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Speaker 1: On a Wednesday afternoon in North Minneapolis in twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 1: a teenager left the security of his high school campus
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Speaker 1: to join an organized march for justice downtown. Heading to
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Speaker 1: the bus stop to join his peers, fifteen year old
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Speaker 1: d Hill brushed shoulders with an unknown man. Moments later,
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Speaker 1: the man is captured fleeing the area and d was
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Speaker 1: on the ground. In the days and months that followed,
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Speaker 1: investigators and the community questioned how such an innocent and
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Speaker 1: chance encounter could turn so tragic. Hi everyone, I'm Kevin
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Speaker 1: and this is just Thought Lounge. JTL is the true
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Speaker 1: crime channel that delivers serious, well balanced coverage of the
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Speaker 1: cases that really make you think. Today's case is a
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Speaker 1: recent one out of Minnesota, one that was both confounding
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Speaker 1: and devastating to the local community. As is too often
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Speaker 1: the case, the victim was an exceptional and well loved
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Speaker 1: family member in a friend He was also a mentor,
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Speaker 1: an inspiring young man bursting with potential. But one day
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Speaker 1: in February, he had an unlucky encounter with a man
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Speaker 1: in a rage. Let's take a look. Fifteen year old
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Hill Junior was a good kid, the honorall student
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Speaker 1: was also known as a star athlete. He was the
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Speaker 1: starting quarterback for the North Pohlers football team at his
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Speaker 1: North Community High School in Minneapolis. Known by family and
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Speaker 1: friends as D, the tenth grader was popular with classmates, teachers,
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Speaker 1: his coaches, and adored by his two younger sisters. Those
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Speaker 1: still so young, D had established a reputation as a
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Speaker 1: teenager who led by example, a role model for younger
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Speaker 1: kids as well as his peers. Many believed D was
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Speaker 1: destined for something great, either through sports or academics.
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Speaker 2: My name is Usha Hill in Aon's As Street. A lark.
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Speaker 1: With big dreams, a support of family, and a dedicated
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Speaker 1: and passionate mindset. There were no limits to what Deshaun Hill,
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Speaker 1: Junior was poised to accomplish in life. On the ninth
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Speaker 1: of February twenty twenty two, the North Minneapolis community was
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Speaker 1: reeling from the shocking killing of a young man, a
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Speaker 1: mere Locke by local law enforcement. The week prior, twenty
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Speaker 1: two year old Amir had been shot and killed by
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Speaker 1: a swat team during the execution of a controversial no
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Speaker 1: knock warrant at the house where he had been staying.
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Speaker 1: Police used a key to access the house just before
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Speaker 1: seven a m. On the second of February. Inside a
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Speaker 1: mere unidentifiable to police, was under a blanket on a
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Speaker 1: couch in the living room. Bodycam footage caught a lifting
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Speaker 1: his legally owned and licensed handgun before he was shot
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Speaker 1: three times. Amir had not been the subject of the warrant.
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Speaker 1: He had done nothing wrong. One week later, students at
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Speaker 1: Minneapolis North were mobilizing to protest in a community struggling
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Speaker 1: with gun violence and facing another needless and tragic loss
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Speaker 1: of a young life. They were taking the afternoon away
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Speaker 1: from classes to engage in a peaceful protest. At lunchtime
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Speaker 1: that afternoon, Dee left the high school for the bus
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Speaker 1: stop at Golden Valley Road and Penn Avenue. He was
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Speaker 1: on his way to express his grievance over the needless
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Speaker 1: death and violence. It was roughly twelve thirty pm when
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Hill brushed shoulders with a man walking in the
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Speaker 1: opposite direction on Golden Valley Road. The interaction appeared to
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Speaker 1: be accidental, a slight misjudgment in the depth of space
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Speaker 1: between the two walking past each other. Perhaps the other
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Speaker 1: man reaches out to make contact. In the moments that
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Speaker 1: followed from out of the view of camera. The man
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Speaker 1: in the red trousers carrying a backpack, pulled out a handgun.
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Speaker 1: Then he aimed and fired. Three shots rang out. The
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Speaker 1: shooter can be seen leaving in the same direction he
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Speaker 1: had been walking, with his backpack now in front of him.
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Speaker 1: He was presumably placing the gun back into his bag.
