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Usually cops expect the killer to be a full-g grown adult, but what happens when it's secretly a teenager?
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You're just arresting me on a charge that's made up. On the 2nd of May, 2023, a single stray
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bullet was found on the floor of this school's cafeteria. Immediately, the school was placed under strict lockdown,
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and police started to search every single student in the school. They knew how serious this could be, as at any
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moment, the owner of that bullet could have stepped forward and unleashed deathly havoc on the entire school.
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However, in a sudden turn of events, a student approaches the police and asks a strange question.
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I don't want you to worry about something. Somebody find something you know about
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cuz I had a bullet in my pocket, but it was like it's not like I'm planning anything.
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Okay. I know I'm not allowed to bring a bullet. Okay. Why don't you come? Wait. I'm not
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like a school shooter. The student was identified as Nolan Rosen, who despite all evidence to the contrary, claims
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he's not planning anything, and he's not a school shooter. Obviously though, the
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police just can't take him at his word. And they have to treat him as an immediate threat to the school's safety.
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If I was a school shooter, I wouldn't tell you. You know what I mean? In today's day and age, you know, they got
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to be in every safety. That's right. Well, let let me let me ask you this. Why got you right here? Be honest with
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me. You didn't bring any gun to school, did you? No, that's the only you had one round.
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Yeah. Okay. I wouldn't like bring a gun to the school. No. Okay, I know. That's not my intention.
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You know, I got to ask though, right? Was there a bullet found them? There's got to be a reason for doing
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this. And I looked it up. It said there's no statute for bringing up like there's no
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law against bringing a bullet to the school. Okay, I'm just letting you know. Despite
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Nolan's oddly calm demeanor and bold claims, the cops decide to search him anyway for the exact reason Nolan's
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already brought up. If he was a school shooter, he wouldn't tell them. All right, just turn around. Face over
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here real quick. Put your hand on that table for me. Oh, I got more bullet. I got two.
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Okay, don't put your hand in your pocket. Just keep your hands on the table. Put them on the table. Just put
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them on the table for me real quick. Okay. So, I'm going to have to search you. Two bullets in this one. Literally, if I
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thought I was doing anything wrong, I wouldn't bring I I got you. You just know in today's day and you can be too
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safe. right there. Okay, that's all of them. Yeah, we got to continue searching.
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That's all. There 22 rifles. Not even an assault. It's not even assault. Right. Right.
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1250 23. [clears throat] Are these from a range? Did you? No, I have a Henry repeating rifle. Kind
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of just use it as like a thing to like comfort me a little bit at home or Yeah. I don't like I'm not There's no I have
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no ill intentions. Nolan tells the cops that he's actually worried about the threat of guns on campus and keeps a
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weapon at home because it comforts him knowing he can protect himself. This might make sense to him, but the cops
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suspect there's something more to this story. I know why it would raise a concern, but
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I'm really scared about that stuff like school shooters do. I'm like very uh and
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it makes me anxious too that anyone could just walk into school and shoot it up.
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Do you worry about them? Yeah, I worry about that stuff a lot sometimes. You have a gun in your car?
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Yeah, of course. Well, not like I don't carry it all the time, but I just literally carried it in my car. Like I
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don't bring it in. Is there a gun in your car right now? Yeah, let's go out. You You'll stay.
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Yeah. Yeah, keep it. Um they're in my bag. It's not an assault rifle. It's a literally a 22 Henry repeating rifle
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game. I just want to know if you have one there. The atmosphere in the room changes
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instantly as Nolan admits to bringing a loaded weapon onto the school campus. The cop's perception of him changes from
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a confused kid to an active threat. And if he's comfortable bringing a weapon to
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school in his car, who knows what else he's not telling the officers. Two cops stay with him in the office and the rest
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head out to search his car. Watch the right. Yeah. Just just leave it right there for now. It's
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basically like a just a 22 rifle, right? Like something you shoot rabbits with. squirrel.
