Virgin Islands Case Files
Virgin Islands Case Files: Episode 5
Episode 5 | 27mVideo has Closed Captions
This episode profiles two unsolved cases involving members of the VI National Guard.
This episode profiles two unsolved murder cases involving members of the Virgin Islands National Guard - Private First-Class KyJuan Naughton and Staff Sergeant David Francois.
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Virgin Islands Case Files is a local public television program presented by WTJX
Virgin Islands Case Files
Virgin Islands Case Files: Episode 5
Episode 5 | 27mVideo has Closed Captions
This episode profiles two unsolved murder cases involving members of the Virgin Islands National Guard - Private First-Class KyJuan Naughton and Staff Sergeant David Francois.
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>>> WELCOME TO VIRGIN ISLANDS CASE FILES PEER EACH YEAR, MURDERS GO UNSOLVED IN OUR TERRITORIES LEAVING COUNTLESS GRIEVING FAMILIES THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY.
DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR THEIR LOVED ONES.
VIRGIN ISLANDS CASE FILES HIGHLIGHTS THESE STORIES TO GET YOU THE PUBLIC INVOLVED IN THIS EPISODE, WE WILL TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT TWO UNSOLVED HOMICIDES INVOLVING MEMBERS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL GUARD.
OUR FIRST CASE INVOLVES A 21- YEAR-OLD GUARDSMAN FROM ST. CROIX WHO WAS ON ST. THOMAS TO SUPPORT THE 2017 HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORTS WHEN HE WAS MURDERED IN THE SMITH BAY AREA.
HERE IS THE STORY.
>> I COULD TELL EVERYBODY LOVED HIM.
HIS ENERGY.
HE WAS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY.
MY NAME IS KIARA.
I WAS HIS GIRLFRIEND AT THE TIME.
HIS NICKNAME WAS KIKI JUST LIKE MINE.
WE MET IN HIGH SCHOOL BUT WE WERE VERY CLOSE AND HIGH SCHOOL.
WE GOT CLOSER WHEN HE STARTED TO HANG AROUND MY FAMILY.
WE TRY TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME TOGETHER, BUILD WHAT WE CAN BUILD AND MOTIVATE EACH OTHER TO DO WHAT IS BEST.
HE LIKED FIXING CARS AND I WAS RIGHT THERE BY HIS SIDE.
HE LIKED TO DO --.
ANYWHERE HE COULD HAVE A GOOD TIME, THAT WAS KEKE.
HE JOINED THE MILITARY JUST TO KEEP OUT OF TROUBLE.
IT WAS WITHIN THE SAME YEAR HE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL.
HE GRADUATED 2014.
HE DID TELL ME HE WAS GOING TO BASIC TRAINING.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL PICK ON YOU, YOUR DEMEANOR AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
HE DID SAY IT WAS HARD IN THE BEGINNING AND THEN HE FOUND THE ALLIANCE AND OTHER PEOPLE.
OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAD HIS CHARACTERISTICS AND PERSONALITIES, THEY BECAME FRIENDS.
WHEN HE FIRST HEARD THAT HE WAS GOING TO OTHER REGIONS FOR DONALD TRUMP, HE WAS VERY PUMPED UP ABOUT IT.
I HELPED HIM TO GET HIS STUFF TOGETHER, MAKE SURE HE HAD ALL OF HIS GEAR.
HE SAID IT WAS A ONCE-IN-A- LIFETIME EXPERIENCE.
>> SEEING HOW EVERYTHING IS ALSO --I HAVE A SPECIAL --TO EXECUTE MY SKILL.
--REASONS I COULD BE WORKING RIGHT NOW.
IF I HAD THE OPTION TO DO IT AGAIN, I DEFINITELY WOULD.
SPEC AT ONE OF MY PROUDEST MOMENTS WITH HIM WAS WHEN WE FOUND OUT WE WERE HAVING A BABY.
