June 23, 2026

Eight Times: The Murder of Tyrita Julius

Eight Times: The Murder of Tyrita Julius
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Season 10

In November 2015, 41-year-old Tyrita Julius was sitting in her car in Linden, New Jersey with her 15-year-old daughter when a gunman opened fire, striking her eight times at close range. Against all odds, Tyrita survived the brutal attack and began the painful process of physical recovery. But just as she was trying to rebuild her life, she vanished in March 2016.

Five months later, her body was discovered wrapped in garbage bags and buried under three feet of soil in a Long Branch backyard — an electrical cord still wrapped around her neck. What investigators uncovered next was even more chilling: the same person behind the initial shooting had orchestrated her murder. This is the disturbing true story of obsession, betrayal, and a relationship that turned deadly.

We examine how a jealous ex-girlfriend allegedly enlisted an accomplice to carry out not one, but two violent attacks on the woman she claimed to love. From the dramatic investigation that connected the crimes, to the courtroom testimony that exposed the truth, this episode explores one mother’s fight for survival and the calculated cruelty that ultimately took her life.

Timestamps
11:29 A New Love
16:02 After the Ambush
24:24 Miraculous Recovery
30:44 Disappearance at the Station
44:46 Phone Records Breakthrough
52:25 Andre Comes Into Focus
1:01:40 The Backyard Grave
1:09:28 Arrests and Sentencing

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast. Or I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,

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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,

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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, kJ

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you're back with an episode of Unspeakable? Are you good?

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Are you okay? Because I know we had to go

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four episodes in the last series, I'm gonna do you

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a solid today, and while I really wanted this one

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to be two episodes because there was so much going on,

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I get you a solid and we're just gonna have

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a longer episode today so that I don't break it

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up into two, and I trimmed it down a little

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bit to where you don't you can have the whole

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thing in one sitting. You earned that. You earned that

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after a following with me on the last series. So

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before I get started, I do have some shout outs

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that I want to do, and we are going to

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go to Crawford, Texas, where Amy Derek is. Hey, Amy,

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how are you doing over there? I hope you're having

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a wonderful week, and I hope that you can see

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me waving on the camera. You're watching me podcast right now,

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and I'm just glad to have you. I'm thankful for you,

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and I appreciate your support of my show. It means

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everything as as always, so thank you so much. And

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then we're gonna go to Saint John, Indiana, where Mitzi

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Berdanici lives. Well, hello, Mitzi, how are you? Why went

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over there? What a precious name. By the way, Mitzi

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is so precious. I love that. And I am just

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over the moon again that you think enough of me

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to support the show and to join. So I'm waving

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at you on camera. I'm so thankful for you. And

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let's jump into this week's episode. So we are going

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to go to New Jersey for this one, and I've

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actually been there, believe it or not. I love taking

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in the sights. I know that there's lots of claim

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to fame for New Jersey, but the strangest one that

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I would have to say is that New Jersey is

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the only state if you didn't know this with an

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official monster. Yeah, you heard me right. Most states have

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a state bird or a state flower, but New Jersey said,

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holding my bear, and they got them a whole last monster.

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So the description of this was the creature had a

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head of a horse, the torso of a man, the

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feet of a goat, leathery bat like wings, and a

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long serpentine tail. And that's of course according to the legend.

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What is the name of the New Jersey's monster, Well,

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it's the Jersey Devil. So hey, the more you know,

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and to this day, sightings of the beast are still

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reported online if you look that up. So according to

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the story, you know it goes back two hundred and

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fifty years. The Jersey Devil was the thirteenth child of

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Jane Leeds who lived at the edge of a swamp

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along the Mullica River, and she wished for a devil,

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according to the story, and she got one. So you

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can ponder that whole thing while I get on to

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a more credible chain of events that will have you

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believing that monsters really might be real. So I was

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twenty fifteen when a large group of motorcycle enthusiasts were

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having a get together and this would bring about a

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first encounter between two people. There's nothing better than sparks

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flying with someone who shares your love of a hobby.

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What more do you want? You know, someone who's doing

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the same things that you love, and not to mention,

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you think they're pretty dad gumb attractive. Well, this motorcycle

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group you may have heard of, and I'm gonna ask you,

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does rough Riders sound familiar? Because admittedly my knowledge of

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Roughriders goes as deep as DMX is roughrider's anthem where

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I learned at a very young age to stop, drop,

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shut them down, and open up shop. Okay, I kid, obviously,

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but for real. The music video even opens up with

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some motorcycle stunts, if you remember that video from Back

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in the Gap. But I'm not a motorcycle gal, so

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I had to look up some stuff about these Rough

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Riders to get a feel for the vibe of the club,

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and what I found was that there are different chapters

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of these New Jersey clubs. Although this club is global,

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so whether you're remember from Jersey City, Burlington, Middlesex County,

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they all seem to function the same way county to county,

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and so this group is rooted in what they say

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is unity, hip hop culture and a community of service.

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So those lyrics of the rough Rider anthem differ quite

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I'll say slightly, but it's quite a big difference from

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that professional, goal oriented statement I just gave you. But

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you get the point, okay. Well. Tyrita Julius was a

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woman who loved being in that mix. Back in twenty

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fifteen and the Middle Sex chapter of the rough Riders

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was a really small one. It only had about ten

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members in this group. But the thing was when they

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would go have their meetups. Not everyone who went to

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their bike nights for the group were actually rids. Tyreta

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had ridden a bike briefly, but that was no longer

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her thing. I did look at some pictures and it

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was like crotch rockets, you know. These weren't big Harley's

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or anything like that. But even though she wasn't riding anymore,

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she bonded with other women from the group as they

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got to know one another at these bike nights and

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everyone knew that TGI Fridays in London was the spot

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to be at for a good time, and one of

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the best friends from the group was a woman named Jennifer.

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So Jennifer saw in Tyrito what I guess everyone else

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did for sure, a fun, outgoing, joyful, and compassionate woman

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who just made people feel at home and cared for

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from the jump, and the two women after they met,

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would remain best friends for years. They were always together

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and they attended events and family functions with one another,

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always having fun, enjoying each other's company, and just really

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being what you would want from a best friend. So

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a little more about Tyrita real quick. She wasn't married,

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but she was the proud mother of two children. Years prior,

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she had met a man his name was Jamar, who

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she instantly had become very smitten with. Something about his

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chill and relaxed demeanor was very attractive to her, and

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Jamar really acted as a calm present in her busy,

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busy life, and he kept her grounded. So it wasn't

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long before they moved in, and although they never spoke

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of marriage, it was clear that they were devoted to

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one another and that they were going to build a

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life together, and that life they were building together would

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soon be more like growing together because a year into

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their relationship they were expecting a baby boy, and Dante

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would make his little appearance to this world nine months later,

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and was such a handsome little fella. That bond between

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mother and son was instantaneous. His perfect eyes and his

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little nose and those tee tiny little toes. What a

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perfect little gentleman she had just delivered into this world.

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She was in love. They were absolutely in love. And

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just a short time later, those two pink lines would

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show up again, but this time a little more heavy

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on the pink, because Tyrita was getting her little girl. Ah,

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you know, the excitement of having one of each. Just

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how exciting is that I have my boy and now

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I'm gonna get my girl? And when little miss Mayham

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made her entrance into the world, she was just as

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beautiful as Tyreta imagined she would be, and she would

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be named Chanelle for that very reason. Beautiful but also

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really expensive. Right, So this was literal heaven on earth,

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and Tyrita couldn't have loved her babies anymore than she did.

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I mean, it wasn't possible. And while Tyrita was head

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over heels for her children, Jamar was showing himself to

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be less than enthused about it, and the truth be told,

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maybe that's why he never popped the question, because he

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really was not built for this fatherhood gig. And while

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wildly heartbreaking, Tyreta realized that this wasn't what she wanted

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for her children and that they deserved better in life.

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And so did she. You know, she did a partner,

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not someone who just sat at the house with her

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and went to work and didn't want to be a

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part of things. The reality was that Tyreta's own father

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had been an absentee in her life and she did

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not want that for her children. Lucky for Tyreta, her

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own grandmother and her aunts and her uncles. They were

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there to fill the void when Tyrita was little, so

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she never went without. So with that in mind, Tyreta

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made the decision to end things with Jamar. She wasn't

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going to beg a man to love and care for

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her or her children. So her mentality was more of like, look,

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I'd rather do it my day, I'm self than to

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just have somebody be here who doesn't want to be here.

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And so that's just what she did for the next

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years to come. Her precious baby boy, Dante was now

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already attending college in twenty fifteen. His pesky little sister, Chanelle,

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she was fifteen now and she was in high school.

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So time had gone by and Tyreta was just handling business.

