Feb. 5, 2025

The Shooting of Baron Li

The Shooting of Baron Li

In this episode, KJ covers the amazing survival story of Baron Li after an assassination attempt by his ex-wife, Sharon Kelly, whose motives included a custody battle in addition to financial gain.

#unspeakable #truecrime #BarronLee...

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Season 7

In this episode, KJ covers the amazing survival story of Baron Li after an assassination attempt by his ex-wife, Sharon Kelly, whose motives included a custody battle in addition to financial gain.

#unspeakable #truecrime #BarronLee #assassinationattempt #SharonKelly #Lawenforcement #custodybattles #unspeakable #podcast

Timestamps
08:06 Sharon and Barron's Whirlwind Romance
13:35 A New Family Life
19:06 The Search for the Shooter
26:51 Clues Start to Surface
37:32 A Shocking Connection
41:04 The Plot Thickens
44:23 The Arrests
55:36 The Motive Revealed
1:03:47 The Sentencing

Video, Sound and Editing for this podcast by the podcast experts at Envision Podcast Studios in Denham Springs, LA.
Executive Producer: Jim Chapman

Sources:
Baron Li Was Shot 9 Times, 'Knew It Wasn't Random' People Magazine Investigates:
About Us | City of Bellevue Lactose Intolerance in Infants & Children: Parent FAQs - HealthyChildren.org Fundraiser for Baron Li by Susie Pietz : World Turned Upside Down! #HelpForBaron 'It's a miracle': Bellevue man shot 9 times survives alleged murder-for-hire plot

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where 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 for another sort of unspeakable? How are you doing?

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What's going on? I got a pretty good one for

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you today. This one I wrote all week and I'm

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just tickled by it because I think it's I think

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it's an interesting one, and it's not something that's kind

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of like.

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Your typical story.

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So come with me, if you will, to Bellevue, Washington.

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Where are my Washington people at? Before I actually jump

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into it, did y'all see? I know everyone's watching now

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with that airplane crash that you know, God rest their souls,

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all those victims and those plane in the planes in

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Washington that hit the river and the helicopter and just

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the tragedy of all of that. Well, what if I

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told you a friend of mine that works in law

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enforcement was on a plane and I was freaking out.

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I thought, oh my god, he was on the plane

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in Washington. You know, I always go worst case scenario.

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But he messaged after the plane crash and said it

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wasn't me. I've landed on the ground and it stressed

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me out. So I just want to tell everyone that

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you are in my thoughts and you're in my prayers.

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If you were affected by that plane crash, if you

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know or any of the people on that plane, that

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just a tragedy. We don't have all the answers at

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the time that I'm recording this, but my heart and

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my prayers and my I guess just everything, it's with

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you right now if that was something that affected you.

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But we're gonna go to Bellevue, Washington in this case,

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and that is the fifth largest city in Washington. It's

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referred to as a city in a park because this

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area of Washington has over one hundred parks within its limits.

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So sounds beautiful. I've never been there. If you're from

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that area, reach out to me. Let me, know, what's

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it like? Do you like it there? But it sounds amazing,

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sounds like a great place to be. And one thing

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that I was interested in is the fact that this

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city's crime rates are consistently low. This is a great

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place to raise a family from everything that I researched,

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and so when crime rates are low in an area,

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it's always shocking when something goes down there. So this

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happened to also be the home of forty eight year

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old Baron Lee. And Baron was originally from Hilo, Hawaii,

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And he's sporting that typical black hair and that tan skin.

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And when you are looking at Baron, he has a

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kindness about him and it just shines through in photographs.

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I have met people like this that they just I

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hate saying someone lights up a room. I hate saying

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that because it's just tied with the fact that somebody's

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gonna die. But he has a kindness about his face,

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and when he smiles, it just is so warm and

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so inviting. He's super sociable, a man who was unafraid

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to put himself out there in regard to people and community,

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and it's just no surprise that he was really successful

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in his car sales career. He was likable. That's a

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job where you have to be like. Nobody wants to

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think of a sleazy car salesman. They want to think

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of somebody that's gonna be true and right and personal

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and knows what they're talking about. And barn was that guy.

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He had just been promoted to sales manager at Beer

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Toyota and.

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He was doing great. He was the American dream, you know.

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He was just out there and killing it in his

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neck of the woods, clean cut, trustworthy. That's a great

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combo to having a man, don't you think. And that,

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my friends, is Barren Lee.

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Not everything had been perfect in his life, though, And

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I don't want to make it sound like he's just

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this guy that everything went great. He had been through

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a lot in his life, and some things that he

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went through even the strong of us of us would

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take heart. So as a child, he experienced really tough

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times that would eventually leave him in the care of

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the state. He would become a foster child, and without

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his birth parents to love and care for him, he

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really had a hard time, you know. And you can't

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blame kids for that. When a kid is put in

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foster care. And then someone you know, they're angry, they're mad,

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will know shit, their life has been upended, you know,

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everything they're used to and even if their parents suck,

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even if they have the shittiest parents on the earth,

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that was still their parent and they still love them

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for what they knew them to be. And through a

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child's eyes, I'm sure this is very difficult. So he

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was put into foster care. And you know, maybe that's

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why as he got older and he grew up, he

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became such a kind hearted and understanding person and he

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very much could identify with other people and their struggles

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and the emotional turmoil that people can go through. I

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think that's a beautiful thing when you know, I'll tell

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you this, when you meet somebody and you see a

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beautiful light about them in whatever regard it is. Maybe

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they're always willing to help, Maybe they're just always kind,

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they're just they go out of their way to open doors.

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When you meet somebody with a light about them like that,

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you can trust that they are healing something within themselves

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that they lacked. So it makes sense to me that

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Baron grew up to be a kind hearted and compassionate person.

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He also, although he made it through foster care and

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he grew up, he also had been through a pretty

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trying divorce that left him with the sharing of custody

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of his baby boy named Eric. And this Eric is

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a ar ik just interesting fun fact, not the typical spelling.

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But he loved his baby Eric with every ounce of

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his being. But Eric's situation was also marked by tragic

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circumstance because Eric was born a healthy, bouncing baby, but

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within days of his birth, things began to change. Unbeknownst

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to his parents and to the doctor's baby Eric was

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lactose intolerant. Now, this isn't common in newborns, and I

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did do research on this. I'm not an expert. I'm

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not giving medical advice or anything, but this is not

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as common in newborns as I guess maybe I would

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have thought it was. And so it went undiagnosed for

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a week. But by then baby Eric had been consuming

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milk that essentially was poisoning him for that first week

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of life, and in the most tragic of circumstances, this

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led to severe neurological and muscular damage that would alter

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Eric's life forever. So he was diagnosed along with that

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lactose intolerance, which this was interesting to me, but if

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you're born with lactose intolerance, these may not be the

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proper medical terms, but my understanding of what our research

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is that even a mother's breast milk can poison the baby.

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That's bizarre, you know what I'm saying, because it's to me,

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because we're.

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Built for that.

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That's what we're for, is to create the nourishment for

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our babies. But even that was problematic for baby Eric

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to consume. So on top of that, he was also

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diagnosed with dystonia and cornectorus, which was a billy rubin

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encephalopathy illness, and so all of that combined would cause

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damage to baby Eric and so he would require on

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the clock care for the rest of his life and

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he is completely dependent on the care of someone else.

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Lucky for Eric, though, his mama and his daddy were

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never gonna let him down until his mother did. Sharon

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was his mother's name, Sharon and Baron. And I know

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that's kind of funny. Their name's rhyme, but hey, shout

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out to miss Mary if you're listening.

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You know who you are.

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But my friend Mary. Her sister's name is Dora. And

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guess what her husband's name when she got married. Guess

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who she married.

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Guess who? Dora married? Barney.

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I'm not laughing at him, I'm laughing with him. But

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can you imagine Dora and Barney showing up to your

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kid's birthday party and it's not them? But anyway, shout out,

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miss Mary, you know I love you. But Sharon and

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Baron had gotten married in what was a whirlwind romance.

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Sharon was young, she was only eighteen, and Baron was

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ten years her senior, so he was older, but they

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were in love and it just was a whirlwind romance

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and they took a leap of faith. So they got

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married in twenty ten. Eric was born shortly thereafter, and

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that love, that hot, intense, oh you know, like just

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that new falling in love feeling, it really would be

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short lived and their differences would just become too much

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to handle. So the marriage soured in twenty fifteen, and

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that's when Sharon went and she filed for divorce from Baron.

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But Baron is not one.

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Of those dads that's just gonna go okay, Well, I'll

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get him every other weekend.

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No frickin' way.

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Baron wanted custody of his baby boy, and this would

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turn into your typical battle of the exes. Unfortunately, and

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we all know the drill here. You know, both of

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them are saying the other one's shitty. Both of them

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are claiming that they're bad parents. And something I hate

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about that is when someone gets divorced. Two people get divorced,

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and then all of a sudden they start saying, how

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shitty the other person is.

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Well, baby, you married, you had the kid.

