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Down-Low and Dangerous_ The Detroit House Party Massacre [True Crime Documentary] · NO FILTER

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Speaker 1: In the spring of twenty nineteen, a group of twenty
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Speaker 1: somethings spent their weekends partying at a friend's house in
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Speaker 1: East Detroit. On one of these nights, in the early
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Speaker 1: morning hours, the unthinkable happened. Jokes and dancing turned to
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Speaker 1: terror when a man in a mask burst through the door,
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Speaker 1: armed with a gun and began firing. The attack left
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Speaker 1: three friends dead and the remaining two witnesses wounded. Those
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Speaker 1: that survived did not get a clear view of the shooter. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 1: they could point to one person who they believed could
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Speaker 1: have a twisted motive to murder them all, and they
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Speaker 1: had met him only hours before.
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Speaker 2: Hi.
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Speaker 1: There, I'm Kevin, and welcome to Just Thatt Lounge. Today's
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Speaker 1: case is about the dangerous decisions made by someone desperate
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Speaker 1: to keep their see secrets hidden. It's a disturbing story
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Speaker 1: of young life taken the result of one crazy night.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a look. On Friday May twenty fifth, twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 1: a group of friends in East Detroit were partying at
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Speaker 1: a friend's house. It had been a night filled with
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Speaker 1: noise in drama, drinks, dancing, hookups, and arguments. In the
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Speaker 1: early morning hours, just five of the partiers were left
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Speaker 1: in the house Blair Keys, Paris Cameron, Alante Davis, Armand
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Speaker 1: Matthews and Timothy Blancher. They were relaxed and winding down
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Speaker 1: amongst the mess of the construction taking place in the
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Speaker 1: house and the remnants from a night of partying k
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Speaker 1: The mood was laid back and they were joking about
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Speaker 1: the events of the night when they heard what they
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Speaker 1: assumed must be fireworks going off by the front door.
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Speaker 1: Through the door came a man wearing a mask, gun
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Speaker 1: in hand, firing at the group indiscriminately. The attack lasted
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Speaker 1: only moments. Blair Keys emerged from where he had fled
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Speaker 1: into the bathroom to find his friends, Paris Cameron and
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Speaker 1: the Lante Davis wounded in the living room.
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Speaker 3: What's the address, man, what's the straight day?
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Speaker 4: Two of my friends are wounded? Okay, here please please.
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Speaker 1: From the basement. Armand Matthews, himself shot in the chest,
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Speaker 1: did what he could to help another seriously wounded friend,
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Speaker 1: Timothy Blancher, from the other level of the house. He too,
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Speaker 1: placed a call to nine one one.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Blair later recalled hearing over twenty shots while hiding in
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Speaker 1: the bathroom for those in his sight. The gunman had
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Speaker 1: been unforgive. Alante had been shot twice. Both Timothy and
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Speaker 1: Paris had been struck four times. When emergency responders arrived
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Speaker 1: on scene, they found Alante in the dining room already deceased. Similarly,
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Speaker 1: despite Armand's best efforts, it was too late to save Timothy.
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Speaker 1: Paris was rushed to the hospital for treatment. As an
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Speaker 1: organ donor. She was kept alive for a time, though
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Speaker 1: ultimately she too passed away from her injuries. Twenty year
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Speaker 1: old Paris Cameron came out as gay when he was
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Speaker 1: just thirteen years old. One year before the shooting, Paris
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Speaker 1: began to identify as a transgender woman. Her good friends
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Speaker 1: at the party that night were likewise out and proud.
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Speaker 1: Twenty year old Timothy Blancher, or Miami, as his friends
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Speaker 1: knew him, is remembered as a fun, loving and kind
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Speaker 1: young man. He was close with his family, particularly his
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Speaker 1: older brother Devil. Twenty one year old Alante Davis was
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Speaker 1: known as just Tay to his friends. His sister recalled
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Speaker 1: he was silly, he was full of life. He was helpful.
