| 00:00:04 | [dramatic music]
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| 00:00:19 | narrator:
Harris county, texas,
an industrial parking lot
20 miles north of houston,
5:00 p.m. easter sunday.
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| 00:00:37 | narrator:
Paramedics rush to the scene.
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| 00:00:40 | They find a woman in the back
of thearking lot,
dead.
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| 00:00:59 | - No, not exactly the way
you want to spend easter.
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| 00:01:02 | narrator:
Lead deputy jason brown
has clocked 13 years in the
harris county sheriff's office.
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| 00:01:09 | Before joining homicide,
he spent a year in iraq
working with the local police.
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| 00:01:29 | - Pockets.
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| 00:01:31 | - Pockets.
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| 00:01:37 | narrator:
The woman has no identification.
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| 00:01:43 | - Well, she got one
to the forehead
and then one to the right side
of the head.
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| 00:01:48 | She was shot one time
in the back.
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| 00:01:51 | narrator:
The two shots to her head
were fired at close range.
|
| 00:01:59 | - Yeah, she's also got one
in the left wrist too.
|
| 00:02:04 | ..
|
| 00:02:05 | It seems indicative of her
being on her back
trying to protect her face,
and those are probably the shots
that, you know,
entered through her hands
and then hit her in the head.
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| 00:02:16 | narrator:
Two feet from the victim,
they find a cell phone.
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| 00:02:21 | [metal detector beeping]
They find no other evidence
at the scene.
|
| 00:02:30 | - It's really a clean scene.
|
| 00:02:34 | Right now,
we don't have a lot.
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| 00:02:43 | narrator:
Two hours in,
sergeant mark reynolds
gets some key information
from the 911 caller
and another witness,
who both saw the shooting.
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| 00:02:53 | - Thank you, guys.
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| 00:02:53 | Appreciate it.
|
| 00:02:59 | You know, they're sitting,
talking,
when this vehicle pulls in.
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| 00:03:03 | They don't think much
about it.
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| 00:03:04 | narrator: THE WITNESSES SAID
They saw a tan suv
drive to the back
of the parking lot.
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| 00:03:10 | Then a man and a woman
got out.
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| 00:03:12 | - They both get out
and walk behind the vehicle
going towards the bushes.
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| 00:03:16 | narrator: THE 911 CALLER SAID
It sounded like
the man and woman
were arguing.
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| 00:03:22 | - And then all of a sudden,
she kind of screamed,
and he raised his hand up
and shot her.
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| 00:03:29 | - Once we know who she is,
that will give us
a place to start
as far as finding out
who she was with last
and what she was doing.
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| 00:03:39 | The only evidence so far
is a cell phone.
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| 00:03:42 | We're hoping that leads us
to some information.
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| 00:03:59 | My first order of business
is to get a pot of coffee on
and then start looking
at this cell phone.
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| 00:04:09 | narrator: BROWN CHECKS THE PHONE
And finds several voice mails.
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| 00:04:19 | The callers
are expressing concern
for a woman named chandra.
|
| 00:04:26 | - Well, there are some
interesting phone calls on here.
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| 00:04:29 | There are some voice mails
"
and I was about to see
if there was
a missing person called in.
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| 00:04:38 | narrator: BROWN CHECKS TO SEE
If anyone in the victim's family
reported her missing.
|
| 00:04:47 | - Well, a call just came in
about 15 minutes ago
in the same area
where we were at,
and someone is calling in
a female as missing.
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| 00:04:58 | Chandra belton.
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| 00:05:02 | And it looks like
our missing female.
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| 00:05:09 | narrator:
40-Year-old chandra belton
was a school bus driver.
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| 00:05:13 | She was a single mother
of two daughters
ages 21 and 14.
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| 00:05:24 | - 40-Year-old chandra belton
went to the store
to exchange some fish.
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| 00:05:28 | narrator: THE REPORT STATES
Chandra was last seen
five hours earlier,
when she left
for the grocery store.
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| 00:05:35 | She never came back.
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| 00:05:38 | Brown calls
the missing persons unit,
who is with the victim's family.
|
| 00:05:42 | - Don't let them know that
it's being worked as a homicide.
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| 00:05:45 | Wait till we get out there.