IT WAS OUR FIRST TIME BEING PARENTS TOGETHER.
IT WASN´T EXPECTED BUT WHEN IT HAPPENS, WE WERE EXCITED AND IN JULY OF 2017, WE FOUND OUT THE GENDER.
AND HE PICKED THE NAME KEY MONEY.
SO HE WAS BORN AUGUST 24th.
HE WAS A FIRST-TIME DAD AND HE WAS VERY EXCITED.
EVERYTHING FOR HIM WAS ME AND MY SON.
WE HAD JUST HAD HIM ON AUGUST 24th.
--HURRICANE.
--KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO BE ACTIVATED.
HE DID ASK ME TO GO WITH KYMANI TO STAY WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER.
MAYBE THE SECOND WEEK IN SEPTEMBER, HE LEFT AND THEN RIGHT AFTER HE LEFT, THEN HURRICANE MARIA HIT.
WE WEREN´T --HE WAS ALWAYS CHECKING ON ME AND MAKE SURE WE WERE GOOD AND DIDN´T NEED ANYTHING.
HE WOULD LET ME KNOW OKAY WELL I WORK 12 HOURS OR 15 HOURS.
HE KEEP UPDATED ON EVERYTHING HE DID WHILE HE WAS OVER THERE.
WHEN HE WAS DOING THE SHOPPING CENTER, JUST A WAY TO HELP THE COMMUNITY, HE WAS HAPPY.
SEPTEMBER 28th 2017, HIS GRANDMOTHER CALLED ME AND ME IF I HEARD WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM.
I TOLD HIM NO I DIDN´T AND SHE TOLD ME WHAT HAPPENED.
>> ON SEPTEMBER 22 SOUTH IN 17 --2017, WE RECEIVED A PHONE CALL DEAD ON ARRIVAL.
WE TRAVEL TO OUR RESIDENTS IN THE AREA.
UPON ARRIVAL, THEY FOUND --.
HE WAS LAYING IN THE YARD ON HIS BACK.
HE SUFFERED ONE GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE ABDOMEN AREA.
HE WAS IN A BROWN COLORED T- SHIRT.
THE BLACK SHORTS THEY USE FOR PE, NO SHOES, NO SOCKS.
UPON ARRIVAL, THEY PRONOUNCED HIM DEAD.
THE NOTIFICATION WAS IMMEDIATELY MADE TO THE DISCOVERED HIS I.D.
HIS BODY WAS REMOVED FROM THE AREA.
FORENSICS PROCESSED THE ENTIRE SCENE.
THE SCENE KIND OF EXTENDED OUT INTO THE ROADWAY.
BEING THE WAY HE WAS DRESSED, WE KNEW HE HAD TO BE IN RESIDENCE IN THAT AREA.
SO WE STARTED TO BEGIN ASKING HIM WAS THIS YOUNG MAN HERE OR WAS THIS YOUNG MAN THERE?
THE SECOND TIME IT WAS A LITTLE UNCLEAR THAT HE WAS AT THE NATIONAL GUARD ARMY.
HE LEFT BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8 AND 9 P.M.
THE EVENING OF THE 27th THERE WAS A GUARD AT THE GATE.
THE GUARD SAW HIM LEAVE.
SHE DIDN´T KNOW WHERE HE WAS GOING OR WHO HE WAS GOING TO.
AND THEN THE MORNING OF THE 28th IS WHEN HE WAS FOUND DECEASED.
HE CAME FROM ST. CROIX SO UNKNOWN TO US, LEADING INVESTIGATORS WHO HE MAY HAVE KNOWN OVER HERE OR WHO HE WOULD HAVE WENT TO THAT EVENING IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE TWO WITNESSES THAT CAME OUTSIDE TO DEAL WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HURRICANE CLEANUP THAT FOUND HIM.
EVEN THOUGH THEY CONVERSE TO THE AREA, THERE WAS ONLY ONE OR TWO PERSONS HEARD THAT ONE GUNSHOT.
