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Teen Killer Forced To Tell Mom About His Crimes · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: Is the old fan.
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Speaker 2: Do you see where she did it?
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Speaker 1: No, it's on the side of her head. This saying
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Speaker 1: she's pregnant too.
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Speaker 3: Take me breath.
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Speaker 1: This woman was just informed that her daughter, Tiara Harris,
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Speaker 1: was shot in a gang related incident and is in
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Speaker 1: critical condition.
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Speaker 4: Davis issuing.
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Speaker 5: Blood just starting dripping from her hand like a seeing.
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Speaker 1: Her money in the ambulance, like I can't even talk
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Speaker 1: right on both. Her boyfriend rushed her to the hospital,
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Speaker 1: but sadly it was already too late. And the worst part,
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Speaker 1: Tiara had nothing to do with the shootout. She was
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Speaker 1: an innocent bystander. A simple mix up left an innocent,
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Speaker 1: pregnant mother of two, dad, her children now motherless, and
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Speaker 1: her family absolutely heartbroken. The police now face a grueling investigation. However,
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Speaker 1: with everyone involved supposedly being gang members, catching the killers
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Speaker 1: would prove to be much harder than anything they'd done before.
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Speaker 1: We've been in touch with Yolanda, the mother featured in
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Speaker 1: this video, and are proud to share that half of
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Speaker 1: the video's profits will be donated to the Akron based
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Speaker 1: charity First Glance Student Center. At seven twenty nine pm
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Speaker 1: on April fourteenth, Akron Police Department would receive multiple calls
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Speaker 1: reporting dozens of gunshots being fired out of fourteen ninety
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Speaker 1: two Rockaway Street witnesses would describe what seemed like a
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Speaker 1: gang related shooting, with multiple cars speeding away from the scene,
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Speaker 1: one being a silver for door Chevy. Police managed to
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Speaker 1: quickly track down the Chevy, following it as the drivers
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Speaker 1: sped across back roads in Akron. However, the Chevy wasn't
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Speaker 1: actually running from the cops. It instead would pull over
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Speaker 1: somewhere that concerned the cops even more. The hospital.
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Speaker 6: Hey, hey, hold up, zero, go and shut the car off.
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Speaker 7: Shut the car off.
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Speaker 1: Shut the car off.
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Speaker 8: Here.
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Speaker 6: Put go ahead and put your hands on top of
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Speaker 6: your head. All right, hands hope, no hands on top
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Speaker 6: of your head. You step out, step up, all right, pisch,
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Speaker 6: step back here in the back of the car, go
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Speaker 6: ahead and put your hands behind your back.
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Speaker 1: With the incident being reported as a gang related shootout,
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Speaker 1: police would assume the man driving the Chevy to be
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Speaker 1: a gang member, meaning he would be very unlikely to
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Speaker 1: talk to them, so instead they decide to stuff him
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Speaker 1: in the back of a patrol car for later interrogation.
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Speaker 1: As this was going on, dozens of additional nine to
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Speaker 1: one one calls would ring in, witnesses would arrive at
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Speaker 1: the Akron Police Department to give their testimonies, and more
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Speaker 1: and more cars would arrive at the hospital. Most importantly, though,
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Speaker 1: four miles away, a young woman would be placed in
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Speaker 1: an ambulance under critical condition with a bullet wound to
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Speaker 1: her head. It turns out all of this would be
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Speaker 1: connected to a large group of reckless shooters. So this
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Speaker 1: point that we need to step in. This is one
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Speaker 1: of the most complex and mysterious cases we've ever covered,
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Speaker 1: so we need to break down some details first in
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Speaker 1: order for you to fully understand the case itself and
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Speaker 1: how well the police handled every single step of solving it.
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Speaker 1: At seven twenty two pm, a car arrived at fourteen
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Speaker 1: ninety two Rockaway Street carrying a number of people who
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Speaker 1: started hanging out with some friends on the side of
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Speaker 1: the road. This group included Javier Small, Leanier Worthy and
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Speaker 1: Johnte Smith. Everything seemed fine until seven twenty nine pm
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Speaker 1: a black vehicle reversed into the street carrying Tiara Harris
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Speaker 1: and her boyfriend George. Her boyfriend recognized some of the
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Speaker 1: people on the sidewalk and wanted to back up and
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Speaker 1: say hi to them. At that very moment, on the
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Speaker 1: other end of the street, three men emerged from an
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Speaker 1: unrelated vehicle and started firing bullets. These men were Zaire Saunders,
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Speaker 1: seventeen year old Antonil Whitaker, and Jerion Rackley, all affiliated
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Speaker 1: with the gang BBM, a notoriously violent gang active in
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Speaker 1: Akron at the time. It was also the driver of
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Speaker 1: the car, Jeremiah Williams. Their shots scattered the group on
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Speaker 1: the sidewalk, with everyone running for cover. In the panic,
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Speaker 1: Jante and Javier drew their guns and began to shoot back.
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Speaker 1: Bullets went back and forth, and everyone went into a
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Speaker 1: panic as they realized their lives were at risk and
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Speaker 1: a bullet could strike them at any moment. Seconds later,
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Speaker 1: the dust settled and the BBM members Zaire, Antonil, and
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Speaker 1: Deion fled the scene. However, a grueling silnce and would
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Speaker 1: ring throughout the street as Tiara's boyfriend George realized Tiara
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Speaker 1: was the sole victim of the shooting, with BBM splitting
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Speaker 1: up and running in different directions, George flooring it to
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Speaker 1: the hospital and everyone on the sidewalk either heading inside
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Speaker 1: or preparing to head to the hospital too. Cops would
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Speaker 1: begin the gruelling task of figuring out what just happened
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Speaker 1: and who ultimately was the one that fired the killing shot.