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Speaker 1: Armand Matthews recovered from the gunshot that he had sustained
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Speaker 1: to his chest. It had been a serious wound that
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Speaker 1: had nonetheless first escaped his notice while he desperately tried
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Speaker 1: to render aid to Timothy Blair, Keys was also fortunate
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Speaker 1: to escape the house that night alive. There were two
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Speaker 1: additional partygoers that had spent most of the night at
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Speaker 1: the house, though they left before the shooter arrived. The homeowner,
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Speaker 1: twenty nine year old Lance Atterbury and Brendan Suttle, who
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Speaker 1: had only recently met and began dating Armand. When the
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Speaker 1: shooting took place. These two were across the city at
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Speaker 1: Brendan's home, where they spoke with his mother and packed
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Speaker 1: a bag with d some belongings. From there, they drove
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Speaker 1: back to the house on Devonshire Road. When they arrived
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Speaker 1: at the house, they were met with caution tape, ambulances,
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Speaker 1: police cruisers, and horrific news. Neither Blair nor Armand was
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Speaker 1: able to formally identify the shooter. At the scene, a
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Speaker 1: ski mask had covered all but his eyes. Blair reported
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Speaker 1: his complexion was light and his eyes were brown. The
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Speaker 1: man in the mask had been visible for only a
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Speaker 1: moment before he began firing. Yet the surviving partygoers had
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Speaker 1: their suspicions. Earlier in the night, the group had made
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Speaker 1: a quick trip to the BP gas station on the
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Speaker 1: corner of Devonshire and mac While they were there, Paris
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Speaker 1: made a new friend. At two forty am, Paris and
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Speaker 1: Alante entered the shop. Paris was dressed in all black
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Speaker 1: with a Nike cap. Alante wore a camo style top
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Speaker 1: and a hat as well. Lining up for the cashier. Behind,
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Speaker 1: into the left was a young man who caught Paris's eye.
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Speaker 1: He had entered the store only a minute before, grabbed
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Speaker 1: a juice from the cooler, and stood in line. After
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Speaker 1: a moment or two of contemplation, Paris clearly made up
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Speaker 1: her mind, and she broke free from Alante to speak
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Speaker 1: with the young man at the doorway. Their interaction was
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Speaker 1: off camera. Moments later, the larger group entered. Blair led
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Speaker 1: the way around the corner to the coolers, followed by
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Speaker 1: a Lante. Timothy wore a pink tank top and was
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Speaker 1: followed by Paris. What is curious is that the mystery
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Speaker 1: man in the camouflage jacket and shorts first paid for
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Speaker 1: his drink and headed towards the door. There, he paused
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Speaker 1: to briefly chat with Paris. Then he began to leave
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Speaker 1: the station. Cameras outside showed that as he left, Paris
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Speaker 1: called out to him. There was no audio, but it
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Speaker 1: seems that this prime him to return to the store.
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Speaker 1: The group was captured inside the shop again. It was
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Speaker 1: unclear exactly what was said. Blair recalled only that Paris
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Speaker 1: was being overtly flirtatious. As the group exited, they got
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Speaker 1: into Blair's car, which had been parked around the side
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Speaker 1: of the shop, just out of view of the external camera.
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Speaker 1: Pulling out towards the road, Paris leaned out the window
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Speaker 1: and called after the young man once more. She gave
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Speaker 1: him the address of Lance's house on Devonshire Road. They
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Speaker 1: were having a party. He should come by, she said.
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Speaker 1: The young man that Paris invited to the house party
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Speaker 1: was eighteen year old Devin Robinson. He had attended one
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Speaker 1: of the same grade schools as Armand years before, and
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Speaker 1: he lived locally only two blocks over in fact on Buckingham.
