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Is she okay? Do you see where she's heading? No, it's on the side of her head. This
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saying she's pregnant, too. Take a deep breath. This woman was just informed that her
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daughter Tiara Harris was shot in a gang related incident and is in critical condition.
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They just were shooting and the blood just started dripping from her head like she was in the mother ambulance. Like I
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can't even talk right now, bro. Her boyfriend rushed her to the hospital, but sadly it was already too
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late. And the worst part, Tiara had nothing to do with the shootout. She was an innocent bystander. A simple mixup
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left an innocent pregnant mother of two dead, her children now motherless, and her family absolutely heartbroken. The
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police now face a grueling investigation. However, with everyone involved supposedly being gang members,
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catching the killers would prove to be much harder than anything they'd done before.
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We've been in touch with Yolanda, the mother featured in this video, and are proud to share that half of the video's
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profits will be donated to the Akranbased charity, First Glance Student Center. At 7:29 p.m. on April 14th, Akran Police
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Department would receive multiple calls reporting dozens of gunshots being fired
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out of 1492 Rockaway Street. Witnesses would describe what seemed like a gang-lated shooting with multiple cars
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speeding away from the scene, one being a silver four-door Chevy. Police managed
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to quickly track down the Chevy following it as the driver sped across back roads in Akran. However, the Chevy
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wasn't actually running from the cops. It instead would pull over somewhere that concerned the cops even more. The
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hospital. Hey, hey, hey, hold on. Go ahead and shut the car off. Shut the car off.
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Shut the car off here. Put Go ahead and put your hands on top of your head. All right.
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Hands Nope. Nope. Nope. Hands on top of your head. Step out. Step up. Do we have someone checking street?
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All right, man. Here. Step back here to the back of the car. Go ahead and put your hands behind your back.
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With the incident being reported as a gang related shootout, police would assume the man driving the Chevy to be a
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gang member, meaning he would be very unlikely to talk to them. So instead, they decide to stuff him in the back of
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a patrol car for later interrogation. As this was going on, dozens of additional
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911 calls would ring in. Witnesses would arrive at the Akran Police Department to
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give their testimonies, and more and more cars would arrive at the hospital. Most importantly though, 4 miles away, a
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young woman would be placed in an ambulance under critical condition with a bullet wound to her head.
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Turns out all of this would be connected to a large group of reckless shooters. It's at this point that we need to step
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in. This is one of the most complex and mysterious cases we've ever covered. So,
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we need to break down some details first in order for you to fully understand the
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case itself and how well the police handled every single step of solving it. At 7:22 p.m., a car arrived at 1492
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Rockaway Street carrying a number of people who started hanging out with some friends on the side of the road. This
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group included Javier Small, Lineier Worthy, and Jonte Smith. Everything seemed fine until 7:29 p.m. A black
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vehicle reversed into the street carrying Tiara Harris and her boyfriend George. Her boyfriend recognized some of
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the people on the sidewalk and wanted to back up and say hi to them. At that very
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moment on the other end of the street, three men emerged from an unrelated vehicle and started firing bullets.
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These men were Zire Saunders, 17-year-old Anthony Whitaker, and Derion Rackley. All affiliated with the gang
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BBM, a notoriously violent gang active in Akran at the time. There was also the driver of the car, Jeremiah Williams.
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Their shots scattered the group on the sidewalk with everyone running for cover. In the panic, Jonte and Javier
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drew their guns and began to shoot back. Bullets went back and forth and everyone
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went into a panic as they realized their lives were at risk and a bullet could strike them at any moment. Seconds
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later, the dust settled and the BBM members Zier, Antil, and Derion fled the scene. However, a grueling silence would
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ring throughout the street as Tiara's boyfriend George realized Tiara was the sole victim of the shooting. With BBM
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splitting up and running in different directions, George flooring it to the hospital, and everyone on the sidewalk
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either heading inside or preparing to head to the hospital, too. cops would begin the grueling task of figuring out
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what just happened and who ultimately was the one that fired the killing shot. Now that you understand exactly what
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happened, we can join the police as they try to figure out what just went down and how to solve the developing mystery.
