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[Music] so when you arrive here what do you see according to detective Michael Harding
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Alysa brette pulled into her usual parking space at around 9 a.m. this car was actually parked right here where
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this green van is right here and the as salance vehicle had parked right next to
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her in this spot were you here when everything happened yes I was sitting on my desk what all did you see happen
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Witnesses say the as salent exited his vehicle a black Ford Expedition SUV with a gun in his hand she had the window up
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and he shot right through the wind right through the window maintenance supervisor Darren Iker about 15 ft away
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it's horrible heard a gun blast and turned around what do you see uh I see a a black
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SUV starting to back out of the parking spot investigators believe the shooter thought Alyssa was dead the blast had
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destroyed her left eye and part of her face but Alysa barquette was still alive she gets out of her car and she
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walks up to this Landing to try to get help because she knows her our co-workers are here the shooter
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described by some as a black man got out of the vehicle and began sprinting toward Alyssa this time with a large
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hunting knife do you see him holding the knife uh yeah in the hand after he starts to to stab her she's still
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fighting on this window right here there was a blood handprint smear where Alyssa
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was trying to get anyone to come out and help her but fearing it was an active shooter situation they stayed inside and
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the attacker began stabbing Alyssa repeatedly L incredibly Alyssa was still breathing when her asent fled once the
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suspect left her co-workers came out to try to render Aid one of her colleagues made this call to
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911 911 what is the address of the emergency Noone came up and just shot my my assistant manager where is the
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shooter I don't have enough information I need he's gone he left in his car he literally left a second ago fire
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department pulled up first they come up I get out of the way and let them do their thing and they start working on
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her right here immediately yeah and it was too late she was gone Alyssa had been stabbed and slashed a total of 44
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times when Alyssa's Mother Teresa arrived on the scene she immediately gave the police a name and it wasn't a
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black man it was Andrew beard I know he did this he's an evil person Teresa told detectives that
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Andrew beard and Alyssa were in an ugly custody battle over their one-year-old daughter Willow Anne Andrew who had
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jointed custody had Willow a few days every week but he kept pushing for primary custody dragging Alyssa in and
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out of court hearings emptying her bank account once we talked to Alyssa's mom we had an idea who we were looking for
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and who is that person that person was Andrew beard oh my God within hours of the murder
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investigators pulled Andrew's Ford F-150 over for an alleged traffic violation he
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was with his fiance a woman named Holly Elkins police seized his truck and inside they found jaw-dropping evidence
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so this is one of the makeup vials that were recovered from inside one of the bags in the F-150 it was a foundation
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called Java yeah it's really dark very dark and the purpose of that was what do you believe was to disguise Andrew
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Beard's face to make him look like an African-American the day after the murder they found the black SUV they
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believed Andrew took to murder Alyssa abandoned less than a mile from Andrew's house what' you find when you guys
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process the inside of this vle we were able to recover multiple spots where blood was recovered that was later
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tested to be alysa's blood they also found another part of his disguise a fake beard that looks like a Halloween kind
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of beard just uh exactly yes he he purchased a a Halloween costume so that's what led us to get the arrest
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warrant for Andrew beard little did detectives know beard was only half the story how come you waited so long to
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talk about what like what Holly did