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Speaker 1: Twenty to thirty minutes after their encounter at the gas station,
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Speaker 1: Devon arrived at the house. He had accepted Paris's invitation
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Speaker 1: to the party. Heavy levels of intoxication go some way
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Speaker 1: to explaining what happened next. When Devon first arrived, he
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Speaker 1: said little, but in a very short span of time
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Speaker 1: he found himself upstairs in the master bedroom with Paris
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Speaker 1: and then with others. The intimate activities taking place in
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Speaker 1: that bedroom were not a secret in the house. On
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Speaker 1: the contrary, as events transpired, there were jokes made openly
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Speaker 1: and loudly. They called Devon a trade, a man who
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Speaker 1: presented as straight but nonetheless liked other men. That Devon
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Speaker 1: was on the downlow might have sparked more concerned, but
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Speaker 1: in the haze of a house party at three am,
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Speaker 1: that danger just didn't register. The survivors of the house
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Speaker 1: party detailed to investigators what had tr transpired with Devon
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Speaker 1: in the house and the partners he had been intimate
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Speaker 1: with over that short period of time. The investigation then
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Speaker 1: sought to piece together the eighteen year old's movements after
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Speaker 1: first encountering the group at the gas station through to
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Speaker 1: the time of the shooting. They did so by linking
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Speaker 1: camera footage from across the neighborhood. After receiving his invite
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Speaker 1: to the house party, they tracked Devon walking back towards
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Speaker 1: his house on Buckingham. What they found was that on
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Speaker 1: his way he routinely paused, backtracked as though he wanted
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Speaker 1: to return to the group, then he would turn around
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Speaker 1: and carry on. Eventually he made his way over to Devonshire.
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Speaker 1: He was at the house on Devonshire for approximately an hour,
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Speaker 1: most of that time spent in the master bedroom. The
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Speaker 1: same external BP station cameras caught his trip home. After
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Speaker 1: his activities at the house party, he stopped at the
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Speaker 1: shop once more, but this time cameras captured him pacing
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Speaker 1: in front of the door, spitting onto the ground, leaning
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Speaker 1: over and gagging. Devon then entered the store and purchased
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Speaker 1: another drink. By four two a m. He had returned home.
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Speaker 1: The shooting took place less than an hour later. After
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Speaker 1: determining Devon Robinson's address, officers arrived at his home on
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Speaker 1: Buckingham to find that he and his mother, Mallory, had
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Speaker 1: inexplicably moved out of the house the day after the murders.
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Speaker 1: A roommate who remained there said only that they left
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Speaker 1: in a hurry. Police released images of Devon to the
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Speaker 1: media and asked for the public's help in locating him.
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Speaker 1: It took over a week, but an anonymous tip was
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Speaker 1: received that led Detroit PD to a house on the
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Speaker 1: other side of the city. They arrested Devon Robinson with
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Speaker 1: the intent to charge him recounts of intentional homicide. When
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Speaker 1: the eighteen year old sat down with detectives, they began
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Speaker 1: by laying all of their cards on the table. They
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Speaker 1: knew he was the shooter, They said, they knew what
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Speaker 1: had transpired earlier in the night that had caused him
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Speaker 1: to snap.
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Speaker 4: I don't want you to say anything right now when
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Speaker 4: we know that you're responsible to shooting.
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Speaker 2: They had to secure or not to rescue for the pounce.
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Speaker 2: Now we know some other things that have been privet.
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Speaker 4: We know some things that they did to you. There
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Speaker 4: was not cool pract today. We know that you were
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Speaker 4: in tax team prior today we know exactly what you did. Well,
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Speaker 4: we want to know why we did what you did.
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Speaker 2: What was your emotions?
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Speaker 4: Thing ur entire We know get what you need, but
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Speaker 4: we both made into we understand.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Detectives told Devin that if he opened up, they could
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Speaker 1: be as advocate to the prosecutor's office. They lied further
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Speaker 1: when they told him that his DNA was found all
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Speaker 1: over the scene. At that time, Devin conceded that he
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Speaker 1: had spent time with Paris in the master bedroom, but
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Speaker 1: he refused to admit being with any of the other men. However,
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Speaker 1: the only DNA of his that investigators had managed to
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Speaker 1: retrieve was on Timothy, not Paris. Devon admitted to detectives
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Speaker 1: that he was a closeted gay man. He was on
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Speaker 1: the down low. He did not admit to murder.