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With them, so maybe let's both take a look in

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the mirror and figure out that we both probably or

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screw up. But either way, not one to be easily deterred.

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Baron continued on with his life and they were sharing

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custody of little Eric, who, by the way, fun fact,

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Eric's middle name is Dragon and his daddy calls him

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by that. That's his nickname, so he calls him Dragon,

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and that's kind of interesting. I've never met someone with

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a name Dragon. So I did have a neighbor one time,

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who's last who's named his child vicious?

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That's a true story, vicious.

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Wow, But this baby's name is Dragon, so you know,

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when I say that his mother let him down, what

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do I mean by that? Well, when Eric was six

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years old, the courts would have to intervene because they

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would determine that Sharon was an unfit parent. And for

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a court to say you are an unfit parent, if

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you've ever watched the court systems, you're given hella opportunity,

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hella opportunity to get your shit straight. So for them

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to finally come down and say, all right, look, you're

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not what's in the best interest of this child. I

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want you to understand how bad you probably are doing

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with that kid. And one of the main things that

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was cited in the court decision was neglect. They said

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neglect was cited as the cause of the ruling, and

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Child Protective Services had even taken Eric from her and

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placed him in foster care because they were so concerned

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for his well being. So I'm sure that was a

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shot in the heart to Baron, who himself had experienced

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that as a child, and now his own.

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Child was set in foster care.

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So Sharon had still been given overnight visits because like

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I told you, they're going to try to do everything

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to reconcile this issue and to have custody of your

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own child as the goal of the courts.

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But it was too.

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Bad and that was eventually revoked and she was limited

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to supervised visits of the baby. Now I know people

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want to know more, I will tell you this. I

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dug I reached out to people which I can I

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can touch on later.

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I just didn't get anything back.

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Nobody responded to me as this is a touchy case

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by the time that I'm recording this, but all I

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know at this point is neglect was cited. So Baron

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had been continuing to fight for custody of Eric since

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their divorce started, and it took him nearly two years

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for that to take full effect with you know, combination

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of hers being Sharon being cited as a neglectful parent.

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So it may have taken time, but finally the court

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saw the truth and Baron was awarded custody of young

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Eric in May of twenty nineteen. So just how devoted

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was Baron to his young son, y'all this would be

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proven by his willingness to.

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Uproot his entire life and move.

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He was willing to move to be closer to Eric's

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home and where Eric had been living for the past

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few years. Rather than say no, he comes to me,

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Baron was willing to go to his baby boy, and

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that just speaks volumes to me about his dedication to

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his son. So he had moved all the way from Nevada,

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and I know people from there always say it's Nevada. Well,

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I'm sorry, I can't do it. I say Nevada.

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It's kind of like I say Raymond Noodles and everyone

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jumps on me for that because it's the Ramen noodles. Sorry,

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my ignorance is showing, I say Raymond. Okay, now you know,

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all right.

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But he moved all the way from Nevada to Washington

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to ensure that custody of Eric. And it wasn't just

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him that was moving because since his divorce from Sharon,

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Baron had gotten back into the dating life and he

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had struck gold, absolute gold. He met a woman named Dede,

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and it was almost love at first sight. These two

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clicked from the get go, and Dede felt the same

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when she met Baron and they dated for a while.

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This was not another whirlwind romance. They dated for a

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while and then they had decided to get married. So

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Dede had also previously been married and she had two

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children from that previous marriage. Those babies' names. I say babies, y'all,

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I don't care if you're thirty years old your mom's

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you know, ninety, You're still a baby. So when I

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say babies, they weren't infants. But her children were Ethan

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and Sophia, and these kids loved Baron. They were excited

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to have him as their stepdad. They took to him

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quite quickly, and he even became extremely close to those

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step children, literally to the point that he genuinely considered

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those his children. Baron was so invested in these kids

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and he wanted them to know that they could count

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on him, and the kids were so invested in him

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that they actually started to call him dad. Although they

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did know their real dad, they started calling barn dad.

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So Baron indeed, he did everything to ensure that this

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blended family was loved and cared for, and this included

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little Eric, who came to live with them. But once

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they moved to Washington, life was good. The kids settled

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in nicely, the family was going well. Eric was stable,

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he had a great network of care surrounding him. And

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shout out to all the parents out there who have

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children with special needs or that are medically fragile. Because

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you're the real MVP. I'm telling you you are a

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gift to this earth because I see those types of

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students at school.

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I'm telling you, I'm not qualified for it. I'm not

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good enough.

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But I see special education teachers and teachers that come

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in to take care of these kids with special needs,

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and it's a gift. And God doesn't give those children

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to just anybody. I have to just say that out there.

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If you're dealing with children that require that level of

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intensity and care, you're doing it and we are better

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for it.

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As a community. So, as I mentioned, the.

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Crime rate was very, very low in Bellevue, so it

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was beyond alarming when neighbors of the same apartment complex

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where Barren and his family lived heard rapid gunfire going

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off in the early morning hours of July tenth. It

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was so unusual that majority of the people that were

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questioned about it or that called in to nine one

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one about it, said we.

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Thought it was works, but it's gunfire. Oh my god.

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So it was July tenth of twenty twenty when these

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calls started flooding into the nine one one center and

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it was just after eight am, and everyone's saying, there's

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rapid gunfire. They're screaming, we need help. We don't know

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what's going on. And most people, and I guess you know,

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I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but most people

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stayed indoors. They didn't go running out there to see

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what's going on. But not every neighbor stayed inside. One

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went out to investigate. And that was the case of

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a neighbor that lived next door or right next to Baron,

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and her name was Christa. So Christa went out there

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when she heard the screaming because she knew in her

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gut somebody needs help. And she was horrified to find

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Baron Lee lying next to his car and literally pouring

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blood from multiple gunshot wounds. So Christa, recognizing the severity

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of this, she jumped up and she ran inside. She

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went and grabbed her first aid kit that she had,

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and she started pulling the gauze out and applying pressure

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to his chest to try and stopped this bleeding that

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was just gushing.

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Out of his chest.

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Baron was shot everywhere, but it seemed like that chest

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wound was just pouring out blood. And Christa never wavered.

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She was calm under the immense stress of what she

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was looking at. She continued to apply pressure, and another

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neighbor who saw that it was Baron on the ground,

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ran to go tell Dedie, oh my god, Baron is

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outside and he's shot. Never underestimate the power of a

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good neighbor. She jumped in and she's doing everything that

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she can. DEDI runs out there. She is stunned and

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then ultimately just confused because it just didn't make sense.

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Why would my husband be shot? Don't we aren't these people?

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This doesn't happen to us. So she runs out there

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and she sees Baron laying there. The sight looked grim.

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This was not like a little flesh wound through the toe,

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you know. This was some legit damage done to him.

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And the nine one one call is heartbreaking to listen

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to because Baron, you can hear him. He is screaming

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in sheer terror. And what was he yelling? I have

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to tell y'all that what he was yelling it sounded

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like something out of a movie script. He's going, I

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can't feel my arms. I can't feel my arms, I

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can't feel my fingers. But then he shifts immediately from

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what he can't feel, and as he's getting weaker, he's screaming,

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get Eric, get Eric, Get Eric, and his mind just

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switched to his child, a father's final plea to protect

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his baby cub, who, by the way, wasn't even outside.

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But Eric was on his mind, and as Baron's life

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was draining from him, he used his last bit of

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energy to ask the people around him, get Eric. Help Eric,

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as he's dying on the ground. And this is a

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true testament of a loving father. Now to note step children,

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Sophia and Ethan, they were away, they were visiting their

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grandparents at the time. They luckily weren't there, but Baron

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that he wasn't worried about them. It's just that Eric

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was there and he wanted his baby protected. So police

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and medical immediately are sent.

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They're en route.

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They get there within minutes of the phone call, and

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when they got to Baron, they immediately began removing his

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clothing to see this chest wound and to do what

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they they were needed to do. Incredibly, though, the more

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clothing they removed from him, the more gunshot wounds they found.

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Not one, not two, not four bullet wounds, not seven

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bullet wounds, but nine gunshot wounds to his body. He

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had two bullet holes in his right chest, He had

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two holes in his right bicep, one in his left elbow,

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one in his left hip, one of his left thigh,

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and one in his right thigh.

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Think about that.

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He literally is shot everywhere from head to toe.

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So he's literally bleeding to death.

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They load him up in the ambulance and as they're

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doing life saving measures, everyone was EMTs included, they're just praying,

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Oh my god, I hope he lives to get to

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the hospital. So they're doing everything they can. Baron was

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alive whenever they made it to the hospital, but he

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would need immediate surgery to survive. Now, in the meantime,

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police are still at the apartment complex and they're addressing

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the scene, trying to make it make sense. And one

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shooter or one caller excuse me, one caller saw the

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shooter running away from the apartment complex towards this overpass road.

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But I want to kind of explain it to you.

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So this area is kind of hilly, and there's an

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overpass with a road on top, but it has a

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tunnel that goes underneath, and so This tunnel, though, isn't

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like a super tunnel. It's a big tunnel and you

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can walk through it, and so traffic drives over that.