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I don't know how to check if it's loaded. We'll we'll check it thing. But you put
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it in there, I think. Yeah. I'm wondering if you got to um like [ __ ] that back to uh
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to get inside. It doesn't This is how you um like chamber it. The cops discover the weapon in his car
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and note down the serial number, but they struggle to determine if the weapon is loaded or not. So instead, they turn
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their attention to Nolan himself and try to decide what to do with him. He's 18.
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Yeah, he's 18. So, I don't know what the I guess the higher up will do if they want to take him out of here and cuff.
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Absolutely. You verified that he's 18. We looked on the Yeah, I can triple check. But
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is he a senior? He's a junior. 18-year-old junior. Yeah. Those are usually the ones that bring
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guns. Meanwhile, back in the office, the other cops are trying to get to the bottom of
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why he'd even bring the weapon in the first place, especially if he wasn't planning on using it at all. I didn't
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like I don't bring the rifle cuz I'm like assuming I'm going to have to use it. I just bring it cuz first of all it
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looks cool and second of all it's like the comfort thing before I brought the gun. I like uh I'm pretty sure like I'm
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I was allowed to bring like I don't think there was anything saying I'm not allowed to bring it.
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Okay, I got you. But I know I know it's like a Are you a senior in the modern age? This is bad.
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Are you a senior? Uh no, a junior. Junior. Okay. How old are you? I'm 17. Gotcha.
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13. Sorry. This is an issue that will come up a lot throughout the rest of this case. Nolan
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fully believes that there is no law stopping him from bringing a firearm onto school property, but this is of
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course fundamentally incorrect. Ohio Revised Code section 2923.122 explicitly states that no person is
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allowed to bring or attempt to bring a deadly weapon into a school safety zone. In fact, it even bans the possession of
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objects that look like weapons as they may incite panic, just as Nolan has today. Bear this in mind as the
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investigation continues. I just see a lot of videos where having the gun prevents like altercations
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like online videos and stuff like different outcomes and stuff. Like there's one guy who was like 200 lb
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bigger than this guy and he comes up to his car and he's like I want to fight you. Looks like he's about to rip him
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out of his car and the guy just pulls out a gun and guy turns around and walks the other way and it's like that's all
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it is. He didn't even like do anything just because he saw the gun and he knows it's like can't think it's over. So, so
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that that could be a case. But another thing, so I'm a subject control instructor, so I teach all the police
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officers basically how to fight like martial arts and stuff like that. You've heard of this 21 foot rule, right? If
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somebody has a knife within 21 ft of you, they're more dangerous than the guy with the gun because they can clear that
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distance quickly. Oh wow. But come with me. Unfortunately for Nolan though, it's
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time for him to face reality. He brought a gun to school. And despite him claiming there was no ill will and that
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he had no idea there was a policy against it, the cops and school officials have already made their
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decision. Well, surely you can imagine um having a gun on school property is um a major
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issue. So I am suspending you for 10 days with a recommendation for expulsion. And since you are also on a
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504 plan, um somebody from the special education department will be reaching out to you because we're going to have
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to hold what's called a manifestation determination meeting. Um, but at this point it is a 10-day suspension with the
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recommendation for expulsion for um, weapons, specifically a gun and disruption and misconduct. I have to go
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fill out the rest of the people. I didn't disrupt anything. The whole school was on lockdown, buddy. I called
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that about as big of a disruption as you could have. All right. Sorry. Well, the the problem
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wasn't bringing the gun. The problem was I dropped the bullet. That was the problem. And this still isn't the end
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for Nolan as the cops take him into custody. And he's shown that the it's not illegal if you don't get caught
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logic is only a fallacy. We talked to our prosecutor. It is against the law to bring a gun into
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what's called a safety zone or a school, right? That's subjective. What is subjective?
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What you consider like a safety zone. Now is not going to be the time to contest it right now. Okay? So basically
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what I'm telling you is we're going to end up charging you. Okay? And you're 18 years old. Well, there's no law against
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that. Bringing a gun on the school property, there's no law. Like, there's no statute.
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I'm telling you there is. It's a policy, not a law. No, there's a state law in Ohio.