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| 00:05:47 | Okay, bud?
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| 00:05:48 | All right.
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| 00:05:52 | They don't know it yet,
but unfortunately,
we'll have to, you know,
break the news to them
that she's deceased.
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| 00:06:07 | All you can really do
is just tell them flat out
what's happened
and that, you know,
you're doing everything you can
to catch the person that did it.
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| 00:06:16 | I'm deputy jason brown
from the sheriff's office.
|
| 00:06:20 | narrator: BROWN MEETS WITH
The victim's extended family,
including her brother
and 14-year-old daughter.
|
| 00:06:27 | - There's no easy way
to say this,
so I'm just gonna come right out
and say it.
|
| 00:06:31 | - Mm-hmm.
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| 00:06:32 | - Chandra's been killed.
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| 00:06:51 | ..
|
| 00:06:53 | - Mm-hmm.
|
| 00:06:53 | - But there's still
somebody out there that,
you know,
needs to be apprehended.
|
| 00:06:58 | narrator: THE FAMILY TELLS HIM
That chandra's younger daughter
was the last one to see
her mother earlier that day.
|
| 00:07:04 | - I need her to sit down with us
and give us a statement.
|
| 00:07:08 | narrator: WHILE REYNOLDS
Continues to talk to the family,
brown takes the daughter
to his car for an interview.
|
| 00:07:17 | - I need your help.
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| 00:07:18 | I need your help more
than anybody else here, okay?
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| 00:07:23 | Can you be strong for me?
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| 00:07:29 | narrator:
25 Miles across harris county,
just north of houston,
3:00 a.m.
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| 00:07:50 | [siren wailing]
narrator: POLICE RESPOND
To an apartment complex.
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| 00:07:55 | A young man is lying
in the courtyard,
dead.
|
| 00:08:08 | - As a unit,
we've got an 86% clearance rate,
and we take pride in that,
so each case--each homicide case
that comes down the pike,
you know, we're doing our best
to try to knock it out.
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| 00:08:19 | narrator: LEAD INVESTIGATOR
Sergeant sidney miller
has logged more than seven years
in homicide.
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| 00:08:46 | - We have a black male
approximately 21 years of age.
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| 00:08:58 | narrator: THE VICTIM
Is christopher mitchell,
a father
of two young children
who live
in the apartment complex
with his girlfriend.
|
| 00:09:11 | - Looks like a wound here
..
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| 00:09:15 | - Yup, yup.
|
| 00:09:16 | - And a wound in the back
of the head
and hit from behind
a couple times.
|
| 00:09:22 | - We have nine
spent shell casings.
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| 00:09:25 | They are 9-millimeters.
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| 00:09:27 | narrator:
A trail of shell casings
leads from the walkway
to the victim's body.
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| 00:09:32 | - We believe our complainant
ran north
trying to get away
from the bullets
and ended up collapsing.
|
| 00:09:47 | - Let me talk to--
let me talk
to just the mom and dad.
|
| 00:09:51 | Come here a second.
|
| 00:09:54 | narrator:
Five hours in,
miller speaks with
the victim's mother and father.
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| 00:09:59 | They have already been notified
about christopher's death.
|
| 00:10:03 | - We will be working diligently
to find out, you know,
exactly what happened.
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| 00:10:09 | narrator: THE VICTIM'S MOTHER
Gives miller a possible lead.
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| 00:10:20 | narrator: SHE CLAIMS
That christopher's girlfriend
had been cheating on him
with a man named kevin.
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| 00:10:31 | narrator: CHRIS' MOTHER SAYS
That he was upset
about the new relationship.
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| 00:10:35 | He still had feelings
for his girlfriend.
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| 00:10:46 | - Okay, I appreciate it.
|
| 00:10:48 | - Thanks.
|
| 00:10:52 | - There may be some kind
of conflict going on
between the new boyfriend
and the current boyfriend.
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| 00:10:56 | That's what they're giving us
now as a possible motive.
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| 00:11:03 | narrator: MILLER TURNS
To the girlfriend in question,
hoping she'll be able
to provide answers.
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| 00:11:08 | [knocking]
- Sheriff's office.
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| 00:11:12 | What's your name, ma'am?