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She was being the mama that she knew she had

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to be. Time was flying, but they remained this tight,

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little knit family, all three of them living together as

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a small but happy family. So Tyreta decided to make

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her home close to her mama's. And by the way,

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her mama's name was Queen, so I'm gonna call her

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Miss Queen. So she made the house close to Miss

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Queen as well as other family members that lived close by,

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and it made being with family easy, which was something

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that Tyreta loved and wanted for her kids. Now more

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mature and certainly more confident in her ability to take

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care of herself and her kids alone, Tyreta was able

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to relax and she was enjoying her life. She was

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a very hard worker and she had made her career

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over the years as an administrative assistant at Rutgers University Hospital.

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Because of her consistency and her stability in life, she

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was financially independent. She was now having these bigger dreams

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of buying a large home where her mama could move

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in with her, and she could take care of her

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mama as she got older. Just family oriented. There's nothing

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stronger than the examples that Tyrita was giving us here.

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But until that dream was realized, Tyreta was buckled down

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and she was just doing her thing. She did casually

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date throughout the years after Jamar Okay, but nothing really stuck.

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She wanted someone who was in it for real, not

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just a good time, and her main focus was her children.

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They would always come first no matter what. But that's

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when something changed. In August of twenty fifteen, at a

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motorcycle event, Tyreta met a man by the name of

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Hassan Nicely. He was a member of another motorcycle club,

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but he was at this event and so they had

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that in common. As they talked throughout the evening, they

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just had a lot of interest in one another. The

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sparks were flying and they exchanged numbers, and very quickly

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thereafter they were pretty much a couple. A few months

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would pass and things were just going really, really well.

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They did things not only as a couple but also

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as a family, really very wholesome things, like they would

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go to basketball games together, they would go out to dinner.

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They really enjoyed being together. It was November twenty fourth

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when Dante had a college basketball game that he had

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been preparing hard for and he was stoked that all

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of his people were going to be at his game

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to see him shine. Mom, of course, little sister, and

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mister Hassan. Hopefully, he was going to have the best

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game of his life. He was going to make his

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mama and his sister proud, but also he was going

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to show mister Hassan exactly what he was made of

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on that court. So the plan was to leave around

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seven pm. They were going to ride together to get

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to the game. By they, I mean Tyrita and her

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mother were gonna ride and they would go meet up

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at the game. So Tyta was ready first, and she

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was gonna be the one driving. So she gathered her

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purse and grabbed her things, took one last look in

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the mirror to make sure she was looking good, and

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she walked out of the door to go get into

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the car. And so she was gonna get into the

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driver's seat, and so she yells out, come on Chanelle,

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we gotta go, and Chanelle yells back, just another second, Mama,

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I'm almost ready. So Chanelle was finishing up hopefully. Mama

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was like, cool, whatever, I'm gonna go out to the car.

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I'll cool it down and i'll wait for you there.

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So she walks outside, she gets in the car, and

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she's thinking to herself that girl better hurry up. We

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are gonna be late. And right as she thought those thoughts,

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little miss Chanelle came walking right out the house. Perfect.

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They were going to be on time. So Chanelle be

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bopped to the passenger side of the car, got in,

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shut the door, and just as Tyrita put the car

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in drive, ear piercing explosions, one after the other started

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going off in the car. The sound was so loud

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that it defied all common noise that they were used

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to hearing. It was ear shattering, and both women instinctively

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ducked and they tried to cover their ears to try

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to stop the sound from just exploding. But that's when

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a burning pain started shooting through both of their bodies.

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And as the explosions continued and the glass shattered everywhere,

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Tyreta realized they were under attack and She punched the

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gas pedal to the floor, trying to speed away from

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whatever was happening, and as the car peeled out, the

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car tore on down the road. The explosions started to

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make a distance from the vehicle and they just stopped.

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At that point. They stopped as quickly as they had started,

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and the car was still barreling down the road when

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Tyreta looked down to see blood pouring from her body

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and realizing that she had been shot numerous times. She

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was losing consciousness, but she knew she had to save

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her baby girl and continue to create distance between whatever

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was happening in that car and her child. It was

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like slow motion, now slow silent motion, as Tyrita looked

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at herself bleeding, and then she turned and she looked

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over at Chanel, who was also wounded and covered in

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shattered glass. The wind was blowing in through that open window,

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just slow motion, confusing chaos. And then Tyreta felt her

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body becoming weaker, just slowly, really just weakening. Things got

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dark and her body gave out. The car continued forward.

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It ran over a stop sign before it crashed into

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a tree boom. Before it crashed into a pole After

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the shock and the impact and the smoke began to settle,

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Chanelle was able to get her bearings. Was someone following them?

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What was going on? Oh my god, she's looking around, mom, mom,

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And all she saw was her Mama slumped over the

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driver's seat, and Chanelle realized how serious of a problem

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they were both in. She struggled. She looked around to

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get her cell phone, but she was able to get

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it and then immediately place a call to nine one one,

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begging for help. And when that dispatcher picked up, she

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told her, please please send help. My mom and I

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we've been shot. Help us. Within seconds, well really it

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felt like hours, but it was truly minutes, police and

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medical rushed to the scene and they found forty one

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year old Tyreta and fifteen year old Chanel in really

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really bad shape. Bullets had been flying into the car

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at rapid pace. Just how many times they had been

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shot was scary, I mean, the sheer number of bullets.

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But a miracle would come out of this. As Chanelle

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was assessed, she was found to have only have been

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grazed on the chin by the bullets that had barely

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missed her skull, as well as being only grazed on

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the wrist, What easily could have been an execution was

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found to have been near misses of epic proportion. If

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you don't believe in miracles, this one has to at

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least be close in your mind. The instinctual movements that

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child made in seconds as the explosions happened were the

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difference between execution and scratches. As for her mama, though

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she wasn't so lucky. Tyrita was rushed into surgery, and

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when surgery was completed, she had survived for the moment,

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but she was now in ICU and she was on

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a ventilator. By this point, family and friends were now

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swarming the hospital to try and make sense of this tragedy.

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Poor Dante, he's over at a basketball game, trying to

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get ready, and now he gets the news. And his grandmother,

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Grandma Queen, she gets the news. They all rush over

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and they're in the waiting room, not knowing even what

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to think. What do you mean? What do you mean?

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My mom and my sister were shot. They were attacked

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by somebody? How and why? All of these questions running

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through their minds, with absolutely no concept of what could

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have possibly occurred, and Grandma Queen is sitting back in

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this chair and all she could think was the fact

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that someone had wanted to shoot her child, not only

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that they wanted to shoot her grandbaby. What kind of

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monster would do that? Someone want her child dead? This

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had to be a random act of violence or mistaken identity,

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because no one could fathom who would want to do this.

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Thank God, Miss Queen and the family they weren't alone

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because family and friends continued to show up. They rallied

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around Tyreta's family and they wanted to be extremely supportive

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in the process. But all they could do now was

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thank God that Chanelle was alive and well, and then

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wait and pray to see if Tyreta would pull through

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or not. Back at the crime scene, detectives assess the

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site and what they found was that someone had absolutely,

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without question, tried to kill both Chanel and Tyreta. In total,

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they found eight bullet casings on the ground around where

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the car's original position had been, and they were determined

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to be from a nine million handgun. So when detectives

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arrived at the hospital, they realized, thankfully that Chanelle was

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going to be okay and that she was okay to

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speak with them and could maybe give them more insight

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as to what had happened in that moment. So young

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Chanelle was brave and when when they got there, She's like, yes,

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I can talk to you. I'd like to talk to you.

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And she explained to them that when she got into

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the car, they were just heading to the game. As

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she shut the door, she said she looked up and

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a man that she described as husky approached the car window,

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but before she could do anything, she saw the gun.

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He pointed it at her and just began rapidly firing.

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She also said with confidence that he was a black male.

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So police go back to the scene and they start

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canvassing the area around the home to see if anyone

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had seen anything, heard anything, could they say anything to

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police that might help, And to their surprise, witnesses were everywhere.

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They describe seeing the exact same thing as far as

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description of a blackmail walking right past where the shooting

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had taken place. So this seemed to be a solid

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lead as far as description of what the shooter might

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look like. So cameras would obviously be the best next

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thing if they could locate any in the area. So

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they went on the hunt looking for them, and sure enough,

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detectives were able to locate some cameras which showed a

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man fitting again that exact same description running from the scene. Well, okay,

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let's be real, running might be a bit of a stretch,

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but he was getting away from the scene quickly, quickly,

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but he was a big guy. With that, it was

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pretty much the only evidence that would be found. So

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detectives wanted to learn more about this bike club that

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Tyrita was a part of. Once they gathered more information

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about Tyrita, the truth be told. Detectives really were like, okay,

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this is a biker gang. Okay, this must not be

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a club, right, So they go and they meet with

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some of the members and when they do this, the

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lyrics of DMX's song that we all know too well.