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Speaker 1: Now that you understand exactly what happened, we can join
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Speaker 1: the police is they try to figure out what just
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Speaker 1: went down and how to solve the developing mystery. Remember
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Speaker 1: that all the cops have received at this point is
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Speaker 1: a phone call alerting them to the shooting and a
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Speaker 1: description of the silver Chevy they've just pulled a gang
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Speaker 1: member from.
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Speaker 5: There's another victim.
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Speaker 2: That said, we don't know that.
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Speaker 1: We don't know where that victim is going to go.
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Speaker 7: There's a possibly that victim may be deceased.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, someone's got to go check.
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Speaker 1: Two of the officers ran over to the front of
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Speaker 1: the hospital and discovered Javier Small and his girlfriend incomplete distress.
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Speaker 2: He can't.
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Speaker 1: As it turns out, another girl was also hit in
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Speaker 1: the shooting, that being this man's girlfriend. Luckily she was
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Speaker 1: only shot in the leg, but he was still extremely
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Speaker 1: distraught and horrified about the whole incidents. I gotta go
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Speaker 1: with my.
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Speaker 7: Girl, know, oh run.
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Speaker 1: Despite how distraught this guy is, he was a passenger
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Speaker 1: in the Chevy, which they just found multiple firearms inside.
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Speaker 1: Of so police promptly arrested him.
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Speaker 3: Probably we'll take him over here across town.
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Speaker 1: However, there's someone in a much worse position. Tiara Harris,
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Speaker 1: the passenger in the black car. All right, listen, she's
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Speaker 1: pregnant too, Okay, how pregnant is she? How far aloft?
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Speaker 2: Two week?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Thank you?
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Speaker 5: Not right now, bro, Joanna's just got shot.
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Speaker 4: I mean, Jesus got shot.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 5: Just in the car, just driving down the street, just
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Speaker 5: driving down the street, and Kim worked driving us from
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Speaker 5: over there, and they just was they just shoot it.
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Speaker 5: None of the glass broken, but she just would not.
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Speaker 5: She wasn't like moving or talking. So I just brought
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Speaker 5: her and the blood just start dripping from her head,
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Speaker 5: like bro recently in her.
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Speaker 2: Hospital some season, and she shot up.
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Speaker 6: In the ambulance like I can't.
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Speaker 2: Even talk right now, bro.
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Speaker 1: Tiara was immediately rushed to the local hospital, and her
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Speaker 1: boyfriend George was brought in for questioning. He wasn't a
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Speaker 1: lead suspect, but police did find it odd that he
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Speaker 1: just happened to arrive at the sight of a violent
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Speaker 1: shooting right as it all went down. He would claim
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Speaker 1: to be innocent and actually provide a detailed description of
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Speaker 1: everything that went down that night.
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Speaker 5: You turn off here so the boom, No, I didn't.
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Speaker 9: I came this way and I said what y'all got,
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Speaker 9: Like what y'all got going on over here?
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Speaker 1: Like I'm like it like based on a good.
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Speaker 5: Right as soon as I said that, somebody from down
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Speaker 5: here got to just shooting the good that just kept shooting.
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Speaker 4: But I didn't see.
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Speaker 9: I didn't hear nobody.
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Speaker 6: So you're right there and then you heard that How
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Speaker 6: many shots did you hear?
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Speaker 1: Man?
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Speaker 9: I can't even recall.
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Speaker 3: It was a lot.
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Speaker 6: So you're facing this way?
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Speaker 8: No, you literally go back all the way say I'm
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Speaker 8: coming down in this rockaway.
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Speaker 2: This would be rockaway, okay, Oh, so you're back to
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Speaker 2: the back of your car was facing that way and no, yeah,
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, is y'all I'm like what, like what
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Speaker 2: y'all got going on? And I look out just like that,
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Speaker 2: like out the window like soon was I even like
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Speaker 2: it should have been me, like you feel me because
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Speaker 2: I'm the one that looks fight out the window like y'all.
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Speaker 9: All right, y'all good type stuff.
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Speaker 1: The cops asked him why he was even there in
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Speaker 1: the first place, to which He just said he knew
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Speaker 1: a couple of people on the street and that he
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Speaker 1: had absolutely no involvement in the shooting. He's claiming that
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Speaker 1: when he peeked out the window, his friends mistook him
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Speaker 1: for the shooter and began to fire bullet after bullet
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Speaker 1: directly at his vehicle. According to him, it wasn't an accident,
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Speaker 1: but a misunderstanding, making the whole situation even more tragic.
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Speaker 1: With were just statement, they were a little clearer on
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Speaker 1: the whole situation, but they'd made no progress into actually
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Speaker 1: solving the case or tracking down the real perpetrators. That
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Speaker 1: was until they returned to the scene and spoke to
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Speaker 1: a number of witnesses who had watched the entire event
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Speaker 1: take place.
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Speaker 4: It was two African Americans before they run a young kids.