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Remember that all the cops have received at this point is a phone call alerting them to the shooting and a description
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of the silver Chevy they've just pulled a gang member from. Uh there's another victim that's a we
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don't know that we don't know where that victim's going to go. There's a possibility that victim uh may be
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deceased. Yeah, they got shot. Okay, they got Someone's got to go check probably.
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Two of the officers ran over to the front of the hospital and discovered Javier Small and his girlfriend in
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complete distress. tight. He can't go in because she got to get checked out. As it turns out, another girl was also
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hit in the shooting. That being this man's girlfriend. Luckily, she was only shot in the leg, but he was still
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extremely distraught and horrified about the whole incident. Bro, I'm on house arrest.
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I got to go. I got to go to the hospital. Come on. I got to go to the house with my girl.
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Bro, we'll get back to you. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, bro.
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Despite how distraught this guy is, he was a passenger in the Chevy, which they just found multiple firearms inside of.
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So, police promptly arrested him. Hey, we'll take him over here. Across town, however, there's someone in
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a much worse position. Tiara Harris, the passenger in the black car. Open that up.
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I'm trying. All right. They're saying she's pregnant, too. Okay. How pregnant is she?
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How How far? Two weeks pregnant. Two weeks. Maybe two. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.
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Yeah. Am I allowed to ride in the car window to the hospital? Uh, not right now. I'm sorry, man.
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Bro, Johnny just got shot. I mean, just T just got shot, bro. Just in the car just driving down the street. Just
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driving down the street and Kim were driving from over there and they just was they just was shooting. None of the
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glass broke, but she just went she not she wasn't like moving or talking. So, I just brought her and the blood just
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started dripping from her head like, "Bro, she in the hospital. She hold up. She
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the ambulance. Like, I can't even talk right now, bro." Tiara was immediately rushed to the local hospital and her
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boyfriend George was brought in for questioning. He wasn't a lead suspect, but police did
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find it odd that he just happened to arrive at the site of a violent shooting right as it all went down. He would
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claim to be innocent and actually provide a detailed description of everything that went down that night.
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You turn off here or something. No. Boom. No, I didn't. I came this way and I said, "What y'all got? Like what
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y'all got going on over here?" Like I'm like like basically all good. As soon as
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I said that, somebody from down here got to just shooting a gun. I just kept shooting. That's all I know. But I
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didn't see I didn't hear nobody. So you're right there and then you heard that. How many shots did you hear?
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Man, I can't even recall. It was a lot. And then soon as I So you were facing this way?
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No, you litally backed all the way. I'm coming down and this and this rockway on
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this would be Rockway. Okay. I backed up. Oh, so you back So the back of your car
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was facing that way. Yeah. No. Yeah. And I'm like, "Is y'all I'm like, "What? Like, what y'all got
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going on?" Like, I look out just like that, like out the window. Like soon as I even like it, it it
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should have been me. Like, you feel me? Cuz I'm I'm the one that looked straight
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out the window like, "Are y'all all right? You all good?" type stuff. The cops asked him why he was even there
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in the first place. To which he just said he knew a couple of people on the street and that he had absolutely no
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involvement in the shooting. He's claiming that when he peaked out the window, his friends mistook him for the
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shooter and began to fire bullet after bullet directly at his vehicle. According to him, it wasn't an accident,
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but a misunderstanding, making the whole situation even more tragic. With George's statement, they were a little
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clearer on the whole situation. But they'd made no progress into actually solving the case or tracking down the
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real perpetrators. That was until they returned to the scene and spoke to a number of witnesses who had watched the
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entire event take place. It was two Africanameans where they run a few young kids. Uh they
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come from back there across his backyard next door and out the driveway. He had a face mask on and had a 9 mm.
