't.
• 48:59
  Speaker 12: Seem to appreciate the seriousness of the situation she's in.
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: But being arrested and charged for it. Christy doesn't seem
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: to appreciate the seriousness of the situation she's in.
• 49:18
  Speaker 21: Once we're done with all the paperwork and all that
• 49:19
  Speaker 21: that we're going to take you to, it's a place
• 49:21
  Speaker 21: in Fort Lauderdale. It's called the Juvenile Assessment Center, which
• 49:24
  Speaker 21: is the jail for juveniles.
• 49:26
  Speaker 12: Oh, my goodness.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I don't have the answer for that, right?
• 49:29
  Speaker 21: Because I don't work with them, but I think it's
• 49:32
  Speaker 21: going to be for a little while.
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: Just being honest. They don't tell anything.
• 49:38
  Speaker 23: Not on first degree premeditated murder. You understand a life
• 49:42
  Speaker 23: was taken when you had your hand in that. This
• 49:48
  Speaker 23: is not some petty burglary or stole some candy shop
• 49:53
  Speaker 23: and a life was taken. It's the highest crime you
• 49:57
  Speaker 23: could possibly commit.
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: But we can't talk anymore.
• 50:01
  Speaker 10: So I wish you the very best.
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: Investigators find even more text messages, this time between 17-year-old
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: Andre Clements and his ex-girlfriend.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: Andre's ex-girlfriend. She had brought up the fact that Andre
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: had told her he was going to murder the victim.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: She had confronted him and said, you weren't serious about that,
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: were you? And he just said, we're not going to
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: talk about that.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: With all the suspects now in custody, Investigators can now
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: do a more thorough examination of all the communications between
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: the trio.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: The text messages were a treasure trove of evidence. They
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: showed that Andre Clements had premeditation more than a week
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: before this crime occurred. He had decided that this was
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: going to happen on the Sunday and it had to
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: happen before homecoming. He and Christy Parisian went back and forth,
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: coming up with ways to figure out exactly where Dwight
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: Grant lived. Christy Parisian also sent messages indicating that she
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: had a family birthday party that she had to go to,
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: but she was going to do whatever she needed to,
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: fake crying, fake some sort of emergency to not attend
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: the family birthday party.
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: While these messages are important digital evidence, investigators still need
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: physical evidence to tie these three suspects to the murder
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: of Dwight Grant.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: From the messages, we know there's a missing necklace. Andre
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: Clements and Christy Parisian had matching gold heart necklaces that
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: they wore as part of their relationship. Detectives, they eventually
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: locate the necklace, the charm that was missing from Andre
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: Clements at the site where the bonfire, the burn site,
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: occurred behind Jaslyn's apartment. The DNA results that come back
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: also show Jaslyn's DNA on part of a rubber latex
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: glove that was found.
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: Search warrants are executed at both Christy and Jaseline's homes,
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: and there, investigators find even more evidence.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: At Christy Parisian's house, they'd find the boots that Christy
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: was wearing. Subsequent DNA testing of those boots would show
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: that Dwight Grant's blood was found on them. They also
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: find the very distinct orange and pink purse that Christy
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: Parisian brought to the crime scene that contained the items
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: that she was using to help clean up after the
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: homicide occurred.
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: Between the statements from Christy and Jazlyn, the surveillance footage,
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: the phone data, the DNA evidence, investigators now have a
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: solid theory as to what happened the night Dwight was murdered.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: Dwight fought and tried to escape, but was pulled back in.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: He was held down. He was told he was going
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: to be killed. He was hit. He was stabbed three times.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: He was muffled. The statements from the witnesses that were there,
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: Christy Parisian and Joslyn Smith, both put the sword in
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: Andre Clement's hands when Dwight was killed.
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: For the killing of Dwight Grant, All three defendants are
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: charged as adults for first degree murder and conspiracy to
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: commit murder. And it is clear to investigators that Andre
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: Clements is the mastermind.
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: Andre Clements had the motive based on his statements and
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: his ill will towards Dwight for Dwight having started dating
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: Andre's ex-girlfriend. While Andre Clements had moved on and was
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: dating someone new, he didn't feel his ex had that
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: same right. Andre Clements orchestrated this entire homicide, the murder
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: of Dwight Grant, because of his jealousy.