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Speaker 4: They come from back there, across his backyard next door
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Speaker 4: and out the driveway. He had faith mask on and
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Speaker 4: had not Milli leader. And then the other one had
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Speaker 4: some automatic rifle and they were almost to the corner
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Speaker 4: of the house running this way, and they both jumped
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Speaker 4: the fence like when Ki jumped in married hood.
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Speaker 6: He jumped the fence.
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Speaker 4: He dropped some Automa rifle of the driveway I was out.
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Speaker 2: I was just down back cutting some stuff, and all
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Speaker 2: I heard was just a garage bullet, fully auto. It
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Speaker 2: wasn't three round verse for it would be fully auto.
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Speaker 2: I was, oh, yeah, I've got loud and fast. And
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Speaker 2: then I saw two guys. When I was out back,
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Speaker 2: I could see her the backyards through the fence. That
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Speaker 2: saw silhouette to two guys running up towards that street,
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Speaker 2: returning single shots as they were running away.
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Speaker 1: There's there's casings up here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I need to hear it.
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Speaker 9: You think it was like where all these cones are
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Speaker 9: at probably all the time. Where's over there like a
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Speaker 9: health right that.
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Speaker 7: I heard a lot of gunfire. But when I went out,
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Speaker 7: when I first heard it, I thought it was a
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Speaker 7: backfire because I saw this car were sitting over here
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Speaker 7: where all the phones are, and he had his lights on,
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Speaker 7: so I thought he was working on a car and
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Speaker 7: a backfire. Real bad. Then I saw them loading people
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Speaker 7: into cars to take them to the hospital, and I
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Speaker 7: knew it was because this has happened so many times before.
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Speaker 7: I'm just I don't know what we're supposed to do.
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Speaker 7: We can't go outside nothing.
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Speaker 1: Even with old this new information Though the cops are
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Speaker 1: only slightly closer to figuring out what happened, they were
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Speaker 1: now at least able to confirm that one group of
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Speaker 1: shooters rolled up and started the exchange before another responded,
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Speaker 1: causing a huge exchange of bullets throughout the neighborhood. But
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Speaker 1: they still had two major questions, who were the shooters
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Speaker 1: and how was Tiara involved? Well, the cops had just
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Speaker 1: spawned another witness that might be able to answer their questions,
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Speaker 1: a woman who was actually on the street the moment
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Speaker 1: the bullets started flying. You don't live here, so who.
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Speaker 2: Owns the house?
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Speaker 4: She forgot to eat apple?
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Speaker 1: Everyone's okay, right, the kids?
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Speaker 8: There was another girl outside.
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Speaker 6: I think she got shot a sigh.
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Speaker 2: On the lake.
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Speaker 8: I think they could a price in the hospital.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I dead, We got me, Okay, so what did
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Speaker 2: you see?
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Speaker 7: I've been outside to be honest with all family, So
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Speaker 7: where we're all high pray reps and like a like
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Speaker 7: each other.
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Speaker 4: The next thing, I don't want to think these oh
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Speaker 4: all right, we got it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, And it was like.
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Speaker 8: Can't I don't even know where the trying to rob
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Speaker 8: the kids?
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Speaker 4: They can't be fight?
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Speaker 1: Okay, the.
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Speaker 2: Is that?
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Speaker 9: Al?
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Speaker 1: I don't. I was really just trying to grab the kids,
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Speaker 1: you said, So what they got out They got out
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Speaker 1: of a cow.
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Speaker 4: They didn't get out of the car.
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Speaker 1: They hang out shooting. Did you see how many? Now
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Speaker 1: it's starting to sound a lot more like a drive
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Speaker 1: by shooting, notoriously one of the hardest types of crimes
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Speaker 1: to solve, especially if the vehicle was stolen. The cops
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Speaker 1: are starting to lose confidence that they'll ever find Tiara's killer,
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Speaker 1: but then they decide to ask one simple question.
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Speaker 4: Oh she is okay.
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Speaker 2: Perfect.
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Speaker 1: There were CCTV cameras on the property, and as soon
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Speaker 1: as the homeowner got back, they'd have access to the footage.
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Speaker 1: So in just a few hours the cops were able
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Speaker 1: to put together just enough footage to understand exactly what happened. Remember,
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Speaker 1: we already know all of this, but for the police
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Speaker 1: this was huge. Now they had a detailed timeline of
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Speaker 1: the entire incident, including at what time it went down,
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Speaker 1: how many people were involved, and which vehicles the suspects used.
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Speaker 1: This would be very useful in the coming interrogations in
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Speaker 1: terms of verifying their suspects claims and pressuring them to confess.
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Speaker 1: Police finally had a solid piece of evidence, and right
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Speaker 1: as their case had started to build some substance, their
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Speaker 1: biggest lead yet would step out right in front of them.
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Speaker 7: And that's not the same one that was interes.
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Speaker 1: Not only had they seen the entire thing go down,
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Speaker 1: but as soon as they heard gunshots they started recording.
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Speaker 1: They managed to get this clear footage of a man
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Speaker 1: getting into the same vehicle spotted at the shooting just
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Speaker 1: minutes earlier. Now all they needed to do was track
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Speaker 1: down the car using the visible license plate and they'd
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Speaker 1: have their first lead suspect. But with that said, these
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Speaker 1: kids were no strangers to running from the police, and
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Speaker 1: the officers would begin the hunt to find these evil teens.