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You can walk under this tunnel.

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It's nice, it's pretty, and then it comes out and

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it leads to a shopping center from the apartment complex.

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So that caller saw the shooter running that direction. Additional

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witnesses pointed police into that tunnel where they too had

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seen that shooter run. So it seemed like a really

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good lead that multiple people were saying we saw him

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run that way. So they bring in canines which did

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or were able to gather a trail and that sure enough,

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it went straight through that tunnel, and they followed the dog,

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and the dog picked it up. It goes into that

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parking lot of the shopping center, but then the trail

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stops abruptly. Now, when a trail, when a dog is

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on a trail and then it just stops right there

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and the dog has nowhere else to go, that's usually

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a pretty good indicator that the suspect got into a

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car and drove away, Otherwise the trail would have continued,

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if that makes sense. So they believed, okay, well, this

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is good This is good news. This means the active

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shooting situation at least is over. But the bad news

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now is that the shooter could be anywhere. They could

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be long gone because it's been time now since this occurred.

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So without much else to go on, police would have

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to employ a different tactic to drum up some leads

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other than you know, someone shot him, which they already knew.

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So this apartment complex, it's big, y'all. It's got thirty

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five buildings within the complex. So this is gonna start

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with some good old fashioned boots on the ground checking

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and talking to people. I guess that'd be the best

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choice in the moment, boots on the ground. So they

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go around and they're canvas in the area. They're talking

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to everyone saying, Okay, what did you see, where were you,

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what time was it, and of course do you have

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cameras because any footage would be great, and we live

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we live in a time now where damn near everybody's

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got cameras somewhere.

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It's just a matter of figuring out where they are.

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But for all the police didn't know, there was one

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thing they were certain of, and that was the fact

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that when they saw Baron before he was put into

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the into the ambulance. Baron had all of his jewelry

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still on him, He had his wallet on him, he

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had everything of value still on him, so they were confident.

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Police were confident robbery was not the case here. They

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also felt that it was pretty obvious to this point

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that Baron was targeted though for some reason, but it

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wasn't robbery. So that was kind of the hunch that

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they were running on at that time. And the shooter

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even took the extra steps to try and hide his

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involvement with the witnesses because or hide his involvement that

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the witnesses picked up on because they all said something

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that was kind of strange. The shooter took the time

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a few seconds, I guess, but took the time to

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pick up some of the spent casings before he took

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off running.

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That's bizarre.

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In broad daylight, you shoot somebody and then you take

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the time to stop and pick up bullet casings, that's weird.

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But he didn't get all of them.

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They police were still able to find three or four

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of them, and these were three eighty The weapon was

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a three eighty three eight caliber, so a couple of

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vehicles nearby had also been struck with the bullet holes

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in them, and so the police knew the weapon type

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at least, and they gathered those couple of casings and they.

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Sent those off to the lab for testing.

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So as far as people that may have wanted to

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kill Baron, police questioned Dedi to kind of get her thoughts,

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because obviously she knows him the best, and she could

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really only come up with two people that they as

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a couple couldn't get along with. But she was adamant

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neither one of these two she felt were capable or

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were wanting to kill Baron. Okay, and this is going

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to be super obvious people. It's going to be the

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ex wife of Baron, Sharon Kelly, and then Dede's ex

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husband named Armand so Sharon and Baron had been arguing

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about Eric a lot and Armand hated Baron because he

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felt like Baron had two tied of a relationship with

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his children, typical.

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Dislike between say X's.

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These two seem obviously like suspects too, and so the

472
00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:09.119
police went immediately and checked on both of these two

473
00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:12.440
people that DDE spoke out about. But it really just

474
00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:15.359
didn't nothing came from it. The detectives went to Sharon's

475
00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:17.640
home and they talked to her and they said, look,

476
00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:20.440
we have a situation in Bellevue. Do you know anybody

477
00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:23.440
in Bellevue? And her answer was, the only person I

478
00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:25.240
know in Bellevue is my ex husband.

479
00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:27.039
And we don't talk. I don't like the guy, we

480
00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:27.559
don't talk.

481
00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:30.519
She didn't have any information to add about the shooting,

482
00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:33.759
and they really didn't get much from her. That was

483
00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:35.880
kind of like it was what it was. When they

484
00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:39.799
checked up on armand he wasn't even in the state

485
00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:42.279
of Washington, like the entire state. He wasn't even there

486
00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:44.240
when the shooting occurred. They were very quickly able to

487
00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:47.759
rule him out as well, so that didn't really pan

488
00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:51.039
out to much now. Back at the hospital, the extent

489
00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:54.640
of Baron's wounds was detailed to his wife and to

490
00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:58.000
the police. He underwent several surgeries. He was in and

491
00:25:58.039 --> 00:26:01.440
out of consciousness, but to their apps salute Frickin' amazement,

492
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:04.920
he was still alive. He didn't die on the table.

493
00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:10.640
Doctors were able to remove three bullets during surgery. Three

494
00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:13.400
of them, though, that were still in him, were too

495
00:26:13.480 --> 00:26:15.640
dangerous to remove from the body. They just gonna have

496
00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:18.799
to stay in there. And then the other ones had

497
00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:21.680
been through and through shots of his body. His right

498
00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:24.559
arm was shattered because it was hit multiple times as

499
00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:26.799
he had thrown it up to try to shield himself

500
00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:30.039
or defend himself. He was going to require future surgeries

501
00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:33.160
to repair that damage. He was shot in his side

502
00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:35.039
and that was going to require him to need a

503
00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:39.720
hip replacement. These are some pretty big damn. This is

504
00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:42.759
some pretty serious damage done to his body. He was

505
00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:47.319
in pain literally everywhere.

506
00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:48.960
He was bruised up.

507
00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:52.960
He was sutured and stapled from head to toe. But amazingly,

508
00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:59.000
the doctors felt like he may pull through this. Eventually

509
00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:02.039
he was conscious enough to speak to the police and

510
00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:04.680
he was able to detail what happened to them. I mean,

511
00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:07.039
this isn't this is great, y'all. When I tell these

512
00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:09.119
stories too often, the person's.

513
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:09.599
Dead on arrival.

514
00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:13.440
Baron woke up from surgery and was able to talk

515
00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:15.400
to the police, and that is a fricking win for

516
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:18.640
all of us so far in this story. So he says, look,

517
00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:21.519
I was walking to my car. I was headed to work.

518
00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:23.640
It was early eight o'clock in the morning. He said,

519
00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:26.279
I heard a boom that I thought was a firework.

520
00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:29.000
So I looked to my left, but I didn't see anything.

521
00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:31.599
And then when I looked back to my right, the

522
00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:34.680
shooter was already right up on me. He ran up

523
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:37.920
on me, and he was shooting the entire time, and

524
00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.480
with every step, the shooter continued to just unload this

525
00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:44.759
pistol as he got closer and closer and closer to me.

526
00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:46.960
When he shot him in the arm, he said, that's

527
00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:50.319
when I, you know, like kind of at first, he said,

528
00:27:50.319 --> 00:27:52.000
he shot me in the arm. I turned to try

529
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:54.359
to run towards my car, almost instinctively, like let me

530
00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:56.480
get in the car so I can get away, and

531
00:27:56.960 --> 00:27:59.599
the shooter just kept running up to him, he said.

532
00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:02.039
At one time, the shot then hit the back of

533
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:04.319
his right legs as he was opening his door to

534
00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:06.400
get in. When it hit his right leg, it just

535
00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:09.119
caused him to collapse right there and fall. And then

536
00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:11.960
the shots just continued to ring out, and Baron said,

537
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:14.759
I turned and I faced the shooter and that's when

538
00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:17.200
he point blank shot me.

539
00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:18.559
In the chest.

540
00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:21.960
Boom boom, And then he said, just shots continued to

541
00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:24.519
ring out. I was hitting multiple times. It was just

542
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:28.759
a whirlwind of just scary, and that's when the shooter

543
00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:32.920
just ran off and the horrific assault was over in

544
00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:36.559
just a matter of seconds. But the damage was just unbelievable.

545
00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:38.519
So they're like, okay, well, well who was it?

546
00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:38.960
Who was it?

547
00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.160
Baron says, look, I wasn't able to see the shooter.

548
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:43.799
I don't know who it was. But he did have

549
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:46.039
a few pointers for police that he wanted that he

550
00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:50.720
was very adamant about. He said that shooter had to

551
00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:53.720
have been waiting for me because the driveway and the

552
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:57.039
roadway that led up to where his car was it

553
00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:59.799
was really long, so if someone would have been walking

554
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:02.640
in approaching him, he would have seen him from a distance.

555
00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:05.559
This person had to have been waiting and hiding for him.