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Speaker 1: A single witness, a local housing director named Ashley McNamara,
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Speaker 1: ran from across the street towards Dee. She comforted him
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Speaker 1: with assurances that help was on the way while she
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Speaker 1: contacted nine to one one. Deshaun was rushed to hospital
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Speaker 1: but sadly passed away the following day. The shock of
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Speaker 1: his loss to not only family, but the entire community
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Speaker 1: was palpable.
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Speaker 2: He was so much more than just a football player.
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Speaker 2: He was a real life star. Like in lighte He
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Speaker 2: was a He was beyond a leader. He was just
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Speaker 2: inspirational as what a young man should be.
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Speaker 1: Investigators had very little physical evidence due to the nature
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Speaker 1: of the crime scene. There was no DNA, no fingerprints,
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Speaker 1: no fibers, and no murder weapon. What they did have
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Speaker 1: was a community anxious to assist them in surveillance cameras
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Speaker 1: on local businesses and homes that could provide a view
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Speaker 1: of the killer. One such camera caught an obscured view
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Speaker 1: of the sidewalk where Diet walked past a man wearing
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Speaker 1: red trousers and carrying a black backpack. Officers located a
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Speaker 1: number of other surveillance videos that show the same man
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Speaker 1: in the area just before the shooting, and then later
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Speaker 1: showed him running away from the scene after the shooting
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Speaker 1: took place. There were multiple individuals interviewed by police who
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Speaker 1: had encounters with a male wearing red pants and a
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Speaker 1: black jacket on and around Penn Avenue and Golden Valley Road.
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Speaker 1: One witness stated that the man was looking for someone
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Speaker 1: he claimed had stolen his cell phone. That witness provided
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Speaker 1: a clothing description of a black jacket in orange or
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Speaker 1: red pants. After the discussion with the man, he had
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Speaker 1: walked off, but then only moments later, shots were heard
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Speaker 1: ringing out and the same man was running from the area.
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Speaker 1: The single witness to view the shooting itself, Ashley McNamara,
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Speaker 1: also described the shooter despite what was verifiable from the
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Speaker 1: video footage, as well as others who had interacted with
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Speaker 1: the shooter. Ashley initially described the man as dressed all
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Speaker 1: in black. She also believed that the shooter was a
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Speaker 1: black man. Police sought assistance locally. Tips began pouring in
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Speaker 1: from the public. One such tip seemed curious to investigators.
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Speaker 1: Someone from the fon Du Lac Indian Reservation phoned Minneapolis
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Speaker 1: PD with information about a man named Cody Foreigncam. Cody
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Speaker 1: had previous they lived on the reservation in Cloque with
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Speaker 1: his mother. He had more recently become homeless and had
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Speaker 1: spent the previous eight months couch hopping and occasionally returning
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Speaker 1: to the reservation to stay with his mother. The tipster
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Speaker 1: told investigators that Cody had returned to Cloque a few
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Speaker 1: days prior, and rumour had it he had recently gotten
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Speaker 1: into some trouble in Minneapolis. They believed he was linked
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Speaker 1: to the murder of d Hill. Investigators showed a photo
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Speaker 1: of Cody to individuals in the neighborhood that day, who
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Speaker 1: confirmed what they had already begun to suspect. Cody was
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Speaker 1: seen in the area around the time of the shooting.
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Speaker 1: He was caught on several cameras, including one in the
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Speaker 1: convenience store Wally's Food, which is located near to the
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Speaker 1: intersection where de was gunned down. Minneapolis PD sat down
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Speaker 1: with Cody Foreignkam roughly a week after Deshaun was killed.
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Speaker 2: Minneapolis placed spartmouth.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Cody was not a stranger to police questioning.
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Speaker 1: In fact, his colorful criminal history was just one red flag,
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Speaker 1: leading detectives to focus in on him. In twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: he was convicted of arson after being identified as one
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Speaker 1: of two individuals who poured gas on the porch of
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Speaker 1: a home en cloquet with people living inside it and
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Speaker 1: lit it on fire. His first felony was two years earlier,
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Speaker 1: when at the age of nineteen, he was convicted of
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Speaker 1: possessing a sowd Off shotgun in Minneapolis. He had been
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Speaker 1: barred from owning guns due to his conviction for a
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Speaker 1: crime of violence. With this sordid history, as well as
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Speaker 1: witnesses placing the now twenty nine year old near to
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Speaker 1: the scene of the murder, police believed they had their man.