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They found no way, in no way encompassed what this

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group was about. Sure, it was a group of people

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who had each other's backs and they liked to be

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edgy and you know, cultural and moral on a hip

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hop vibe, but the group was one that was very

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much tied to doing good in the community. This was

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absolutely a social club, is what they found. They did

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things like book bag drives and handing out toiletries to

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people that were in need. That was really their thing.

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So to think that this was possibly a biker gang

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was really laughable very quickly, and it wiped that theory

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that maybe this was a gang related shooting just right

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off the theory list. It was done the people in

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the club all so wanted to help in any way

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that they could to help figure out who had shot

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their friend. This included her very good friend, Jennifer, Jennifer Sweeney,

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and that's who Tyreta had become very tight with very

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on in the group. Jennifer just a little bit about her,

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because I hadn't said much. She came from a very

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good family, a long line of educators. Historically, both her

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mother and her grandmother were teachers, and so that need

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to care and nurture was something that Jennifer was very

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used to in her life. She however, did not want

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to be a teacher. That was not her thing. She

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was much more mechanical and so she had a really

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good job working as a technician for an electrical company.

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So Jennifer had been on her way to a rough

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rider's event whenever she got the call from another writer

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that Tyrita had been shot. As we all would imagine,

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she was horrified, She was shocked, and she was then

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also beside herself to know that not only had her

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best friend been shot but also her teenage daughter. My god,

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you know, she didn't realize at that moment. She was

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just grazed, but to think, who shoulds a mother and

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a daughter? So she immediately whipped her car around, sped

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to the hospital and running through the doors, she looked

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for the family, where she immediately wrapped them up in hugs.

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No words were even necessary. Everyone knew how dire this

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situation was, so that's really where things were. And then

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ten days would pass after the attack took place, when

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prayers were answered. Very rarely do I get to do

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a podcast or I get to say that, but prayers

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were answered here. Tyreta woke up. Not only did she

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wake up, but she was able to be removed from

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the ventilator. I mean, incredibly, she was alive. How many

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people have you ever heard of being shot eight times

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other than fifty cent or you know Baron Lee that

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I mentioned in a previous episode. How many people do

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you know that get shot that many times and survive it?

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This is a miracle amongst miracles. So that's two now

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in one story. Not only that, but she was able

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to speak and true to character. The very first thing

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that she said when she woke up was where are

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my kids? How is Chanel? Is she okay? Knowing that

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her baby girl was okay and learning that she was

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going to be just fine was relief unlike any other

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that she could experience. And I know I'm the one

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telling the story, but I have goosebumps right now. If

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you're watching me podcast, what a beautiful moment. Everyone's okay,

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Everybody's alive. And the fact of the matter was that

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whenever Tyreta tore off in that car and gassed that

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gas pedal down to the floor, she saved both of

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their lives, and within seconds her daughter had completed that

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task of survival. Whenever she called nine to one one

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together as a team, they survived, They saved each other,

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and they made it through the unthinkable and the unimaginable.

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Thinking about all of this made me reflect when a

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sign I saw that said strong women, may we be

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them and may we raise them. And when I think

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about that, I'd say Tyrito was now living proof of

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that concept that dynamic duo saved each other. So detectives,

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upon learning that Tyrito was now not only alive but

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awake and talking, they went up there to try to

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gather information from her if she could, But the process

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was very slow because this isn't the movies, this is

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real life. She was alive and awake, but very much

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injured and struggling to speak at times struggling to breathe

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while she was answering questions that they had, so detectives

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knew they had to be brief, They had to be

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straight to the point because of how bad she was

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struggling in talking with them. But there was something that

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they felt compelled to ask, even if it wasn't something

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that was widely known. See whenever they were talking to

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the rough rider's crew, that crew said something that detectives

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had not heard from anyone, including family or a majority

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of the friends. Outside of the rough Riders. Detectives had

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gotten wind that Tyreta and Jennifer might have been dating,

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not just best friends. Yes, so this wasn't an openly

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discussed thing, but there were whispers amongst the writers that

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their relationship had been more than just friends. So they

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wanted to ask her basically, was this true, not as

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a judgment but just as a understanding of everybody in

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her inner circle. Well, Tyreta was like, yeah, absolutely this.

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She was open and honest with detectives. She said, we

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used to be together. We did recently break up and

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the breakup was tense, but Jennifer did not do this shooting.

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She would not have done this shooting. And they're like, Tyreta,

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are you sure, and she said yes. We had been

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in a relationship. It was really on the low for

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about three years. So although they had broken up, the

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00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:37.240
other thing was that Jennifer had remained by her side

465
00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.000
at the hospital this entire time too, and Tyreta had

466
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.559
allowed it. And you got to recognize that Jennifer was

467
00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:49.960
caring and she brought comfort even though they weren't still together.

468
00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:54.960
So Tyta wanted her there. She allowed it. It was

469
00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:58.160
a comfort zone for her, and Jennifer was even calling.

470
00:28:58.279 --> 00:29:00.599
And the one that was up a dating the rough

471
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:05.519
Rider's crew on Tyreta's progress was extremely helpful through all

472
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:10.680
of this, and that's kind of where she stood on

473
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:14.880
their relationship at this point. So in a trust yet

474
00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:16.799
yet verify and I know, I say that a lot,

475
00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:21.240
but that's what you should do. Detectives followed up and

476
00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:24.359
they called Jennifer in to talk to her about what

477
00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:28.920
she may know now. Jennifer's demeanor, she was calm, she

478
00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:33.400
was upset, but very concerned and overall very helpful for

479
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:36.319
the police. She was honest. She said, look, you know,

480
00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:39.079
wasn't out in the open, but I am the only

481
00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:42.119
woman that Tyreta has ever been in a relationship with.

482
00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:46.400
This wasn't the norm for her. We broke up, she said,

483
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:50.079
we hadn't spoken in a few days prior to the shooting.

484
00:29:50.440 --> 00:29:53.200
Was It wasn't a huge blow up or a huge fight.

485
00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:55.640
It really was more of a natural ending to a

486
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:59.400
relationship that had just run its course. The shooting, however,

487
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.880
rattled Jennifer, and she said, you know, to hell with

488
00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:05.839
the breakup. I mean, I'm gonna be there for her.

489
00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:09.559
We were in this relationship for three years. I still

490
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:13.519
care about her, and this is horrifying. All right, Well,

491
00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:16.599
where were you when this went down? Well, the night

492
00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:18.839
of the shooting, she said that she was shopping at

493
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.119
the Woodbridge Mall. That was at seven o'clock. Before she

494
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:24.240
had gotten in her car to head towards that rough

495
00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:28.200
rider's meeting which was also that night, and detectives look

496
00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:32.240
into this and it was confirmed, Okay, that's what was

497
00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:37.079
going on. Also, looking at Jennifer, she was tiny, okay,

498
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:40.359
the shooter was huge, So there was no physical way

499
00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:43.640
that that was her at the scene. It was somebody else.

500
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:50.519
So moving forward, an additional thirty nine days after damn

501
00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:56.079
near being assassinated by a shooter, Tyreeda walked out of

502
00:30:56.119 --> 00:31:00.960
the hospital, very slow and obviously with some assistance. She

503
00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:04.599
made it out of that hospital. Her right arm was

504
00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:09.000
in very poor working condition. She was very weak. But

505
00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:12.799
when they say don't give up. Walk if you have to,

506
00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:16.359
crawl if you must, but don't quit, Tyrita was a

507
00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:20.640
woman that got that message loud and clear. You can

508
00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:23.880
just I'm telling y'all. Can you not imagine her children

509
00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:28.279
and her family have just been overwhelmed with joy that

510
00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:31.359
the day had come. She won the battle that she

511
00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:34.640
had been thrust into. She was far too weak and

512
00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:36.680
disabled for the moment to be able to take care

513
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:39.799
of herself, and she definitely couldn't take care of her children,

514
00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:42.799
so she elected to stay with her mama as queen

515
00:31:43.319 --> 00:31:46.799
as she recovered, and no matter how old you get, y'all,

516
00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:50.440
Mama always knows what to do, and mama can always

517
00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:52.839
ease your mind, and that's just what Grandma and Queen

518
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:56.720
intended to do for her baby girl. So for now,

519
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:01.799
the attempted murderer was unknown, out there and still on

520
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:05.279
the loose. The motive was unclear, and there were no

521
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:08.160
further leads other than the male scene leaving the scene,

522
00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:12.799
and this was just pretty much a head scratcher for sure.

523
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:19.240
So two full months would pass without any real progress

524
00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:23.119
in the case. But although Tyreta and Chanelle had survived

525
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:28.319
the unimaginable, the fear that just rippled from that day

526
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:33.039
was far from gone. And not having any clue of

527
00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:37.160
who would want you or your child dead makes every

528
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:41.319
interaction feel like a possible death trap, and this was

529
00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:45.359
not something that Tyrita was even willing to risk nor entertain.

530
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:49.440
Someone may get her, but they will not get her child.