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And then the other one had a semi-automatic rifle and they were almost to the corner of the house
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running this way and they both jumped the fence. Like when the kid jumped when Marine Hoodie jumped the fence, he
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dropped the semi-automatic rifle at the driveway. I was out I was just out back cutting
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some uh stuff and all I heard was just a barrage of bullets fully auto. It wasn't
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three round burst, four round. It was fully auto. Coming off fast. Oh yeah. hot and loud and fast. And then
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I saw two guys when I was out back. I could see through the backyards through the fence. I saw a silhouette of two
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guys running up towards that street returning single shots as they were running away.
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There's there's casings up here. Yeah. Okay. How many did you hear? You think I heard it was like 30
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where all these cones are at probably 30 or 40. This happen over there all the time.
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Where's over there? right at the house right there. I heard a lot of gunfire, but when I
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went out when I first heard it, I thought it was a backfire because I saw this car over sitting over here where
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all the combs are. He had his lights on. Mhm. So, I thought he was working on a car
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and it backfired real bad. Then I saw them loading people into cars to take them to the hospital and I knew it
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wasn't because this has happened so many times before. I'm just I don't know what we're supposed to do.
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We can't go outside. Nothing. Even with all this new information though, the cops are only
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slightly closer to figuring out what happened. They were now at least able to confirm that one group of shooters
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rolled up and started the exchange before another responded, causing a huge exchange of bullets throughout the
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neighborhood. But they still had two major questions. Who were the shooters? And how was Tiara involved? Well, the
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cops had just spotted another witness that might be able to answer their questions. a woman who was actually on
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the street the moment the bullets started flying. So you don't live here? I'm not even here.
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I was visiting. So who who owns the house? Anita. She is. She was about to eat when I called her.
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Okay. Every everyone's okay though, right? The kids. The kids. Yes, the kids are okay. I got
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them in the back watching TV. Um there was another girl outside. I think she got shot in the thigh in the
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leg. I think she they took her probably to the hospital. She definitely got hit.
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Okay. So, what did you see? I'm sitting outside. To be honest, we are family. So, we we're all tight prays
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and like act like we each other and stuff. Next thing I know, I just heard these gunshots. I'm like, "All right,
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without gun come through shooting." Yeah. And it was like pop came through. So, I'm running up trying I didn't even know
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where the gunshots came from. I ran up trying to grab the kids. They came through twice.
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Okay. Did the house get hit? I mean, I don't give a [ __ ] Is that a boho right here?
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I don't. I was really just trying to grab the kids. And you said so what? They got out. They
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got out of a car. They didn't even get out of the car. Are they just They were hanging out.
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I was hanging out shooting. Did you see how many by chance? Three. Three of them.
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Now it's starting to sound a lot more like a drive by shooting. Notoriously one of the hardest types of crimes to
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solve, especially if the vehicle was stolen. The cops are starting to lose confidence that they'll ever find
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Tiara's killer. But then they decide to ask one simple question. Ma'am, do those cameras work?
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I believe so. She on her way home. Oh, she is. Okay, perfect. There were CCTV cameras on the property,
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and as soon as the homeowner got back, they'd have access to the footage. So, in just a few hours, the cops were able
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to put together just enough footage to understand exactly what happened. Remember, we already know all of this,
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but for the police, this was huge. Now, they had a detailed timeline of the entire incident, including at what time
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it went down, how many people were involved, and which vehicles the suspects used. This would be very useful
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in the coming interrogations in terms of verifying their suspects claims and pressuring them to confess. police
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finally had a solid piece of evidence. And right as their case had started to build some substance, their biggest lead
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yet would step out right in front of them. And I can I can put it on an SD card that was
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she'll send her link and then she just upload it from there. Right after they took off.