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| 00:11:14 | - Okay, are you and christopher
boyfriend-girlfriend or what?
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| 00:11:21 | - Okay, our job is to find out
what happened to him.
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| 00:11:24 | What we're gonna do is,
we're gonna go to our office
and have
a sit-down conversation.
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| 00:11:31 | narrator: MILLER HAS PATROL
Transport kristen
back to headquarters.
|
| 00:11:35 | - Well, let's go down.
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| 00:11:36 | Let's go to lockwood and see
what kristen's got to say.
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| 00:11:54 | Kristen,
just be honest with me.
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| 00:11:57 | Lay it out from "a" to "z,"
you know,
how all this came about.
|
| 00:12:04 | Now, who is kevin?
|
| 00:12:07 | ..
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| 00:12:15 | narrator: KRISTEN ADMITS
She's been seeing kevin
for the last couple of weeks.
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She says her friends warned her
about seeing both men at once.
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| 00:16:23 | narrator: HARRIS COUNTY SERGEANT
Sidney miller
is working the shooting death
of 21-year-old
christopher mitchell.
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| 00:16:29 | Miller is questioning the mother
of christopher's children
to find out if her new boyfriend
might be the shooter.
|
| 00:16:44 | - Now, let's talk
about what happened.
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| 00:16:49 | narrator: SHE SAYS
The night of the shooting,
she was hanging out
at a friend's apartment.
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| 00:16:53 | While she was there,
she called kevin.
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| 00:17:01 | narrator: KRISTEN SAYS
She asked her friend
to tell chris
that she wasn't there.
|
| 00:17:06 | - Why did you tell him that?
|
| 00:17:12 | narrator: SHE CLAIMS
That shortly after chris left,
she got off the phone
with kevin.
|
| 00:17:25 | - I know you didn't
shoot chris, okay?
|
| 00:17:29 | But you're in the middle of it,
and you don't need to get
yourself involved in that stuff
and get yourself in trouble
by lying to us.
|
| 00:17:47 | - I think she's still holding
back for whatever reason.
|
| 00:17:52 | narrator: WITH NO
Useful information from kristen,
the team is back at square one.
|
| 00:17:58 | - Well, we really don't have
a lot to go on at this point.
|
| 00:18:01 | We've got to have eyewitness.
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| 00:18:02 | We've got to have somebody
that actually saw the shooting.
|
| 00:18:10 | narrator: THE TEAM HEADS BACK
To the crime scene,
hoping to find an eyewitness.
|
| 00:18:15 | - You know
somebody saw it, man.
|
| 00:18:17 | [knocking]
So you didn't see nobody
running off or anything, like?
|
| 00:18:22 | - Okay, well, I appreciate it.
|
| 00:18:24 | [knocking]
Why don't you want
to talk about it?
|
| 00:18:33 | - Everybody heard shooting,
but our issue
is somebody seeing the shooting.
|
| 00:18:40 | Oh, man.
|
| 00:18:40 | narrator: THE TEAM DOESN'T FIND
Any eyewitnesses.
|
| 00:18:43 | - There's really not too much
else we can do at this point.
|
| 00:18:48 | - Somebody will come forward.
|
| 00:18:49 | Maybe somebody will call,
and that way,
they don't get seen, you know,
talking to the police.
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| 00:19:03 | narrator:
..
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| 00:19:05 | [telephone rings]
- Sergeant miller,
sheriff's office.
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| 00:19:08 | narrator: MILLER GETS THE BREAK
He's been hoping for.
|
| 00:19:12 | A caller claims to have seen
the shooting.
|
| 00:19:16 | - Can you meet with me
sometime today,
..
|
| 00:19:20 | All right, thank you.
|
| 00:19:21 | Bye.
|
| 00:19:23 | Sounds too good to be true.
|
| 00:19:28 | narrator:
Later that day,
miller
and sergeant craig clopton
head out to meet
with the eyewitness.
|
| 00:19:41 | narrator:
The witness says the beef began
when the victim's girlfriend
started dating kevin.
|
| 00:19:55 | narrator: THE WITNESS CLAIMS
That one of kevin's friends,
chad,
made an even bigger threat.
|
| 00:20:11 | - What exactly did you see?
|
| 00:20:24 | narrator:
Harris county deputy jason brown
is working the shooting
of 40-year-old chandra belton.
|
| 00:20:30 | He is interviewing the victim's
14-year-old daughter,
who saw her mother
just before she disappeared.
|
| 00:20:44 | - You're basically just gonna
explain what happened today.
|
| 00:20:47 | narrator: SHE EXPLAINS HER
Father had come from out of town
to spend easter weekend
with them.
