BARTON BELL CALLER CHRISTIE CHUCK CREPEAU EMERGENCY_OPERATOR FRIEND GILLESPIE GIRLFRIEND GRAVES LADNIER MABEL MAN MOTHER MOTHER_OF_FRIEND NARRATEUR NETTLES OFFICER ROGERS SHELLY SYKES TAYLOR WOMAN CALLER Oh, please! CALLER Hello? EMERGENCY OPERATOR This is 911. What�s your location, ma�am? CALLER Old Shell Road, ma�am! CALLER I need an ambulance! CALLER My friend just got shot! EMERGENCY OPERATOR I�m putting you through to Mobile Fire and Rescue. CALLER Ma�am, please send somebody fast now, fast! EMERGENCY OPERATOR Yes, ma�am. EMERGENCY OPERATOR I�ll notify Mobile Police. EMEGENCY OPERATOR Stay on the line. TAYLOR It feels good to walk down these halls. Everything seems so small now that I�m grown. It seems so little. BELL What do you remember most about High School? TAYLOR Williamson High School was the only school in Mobile County that had the Academy of Public Safety. BELL The Academy of Public Safety. TAYLOR And that�s how I got started in this. TAYLOR The whole reason why I became a police officer is because I love to serve my community. TAYLOR People make mistakes but you have decisions and consequences and so based on the choices that you make, I�m going to need you to be able to deal with the consequences. TAYLOR What�s up y�all? TAYLOR So, tell me what we got. What�s my victim�s name? OFFICER Tyriek Esters. OFFICER The complainant, standing right there in the blue� OFFICER She said he had met a guy on Facebook. OFFICER He told him to meet him here. OFFICER She said that he got here, and he went to the back of the house. OFFICER She heard two or three gunshots� OFFICER �and saw a male leaving. OFFICER He had a child in his arms. TAYLOR So he met a guy on Facebook and they agreed to come to this address. Know what he was coming to do? OFFICER They didn�t say. OFFICER He didn�t live here, and she don�t think they live here. TAYLOR Hey, one of y�all the homeowner? MAN My sister-in-law stay here. OFFICER His sister-in-law. She�s not here. OFFICER She said the house was supposed to be locked all the way up. TAYLOR Ok. Let�s walk back here. TAYLOR So this the back porch they came on? OFFICER Yeah. OFFICER And he was right here. OFFICER Head that way, body this way. TAYLOR Where was he shot at? OFFICER One straight in the heart. OFFICER They did find weed on him in his red trunks. OFFICER When they picked him up, it fell from inside his pants. OFFICER So he had a bottle of weed. TAYLOR A bottle? OFFICER It was a bottle of weed stuffed in with a scale in it. TAYLOR Ok. SHELLY If you look on the outside of the door� SHELLY �there�s a bullet hole coming outwards. TAYLOR Ok so it happened inside. SHELLY So the scene is going to be inside the house. TAYLOR Ok, then we�re gonna have to get a warrant. FRIEND You said what?? Get off me. Get off me! No. No. No. FRIEND Lord, let me wake up. Lord! Let me wake up. Lord! Let me wake up. TAYLOR Grab her. Listen, calm down. OFFICER Got homicide detective here for you OK? MOTHER OF FRIEND Get in the car baby! FRIEND Momma let me go. Momma? Momma let me go. FRIEND I don�t want to be in the police car. TAYLOR Listen to me. I�m the lead detective on this case, OK? Now we got to do our job to figure out what happened here. Go on and put her in the car. TAYLOR All right, I�m heading to headquarters. GILLESPIE All right. TAYLOR Now Jermaine, don�t mess up this pretty search warrant. ROGERS Man, you put the picture on there? TAYLOR Oh yeah, I do all my warrants like that. ROGERS Damn. TAYLOR When ID showed up they were able to verify that one of the bullet strikes that they could visibly see in the screen door, it came from inside the residence. So we�ll learn more, once he goes and executes that search warrant, what they got inside. TAYLOR Hopefully he�s calmed her down because she was kinda hysterical back there. TAYLOR Ooh, you drinking that water. FRIEND I told y'all I was thirsty. TAYLOR You ain�t lying. And that was my last one. Well, I�m glad everybody all right now, �cause the main thing is we here for you. I'm Detective Taylor and this Detective Nettles. So walk me through what was going on today. FRIEND Ok, so I�m gonna tell it from beginning to the end. FRIEND We went to the car wash. TAYLOR Ok. FRIEND That's where he work. FRIEND So, we were sitting up there. He get a phone call. FRIEND He didn�t answer it. FRIEND I seen him shoot a text. FRIEND He got out the car and was on the phone. FRIEND He came back, and he was like, �We finna go up the street right fast.� I was like, �OK, fine.