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it was one of the most horrific crime scenes investigator Josh Easton said he had ever seen a frightened 16-year-old
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called 911 when she went to check on her family friend who didn't show up to Thanksgiving in
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2021 nobody's answering the door and and the back window shattered and there's a
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body and there's a foot I saw on the floor I'm only 16 I can't deal with this there was blood everywhere the cabinets
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the refrigerator the countertop there was blood from corner to corner in the kitchen 48-year-old Chris Smith was
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found clinging to life on his kitchen floor 44-year-old Leslie Reeves whom Chris had taken on a first date the
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night before was in the living room Dead with a single gunshot wound to the head
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no weapon was found which made investigators think a third suspect was involved Easton took note of every
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detail including the burnt pizza in the oven I assumed that maybe they were cooking a pizza for the night and the
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suspect shows up at the door they both tried to fight him off and when Chris was shot Leslie went to the living room
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to try to hide Chris was rushed to the hospital and put into a medically induced coma friends of Leslie told
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deputies about an ex-boyfriend named Bobby tar who Leslie believed was stalking her and she said I am going to
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completely block Bobby from email texts phone calls I I have to go no contact investigators brought tar into the
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police station for questioning and said tar never asked why they wanted to speak
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to him I want you to to dig down deep here be as honest with me as you can okay um Leslie is
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dead what can you help me shed some light on this how did she die she was murdered what
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happened that's why we're here with you you help me believe that you're not involved in this
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I'm not involved in anything they asked tar where he had been the night before Thanksgiving I went to a buddy of mine's
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house he left and left me some money out of the shop and'll Pi it up the friend lived a short distance from T's home
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remember time he came back yeah it wasn't that long um maybe 6:30ish something like that
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investigators believe the shooting took place sometime early on Thanksgiving morning after 1:00 a.m. car said after
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he got back he was home all night you can talk to my daughter about me being home that's exactly what they did
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detectives brought T's 17-year-old daughter Shelby to a different room at the police station and she told them
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that her father actually left home twice that night so first time he left was roughly 6:30 right and then he he came
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home about a half hour later and he said he had to go back and then it was 9:15-ish when he got back home Shelby
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said he had been gone for more than two hours and when he got home he was upset he gets home he was crying he was
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solving he said he missed lesle Shelby said she went to sleep around 9:30 and was awakened by her father around 2:45
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a.m. we started laundry he was pacing walking around and he was like I can't sleep detectives went back to Tar and
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told him Shelby's story didn't match his tar then changed the story and said he had gone to his friend's house twice but
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still insisted he was home by 8 as tar sat at the police station detective searched his house and found his phone
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and a Glock pistol Shelby had told them her father had a different gun but they didn't find it it's little it's like
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this big not like a light green but like the army green Shelby told investigators
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she had seen it the day before Thanksgiving in her father's sock drawer yesterday morning actually I went to get
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socks and it was there and no it's not there was yesterday and gone today okay Bobby tar sat at the police station
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overnight while authorities continued to investigate they had already learned his
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car had been captured by License Plate Reader cameras just after midnight the night of the shooting the cameras were
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near a gas station and investigators discovered that tar had bought gas there just after midnight back at the police
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station they confronted him with the gas station receipt so you're life cuz I don't
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remember doing that you don't remember being out after midnight when you have told us you are 100% positive the gas
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station is here in Troy yes and the murder occurred here in Farmersville correct the gas station was near tars
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home an hour from the crime scene Andrew fronty is the Montgomery County State's
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Attorney he has distonia a condition that causes muscle ticks and tremors so why is it significant cuz so we went out
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and got some gas it was significant to us cuz why would he lie about it so I got fuel what does that prove
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investigators believed it was proof tar was lying about his whereabouts that night they placed him under arrest
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you're under arrest for murder