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Speaker 3: There was a murder at GVR and Penn. Okay, we're
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Speaker 3: not here just because we got nobody else to talk to. Okay, Okay,
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Speaker 3: you were here because you're involved.
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Speaker 2: With this murder. You've told people, You've told people. That's
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Speaker 2: why you're here.
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Speaker 3: That's why you're not in Minneapolis. Okay. We have talked
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Speaker 3: to people all right that have put you there at
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Speaker 3: the scene. There's video of you at the scene the
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Speaker 3: whole time, the whole time. Okay, we know why you're there.
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Speaker 3: You're not buying it. I'm not here to lie to you, though.
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Speaker 4: Why would I light to you?
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Speaker 2: Why would I.
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Speaker 5: Lie to you?
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Speaker 1: Police acquired a warrant to search his mother's home. At
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Speaker 1: the house, they located a backpack. The backpack had a
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Speaker 1: marking on the right shoulder, consistent with a marking on
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Speaker 1: the backpack observed in the surveillance video.
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Speaker 2: There's nobody. There's nobody that's protecting you at this point,
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Speaker 2: kidding me.
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Speaker 5: That kid had no reason to die whatsoever, and you
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Speaker 5: didn't have any reason to kill him, but you did.
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Speaker 1: H Cody insisted that he was not in Minneapolis that day.
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Speaker 1: He was in Wisconsin. He said, with his girlfriend.
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Speaker 2: That's the day that young boy was murdered.
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Speaker 6: Yeps, think I want to have a ticket for the theater.
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Speaker 7: When's it go?
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Speaker 2: She seemed too, with our girl in her two nieces
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Speaker 2: so and I said, with your girlfriend. So you're in Hayward, Wisconsin, well,
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking, well, you said Wednesday.
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Speaker 3: Wednesday, the night, okay, a week ago today is when
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Speaker 3: that young man was killed.
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Speaker 2: You were in Minneapolis. Okay, You're on video.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I'm not telling you, guys, I'm telling you the truth.
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Speaker 2: I think, like I said, you were, Like I said, man,
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Speaker 2: you were not Haywards. Can't tell me. You can't tell
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Speaker 2: me something I said. But I'm but I'm telling you.
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Speaker 2: You were on video. Okay.
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Speaker 3: You're on video Okay, in the neighborhood right by Wally's.
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Speaker 2: Okay, with the out working with that wiper.
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Speaker 9: She's been trying to help you fire out if I
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Speaker 9: guess the phone, yeah, well yeah, the phone too. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: she assisted what happened? Happened to your phone? They got broke,
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Speaker 9: They get broke. Where they got broke? Where broke my phone?
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Speaker 1: Detectives were particularly interested in Cody's phone for a reason.
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Speaker 1: They believed that the theft of Cody's phone was directly
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Speaker 1: linked to the murder. On the surveillance footage of Cody
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Speaker 1: captured at Wally's Food, a masked man with a knife
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Speaker 1: approached Cody, struck him, and robbed him. The robber, who
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Speaker 1: remained unidentified, managed to steal Cody's phone from him before fleeing.
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Speaker 1: This altercation was significant not because there was any chance
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Speaker 1: at all that Deshaun hill Wid is the thief that
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Speaker 1: has never once been proposed. It is significant because detectives
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Speaker 1: believed that this incident earlier in the day triggered Cody Fornkham.
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Speaker 1: It set him on a path to murder. Cody left
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Speaker 1: the convenience store enraged. He intended to scope the neighborhood
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Speaker 1: looking for the thief, all the while growing increasingly angry
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Speaker 1: and carrying a gun illegally.
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Speaker 2: When did you have a phone. When did you have
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Speaker 2: a phone?
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Speaker 7: Man?
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Speaker 2: I always got a phone. Yeah, I always got What
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Speaker 2: was the number of your phone? In the hole?
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Speaker 7: In the hole?
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Speaker 2: No, you're saying that, you're telling me.
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Speaker 3: People are saying that they are coping because you know what,
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Speaker 3: that young man did not deserve to die that way.