556
00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:09.519
Baron was also adamant that the shooter was not his

557
00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:12.039
ex wife, and they're like, okay, well, how do you

558
00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:16.200
know if you couldn't see it? And his answer, honestly, y'all,

559
00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:19.119
it kind of maybe it tickled me, maybe laugh because

560
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:21.480
when they said how do you know it wasn't your

561
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:23.720
ex wife, he goes, oh, no, that shooter was too

562
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:28.799
skinny to be her, and considering it's his ex that

563
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:31.000
was like low KEI kind of savage, you know, I

564
00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:34.039
asked too skinny to be her anyway. Maybe you're laughing

565
00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:36.680
with me, maybe you're not, but all in the good fun.

566
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:39.279
Baron survived and he kind of like.

567
00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:40.920
Was savage in the moment, all right.

568
00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:44.680
He also didn't know was the male or was the

569
00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:48.119
shooter male or female? He honestly couldn't tell because of

570
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:49.920
how the person was dressed. But he did say the

571
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:54.240
shooter was skinny and lanky, and the police at least

572
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:57.000
had this working knowledge that it wasn't either of the

573
00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:58.039
exes that shot him.

574
00:29:58.440 --> 00:30:03.039
So who was that mas to kill a car salesman? Now?

575
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:05.200
Right now, someone is going, oh, hell, I'll get that

576
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:07.880
I bought a lemon. Okay, I get that, but like

577
00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:09.799
you're not willing to go kill somebody over it?

578
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:10.599
I mean shit.

579
00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:17.440
So investigators at the scene locked up because they found

580
00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:21.599
a good camera on a business near the apartment complex.

581
00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:24.359
And y'all, if you own businesses or if you get

582
00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:27.599
a camera for your house, they are no good if

583
00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:30.960
you get a shitty camera that's pixelated and that you

584
00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:33.799
can't make out the faces. So don't get a camera

585
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:36.519
unless you get a good one. That is like my

586
00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:39.519
solid advice to you if you want to catch somebody,

587
00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:42.440
because all cameras are good for is catching them after

588
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:44.559
the fact. Get a good camera. There's no point in

589
00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:46.839
getting one if not. Well, they found a good one

590
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:50.920
at this business near the apartment complex, and painstakingly the

591
00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:53.759
investigator sat down and they watched the tape and they

592
00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:57.680
focused in one a Maroon f one fifty that showed

593
00:30:57.759 --> 00:31:01.359
up about an hour and fifty minutes before the shooting

594
00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:04.720
took place. Because when they're watching it, they can see

595
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:08.119
it go down to the park right that tunnel they

596
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:10.519
had tracked through, but this car drove over the overpass

597
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:13.960
and they saw it go down to the parking lot

598
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:17.720
and park. Then a few minutes later, someone is seen

599
00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:20.960
walking towards the area of the shooting. Now in the moment,

600
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.960
they're not able to see exactly where the truck parked,

601
00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:26.799
but it's obvious that it parked at some point, and

602
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.319
they believed that that person that was walking towards the

603
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.160
area of the shooting likely came from that car. Now,

604
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:37.880
this person's wearing jeans and a white shirt looking top.

605
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:40.200
But this video was a little bit blurry because it

606
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:43.599
was far away and it's not high deaf or anything.

607
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:47.279
Then after the shooting, you see that same person, or

608
00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:50.319
believe to be that same person, running back towards the

609
00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:52.640
location of where the truck was. He's got his hood

610
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.599
up while everyone else seems to be looking the direction

611
00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:59.119
of the shooting and dialing nine to one one. So

612
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:03.640
that's what we call the So remember that lost scent

613
00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:07.640
trail that the canine like lost it, Well, it turns

614
00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:10.880
out the scent was lost at the exact spot.

615
00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:13.599
Where the truck was believed to be parked.

616
00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:19.000
So circumstantial at best, but they're kind of building something here. Now.

617
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:21.480
The focus was to find that maroon truck that the

618
00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:23.279
shooter was believed to have gotten into.

619
00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:25.160
So police start looking at.

620
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:28.640
Area cameras to see in you know, right in that area,

621
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:30.519
do we have any cameras at any other businesses that

622
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:33.440
Mike could pick up travel of this vehicle. And they

623
00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:35.839
were able to pick it up as it was traveling

624
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:38.440
away from the scene and it was going down Maine

625
00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:42.519
highways and main roads. And this would prove a super

626
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:45.480
fruitful task that they go to find these cameras because

627
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:48.079
they were able to determine that the truck they were

628
00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:52.799
trying to follow was super easy to pick out because

629
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:56.400
it had custom details on it. This is like when

630
00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:59.720
I was in high school, the boys, right, it was

631
00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:02.240
really cool to go get your last name tattooed between

632
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:05.079
your shoulder blades. And I always thought that was stupid

633
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:08.519
because when they fight, what a boys do? They rip

634
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:10.720
their shirts off, and then you have a fucking license

635
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:13.160
plate with your name on the back of your shoulder

636
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:14.920
blades like that was always comical to me. It was

637
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:16.799
always the one who wanted to be badasses. But then

638
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:18.079
let me just go ahead and put my name on

639
00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:20.759
my back so cameras can see who I am. But anyway,

640
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.359
that's kind of the situation here. And when when they're

641
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:25.799
following this truck through the video, they can tell that

642
00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:30.759
there's a diamond plate cap around the truck bed. And

643
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:33.440
then it also had tinted headlight covers, so it was

644
00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:36.359
super easy to pick out on film as they watched

645
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:38.079
it travel from place to place to place.

646
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:41.160
Additional footage was able to be pulled.

647
00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:44.359
From a different location and it had perfect angles and

648
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.759
they were able to zoom in and they could get

649
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:50.359
a windshield view through the truck. They could tell number

650
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:53.240
one there were two people in the vehicle and the

651
00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:57.640
passenger appeared to be wearing what the police thought that

652
00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:00.640
shooter was wearing. He had on the white tea and

653
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:05.839
when they zoomed in they saw this very identifiable gold

654
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.480
chain around the passenger's neck. They could tell that he

655
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:16.039
was a thin, white person, male, but nothing else super identifiable.

656
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:17.840
So it was a good shot, but it wasn't just,

657
00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:20.159
you know, a perfect shot of the face. They couldn't

658
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:22.599
make out the driver though, because the angle of the

659
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:26.400
camera at that location it was dark and shaded on

660
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:29.320
the side where the driver was. But this was a

661
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:32.079
great lead. They just needed to get a clear shot

662
00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:34.239
of the license plate. That would really be the only

663
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:35.960
thing that they could do was try to find that

664
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.000
license plate unless they wanted to have every cop in

665
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:40.159
the area just looking for this maroon truck, and that

666
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:41.960
would take a lot of resources in a lot of time.

667
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.199
So they continue the investigation and they would eventually get

668
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:48.079
the exact frame shot that they were looking for on

669
00:34:48.119 --> 00:34:50.639
the truck, a clear shot of that license plate, and

670
00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:53.320
when they zoomed in, they hit pay dirt. They could

671
00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:56.280
read it. So they ran that plate and it came

672
00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:59.280
back registered to a fifty six year old Arthur Mendez

673
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:04.079
of Mount Bingo. So Arthur was now going to get

674
00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:06.320
a visit from the police. But rather than just go

675
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:08.280
knock on the front door and be like, hey, did

676
00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:10.920
you shoot somebody, they decided that they were going to

677
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:15.480
take a different angle at this, and they decided that

678
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:17.440
they didn't want to just jump in and clue him

679
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:20.239
in on their suspicions of him. So instead they set

680
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:23.920
up an undercover little operation and they just kept watch

681
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.039
on his house from a distance to see could they

682
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:28.440
confirm that that was in fact the.

683
00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:29.800
Correct vehicle too.

684
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.480
So in the meantime, while they're watching the house and

685
00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:34.159
waiting to see if that vehicle is going to show

686
00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:37.159
up or not, police got or investigators got it curious

687
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:39.800
as to who, just who was this Arthur Mendez, And

688
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:42.679
so they were like, there's got to be a connection

689
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.039
if it's him, between him and Baron. So they went

690
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.800
to none other than social media, and that's where they

691
00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:49.920
found out a lot about this guy.

692
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:51.679
He was married, he.

693
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:55.559
Had children, and they also realized very quickly that he

694
00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:59.360
was a heavier set, Hispanic man, and he had a

695
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.119
dark black beard, and he did not match the profile

696
00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:07.639
of the passenger at all. But again, we didn't know

697
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:11.199
what the driver looks like. That one's still unidentified. So

698
00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:13.519
they're like, okay, well, what is the connection between him

699
00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:16.320
and Baron Lee? So they searched high and loath, but

700
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:20.519
they could not find any connection, like none, not even

701
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:23.719
a like poof in the wind that maybe they crossed

702
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:27.079
each other while walking through Walmart. Nothing, not even a

703
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:31.360
common friend or workplace. So this was bizarre. People don't

704
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:34.760
just go shooting people with no motive, especially if they're

705
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:36.800
not gonna rob them, Like, why would you just run

706
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:40.039
up and shoot this random guy? So this was clearly

707
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:43.519
an orchestrated hit. But what were the police missing? There

708
00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:46.320
had to be some type of link all in all.