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Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Here's what we're going to do. Okay. We're not going to debate what is or
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isn't. We know what we have. We have violation of law, right? I don't think there is a violation of
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law. Okay. And you can think that. And we do arrest people that think they aren't in
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violation of laws. That does happen. And you have the right to believe that. You
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believe whatever you want to believe. This is a newer generational problem. This is not like a problem that you had
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like back in the day. This might be like your first time dealing with a situation
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like this in your whole career. So, I don't think you can just arrest me like that.
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Well, we are arresting you. Put your hand behind your back. I can put your hand behind your back.
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I'm telling you. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. We're okay. Go ahead. Nolan was
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arrested and charged with improperly handling firearms, possession of a deadly weapon in a school zone, and
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inducing panic. He pleaded not guilty to all of these charges, maintaining his story from the body cam footage. It's
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all too easy for kids to cause such havoc, and it's lucky that Nolan decided not to use his weapon for evil, just as
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Thanks to incogn for making these videos possible. Hello. My brother's attacking my family.
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Your dad is attacking your family? No, my god. These were the chilling words of 12-year-old Daniel James Beaver as he
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begged for the police to save him [music] from his two older brothers who were running rampant throughout his
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house, killing everybody inside. But less than a [music] minute after the phone call began, Daniel could be heard
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screaming and begging for his life until the line went dead. Police arrived at the scene quickly and were greeted by a
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gruesome scene that had played out all across the house. Blood was found smattered around the porch and a faint
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cry for help could be heard from inside. The plea came from 13-year-old Crystal Beaver, but everybody else in the house
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except for 2-year-old Autumn was dead. One of these surviving bever children, a 13-year-old girl, saying her brothers
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were fascinated by mass killings for at least a year. Police heard commotion near the back door of the property and
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discovered perpetrators [music] Robert and Michael Beaver covered in blood and smiling as if they were proud
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of what they had done. Robert was laughing and told police that killing more than one person had turned him into
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a god. Unfortunately, Robert's interrogation tape was never released to the public, but 15-year-old Michaels is
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fully available and gives us some insight into what [music] drove these boys to commit such a brutal crime. I
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was hoping maybe you could kind of just go back at the beginning when all this started and kind of tell me what
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happened. A couple months ago, he started talking about front page and stuff like that.
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Okay. I had to take it seriously first, but then he started buying like body armor
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and stuff. Where did he buy body armor from? eBay and Amazon. Robert's room was found filled with
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weapons and body armor, including machetes, hunting knives, and daggers. Apparently, they'd been collecting all
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of this for months. But when their sister Crystal told their mother about it, she simply passed it off as normal,
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saying that boys will be boys and there's nothing to worry about. She couldn't have been more wrong.
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The guns, where do you start buying [music] guns from? Um, he bought them online. I think the
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website's like gun shop and he bought two. He bought 41 and a shotgun if you It's like a boot, I think. I think he
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bought 250 shotgun rounds. Okay. On eBay. Then I think he bought close to a,000 rounds for the box. Wow.
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Okay. Where was he supposed to pick those? By the ammunition, it was [music] being
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shipped to the house. Knives and machetes were one thing, but guns and over a,000 rounds of ammunition are a
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completely different matter. So once they'd ordered it to their house, they knew that their parents couldn't be home
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when it arrived. But what do they even need all of these weapons for? It doesn't take a thousand bullets to kill
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five people. Well, it turns out that [music] the brothers had a much much bigger plan.
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Tell me more about making plans and what you guys talked about. Making plans. We all plotted every
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night. [music] Why did he want to do it? Because he just like he says he hates everyone. He thinks society is
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pointless. And so he wanted to like beat like amount of other famous [music] people like Colin Bond and James.
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So did you guys have a goal? Do you have a number? He just wanted I think he wanted to kill
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like 50. Okay. The two boys stayed up late most nights talking and scheming and once they
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realized they were both separately interested in murder, the die was cast. And from their perspective, there was no
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turning back. The boys had grown a bond throughout their lives due to their living conditions. Their parents, April
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and David Beaver, were somewhat abusive to their children. They were homeschooled and even told not to
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interact with children outside of their own family. This left them alone with their own thoughts a lot of the time.
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And their only perspective of the outside world was the one that they formed in their own minds. This is how
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they developed such a negative outlook on society and what drove them to form the next part of their plan.