THERE WAS A GENTLEMAN WHO SAID AROUND TWO A.M.
HE HEARD WHAT APPEARED TO BE A LOUD BOOM AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS A CANNON BUT AS USUAL YOU HAVE SHOTS FIRED IN THE AREA AND BASED ON WHERE THIS CRIME SCENE WAS LOCATED, IT WAS SOMEWHAT IN THE VALLEY SO IT WILL BE AN ECHO.
IT WASN´T LIKE A LARGE AMOUNT OF GUNSHOTS THAT WERE HEARD.
SO AGAIN ANYONE COULD´VE FIRED THE SHOT AND THAT WAS IT.
THIS WAS A REAL BAD TIME.
WE WERE TRYING TO FIX OURSELVES FROM THE HURRICANE.
SO THERE WAS NO SURVEILLANCE IN THE AREA PLUS THERE WAS ISSUES WITH POWER.
SO THERE WASN´T ANYTHING THERE THAT COULD RECORD OR PICK UP ANY KIND OF SURVEILLANCE.
WITH THE IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION AS BEING DONE BY --AND THE FELLOW GOVERNMENT, WE HAVE ESTABLISHED PERSONS OF INTEREST.
WE ARE GOING TO KEEP ON WITH THAT PART OF THE INVESTIGATION UNTIL WE GET CLOSURE.
BEING THAT HE WAS A SOLDIER, IT KIND OF HIT HARD TO THE COMMUNITY.
HE CAME OVER HERE TO ASSIST AND HELP US AND HE ACTUALLY LEFT GOING BACK HOME IN A CASKET.
HE WAS BURIED WITH FULL HONORS.
THIS YOUNG MAN HAD A LONG LIFE TO LIVE AND HE DEDICATED IT TO THE NATIONAL GUARD AND THE ISLANDS SO WE NEED TO CLOSE THIS CASE.
WE NEED TO COME AND FIND CLOSURE TO HIS CASE NOT ONLY FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD WHO IS HIS ONE FAMILY BUT HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY AND ST. CROIX.
>> I WANT HIM TO BE REMEMBERED AS THE YOUNG MAN WHO DIED EXTENDING A HAND.
HE WASN´T JUST OUR REGULAR PERSON IN THE STREETS.
HE WAS A BROTHER.
HE WAS SOMETHING TO SOMEONE BRINGING HIS KILLER TO JUSTICE WILL BRING PEACE TO MANY PEOPLE´S LIVES.
THE KILLER BEING BROUGHT TO JUSTICE IS GOING TO CONCLUDE THAT CHAPTER OF PAIN IN OUR LIFE AND WE WILL KNOW FOR SURE HE IS RESTING IN PEACE YES BUT NOW HIS KILLER IS SERVING JUSTICE.
SO WE CAN FEEL AT PEACE.
>> HIS FAMILY MEMBERS AND CLOSE FRIENDS ARE STILL HOPING WITH HIS UNTIMELY DEATH, THEY ARE CALLING UPON THE COMMUNITY TO COME FORWARD WITH INFORMATION THAT WILL HELP DETECTIVES CLOSE THIS CASE.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN HELP BRING HIS KILLER TO JUSTICE, CALL CRIME STOPPERS TODAY AT ONE 800 222 TIPS.
OUR SECOND CASE INVOLVES A SERVICE MAN WHO WAS DEPLOYED FIVE TIMES AND RETURNED UNHARMED EACH TIME ONLY TO BE MURDERED ON AN ISOLATED BEACH IN HIS HOMETOWN OF ST. CROIX.
HERE ARE THE STORIES OF --.
>> GROWING UP, WE ALL CALLED HIM --.
SIX BOYS AND ALSO THERE WAS A SMALL CAMP OF THREE AND THEN A CAMP OF THREE WHICH IS A YOUNG THREE AND TWO SISTERS.
HE AND I WERE THE MIDDLE BOYS IN THE TWO GROUPS SO WE BOTH --.