709
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:49.679
Looking through his stuff, all Arthur seemed to be about

710
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:53.639
was working and loving his family. He loved the Broncos,

711
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:57.559
he was absolutely devoted to his wife. Arthur was a

712
00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:02.000
good man, at least on social media. It didn't fit.

713
00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:06.679
So they kept watching the home and the truck, and

714
00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:10.360
sure enough, it does pull up to the house. As

715
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:13.559
they continue to watch, they figure out that Arthur's son

716
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:18.800
was actually the primary user of the truck, So maybe

717
00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:23.000
Arthur wasn't the police officer's target. Suspect at this time,

718
00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:27.119
maybe it was his son. So they started looking into

719
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.679
the sun and his name was Quincy. But Quincy was

720
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:34.079
only seventeen years old. He was a teenager. He has

721
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.519
a short, kind of buzz style haircut. His ears are

722
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:39.360
a little bit lower and they kind of stick out

723
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:42.440
a little bit. But a good looking kid. He had

724
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:47.920
no obvious connection to Baron Lee either. So police continued

725
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:51.480
to follow Quincy and try to gather intel on him

726
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:54.039
without his knowledge, to see what could they find out

727
00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:57.400
about Quincy? So what did they find out? In the meantime,

728
00:37:57.400 --> 00:37:59.119
They found out that he went to Mount Vernon High

729
00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:01.400
School and he had a job. He worked at a

730
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:03.920
tire shop, which they did take photos of him working

731
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:08.079
at the tire shop. His social media, he had a

732
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:11.360
pretty good presence online of social media. The boy loved

733
00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:14.320
his mama, was unafraid to take pictures with his mama

734
00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:16.880
and post him online. He loved his family. There were

735
00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:23.159
lots of family photos. Good looking family, smiling, nicely dressed.

736
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:26.159
He did not seem like a thug or someone who

737
00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:27.960
would be out there just shooting people.

738
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:29.960
He loved playing football.

739
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:31.480
He was like his dad. He was a fan of

740
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:34.639
the Broncos. He liked fast cars, everything you expect in

741
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:37.960
a seventeen year old boy. He had posts of Paul

742
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:42.320
Walker and the Fast and the Furious. He had Star Wars,

743
00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.760
you know, the main guy, I Am Not your Father,

744
00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:49.480
Darth Vader and a lightsaber.

745
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.280
That was the kind of stuff that he posted.

746
00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:55.519
He also had those photos that are really typical nowadays

747
00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:58.039
of teenagers where he's like posing in the mirror in

748
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.360
a bathroom and doesn't clean off the counter.

749
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:01.480
That is my pet peeve guys.

750
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:02.880
If y'all are gonna if y'all are listening to me

751
00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:05.119
teenagers and y'all want to pose in a bathroom mirror,

752
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:07.800
clean your counter, okay, mama.

753
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:08.559
And me gets frustrated.

754
00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:11.559
But anyway, he was showing off his abs in one

755
00:39:11.639 --> 00:39:14.559
selfie in the bathroom mirror, so he took care of himself.

756
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:19.320
He enjoyed wrestling. He had photos with military inspiration. He

757
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:23.960
wanted to join the military. Now I went and looked myself, okay,

758
00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:26.679
and I'm gonna be completely transparent. There was also a

759
00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:29.480
fuck the Police post a time or two, but he

760
00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:34.519
comes across as a teenager trying to be edgy and cool,

761
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:37.679
not a straight up gut or rat run in the hood.

762
00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:40.519
You know, he just he was trying to be cool.

763
00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:44.440
His online image was nothing that you would write the

764
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:46.840
FBI about, is what I'm getting at. He just seems

765
00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:51.039
so average. Five days after the shooting of Baron, police

766
00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:54.119
were still following Quincy, and Quincy went to a gas

767
00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:58.039
station where another team was with him, and the thing

768
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:01.000
that caught law enforcement's attention was the fact that that

769
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:05.599
boy was wearing a gold chain around his neck. Coincidence,

770
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:08.679
possibly gold chains are common, but it was something that

771
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:13.039
had them eyeing closely on that second team. Another thing

772
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.239
as they were watching him now that got their attention

773
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:18.719
was the way that this other teenager rode in the truck,

774
00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:21.480
because it was something that they just couldn't look past.

775
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:24.559
When he got in, he would take the seatbelt strap

776
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:26.920
and he would move it from the traditional position and

777
00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:30.559
he would flip it underneath his arm, and it just

778
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:36.280
wasn't a common way that he did it. So it

779
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:38.960
happened to be just like the way that the shooter

780
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:44.480
also had his arm tucked into that seat belt in

781
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:46.480
the photographs, the still shots that they got from the

782
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:47.719
traffic cameras.

783
00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:49.639
So it was at that point that.

784
00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:53.960
Police believed that that second team may have been the

785
00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:57.679
shooter of Baron Lee and Quincy may have been the

786
00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:01.079
getaway driver. But they needed to id that second team,

787
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:03.800
so they made a trip up to none other than

788
00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:06.880
Mount Vernon High School and that's where they asked to

789
00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:10.320
speak to the admin. They wanted to see did the

790
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:14.920
administration recognize these two boys. So at this point they

791
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:18.199
brought photos to of the two suspects to see to

792
00:41:18.280 --> 00:41:21.239
show to the admin, and the admin was like, yeah,

793
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:22.840
we absolutely know those two boys.

794
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:26.000
That's Quincy and that is Joseph. Good.

795
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:30.320
So the school admin added to it, though they didn't

796
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:33.280
just say yeah, that's Joseph and Quincy. They also said

797
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:35.840
these boys are not troublemakers, they don't have a record

798
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:39.039
of being trouble makers, and they didn't have anything bad

799
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:42.519
to say about these kids. Trust me, trust Mama Jay.

800
00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:45.800
Right now we know the troublemakers at the high school.

801
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:48.960
This is way more under control than I think a

802
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.559
lot of people would realize. I teach it the largest

803
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:58.719
high school in the state, and my principal, who I'm

804
00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:02.519
obviously not gonna name, but my principle, could I promise

805
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:05.239
you he is so hands on he's an excellent principle.

806
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:07.920
My principle could sit down right now if you handed

807
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.039
him a piece of paper and he could write down

808
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:14.239
the top thirty kids that are disciplined, problems with no hesitation.

809
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.360
I stand on business when I tell you that. So

810
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:22.000
for this admin to say they're not troublemakers, that says something.

811
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:23.639
These kids have.

812
00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:25.840
Not been in our office. They're not fighting, they're not

813
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:27.800
doing all these things. And remember we're talking about kids

814
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.519
that the police believed went and shot somebody and tried

815
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:34.360
to murder him on the side of the road. Now,

816
00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:37.079
at least they had names to work with, so police

817
00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:39.800
knew about Quincy. Now they wanted to look into Joseph.

818
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:42.880
And Joseph was a pretty low key teen. And what

819
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:44.480
I mean by this is that he did not have

820
00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:47.480
much of a social media presence online like a lot

821
00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:51.199
of teens do. He was a handsome kid. If you

822
00:42:51.239 --> 00:42:52.920
look at him, he kind of has like a James

823
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:58.920
Franco look about him. And he also, like Quincy, was

824
00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:03.320
wanting to be edgy and cool, and you know that's all.

825
00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:04.360
Kids, they want to be cool.

826
00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:08.159
His ears were pierced, he had diamond studs in both

827
00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:10.760
of his earrings, both of his ears. He wore a

828
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:14.159
gold chain. He has short hair, like a traditional boy's

829
00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:16.920
haircut that's short, and then his hair is curly, kind

830
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:19.280
of wavy on top. And this is a kid that

831
00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:21.480
really cared about his appearance. He cared what people thought

832
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:24.800
about him. You and I at forty years old would

833
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:26.920
probably look at him and call him a little punk kid,

834
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:29.679
but not a murderous one. This is not someone you

835
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:30.880
would go, oh, yeah, that's a thug.

836
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:32.079
That's a problem.

837
00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:36.960
So the link between two seventeen year old teens and

838
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.480
forty eight year old Baron Lee still was not making sense,

839
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:43.679
and nothing that the police were finding out was making

840
00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:47.400
that any easier or more obvious. Why would two teenagers

841
00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:50.119
that are seventeen years old in high school, playing sports

842
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.559
and loving cars want to go shoot a car salesman,

843
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:57.599
a almost fifty year old car salesman. So, based on

844
00:43:57.599 --> 00:44:02.039
what police knew about the boys, they weren't convinced that

845
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:07.480
these two teams were the ring leaders of this organized

846
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:11.800
attempted hit on Baron Lee. They did think they were involved,

847
00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:13.840
but they didn't think that they were calling the shots.