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You picked a date, you said. Yeah, which was yesterday. Yesterday night was the date.
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How did you pick the date? We were vulting with the packages and stuff we have cuz you know all the ammunition. He
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didn't want them to see that. So we wanted to kill everyone at the house boost. Okay.
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And then wait for all the packages to show up over the weekend. Then they would take the economy to have a date
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with the guns. So their plan was set. Michael even said their idea was to cut up and dismember
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the bodies of their family and hide them in bins while they camped out waiting for the guns to arrive. He even added
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the gruesome detail that they only left Autumn alive because they had planned to
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decapitate her with an axe a little while later. But of course, all of these ambitious plans fell at the first
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hurdle. So, what was it that happened that night that caused everything to fall apart for the brothers? The murders
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began with Crystal, who had entered their room at 11:30 p.m. on the 22nd of July, 2015 [music]
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to the sight of them gearing up with body armor and knives. Michael lured her over to his computer [music] and Robert
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slit her throat from behind. And so she fell down and started screaming. Yeah. One of them kept stabbing. I kind
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of creeped out cuz, you know, and then my mom came in and she started yelling, called the police, get over and started
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attacking her. So, he stabbed your mom with the same knife. Yep. And where did he stab her?
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I think in the neck, too. At this point, Crystal had managed to get up and stumble out of the door in an
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effort to escape, but Michael quickly followed her and dragged her back inside. She's still alive.
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Yeah, she was still screaming. And then that's about the time dad came down. They got a little bit of fight. Um, but
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then eventually got him down. You know, did he cut his throat too? The three eldest members of the family were now
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well and truly [music] out of action with their parents dead and Crystal's throat slit, bleeding out on the porch.
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They just left their four younger siblings, the people they thought would give them the least problems. This is
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also where we rejoin the story from earlier and Daniel is on the phone with police hidding in his room. On the phone
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with the police phone, which is my phone, got my phone. The guy went into the kitchen and I smashed the
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underground. which was your phone. Yeah, it was my phone. I don't have a cell phone anymore.
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Shortly after, Daniel 2 was stabbed 21 times in the back, shoulder, and chest. The final two victims were hidden in
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locked rooms, but Michael managed to convince them that Robert was attacking him, [music] too. This lured them out,
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and the brothers finished their attack by once more stabbing 6-year-old Christopher and 5-year-old Victoria to
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death. Throughout this interview though, Michael has been placing a huge amount of blame on Robert, even at points
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saying that he was just standing there letting Robert do all the work and that he was only part of this in the first
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place because he knew Robert was going to do this anyway and he wanted to be on his good side.
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I I didn't want to kill anyone with anyone. I couldn't do it. So, I was going to let him like kill everyone. Yo,
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you stabbed somebody in the neck. I mean, I just kind of How do you feel about what you've done
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now? I I didn't like it that I mean, how do you feel about your mother? You watched her get stabbed. You
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You cut her throat yourself and you watched her bleed all over the place and scream. How does that make you feel?
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N think about it. Unfortunately though, in his interview, Robert [music] had absolutely no concerns telling the whole
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truth and nothing but the truth, [music] eventually cluing the cops in that Michael may have had a larger part than
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he originally let on. The guys that are interviewing Robert um kind of gave me a quick version of what
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he's saying that you did and you haven't told me everything. Okay. So, I know you're not being
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completely honest. I'm just one of like hundreds of people that are going to look at this thing. We got the state
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police coming in and every single stab wound that you inflicted, we're going to know about. Everybody's been stabbed and
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you both had knives and we know you both stabbed everybody. So, you guys are kind
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of at the same level. Who's going to be honest and make this right and who's a liar? Okay. Which one do you want to be?
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As is often the case, [music] this simple rhetoric was all the cops needed to use to get Michael to open up and
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finally confessed to being as big a part of the murders as Robert was. Michael admitted to slitting the throats of
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Crystal and his mother, as well as stabbing Christopher to death. And as usual, one confession led to another,
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and we gained even deeper insight into the minds of these twisted teens. You only stabbed your family because
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they went away towards the bigger plan. Um, they were in the way and, you know, higher count.