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| 00:20:53 | Her parents have been separated
for two years.
|
| 00:20:57 | She says earlier that day,
her parents were arguing
about the fact that her mother
had recently started dating
another man.
|
| 00:21:05 | Then they left for the store.
|
| 00:21:08 | - Did your mom ever come back
to the house?
|
| 00:21:10 | narrator: SHE SAYS HER FATHER
Returned from the store alone
and said that her mother
was at the gas station.
|
| 00:21:18 | Then he left in his car.
|
| 00:21:22 | - And what's your dad's name?
|
| 00:21:24 | narrator:
She gives brown her dad's name,
jerry belton.
|
| 00:21:32 | Meanwhile, the family gives
sergeant mark reynolds
important information
about jerry.
|
| 00:21:40 | narrator: THEY SAY THAT JERRY
Is hearing and voice impaired.
|
| 00:21:45 | He lives in a small town
in louisiana.
|
| 00:21:49 | - He's had time to get home
if that's where he went.
|
| 00:21:53 | He knows
that we're gonna be coming.
|
| 00:21:57 | He knows.
|
| 00:22:00 | This is not the kind of easter
they wanted to have,
but he came to town
to supposedly spend
the easter holiday
with his daughter,
and I think it was probably
more to do with, you know,
trying to get his wife back
from this guy.
|
| 00:22:24 | Love is a dangerous thing.
|
| 00:22:29 | "Love" is probably not
the right word.
|
| 00:22:33 | That's not love.
|
| 00:22:35 | That's machismo, I guess, ego.
|
| 00:22:41 | Lots of people die over it.
|
| 00:22:48 | narrator:
At headquarters,
reynolds and brown search
for the suspect in the database.
|
| 00:22:58 | - There you go.
|
| 00:23:01 | I have a positive i.d.
|
| 00:23:02 | By reynolds.
|
| 00:23:04 | narrator:
51-Year-old jerry belton
has a prior conviction
for stabbing a former girlfriend
and her 11-month-old baby
in louisiana.
|
| 00:23:18 | Brown calls the local police
in jerry's hometown
of amite, louisiana,
300 miles away.
|
| 00:23:26 | - Name's jerry belton.
|
| 00:23:30 | Right.
|
| 00:23:31 | Okay, cool.
|
| 00:23:33 | Thanks, man.
|
| 00:23:37 | They know exactly who he is,
and they're gonna try to put
their hands on him.
|
| 00:23:42 | - You'll probably need to go,
like, get some sleep,
because as soon
as they lay hands on him,
y'all need
to beat feet to louisiana.
|
| 00:23:55 | narrator: THE NEXT AFTERNOON,
Brown gets good news.
|
| 00:24:00 | - All right, cool.
|
| 00:24:01 | narrator: JERRY BELTON
Was picked up by patrol
in louisiana.
|
| 00:24:06 | - Neither one of us
can do sign language
unless mark's
been holding out on me.
|
| 00:24:10 | - No, but I can speak
if he can read lips.
|
| 00:24:15 | narrator: WITH LESS THAN
20 Hours left in the first 48,
brown and reynolds set out on
the six-hour drive to louisiana.
|
| 00:24:24 | - You know, right now,
we don't have any real
physical evidence to speak of,
so a confession would really
help our case out right now.
