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Charlie Childers 1 - Front Porch Interview(M4A_128K) · NO FILTER

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: For this interview. Recording audio alone wouldn't cut it. Without visuals,
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't truly have a record of what Charlie was
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: trying to say. So danced up his camera and I
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: started recording video on my phone. Charlie began signing to
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Mike even before we asked her first question, and Mike
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: related to us what Charlie was saying.
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: Now he's talking about the shooting, and he thought her
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: he was going to jail, and.
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: The police came to the room. One of his rangers
• 0:32
  Speaker 3: was a cop and told him that no, he wanted
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: going to jail, and he was leasing other guys.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: We asked Charlie to tell us again what he'd been
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: trying so hard to tell us the day before, about
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: how Brian had been playing with a gun and Charlie
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: had tried to stop him.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: The boy that did the shooting, he pulled something out
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: of a drawer. No, don't, no, don't get that, don't
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: get that gun. He said, no, no, no, don't get
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: the gun. The boy just playing with it.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: Put it down, so we put it back, put it down,
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  Speaker 2: and then the boy later he got the gun out.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: I told him again no, and then he shot himself
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: in the mouth. So this happened, but I don't understand
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: exactly what. The cop kept asking me, did you do it?
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: And I said, no, I didn't do it. No, it
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: was somebody out and the cops were talking and that
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: he didn't do it. He shot himself in the mouth.
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know what happened. I didn't see it. I
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: was sitting in there and I shook him. But Kenna.
• 2:02
  Speaker 4: And my brother and Mike and Alfour were in there,
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: and we all went to the funeral together.
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  Speaker 3: We heard each other the funeral.
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  Speaker 4: They buried him over in Bartow County, so over Bidish
• 2:28
  Speaker 4: Parish in naturally greats in that area. And then after
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: all the funeral stuff, the next week, A Frank clarted down.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: And Charlie had a detailed memory of Brian being shot,
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: but his details were all wrong. For instance, Charlie's description
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: of where Brian was buried. He had such a precise
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: memory of it, but Brian was buried in Floyd County,
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: not Bartow County like Charlie was saying. And one thing
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: only kept mentioning was a window.
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  Speaker 2: The boys were just playing in the bedroom and there
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  Speaker 2: was a window.
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  Speaker 3: On that side. I learned. Yeah, I was watching on TV.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: You mentioned a window at one point. What was the
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  Speaker 1: context of the window.
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: I turned on the light and uh.
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: M hmm, and I.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: Saw him shooting himself, shooting himself, and the blood went everywhere.
• 3:57
  Speaker 4: And then just like that, he was gone, those most
• 4:01
  Speaker 4: blood and I was just, I was just.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: And then came and.
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  Speaker 3: She was shocked. She saw he's one that got the
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: gout of the door and the shooting. I didn't see
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: all of that.
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: That's when Wayne interrupted us. He'd been lurking nearby the
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: whole time we'd been talking to his brother, but he
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: hadn't want to be on camera, so he'd mostly stayed
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: out of the way. But now Wayne told us that
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: Charlie wasn't talking about Brian Bowling's death at all. He
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: was talking about a different shooting, a different boy who'd
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: been killed. Though Wayne was cagey about the details of
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: this other supposed shooting. I had already been expecting Wayne
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: to try to interfere with the interview, so part of
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: me wondered if that's what was going on here, but
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Wayne was insistent Charlie was talking about of different boys die.
• 5:03
  Speaker 4: You know, ma, what you asking is Greg Core.
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: He talking about Greg Greg horl cool. But they sitting
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: on the side of the bed. Yeah. Yeah, Greg was sitting
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: on the bed and he's talking about the wrong one
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: because Brian was. He was in the lit room when
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: Brian got shot. Yeah, when Brian got shown you out,
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: I was watching TV. I was in the living name.
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: See he's getting he's getting confused here one name, Greg
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: Cole got killed at our house one night and Chartie
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: seeing that. So Chartie is getting confused. It was Greg. Yes,
• 5:56
  Speaker 3: that's I mean he said, he said, Brian shot hisself
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  Speaker 3: and he went right, Yeah, he didn't see it, so
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: I would be SUPs doing yatsun.
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: After a lot of prompting, Wayne finally started to explain
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: sometime before Brian died, a young boy had been shot
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: and killed at the Childer's house. The gun had belonged
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: to Charlie's uncle Danny. That's the Danny that Charlie had
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: kept mentioning the first time I'd spoken to him, and
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: we'd been confused about. But after Wayne explained that there
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: have been two different shootings, we finally started to understand
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: what Charlie was trying to say. Wayne continued to interrupt though,
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: so I pulled him to the side and struck up
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: a conversation with him while Jacinda kept talking to Charlie.