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Speaker 1: While all of this was going on, police had another,
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Speaker 1: perhaps more nerve racking situation to handle. Tiara had passed
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Speaker 1: away and her family had no idea.
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Speaker 6: Currently not like to many people in the hospital, let's
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Speaker 6: step over here through all these cruises are my car?
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Speaker 1: Okay, Eric, because I don't know?
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Speaker 2: Right here?
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Speaker 9: Okay, what's your daughter's name?
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Speaker 2: You're here for your daughters?
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Speaker 1: Say have me stand right here next to this sign.
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Speaker 8: We'll have some go overt talk.
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Speaker 3: Tooka breath, I.
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Speaker 1: Don't know the names of who they are currently thiss,
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Speaker 1: just listen to the cops tone here. He knows just
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Speaker 1: how bad things are looking for Tiara, and he absolutely
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Speaker 1: doesn't want to break that news to her mother yet,
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Speaker 1: especially when he sees just how emotional she's starting to get.
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Speaker 1: Tiara's autopsy showed a single bullet struck her in the
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Speaker 1: head and remains there. Well tragic. This information would allow
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Speaker 1: police to identify the exact bullet type and then gun
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Speaker 1: used to shoot Tiara. If they could find the owner
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Speaker 1: of this gun, they would be able to match it
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Speaker 1: to the bullet and justice could be served for Tiara
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Speaker 1: and her family. Hey, hey, come here, I got a
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Speaker 1: bunch of people showing up my son and my nephew.
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Speaker 3: Okay, well listen, they can't go in. It's soon be.
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Speaker 2: In the car. There in my car.
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Speaker 1: The entire family is in distress, with her mom shaking
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Speaker 1: and doing everything she can to stay strong in front
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Speaker 1: of her kids. It's truly a nightmare situation and it
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Speaker 1: only got worse from there. At around eight thirty PM,
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Speaker 1: they were informed that Tiara didn't make it. A bullet
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Speaker 1: to the back of the head had ended her life,
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Speaker 1: sending her family into complete grief and agony. Now police
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Speaker 1: knew that they absolutely had to catch the people that
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Speaker 1: did this to Tiara or risk letting down her and
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Speaker 1: her entire family. At this point, police had six different
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Speaker 1: suspects on the run, all tied to the shooting, and
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Speaker 1: they would eventually manage to track down and get interrogations
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Speaker 1: with all of them. Their start came in the form
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Speaker 1: of a Facebook post by someone named Jeremiah Williams, described
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Speaker 1: as a member of the BBM gang. Apparently, the post
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Speaker 1: consisted of him bragging about being at the shooting and
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Speaker 1: escaping without getting caught. By using his Facebook profile, they'd
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Speaker 1: find his address and pick him up for interrogation. With
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah also being a supposed gang member, he too would
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Speaker 1: prove to be extremely difficult to break. However, by using
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Speaker 1: expert methods, police would actually get him to break completely,
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Speaker 1: to the point where he actually started to cry he wan't.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's true. I'm sort of a wait man, I'm
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Speaker 9: a Techi Smith Davis. Yes, meet you.
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Speaker 3: Alright, And so the reason why we had you sitting
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Speaker 3: here talking to us is and need you think back
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Speaker 3: to April It's incident half on Rockaway, Remember this is
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Speaker 3: the only way you got shot.
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Speaker 9: You remember hearing about that. Okay, so during our investigation,
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Speaker 9: your name's been coming up. But do you know about
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Speaker 9: where you were that day if you can?
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Speaker 6: Or I was?
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Speaker 9: I was definitely out.
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Speaker 1: Apparently Jeremiah also has an alibi and even gives multiple
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Speaker 1: names over that'll a test. He wasn't on Rockaway that night.
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Speaker 9: You're at home? Where was was that at Amherst Amhurst?
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Speaker 9: Or it was right before my mom moved to Louisiana.
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Speaker 10: My best friend Rob talked to her sister, the girl
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Speaker 10: that died, her sister Diani or Diana or I every
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Speaker 10: he's here name. My best friend Rob was like, in
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Speaker 10: the kind of little bit dating, yeah, with her sister.
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Speaker 10: I mean, it's crazy. We got on Facebook and it
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Speaker 10: was all over Facebook. Her sister had got killed and stuff.
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Speaker 10: And my mom was like, uh, ain't that the Ain't
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Speaker 10: that the girl that came up the other day? We like, no,
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Speaker 10: that was her little sister.
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Speaker 9: Does their little sister reach out to you guys or anything.
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Speaker 9: We haven't talked to her, and I mean I haven't
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Speaker 9: talked I don't talk to her at all for real.
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Speaker 9: But so you were at your house on Amherst. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: was there anyone with you today?
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Speaker 1: My mom?
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Speaker 9: What's your mom name? My mom name is April.
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Speaker 1: However, the detectives know this to be untrue. They know
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Speaker 1: he was at the scene from the Facebook post he made.
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Speaker 1: They know he did it, so they want to get
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Speaker 1: a confession or even better, some information that might help
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Speaker 1: put more people in handcuffs. The thing is they're initially
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Speaker 1: going to find that a lot harder than they'd hope.
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Speaker 9: I have to ask, do you recognize this car just before?
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Speaker 9: That was in that video that's on Facebook, so you
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Speaker 9: remember it? Have you ever been in this par No?
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Speaker 8: You know who?