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Speaker 6: Nowaday for you, So what's that being said? That's the
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Speaker 6: point of what we're talking about.
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Speaker 7: Now?
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Speaker 2: Were you threatening to be exposed? Dang ain't mad about it.
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Speaker 8: It's the thing that everybody.
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Speaker 2: Finding out you don't want you find out.
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Speaker 8: You don't talking about my family like my mama. You
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Speaker 8: don't know how to find up and all the people
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Speaker 8: that you don't want to find up because I haven't
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Speaker 8: told them, but I wanted to tell them.
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Speaker 2: Befo. You want to tell them what that you're done off?
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Speaker 2: But can't you want to tell them before this? Stroud?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, before my son told me.
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Speaker 2: I knew. I look at him. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: We don't like kids, mm hmm. You don't think you
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Speaker 2: have a tendencies that.
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Speaker 4: They don't know, but they see people your hanging around.
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Speaker 2: You don't think they're.
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Speaker 1: Gonna Devon was confronted with the video evidence and pressured further.
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Speaker 1: The same door bell camera that had captured him returning
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Speaker 1: home at a few minutes after four am also captured
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Speaker 1: a dark figure leaving his house. Just under an hour later,
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Speaker 1: at four fifty three, a camera across from the house
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Speaker 1: on Devonshire Road captured the front steps of the property. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: this camera was motion activated and sensitive to light, it
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Speaker 1: did not capture the shooter entering. It did, however, capture
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Speaker 1: the shooter in dark and blurry footage running from the
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Speaker 1: house following the attack. That was approximately four minutes after
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Speaker 1: someone had left Devon Robinson's home. Two blocks over, then
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Speaker 1: someone was captured returning to the house on Buckingham at
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Speaker 1: five one am, only a few minutes after the shooting.
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Speaker 1: The distance between the houses was only a quarter of
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Speaker 1: a mile. It could be walked in four to five minutes.
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Speaker 1: One running was likely to cover the distance in only three.
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Speaker 1: This meant that the footage of both houses aligned with
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Speaker 1: the same dark figure making the trip, committing the murders
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Speaker 1: and returning nearly down to the second.
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Speaker 5: And you are all ready.
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Speaker 2: Take a sound takes you all the whole time. Fact
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Speaker 2: and next one.
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Speaker 6: Because we had videos of people have to do right
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Speaker 6: back shortly afterwards and going back to that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we had video over there because you just told
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Speaker 2: me you let by the eleven. That's not true. What
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Speaker 2: we had actual video. So the gallery line to which
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Speaker 2: was damn shot taking contract me, what do you you ideal?
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Speaker 2: Video was coming up and go back to the house.
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Speaker 2: So I everywhere, you know, we had times.
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Speaker 9: Everywhere, but.
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Speaker 2: Tracked tracks boom boom bomber. He's already together, right, no buship.
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Speaker 10: Neither he.
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Speaker 2: Nor I wasn't saying I just memory loss whatever the
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Speaker 2: case may be.
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Speaker 6: Telling you before we have they have we tracked.
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Speaker 11: I just tracked broom dog scouse.
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Speaker 2: We can do that, and we did that as well
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Speaker 2: in the house running That's okay.
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Speaker 1: Devin Robinson pleaded not guilty and awaited his day in court.
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Speaker 1: His family stood by him. Through multiple phone calls recorded
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Speaker 1: from the county jail, Devin analyzed the case against him.
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Speaker 1: He speculated that the state did not have the amount
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Speaker 1: of evidence that they claimed. Notably on these calls, he
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Speaker 1: never pleaded his innocence. He did not restate his alibi
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Speaker 1: that he was at home with his mother when the
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Speaker 1: shooting occurred. He never speculated as to who the figure
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Speaker 1: could have been, leaving his house right before the murders
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Speaker 1: and returning immediately after. His mother, Mallory, who was in
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Speaker 1: a romantic relationship with another woman, nonetheless expressed frustration over
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Speaker 1: media reports that her son was secretly gay.