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: You know, this case had all the makings of a
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: big public trial. But in August of 2024, Christy and
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: Jazlyn make an unexpected move.
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: Christy Parisian and Jazlyn Smith both decided to take pleas.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: Christy and Jaslyn both pled to the lesser included offense
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: of murder in the second degree, and both were sentenced
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: to 25 years in Florida State Prison.
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: But Andre Clements still wants to take his chance with
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: the jury.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: When Andre Clements is set for trial, we take depositions
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: from both Jaslyn Smith and Christy Parisian in anticipation of trial.
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: We get all of our witnesses lined up. We make
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: sure that we have what we need to prove beyond
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: a reasonable doubt to a jury that Andre Clements committed
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: this crime.
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: But on the eve of Andre Clements' trial, the prosecution
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: is approached by his attorneys.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: Andre's attorneys approached us asking if we would consider a plea.
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: Under the Florida Constitution, victims and their next of kin
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: have important rights, and we take that very seriously. So
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: we met with Ms. Emile and Dwight Grant Sr., and
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: from that, They decided they would extend that grace and
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: allow a plea to occur. The plea happened right before
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: we were about to start jury selection. Andre Clements was
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: convicted of murder in the first degree of Dwight Grant.
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: He knew, by virtue of all of the evidence, digital evidence,
• 55:33
  Speaker 8: the videography, and, of course, eyewitness evidence that demonstrates him
• 55:38
  Speaker 8: actually committing the fatal act. That's powerful. It's almost insurmountable.
• 55:43
  Speaker 8: So I'm not surprised at all that he copped a
• 55:45
  Speaker 8: plea here.
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: At sentencing, Mageline Emile, the mother of Dwight Grant, gives
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: a heartbreaking victim impact statement.
• 55:57
  Speaker 8: I would never walk my son down there. He would
• 56:00
  Speaker 8: never come and say anything to me because he's not here,
• 56:03
  Speaker 8: but he's arrested in power.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: Dwight's mom is one of the sweetest human beings I've
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: ever had the opportunity to meet. She brought everyone in
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: the courtroom to tears. Even the judge was in tears
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: and had to run off the bench.
• 56:20
  Speaker 8: Couldn't sleep last night.
• 56:21
  Speaker 18: Thinking about this case, how the hell could this happen?
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: The case was presided over by Judge Ernest Kalra. He
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: was absolutely devastated by the impact that this case had
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: on everyone involved. There were so many parents that lost
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: their children. You had Dwight Grant's family, who will never
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: get to see him again. But you also had Christy
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: Parisian's mother, Jaslyn Smith's family, and even Andre Clement's mother,
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: who were losing their children as a result of these actions.
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: The judge expressed how senseless he felt it was.
• 56:59
  Speaker 11: It's just some petty indiscretion committed in a high school,
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: and somebody decides that the penalty for that is death.
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: The escalation there, it really blows the mind.
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: Andre Clements was sentenced to 40 years in Florida State Prison,
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: followed by lifetime probation. Justice for Dwight is the most
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: important thing. True justice would be bringing him back, and
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: the court system can't do that. We feel that the
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: sentence that was imposed is a measure of justice for
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: Dwight Grant.
• 57:33
  Speaker 8: He's gone forever and ever, and all because somebody got jealous.
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: It's tragic beyond belief. Four families shattered because of one
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: teenager's jealousy and rage.
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: Dwight Grant had a wonderful future ahead of him. He
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: had family that loved him, friends that cared deeply. He
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: was looking forward to going to college and pursuing a career.
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: The senseless nature in which he was taken from his
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: family and his friends by Andre Clements. Jaslyn Smith and
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: Christy Parisian, will haunt his family and friends for the
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: rest of their lives.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: All right, hold on. Good morning, Miramar.
• 58:20
  Speaker 10: Is there like a format for this?
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: No.
• 58:25
  Speaker 10: We're going to be doing Christmas lyrics.
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: Grandma got rid of who I already knew.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: I had to make it easy for you. You don't
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: know that. So I'm being.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Come when you get lost, buddy.