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Speaker 9: He describes his car or owns this car. I don't
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Speaker 9: know him by name, but I know who he is.
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Speaker 9: His name like pop pop, that's what they go.
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Speaker 1: Do you know?
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Speaker 9: Can you describe him? It's that's funny because I don't
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Speaker 9: even really know what he looks like. I mean, at
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Speaker 9: the time I've seen him. I've seen him with a
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Speaker 9: sea mask on. I've never seen him outside of.
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Speaker 1: The ste mask.
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, tell me a little bit about yourself,
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Speaker 3: your past, Like, have you ever been in trouble or anything? Yeah?
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Speaker 9: I'm actually right now. I got probation. So like just
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Speaker 9: a weapon's possession charge is all you got. It's like
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Speaker 9: a carry it in consial fire. Gotcha?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeremiah is making a conscious attempt to give as
21:36
Speaker 1: little information over as possible while still trying to seem cooperative.
21:40
Speaker 1: He's smart. He doesn't want to completely close himself off,
21:44
Speaker 1: as that'll make him seem guilty, but he also doesn't
21:47
Speaker 1: want to give up any vital information. The cops ask
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Speaker 1: him who was there, where he was sitting in the car,
21:52
Speaker 1: even questions about the guns, but he refuses to speak,
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Speaker 1: and he's starting to seriously frustrate the cops. But all
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Speaker 1: this talk of courts and investigations doesn't seem to be
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Speaker 1: getting them anywhere at all. So instead they switch gears.
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Speaker 1: They're going to be as direct as possible and give
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Speaker 1: it to him straight. That's their last hope at getting
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Speaker 1: him to crack.
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Speaker 9: What do your friends call you? You have a nickname?
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Speaker 3: Er? And then Joe, we're just getting to know you man.
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Speaker 3: Obviously you're you can see that you're not a bad person.
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Speaker 3: Just the vibes I'm getting for sure. But you're in
22:28
Speaker 3: here talking to us for a reason. And comb back
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Speaker 3: down to this incident. You be honest with us is
22:33
Speaker 3: what we'll be going to work with with you. We
22:35
Speaker 3: know that you were there, and we also got your
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Speaker 3: DNA in this car.
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Speaker 9: If I've been in that car, I would tell you, guys,
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Speaker 9: I've been in that car. I don't have no reason
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Speaker 9: to liar.
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Speaker 3: No reason to build myself in your role in it
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Speaker 3: as the driver, because we know you're the driver. Really,
22:50
Speaker 3: what we're looking for is why you're already being in
22:54
Speaker 3: charge with the incident. You explaining your actions and what
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Speaker 3: really went down is own just gonna help with your
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Speaker 3: role in this. We know you didn't pull a trigger,
23:04
Speaker 3: but you not being honest with what went down is
23:06
Speaker 3: not gonna help you. It's gonna the prosecutor and the
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Speaker 3: judge and jury are gonna look at someone who's not
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Speaker 3: a remorsel.
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Speaker 9: So he told you to drive him over to Roccoly.
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Speaker 3: Who was sitting where in the car in the front
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Speaker 3: is Zebo seeing dry posse on the door.
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Speaker 1: It worked, but cops actually got a name. It was
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Speaker 1: a nickname, but cops could eventually tie this back to
23:34
Speaker 1: a man named Desire Saunders, who would be interrogated later.
23:38
Speaker 1: This was huge. They'd actually gotten a gangster to tell
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Speaker 1: on one of his partners. But they weren't done yet.
23:46
Speaker 1: They knew he still had more information and they weren't
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Speaker 1: gonna stop putting on the pressure.
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Speaker 3: Now we got to go back to who is in
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Speaker 3: the car with you?
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Speaker 9: I know you know Zebo pah, you say you just
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Speaker 9: know him? About Bob? You know it was Roliam Okay?
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Speaker 9: And the third person you're saying, how.
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Speaker 3: Often have you seen him? Would you be able to
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Speaker 3: identify that last person by a picture?
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah physically looks defeated. He's avoiding eye contact and is
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Speaker 1: hunched over. He likely never saw himself giving up the
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Speaker 1: names of his partners, but that's exactly where he found himself.
24:28
Speaker 1: The cops, however, are over the moon, even managing to
24:31
Speaker 1: get descriptions of the people he doesn't know the names of.
24:34
Speaker 1: They ask a few more questions before leaving him alone
24:37
Speaker 1: for a minute to prepare their next move. However, on
24:40
Speaker 1: their return, they didn't expect to see Jeremiah, a once
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Speaker 1: tough and unbreakable gang member, to cry because of what
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Speaker 1: he'd done.
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Speaker 9: Would you say his first name was?
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Speaker 8: What Darie?
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Speaker 1: Is this him?
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Speaker 9: Do you want some pisue that?
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Speaker 3: And he did he always or that suit.