531
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:54.599
Not going to happen, So, opting for a selfless course

532
00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:59.160
of action, she made the difficult decision to send Chanel

533
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:02.559
to New York to stay with her aunt. And while

534
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:06.319
this was heartbreaking to be apart from her daughter, ensuring

535
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:10.880
Chanelle's safety was way more important than the sadness that

536
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:15.599
she was feeling being apart from her Also, although traveling

537
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:20.640
was extremely difficult for her, Tyrita would still make plans

538
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:26.039
to visit her daughter physically, though she couldn't travel alone easily.

539
00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:30.680
Her wounds were healing and she was continuing to have

540
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:34.200
trouble with her right arm, which meant driving was not

541
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.599
an option. But there was a train that she could

542
00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:42.200
travel on, so Grandma Queen made plans to have a

543
00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:45.279
train attendant helped Tirita whenever she would go, and she

544
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:49.119
would travel to see her daughter. Was this a lot, yes,

545
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:53.920
but is that what a mother does. Absolutely nothing was

546
00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:58.039
going to stop her, not pain, not difficulty, not distance,

547
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:00.640
Nothing was going to stop Tyrita from going and seeing

548
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:03.880
her child. So she made her way slowly and with

549
00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:07.119
assistance from that train attendant, and she went and she

550
00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:14.119
enjoyed her visit with Chanelle on March the sixth. It

551
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:20.519
was a great time. So two days later, on March

552
00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:26.159
the ninth, Jennifer agreed to help Tyrita run some errands.

553
00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:28.639
Thank god. I guess we can all say here that

554
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:33.679
she had good family and good exes, you know, But

555
00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:36.679
then again, I don't know that I should say exes

556
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:42.480
because Jennifer and Tyreta were back together. I guess the

557
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.719
trauma of almost dying had bonded them while she was

558
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:50.199
in the hospital. But regardless, without help, Tyreta would have

559
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:54.519
been struggling far beyond what she was already struggling physically.

560
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:58.280
Her arm again was very injured, and so she needed

561
00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:02.719
help with cooking and eating. Eating even bathing was difficult.

562
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:04.880
So all of this was just such a blessing that

563
00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:08.920
people were rallying around her. So that morning, Tyrita was

564
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.679
up early and getting ready. She hugged Grandma Queen goodbye

565
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.480
as miss Queen was leaving for work, and before shutting

566
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:20.280
the door, Grandma Queen told Tyreta, baby, make sure you

567
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:23.199
work out your arm. Make sure you're moving it, don't

568
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.800
you know, don't get all stoved up. Make sure you're

569
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:29.400
doing your thing, because Mama's never quit mothering no matter

570
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:32.760
how old their babies get, do they And Tyreta said,

571
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:34.880
I will, Mama, I will, I'll do it I'm supposed

572
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.599
to do. Grandma Queen said, I will see you when

573
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:40.000
I get off of work. Baby, I love you, and

574
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:44.199
with that, Grandma Queen was out the door. A bit later,

575
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:46.920
Jennifer showed up as expected, and they went and they

576
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:51.199
ran their errands, and when they were done, Tyreta was

577
00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:54.559
to be dropped back off at home. But that evening,

578
00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:57.760
when Grandma Queen got back from work, she went inside.

579
00:35:57.840 --> 00:35:59.840
She kicked off her shoes, she dropped her keys and

580
00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:02.239
her purse on the counter, and then she called out

581
00:36:02.559 --> 00:36:06.760
for Tyreta, but there was no answer. She walked around

582
00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:09.519
the house and opened doors and checked the bathrooms, and

583
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:14.159
she realized Tyreta wasn't there. But where could she be

584
00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:16.559
Because she couldn't drive anywhere. It wasn't like she could

585
00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:20.679
have taken herself somewhere. So then again, Tyta was popular,

586
00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:22.480
She had lots of friends who loved her, and so

587
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:25.719
maybe she was out with one of them. So Grandma

588
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:29.199
Queen started texting and she called a few times, but

589
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:36.519
by that evening the alarm was growing. By dark, something

590
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:39.880
wasn't right, and so Grandma Queen called the police department

591
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:44.239
and she wanted to report her missing. Now, considering what

592
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:47.519
all she had been through already, this was raising some

593
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:50.559
red flags for police. Yes, she was an adult, she

594
00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:53.760
could do what she wanted, but she wasn't in complete health.

595
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:59.000
Tyreta's mind, though, was sound, so this was a very

596
00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:02.679
interesting situation that the police department was now put in.

597
00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:06.920
The fact that other friends had tried to call her

598
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:11.800
as well and she wasn't answering their calls was also alarming. Now,

599
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.559
the last time that Grandma Queen actually made contact with

600
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:19.800
Tyreta was at four forty four pm that day, and

601
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.440
now it was dark and no one could get in

602
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:26.800
touch with her. How in the hell was this happening

603
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:30.079
just three and a half months after someone had tried

604
00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:34.679
to assassinate her. This was like the nightmare that wouldn't end.

605
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:38.239
Surely though, there had to be a reasonable explanation here,

606
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:41.599
So Grandma decided to call Jennifer and get specifics about

607
00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:44.880
what they did. So Jennifer said, I picked her up

608
00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:49.000
around five pm or so, we ran errands together, and

609
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:51.800
then I dropped her back off at the train station

610
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:56.079
around seven or o'clock so that she could head back home.

611
00:37:56.440 --> 00:37:58.360
She said that Tyreta's plan was she was going to

612
00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:02.480
catch the seven seventeen train and that was the last

613
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:05.119
that time, you know that she had really seen her.

614
00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:09.440
So Grandma Queen at this point not playing around. She

615
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:12.320
was learning everything she could, but she was not going

616
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:14.960
to sit at home idle and just go, Okay, maybe

617
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:17.280
my daughter will pop up. She had almost lost her

618
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:19.199
daughter once, She's sure as hell was not going to

619
00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:22.840
let anything happen to her again. So instead of just worrying,

620
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:26.480
Grandma Queen took action and she called her nephew, who

621
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:29.760
happened to work for the New Jersey Transit. When she

622
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:31.760
got on the phone with him, she said, look, can

623
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:34.400
you check the security tapes and see if Tyreta ever

624
00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:38.679
made it on the train today around seven. So, looking

625
00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:42.039
at the train schedule, he said, sure, no problem. There

626
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.760
were actually two trains around seven o'clock. There was one

627
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:48.039
at six fifty five and then the next one was

628
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:51.800
at seven seventeen. So this narrowed down the timeline at

629
00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:54.920
least to watch the tapes, which the nephew agreed to do.

630
00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:00.000
So he watched these tapes, but he never was able

631
00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:03.519
to find Tyreta on the tape. But the thing was,

632
00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:08.400
other trains were going, you know, the other directions at

633
00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:11.559
the same time. So while everyone was trying to figure

634
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:16.079
out exactly where she went, Jennifer wondered, well, what if

635
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:19.920
she's behind one of those trains that's obscuring the view, like,

636
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:21.840
you know, how are we going to be able to

637
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:25.599
see exactly where she was. They weren't able to find

638
00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:30.039
her on the tape. Making it even worse was that

639
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:34.159
no attendance on the trains were able to confirm or

640
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:37.440
deny whether they had seen Tyreta or not while they

641
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:41.880
were working that evening. It was very unclear what happened.

642
00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:47.320
So detectives are just finding the whole thing extremely odd.

643
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:49.880
Tyta shoot her is still out there and now she's

644
00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:53.320
missing from a train station and we can't locate or

645
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:57.760
pinpoint her on the tape. So the nephew calls Jennifer.

646
00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:01.519
He's trying to hammer down the e exact time that

647
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:05.760
she dropped off Tyreta, and Jennifer checks things out, looks

648
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:07.360
at her phone and all that, and she said it

649
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:11.280
was seven oh nine. That was the time. So this

650
00:40:11.320 --> 00:40:13.880
meant okay, she didn't catch the six fifty five, it

651
00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:17.880
had to be the seven seventeen train. But again reviewing

652
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:22.559
the tape, they just couldn't see her anywhere. So the

653
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:25.079
night would pass, it would turn into the morning of

654
00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:31.960
the ninth, and still silence from Tyreta, no calls, no texts,

655
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:36.880
no answering the phone. The situation was critical. She couldn't

656
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.400
care for herself. She would not have just run off.

657
00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:44.039
So Jennifer continued calling Tyreta into the next day. She

658
00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:47.199
couldn't get her to answer, and Jennifer's like, my god,

659
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:49.320
I'm the last person to have ever seen her alive.

660
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:52.920
And so she felt that responsible, you know, I have

661
00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:58.159
to help solve this. So some days would pass, and

662
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:01.880
late in the evening of March the eleventh, which was

663
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:06.000
you know, a few days later, detectives knocked on Jennifer's door.