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Not only had they seen the entire thing go down, but as soon as they heard gunshots, they started recording. They
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managed to get this clear footage of a man getting into the same vehicle spotted at the shooting just minutes
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earlier. [Music] Now, all they needed to do was track down the car using the visible license
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plate and they'd have their first lead suspect. But with that said, these kids were no strangers to running from the
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police and the officers would begin the hunt to find these evil teens. While all of this was going on, police
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had another perhaps more nerve-wracking situation to handle. Tiara had passed away and her family had no idea.
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They're currently not letting too many people in the hospital. Let's step over here. See where all these cruises are.
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My car. Okay. I'm right. Where's your car at? I'm right here cuz I didn't right here.
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Sorry. Which one? Okay. What's your daughter's name? You here for your daughter? Kiara Harris.
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Kiara Harris. Say have me stand right here next to this sign. We'll have someone go over to
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talk to you. Okay. Take a deep breath. Okay. I don't know the names of of who they
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are currently. Miss Just listen to the cop's tone here. He knows just how bad things are looking
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for Tiara. And he absolutely doesn't want to break that news to her mother yet. especially when he sees just how
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emotional she's starting to get. Tiara's autopsy showed a single bullet struck her in the head and remains there. While
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tragic, this information would allow police to identify the exact bullet type and then gun used to shoot Tiara. If
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they could find the owner of this gun, they would be able to match it to the bullet and justice could be served for
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Tiara and her family. Hey. Hey, come here. They got a bunch of people showing up.
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That's my my son and my nephew. Okay. Well, listen. They can't go in. It's going to be you.
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Y'all go in the car. Go in the car. They're telling us to wait outside. No. I'm going in. Go in my car.
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The entire family is in distress with her mom shaking and doing everything she can to stay strong in front of her kids.
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It's truly a nightmare situation, and it only got worse from there. At around 8:30 p.m., they were informed that Tiara
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didn't make it. A bullet to the back of the head had ended her life, sending her
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family into complete grief and agony. Now, police knew that they absolutely had to catch the people that did this to
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Tiara or risk letting down her and her entire family. At this point, police had six different suspects on the run, all
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tied to the shooting, and they would eventually manage to track down and get interrogations with all of them. Their
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start came in the form of a Facebook post by someone named Jeremiah Williams, described as a member of the BBM gang.
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Apparently, the post consisted of him bragging about being at the shooting and escaping without getting caught. By
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using his Facebook profile, they'd find his address and pick him up for interrogation. With Jeremiah also being
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a supposed gang member, he too would prove to be extremely difficult to break. However, by using expert methods,
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police would actually get him to break completely to the point where he actually started to cry.
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He wasn't. Yeah, that's true. How's it going, driver? Sorry for the wait, man. Uh, I'm Detective Smith. This is
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Detective Davis. Nice to meet you. All right, man. So, the reason why we have you sitting here talking to us is
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we need you to think back to April. There's incident that happened on Rockway. You remember this? This young
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lady got shot. You remember hearing about that? Mhm. Okay. So during our investigation, your
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name's been coming up, but do you know about where you were that day if you can?
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I was I was definitely at home. Apparently Jeremiah also has an alibi and even gives multiple names over
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that'll attest he wasn't on Rockaway that night. You're at home. Where was Was that at Amherst?
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Amherst. This was right before my mom moved to Louisiana. My best friend Rob talked to
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her sister, the girl that died, her sister Deiani or Diane or however you say her name. Uh my
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best friend Rob was like in a kind of little dating. Yeah. With her sister. It was crazy. We
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got on Facebook and it was all over Facebook. Her sister had got killed and stuff
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and my mom was like, "Uh, ain't that the ain't that the girl that came over here
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the other day?" We like, "No, that was her little sister." Has her little sister reached out to you guys or
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anything? Um, we haven't talked to her in I mean I haven't talked I don't talked to her at
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all for real. But so you were at your house on Ammerst? Yeah. Um, was there anyone with you that day?