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Speaker 2: He was actually shot it.
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Speaker 1: One week after he left Wally's in a rage, Cody
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Speaker 1: told the detectives demonstrable lies about his phone and where
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Speaker 1: he was on the day it was taken. They had
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Speaker 1: tracked the individual identified by local residents as Cody on
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Speaker 1: videos across the neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: So you got me on camera.
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Speaker 5: Oh, we got you over to camera, dude, we got
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Speaker 5: you down Newton, we got you down Oliver, we got
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Speaker 5: you on GVR, we got you walking down Penn's.
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Speaker 4: People and people describing to a TV absolutely, So why
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Speaker 4: would people be saying, hey, it's him, because you know what,
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Speaker 4: this fifteen year old didn't deserve to be executed.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly what you did.
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Speaker 1: At first, Cody complained excessively to the detectives about his
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Speaker 1: treatment during the arrest, about the way his mother's home
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Speaker 1: was stormed by police, and about how he and his
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Speaker 1: family had been treated. He also abandoned his first attempt
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Speaker 1: at an alibi that he was at the movies with
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend that was the day before. On the day
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Speaker 1: of the murder, he was with his brother.
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Speaker 2: It was as my.
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Speaker 9: Girl, No, as my girl of brocen over.
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Speaker 2: So you went to movie on Tuesday with it Wednesday?
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Speaker 2: So where were you Wednesday?
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Speaker 3: Then?
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Speaker 9: Like I said, like I said, my brother, you're with.
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Speaker 2: Curtis, okay? And where were you? North side? South side?
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Speaker 4: What is this?
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Speaker 7: What is this to do?
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Speaker 1: The detectives continued to push for his whereabouts. Their working
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Speaker 1: theory was that Cody committed the murder as a random
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Speaker 1: act of rage after the robbery, and they were about
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Speaker 1: to get a demonstration of just how quickly Cody's temper
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Speaker 1: could be triggered.
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Speaker 6: It was about to be in the face my phone,
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Speaker 6: all that stupid. That don't mean I pulled the trigger
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Speaker 6: just because some people say.
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Speaker 2: That's what it is. That's what it is. So y'all
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Speaker 2: even go with the two years and wait, I was
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Speaker 2: over at the store. I got that's what that? Who
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Speaker 2: jumped you? Like?
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Speaker 6: I said, I don't know, I don't Maybe no murder.
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Speaker 6: I called my big cousin. My big cousin comes, g
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Speaker 6: he what I look like? I said, none came. When
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Speaker 6: can I pulled the trigger on somebody?
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Speaker 2: When did you get jumped? Or when did you get
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Speaker 2: your stuff robbed? Man? I went to I went to
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Speaker 2: the wall back with a pack of Newports. When when
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Speaker 2: was it wednesn eleven eleven? Was it Wednesday?
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Speaker 5: Or you with your girl Tuesday?
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Speaker 2: For that was okay? So you so you did get jumped?
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Speaker 2: Where was it by Wallis? And you're just looking for
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Speaker 2: the dude that stole your phone?
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Speaker 1: After admitting to being in the area at the time
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Speaker 1: of the shooting, seeking the man who stole his phone
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Speaker 1: Cody for and Cam was charged with murder. Investigators had
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Speaker 1: what they needed, but Cody gave them more. After the
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Speaker 1: interview concluded, they listened into jailhouse calls placed by Cody
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Speaker 1: to his cousin and others close to him. In these
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Speaker 1: recorded calls, he attempted to acquire an alibi for the
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Speaker 1: time of the shooting. Those he spoke with then nonetheless
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Speaker 1: denied to police that they were with him that day.
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Speaker 2: Right here the last piece of his puzzle.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, Cody faced charges of second degree murder.
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Speaker 1: He pleaded not guilty. As the trial date approached in
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Speaker 1: early November twenty twenty two, Dee's family, particularly his mother
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Speaker 1: Tuesday Shepherd, were further aggravated. The late delivery of evidence
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Speaker 1: from state prosecutors to the defense, including more video surveillance,
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Speaker 1: led to a formal delay of jury selection. The defense
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Speaker 1: needed more time. The delay meant that family and friends
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Speaker 1: of D's would need to push through the holiday season
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Speaker 1: before they would get the justice they desperately sought.