664
00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:09.280
Now this was around almost eleven o'clock at night. Jennifer,

665
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:12.119
I'm saying Jennifer's door, But Jennifer lived with her mom. Okay,

666
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:14.960
so her Jennifer and her mom's door, and they said, look,

667
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:18.039
we're struggling here. We need some help. Will you come

668
00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:20.960
down to the station and give us a formal statement

669
00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:25.719
on the record so that we can, you know, have specifics.

670
00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:28.519
Jennifer said, sure, no problems. So she and her mother agreed.

671
00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:30.920
They both went down to the station right then, and

672
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:34.079
they did so. So Jennifer again, she explained, I picked

673
00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:40.880
up Tyreta, we went to lunch and then to the DMV. Afterwards,

674
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:43.599
she said, we went back to my house for a

675
00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:46.440
little bit. She said, we stayed at my house until

676
00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:49.639
around six forty pm. That's whenever I drove her to

677
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.920
the train station and I dropped Tyreta off around seven.

678
00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:56.199
She said, Tyreta had already missed the six fifty five,

679
00:41:56.599 --> 00:41:58.880
so the seven seventeen would have had to have been

680
00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:02.760
the train that she caught. Once I dropped off Tyreta,

681
00:42:03.079 --> 00:42:05.239
she said, I went over to my friend Donna's house

682
00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:08.760
and hung out for a little while. The text us

683
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:10.360
are like, all right, so did you ever talk to

684
00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:13.039
Tyrita anymore after you dropped her off? And she said, well,

685
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.280
I texted her around eight, but she didn't answer me.

686
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:18.679
And you know, I was hanging out at my friend

687
00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:22.440
Donna's house for about an hour, and then I went

688
00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:26.039
and I met up with my other friend for dinner.

689
00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:29.480
She said. I did text Tyrita again that night, she said,

690
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:32.400
it was more around like ten thirty, still no answer.

691
00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:35.719
The next morning I tried to call her again, that

692
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.559
was around eight am, but no answer back. And she

693
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:43.079
said that's when Tyreta's son called her and said Mom's missing.

694
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:47.679
And she realized that something was very very serious, seriously wrong.

695
00:42:48.119 --> 00:42:51.440
So police were like, all right, cool, we're going to

696
00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:53.039
follow up on this. We want you to know that,

697
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:56.599
and Jennifer said, yeah, do it please, you know that's fine,

698
00:42:57.239 --> 00:42:59.880
And so they did, and this is what they found.

699
00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:06.079
Surveillance video at the lunch revenue or the restaurant that

700
00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:09.400
she said that they went to, as well as video

701
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:13.480
from the DMV confirmed what Jennifer said that they did

702
00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:17.199
all day. They also got surveillance footage from their restaurant

703
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:20.159
that same night where Jennifer said she had dinner with

704
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:25.519
another friend, again confirmed that was true. So Jennifer then

705
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:28.760
also gave them access to her cell phone, which did

706
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:32.280
not show any immediate red flags, as well as she

707
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:35.199
allowed them to search her home and her car. They

708
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:40.320
found nothing. So days continued to pass with no breaks

709
00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:44.280
in the case and still no contact with Tyreta. So

710
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:47.599
where was she? People do not just disappear. We know

711
00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:52.000
this guy's something happens to them. Crime stoppers would even

712
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:56.079
get involved with her disappearance. They created missing person flyers.

713
00:43:56.480 --> 00:44:00.360
These posters were offering a reward up to ten thousand

714
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:03.280
dollars and this was distributed throughout the community. It was

715
00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:06.559
even making the news, but no real leads came in.

716
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:11.920
Two children were there again without their mother, and no

717
00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:16.079
one had answers for them. Miss Queen was desperate to

718
00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:20.239
find her wounded daughter, but nothing. And when you hear

719
00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:24.880
people say that they just felt helpless, you know, maybe

720
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:27.719
that's hard to understand or hard to describe it. Have

721
00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:30.800
you ever felt helpless before? Feeling like you you need

722
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:32.960
to go somewhere, you need to be doing something, but

723
00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:35.079
you don't know what direction to go in, and you

724
00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:37.400
have no knowledge of what you're supposed to be doing.

725
00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:41.599
It goes against everything you feel that your mom is

726
00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:43.639
missing and you need to go do something, but I

727
00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:45.880
don't know what to do. I don't know where to go.

728
00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:49.480
So police would have to hit the streets. They would

729
00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:52.000
have to just start canvassing, doing some like old fashioned

730
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:54.920
boots on the ground. They wanted to talk to people,

731
00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:59.280
had anybody seen anything? And so police by this time

732
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:03.119
had sent all for cell phone records for Tyrita because

733
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:04.960
they wanted to see if they could track her phone

734
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:07.800
or the last usage. But what they found was that

735
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.920
it was not pinging off of a tower. Okay, we

736
00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:14.400
all know cell phone's ping off of towers real Briefly,

737
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:17.519
I don't want to get too technical here, but everything

738
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:20.599
is relative when we say pinging off of a tower,

739
00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:26.440
because her last known ping would be very, very valuable.

740
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:29.519
So when I say everything's relative, I mean the type

741
00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:33.199
of device, the age of the technology, the terrain, everything. Okay,

742
00:45:33.639 --> 00:45:36.440
But cell phone towers there's basically two things you can

743
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.480
think of here. Some of them have a three hundred

744
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:42.119
and sixty degree antenna picking up signal, and some of

745
00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:45.000
them have just like faces with panels on them. I'll

746
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.760
say panel just for your understanding, but where it'll pick

747
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:51.440
up a ping, which will show direction, and then if

748
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:53.800
they can figure out what direction the ping came from,

749
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:58.800
then it's going to shoot out a cone of probability

750
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:01.480
of where the phone was when it connected to the tower.

751
00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:04.239
So it's very helpful to know this, and it gives

752
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.880
directional value for the police to go look for the phone.

753
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:11.760
So whenever they got this information from the phone company,

754
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:13.719
they also are going to be given what's called a

755
00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:18.159
confidence factor, and basically it'll say how confident is the

756
00:46:18.519 --> 00:46:21.599
data that the phone would be within you know, one

757
00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:24.960
hundred feet, fifteen hundred feet, whatever that might be. The

758
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:28.320
higher the confidence factor, the better chance you are finding

759
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:30.599
the phone. So if it's a ninety percent confidence factor

760
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:34.400
that the phone is to the south southwest within thirty meters,

761
00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.119
that's pretty damn good and it really gives police a

762
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:41.159
direction to hone in one. So police got that information.

763
00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:43.760
They had a pretty good confidence factor on this one,

764
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:48.199
and so they were canvassing an area directionally that was

765
00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:52.559
roughly one mile from the cell tower where Tyreta's phone

766
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:57.000
was last used. The last use of that phone was

767
00:46:57.079 --> 00:47:00.440
seven o two pm, or at least the last contact

768
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:03.039
with the tower was at seven oh two pm, and

769
00:47:03.079 --> 00:47:06.480
it was in the area of Joline and Myrtle Avenue,

770
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:09.679
or it could have been with a cross street of

771
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:13.280
what they found to be McClellan Street based on that

772
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:18.039
phone company data. So they're out canvassing that area and

773
00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:21.159
talking to people in the homes whenever. They spoke to

774
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:24.800
a gentleman by the name of Andre Harris who lived

775
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:30.199
on Jolene And I mentioned this because when they're speaking

776
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:33.119
with him, he mentioned that he did know Jennifer when

777
00:47:33.119 --> 00:47:36.199
they were asking some questions about him. But they're like,

778
00:47:36.239 --> 00:47:38.320
oh you do, well, how do you know Jennifer? And

779
00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:40.559
he says well, it's because we went to high school together.

780
00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:44.559
And then he kind of continued answering questions. He made

781
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:48.239
no mention of knowing Tyrita or anything like that, and so,

782
00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:51.079
I mean, people know people, So it wasn't necessarily a

783
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:55.039
huge thing, but it was interesting to note and speaking

784
00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:58.719
of the fact that people know people. Detectives also, while

785
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:01.280
they went on in Canvas the area, wanted to speak

786
00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:04.800
with this friend Donna, who Jennifer said she spent time

787
00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:09.480
with after dropping Tyreta off at the train station. So

788
00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:11.519
they go get Donna and they're talking to her, and

789
00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:17.039
Donna confirmed Jennifer did stop by absolutely, Okay, everything was

790
00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:20.039
checking out, she said, yeah, and she called me sometime

791
00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:23.760
after seven, and then that's whenever she came to the house.

792
00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:27.920
But that conversation, although it was confirming what Jennifer had said,

793
00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:31.880
it kind of went sideways a bit whenever Donna mentioned that.

794
00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:35.719
She said, yeah, I'm not home, Donna, my husband is,

795
00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:40.159
though I'll be home in a little bit, and she said, so,

796
00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:42.639
Jennifer showed up at the house, hung out with her

797
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:46.880
husband for about an hour before she left. Okay, well cool,

798
00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:52.280
But the thing was Jennifer and Donna's husband hated each other,

799
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:58.719
so this was weird. They everyone knew they did not

800
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:01.400
like each other. She sat and hung out with him

801
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:04.840
for an hour. So they wanted to talk to Donna's

802
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:08.760
husband and he confirmed, yep, we hung out for an hour.