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Speaker 1: If this is the first time you've seen a gang
25:24
Speaker 1: member cry, you're certainly not alone. But it actually happened
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Speaker 1: again in the detective's very next interrogation. While these cops
25:33
Speaker 1: were busy talking to Jeremiah, a breakthrough had been made
25:36
Speaker 1: outside of the interrogation room remember this footage recorded by
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Speaker 1: a civilian witness earlier. Well after five days of investigation,
25:44
Speaker 1: they actually managed to track the car down, enabling them
25:47
Speaker 1: to take in another suspect, anton Neil Whittaker. Police would
25:51
Speaker 1: quickly realize that Antonil might be even more important than
25:55
Speaker 1: Jeremiah as a suspect. He's a supposed member of the
25:58
Speaker 1: BBM gang and believed to be one of the suspects
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Speaker 1: that initiated the shootout. The thing is, he's just seventeen
26:06
Speaker 1: years old. Since there's still some information even Jeremiah couldn't
26:10
Speaker 1: give them, they figured they might be able to scare
26:13
Speaker 1: him into giving up everything he knows. And their first
26:16
Speaker 1: idea is an unconventional but possibly extremely effective method. A
26:21
Speaker 1: call home to mom, Oh, it is really real serious.
26:28
Speaker 9: You need to put yourself wherever.
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Speaker 2: You was, need to tell it your heart as.
26:35
Speaker 9: Much as you can't because you can't take the flank
26:38
Speaker 9: for a day. You shouldn't be You shouldn't be stating here.
26:43
Speaker 9: They know it's your car.
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Speaker 1: You can't get out of it. You're better today, Antonille
26:49
Speaker 1: doesn't even seem to feel like following his mother's advice.
26:52
Speaker 1: Despite the facts that they know it was his car.
26:55
Speaker 1: He's claiming that someone else was actually driving it that day,
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Speaker 1: and even more unfortunately, he'd forgotten exactly who. Listen to
27:04
Speaker 1: his story and see if you believe it as much
27:07
Speaker 1: as the detectives do.
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Speaker 9: You say you went, you.
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Speaker 2: Were at home like the old day, someone took your
27:15
Speaker 2: car somehow brought your car back, gave you the keys.
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Speaker 9: Back or whatever, and then so you take your sister
27:23
Speaker 9: or your sister home. That doesn't make sense, man. You
27:28
Speaker 9: know during or a judge, I'll be honest with you.
27:33
Speaker 1: I mean, with your game's name to this state, it's
27:35
Speaker 1: not even a good like a lot, so it'd probably
27:37
Speaker 1: would be.
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Speaker 9: Easy for me to tell the truth.
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Speaker 1: You see. About an hour after the shooting, Antonil was
27:43
Speaker 1: confirmed to have used his car to pick his sister
27:46
Speaker 1: up from an event, meaning it was clear that he
27:48
Speaker 1: was still in possession of it, but that didn't phase Antonil,
27:52
Speaker 1: and despite how many questions police asked him, he refused
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Speaker 1: to give up anything.
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Speaker 9: Alice works, you might go this from t but I
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Speaker 9: mean it's kind of accurate.
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Speaker 3: We're going to compare your DNA to the DNA and
28:03
Speaker 3: all the showcase until we collect and I'll see is
28:05
Speaker 3: there any reason your DNA's gonna be on there, because
28:07
Speaker 3: if there is.
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Speaker 9: You've got to explain that you said I'm sorry, you
28:14
Speaker 9: said no, I don't know. We've got in the car
28:18
Speaker 9: with you at almost if you were if you're.
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Speaker 3: Saying your DNA's docmulo showcase right, and you're saying you
28:25
Speaker 3: weren't driving, Who did you let drive your car?
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Speaker 9: Believe but now it looks like it's on you.
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Speaker 1: Oh. They're trying to force a confession out of him
28:37
Speaker 1: by telling him that if he'd been in physical contact
28:39
Speaker 1: with any of the evidence tied to the murder, they
28:42
Speaker 1: would find out and he would get sentenced. And they're
28:44
Speaker 1: not lying either. When you touch anything at all, you
28:47
Speaker 1: leave behind skin, cells, sweat, small hairs, or even oils
28:52
Speaker 1: that can quickly be traced back to you. Meaning if
28:55
Speaker 1: Antoniil had touched the car, the bullets when loading his
28:58
Speaker 1: gun or anything else related to the murder police would
29:01
Speaker 1: find out. However, as of now, detectives haven't had the
29:05
Speaker 1: time to run these tests to confirm if his DNA
29:08
Speaker 1: was present, meaning they couldn't pressure him to a confession
29:11
Speaker 1: and they'd have to wait until later. So in the meantime,
29:14
Speaker 1: they moved their attention to the next suspect. Remember the
29:17
Speaker 1: man Jeremiah gave up to the cops back in his interrogation.
29:20
Speaker 1: That was Zire Saunders. Once they had his name, they
29:24
Speaker 1: tracked him down and arrested him, and he would prove
29:26
Speaker 1: to be even more helpful than Antonil and Jeremiah combined.
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Speaker 9: Did you know of your law that you know where
29:33
Speaker 9: you got killed?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Did your No?
29:37
Speaker 3: We don't think that she was the one meant to
29:40
Speaker 3: be heard and I'm based on what we're seeing, but
29:45
Speaker 3: unfortunately she did it obviously heard her family was heard. No,
29:49
Speaker 3: when we did that sort form, we get your phone, yes, okay,
29:53
Speaker 3: and we downloaded your phone and your location is putting
29:56
Speaker 3: you on rockaway that day.
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Speaker 7: Nope?
29:59
Speaker 9: Did what happened there? I shot a pistol. You shot
30:04
Speaker 9: a pistol?