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Uh, my mom. Which mom? My mom's name is April. However, the detectives know this to be
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untrue. They know he was at the scene from the Facebook post he made. They know he did it, so they want to get a
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confession or even better some information that might help put more people in handcuffs. The thing is,
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they're initially going to find that a lot harder than they'd hope. I have to ask, do you recognize this car, dude?
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This was the car that was in that video that's on Facebook. So, you remember it? Have you ever been
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in this car? No. Do you know who drives this car or owns this car? Uh, I don't know him by like name, but I
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know who he is. his name like Pod or something. That's what they call him. Do you know? Can you describe him?
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It's That's funny cuz I don't even really know what he looks like. Like, every time I've seen him, I've seen him
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with a ski mask on. Okay. Like, I've never seen him outside of a ski mask. Okay.
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All right. Tell me a little bit about yourself, your past. Like, have you ever been in trouble or anything?
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Um, yeah. I'm actually right now I'm I'm I got probation. So, like just a weapons
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possession charge is all you got? It's like a carrying a concealed firearm in one vehicle.
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Gotcha. Yeah. Jeremiah is making a conscious attempt to give as little information over as
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possible while still trying to seem cooperative. He's smart. He doesn't want to completely close himself off as
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that'll make him seem guilty. But he also doesn't want to give up any vital information. The cops ask him who was
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there, where he was sitting in the car, even questions about the guns. But he refuses to speak, and he's starting to
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seriously frustrate the cops. But all this talk of courts and investigations doesn't seem to be getting them anywhere
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at all. So instead, they switch gears. They're going to be as direct as possible and give it to him straight.
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That's their last hope at getting him to crack. Um, what do your friends call you? Do
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you have a nickname or anything? Uh Jim, we're just getting to know you, man. Right.
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Obviously, you're we can see that you're not a bad person. Just the vibes I'm getting.
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Yeah, for sure. Um but you're in here talking to us for a reason. And it comes back down to this
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incident. You being honest with us is what we'll be able to work with with you. We know that you were there and we
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also got your DNA in this car. If I've been in that car, I would tell you guys I've been in that car. I don't
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have no reason to lie or no reason to put myself in any trouble. Your role in it is the driver because we know you're
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the driver. Really, what we're looking for is why. You're already being charged with
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the incident. You explaining your actions and what really went down is just going to help with your role in
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this. And we know you didn't pull the trigger, but you not being honest with what went down is not going to help you.
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It's going to the prosecutor and the judge and jury are going to look at someone who's not remorseful.
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Drop over there and they start shooting. So they told you to drive over to Rockway.
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Yeah. Who was sitting where in the car? In the front. And Zo sitting behind me. And then on the door.
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It worked. The cops actually got a name. It was a nickname, but cops could eventually tie this back to a man named
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Desire Saunders who would be interrogated later. This was huge. They'd actually gotten a gangster to
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tell on one of his partners. But they weren't done yet. They knew he still had more information and they weren't going
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to stop putting on the pressure. Now, we got to go back to who was in the car with you. I know you know Zebo
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Pa. You say you just know him by P. You know his real name. Okay. In the third person, you're saying
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you how often have you seen him? Would you be able to identify that last person by a picture?
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Jeremiah physically looks defeated. He's avoiding eye contact and is hunched over. He likely never saw himself giving
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up the names of his partners, but that's exactly where he found himself. The cops, however, are over the moon, even
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managing to get descriptions of the people he doesn't know the names of. They ask a few more questions before
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leaving him alone for a minute to prepare their next move. However, on their return, they didn't expect to see
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Jeremiah, a once tough and unbreakable gang member, to cry because of what he'd done.
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What did you say his uh his first name was? What? Darion. Is this him? You want some tissues, man?
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I need a verbal yes or no if that's him. Yeah. If this is the first time you've seen a
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gang member cry, you're certainly not alone. But it actually happened again in the detective's very next interrogation.
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While these cops were busy talking to Jeremiah, a breakthrough had been made outside of the interrogation room.