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This higher count. Can you Is this a game? It's a more like kind of thing kind of
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game. It now fully comes to light that the murders truly weren't personal to any extent and that the entire reason
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for this slaughter and any [music] that would follow was just for recognition and fame. This became even more obvious
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when [music] searches of the home revealed rolling surveillance cameras and storage drives with all of their
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plans saved to them. Robert later revealed that they plan [music] to make two videos, one to taunt the police with
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and another to post online. The rest of Michael's interview footage consists of him writing a statement that
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unfortunately was [music] never publicized. But whatever it was that he wrote must have been pretty messed up as
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the detective watching over him couldn't even [music] finish reading it and reacted like this.
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Of course, at trial, neither of the boys stood much of a chance. Yet, Michael attempted to plead not guilty on the
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grounds of insanity. However, it didn't go so well for either of them and they were both given five life sentences
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without the possibility of parole. The surviving children, Crystal and Autumn, were adopted by the same couple.
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However, things are totally different for Courtney Clenny, who didn't only kill her boyfriend, but thought she
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could get away with calling the police on herself. And now all of a sudden, this is all
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happening. What's his name? I just Christian Tobet himself. Please, I'm scared of him. On the 3rd of
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April, 2022, Miami police received a terrifying phone call. Can't feel my arm. I can't feel my arm.
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My boyfriend is ma'am. What is the address? 31 North, I'm so sorry, baby. 27year-old Christian Toby Abomelli was
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bleeding out in his girlfriend's lap with a brutal wound to the chest. When police arrived, pools of blood were
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found all over the apartment, and Toby was barely clinging to life. Only Fans model Courtney Clinty had met Toby back
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in 2020. The two seemed to be deeply in love, but behind closed doors, things were completely different. The couple
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were known to have violent fights, and the police were even called multiple times to their [music] apartment. But
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their biggest argument would take place in April of 2022 and results in Toby bleeding out and begging for his life.
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Courtney told police she had nothing to do with it, but police thought differently. So, she was brought in for
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questioning and a 5-hour long interrogation began. I apologize for being absolutely covered
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in blood. Listen, you don't have to apologize, okay? I completely understand. All right? Things happen and you can't
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control this. Okay. How long have you guys been together? Um about 2 years. About two years.
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A year and a half to two years. Yeah. Okay. Is he okay? He's there. He's still at the hospital.
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They're still, you know, monitoring him and talking to him. So, we're waiting. Oh my god. So, he's not even he didn't
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even have to have surgery. Well, I don't know. They're they're they're still they're still uh doing um
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x-rays and stuff like that. So, I don't know yet. I'm waiting to hear a response.
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That's all I have to know. Thank God. The detectives tell Courtney that Toby is in the hospital but alive. Detectives
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are usually unaware of how a suspect will react to certain information, so it's often safest to open by easing any
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worries they may have and talking in a non- accusatory manner. This makes the suspect feel more relaxed and more
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likely to open up. had just gotten back together. I had broken up with him and then he came back the last like two
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nights and then she got like into an argument and I ended up getting scared and I think that I overreacted or not
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overreacted necessarily but reacted and I just didn't know exactly what might happen. You guys work here in Miami or
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do you guys have your own business? I do social media. So, I'm influencer I guess is what?
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Oh, yeah. Call us. Yeah. Influencer. What do you focus on? Like Instagram or um social media apps.
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Instagram. Oh my. And what is it that he does? Stocks and crypto. Stocks and crypto.
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He just has stocks and crypto. We were going to move into a house. Mhm. So have an apartment and then we were
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like maybe we just move here for a year. And then once we got here we were like no this is dope.
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Yeah. So he we're we have the dog picked out golden retriever. We're going to name
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Melo. So we're going to get out so we can have a back start cuz I have two dogs and then we're going
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to have three. So we're planning on staying here for a while. Sorry. Once again, you don't have to apologize.