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Speaker 6: The only thing y'all need to understand is we want
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Speaker 6: justice from my son d hll.
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Speaker 2: Y' don't want a way.
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Speaker 7: Since January, we wanted today.
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Speaker 1: It was not only the slow moving courts that were
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Speaker 1: causing D's family more grief. It was also their firm
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Speaker 1: belief that Cody Forenkam was not the only person criminally
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Speaker 1: liable for D's death. De's mother made a habit of
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Speaker 1: driving her children to and from school every day to
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Speaker 1: ensure that they arrived and returned safely. On the day
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Speaker 1: that d was killed, the principal of his school, Maury Fristelbin,
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Speaker 1: signed off an organized walkout of afternoon classes in support
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Speaker 1: of joining the protests against the shooting of a Mere
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Speaker 1: Locke which was taking place downtown. The Hill family's attorney,
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Speaker 1: William Walker, explained that not only was this against school
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Speaker 1: board policy, but the parents were not notified that students
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Speaker 1: would be out of classes after lunchtime that day.
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Speaker 10: Her job was to be a principal to guard these children,
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Speaker 10: and it didn't happen. It didn't happen if it had
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Speaker 10: been such that they had simply called the mother, called
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Speaker 10: the father and told them, yes, school is going to
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Speaker 10: be outlet early today for whatever reason, the parents could
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Speaker 10: have come and picked their children up. They didn't do
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Speaker 10: any of that.
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Speaker 1: William Walker called upon attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin
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Speaker 1: County Attorney Mary Moriarty to open criminal investigations into the
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Speaker 1: principal's actions, preferably by convening a grand jury. In the meantime,
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Speaker 1: the Minneapolis Public Schools paid the family a settlement of
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Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars while admitting no liability in De's death.
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Speaker 1: The family continued to push for criminal charges as the
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Speaker 1: murder trial finally began. In their opening statements, Foreigncam's defense
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Speaker 1: team made clear their position that the state lacked evidence
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Speaker 1: to prove he was the killer. Attorneys pointed to the
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Speaker 1: fact that the murder weapon had not been located and
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Speaker 1: emphasized inconsistencies in the description of the suspect. The only
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Speaker 1: eyewitness to the shooting, Ashley McNamara, originally told police that
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Speaker 1: her best recollection was that the shooter was a black
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Speaker 1: man who was also clothed entirely in black. The red
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Speaker 1: trousers worn by the shooter and caught on camera discredited
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Speaker 1: these statements. Was this enough to establish reasonable doubt? Thankfully
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Speaker 1: for the state, Ashley changed her story two weeks after
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Speaker 1: her initial statement to police to align to the footage
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Speaker 1: they had acquired However, there was also the video footage
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Speaker 1: from earlier in the day that did not show Cody
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Speaker 1: Forinkam wearing the red trousers. When he was mugged in
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Speaker 1: the Wally's Food shop, he wore different bottoms, though the
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Speaker 1: backpack he carried did resemble the same one held by
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Speaker 1: the shooter. Defense attorney Lisa skirt Skowski pointed out that
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Speaker 1: there was no evidence Cody ever changed his clothes, but
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Speaker 1: the state argued that there was reason to believe he
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Speaker 1: had in fact changed his clothing. The state presented surveillance
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Speaker 1: photos from outside Wally's Food where Cody was knocked to
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Speaker 1: the ground in wet snow by his mugger. It would
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Speaker 1: have been logical after this occurred to have changed out
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Speaker 1: of the wet clothing. Furthermore, state prosecutors had Cody's own
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Speaker 1: admission to being in the neighborhood at that time searching
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Speaker 1: for the man who stole his phone. They pieced together
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Speaker 1: the movements of the man in red trousers across the
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Speaker 1: neighborhood using multiple cameras from homes and shops. The jury
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Speaker 1: returned with their verdict remarkably quickly, less than one hour.
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Speaker 1: Jurors told the media that they voted in agreement within
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Speaker 1: minutes of leaving the courtroom. Cody was found guilty of
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Speaker 1: second degree murder with intent but not premeditation, and second
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Speaker 1: degree murder while committed a felony. He faced a maximum
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Speaker 1: of forty years in prison.