>> WE WERE ALL TWO YEARS APART EXCEPT FOR THE TWO GIRLS.
OUR FAMILY WAS DEFINITELY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT BECAUSE THE AMOUNT OF INDIVIDUALS WE HAD LIVING IN THE HOUSE.
DAVID AND I BEING THE TWO OLDEST PROBABLY EXPERIENCED MORE OF WHAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER A LITTLE BIT TOUGHER LIFE.
>> BEING AROUND DAVID WOULD JUST BE AS HAPPY AS YOU CAN BE.
YOU COULD BE DOWN, HE WOULD UPLIFT YOU.
>> IF YOU GO YOU NEEDED SOMETHING AND HE HAD IT, HE WOULD GIVE IT TO YOU.
MY FIRST CAR I HAD WAS A PONTIAC 1985 AND DAVID WAS THE ONE WHO BOUGHT THIS FOR ME AND NOT ONE TIME IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE DID HE EVER ASK ME FOR THE MONEY THAT HE SPENT ON THAT CAR FOR ME OR ANYTHING.
IT WAS JUST LIKE A GIFT.
>> ME AND THE YOUNGER ONE -- IN THE FIELD AND --WITH OUR HANDS.
>> DAVID WOULD JUST HOLD THE HAND RIGHT THERE AT YOUR BACK AND YOUR STOMACH.
A LITTLE BIT UP TO YOUR CHEST AND YOU WOULD JUMP AND HE COULD SPIN YOU OVER.
>> I THOUGHT HE WOULD --SHOOT THEM WITH A PELLET GUN, PICK THEM UP AND TAKE THEM HOME AND SKIN THEM.
SAME LIKE WITH --.
HE USED TO TEACH US ABOUT WILDLIFE, SURVIVAL AS WELL.
HE WAS REALLY SMART.
THAT IS ONE THING WITH HIM.
HE WAS ALL AROUND AND MANY DIFFERENT THINGS.
>> COMIC BOOKS, POET, SINGING.
HE WASN´T A GOOD SINGER BUT THE SONGS HE WOULD WRITE, THEY WOULD BE MEANINGFUL AS FAR AS THE GOOD.
>> HE WOULD HAVE PAGES AND PAGES, HUNDREDS OF PAGES THAT DAVID WOULD HAVE COME A POETRY HE WAS WRITING.
IF HE WAS SUPPOSED TO PUBLISH A BOOK, IT WOULD BE A VERY THICK BOOK .
>> HE DID A LOT OF DRAWINGS AND TOOK A LOT OF PICTURES WHICH HE THEN TURNED INTO DRAWINGS.
>> HE WOULD DRAW --PORTRAITS, CARTOON FIGURES AND TAKING PICTURES.
BEING AROUND HIM, HE WOULD ALWAYS HAVE A CAMERA TAKING PICTURES OF EVERYTHING.
>> WE LIVE MOST OF OUR TIME IN --.
TWO YEARS WHILE MY PARENTS WERE BUILDING THE HOUSE.
THEN WE MOVED ON TO SONNY AKERS WHICH WAS THE HOUSE MY DAD DAVID SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME UNTIL HE JOINED.
THEN SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT DAVID IS AIRBORNE.
I SAID AIRBORNE?
JUMPING OUT OF PLANES?
I COULDN´T PICTURE HIM DOING SOMETHING AS DANGEROUS AS THAT.
HE LEFT BASIC TRAINING INTO SCHOOL TRAINING AND THEN HE WENT ON TO AIRBORNE SCHOOL AND BECOME A PARATROOPER.
>> WHEN HE WAS IN --APPEAR IN NORTH CAROLINA, WE WERE UP HERE LEARNING THE STATES.
>> HE MARRIED A YOUNG LADY HE WAS SERVING WITH.
THEY HAD TWO BOYS.
>> CAMERON AND JORDAN.
DAVID WAS MY EX-HUSBAND.