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The detectives can tell Courtney is in a vulnerable state, but at the end of the
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day, they're there to solve a crime. Courtney's being investigated for stabbing Toby, and the only defense
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she's given so far is that there was an argument and things got out of hand. If Courtney did in fact do what she's being
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accused of, being forced to think about her past and future with Toby would really be messing with her emotions,
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causing her to become more vulnerable and hopefully lead to an easy confession. Let's start from the start.
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You guys were supposed to take out your dogs to the park, right? And then what happens after that?
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Um, like I said, a little bit blur. Um, I was doing laundry. Mhm. And tried to call my mom. She didn't
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answer the first time. And then he left. I guess he went to go bike over there. He That's just what he said. I don't
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know if he walked or bikes, but he told me he's going to bike. Yeah. Okay. And then he came back with a Subway
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sandwich. Um, and I said something about like, "Oh, are you going to like reshare
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your location with me? Like, did you share it?" and um said, "Yeah, yeah, I shared it." And I was like, "Oh, when
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did you do that?" And he was the other day like when you were done with me. And I was like, "Okay, well, fair enough."
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And like reshare it. Um and then he told I mean it kind of like turned into like
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a little like argument or something. And then he told me to reshare mine and I was like, "Okay, yeah, I will." And then
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I didn't do it immediately. Um he asked me about it again. Um, and I don't know what I was thinking, but it just said
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something about, well, what if I'm somewhere you don't want me to be, which I'm I wouldn't have been. I love him.
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Um, but maybe you don't want to know where I am. I guess maybe they'll just like hurt him because he was pressing
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me. Um, and he ended up pinning me against the wall. I mean, I said like choking me on the floor. It's just like
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they were looking at my neck and I was like I mean I'm not saying like choking you like you know whatever but I mean he
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had my like neck like I and this happened twice before where I couldn't breathe and I was on
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the floor I could not breathe and I don't think that he is trying to kill me. Mhm.
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But I was scared and all three times I have been scared. I'm on the floor and heavy my mom on the phone. So this
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happened like over by the door and somehow moved like over in the living room. He was standing by by the couch
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facing floor in the kitchen. I was in the kitchen and then he just like I could see like all the lights in his
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eyes and he was like like coming at me and so I grabbed I grabbed one of these knives like one got me for Christmas. I
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grabbed one of them and I was like I swear I swear to God. I swear to God. It was just like I I mean I grab and be
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like don't come anywhere closer to me because I I mean earlier I was having two other times and I couldn't breathe.
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I'm sorry I couldn't breathe. And it's very scary. And I just think like just like this kind of thing where I was
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saying like do you know if he's okay if he like if he if he's choking me and he's angry enough he might like or I
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mean this is different I think. But if he's like choking me or like pinning me or something and I can't breathe, he
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might go too long. So I grab my sorry I grab my I grab my knife and I said don't
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come anywhere closer to me. I had absolutely no intention of using it. I'm on the phone with my mom and he's coming
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at me like he's going to grab either the phone or like the knife or something. And so I was just like I I was like
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don't don't come any closer coming at me and I drew it and I meant for it to go.
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How far away was he? Well, I was by my fridge and he was like by the edge of one of the chairs of the
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sofa. Um like comparing tot I'm I'm trying to think in my head. To recap, Courtney says that an
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argument started when the pair had both stopped sharing their phone locations that resulted in him pinning her against
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the floor and her retaliating by throwing a kitchen knife across the room, piercing him in the chest.
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Courtney also clearly states that her attack was in self-defense and specifically involved her throwing a
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knife 10 ft across the apartment that landed perfectly in his chest, causing him to bleed out and fear for his life.
00:28:49
So then you were by the fridge and he was by the couch. Yes, I was between the couch in front of
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the fridge. He was by the couch and then behind behind my island. Then what kind of movements did he make
00:28:59
that he uh at the at the moment he was going to walk? Running at me running. Okay.
00:29:05
Well, charging aggressively walking something. What was he doing like was he doing
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something with his hands or doing his hands up? I really could I couldn't tell you exactly.
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Was he yelling at you at the time? Yes. Was that at the moment that he was charging you or earlier in one of the
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arguments? It was before he choked me when I Yes, it was before he choked me. Okay.