� FRIEND Like we just gonna get us a juice, a drink, chips or something. FRIEND I didn�t know what we was there for. I was just as surprised, you know what I�m saying? FRIEND So, when we get there, a light-skinned dude with a black skullcap, with a tattoo on his neck� FRIEND �he come to the car, and he was like, �Come to the backyard, bruh.� FRIEND I�m on my phone, on TikTok. FRIEND The next thing you know, I hear �Pow, pow, pow!� You know, shots. TAYLOR How long were they in the backyard before you heard the shots? FRIEND Five to six minutes, ma�am. NETTLES Ok. FRIEND We was not there that long. TAYLOR Ok. FRIEND After I heard the gunshots, a silver car� FRIEND �like, a Nissan Altima or a Nissan Maxima� FRIEND �they skrrt out from the back� FRIEND �like they trying to get somewhere, you know? NETTLES So that car comes from the backyard? FRIEND Mhmm. NETTLES Gotcha. FRIEND It was a dark-skinned dude, and um, the light-skinned one was on the passenger side. FRIEND So I get out the car at that point. FRIEND When I get back there, I just see him laid out on the porch bleeding. FRIEND I call 911. I give them the information they need. FRIEND Then, in the process, I get his phone, and I look who he was texting. NETTLES So let's back up. So you called the police and then you start to go through the messages. FRIEND When she asked me for the address. FRIEND I ran to the car, grabbed his phone. NETTLES �Cause his phone was left in the car. FRIEND Car, yes. FRIEND I unlocked it, and then I seen the last person he had text. FRIEND It said, OMGG Big Shiesty. FRIEND I don�t know what the real name is� FRIEND �but it was spelled O-M with two G�s. TAYLOR You got � it was on his phone? FRIEND Mhmm. TAYLOR Pull it up. FRIEND The dude also did delete the page as well. FRIEND Him. TAYLOR Let me see. FRIEND Oh my god Big Shiesty. FRIEND There�s two people there� FRIEND �but the only person that I know for a fact he was talking to was OMGG Big Sheisty� FRIEND ��cause that�s who he was messaging back and forth with. NETTLES When you unlocked it, did it go to that conversation or did you have to go back to his messages and pull it up? FRIEND When I typed it in, you know, boom. You know what I�m saying? FRIEND So I read the messages, and I see where the only thing they�re talking about is guns. FRIEND So I�m like, apparently we came here so he can buy a gun. FRIEND I didn�t know he was going to go purchase no gun. FRIEND Or my car would have never went that way, period. You know what I'm saying? TAYLOR Let me ask you this. Um, Tyriek? Did he have a gun on him today? FRIEND No, ma�am. He didn�t have any weapons. FRIEND Tyriek didn�t have any weapons. TAYLOR If we were able to get a photo line up, the one that came to the car, you believe you could pick him out? FRIEND I probably could, ma�am. FRIEND He had a tattoo on the neck. He was kind of tall, light-skinned with a black skullcap. TAYLOR What kind of tattoo was it? FRIEND Um, I couldn't really see it that well, but the whole neck right here was covered� TAYLOR Mhmm. FRIEND �but it was, like, three letters. Like an abbreviation. TAYLOR Now, the driver of the car, did you see his � FRIEND I promise you, ma�am, I did not really see his face. TAYLOR Okay, okay. NETTLES You think of anything else Keekee? TAYLOR No. When we ready for you I'm gonna call your phone. Imma tell you to come back in. FRIEND Ok. TAYLOR Oh my god Big Shiesty. Just got to get a real name on him. TAYLOR I�m glad we got her calmed down, because she�s going to be very helpful to this investigation. We got some pretty good leads. Me and Twin are going to try to find out who these two guys are. We�ll wait to see what they find inside the residence, the crime scene and we�ll see where we go from there. LADNIER Perfecta 9mm Luger. CHUCK Nothing else, uh, revealing at this moment. CREPEAU So you basically live alone? WOMAN Yes, sir. CREPEAU Who all has access to your house? WOMAN Nobody but me. CREPEAU And nobody was here? WOMAN No, sir. WOMAN I left last night. CREPEAU What time was that? WOMAN About 8PM something, I guess. CREPEAU So who would be coming to your house like maybe to meet somebody or something like that? WOMAN I don�t know. I don�t have a clue. I don�t know. CREPEAU Ok. So the seriousness of this is somebody lost their life. WOMAN Oh my God. CREPEAU Ok? Somebody lost their life, OK? And It happened inside your house. WOMAN Inside my house? CREPEAU Mhmm. There�s no forced entry to the house. So knowing that, you