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Remember this footage recorded by a civilian witness earlier? Well, after 5 days of investigation, they actually
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managed to track the car down, enabling them to take in another suspect, Antil Whitaker. Police would quickly realize
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that Antil might be even more important than Jeremiah as a suspect. He's a supposed member of the BBM gang and
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believed to be one of the suspects that initiated the shootout. The thing is, he's just 17 years old. Since there's
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still some information even Jeremiah couldn't give them, they figured they might be able to scare him into giving
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up everything he knows. And their first idea is an unconventional but possibly extremely effective method. A call home
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to mom. This is really really serious now. You you need to put yourself wherever you
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was and get to telling what your part as much as you can cuz you can't take the blame for this and this was not you. You
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shouldn't be you shouldn't be sitting there. They know it's your part. You can't get you better than this. Antel
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doesn't even seem to feel like following his mother's advice. Despite the fact that they know it was his car, he's
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claiming that someone else was actually driving it that day. And even more unfortunately, he'd forgotten exactly
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who. Listen to his story and see if you believe it as much as the detectives do.
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So, you saying you went you were at home? No. Wait. like the whole day. Someone took your car somehow, brought your car
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back, gave you the keys back or whatever, and then so you could take your dog uh your sister your sister
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home. That that doesn't make sense, man. You know, a jury, you know, a judge. They're not I'll be honest with you. I
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mean, it's what you're given is not even a good statement. It's not even a good like lie. It's why it probably be easy
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for you to tell the truth. You see, about an hour after the shooting, Antil was confirmed to have used his car to
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pick his sister up from an event, meaning it was clear that he was still in possession of it. But that didn't
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phase Antil. And despite how many questions police asked him, he refused to give up anything.
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How this works, you might already know this from TV, but I mean, it's kind of accurate. We're going to compare your
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DNA to the DNA on the shell casings that we collected on scene. Is there any reason your DNA is going to be on there?
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Cuz if there is, you've got to explain that. You said I'm sorry. You said no or I
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don't know. Who got in the car with you at Aldi's? If you weren't If you're saying your DNA
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is not going to be in those showcases, right? And you're saying you weren't driving. Who did you let drive your car?
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Believe it. I don't know who's driving. Now it looks like it's on you. They're trying to force a confession out
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of him by telling him that if he'd been in physical contact with any of the evidence tied to the murder, they would
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find out and he would get sentenced. And they're not lying either. When you touch
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anything at all, you leave behind skin cells, sweat, small hairs, or even oils that can quickly be traced back to you.
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Meaning, if Antil had touched the car, the bullets when loading his gun, or anything else related to the murder,
00:29:01
police would find out. However, as of now, detectives haven't had the time to run these tests to confirm if his DNA
00:29:08
was present, meaning they couldn't pressure him to a confession, and they'd have to wait until later. So, in the
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meantime, they move their attention to the next suspect. Remember the man Jeremiah gave up to the cops back in his
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interrogation? That was Zy Saunders. Once they had his name, they tracked him down and arrested him. And he would
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prove to be even more helpful than Antneil and Jeremiah combined. Did you know of or hear about that young lady
00:29:34
who got killed? Yeah. Did you know her? No. We don't think that she was the one meant to be heard.
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And I mean based on what we're seeing, but unfortunately she did get obviously heard. Her family's heard.
00:29:49
No. When we did that search warrant, we got your phone. Yes. Okay. And we downloaded your phone and
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your location is putting you on a rock away that day. No [ __ ] What happened that day, man?
