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gangsters are supposed to be seen as tough thugs with little regard for the law but what happens when fake gangsters
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are faced with real prison time these are three never before seen examples of when wannabe gangsters
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realizing they'll be serving prison time starting with the case of 18 year old Conrad Trojas who in September of 2010
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was leaving school when he was approached by a man holding a handgun Conrad was ordered to take off his bag
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and hand it over but when he refused he was shot in the chest by the man miraculously Conrad managed to stumble
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away from the scene and call for help for collapsing and dying on the spot the suspect fled immediately but was later
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identified as edtavion Wilcox who was brought in for attempted murder as it turns out he wasn't all that tough in
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the interrogation room all right here's the deal you know something else happened I don't sit here and talk to
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you without knowing what the deal is all right we've been talking to people we've
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been interviewing people we've been showing people pictures we've been looking at video I didn't bring you up
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here because you weren't wearing your seatbelt okay you got arrested for burglary before and they didn't even
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bring you up here obviously it's something a little more serious Wilcox is trying to remain calm and pretend as
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though he's got no idea what this is all about a little does he know his getaway
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driver had also been apprehended and confessed to everything now the detective just has to find a way to get
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him to confess as well this is gonna go one of two ways you're either going to be a guy who made a mistake hanging
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around the wrong place the wrong time did something dumb or you're going to be a guy that goes out and likes to shoot
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people for fun okay I listen and do before you say anything I think you're a guy that made a mistake I know you were
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there okay I know what happened I've talked to the victim the victims picked you out of a photo lineup and said
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that's the guy that shot me okay here's the deal I don't think you shot that guy
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because you're a bad person you didn't mean to kill that guy okay what happened was is you were just trying to snatch
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his backpack he started fighting with you and you got scared so y'all saying I know you shot somebody imagine you're an
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18 year old kid who got in over their head and ended up shooting and killing an innocent civilian no matter who you
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are you'll be feeling scared a feeling that'll only be Amplified when a police officer asserts that they know exactly
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what happened Wilcox will be feeling rattled now as the cop talks he slumped over in his chair implying he's
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interested in what the cop is saying and as soon as he's allowed to talk all his
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responses sound confused and even bewildered the cop knows he has him on the back foot now he just needs to close
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it out you're 18 right you're 18. yes yeah this is where you need to stand up and be a man and admit
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you made a mistake I know you weren't trying to kill that guy I know that because you're not the kind of guy that
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does that you panicked you got scared you got ain't over your head the victim's making you out to be as stone
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cold just straight up Thug killer guy that doesn't give a [ __ ] about anybody else all right
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if if you keep going down the path you're going down telling me you didn't have anything to do with it it's not you
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it's not you who are people going to believe are they going to believe you are they going to believe the victim
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they're going to have to believe the victim because you didn't give me your side of the story Wilcox is being pushed
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into a corner the detective is using the facts that he knows Wilcox is just in over his head but is using language in
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such a way that makes him feel like he's accused of being this cold-blooded monster his reactions to this prove just
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how well this technique is working he stares at the ground implying shame and rubs his head in a pacifying behavior
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that shows how stressed he is a guy that sits there like you is not a guy that goes around and kills people
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you understand what I'm saying you have remorse you're sorry I can see it on you just need to take that next
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step what happened in that parking lot did you guys plan it or did it just happen
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but huh I can't I can't what'd you say yeah oh don't here remember we talked about
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that don't think about that that's the least of your concerns right now in a breakdown that's far from gangster
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Wilcox starts to cry and laments on how he absolutely can't go back to jail the detective uses this moment of
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vulnerability to press him further and tells him he has one last opportunity to be honest and let everybody know that he
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isn't the monster they think he is do you say stop hit me or I'm going to shoot you anything like that I was like
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I had my hand like right here no you had your left hand like up against him trying to push him away
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where was the gun which pocket how many times did you shoot what happened after you pulled the
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trigger did he fall down or was he was still standing up where'd you hit him I didn't
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even lie okay so you fired that one round what happened you just froze up and just like that had
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Tavian Wilcox confessed to shooting Conrad tohan and was sentenced to life in prison all over a school bag but
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while he'll be spending the rest of his life in prison Demetrius Cox wasn't so lucky throughout the beginning of 2020 a
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war between rival gangs 4-3-8 and AF NF began to break out many shootings were reported with dozens of deaths
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attributed to just these two gangs with one of these occurring on the 14th of April shots were fired at a house party
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in Davenport Florida resulting in the death of 20 year old wolf Luma the killer was identified almost immediately
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as Demetrius Cox also 20 years old two weeks later Cox was brought in on the suspicion of murder and an interrogation
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began ending in one of the most shocking moments in interrogation history number one I gotta tell you I'm pretty
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impressed of the way they uh just overall your persona as it is so I appreciate the respect it's going to be
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getting right back to you okay okay Cox starts the interrogation out respectfully but as the interview
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continues he starts to annoy the detective by withholding information that could get members of his gang into
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trouble this type of loyalty is extremely common in these types of cases but can prove to work against you as is
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seen just a few minutes later I'm not saying you went there for the wrong reasons however man I tell you one thing