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Speaker 1: Yes, This seems like a breakthrough. He's just admitted to
30:10
Speaker 1: being a part of the shooting, and it seems that
30:12
Speaker 1: all the detective's work has just paid off, but they're
30:15
Speaker 1: not quite there yet. Of the three shooters, two did
30:18
Speaker 1: indeed use pistols, but one of them was actually yielding
30:22
Speaker 1: the extremely dangerous automatic rifle that can be seen Clara's
30:26
Speaker 1: day in this footage here. Instead of jumping this fence
30:28
Speaker 1: after the shooting, the man with the rifle fled directly
30:31
Speaker 1: down Rockaway Street, and that's the direction Zire's phone shows
30:35
Speaker 1: him running. The good news is that clear desire of
30:39
Speaker 1: being the man that killed Tiara, after all, she was
30:42
Speaker 1: killed with a very specific pistol round. But that does
30:46
Speaker 1: put him directly in the spotlight of being the man
30:48
Speaker 1: with the most dangerous weapon and one that is directly
30:51
Speaker 1: lying to the cops right now, and they're not about
30:54
Speaker 1: to let him get away with that.
30:56
Speaker 9: YEA, your own camera. Shooting a rifle does something that modified,
31:16
Speaker 9: so describe it.
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Speaker 1: That single piece of information resulted in Zire actually getting
31:24
Speaker 1: the highest sentence out of anybody involved in the case.
31:27
Speaker 1: Just the use of such a dangerous firearm actually increased
31:31
Speaker 1: his prison time by somewhere between ten and fifteen years.
31:34
Speaker 1: But he still doesn't know that, yet he's still under
31:36
Speaker 1: the guys that if he helps the detectives out, he
31:39
Speaker 1: might get a better deal. So not only did he
31:41
Speaker 1: tell them where to find the rifle he used, he
31:44
Speaker 1: also gave up one of the most vital pieces of
31:46
Speaker 1: information that cops had received in the entire case. For Medium,
31:56
Speaker 1: Zire just told the cops the name of the gang
31:58
Speaker 1: that was involved, a huge piece of information that will
32:01
Speaker 1: help them track down every last individual that was part
32:04
Speaker 1: of this attack. Now the detectives have just one more
32:07
Speaker 1: final question that'll hopefully put together the final pieces of
32:11
Speaker 1: the puzzle they're looking for.
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Speaker 9: You've been extremely helpful throughout this whole interview. You're helping
32:16
Speaker 9: yourself out too. You gotta ask whose idea was it?
32:20
Speaker 9: I know for sure they just are wrong.
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Speaker 2: So they'll just say, but you.
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Speaker 9: Got different dues on Facebook.
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Speaker 5: But but it was like, I'm doing it.
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Speaker 1: You can't tell me without do this. He just gave
32:39
Speaker 1: up the group chat where all of these shootings supposedly
32:42
Speaker 1: were planned. With this, police simply had to cross reference
32:46
Speaker 1: the names in the group chat with the supposed shooters
32:49
Speaker 1: on the CCTV and the names that had been mentioned
32:52
Speaker 1: in previous interrogations, giving them enough evidence to sentence all
32:56
Speaker 1: six of the shooters, But unfortunately, this wasn't the resolution
33:01
Speaker 1: they'd hoped for. After examining all the weapons confiscated, it
33:05
Speaker 1: would turn out that none of them were a match
33:08
Speaker 1: to the bullet found in Tiara's head, meaning they still
33:11
Speaker 1: couldn't tie any specific person to the actual murder. However,
33:16
Speaker 1: there is one puzzle piece we haven't told you about yet,
33:20
Speaker 1: the one that would solve this entire case. Watching the
33:24
Speaker 1: CCTV footage, it's clear that there is one man that
33:28
Speaker 1: directly shot at Tiara's vehicle. If you follow this man,
33:35
Speaker 1: dressed in all black back through the CCTV, you can
33:38
Speaker 1: trace him all the way back to the driver's seat
33:41
Speaker 1: of this black truck, a black truck that until now
33:45
Speaker 1: the cops were completely unable to identify. But then they
33:49
Speaker 1: received one final piece of footage from a witness, allowing
33:52
Speaker 1: them to track it back to the owner, forty four
33:55
Speaker 1: year old mother, Kia Brown. Police realized they had to
33:59
Speaker 1: enter of you her, knowing that whoever was driving Kia's
34:03
Speaker 1: black truck that day killed Tiara Harris.
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Speaker 3: Hey, how you doing, man good? I'm detect myth This
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Speaker 3: Detective Davis Backer please, Hi, Hey, we wanted to talk.
34:15
Speaker 9: To you or whoever's driving Will drives this truck.
34:18
Speaker 3: Reference that incident that happened up the street they were
34:21
Speaker 3: being shot at, finally trying to catch up with them.
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Speaker 9: Looked like a couple of males. And have you heard
34:31
Speaker 9: about this? I heard about what happened around the corner,
34:34
Speaker 9: but my son was driving.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't Kia, but her son driving the car that night,
34:40
Speaker 1: and after running his name, they'd find out he had
34:43
Speaker 1: ties to a rival gang of BBM. So the detectives
34:47
Speaker 1: had Kia call her son and hand over the phone
34:50
Speaker 1: to the officers. I have some.
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Speaker 9: Detectives here right now. The day that we were moving
34:55
Speaker 9: in the ancid need to happen around the corner. They
34:58
Speaker 9: will have to speak with you.
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Speaker 2: Have a moment.