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I shot a pistol. You shot a pistol? Yes. This seems like a breakthrough. He's just admitted to being a part of the
00:30:10
shooting, and it seems that all the detectives work has just paid off. But they're not quite there yet. Of the
00:30:16
three shooters, two did indeed use pistols. But one of them was actually yielding the extremely dangerous
00:30:23
automatic rifle that can be seen clear as day in this footage here. Instead of jumping this fence after the shooting,
00:30:29
the man with the rifle fled directly down Rockaway Street. And that's the direction Zire's phone shows him
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running. The good news is that clears of being the man that killed Tiara. After all, she was killed with a very specific
00:30:44
pistol round. But that does put him directly in the spotlight of being the man with the most dangerous weapon and
00:30:50
one that is directly lying to the cops right now. And they're not about to let him get away with that. They have video
00:30:57
of the incident. You on you on camera shooting the rifle. Is it a pistol that holds you know two
00:31:04
rifle rounds? I mean it ain't it ain't just it is does it have a stock on it like
00:31:10
something kind of modified type thing? No, it didn't have a stock on it to describe it there. You want me to
00:31:18
know what it is? That single piece of information resulted in Zire actually getting the
00:31:24
highest sentence out of anybody involved in the case. Just the use of such a dangerous firearm actually increased his
00:31:31
prison time by somewhere between 10 and 15 years. But he still doesn't know that
00:31:35
yet. He's still under the guise that if he helps the detectives out, he might get a better deal. So, not only did he
00:31:41
tell them where to find the rifle he used, he also gave up one of the most vital pieces of information the cops had
00:31:47
received in the entire case. The uh group BBM just call for BBM. Zire just told the cops the name of the
00:31:58
gang that was involved. A huge piece of information that will help them track down every last individual that was part
00:32:04
of this attack. Now, the detectives have just one more final question that'll hopefully put together the final pieces
00:32:11
of the puzzle they're looking for. You've been extremely helpful throughout this whole interview. You helping
00:32:16
yourself out, too. You got to ask whose idea was it? I know for sure it wasn't my just
00:32:22
around. So, B just say yours was my dudes, but you got different dudes. You got different like that's how they is.
00:32:29
They didn't say it right then and there. They said it on Facebook like but they was like I knew they was talking about
00:32:34
me. They just didn't say it directly to me, but I knew there he just gave up the group chat where all
00:32:41
of these shootings supposedly were planned. With this, police simply had to cross reference the names in the group
00:32:47
chat with the supposed shooters on the CCTV and the names that had been mentioned in previous interrogations,
00:32:54
giving them enough evidence to sentence all six of the shooters. But unfortunately, this wasn't the
00:33:00
resolution they'd hoped for. After examining all the weapons confiscated, it would turn out that none of them were
00:33:07
a match to the bullet found in Tiara's head, meaning they still couldn't tie any specific person to the actual
00:33:15
murder. However, there is one puzzle piece we haven't told you about yet. The one that would solve this entire case.
00:33:24
Watching the CCTV footage, it's clear that there is one man that directly shot at Tiara's vehicle.
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If you follow this man dressed in all black back through the CCTV, you can trace him all the way back to the
00:33:40
driver's seat of this black truck. A black truck that until now the cops were completely unable to identify. But then
00:33:49
they received one final piece of footage from a witness, allowing them to track it back to the owner, 44year-old mother
00:33:56
Kia Brown. Police realized they had to interview her knowing that whoever was driving Kia's black truck that day
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killed Tiara Harris. Hi. Hey. How you doing, ma'am? How are you? Good. I'm Detect Smith. This is
00:34:11
Detective Davis Police. Hi. Hey. Um, we wanted to talk to you or whoever is driving that drives this
00:34:18
truck. Reference that incident that happened up the street. Um, they were being shot at and we're finally trying
00:34:24
to catch up with them. Um, look like a couple males. And have you heard about this?
00:34:32
I heard about what happened around the corner. This is my truck, but my son was driving.
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It wasn't Kia, but her son driving the car that night. And after running his name, they'd find out he had ties to a
00:34:44
rival gang of BBM. So, the detectives had Kia call her son and hand over the phone to the officers.
00:34:52
I have some detectives here right now. The day that we were moving in, the incident that happened around the
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corner. Okay. Would like to speak with you. Do you have a moment? Can you go on break?