got to have some idea who would be in your house. WOMAN I swear to God, I don�t have a clue who come to my house. CREPEAU Definitely somebody was inside the house. So if the door was locked when you left last night, then sometime between last night and today, somebody went in your house, but they would�ve had to have had a key. WOMAN Don�t nobody have a key to my house but me, sir. WOMAN Nobody but me. CREPEAU Ok. Ok. Well I might have some more questions for you, but I think that�s it for right now, ok? WOMAN Ok. CREPEAU All right. CREPEAU She�s saying she don�t have a clue. She says as far as she knows when she left last night at 8pm her house was locked up. LADNIER It�s in the bedroom. LADNIER It�s like a four or five page damn love letter. LADNIER It was just sitting in the bedroom� CREPEAU Oh. LADNIER �like that person had been staying in that room, writing. CREPEAU Ahh. LADNIER Writing a love letter to his girlfriend. CREPEAU Oh. LADNIER It�s not something you just scribble out real quick. LADNIER Roderick Sykes. CREPEAU Sykes. LADNIER Roderick Sykes. His name came up in a shooting, but we thought the guy had shot himself. But they said Roderick had shot the guy. Her name was in that report. CREPEAU Mhmm. CREPEAU You want me to ask her if she knows Roderick? LADNIER Yeah, if you can. CREPEAU Roderick Sykes? LADNIER Yeah. CREPEAU Yes, ma�am, so let me ask you this, uh, who is a guy named Roderick Sykes? WOMAN That�s my grandson. CREPEAU Does he stay here? WOMAN No. CREPEAU Has he ever stayed here? WOMAN Never stayed here. WOMAN Now, a couple of days ago, him and his girlfriend came by here to sit on the porch� WOMAN �but he don�t, no, he don�t stay there. CREPEAU Could he have gotten in your house last night or this morning? WOMAN I don�t know because I wasn�t here. CREPEAU Ok WOMAN To tell you the truth, I don�t know. CREPEAU Ok. Thank you. WOMAN Uh-huh. CREPEAU It�s her grandson. LADNIER Roderick is. CREPEAU Mhmm. So that�s making sense. LADNIER There was a love letter inside the house. Roderick is the grandson of the homeowner. TAYLOR So, Roderick Sykes. Let�s see who Roderick Sykes is. He�s 18. TAYLOR We don�t have no good pictures in here. TAYLOR He deleted his page. NETTLES This is another page. LADNIER I think that�s him right there. NETTLES Yeah, baby. That�s going to be him Keekee. Because he�s got the tattoo on his neck. TAYLOR Yep. That�s him. That�s going to be OMGG Big Shiesty. TAYLOR Who that is right there? NETTLES So she posted that. She just shared that. NETTLES She was standing in front of a silver Altima. FRIEND A silver car, like, a Nissan Altima or a Nissan Maxima� FRIEND �they skrrt out from the back. TAYLOR That�s going to be the car. NETTLES Yeah. TAYLOR Print that. NETTLES That�s going to be the car. NETTLES This is her mom�s information. NETTLES Her mom has a Nissan Altima registered to her. TAYLOR I like it. My man Twin, always come through for ol� Keekee. Ready? NETTLES All right. TAYLOR We�re going to interview her, see what she can tell us. See if the car is here. Go from there. TAYLOR Mobile Police. How you doing? MOTHER Hi. TAYLOR Is your daughter here? MOTHER Uh uh. TAYLOR Do you mind if we check? MOTHER Yeah, you can have a look. MOTHER If she calls, I'll give y�all a call. TAYLOR Thank you. MOTHER All right. NETTLES She said that she hadn�t talked to her daughter all day long� NETTLES � �cause her daughter didn�t answer the phone� NETTLES �because she feels like she�s trying to get the car back. NETTLES Her daughter would�ve been at work from 9 to 2 o�clock� TAYLOR Mmm. NETTLES � so he would�ve had the car, but said that she don�t have a phone number for him. NETTLES Guess go back to headquarters? Regroup? TAYLOR Yep. Ain�t no telling where he at. TAYLOR He doesn�t have a stable address. The address that�s on his paperwork is going to be, uh, his mother�s address. Mom said that he doesn�t stay there because they don�t want him around. TAYLOR Go back and I�ll get with the victim�s friend and see if she can identify him in a photo lineup. TAYLOR We�re going to go in and see if she can pick any one out. TAYLOR You ready Twin? NETTLES Yeah. NETTLES What's going on, you doing all right? FRIEND Mm-hmm. TAYLOR What you been doing today? FRIEND Nothing, laying in bed. TAYLOR Oh you've been in the bed all day? FRIEND Yeah. TAYLOR Uh, so, we just going to do the photo line-up. But first I�ll let you read the instructions. Read that. FRIEND Him. FRIEND The first one. NETTLES Ok. FRIEND He was