848
00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:18.480
This just wasn't their speed, It wasn't something that these

849
00:44:18.519 --> 00:44:21.119
two boys they believed would have taken on for shits

850
00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:24.800
and giggles. Something else was at play here. This was

851
00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:28.519
a hit and someone else had ordered it. Somebody else

852
00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:32.440
was calling the shots here. The issue now was if

853
00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:36.760
police arrested them without knowing more than they were afraid

854
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:40.079
that the boys would clam up and that they wouldn't

855
00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:42.920
talk and so they wouldn't be able to get to

856
00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:45.880
the bottom of it. So police decided to get a

857
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:49.480
search warrant for their cell phones first to see maybe

858
00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:52.639
if they could find an electronic trail somewhere, maybe some

859
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:56.800
communication or something that would link them. They did not

860
00:44:56.920 --> 00:45:01.039
arrest them at the moment. Now, this issue that they're

861
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.159
trying to monitor through the cell phone, it's not the movies, y'all.

862
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.440
It takes time, it takes manpower. You have to not

863
00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:10.599
only get this data extracted, but then you have to

864
00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:13.960
go through it and figure it out. So the police

865
00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:18.159
would patiently watch, they would review the phone data, and

866
00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:21.800
it would take two more months for anything to happen

867
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.280
that would get the ball rolling again on this case.

868
00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:28.400
And this would come in the form of an email

869
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:33.519
that it face value wasn't anything but a detective on

870
00:45:33.559 --> 00:45:38.519
the case, had his curiosity sparked by this email, and

871
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:42.360
so he decided to start doing some digging. So Joseph

872
00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:45.280
Good had an iCloud account like most of us do,

873
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:49.800
and it got a communication from a company called Brickhouse

874
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:54.280
dot com. It wasn't a solicitation email or a junk

875
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:57.559
email either. It was an email that had to have

876
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:01.880
been forwarded to this account, and it was forwarded to

877
00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:07.639
Joseph from Joseph at another account, and that forwarded email

878
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:11.960
contained a link to a log in, and that log

879
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:16.679
in was for a GPS tracking web page.

880
00:46:18.079 --> 00:46:19.639
When looking further.

881
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:23.360
Into this, the detective noticed that Joseph had accessed that

882
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:27.119
link the night before the shooting happened, and a quick

883
00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:30.400
search found that this was a company that specialized in

884
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:37.119
security via dashcams and GPS trackers, So this wasn't overly odd.

885
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:39.800
But what was strange to the detective is that a

886
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:43.039
seventeen year old is typically not going to invest in

887
00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:48.159
a dash cam for themselves. Maybe their parent would, and

888
00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:51.360
even with GPS, you know, maybe a parent would invest

889
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:54.440
in GPS to track the vehicle, but not a seventeen

890
00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:56.199
year old. They're not going to do this. That's not

891
00:46:56.280 --> 00:47:01.639
a typical kid thing. So the site boasts GPS trackers,

892
00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:04.000
and I even went I looked because I was curious, like,

893
00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:06.840
is this like some big, huge, like business type tracker

894
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:09.199
or what is it? And the price range is from

895
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:11.480
nine dollars and ninety nine cents up to sixty nine

896
00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:16.199
dollars super affordable. And the log in to the tracker

897
00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:21.440
platform provides a dashboard like you could you could manage notifications,

898
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:24.039
You can set up and create alerts on your iPhone

899
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:26.440
so you can kind of see in real time whatever

900
00:47:26.480 --> 00:47:29.320
it is that you're tracking or the video that you're

901
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.599
monitoring from a dash camp. And so this would be

902
00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:35.880
great for companies that may have lots of assets out

903
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:37.719
there and they want a track where their trucks are

904
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:39.079
or where their trailers are.

905
00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:40.280
Or something along those lines.

906
00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:45.079
So why would a high schooler need a tracking GPS device?

907
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:47.599
And that's when the light bulb was like, hmm, maybe

908
00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:50.840
he was using it to track Baron Lee with so,

909
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:54.719
leaving no stone unturned, the detective decided to do a

910
00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:58.599
quick follow up on this because the detective says to himself, well,

911
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:01.440
Baron's car is still an evidence right there on our lot,

912
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:04.159
because remember it had bullet holes in it, an evid

913
00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:05.880
it's a piece of evidence that would have to be

914
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:07.280
documented in all of that.

915
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:10.480
So he goes out to look at the car out

916
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:11.320
on the police lot and.

917
00:48:11.320 --> 00:48:14.440
The evidence lot. He goes up there, he walks around,

918
00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:17.440
he looks underneath the car, underneath the car, and sure

919
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:21.639
ass shit, as I sit here today, a brick house

920
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:26.599
GPS monitor was laying on the ground underneath the car.

921
00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:31.960
Call it dumb luck, call it whatever. I'd rather be

922
00:48:32.039 --> 00:48:34.679
lucky than good any day, but call it dumb luck.

923
00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:39.000
But they realized when they looked under there, and they

924
00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:40.639
couldn't believe they saw it on the ground. They get

925
00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:42.920
under under there and they look and there's a bunch

926
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:47.159
of duct tape under the back bumper. And they realized,

927
00:48:47.239 --> 00:48:50.639
oh my god, this was originally taped underneath this back

928
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:52.920
bumper and it must have fallen off while the car

929
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:54.480
was sitting in evidence.

930
00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:57.320
So they picked it up, they photographed it. I have

931
00:48:57.360 --> 00:48:57.840
pictures of it.

932
00:48:57.880 --> 00:49:00.480
I'll put it on Patreon, and they it to the

933
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:03.159
lab for fingerprinting and to see if they could pull

934
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:06.360
DNA off of it. The neat thing about the GPS

935
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:08.800
monitor is that this would have had to have been

936
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:11.880
bought online because of where it was located and shipped

937
00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:14.079
to someone, so that's perfect, there's going to be a

938
00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:17.320
paper trail. So detectives obtained a warrant for brick House

939
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:21.199
and they requested copies of not only their their billing

940
00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:25.679
but also any registration records of any devices that would

941
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:29.400
have been purchased. Whoever bought that tracker would be there somewhere,

942
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:33.239
and all of that information. So the detective goes through

943
00:49:33.239 --> 00:49:37.320
their records line by line, and it takes time. They're

944
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:40.880
going through it, going through it, when a name finally

945
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:46.920
jumped out at detectives and that was a purchase made

946
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:51.519
by none other than Sharon Kelly, Baron's ex wife.

947
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:54.119
But the tracker.

948
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:59.159
Had been purchased back in twenty fifteen, so they're like, okay,

949
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:01.960
well she must have had for a while hmm. But

950
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:06.920
that's when they looked at the activation records and it

951
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:10.800
wasn't until June twenty sixth, two weeks before.

952
00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.159
The shooting, that it was activated.

953
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:18.440
And then what a kawinkie dink But that exact same

954
00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:24.079
device was deactivated on July fourteenth, just four days after

955
00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:29.079
the shooting of Baron. Lee call it what you want.

956
00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:31.840
But ding ding, ding ding ding. That's what we call

957
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:32.320
a clue.

958
00:50:33.079 --> 00:50:35.559
So it looks like the police hunch that the teens

959
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:41.199
weren't likely calling the shots was spot on. This information,

960
00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:44.280
combined with everything else, was more than enough probable cause

961
00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:48.239
to effect an arrest on all three of them, Quincy, Joseph.

962
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:48.800
And Sharon.

963
00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:51.760
But the decision was made that they were going to

964
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:53.840
go get them, but they were going to arrest them

965
00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:56.400
all at the same time, even though they were in

966
00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:59.360
different locations. And the thought process here was if we

967
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:02.159
get them all at the same time, then they won't

968
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:04.400
have the opportunity to tip each other off.

969
00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:05.880
Or to create any type of story.

970
00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:09.719
So Swatt arrived at Sharon Kelly's apartment complex to take

971
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:13.599
her in. But luck was actually on their side because

972
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:16.360
they show up swat, you know, guns blazing and everything,

973
00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:18.960
and she just happened to walk outside right whenever they

974
00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:20.599
pulled up, so they're able to just rush her and

975
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:22.360
grab her take her into custody.

976
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:25.079
No incident. That's a good day.

977
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:29.159
Joseph Good was being tailed and they were able to

978
00:51:29.199 --> 00:51:31.360
stop him while he was driving off of a main

979
00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:34.360
road up up a dirt road. Again, they pull him

980
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:39.159
over and they take him into custody. No incident, and

981
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:44.280
Quincy Mendez was at home and Swatt pulls up. But

982
00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:47.679
that's when a neighbor looks out the window sees swat

983
00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:51.880
surrounding the house, and that neighbor is alarmed and makes

984
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:56.039
a phone call to Quincy's mom. Quincy's mom lived, excuse me,

985
00:51:56.119 --> 00:52:01.039
worked like just a few minutes away from from the house,

986
00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:03.800
and the neighbor's like, look, swat is surrounding your house,

987
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:07.639
and I think they're gonna arrest Quincy. So she was

988
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.840
just a block away. She flies home and she's all

989
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:14.039
up in arms. What is going on here? You must

990
00:52:14.039 --> 00:52:16.519
be making a mistake. She's worried and scared for her kid,

991
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:19.639
and I'm gonna tell you as I don't blame her, Okay.

992
00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:21.559
She's like, oh my god, what is going on here?