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Speaker 2: So you were the foreman?
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Speaker 11: Yes?
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Speaker 2: Was it the surveillance video?
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Speaker 7: Was it?
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Speaker 2: One witness? What was it? That was just one hour deliberating.
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Speaker 2: I've never seen a jury go that quick.
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Speaker 11: I think it was a little bit of everything. It
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Speaker 11: was a little bit of surveillance, it was a little
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Speaker 11: bit of you know, the prosecuted a great job.
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Speaker 2: And no doubt the guy in red pants is Cody.
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Speaker 11: Flour in camp there, No, there wasn't any doubts whatsoever.
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Speaker 11: Everybody agreed to it as quick and as it should
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Speaker 11: have been.
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Speaker 3: J justice for du j justice with the shin Hill Junior.
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Speaker 4: We got it.
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Speaker 6: He's guilty, guilty, like everybody knew.
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Speaker 10: We still maintain, we still maintained one hundred that if
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Speaker 10: that principal did not let d Hill out of school
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Speaker 10: on that particular day, he would be alive today. And
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Speaker 10: so we are still demanding that the county attorney conduct
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Speaker 10: an investigation as to whether or not that protocols were violated,
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Speaker 10: and whether or not d Hill should have been out
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Speaker 10: of school or if he should have been in a
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Speaker 10: classroom meeting lunch like he does every other day.
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Speaker 1: The Hennepin County Attorney's Office decided not to investigate potential
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Speaker 1: charges against the Minneapolis North Community High School. Principle. William
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Speaker 1: Walker maintained that there was a question as to whether
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Speaker 1: the principle created an unreasonable risk by allowing students to
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Speaker 1: leave the school in the middle of the day and
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Speaker 1: over the objection twice of the school board. Judge Julie
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Speaker 1: Allen listened to impact statements from these loved ones before
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Speaker 1: delivering her final sentence. The hearing was characterized by outbursts
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Speaker 1: from the family and emotional intensity.
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Speaker 6: Please give him over forty years because he don't deserve
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Speaker 6: to be out here killing anybody else's kids or anyone
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Speaker 6: else in that matter.
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Speaker 9: Hate him and that's about it.
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Speaker 8: Thank you?
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Speaker 7: Ye right?
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Speaker 8: Perfect.
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Speaker 2: Let me show you now.
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Speaker 8: Well you're victim at Deshaun Hill was only fifteen years old.
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Speaker 8: All he did was walk by you, and as he's
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Speaker 8: walking away in broad daylight on a public street, you
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Speaker 8: turned and you shot at him, not once, but three
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Speaker 8: times the back of his head. And for why, for
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Speaker 8: what reason, you do deserve the top sentence allowable under
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Speaker 8: the guidelines? So I sent you to what we call
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Speaker 8: an executed sentence. You are committed to the custody of
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Speaker 8: the Commissioner of Corrections for four hundred and sixty three months.
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Speaker 8: You have three.
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Speaker 1: The application of the maximum sentence finally delivered to Deshaun's
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Speaker 1: family the justice they deserved, but even this conclusion could
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Speaker 1: not possibly bring an end to their grief. The family
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Speaker 1: has launched a foundation to honor the legacy of DeShawn
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Speaker 1: Hill Junior. The nonprofit has a vision to serving the
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Speaker 1: North Minneapolis community, provide opportunities for youth and create healing
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Speaker 1: spaces for those victimized by gun violence.
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Speaker 7: So deeply wrong about what happen to our number nine,
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Speaker 7: to our d Hill, that the pain that is within
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Speaker 7: this community right now can never make up for the
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Speaker 7: pain that you buy are experiencing. But at fair minimum,
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Speaker 7: we can experience it with you, and we can experience
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Speaker 7: it together.
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Speaker 1: The foundation will provide scholarships for talented, hardworking local youths.
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Speaker 1: The family is also lobbying for an increase to the
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Speaker 1: maximum sentence applied to adult murderers who kill children, forty
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Speaker 1: years is not enough. They would like to see that doubled.
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Speaker 1: And that was the tragic and senseless murder of Deshaun
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Speaker 1: Hill Junior. Thanks for watching. I'm Kevin. This is just
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Speaker 1: thought lounge and I'll see in the next one.
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Speaker 7: Eight