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| 00:28:41 | narrator: IN THE HARRIS COUNTY
Shooting of chandra belton,
deputy jason brown
and sergeant mark reynolds
have identified a suspect,
chandra's estranged husband,
51-year-old jerry belton.
|
| 00:28:54 | Now they are heading
to amite, louisiana,
where the suspect
is in custody.
|
| 00:29:10 | The next morning,
brown and reynolds
arrive in amite.
|
| 00:29:15 | - It doesn't appear to be
that big of a town.
|
| 00:29:18 | You know, it's a--probably
a very close-knit community,
which is probably how the
local police department up here
put their hands on him
so quickly.
|
| 00:29:35 | narrator:
They head inside to meet
with the chief of police,
jerry trabona.
|
| 00:29:42 | - Right.
|
| 00:29:47 | - He can't hear,
but I think he can read lips.
|
| 00:29:49 | - We'd like to have
an interpreter make sure
that he understands
his rights.
|
| 00:29:56 | narrator: TRABONA CALLS A LOCAL
Sign language interpreter
to translate
during the interrogation.
|
| 00:30:02 | - How long would it take you
to get here, miss mary,
20 minutes?
|
| 00:30:07 | About 30 minutes?
|
| 00:30:08 | You drive kind of slow, huh?
|
| 00:30:09 | - If she drives
thspeed limit.
|
| 00:30:10 | - You drive the speed limit,
huh?
|
| 00:30:13 | I heard that.
|
| 00:30:14 | About 30 minutes?
|
| 00:30:16 | All right, well,
you'll have to bill
harris county sheriff's office
in houston, texas.
|
| 00:30:23 | narrator: BROWN AND REYNOLDS
Meet the interpreter
at thearish jail,
where the suspect is being held.
|
| 00:30:30 | - He's been incarcerated before.
|
| 00:30:33 | It's not his first rodeo,
so we'll see.
|
| 00:30:38 | Jerry, we're here to get
your side of the story,
and that's the reason
I've driven all the way
from houston here
just to talk to you.
|
| 00:30:53 | - If I have a cigarette,
I can sign.
|
| 00:30:58 | I need a cigarette.
|
| 00:30:59 | ..
|
| 00:31:09 | Thank you.
|
| 00:31:22 | narrator:
In the harris county shooting
of 21-year-old
christopher mitchell,
sergeant sidney miller
is interviewing an eyewitness
who claims to have seen
the shooting.
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| 00:31:37 | - What exactly do you see?
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| 00:31:44 | narrator: THE WITNESS SAYS
The night of the shooting,
christopher
was in the courtyard.
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| 00:31:49 | A black truck pulled up.
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| 00:31:50 | Kevin, chad,
and two other men got out.
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| 00:31:59 | narrator: THE WITNESS SAW CHAD
Begin shooting at chris
as he ran away.
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| 00:32:05 | Then chris fell to the ground.
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| 00:32:18 | narrator: THE WITNESS GIVES THEM
The names of the four suspects.
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| 00:32:34 | - Bada-bing, bada-bam.
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| 00:32:35 | - Way to go, baby.
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| 00:32:38 | Love it.
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| 00:32:39 | - It don't get no better
than that.
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| 00:32:40 | - Good deal.
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| 00:32:41 | - Bada-bing, bada-bam.
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| 00:32:43 | narrator: THEY LOOK UP THE NAMES
Of the four suspects.
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| 00:32:48 | The first suspect
is kristen's new boyfriend,
21-year-old kevin hardy.
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| 00:32:57 | The suspected shooter
is 23-year-old chadrick johnson.
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| 00:33:04 | The other two suspects
are kevin's brother,
24-year-old ellery hardy,
and 20-year-old
laroy fergueson.
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| 00:33:12 | - All four of these individuals
are allegedly in the same gang.
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| 00:33:18 | We have to handle them all
with care.
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| 00:33:24 | [sighs]
It is all there, man.
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| 00:33:28 | narrator:
With the clock winding down,
miller has enough probable cause
to arrest the four suspects.
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| 00:33:33 | 'd,
and we've got an eyewitness.
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| 00:33:38 | We'll get paper
on them tomorrow,
and the hunt's on.
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| 00:33:50 | narrator:
In the first 48,
harris county sergeant
sidney miller
responded to the shooting death
of 21-year-old
christopher mitchell;
identified a possible suspect,
kevin hardy,
who is dating
the victim's girlfriend;
and learned the names
of three additional suspects,
including the alleged shooter,
chadrick johnson.
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| 00:34:12 | Two days later,
miller calls in the gulf coast
violent offenders task force
to help track down
the suspects.
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| 00:34:20 | - The four guys that you have
in your hands,
these guys are our suspects.
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| 00:34:24 | Use extreme caution
when you're dealing with them.