WE WERE MARRIED FOR 10 YEARS, ONE OF THE KINDEST PEOPLE.
HE WAS A VERY GOOD FATHER BUT OF COURSE BEING TWO VETERANS, THINGS DO CHANGE.
>> THEN HE GOT STATIONED BACK TO THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.
IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE FOR HIM BEING BACK HOME AND STILL SERVING IN THE MILITARY.
>> HE WAS THE BEST GUY TO HAVE IN THAT MOMENT.
THEY WOULD SOME PEOPLE FROM MICROSOFT TO COME DOWN THERE AND DAVID WOULD HAVE TO TEACH THE PEOPLE FROM MICROSOFT HOW TO HOOK THIS STUFF UP.
AT THE TIME DAVID GOT REMARRIED, IT IS FUNNY.
I DIDN´T EVEN KNOW DAVID WAS DIVORCED.
DAVID WAS GOING TO HAVE TWO WIVES?
NO HE GOT DIVORCED A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND I WAS LIKE OH WOW I DIDN´T KNOW THAT.
I DIDN´T ATTEND THE WEDDING BUT I DID SEE SOME OF THE PICTURES AND IT LOOKS NICE.
>> HE GOT MARRIED TO --.
IT SEEMED LIKE HE WAS HAPPY IN THE MOMENT AT THE TIME.
MARRIAGE STARTS OFF ALL HAPPY ALL GOOD.
>> DAVID WAS CORRESPONDING WITH MY MOM WHO HE WAS REAL CLOSE TO.
HE WAS SAYING ISSUES THAT HE WAS HAVING.
AFTERWARDS I STARTED FINDING OUT A LOT OF WHAT WAS GOING ON IN DAVID´S LIFE AT THE TIME.
AS FAR AS HIS MARRIAGE.
>> HE IS THE KIND OF PERSON THAT WOULDN´T TELL YOU IF HE HAD A PROBLEM.
HE WOULD KEEP IT TO HIMSELF AND HE WOULD STAY QUIET.
YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE AT THE MOMENT IN THE PLACE FOR YOU TO KNOW IF HE HAD A PROBLEM.
>> IN 2013 , DAVID AND I DIDN´T ACTUALLY TALKED DURING THAT YEAR MUCH.
I THINK I SPOKE TO DAVID ONE TIME WHILE I WAS OVERSEAS THROUGH SKYPE.
>> HE WAS THINKING OF RELOCATING TO NORTH CAROLINA.
THINGS WEREN´T SO WELL ON THE ISLAND.
I KNOW HIS RELATIONSHIP WASN´T GOING WELL AND HE JUST WANTED TO BE CLOSER TO HIS MOTHER AND HIS FATHER, HIS BROTHER AND HIS SISTER.
HE WANTED TO BE CLOSER TO HIS CHILDREN.
>> HE HAD PLANNED ON RETIRING.
HE TALKED ABOUT RETIRING AND MOVING TO NORTH CAROLINA.
>> IN NOVEMBER 2013, DAVID WAS PLANNING TO TRAVEL TO NORTH CAROLINA FOR A THANKSGIVING EVENING, TRYING TO SURPRISE EVERYONE IN THE FAMILY.
I ASKED HIM IF EVERYTHING WAS OKAY AND WE GOT A PHONE CALL NOVEMBER 18th.
I GOT A PHONE CALL SAYING HE WAS MURDERED.
>> AT ABOUT 228 P.M., DAVID -- WIFE CAME INTO THE STATION -- UNRESPONSIVE ON THE BEACH.
AND WE FOUND HIM IN THE SAND BEHIND HIS VEHICLE DEAD.
HE WAS APPARENTLY SHOT IN THE HEAD AND HE HAD BLOOD ON HIS FACE.
HIS VEHICLE WAS REVERSED BETWEEN TWO TREES AND HIS TOE WAS THERE.
HE HAD ON HIS BIG SHOES.