him. He had on a black skullcap. FRIEND That�s him. FRIEND I promise y�all that�s him. TAYLOR Uh, sign right here. Circle that number 1. Sign. NETTLES How much do you remember about the driver? FRIEND I don�t remember much about him. FRIEND He also had on a black skullcap. FRIEND I did not get a good look. NETTLES Ok. FRIEND I did not. NETTLES That�s fine. TAYLOR Be right back. NETTLES That�s what you call identification right there. TAYLOR She almost put a hole in that table. NETTLES I�ve never seen an identification that confident. TAYLOR Yeah, she�s sincere. So, it�s a positive ID. TAYLOR We don�t know if Roderick was the shooter. She saw two men after the shooting. We�ll pick this guy up, interview him and then see if he at that time tells us who was driving him on that day. TAYLOR Our suspect�s girlfriend, she called my phone, unexpected phone call, and said that her and her mom was coming to talk. TAYLOR Her car was used to leave the scene of the homicide on Sunday. The vehicle is not outside. So you know, once we get to talking to her we�ll get into where is her vehicle, just see what she has to say. TAYLOR You ready? NETTLES mm-hmm. TAYLOR How you doing? We meet again. MOTHER Hey. TAYLOR You doing all right? MOTHER Mhmm. TAYLOR So, um, how did this happen? MOTHER I told her to come on home. TAYLOR How did you get in contact with her? MOTHER She actually contacted me. NETTLES When did she finally get with you. MOTHER She got with me �round about 11 o�clock. TAYLOR She stayed with you all night? MOTHER Yes. TAYLOR What was she driving? MOTHER My Nissan Altima. TAYLOR So where is her Altima now? MOTHER My Altima is at my apartment. NETTLES Where is the keys at to that vehicle? MOTHER My daughter got �em. NETTLES Your daughter here? MOTHER No, my other daughter. NETTLES I got you. Now, in talking to your daughter that�s in the other room, has there been any conversation, any communication about why the police would want to talk to her? MOTHER No. NETTLES Honestly? MOTHER Honestly. NETTLES Ok. Have you asked her? MOTHER I did, but she didn�t want to tell me. TAYLOR So when you asked her about it, what does she say? MOTHER She don�t say nothing TAYLOR Just silence? MOTHER Mhmm. TAYLOR Ok. All right, well, we�re going to go and talk to her. MOTHER Ok. NETTLES Just give us a second, OK? LADNIER Is the car there? TAYLOR Yeah. The mom told us that the vehicle was at the house. CREPEAU Yeah, we�ll get a search warrant. CREPEAU Go visit the apartment. BARTON All right. TAYLOR How you doing? TAYLOR So I'm Detective Taylor. This is Detective Nettles. GIRLFRIEND Hello. TAYLOR And we're going to have a conversation with you. So, do you remember uh, Sunday? GIRLFRIEND Mhmm. TAYLOR Start from the morning and just walk me through your day. GIRLFRIEND Ok. GIRLFRIEND So, that morning, I was supposed to go to work. GIRLFRIEND But I didn�t have to because my co-worker, she wanted to take my shift. GIRLFRIEND So, not my blood sister but you know, like, my homegirl kind of sister� GIRLFRIEND � she needed somebody to watch her baby for her. GIRLFRIEND So I told her, since I was around the corner, I�d go get her baby. TAYLOR About what time? GIRLFRIEND Like, close to 10AM. TAYLOR Okay. Close to 10. Okay. GIRLFRIEND So, I got the baby, and I went back to where I was. TAYLOR Where was that? GIRLFRIEND Um, on Old Shell. TAYLOR Who is your boyfriend? GIRLFRIEND His name Roderick. TAYLOR Roderick what? GIRLFRIEND Sykes. TAYLOR Ok. GIRLFRIEND I was in the house, or whatever. TAYLOR Mhmm. GIRLFRIEND And he said he was gonna be gone for, like, 20 minutes. GIRLFRIEND And uh, like a couple minutes after he walked out the house� GIRLFRIEND �I heard some gunshots. GIRLFRIEND And, after I heard the gunshots, he came in and he was like� GIRLFRIEND �We gotta go �cause, like, this man just tried to rob me.� TAYLOR About how many gunshots did you hear? GIRLFRIEND I heard about three. GIRLFRIEND When I heard the shots, I had got on the ground. NETTLES Ok. GIRLFRIEND So, like, when the shots went off, like, I stayed on the ground until the end of the shots. GIRLFRIEND Then, I got up to go see if it was him. GIRLFRIEND Did, like, did he get shot? But, by time I could get up, he came in� GIRLFRIEND �he grabbed the baby, he grabbed me. He was like� GIRLFRIEND �We gotta go. The dude just tried to rob me.