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Speaker 6: Can you go on Bright?
35:02
Speaker 1: How you doing man?
35:04
Speaker 10: How good?
35:05
Speaker 3: I'm with the tecta Smith, I'm with Detective Davis with me.
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Speaker 8: Hey, uh, what's your name?
35:10
Speaker 1: Before we get started?
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Speaker 9: Bud?
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Speaker 8: You're worthy linear all right? Lindear?
35:14
Speaker 3: How you doing man? So listen, man, I won't keep
35:19
Speaker 3: too much of your time. We were wondering if we
35:21
Speaker 3: could talk with you and your mom maybe in person
35:23
Speaker 3: at some point, and we wanted to talk to you
35:25
Speaker 3: about the incident that happened.
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Speaker 8: Up the street.
35:28
Speaker 3: We know you're over there, so we were hoping you
35:30
Speaker 3: could help us. Actually you're not in any trouble. We
35:32
Speaker 3: actually hoping you could help us.
35:34
Speaker 2: Would would there.
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Speaker 1: Be a good day for you to.
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Speaker 9: Yes, Sunday the eighth. Can we do it anytime after
35:41
Speaker 9: two thirty?
35:42
Speaker 8: Okay? All right, all right, man, we appreciate it.
35:45
Speaker 9: We'll see you at three thirty. All right, buddy, all right,
35:49
Speaker 9: And just.
35:50
Speaker 1: Like that they had an interview scheduled and this was
35:53
Speaker 1: the final suspect at the scene that they hadn't yet
35:56
Speaker 1: spoken to, the man suspected to be the driver of
35:59
Speaker 1: the black True and the man they think Shantiara Dad.
36:04
Speaker 8: I know what's appreciate you talk with us. So, I mean,
36:09
Speaker 8: obviously you know what we're at that ends that happened
36:11
Speaker 8: on the street. So I just wanted to know your perspective.
36:17
Speaker 8: Happened that day? Would you see that stuff? But you
36:20
Speaker 8: can rise through that day? God, don pos.
36:30
Speaker 4: You saw.
36:33
Speaker 8: When the shots started happening, you ran and got the
36:36
Speaker 8: driver's seat and then team got in your basser seat.
36:44
Speaker 4: That was it.
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Speaker 1: Lenier had just told them he was driving the black
36:48
Speaker 1: truck that day, confirming he was the man in all
36:52
Speaker 1: black that drove the truck and hopped in the Chevy.
36:55
Speaker 1: He was the man that fired the bullets, so they
36:58
Speaker 1: decided to ask him up front.
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Speaker 8: I am about you, about to ask you for your parents.
37:04
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, but I gotta ask did you shoot that day?
37:09
Speaker 5: Okay?
37:11
Speaker 1: Even though he said no, police already had all the
37:14
Speaker 1: evidence they needed, the car tied to him, his ties
37:18
Speaker 1: to the rival gang, and finally the video of him
37:21
Speaker 1: shooting at Tiara's car, so they arrested him on the
37:24
Speaker 1: spot and brought him in for interrogation.
37:28
Speaker 3: Sorry that you do whatever you want, man, I'm not
37:36
Speaker 3: here to okay. Are you saying you want your lawyer?
37:39
Speaker 3: Don't want to talk to you?
37:41
Speaker 6: Okay?
37:41
Speaker 1: All right, But in the end this wouldn't matter, as
37:45
Speaker 1: when they arrested and processed him, they managed to confiscate
37:48
Speaker 1: his gun, and after analyzing the forensics of the bullet
37:51
Speaker 1: inside of Tiara and Linear's gun, it was a match.
37:56
Speaker 1: Linear had fired the killing shot. After five months of investigation,
38:03
Speaker 1: all the puzzle pieces were finally in place. In total,
38:07
Speaker 1: seven people were charged in this incident. Zire Saunders was
38:10
Speaker 1: charged with involuntary manslaughter and four councilfelonious assaults and was
38:15
Speaker 1: sentenced to thirty five to forty years. Ant Neil Whittaker
38:19
Speaker 1: and Jeremiah Williams got twenty two twenty four years on
38:22
Speaker 1: similar charges, while the fourth assailant in this group, Derrion Rackley,
38:26
Speaker 1: got thirty four to forty years. It was confirmed ant
38:30
Speaker 1: Neil's DNA was in fact found on various bullet casings
38:33
Speaker 1: on Rockaway Street, despite his claims in the interrogation room.
38:37
Speaker 1: The next two to be sentenced were the ones who
38:39
Speaker 1: shot back at Zayer's group after being rolled up on.
38:42
Speaker 1: They were Javier Small and Johnte Smith, who were sentenced
38:46
Speaker 1: to four years and two and a half years respectively.
38:49
Speaker 1: Lastly was Lenier Worthy, Tiara's actual killer. However, as of
38:54
Speaker 1: this video's upload, he's still awaiting sentencing. Tiara and George
38:59
Speaker 1: were not involved in any of the gangs in the
39:01
Speaker 1: shootout and were found completely innocent. At long last, Tiara
39:07
Speaker 1: and her family could finally be at peace. Half of
39:12
Speaker 1: our profits in this video will be donated to the
39:15
Speaker 1: Akron based charity First Glance Student to help prevent incidents
39:19
Speaker 1: like this from happening again. The second half will go
39:22
Speaker 1: towards the making of our next video.