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| 00:34:28 | narrator: THE TEAM HEADS OUT
To the first address,
the home of laroy fergueson.
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| 00:34:34 | - Hopefully,
not being as directly involved,
laroy might be the one
that will probably talk to me.
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| 00:34:49 | [knocking]
Police. open the door.
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| 00:35:04 | narrator: LAROY'S FAMILY
Is cleared out of the house,
but laroy is not there.
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| 00:35:15 | Miller speaks
with laroy's mother.
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| 00:35:17 | - Laroy has gotten mixed up
with some guys,
and I need you
to help me find him
so I can talk to him.
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| 00:35:26 | narrator: LAROY'S MOTHER
Calls his cell phone.
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| 00:39:35 | narrator:
In the harris county shooting
of 21-year-old
christopher mitchell,
sergeant sidney miller
is with the mother
of laroy fergueson,
one of the four suspects,
trying to get laroy
into custody.
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| 00:40:01 | narrator: LAROY AGREES
To turn himself in.
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| 00:40:12 | - Go with god, my friend.
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| 00:40:16 | - Roy, the reason
you're here is,
we're investigating
a shooting,
and this is your opportunity
to tell your side of the story.
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| 00:40:34 | narrator: LAROY CLAIMS
The night of the shooting,
the victim
had been making threats
against one
of the other suspects,
kevin hardy,
at the apartment complex.
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| 00:40:49 | narrator:
Laroy says he followed kevin
and the other two suspects
to the courtyard,
where they spotted the victim,
christopher.
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| 00:41:06 | - So, roy,
kevin is a gangster,
lurkin is a gangster,
chad is a gangster,
and you are a gangster.
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| 00:41:14 | - No, man.
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| 00:41:18 | - Okay, all right.
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| 00:41:19 | Kevin is a gangster,
lurkin is a gangster,
chad is a gangster,
and you're an ordinary guy.
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| 00:41:26 | You don't think
we know anything.
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| 00:41:28 | We already got the witness' side
and the evidence.
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| 00:41:32 | If you want to roll
with that story,
that's on you.
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| 00:41:38 | - Do you know who shot chris?
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| 00:41:45 | - Man, I don't know.
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| 00:41:47 | ..
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| 00:41:59 | - You think you slick, man.
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| 00:42:01 | - Man, I don't know.
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| 00:42:02 | - You think you smarter
than everybody.
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| 00:42:04 | ..
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| 00:42:08 | - Listen to me.
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| 00:42:09 | Listen to me.
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| 00:42:10 | The only way--
the only way
to help yourself
is to be honest
about your role in it.
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| 00:42:19 | You didn't shoot that boy.
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| 00:42:20 | - I didn't--
- did you shoot him?
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| 00:42:21 | - No, sir, no.
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| 00:42:21 | - Okay, then. okay.
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| 00:42:25 | - That's what I'm saying.
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| 00:42:28 | I'm trying to--
I'm trying to tell you.
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| 00:42:32 | ..
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| 00:42:43 | ..
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| 00:42:56 | - Chad shot him?
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| 00:42:57 | narrator:
Laroy claims he has no idea
where chad or the other
two suspects might be.
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| 00:43:12 | - He said chad is the shooter.
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| 00:43:14 | I got him there.
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| 00:43:14 | I got him to say he was there.
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| 00:43:16 | He was giving me a story like he
was trying to minimize his role.
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| 00:43:22 | It's gonna be up to a jury
to whether or not
they'll believe him
and what he's telling us.
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| 00:43:30 | narrator:
Laroy is charged with murder
and taken to jail.
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| 00:43:36 | The team turns
to the three suspects
that are still at large.
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| 00:43:40 | - They know we're looking
for them.
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| 00:43:42 | Gulf coast is hunting them down
as we speak.
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| 00:43:45 | They're gonna get caught.
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| 00:43:46 | It's a just a matter of time.
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| 00:43:56 | narrator:
A week later,
the task force rounds up
two of the suspects,
the victim's rival,
kevin hardy,
and kevin's brother,
ellery hardy.
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| 00:44:13 | Ellery gives up the shooter.
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| 00:44:18 | narrator: THEN THEY TURN
To the victim's rival,
kevin hardy.
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