� GIRLFRIEND And we rushed out the house. TAYLOR When y�all left, what door did y'all leave out of? GIRLFRIEND The back door. TAYLOR Ok, did you see anything? GIRLFRIEND I seen, like, he was laid out like this. TAYLOR Mhmm. GIRLFRIEND I had kinda looked, but he was like, �Don�t look that way,� you know. GIRLFRIEND And then we got in the car, and then we just drove off. NETTLES Was anybody else with you other than you and your boyfriend? GIRLFRIEND No, it was just me, him and the baby. TAYLOR When y'all left who was driving? GIRLFRIEND Uh, he drove. TAYLOR Tell me how y'all got in the car? GIRLFRIEND The passenger side. TAYLOR Who got in first? GIRLFRIEND I got in. I sat on the side, and he jumped in across me �cause I had to get the baby. TAYLOR Did you hear any talking or anything? GIRLFRIEND Not too long before when he walked out the house, he was on the phone. GIRLFRIEND He was like, �You wanna sell your gun?� GIRLFRIEND And he was like, � I got some money.� He said, �I�ll give you $150 for it.� NETTLES So, he's talking on the phone, and then Roderick tells you that he has to leave. GIRLFRIEND Soon as they got off the phone� GIRLFRIEND �he was like, �I�m finna go sell my gun.� GIRLFRIEND Then� GIRLFRIEND �like, fives minutes later, I heard gunshots. NETTLES At what point did he tell you that he shot him? GIRLFRIEND He didn�t. GIRLFRIEND He just told me, he was just like, �Bruh tried to rob me.� GIRLFRIEND And all he kept telling me was he tried to defend hisself. GIRLFRIEND He was just like, �He thought I was weak. He just tried to take my gun.� GIRLFRIEND Like, �He just tried take my gun and just leave me with nothing.� NETTLES Are you sure that it wasn�t the other way around, where Roderick was trying to rob him? GIRLFRIEND No. GIRLFRIEND I don�t think so. NETTLES I mean, 'cause he got, 'cause � NETTLES Greed is, is what kill people. GIRLFRIEND True. True, true, true. NETTLES I want to ask you this question and I expect an honest answer, Ok? GIRLFRIEND Ok. NETTLES Did you shoot anybody? GIRLFRIEND No, I didn�t. NETTLES And you're saying that nobody else was there with him. GIRLFRIEND No, sir. TAYLOR Where is he now? GIRLFRIEND I don�t know. I left him Monday, Monday morning. GIRLFRIEND I dropped him off by DIP Way. GIRLFRIEND He told me he was gonna call me, but he didn�t call me yet. NETTLES You have a phone number? GIRLFRIEND No, he just call me on Facebook. NETTLES Anything else, Keekee? TAYLOR Not right now. NETTLES All right. TAYLOR We�ll be right back. NETTLES A, she ain�t the driver. NETTLES B, she�s saying that she didn�t shoot, so. TAYLOR Mhmm. NETTLES Because, like, even if she was the driver, that�d put her in a bad spot. TAYLOR Right. She was just at the house with him and then one thing led to another. TAYLOR The witness assumed that two males entered the vehicle, but it was actually Roderick and his girlfriend. TAYLOR She said they used the passenger side of the car she gets in with the baby. He crosses over her gets in the driver�s seat. TAYLOR That�s going to be our shooter. LADNIER Yeah. TAYLOR Only thing now is finding him. Just hope that throughout the days to come we get some more definite information on a location to try to get him in custody. ROGERS Silver Nissan? That it right there? GRAVES Yup. ROGERS Yeah that�s it. GRAVES They said the girl in the apartment�s got keys ROGERS Ok. WOMAN Who is it? ROGERS Mobile Police. WOMAN Who? ROGERS Mobile! How you doing? WOMAN Fine. ROGERS Doing all right? ROGERS Anybody else, uh, here with you? WOMAN No. ROGERS No? WOMAN Just me and the baby. ROGERS Ok. All right. Step outside for me. Stand right here. ROGERS Nah-hah. Hey, Let me see your hands. Up in the air. Come on. Come on. ROGERS Keep your hands in the air. SYKES They�re on the roof, sir. ROGERS Come on, keep them on the roof. GRAVES Keep �em on the roof. GRAVES Start walking backwards towards us. ROGERS Crawl back. There you go. GRAVES Yeah, you good man. Keep walking back. Keep walking back. Yep. You good. ROGERS What�s your name, man. SYKES My real name? ROGERS Yeah your real name. SYKES Roderick. ROGERS You�re good. We�re going to head out, all right? ROGERS I could see a tall subject in the back, so I asked the female, �Hey, who�s in the back? Is it just the little baby?