HE HAD ON TRUNKS.
THERE WAS NO ROBBERY.
HIS KEYS FOR HIS VEHICLE WAS AROUND HIS NECK.
HIS WALLET AND ALL OF HIS PERSONAL BELONGINGS WAS LOCKED INSIDE THE VEHICLE.
SO IF THE INDIVIDUAL WANTED TO STEAL ANYTHING, TAKING VICKI OFF OF HIS NECK AND GOING TO THE VEHICLE WOULD´VE BEEN AN EASY THING.
OF COURSE --HOMICIDE SUCH AS THIS, --NATURAL SUSPECT.
THEY STARTED INTERVIEWING THE WIFE WHO GAVE US SOME CONFLICTING STORIES ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.
BOTH OF THEM WERE AT THE BEACH.
A WERE IN THE WATER SWIMMING, HE GOT TIRED AND CAME OUT OF THE WATER AND SAT ON THE SAND.
WHILE SHE WAS STILL IN THE WATER BECAUSE SHE HADN´T BEEN IN THE SEA FOR A LITTLE WHILE, SHE WAS ENJOYING HERSELF.
AND SHE CAME OUT OF THE WATER, SHE DIDN´T SEE HIM.
AND WHEN SHE WENT LOOKING AND THEY FOUND HIM BEHIND THE TRUCK.
BUT THAT WAS STORY NUMBER ONE.
SHE ALSO TOLD ANOTHER STORY TO US THAT SHE WENT THERE TO MEET HIM.
WHEN SHE GOT THERE, SHE DIDN´T SEE HIM , SAT IN HER CAR FOR A LITTLE WHILE AND WHEN SHE CAME OUT OF HER CAR AND WENT OUT, SHE FOUND HIM BEHIND THE TRUCK ON THE GROUND.
WHAT WAS UNUSUAL ABOUT ALL OF THIS IS SHE TOLD US ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION THAT SHE WAS IN THE SEA SWIMMING WITH --FROM THAT LOCATION WHICH IS --.
WHEN SHE GOT HERE, HE HAD THE APPEARANCE OF SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO GO TO THE BEACH VERSUS SOMEBODY WHO WAS COMING FROM THE BEACH.
SHE WAS NOT WET OR SANDY.
THERE WAS REALLY NOTHING THAT WOULD TELL THE LAYPERSON LOOKING AT HER THAT SHE WAS IN THE SEA.
>> FROM WHAT WE WERE TOLD, SHE SAT IN HER VEHICLE IN THE PARKING LOT ABOUT 15-20 MINUTES BEFORE SHE ACTUALLY WENT INTO THE POLICE STATION.
SO MY THING IS FIRST OF ALL YOUR HUSBAND IS LAYING PRESUMABLY MOTIONLESS AT THE TIME WHETHER YOU KNEW HE WAS SHOT OR WHATEVER BUT YOU DIDN´T ACTUALLY TAKE THE TIME TO SAY LET ME CALL 911.
AND AFTER YOU GET TO THE POLICE STATION YOU SAT IN 15-20 MINUTES BEFORE YOU GO IN.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
>> FROM THAT POINT ONWARD, SHE WAS CONSIDERED MORE THAN LIKELY THE INDIVIDUAL THAT IF DIDN´T PULL THE TRIGGER ORCHESTRATED THIS WHOLE COURSE OF EVENTS THAT LED TO HIS DEATH.
WE KNOW FROM REPORTS THAT FOR THE WHOLE OF 2013 FROM JANUARY 2013, THEY WERE NOT LIVING WELL.
THEY WERE SLEEPING IN SEPARATE BEDROOMS.
THERE WERE ISSUES IN THE RELATIONSHIP.
WE ALSO KNOW THAT HE HAD MADE HER THE SOLE BENEFICIARY TO A $400,000 LIFE INSURANCE POLICY THAT HE HAD WITH THE MILITARY.