803
00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:13.159
Awkward as hell. We chatted and then she left after

804
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:15.360
about an hour, and so they're like, Okay, what'd y'all

805
00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:17.719
talk about? And he said, just small talk, really, I mean,

806
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:19.480
we don't really have much to talk about. She just

807
00:49:19.519 --> 00:49:21.360
told me she had just dropped Tyreta off at the

808
00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:25.079
train station. And he was like, oh, you know how

809
00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:28.400
she doing whatever? She said, you know, things were good.

810
00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:31.639
I gave her some cookies. We just bought this cool

811
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:33.599
T shirt. They talked about that she'd given her some

812
00:49:33.639 --> 00:49:37.719
cash whatever. But he was able to answer another question

813
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:40.840
in the minds of not only investigators, but also Grandma Queen.

814
00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:44.760
Why was Tyreta dropped off at the train station to

815
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:47.599
begin with? Because if Jennifer picked her up from the house,

816
00:49:48.039 --> 00:49:49.840
why didn't she just go drop her back off at

817
00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:53.559
the house. Well, Donna's husband actually was able to explain

818
00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:56.679
it because whenever they were chit chatting, Jennifer said, yeah,

819
00:49:57.320 --> 00:49:59.159
Tyreta asked her to drop her off at the plane

820
00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:02.280
at the train stay because she didn't want to inconvenience

821
00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:04.559
Jennifer making her drive all the way back to the

822
00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:06.840
house and then have to turn around and drive all

823
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:09.960
the way back to you know, jennifer'side of town or whatever.

824
00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:14.559
So after Jennifer left the house, Donna said she had

825
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:18.840
spoken to her again because she had called her to see,

826
00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:20.679
you know, if she was still going to be there

827
00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:23.000
whenever she got back home. But jen said, no, Look,

828
00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:25.159
I mean I waited an hour and you didn't show up,

829
00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:27.159
so I left. So while they were talking about that,

830
00:50:28.199 --> 00:50:31.320
Jennifer was really really excited because she was saying not

831
00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:34.760
only was she you know, sending pictures of the engagement

832
00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.519
rings that she had picked out, but she was just

833
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:41.360
really excited about proposing. But she mentioned that she was

834
00:50:41.440 --> 00:50:43.639
kind of frustrated because she's like, you know, I'm excited

835
00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:45.239
in all this, but she's like, but Tyrena won't pick

836
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:48.639
up the phone, like, I can't get in touch with her. Well,

837
00:50:48.679 --> 00:50:53.360
the day after whenever Tyreta had gone missing. The day

838
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:59.320
after Tyreta went missing, Donna and Jennifer had hung out together.

839
00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:02.320
They were driving around, they were talking about where could

840
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:07.280
where could Tyreta be? Jennifer was really worried because, you know,

841
00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:10.039
the rough Rider crew. She's like, I hope they're not

842
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:11.880
going to blame me for this, because I mean I

843
00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:13.760
was the last one with her. I feel so guilty,

844
00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:16.280
you know, I'm just freaking out where could she be?

845
00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:20.119
She was also freaked out that the police kept questioning her,

846
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:23.320
and she's like, what if the rough Riders retaliate against me?

847
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:26.239
Not to mention where is Tyrita? You know, like this

848
00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:29.599
is a lot for someone to handle. And she's you know,

849
00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:32.079
what if a person what if the person who tried

850
00:51:32.119 --> 00:51:35.159
to kill her the first time actually like got a

851
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:38.679
hold of her. So both women were just swirling and

852
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:43.400
talking about just how bizarre it was, and Jennifer's like talking,

853
00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:46.920
you know, about what might could have happened, and Tyreta says,

854
00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:50.039
if she's actually dead, I mean, do you think how

855
00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:53.280
long will it be before she starts to smell? Donna

856
00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:55.519
is like, I don't know, but you know, hopefully she'll

857
00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:58.039
be found. Okay, let's go, let's not go down that road.

858
00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:04.000
Let's stay positive. More time would pass, y'all. Tyreta was

859
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:09.239
still not found summer would come. Still no word from her.

860
00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:14.199
So while her family was completely in shambles, the world

861
00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:17.719
continued to turn. People went about their lives, you know,

862
00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:20.440
people moved forward. The rough riders continued to have their

863
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:22.760
get togethers, and I mean they're still talking about Tyreta,

864
00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:28.079
wondering what happened, but nobody knew anything. Even Jennifer had

865
00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:31.840
moved on, you know, she was convinced Tyreta was gone.

866
00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:35.159
She's not answering the call where did she go? She

867
00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:37.760
had already started dating somebody else by this point. I mean,

868
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:41.239
it was just like nobody knew what happened. But police

869
00:52:41.559 --> 00:52:44.639
were still committed to working the case, and part of

870
00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:48.760
that was they decided they wanted to study Jennifer's phone records.

871
00:52:49.199 --> 00:52:51.880
Whenever they came in. She was the last person to

872
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:55.239
be seen with Tyreta, and so they still were trying

873
00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:57.280
to figure out what happened from the time she was

874
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:01.199
dropped off at the station and all of that. Now,

875
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:04.800
some phone numbers were known in the record, some weren't,

876
00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:10.280
but one number was contacted frequently around the time of

877
00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:14.519
Tyreta's disappearance. So while this isn't a smoking gun or anything,

878
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:18.800
this timeline and who this person was needed to be addressed.

879
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:22.199
Police wanted to identify who it was, so they're tracing

880
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:25.639
the number, and when they get the results, my brows

881
00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:30.559
would raise because that number belonged to none other than

882
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:35.000
Andre Harris, the very nice neighbor that police had spoken

883
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:40.119
to while canvassing for Tyreta's cell phone. Now, what are

884
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:44.639
the chances of that coincidence? Maybe? But y'all know I

885
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:47.920
don't believe in coincidences, and neither do the police. That's

886
00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:51.840
too odd for comfort. What had mister Harris been up

887
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:57.679
to in recent times, specifically in connection to Jennifer? So

888
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:02.719
police decided to compare Jennifer's long term phone records with

889
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:07.920
Andre Harris's and lo and behold, if there wasn't another

890
00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:12.400
trend that they picked up one. And that trend dated

891
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:16.840
back to November of twenty fifteen, specifically November twenty second

892
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:21.159
through the twenty fifth, and on the twenty fourth, they

893
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:26.719
communicated fourteen times between noon and eight pm. And you're like,

894
00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:27.920
all right, Kelly, why are you give me all these

895
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:30.559
freaking specifics I can't keep up? Well, let me tell

896
00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:34.360
you why. Because it was grabbing police attention. Why because

897
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:41.920
Tyrito was shot on the twenty fourth. That's insane. So

898
00:54:42.039 --> 00:54:45.239
based on what police felt like they were seeing, it

899
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:47.679
looked like he may have been involved in the shooting.

900
00:54:48.719 --> 00:54:51.920
Not to mention that when they're looking at Andre Harris,

901
00:54:51.960 --> 00:54:57.320
he fits the exact race, build and height as described

902
00:54:57.400 --> 00:55:02.039
by witnesses and daughter Chanel to boot. He had an

903
00:55:02.079 --> 00:55:05.320
easy pass on his vehicle, and when they pulled the

904
00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:08.840
records of his easy pass, it showed that he traveled

905
00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:13.440
southbound in the direction of Tyreta's home on the Garden

906
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:17.760
State Parkway at seven point fifty five pm on the

907
00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:23.840
day that Chanel and Tyreta were shot, and that was

908
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:29.320
just minutes before they were shot. So looking back over

909
00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:34.920
the interviews with other people, a huge discrepancy then became

910
00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:40.800
very obvious. See when friend Donna said that Jennifer called

911
00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:45.719
and stopped by her house. When that call was scrutinized

912
00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:50.039
that Jennifer made to Donna because Donna says it was

913
00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:54.400
made after seven sometime, Well, when police really scrutinized that call,

914
00:55:54.519 --> 00:56:01.920
it was after seven, but specifically it was made at seven. Well,

915
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:06.039
if that was the case, then where was Jennifer from

916
00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:10.000
seven pm? During the drop off at the train station

917
00:56:10.400 --> 00:56:14.719
for the next forty five minutes to an hour because

918
00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:17.840
she didn't go straight to Donna's house because it wouldn't

919
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:20.800
have taken that long. There's there's a gap here. So

920
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:26.280
comparing Jennifer's cell phone records to Tyreta's last phone call

921
00:56:26.679 --> 00:56:30.679
that was ever made, detectives found that both of their phones,

922
00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:34.239
Jennifer and Tyreta's, were bouncing off of this same tower

923
00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:39.559
at seven two pm, whenever she went missing. But that

924
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:45.960
tower was the one located near Andre Harris's house, nowhere

925
00:56:46.039 --> 00:56:49.920
near the train station. They knew it. They knew it

926
00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:53.320
all along. The family knew this, and the police knew this,

927
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:55.920
but had to find a way to confirm it. Tyreta

928
00:56:55.960 --> 00:56:59.800
had never been dropped off at that train station. Not possible.