� She said yes, so when she said that I knew that that had to be my suspect in the back, because if it was anybody else she would have said that person�s name. ROGERS He�s scared. He�s a young guy, you know, he�s messing with a case that could mess up his life. Thing about it is that you can�t run forever. At some point you have to face your actions. NETTLES He was in that apartment. LADNIER He was at the apartment. NETTLES Yeah. TAYLOR That�s good. NETTLES Sweet. TAYLOR Hey, switch chairs with me. TAYLOR How you doing? I'm Detective Taylor. This is Detective Nettles. At this time do you wish to talk to us? SYKES Yeah, yeah. TAYLOR Ok. All right. What I want you to do is walk me through your day on Sunday and tell me what took place Sunday. SYKES I can�t tell you exactly everything� SYKES �but I can tell you about what happened. SYKES We got on video chat, or whatever. TAYLOR When you say we? SYKES Me and the person. SYKES So I told him I got him something. SYKES I sold him guns before, you feel me? SYKES Usually, we�ll meet somewhere, but this time, he tell me he�s finna pull up. SYKES So he get there, tell me he outside� SYKES When he walk up to me, he had the weed in his hand, you feel me? SYKES He gonna give me some weed and the money for the gun. SYKES I still ain�t see the money, all right? SYKES He was like, �You sell me the gun?� I was like, �Yeah.� SYKES So he was like, �Let me see.� SYKES As I turn a little bit� SYKES �he�s, like, right here. SYKES Like, he can grab the gun, so that�s when I just started shooting. SYKES �Cause I ain�t know what to do, you feel me? TAYLOR All right. So, let�s back track. So y�all discuss you selling him a gun? SYKES Yes, ma�am. TAYLOR What kind of gun were you going to sell him? SYKES It was a, um, Smith and Wesson. TAYLOR What caliber? SYKES 9mm. NETTLES Did he reach out to you, or did you reach out to him? SYKES I wanna say I called him, but I really can�t tell you. NETTLES No, no, I got you. SYKES I deleted the messages, sir. NETTLES Ok. TAYLOR All right, so what was the agreement? SYKES Um, he�d give me $145 and 8 grams. SYKES But when he got there, he told me, �I�ll give you $130 for it and 10 grams,� you feel me? SYKES But I never seen no money. SYKES All I seen was weed. TAYLOR Let me ask you this, the marijuana that you said he had out what did he have it in? SYKES It was, like, a little clear bag. TAYLOR Like a sandwich bag? SYKES Yes, ma�am. SYKES He had a scale too, �cause he had put it on the scale. He was like� SYKES �Matter of fact, I got you 10 grams. Look, it says 10.2 on the scale.� NETTLES Did he have any additional marijuana with him? SYKES Oh, I don�t know, sir. NETTLES Ok. TAYLOR And so when you said that he had the weed out? SYKES Yeah, he had some weed in his hand. SYKES And he was like, �You selling me the gun?� SYKES And I was like, �Yeah.� So he was like, �Let me see.� SYKES That�s when he stood up. SYKES I guess he thought I was going to give it to him. SYKES Boom, he came to me. I hopped on the step. SYKES And I hop back, got on the door. SYKES The door was just right there. I already had left the back door open and everything. SYKES Boom, I get back. He�s still coming towards me. SYKES So that�s when he grabbed a green, a gun with a green flag on it. NETTLES When you say a green flag? SYKES Yeah, it had a green flag on it. NETTLES What is that, what is a flag? SYKES Like, a green cloth. SYKES It had a green flag. NETTLES Do you know for certain that it was a gun? Or did you just think it was a gun? SYKES I don�t know, sir, but I know he got guns. NETTLES I get that you�ve given him guns in the past. SYKES Yes, sir, I don�t know. NETTLES But, but, I'm talking about, in this moment, do you remember seeing a gun, or do you remember seeing something green and you thought it was a gun? SYKES A green flag. I seen him grab something green. NETTLES What I'm asking you is did you see a gun? NETTLES Do you know, for certain, that you saw him with a gun? SYKES No, sir. TAYLOR So let's clarify this, he reached. You saw something green, but you ain�t seen no gun. SYKES I ain�t gonna say I didn�t see no gun, ma�am. TAYLOR Well you already said you didn�t. SYKES No, I didn�t. SYKES I just seen him grab a green, saw a gun with a� TAYLOR No, No, Listen. You already said you just saw something green. A flag, but you didn�t see a gun. SYKES But. Yes, ma�am. TAYLOR So, let me ask you this, the marijuana that you said he had out and he put some on a scale, what happened to it? SYKES It�s gone. I ain�t gonna lie to you. I had the weed, I, you feel me? TAYLOR You didn�t take the other weed? SYKES What other weed? TAYLOR Exactly. TAYLOR Know why he was reaching down and grabbing? SYKES Why? TAYLOR That�s where the rest of the weed was. He reached, but you didn�t see no gun. Because there was no gun. It was more marijuana. SYKES But I don�t understand that