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[Applause] it's august 1 2018 i get a call from one of my investigators said we had a shooting victim on
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sunnybrook drive and it didn't look good baldwin county 9-1-1 where's your emergency
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i mean yes ma'am i actually my gun was tapered and i'm so stuck i was like just tell my boyfriend in the
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night i'm so sorry [Music] we actually had the perpetrator admitting to shooting
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the victim on the 9-1-1 call before we even arrived at the scene and signed told us she did it
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i'm lieutenant chris wilson i was the first investigator to arrive on scene what kind of gun was it it was a glass
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what do you think i was just grabbing it i did not know there was one of those i
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was probably just to bring it to our bed basically we had a young man down uh not responsive
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and also a young woman who was frantic frantic very emotional she was just pleading for
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help i cannot lose come on [Music] the gun going off i don't even see how like it even got him because i wasn't
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even like really pointing it directly at him in the first place i was able to look over any type of
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evidence any type of forensics that could have been involved trying to make sense of what might have happened
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in that living room that night look like a big fighter here i knew then that we we could be possibly
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looking at a homicide did you have the right for my silence the confession's on this video and we
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can't hear it there's no sound there there's sound but it's just a noise constant noise our way through it
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ladies and gentlemen please rise this is malice murder this is felony murder this gun did not discharge on its own
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mary katherine higdon was angry she lost control and she pulled the trigger i didn't even know it was chambered i
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never wanted to hurt him i never wanted anything like that there may be people watching this who
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find it hard to believe what you're saying right now what would you say to them all i know
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is what's in my heart and i know what happened that night i loved steven i would never ever
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do anything to hurt him