993
00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:24.000
A Swatheam's trying to take my teenage boy and she's

994
00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:28.679
freaking out. But Quincy does end up giving up peacefully

995
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:32.480
as well. So all three suspects are now in custody,

996
00:52:32.519 --> 00:52:35.559
but they were no closer to knowing exactly what went down,

997
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:39.800
so they did do a search of all three. They

998
00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:42.519
got warrants, and they did a search of all three

999
00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:45.559
homes and it started to paint a story that kind

1000
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:49.039
of makes sense. So when investigators searched Sharon Kelly's residence,

1001
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:53.840
what they found included a new rifle still in the box,

1002
00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:57.760
and then there was a safe she had which had

1003
00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:01.159
multiple firearms, but there was not a thing which was

1004
00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:04.559
that caliber that Baron was shot with. They also found

1005
00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:07.679
an unopened burner phone, which I've explained in previous episodes,

1006
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:10.039
but that's a phone that's cheap, that is not tracked

1007
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:12.119
or signed up under a name, and it's one that

1008
00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:14.679
people usually used so that they can quickly burn it

1009
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:15.199
or get.

1010
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:16.639
Rid of it or throw it away.

1011
00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:22.320
They also found police they being police that there were

1012
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:25.559
two prior police reports that Baron had made in the

1013
00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:29.039
past years where he was upset and he was claiming

1014
00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:32.119
that Sharon had tried to run him over. He was like,

1015
00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:35.440
this girl is trying to run me over. But in

1016
00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:39.519
the moment, I guess it just people sometimes exaggerate things.

1017
00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:41.360
Oh my god, my X tried to run me over,

1018
00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:43.119
and then they're like, no, I didn't. I was pulling

1019
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.320
out of the driveway and you know, so a report

1020
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:48.480
was made, but I don't think much came of it.

1021
00:53:48.920 --> 00:53:51.159
But now those two old reports are seeming to be

1022
00:53:51.239 --> 00:53:54.440
much more serious than just that type of fighting X situation,

1023
00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:59.000
and the items in her home seemed indicative of a plan,

1024
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:02.880
but she had not yet fully put into motion. Now

1025
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:06.840
this is circumstantial again at best, but plausible, And that's

1026
00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:13.239
when cell phone communication became important because investigators were still

1027
00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:16.800
looking through cell phone data and a few weeks after

1028
00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:20.800
the shooting. Weeks after the shooting, there was a communication

1029
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:25.119
between Joseph Good and Sharon Kelly, and he's asking, Hey,

1030
00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:26.760
are you gonna pay me the money you owe me?

1031
00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:32.039
And her response to him was direct, quote job unfinished,

1032
00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:35.480
will need to complete unless it resolves on its own

1033
00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:41.960
in the next month end quote. Joseph replies, quote you sure.

1034
00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:47.000
I'm pretty sure I finished it well end quote, and

1035
00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:53.880
Sharon responded quote unfortunately end quote. Another communication came through

1036
00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:58.239
later that detailed how Joseph says, Okay, fine, I'll do

1037
00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:01.079
it again. I'll go back and do the job again,

1038
00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:03.760
but I need some money upfront because I have to pay.

1039
00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:07.719
My getaway driver bingo.

1040
00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:11.159
So they searched Joseph's home, and when they searched his home,

1041
00:55:11.519 --> 00:55:15.280
they did find a cell phone. They had various ammunition

1042
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:17.400
they were able to find, but the thing that was

1043
00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:21.000
most important to them to collect was they found that

1044
00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:26.559
infamous gold chain, a absolute match for the video photo

1045
00:55:26.679 --> 00:55:30.400
and the photos from the shooter. That chain exact match.

1046
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:35.639
The search of Quincy's home did result in police finding

1047
00:55:35.679 --> 00:55:39.039
a three eighty, but when that gun was tested, it

1048
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:41.360
was found that it was not the gun that shot Barren,

1049
00:55:41.519 --> 00:55:43.920
and Quincy's mom said, no, that's my gun, and a

1050
00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:45.920
three It is a little gun if you're if you're

1051
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:50.360
not familiar with guns. So police still had enough to

1052
00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:53.559
know that he was the getaway driver. And when you're

1053
00:55:53.559 --> 00:55:56.079
looking at the photos that they took during evidence collection

1054
00:55:56.119 --> 00:56:00.400
in the house, it's just a testament to how hard

1055
00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:02.719
it is to parent because right there on his wall

1056
00:56:03.159 --> 00:56:06.280
is a framed picture of Jesus, like right there in

1057
00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:08.960
the photograph, framed on the wall, And he was so

1058
00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:13.079
young to be making horrible decisions, even though you can

1059
00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:15.760
tell those parents tried to raise him, right those parents,

1060
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:18.079
he had been taught better. You can see it in

1061
00:56:18.079 --> 00:56:22.639
the home. So all were booked and charged with attempted

1062
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:26.840
murder in the first degree. Almost immediately the teen started

1063
00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:29.760
talking and The main question they were asked is why

1064
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:32.440
the hell are y'all even involved in this? How do

1065
00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:35.119
you even know Sharon? Why would you even get involved

1066
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:38.519
in something like this. It sure seems off that Sharon,

1067
00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:44.159
you know, in her late thirties, is communicating with seventeen

1068
00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:48.119
year old boys. And it quickly made sense though, because

1069
00:56:48.159 --> 00:56:51.760
that's when Joseph admitted that he was friends with none

1070
00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:55.559
other than Sharon's teenage brother. She had a younger brother,

1071
00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:58.679
and all of the boys, all three of them went

1072
00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:00.280
to the same high school.

1073
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:02.239
They all went to that high school together.

1074
00:57:02.719 --> 00:57:07.000
Basically, at some point, Joseph Good was approached by Sharon

1075
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:10.679
while they were hanging out with her teen brother, and

1076
00:57:11.239 --> 00:57:15.639
she offered Joseph thirteen thousand dollars to kill her ex husband.

1077
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:18.639
And that's a lot of money, especially to a teenager.

1078
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:22.679
And he saw gold, he saw dollar signs. He then

1079
00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:26.079
went and he recruited Quincy with the promise of paying

1080
00:57:26.119 --> 00:57:29.400
Quincy about five thousand dollars if he would just drive

1081
00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:32.039
him so he could quote this was in a text

1082
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:37.679
cap someone and empty the clip end quote all right,

1083
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:40.639
that in and of itself has a little thug deliciousness

1084
00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:42.280
to it. I ain't even gon trip until you and

1085
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:45.199
pretend it doesn't cap someone and empty the clip. But

1086
00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:47.559
it also sounds like a punk ass kid who's not

1087
00:57:47.719 --> 00:57:50.239
really in.

1088
00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:52.280
Living in the real world here. And I don't mean

1089
00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:53.000
that he didn't know better.

1090
00:57:53.039 --> 00:57:55.599
I'm saying, like, what are you doing, bro, cap someone

1091
00:57:56.119 --> 00:57:58.239
and empty the clip, douchebag?

1092
00:57:58.440 --> 00:57:59.599
That's total dB move.

1093
00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:02.840
But the phone records would also be looked at in

1094
00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:06.679
terms of towers and location, and sure enough it proved

1095
00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:08.920
that the boys did do a round trip from Mount

1096
00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:12.000
Vernon to Bellevue on the day of the shooting of

1097
00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:17.719
Baron Lee. When Baron ended up living, Sharon, I promise

1098
00:58:17.800 --> 00:58:21.440
you had no intentions of him surviving again. Hence all

1099
00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:24.440
that other communication and the stuff that they found at

1100
00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:27.239
her house and that brand new rifle that was still

1101
00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:32.920
in the box. She had everything that she needed, like

1102
00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:34.599
I just said, and she certainly had the weapons and

1103
00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:37.559
all of that to complete it. Sharon's initial claims of

1104
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:43.760
not knowing anything or knowing anyone in Bellevue other than

1105
00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:47.320
her ex also weren't flying at this point because guess

1106
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:49.880
what she failed to mention. She said, I don't know

1107
00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:53.519
anyone in Bellevue, but hold on a minute, she.

1108
00:58:53.599 --> 00:58:56.920
Did know someone in Bellevue other than her ex. It

1109
00:58:57.079 --> 00:58:57.880
was her son.

1110
00:58:59.760 --> 00:59:02.880
You you weren't gonna mention that your beloved baby boy

1111
00:59:03.159 --> 00:59:04.039
lived in Bellevue.

1112
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:07.519
She never brought him up. That again, was a red flag.

1113
00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:10.840
And at the point that that was going on, she

1114
00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:15.599
still had visitation rights to him. So you a liar

1115
00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:18.559
because it wasn't just your ex that you don't talk to.

1116
00:59:18.719 --> 00:59:22.719
Your baby was there and you never mentioned that to police.

1117
00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:25.760
So when it was all said and done, Quincy and

1118
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:28.199
Joseph would both be charged as adults.

1119
00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:28.880
In this case.