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Speaker 5: And everybody making me mad. I'm saying, but you know,
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Speaker 5: I are trying to add any fish me off.
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Speaker 12: And don't let me. Don't let met me out of this.
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Speaker 12: They pick me all the way off.
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Speaker 5: And I trying to make it, say Craft, knowing you
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Speaker 5: to have a.
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Speaker 12: Say a girl loved nothing that they know me forever.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, if he know how I am. People who know
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Speaker 5: me know how I am.
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Speaker 2: She was like.
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Speaker 5: Something like that, if if we had the death pilot,
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Speaker 5: they would be trying to give you the death piloty,
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Speaker 5: but they can't ever think they could do. Was not
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Speaker 5: for life your mischi damn. So they basically trying to
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Speaker 5: use you because you hate Wyth but them I'm gonna
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Speaker 5: grady and you feel me.
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Speaker 12: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: There was also discussion of Devin's case in comparison to
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Speaker 1: his brothers, who played out on his charges due to
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Speaker 1: a co defendant that was threatening to testify against him.
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Speaker 12: If it ain't no evidence to charge me by my court,
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Speaker 12: they they.
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Speaker 5: Gotta let me go, not necessarily that they't do what
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Speaker 5: they want to mean, if they haven't again tell me
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Speaker 5: he's glean. I can ask you what you ain't got
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Speaker 5: to worry about to say?
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Speaker 12: You can tell I mean, that's what.
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Speaker 5: He was worried about to.
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Speaker 12: Right, all right? And I told himbout leave I was gay, Okay, Yeah,
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Speaker 12: so that hit me.
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Speaker 2: Out the window. That hate crime.
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Speaker 5: My thing is everything you ever heard anybody whoever felt
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Speaker 5: like that way or something? Do you ever ready to
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Speaker 5: come to meet with that sh donkeys that kind of
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Speaker 5: shay from me?
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Speaker 8: I'm not.
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Speaker 1: The trial took place in March twenty twenty.
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Speaker 13: It's a tax full of emotion, right o, CHP cameras.
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Speaker 13: We've got three dactoms, We've.
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Speaker 2: Got h Sax involved.
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Speaker 11: Just see is I'm sure not part of your everyday life?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 13: So right now it's time to put both deep on
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Speaker 13: the ground, take a deep breath or hair. We're real
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Speaker 13: were relaxed. We're going to make them prove.
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Speaker 14: It's something that was known as a trade. A trade
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Speaker 14: is someone who holds themselves out as heterosexual but as
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Speaker 14: interest in people of the same sex. But they're on
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Speaker 14: the download, so they're referring to as the trade, and
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Speaker 14: then they're laughing, giggling and saying.
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Speaker 11: Oh, he is gay, he is gay.
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Speaker 9: Eventually, the defendant leaves and parents.
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Speaker 11: Are seeing him off out the front door.
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Speaker 14: Pairs are happy, but while he's watching their interaction and
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Speaker 14: the defendant is seeing, they're just completely blank.
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Speaker 11: And Blair's watching this happen.
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Speaker 14: He never thought it was a good idea for a
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Speaker 14: stranger home from the gas station in the first place,
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Speaker 14: and even complain about it to the homeowner.
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Speaker 8: Lands out of there.
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Speaker 1: Blair Keys told the jury about the house party, in
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Speaker 1: particular how Devin was behaving quiet, emotionless and cold, had
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Speaker 1: concerns that night about inviting him back to the house
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Speaker 1: in the first place.
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Speaker 15: That because I really like at that time, like I
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Speaker 15: was the type of person that's like that, I got
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Speaker 15: not doing it. If y'all want to bring a random
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Speaker 15: boy from a gas station, that's on y'all. But I
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Speaker 15: did tell him, like you know, I didn't like the
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Speaker 15: fact that they did that because it's a random boy
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Speaker 15: from a gas station. You know, why does concern it
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Speaker 15: concerned me because it's a random guy from a gas station.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, he was just chilling.
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Speaker 11: Does he say anything to these individuals?