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you know how they say like victims victims or suspects I thought that you were a victim
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no no no no no I thought you were a victim and I thought that you were going to give us
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the justification the explanation for what happened listen are you coming here and you can't even with little details
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like that like who cares if Papa J is there why can't you just be honest and say yeah it
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was then I got another question like hard about the truth what's interesting about this
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case though is that the cop actually isn't 100 sure that Cox is the killer as Cox mentions earlier most of the
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evidence in the case is hearsay and detectives could have a hard time using it in court this is why Cox is here in
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the first place if they could extract a confession it'd make their lives a whole
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lot easier but Cox isn't budging okay listen [Music] if you want to tell me what happened I'm
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all the Israel I just tried to tell you what happened in my face you not if you tell me the
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truth I will believe you but there's an explanation for what happened so you're trying to say I'm an animation
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or something it's like you're hearing me but you're not listening to me listen to you but
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you're not letting me look you got to break it down for me please okay I think that you might have been a
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victim but I cannot believe a victim when they leave little things out little details
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about that night [Music] I don't think that you or your buddies or anybody else well maybe when you're
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running your mouth a little bit but it wasn't Justified what happened okay eventually the detective decides that
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he's not going to get anything else out of Cox and calls off the interrogation but that's not where the case ends in
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fact the most interesting but tragic part happened just hours after the interrogation was held later that day
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Cox was released on bail but 11 hours later he was shot and killed by another gang member meaning if he had actually
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confessed he just might have spared his own life even if it was spending that life in prison but while Cox may have
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kept it together in his interrogation and preserved his gangster image the same cannot be said for Cody foreign cam
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a gangster whose crime was littered with errors and stupidity from the very start
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after his phone was stolen at a convenience store Cody went on a Time radical Rampage around his area looking
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for any signs of the stolen device surveillance footage captured him walking past 15 year old DeSean Hills
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pulling a gun from his backpack and firing three shots at the boy killing him instantly Witnesses and surveillance
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footage helps police identify Cody almost immediately and he was quickly brought in for interrogation
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you know what I just do with the people yesterday these mothers was able to do this to them
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okay okay I'll take a look I'm saying look at how they do okay my mom's door open man well they didn't take your
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mom's door yeah we were there we were there like I said man I ain't about that okay
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oh gang bang I don't do you know I mean I ain't with the guns Cody here is referring to a search warrant that was
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used by police to gain access to his mother's house and collect evidence well his anger about this is likely from a
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place of Truth he's also using a as a way to try and argue his innocence this is also backed up by the fact that he
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immediately tells the cop that he has nothing to do with gang activity or guns but it won't take long for this facade
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to fall apart you were here because you're involved with this murder you've told people you've told people that's
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why you're here that's why you're not Minneapolis okay we have to we have talked to people
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all right that have put you there at the scene there's video of you at the scene
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the whole time the whole time okay we know why you're there you're not buying it I'm not here to lie
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to you though why would I lie to you you're on video okay people are talking to you
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you're talking to them okay you approach people and talk to them on the evening of the murder Cody had been
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walking around the area asking people if they saw the person that took his phone
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and aggressively confronting people that he suspected he was also clearly seen on
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surveillance footage at multiple stores and businesses in the Minneapolis area so any arguments he has here that he was
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elsewhere are completely invalid Cody all we're trying to do here's a thing to say something if I was sitting
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in your chair and I had dude I got Mercy dude hold on I got Mercy sit down look at this [ __ ] around
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it's crazy one thing hold on right now I was supposed to I was supposed to well here's what I'm gonna say just
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before we go okay what's that if I was sitting in your chair and I had two people ask me where I was on a
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specific date and they're saying that I I didn't murder she did with me just yesterday I'm not talking about dirty
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I'm saying if you ask me what I ate for dinner I might not remove also take a look at Cody's language and demeanor in
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general right from the start he's been defensive and attempting to combat every single thing the detectives have said to
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him instead of respectfully listening to their points and trying to give counters
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to the cop's evidence he either talks over them or just says I don't believe you and fails to give any evidence in
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his defense if Cody was innocent he'd likely be doing everything he can to stay on the cops good side and help them
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out by providing evidence that would acquit him and as it turns out he was about to start providing evidence
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evidence that would send him straight to jail oh you would have walleyes and you
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were by Wallies [Music] stole my phone all that stupid [ __ ] that don't mean trigger just because some
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people say that's what it is that's what it is [Music] when did you get jumped or when did you
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get your stuff robbed for you so somebody jumps you for your phone right did they get anything else from you
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like do you have money did you want ID man check it off in an outburst of more anger Cody has
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just put himself right next to the scene of the crime and given the officers a motive for the murder for the next four
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minutes Cody scrambled to get himself out of the hole he just dug himself into but it was already too late with the
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evidence they already had plus what essentially amounted to a full confession Cody was found guilty of
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murder and sentenced to 38 years behind bars