929
00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:04.039
This wasn't rocket science, this was digital science, and it

930
00:57:04.079 --> 00:57:07.639
was showing that a plan most likely had been made

931
00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:12.559
not once, but twice between Jennifer Sweeney and Andre Harris

932
00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:16.280
to do something to Tyrita. That first attempt was to

933
00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:19.480
murder her. Now the race was on to figure out

934
00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:23.639
was Tyreta still alive somewhere or had they finished what

935
00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:26.840
they had started. So, based on all of the evidence

936
00:57:26.920 --> 00:57:31.199
compiled to this point, in a chronological format, a picture

937
00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:33.920
of a very devious set of plans lay in front

938
00:57:33.960 --> 00:57:38.880
of detective's eyes. What they saw was this, Jennifer contacted

939
00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:41.880
Andre and they must have made a plan to kill

940
00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:46.480
Tyrita back in November of twenty fifteen. Proof of this

941
00:57:47.199 --> 00:57:50.559
found in that both of their cell phones were hitting

942
00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:56.119
a tower right near Tyreta's home multiple times right before

943
00:57:56.320 --> 00:58:00.400
the shooting, and then both of their phones Andre and

944
00:58:00.440 --> 00:58:04.599
Jennifer's they parted ways, and this mattered not only because

945
00:58:04.599 --> 00:58:07.880
of their proximity to Tyrita just before the shooting, but

946
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:12.320
it also proved that Jennifer was lying. She had texted

947
00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:17.679
another friend that same day at seven twenty seven pm

948
00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:21.880
saying she was headed to the mall to buy sneakers,

949
00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:25.440
but if you remember, in her original interview, she told

950
00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:29.679
police she was at the mall at seven pm. Big

951
00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:34.559
difference there. So. The records also showed that one call

952
00:58:34.679 --> 00:58:39.039
between Andre and Jennifer was made just one minute after

953
00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:43.039
Chanelle had dialed nine to oneint one screaming for help

954
00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:47.519
after being shot. Was this the confirmation call? It's done?

955
00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:52.360
Sure seems like it so. Further interviewing of friends showed

956
00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:55.639
that there was some more things that were going on

957
00:58:55.840 --> 00:58:59.079
that didn't quite fit at the time, or they didn't

958
00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:03.760
realize it mattered till now. And these friends showed that

959
00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:08.840
while Tyrita was recovering, Jennifer was telling people that they

960
00:59:08.840 --> 00:59:11.920
were back together, showing those pictures of engagement rings to

961
00:59:11.960 --> 00:59:15.440
people because she was going to propose to Tyrita. So

962
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:20.400
then what was the motive? Okay, So all right, so

963
00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:22.960
everyone's consistent that she's telling everybody she's going to propose,

964
00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:25.559
and she's got this ring blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, Well,

965
00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:27.400
then what would the motive be here though, We've got

966
00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:29.119
to have a motive of why she would want this. Well,

967
00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:33.840
it turned out Tyreta was telling people they were just friends,

968
00:59:33.880 --> 00:59:37.679
they were just going to remain friends after a long relationship.

969
00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:43.320
So police then discovered something else that put everything into

970
00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:48.360
more perspective in terms of that motive. They realized that

971
00:59:48.519 --> 00:59:54.800
Tyreta and Jennifer still shared a phone plan. That meant

972
00:59:55.400 --> 01:00:01.880
Jennifer had access to the records live time. So Jennifer

973
01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:06.519
was basically stalking Tyrita after the breakup, and she saw

974
01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:10.960
in her messaging and calling of other love interests. She

975
01:00:11.079 --> 01:00:16.719
specifically saw that Tyrita was talking to Hassan well. In

976
01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:21.039
more interviews, they realized that just three days before the shooting,

977
01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:25.079
the rough Riders had had a get together where Jennifer

978
01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:29.559
was there and she watched Tyrita and Hassan dancing together,

979
01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:34.039
and police were like, aha, they believe that that is

980
01:00:34.079 --> 01:00:38.159
what threw Jennifer over the edge and into a rage

981
01:00:38.199 --> 01:00:41.840
the night before the shooting. They also found that Jennifer

982
01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:47.239
was chronic calling Hassan from a blocked number. But those

983
01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:49.480
calls were going ignored. You wouldn't pick up the phone.

984
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:51.639
He's not going to answer this block number. She called

985
01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:54.519
over and over and over and over and over. Every

986
01:00:54.559 --> 01:00:57.559
time he didn't answer the phone, she got more angry,

987
01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:02.960
and that is when Jennifer solicited Andre to shoot Tyrita.

988
01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:08.239
Tyrita and Chanelle then miraculously survived. So Jennifer was there

989
01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:11.880
in the hospital acting all loving and supportive while Tyrita

990
01:01:11.960 --> 01:01:15.400
was recovering. She did this because she was hoping that

991
01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:19.159
she could win her back, but it wasn't working. Hence

992
01:01:19.639 --> 01:01:22.440
Tyrita telling people were just friends, you know, but we

993
01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:26.280
care about one another. Well, the very morning of March

994
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:30.760
the eighth, the day of the disappearance, Jennifer was back.

995
01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:34.159
They found this in the records, in her search records,

996
01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:41.199
Jennifer was back stalking Tyreta's phone and then she went missing. So,

997
01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:44.760
realizing what they thought was going on here as far

998
01:01:44.800 --> 01:01:46.880
as the records and all of that was going, police

999
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:52.679
realized that Andre Harris had an outstanding warrant. So they

1000
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:55.320
went and they arrested him during a traffic stop and

1001
01:01:55.400 --> 01:01:59.599
brought him in for questioning under that warrant. While he's

1002
01:01:59.639 --> 01:02:03.079
in there, that's whenever they bring up Tyrita being shot

1003
01:02:03.480 --> 01:02:08.000
and missing. But he denies knowing anything about the shooting.

1004
01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:13.199
He had no idea what they were talking about. Great,

1005
01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:16.320
he doesn't know anything. Well, they still cut a warrant

1006
01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:19.840
to go search his car and his house. So police

1007
01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:24.840
descended upon that home, praying to find Tyrita there, and

1008
01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:28.360
it didn't take them long to locate what looked like

1009
01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:33.880
a freshly dug grave in the backyard. Oh god, no, right,

1010
01:02:34.719 --> 01:02:37.960
and right near this dug up spot was a shovel.

1011
01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:43.440
So investigators locate that site and they decide to start

1012
01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:47.000
scooping away the dirt little by little until they hit

1013
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:51.840
what looked like a trash bag. So they carefully and

1014
01:02:51.880 --> 01:02:56.920
gently worked to uncover it fully, and what they found

1015
01:02:57.199 --> 01:03:01.320
was a body wrapped in a tarp stuffed into this

1016
01:03:01.480 --> 01:03:06.599
primitive burial site. And when they opened that bag, there

1017
01:03:06.679 --> 01:03:11.280
lay the body of Tyrita. She was dead and she

1018
01:03:11.480 --> 01:03:17.239
still had an electrical cord tied around her neck. So

1019
01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:21.119
back at the station, Andre was confronted with this, and

1020
01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:25.519
when he was confronted, his demeanor completely changed, and almost

1021
01:03:25.519 --> 01:03:31.159
immediately that's when a confession started rolling. He admitted to

1022
01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:35.760
being the shooter nine months earlier, but he said that

1023
01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:40.719
Jennifer was the one who ultimately killed Tyreta. He said

1024
01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:44.960
Jennifer solicited him on November the twenty third to get

1025
01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:49.239
rid of Tyreta, and he did agree to kill her,

1026
01:03:49.880 --> 01:03:56.719
but only because Jennifer threatened him. She threatened that basically,

1027
01:03:56.760 --> 01:04:00.119
she said, I saw you out with another woman, and

1028
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:03.639
if you do not assist me with this, then I'm

1029
01:04:03.679 --> 01:04:06.679
going to tell your wife that you're catting around behind

1030
01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:11.320
her back. Now the situation, you're like, you're gonna go

1031
01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:13.559
kill somebody over that, well, there's a little bit more

1032
01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:16.440
to it. So the reality was that they were actually

1033
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:20.800
already divorcing but what he said he was worried about

1034
01:04:20.880 --> 01:04:22.920
was that this was going to complicate his ability to

1035
01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:26.599
have custody of his children, because if they could prove

1036
01:04:26.639 --> 01:04:28.920
that he was catting around and cheating on his wife,

1037
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:31.119
then he may not get any custody of his kids.