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Speaker 9: No, the whole time he's not saying anything. He's just
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Speaker 9: sitting there, chilling the whole entire time. Not an emotion
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Speaker 9: in his face.
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Speaker 11: What is the interaction between Paris and the defendant for
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Speaker 11: forty weeks?
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Speaker 9: They just exchanged numbers? How does after that hug and
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Speaker 9: Divine walks the way that he came.
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Speaker 11: How does the look is talking now?
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Speaker 9: He has just a very bland look. He said, oh
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Speaker 9: y'all see you again. That's what he said when he left.
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Speaker 1: Blair then recounted the moment that the gunman burst in
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Speaker 1: through the front door and began firing.
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Speaker 9: Leave Paris, Alonte, Timothy.
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Speaker 11: In my mind, why a you're sitting around laughing about
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Speaker 11: the situation.
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Speaker 2: What happened?
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Speaker 15: Wear footsteps? We think it's lance. We are like, mind you,
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Speaker 15: it's like kind of close to July, so we are
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Speaker 15: like little firecracking noises. It wasn't a big gun, but
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Speaker 15: it was like so we think in his lance, plantage out.
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Speaker 15: But then we see a guy with a ski mask
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Speaker 15: come there. All I hear is Paris scream and gunshine?
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Speaker 10: What do you do?
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Speaker 9: I'll just sat there and waited for him to walk
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Speaker 9: out of the house. I was scared.
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Speaker 1: The defense's case relied on the inability of the two eyewitnesses,
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Speaker 1: Blair and Arman, to formally identify Devin as the shooter,
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Speaker 1: though in the time that had passed since the murders,
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Speaker 1: Blair had amended his statements. At trial, he told the
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Speaker 1: jury that he did in fact get a clear enough
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Speaker 1: look at the shooter to make an identification. He testified
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Speaker 1: that Devin Robinson was the killer.
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Speaker 11: Are you able to identify the person who's the shooter
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Speaker 11: that night?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 9: And how did that look like to you? It looks
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Speaker 9: the same.
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Speaker 11: Important to defendant, Sir Robinson. You didn't see the face
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Speaker 11: of the shooter, didn't but I got.
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Speaker 2: The face.
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Speaker 11: No, you really didn't look at who shooting? Yes, that's
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Speaker 11: the second shot.
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Speaker 1: Armand Matthews recounted how he grabbed Timothy and ran down
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Speaker 1: the stairs to the basement when the attacker began firing.
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Speaker 1: He did not see the shooter as the two attempted
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Speaker 1: to flee to safety. Down the stairs.
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Speaker 2: I and in the dind area. I really could not
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Speaker 2: see the front door. Blair's seeing everything.
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Speaker 11: When I seen gunshots, I immediately.
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Speaker 10: You know, first of all, are you know, we're like
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Speaker 10: we're out of the fireworks, but you know, we grabbed
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Speaker 10: my gratimity and.
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Speaker 2: I pushed onto the basement and I had a look
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Speaker 2: me over the running down the basement. You know, he
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Speaker 2: was saying something to me and be started talking and
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Speaker 2: grabbing my hand.
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Speaker 9: Put my hand with the chets and paying for the
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Speaker 9: record your hand.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And.
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Speaker 9: I had pressure.
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Speaker 2: I know. I ran back upstairs because I heard Claire's screaming.
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Speaker 11: I ran back upstairs to make sure everything right. I
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Speaker 11: see Teddy and Pears growing up in the corner.
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Speaker 2: I called not one one.
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Speaker 11: I stayed on the phone and I won't want ran
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Speaker 11: back down stairs. I had a pressure on Miami still.
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Speaker 2: He was still breathing.
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Speaker 10: He was looking on me and held pressure on and
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Speaker 10: I stayed on the phone till the cops got there.
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Speaker 10: When the Copscott there, she put them up to my
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Speaker 10: face and they take usure off fertility. And I believe
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Speaker 10: those he lost his time.
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Speaker 2: You didn't see the individual does not.