1120
00:59:29.559 --> 00:59:32.559
Sharon was initially held on two million dollars bond, but

1121
00:59:32.599 --> 00:59:36.800
the judge took one look at the situation and the

1122
00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:39.639
judge felt that she was just too dangerous to even

1123
00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:43.639
provide an opportunity for release before the trial, and so

1124
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:47.079
her bail was revoked altogether because the judge and the

1125
00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:49.079
prosecutors in this case felt that she was going to

1126
00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.760
continue to make attempts on Baron's life, and so they

1127
00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:55.880
revoked her bond altogether. And it wouldn't be right if

1128
00:59:55.920 --> 00:59:58.199
I didn't talk about all that Baron went through to

1129
00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:04.320
this point, trauma of being hunted down and shot nine times,

1130
01:00:05.079 --> 01:00:11.079
numerous surgeries, loss of work, and his mobility, pain literally

1131
01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:16.480
from head to toe, and months of being bedridden during

1132
01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:21.000
his recovery process, fifteen months before he could even think

1133
01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:23.840
about returning to work. And then you add on top

1134
01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:28.280
of that months of rehabilitation. And I want to point

1135
01:00:28.280 --> 01:00:31.519
this out too. There are heroes all over stories like this,

1136
01:00:32.960 --> 01:00:37.800
And thank God for Baron's amazing wife, she can't be

1137
01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:41.840
left out of this, who demonstrated amazing strength, holding down

1138
01:00:41.880 --> 01:00:46.039
the household, making the children feel safe and not afraid,

1139
01:00:46.639 --> 01:00:50.760
handling business through arguably the worst time in her life,

1140
01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:53.800
and she took care of those kids, Eric included. She

1141
01:00:53.960 --> 01:00:56.559
set it up so that Eric, who has these complex

1142
01:00:56.920 --> 01:01:00.559
special needs, would be taken care of to the fullest

1143
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:02.800
as well as nursing her husband back to health.

1144
01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:06.000
That is a warrior. That is an absolute warrior in

1145
01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:06.480
my eyes.

1146
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:11.280
And Baron, this bro, I'm telling you, he's a cool cat. Okay,

1147
01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:16.159
he's a cool dude. Refusing refusing to let his kids in,

1148
01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:18.679
all of them, refusing to let them worry, and he

1149
01:01:18.760 --> 01:01:21.480
didn't want them to be scared. The day after he

1150
01:01:21.559 --> 01:01:25.880
survived his surgeries in the hospital in incredible amounts of pain,

1151
01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:31.039
he insisted. He demanded that he get help to stand,

1152
01:01:31.840 --> 01:01:36.639
and he stood in his hotel, in his hospital room,

1153
01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:41.960
and he took a picture smiling through intensive pain, so

1154
01:01:42.039 --> 01:01:44.199
that his wife could send it to his kids to

1155
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:47.599
show them I am okay, I'm gonna be okay. What

1156
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:51.719
a man, what a daddy in every sense of the word.

1157
01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:58.719
Baron's character also, his character will shine through in this case.

1158
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:04.880
Love character. When people have it, they have integrity. Because

1159
01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:11.000
Baron told prosecutors that he was willing to take lower

1160
01:02:11.079 --> 01:02:15.280
sentencing for the teens because he didn't want to see

1161
01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:20.840
two teenagers' lives, their entire lives thrown away. And I

1162
01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:24.320
know you're like, why they tried to kill him? Amazingly

1163
01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:29.119
and that's the only word I know to use. Incredibly unhumanistically.

1164
01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:35.440
The anger and the fear that Baron experienced as a

1165
01:02:35.559 --> 01:02:39.440
child in that foster care system that would play a

1166
01:02:39.559 --> 01:02:44.639
role in the grace he felt should be extended to

1167
01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:48.960
Quincy and Joseph. Baron told that prosecutor when I was

1168
01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:51.039
a teenager, I screwed up.

1169
01:02:51.239 --> 01:02:52.280
I made bad.

1170
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:56.199
Decisions, I was angry, I didn't think straight. And he

1171
01:02:56.320 --> 01:03:00.920
recognized that part of him in these two boys that

1172
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:03.440
he didn't know, even the one that shot him nine

1173
01:03:03.760 --> 01:03:05.599
times and tried to wipe him off the face of

1174
01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:09.440
the planet. That reality that Baron was raised in, that

1175
01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:12.960
foster care, and that anger that he had. His pain

1176
01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:17.599
became his strength, and his strength turned into ultimate grace

1177
01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:22.039
over these teen boys. He even took the steps of

1178
01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:25.559
meeting with the parents of those teen boys who tried

1179
01:03:25.559 --> 01:03:27.920
to kill him, and he wanted those parents to know

1180
01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:30.920
I do not harbor ill will towards.

1181
01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:31.800
Quincy and Joseph.

1182
01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:36.400
My only hope is that they will recognize this massive

1183
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:41.000
mistake that they made, but also see the massive opportunity

1184
01:03:41.039 --> 01:03:44.280
that they have to turn their lives around and still

1185
01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:47.199
make something of themselves. I don't want them thrown away.

1186
01:03:48.880 --> 01:03:52.360
I don't know people like that quite often, I don't

1187
01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:53.960
know if I have that in me, and I try

1188
01:03:54.039 --> 01:03:57.880
to be a good person that's beyond that is so aware,

1189
01:03:58.119 --> 01:04:04.079
that's so aware of the complexity that of a teenager.

1190
01:04:06.159 --> 01:04:09.159
But Quincy Mendez pled guilty to assault in the first

1191
01:04:09.239 --> 01:04:13.000
degree and he got eight years and ten months, which

1192
01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:17.559
left him eligible for release in twenty twenty eight. Joseph

1193
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Good pled guilty to attempted murder and unlawful possession of

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a firearm, which he got twelve years and eight months,

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and he will be eligible for release in twenty thirty two.

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Both of them also are lucky in the regard that

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they're getting to serve their time at a juvenile detention

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center rather than being shipped off to a big boy

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prison where they would absolutely become targets because of their

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young age. So why was Sharon this question Probably you're wondering,

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01:04:49.559 --> 01:04:53.880
why was Sharon so adamant that Baron needed to die?

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Why was she so adamant he needed to die? And

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this is another light bulb that goes off. Was it

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because he got custody of their son and she was

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01:05:03.400 --> 01:05:06.719
mad about it? Did she hate him that much that

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she was willing to hire people to murder him?

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Really?

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Well, the answer is sorta, because it turns out that

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Eric's condition from birth was deemed to be the result

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of malpractice. Baron and Sharon had filed a malpractice lawsuit

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years ago and they won it. The winnings for Eric

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01:05:33.679 --> 01:05:36.519
had been put into a trust. That trust was to

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01:05:36.519 --> 01:05:41.519
be used for Eric's lifelong care. The value of that

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trust at the time of the shooting was nine hundred

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thousand dollars. Whoever was deemed to be Eric's custodial caregiver

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would have had access and control to almost a million dollars.

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With Baron dead, she believed that she would get Eric,

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which would have put her in the money.

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That's what this was about, the money.

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Sharon took a plea deal, she got solicitation of attempted

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murder in the second degree, and after everything that happened,

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she was sentenced to thirteen years. Thirteen years, y'all, I

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cannot say that that's enough in my opinion, No freaking way.

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She's eligible for release in twenty thirty three. The good news,

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I can tell you, if you're just disgusted by that

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as I am, the good news is that by the

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time she's eligible for release, Eric will be eighteen, and

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so his trust would be protected from her. So there's

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no way even there's no reason for her to I

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guess if that's what motivated her. Ultimately, there's no reason

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for her to continue to try to kill Baron because

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she can't touch the money no matter what. But Baron

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is a walking miracle today, no wheelchair, no long term disability, nothing.

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Nine shots, some of them at point blank range, and

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they missed a vital organ, all nine of them. He

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is healed, he is thriving. He's even been referred to

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as the Asian fifty cent because he's been hit with

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a few shells. But he don't walk with a limp,

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you know what I'm talking about.

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I love that.

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He also, though now serves as a board member for

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a nonprofit and that's called Route twenty one or Route

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twenty one, and that is a nonprofit where they pay

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former foster kids to mentor current foster kids. He is

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investing in the community and he's being the change that

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he wishes to see. And I'll say this over and

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01:07:53.519 --> 01:07:57.119
over again. That is a true influencer. That is someone

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making a difference through action. I am Baron Lee's biggest fan.

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Now sharing.

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On the other hand, she doesn't strike me as someone

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who's gonna do much with herself. She sucked as a mom,

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01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:13.280
she was horrible as an ex wife, and she was

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01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:17.159
downright callous to try and take away Eric's daddy, whom

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he not only loves but he depends on for everything.

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And the one man that was willing to do it

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all for that child. And the fact that she thought

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about hiring teenagers as a hitman. She thought that was

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a good plan that in and of itself tells me

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everything that I need to know about this woman. So,

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whether she's mentally ill or just playing stupid, I'm not sure.

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But the chances of her accepting that all of her

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problems are self induced, that's probably pretty slim. But good

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luck to whoever the person is out there who's tasked

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with that job, because my ass has neither the time

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nor the crayons to explain it to her.