1038
01:04:31.519 --> 01:04:34.639
So the next morning he went out to his car

1039
01:04:35.199 --> 01:04:37.840
and when he got in, he found a sticky note

1040
01:04:38.840 --> 01:04:41.679
basically on the dashboard and there was an arrow drawn

1041
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:44.920
on it and it was pointing to his glovebox. He's like,

1042
01:04:44.920 --> 01:04:48.679
what the hell. He opened up the glovebox and a

1043
01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:55.400
nine millimeter pistol fell out. So he called Jennifer to

1044
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:58.280
be like, what's up. And that's whenever she said, I

1045
01:04:58.320 --> 01:04:59.920
need you to come meet me here, and gave her

1046
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:02.719
directions of where he was to come meet her, and

1047
01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:06.480
whenever they met up, he said. Jennifer had another man

1048
01:05:06.679 --> 01:05:11.239
in the car with her and he was holding a gun,

1049
01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:16.679
and Jennifer showed him a photo of Tyreta and her car.

1050
01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:21.119
At that point, Jennifer then did something on her phone

1051
01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:24.280
and then turned it back around and showed him pictures

1052
01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:28.679
of his own children, and she said, you will shoot

1053
01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:33.239
her and kill her or your children will die. Next

1054
01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:37.800
I was very quick to roll my eyes and not

1055
01:05:37.880 --> 01:05:41.920
believe this. Okay, but you know I'm going to tell

1056
01:05:41.960 --> 01:05:46.400
you everything, And what if I told you that. Police

1057
01:05:47.559 --> 01:05:52.519
did later find that Jennifer had researched not only his

1058
01:05:52.639 --> 01:05:57.280
children's school, she had gotten directions to their school as

1059
01:05:57.320 --> 01:06:05.400
well as their school's dismissal prosued and that is whenever

1060
01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:10.400
he went and he shot Tyrita and Chanel and then

1061
01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:13.239
ran off. He returned the gun to her a few

1062
01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:17.079
days later, but he said that Jennifer was pissed because

1063
01:06:17.159 --> 01:06:22.880
Tyrita and Chanelle were both alive. She allegedly told him too,

1064
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:24.880
now I got to go up to the hospital and

1065
01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:31.599
play the part. So then in March, Jennifer called him

1066
01:06:32.159 --> 01:06:35.199
while he was coaching his son's basketball team, and he's like,

1067
01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:38.480
I'm not home. I'm busy. I'll be home later. So

1068
01:06:38.599 --> 01:06:41.159
when he got home about six pm that night, he

1069
01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:44.519
was inside and one of his dogs started barking. So

1070
01:06:44.559 --> 01:06:46.119
he went to go look and see what the dog

1071
01:06:46.199 --> 01:06:48.719
was barking at, and he found Jennifer standing on his

1072
01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:52.400
back porch. She asked him, do you have something I

1073
01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:54.800
can tie down my trunk with it's broken, and so

1074
01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:57.559
he went inside he grabbed some twine and he brought

1075
01:06:57.599 --> 01:07:00.000
the twine out to her. She said, this isn't strong enough.

1076
01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:02.480
It's not going to keep it closed or whatever, and

1077
01:07:02.559 --> 01:07:04.559
so he said he went back inside, and that's whenever

1078
01:07:04.559 --> 01:07:07.239
he found an electrical cord and he gave it to her.

1079
01:07:08.159 --> 01:07:11.079
He then went back inside. She left. He went about

1080
01:07:11.079 --> 01:07:13.800
his business, but a little bit later the dog started

1081
01:07:13.800 --> 01:07:16.960
barking again, so he went back to the door and

1082
01:07:17.079 --> 01:07:19.840
Jennifer was standing there again saying, hey, I need some help.

1083
01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:23.199
So he's like, all right. He walks outside, and he

1084
01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:26.679
goes to her car and realizes that she had somebody

1085
01:07:26.719 --> 01:07:30.079
with her, sitting in the front seat. So Jennifer, while

1086
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:31.960
they're walking, says, hey, do you have a trash can?

1087
01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:35.440
And he's like, for what? And then as he got closer,

1088
01:07:36.079 --> 01:07:39.199
he realized, holy shit, that's Tyreta. And not only that

1089
01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:42.639
she was dead. She had the cord around her neck,

1090
01:07:42.920 --> 01:07:44.480
and he said there was blood coming out of her

1091
01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:48.360
right ear. And as he was realizing Tyreta was dead

1092
01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:51.559
in the car right there, he said, Jennifer started talking

1093
01:07:51.599 --> 01:07:55.440
to Tyreta's corpse and said, if I can't have you,

1094
01:07:55.519 --> 01:07:58.679
no one will. And then she started like freaking out,

1095
01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:00.400
telling him I got to get to the train. I

1096
01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:02.639
got to get to the train station. So he's like,

1097
01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:04.360
I didn't have a trash can to put her in,

1098
01:08:04.880 --> 01:08:07.079
so I had a tarp. I pulled the tarp over,

1099
01:08:07.159 --> 01:08:08.920
I laid it on the ground next to the car.

1100
01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:12.480
We pulled her out, wrapped her up in it, drug

1101
01:08:12.519 --> 01:08:15.119
it to the backyard, and that's when I buried her

1102
01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:18.239
in the backyard. He said, Jennifer had a gun in

1103
01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:21.720
her pocket like the whole time, and was watching overseeing

1104
01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:24.920
what he was doing, and she was acting crazy. She

1105
01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:28.359
was crying, then she was watching. She would become distraught

1106
01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:31.800
and then she would be mad, all at the same time.

1107
01:08:31.840 --> 01:08:34.560
And he said she was talking out loud, and she

1108
01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:36.680
would to the body and was like, all you had

1109
01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:38.720
to do was say yes. If I can't have you,

1110
01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:41.079
no one will. If I couldn't have you, no one will.

1111
01:08:41.119 --> 01:08:44.359
And she kept repeating it. So police were right. They

1112
01:08:44.439 --> 01:08:48.880
realized with the motive, they believed that Jennifer likely proposed

1113
01:08:49.239 --> 01:08:53.439
to Tyreta in the car. Tyreta declined it, and so

1114
01:08:53.640 --> 01:08:56.520
Jennifer decided she was going to kill her this time.

1115
01:08:58.119 --> 01:09:02.079
She then left to telling Andre not to say a word,

1116
01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:04.920
but then returned a few days later, threatening him with

1117
01:09:04.960 --> 01:09:07.760
a gun. If you speak to police, there's going to

1118
01:09:07.800 --> 01:09:10.079
be a problem. And he asked her, what are we

1119
01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:11.600
going to do with this body you put? You brought

1120
01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:14.039
a dead girl to my house, a burieder in the backyard.

1121
01:09:14.039 --> 01:09:15.640
What are you going to do with it? Jennifer said,

1122
01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:18.960
I'm coming back to get it. He's like, all right, whatever.

1123
01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:23.079
He goes back inside, but Jennifer never came back and

1124
01:09:23.119 --> 01:09:25.319
he washed his hands of it and didn't want to

1125
01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:30.600
mess with the body anymore. So with that confession, both

1126
01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:35.000
Andre and Jennifer were arrested and charged with multiple counts,

1127
01:09:35.039 --> 01:09:41.079
including Tyreta's murder. Andre Harris testified against Jennifer Sweeney in

1128
01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:44.560
a plea deal. Andre got sixteen years in the New

1129
01:09:44.640 --> 01:09:49.960
Jersey State Prison, while Jennifer got ninety five years. At

1130
01:09:50.039 --> 01:09:55.880
sentencing of Andre, he did ask to address the court

1131
01:09:56.319 --> 01:10:00.560
as well as Tyrita's family, and he did a apologized

1132
01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:04.039
to them. Right after he completed this apology, a family

1133
01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:07.920
member of Tyreta's stood up, a male member and he said,

1134
01:10:08.319 --> 01:10:10.039
I don't want to hear this shit. You shot a

1135
01:10:10.119 --> 01:10:12.720
sixteen year old, and then he stormed out of the

1136
01:10:12.720 --> 01:10:16.199
court room to the right, and I gotta say I

1137
01:10:16.199 --> 01:10:19.720
wouldn't want to hear it either. You murdered my family

1138
01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:25.000
member and you shot a child. So when it's all

1139
01:10:25.039 --> 01:10:27.720
said and done, I think we can all agree that

1140
01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:33.000
everything about this case has been a total tragedy. And

1141
01:10:33.119 --> 01:10:37.079
in the end, the biggest lie ever told is that

1142
01:10:37.359 --> 01:10:40.680
Jennifer killed Tyreta because she loved her too much to

1143
01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:46.159
let her go. No, she killed because she never understood

1144
01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:51.399
love at all, because love doesn't hurt you, but crazy

1145
01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:52.439
sure as hell will