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Speaker 1: Devin Robinson's defense was weak. The cameras tracked the movements
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Speaker 1: of the shooter, which had aligned with someone coming and
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Speaker 1: going from his house. There was never an alternative theory
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Speaker 1: presented to account for these movements, either an explanation of
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Speaker 1: where Devin had been during that window of time, if
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Speaker 1: not the murder scene, or even a suggestion that the
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Speaker 1: figure in the camera was simply someone else. Devin did
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Speaker 1: not take the.
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Speaker 11: Stand want anyone to know about a sexual level.
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Speaker 14: He went on that night, and he knew that they
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Speaker 14: were all going to be talking.
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Speaker 11: It was all going to the neighborhood.
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Speaker 14: You aren't even armante you because he didn't feel like
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Speaker 14: he could be a game mail that I know you're
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Speaker 14: you're going to hear.
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Speaker 11: About how mom has a girlfriend and had the girlfriend.
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Speaker 14: To the reality is for this family, it is different
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Speaker 14: from them, and you hear that from the defendants.
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Speaker 11: Now it's the thing. Everybody who's going to know, everybody
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Speaker 11: who's gonna find out. How long I was gonna find out? Yeah,
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Speaker 11: I was gonna disown me.
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Speaker 14: And so he makes an even stupid decision to get
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Speaker 14: dressed with black bloating head down towards brunsred Over.
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Speaker 11: In Devonshire kill.
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Speaker 14: All these people come running back out towards Buckingham, back
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Speaker 14: in the house again.
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Speaker 11: You would have to believe after all of this at
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Speaker 11: some random.
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Speaker 14: Person went for an eight minute walk at the exact
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Speaker 14: time of the shooting.
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Speaker 5: That's not what happened.
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Speaker 11: This is a defendant, the defendant of this.
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Speaker 8: He didn't threaten anybody, didn't swear anybody.
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Speaker 16: Him shape shay I did. He was a Willie participant.
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Speaker 16: He has got absolute no.
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Speaker 2: Reason in the world.
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Speaker 11: To go and shoots.
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Speaker 1: The jury returned with their verdicts across all counts.
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Speaker 17: Devin Robinson as to count one homicide murdered, first degree premeditated, Alonte.
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Speaker 11: Davis, do you find the defendant guilty?
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Speaker 17: How do you find a defendant as the count too homicide,
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Speaker 17: first degree premeditated, Timothy Blanchard guilty? As the count three
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Speaker 17: homicide first degree premeditated, Pairs Cameron guilty.
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Speaker 1: Devin Robinson was sentenced to three life terms without the
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Speaker 1: possibility of parole for first degree, ten to twenty years
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Speaker 1: for two counts of assault with intent to murder, and
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Speaker 1: two years consecutively for felonies with a firearm ten counts
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Speaker 1: in total. Devon appealed his conviction on the grounds that
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Speaker 1: there had been insufficient evidence to identify him as the shooter.
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Speaker 1: That appeal was not successful. In April twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for
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Speaker 1: individuals under the age of twenty one are a harsh
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Speaker 1: and disproportionate punishment. Young convicts such as Devon were able
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Speaker 1: to retroactively seek resentencing At the time of publication. Devon's
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Speaker 1: record shows that he is serving his time at the
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Speaker 1: Chippewa Correctional Facility in Michigan. His earliest release date is
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Speaker 1: listed as June second, two thousand fifty six. Family and
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Speaker 1: friends of Paris Cameron, Alonte Davis, and Timothy Blancher continue
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Speaker 1: to honor and cell rate their memory. The friends are
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Speaker 1: remembered for their silly and fun loving personalities, young lives
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Speaker 1: cut short over late night transgressions and the toxic shame
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Speaker 1: of a violent stranger. And that was the tragic case
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Speaker 1: of Paris Cameron, Timothy Blancher, Alante Davis, and the house
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Speaker 1: party massacre. Thank you for joining me, and a special
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Speaker 7: pick it a litter. You see how Newton got his back.
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Speaker 7: The content that you need is could be as love
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Speaker 7: that feels like the whole world.
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Speaker 11: Would you cry?
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