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[Music] [Applause] way Oh [Music] Glory Whitaker family was a very welcoming Godly family Christ was a very
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important part of what they did all right the Whitaker home was the place to hang out did you find one it
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was the cool house to be at very safe very nurturing Godly loving home every time we went over there you
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felt loved there were family who had fun and they traveled and they laughed and you know they joked around with each
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other and everyone loved Tren Kent they were the second parents to so many people the Whitaker family just seemed
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like the model typical welltoo Sugarland family my name is Marshall slot and I'm
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a detective with the Sugarland Police Department my name is Britney Barnhill and I was Kevin Whitaker's best friend
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he was just a great guy the life of the party Bart he was the older brother Kevin and his friends looked up to Bart
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people thought that Bart Whitaker was cool on December 10th 2003 I was working out with my best friend Kevin Whitaker
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he left to go have dinner with his family we went out to dinner to a restaurant we all enjoyed we're all in
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one car so we drive back pull into the driveway Kevin walks up to the front door and Trisha's right behind him Kevin
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opens the door there's a huge loud noise bang Kevin was shot sent her MK right in
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sternum Trisha says oh no and I hear another noise bang Trisha had made it into the house behind Kevin and was shot
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and then fell in the doorway I look inside and there is a figure with a ski mask on I probably did not look at him
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for more than a second or two bang I feel something hit my shoulder the first three shots we're in Rapid succession
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Bart then chased the guy into the house as he approached that figure he was shot I think oh my God he shot all four
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of us kitten and Bart recovered from their wounds trsh was transported by air ambulance she was pronounced dead at the
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hospital Kevin died at the scene it didn't seem real these types of things happened but not to me not to my family
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not to my friends on the scene one of the officers had mentioned to me I think I've been to
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this house before and I think it was about threats on the family from somebody I think Kevin knew something
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and whatever he knew I knew he was concerned about it the Whitaker family wasn't the All-American family that
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everybody believed them to be it became clear that it was a conspiracy it was not a random act of violence these
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people were assassinated what begins as a quest to identify a killer 15 years later becomes the remarkable
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story of a victim willing to forgive and begging the state to have mercy I'm going to be thrown into a deeper grief
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at the hand of the State of Texas in the name of justice and I just feel like there is a more appropriate sentence
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than the execution h