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Or whatever. But I swear to God, I was scared. I mean, after like what had just I was scared and I was on the phone with
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my mom and it was still happening. I was scared. So you told me you told me that that he had you against the wall at
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one point, right? With his hands over your neck. Mhm. And what h how did you end up from the
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wall to the ground? Dummy go let me go and then I started swinging on him because I had been
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against the wall. Okay. I started trying to hit him. Yeah. And then he put me on the ground.
00:30:07
He dropped it to the ground. When I'm trying to remember like a whole situation of where I was very upset
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about something. Yeah, which I've learned this in therapy and whatever. It's like write down like all
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the details so you don't forget just like write it all out clearly so it makes sense to you and makes sense
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to somebody else. But I haven't had a chance to have a pen and paper or my phone
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to like write down exactly what happened and I haven't even like fully thought about it.
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So honestly my my answer is I couldn't I don't remember. That's right. Okay. You guys have a
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history of violence? Yeah. You say you've been together how long, sir? Almost two years.
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Almost two years and a half two years. So, how many how many incidents you think you've had?
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I don't I don't know. But we shouldn't be together. Have you made a report before?
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Uh, no. You've never made a report? Oh, I did in um I did in Dallas actually about a year ago. Um and he was
00:31:05
detained. What happened there? um he pushed me in the um lobby like it wasn't like a big deal and they made it
00:31:15
a huge deal. The couple had also been involved in another incident in Las Vegas less than a year earlier. Police
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were called to their apartment after a loud argument was heard as well as glasses smashing on the floor and walls.
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The apartment was trashed when police arrived and Courtney's story was all over the place.
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Why did you call for help? Because we were getting really loud. We're getting loud and I was like, "Oh
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my god, we're gonna like do damage to the room or something." Not damage to each other. Like I really want to like
00:31:44
Why? Why? Why would you like that? Why would you think that you were going to do damage to the room?
00:31:48
I like throwing something or like Did you throw something? Did I? Yeah. No. Did anybody throw anything?
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No. So why would you think that there is damage to the room to be made? Because I've done that before in our
00:32:01
house and I What have you done? thrown a glass at a plate. Did you throw a glass or a plate team
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today? No. Okay. So, before Okay. So, when I go to the room and I see a broken glass on the floor, where
00:32:16
did the glass come from? I don't I don't know. I literally couldn't even remember how the fight
00:32:21
started. [snorts] Okay. Well, was there Yeah, maybe I did. Well, I'm guessing that I
00:32:27
threw a glass, but that sounds like me. Courtney was brought to jail and held for 12 hours overnight, but Toby refused
00:32:34
to press charges and advocated heavily for release. This may seem like nothing, but police did conclude that Courtney
00:32:40
had attacked him that night by throwing a glass at his head. If nothing else, it
00:32:45
proves that Courtney was capable of attacking Toby unprovoked and opens up an entirely new avenue for this
00:32:51
investigation. However, it also turns out that police had been in contact with the couple more recently. In fact,
00:32:57
they'd actually been called by security to their apartment the day before the attack.
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Um, but the cops have been up there um one other time yesterday. Mhm. For absolutely no reason. Absolutely none.
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They harassed um not the not the police, but um security guards from the front office, like young security guards.
00:33:21
Okay. Came up for no reason. um bothered him, bothered me. The cops were called, however, and
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captured an entire exchange on body cams, providing a stark contrast to the story that Courtney gave here.
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You didn't call. I didn't. Nobody call. [laughter] Okay. uh the front desk personnel, she
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informed us that uh Miss Portney uh her boyfriend was trying to get into the elevator and
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she had her hand out like this and she was like, "Oh, no. Don't come inside the elevator." Okay. So, we asked her, I
00:34:00
said, "Do you want him to leave the property?" She said, "No." She don't want him.
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I did not. I said, "Yes." Hold on. Courtney, what's going on? What do you need? What?
00:34:14
Oh my boyfriend. All right. So, what do you what do you want? What do you want to see?
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I want a restraining order against Christians. We don't issue those. No, I'm serious.