>> DAVID ACTUALLY HAD TWO SEPARATE INSURANCE POLICIES.
HE HAD THE 400,001 WHICH WAS THROUGH THE MILITARY AND HE HAD A I DON´T KNOW IF SHE KNEW AT THE TIME THE $250,000 WAS ALREADY TRANSFERRED TO MY MOM.
YOU ARE LOOKING AT $650,000.
I CAN SHOW YOU $650,000.
THERE IS A LOT OF THINGS I CAN DO WITH THAT.
>> WE BELIEVE THE WIFE MAY HAVE MADE CONTACT WITH A KNOWN CRIMINAL INTERFACE AND MAY HAVE GOTTEN ONE OF THEM TO COMMIT THIS CRIME FOR HER.
THE OTHER FEELING WE KNOW THAT THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED BUT TO PROVE IT, THAT IS WHY WE ARE IN THIS PUZZLE, PUTTING THE LAST COUPLE PIECES AND BECAUSE WE CAN SEE EVERYTHING ELSE.
IT IS JUST TO PUT THAT PIECE EMMA WHO SHOT.
THIS IS WHEN AND HOW AND WHAT WAS PROMISED.
>> THE WIFE HAS NEVER BEEN ARRESTED.
SHE HAS BEEN FREE FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS.
NOVEMBER THE 18th WILL BE 10 YEARS SINCE HE HAS BEEN DEAD.
NOBODY HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR IT.
SO WE ARE ACTUALLY HOPEFUL THAT AFTER SOMEBODY SEES THIS, THAT THEY MIGHT COME FORWARD AS TO WHAT THEY KNOW.
HE STILL HAS A MOTHER AND FATHER.
HE STILL HAS CHILDREN AND BROTHER.
>> WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR ANSWERS.
IT JUST HURTS TO SEE THAT THIS IS A COLD CASE.
>> WITH THIS CASE GOING ON FOR SO LONG, OUR KIDS WILL BE THERE AND FORGET ABOUT THE CASE AND IT WILL NEVER BE RESOLVED.
>> YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED.
>> THE FACT THAT NO ONE HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE, IT IS HARD ON THE FAMILY.
>> AFTER DAVID´S PASSING, MY CHILDREN WERE DEPRESSED.
THEY COULDN´T UNDERSTAND WHY HAPPEN TO HIM.
>> DAVID´S PASSING WAS VERY HARD ON MY MOM.
I SAW HER HEALTH DETERIORATE WHERE SINCE THEN MY MOM HAS NEVER DRIVEN A CAR.
SHE DOESN´T EVEN WANT TO HAVE A LICENSE.
>> EVER SINCE THAT HAPPENED, I CONSIDER MY LIFE HAS BEEN DIFFERENT.
MY FAMILY, MY WIFE, SHE SAYS I HAVE NOT BEEN THE SAME AFTER DAVID PASSED AWAY.
IT TOOK A TOLL ON MY LIFE.
IT TOOK A TOLL ON MY OTHER BROTHERS LIFE.
>> WE DON´T SPEAK ON IT TOO MUCH BECAUSE WE KNOW IT BRINGS ANGER.
WE DON´T KNOW HOW TO COMFORT EACH OTHER´S MIND.
WE JUST MISS HIM DEARLY.
LIKE I SAID, IT HURTS.
>> IF WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO LEAD TO EACH OTHER, WE ALWAYS SAY PUT IT NEXT TO DAVID.
SO HE IS STILL WITH US.
>> IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THE MURDERS OF DAVID OR -- OR IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT ANOTHER COLD CASE, PLEASE CALL CRIME STOPPERS RIGHT NOW AT ONE 800 222 TIPS.
YOU CAN REMAIN ANONYMOUS AND YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CASH REWARD.
LET US WORK TOGETHER TO BRING CLOSURE TO THESE LONG-SUFFERING FAMILIES.
TOGETHER WE CAN BUILD A SAFER COMMUNITY.
AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.
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