though. SYKES So he ain�t have no gun? SYKES But he did try to take mine, ma�am. SYKES I promise you. He did try to do what he did, and I thought� SYKES Man, I don�t know where my head went. I just was like� TAYLOR Here�s the thing, you�re 18 right? SYKES Yes, ma�am. TAYLOR At some point you knew something like this would happen. Now I'm sitting in here talking to you like you was my little brother. SYKES Yes, ma�am. TAYLOR So, when you live your life, and you know what I'm talking about, when you live the street life, you cannot live your life recklessly, like you have been doing, and a day like this don�t come. It just don't work like that. When you in the streets like this and you're selling guns and choosing to do this lifestyle that you�re living instead of going out and getting you a job and going to college and making something of yourself. You chose this other road, so at some point, this day was going to come. It�s just sooner than later. Now, I don't know where you're going to go from here, as far as with your life, but what I do know is that you got to answer for what happened Sunday. SYKES Yes, ma�am. TAYLOR And it ain�t � this right here, you being here, it ain�t nobody fault. Because you had choices, you had decisions, and then consequences that come behind it whether it�s good or bad, do you understand? SYKES Yes, ma�am. TAYLOR All right. TAYLOR So he basically told us that he gave the young man his address to come buy a gun, and that the young man, you know, tried to rob him and he shot him. TAYLOR I personally believe he only said that to try to make a self-defense motive for him self. He took a young man�s life for nothing. It was a senseless murder. TAYLOR You know the choices he made that day is going to change his life as he know it. TAYLOR Come on, we�re going to take you upstairs and get you processed. TAYLOR This way. NETTLES They ain�t tell on you. NETTLES You know how we found out you was in that apartment? SYKES Her mom? NETTLES Nah, she didn�t tell us. We was coming to get the keys for the car. NETTLES You can�t get mad at nobody but yourself. NETTLES It ain�t the end of the world for you, just know that. SYKES Yes, sir. OFFICER Stand where�s she standing for me please. I�m gonna take your picture. NETTLES Especially when you compare your situation to his. You get what I�m saying? TAYLOR You�re still here. This way. TAYLOR Most of the time they�ll look for someone to blame, but you know, like I told him, in life we all have choices, decisions and consequences and so this is the consequences of the way he�s been living his life. Instead of going home, or going to his girlfriend�s house to visit her, he�s gonna be going to Mobile County Metro Jail for murder. CHRISTIE Tyriek was a very outspoken, loving, caring, happy individual. He was a wonderful kid. CHRISTIE He was getting ready to graduate from High School. I was extremely proud of that, and I�m also honored that I was able to walk for him since he couldn�t. We just all around miss him, wholeheartedly. MABEL It�s hard. Why would a young person want to kill another young person? When you lose someone like that, seems like part of you went with him. CHRISTIE Any parents that have lost their kids, I honestly now can say I know how it feels. And my heart just goes out to you all, because losing a child is one of the most devastating things I have ever came across in my life. CHRISTIE Parents, if you have kids protect your kids. Lord knows I wish I could have been there to protect mine. CHRISTIE We need the younger generation to put the guns down, stop the violence, It�s not worth it. Please put the guns down. NARRATEUR First responders arrive and find a young man on the back porch of a house shot several times, but still breathing. He is rushed to the hospital, but doctors can�t save him. for homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half if they don�t get a lead within the first 48 hours. detective kenyada �keekee� taylor became an officer in 2005 when mobile pd recruited her through an honors program at williamson high school. tyriek esters was just a week away from his 19th birthday� and two months away from graduating From williamson high school. He planned to attend college and start his own car wash business. Tyriek leaves behind his mother, three sisters and three brothers. The friend told officers she waited in the car while tyriek and the man walked to the backyard. She said moments later, she saw a black male, carrying a