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Can I do that? Where can I go to court? Where can I make myself first? Courtney is obviously extremely panicked
00:34:31
in this footage and seems less concerned about any possible that she may have been sustaining and more worried about
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getting a restraining order before Toby can. It's also important to note that the building's security noticed her
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pushing Toby out of the elevator and screaming at him and mentioned absolutely no aggression coming from
00:34:50
him. As the evidence mounts up, it's starting to get increasingly more likely that Courtney's whole self-defense story
00:34:58
might be straying slightly away from the truth. But as is almost always the case
00:35:04
in situations like these, everything is still hearsay. and officially debunking her claims is going to be a challenge
00:35:10
for the detectives. But after leaving her alone for almost an hour and letting her change clothes, they returned to the
00:35:17
interrogation room with some more news for her. So, you're living in a nightmare right now.
00:35:24
Yes. You know, so I will feel so much better once they just say he's stable. Yeah.
00:35:30
Cuz I've been asking I've been asking that's what we're waiting for. Okay. I mean, I feel like at the end I
00:35:38
mean, if he if he's not, that's a lot worse for me. So, they've asked for an update and I
00:35:43
asked them for an update as well. So, they're checking uh to see what's going because they're
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I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know what I will do with myself if she's not okay.
00:35:52
No matter what, I mean, I I clearly can't be the other people. No matter what happens,
00:35:57
no matter where this falls, right, it's it's out of our control. Um, so we have to inform you that Christian did
00:36:10
not make it. Okay. Um, unfortunately the doctors did what they could and Christian is dead.
00:36:18
Yep. Oh my god. This is not real, right? Okay. No, there's no way. Christian died.
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Okay. Can I please have a hug? Am I allowed to do that in here? Sure. Okay. Be fine.
00:36:44
No, no, no. Calm down. Okay. Calm down. Okay. Calm down. I I need I need to I need to hug my mom.
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I cannot be left alone in like a room by myself. You won't be after this. I was like, "No, that's not
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true. That's not That did not That's not real, right?" It is real. Christian is dead.
00:37:10
Yes. You're not going to lie. The last thing he ate was Subway. What did I say to that other room? I said,
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"God forbid. God forbid when like from far away if if it if what if what if I what if it had accidentally hit a little
00:37:26
bit lower and he died?" So, we can't we can't change what what's occurred. And get him before. So, just
00:37:35
step by step, so you'll get through this. All right. It's easy to tell by the detectives
00:37:41
reactions that they're fairly convinced what happened was indeed self-defense. In fact, one of them was even talking
00:37:47
earlier about how he's sure she'd be allowed home that night and that everything was going to be fine. So, it
00:37:53
obviously wasn't hard for her lawyer to convince them officially that she wasn't
00:37:57
guilty and she was let off without any charges. But remember, the detectives weren't
00:38:04
aware of any of the evidence mentioned so far. All they know is what Courtourtney told them. So, as time went
00:38:11
on, evidence started to mount up and the Abomelli's case was starting to become stronger and stronger. The body cam
00:38:18
videos started to become publicly available, and the true nature of her previous arrests came to light. There
00:38:24
were also unflattering videos such as this one showing her drunk in public just days after her release.
00:38:32
Yeah. And they're seeking justice. Sir, what? Let's all videotape her right now. Yeah,
00:38:38
you should go. Yeah, you should go. Yeah, you did. Yeah. And Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. Sure, people make
00:38:51
mistakes and drink too much, but when you're seen acting like this in public just days after balling your eyes out in
00:38:58
an interrogation room, you don't exactly get painted in the best light. Just days
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later, footage secretly recorded by Toby was found on his phone displaying Courtney violently screaming at him,
00:39:11
using aggressive language, hitting him across the face, and using racial slurs. You literally talked to her without
00:39:17
telling me. Courtney, I was on a bike ride and she passed me and I said, "Hi, you and Courtney are having a a live
00:39:23
chat." My bad. I forgot to tell you that. That doesn't make you to act and call me a
00:39:30
Yes. Yes. Thank you. Come for me. Thank you. I want you to get away from me. So due
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to this and many other accounts stating that Courtney was well and truly the one
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we prepare to see if she'll be spending the rest of her life behind bars. stars.