00:35:02
How you doing, man? How you doing? Good. I'm Detective Smith. I'm with Detective Davis with me. Hey, uh, what's
00:35:10
your name before we get started, bud? Liry. Lineer. All right, Lir. How you doing,
00:35:15
man? I'm going behind the So, listen, man. I won't keep too much of your time. We were wondering if we
00:35:21
could talk with you and your mom maybe in person at some point and we wanted to talk to you about that incident that
00:35:26
happened up the street. Um we know you're over there so we were hoping you could help us. Actually you're not in
00:35:31
any trouble. We're actually hoping you could help us. Um would would there be a good day for you to
00:35:36
Yes, we can. Yes. Sunday the 8th. Can we do anytime after 2:30? Okay. Anytime after 230.
00:35:44
All right. All right, man. We appreciate it. We'll see you at 3:30. Okay. All right, buddy. Bye.
00:35:49
And just like that, they had an interview scheduled. And this was the final suspect at the scene that they
00:35:55
hadn't yet spoken to. The man suspected to be the driver of the black truck and the man they think Shantiara.
00:36:03
Dad, how you doing? What's up? Appreciate you talking with us. So, I mean, obviously, you know why
00:36:09
we're here about that in that happened up the street. So, you just wanted to know your perspective
00:36:17
that happened that day. What' you see that type of stuff, bro? You couldn't run us through that day?
00:36:21
I was standing in the driveway on my phone. Then I heard shots like got down. Then when the shots stopped, heard that,
00:36:32
ran to the car. When the shots started happening, you ran and got in the driver's seat and
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then teen got in your passenger seat. Okay. Um, that was it. Lineier had just told them
00:36:47
he was driving the black truck that day, confirming he was the man in all black that drove the truck and hopped in the
00:36:55
Chevy. He was the man that fired the bullets. So, they decided to ask him upfront.
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I'm about to ask you something, man. About to ask you in front of your parents. I'm sorry, but I got to ask.
00:37:06
Did you shoot that day? Okay. Even though he said no, police already had all the evidence they needed. The
00:37:16
car tied to him, his ties to the rival gang, and finally the video of him shooting at Tiara's car, so they
00:37:23
arrested him on the spot and brought him in for interrogation. What's up, man? You here?
00:37:30
Am I able to have a lawyer with me right now? What's that? Can I have a lawyer with you?
00:37:34
You can do whatever you want, man. I'm not here to Okay. Are you saying you want your
00:37:39
lawyer? You don't want to talk to you. Okay. All right. But in the end, this wouldn't matter. As
00:37:45
when they arrested and processed him, they managed to confiscate his gun. And after analyzing the forensics of the
00:37:51
bullet inside of Tiara and Lenir's gun, it was a match. Linear had fired the killing shot.
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After 5 months of investigation, all the puzzle pieces were finally in place. In
00:38:06
total, seven people were charged in this incident. Zire Saunders was charged with
00:38:11
involuntary manslaughter and four counts of felonious assault and was sentenced to 35 to 40 years. Antil Whitaker and
00:38:19
Jeremiah Williams got 20 to 24 years on similar charges, while the fourth asalent in this group, Darion Rackley,
00:38:26
got 34 to 40 years. It was confirmed Antil's DNA was in fact found on various bullet casings on Rockaway Street.
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Despite his claims in the interrogation room, the next two to be sentenced were the ones who shot back at Zy's group
00:38:41
after being rolled up on. They were Javier Small and Jonte Smith, who were sentenced to 4 years and 2 and 1/2
00:38:48
years, respectively. Lastly, was Lenier Worthy, Tiara's actual killer. However, as of this video's upload, he's still
00:38:56
awaiting sentencing. Tiara and George were not involved in any of the gangs in the shootout and were found completely
00:39:03
innocent. At long last, Tiara and her family could finally be at peace. Half of our profits in this video will
00:39:14
be donated to the Akranbased charity, First Glance Student, to help prevent incidents like this from happening
00:39:20
again. The second half will go towards the making of our next video.