child, jump into a car and flee the scene. When responding officers arrived, the back door of the home was unlocked, but no one was inside. Tyriek�s friend, who called 911, was with him. A relative called the homeowner, and she agreed to meet at the scene. Tyriek was shot three times � in the chest, stomach and leg. Detectives believe the shooter was inside the house when he fired at tyriek. Tyriek�s friend receives a call and learns that he didn�t survive. The friend will be taken to homicide. Taylor and cpl. Julius nettles will interview the victim�s friend. corporal jermaine rogers will take the search warrant to the Crime scene. She says she thought they were heading to the corner store, but they ended up at The house where the shooting occurred. She says the man who met tyriek jumped into the passenger seat holding a young Child and a second man climbed over him into the driver�s seat. She says she grabbed tyriek�s phone and opened his texts to give the operator Their address. She says she tried to look up omg big shiesty on facebook, but he had deleted his Account. She shows taylor the text exchange. After the search warrant arrives� The team finds two 9mm casings in the back room near the porch� and one in the Yard. While the search continues� Sgt. Nick crepeau speaks with the homeowner, who just arrived on scene. Inside, the team finds a possible lead. A letter addressed to a woman. Lieutenant stan ladnier looks up the woman the letter was written to� and finds Her name in a recent police report that also names her boyfriend. A week ago, the woman was with roderick when he was rumored to have shot Another man, but both of them were cleared of any wrongdoing. She says she went to spend the night with a friend and locked her house when she Left. Crepeau follows up with the homeowner. Back at headquarters, 18-year old roderick sykes doesn�t have a record. Nettles searches social media� � and finds a page belonging to roderick�s girlfriend. The girlfriend posts a new photo. Detectives head out to an address for roderick�s girlfriend. The girlfriend�s mother answers the door. The woman says her daughter and roderick borrowed her car yesterday, but she Hasn�t seen them since. According to the girlfriend�s mother, roderick moves from place to place. Thirty hours since tyriek�s murder� The team turns back to his friend. The witness identifies roderick sykes as the man tyriek met at the house where he Was murdered. The team hits the streets hoping to find roderick or his girlfriend� But as the clock winds down, they�re nowhere to be found. In the first 48, mobile homicide responded to the murder of 18-year old tyriek Esters, gunned down outside a house. Learned tyriek�s friend saw two black males flee the scene in a silver nissan� Found a love letter at the crime scene left behind by 18-year old roderick sykes. Discovered roderick�s girlfriend drives a silver nissan altima. Got a positive id on roderick from the victim�s friend. But have not been able to find him. two days later, Taylor and nettles start with the girlfriend�s mother. While rogers and detective rory graves head to the mother�s apartment to search The nissan� Taylor and nettles sit down with Roderick�s girlfriend. She says she brought the child back to a house where she was staying with her Boyfriend. She says she saw the victim, but didn�t know if he was alive or dead. She says roderick was behind the wheel, and she was in the passenger seat holding The child. She says, before roderick left to meet the victim, she overheard their Conversation. She says she hasn�t seen roderick since she dropped him off at a convenience store The day after the murder. The team believes roderick�s girlfriend was not involved in the shooting. As detectives arrive to search the getaway car� The girlfriend�s sister answers the door. Rogers catches sight of a man in the back room. Roderick sykes is taken into custody. Nettles and crepeau will take roderick to headquarters for questioning� While rogers and graves stay behind to search the nissan and the apartment for The murder weapon. He says when tyriek arrived at the house he told him to meet him in the backyard. He says, after he shot tyriek, he took the baggie of marijuana and fled the scene. Four days after tyriek esters was gunned down, roderick sykes is charged with his Murder. one year later, Tyriek�s family gathers to celebrate what would�ve been his 20th birthday. One hour in� Nettles looks up the girlfriend. Then then 1