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[AUDIO LOGO] [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: In the early
hours of the morning, on a quiet suburban street--
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- Don't move. Don't move. NARRATOR: --a man is
ambushed in his driveway. - Don't move.
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Let me see your-- DREW TAYLOR: Do they know him? Where'd they come from? Did they follow him?
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[GUNSHOT] - Oh! KAREN OLIVER: We screamed. I grabbed my chest because
there were so many shots fired.
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[GUNFIRE] - Whoever is shooting
at Andre is trying to hit him. - What happened? Who did it?
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REPORTER: This video,
provided by a neighbor, shows a threatening man. He's seen walking past
a home, holding an ax.
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[INDISTINCT SHOUTING] [THEME MUSIC] [INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: After a busy
night, Dallas clubs and bars
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are closing-- [LINE RINGING] --when a call comes in to 911. DREW TAYLOR: A bartender
was driving home,
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and he saw someone
in the street, crawling. He just thought the person was
intoxicated or in some kind
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of other distress. [SIRENS BLARING] NARRATOR: First responders
head to the street
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in Old East Dallas. DREW TAYLOR: The police
arrived within minutes and realized that he
was in a very bad state.
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He had a gunshot
wound to his side. And he could speak but barely,
and was just asking for help.
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[SIREN BLARING] NARRATOR: Too weak
to give his name, the young man is
rushed to the hospital.
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- The police had no idea what
had happened because there were no shell casings in the area.
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All they had was blood. So they thought maybe his body
had just been dumped there.
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What's going through
the police officer's head is, where is the crime scene? How did he get here?
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What happened? [SOLEMN MUSIC] NARRATOR: Three hours after
the bleeding man was found,
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Regina Oliver is heading
to East Dallas with her son Andre's young daughter. REGINA OLIVER: I
had to get up early
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to deliver Andre's
golden child to him because I was
starting my new job. She was to be with
her dad all day.
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When I was leaving
the house, I kept calling. No response. And I'm calling and calling,
and I'm like, what is going on?
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I got to his house. The car was in the driveway. The passenger door was open. And I called, and I called.
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And all of a sudden, I
spotted Andre's phone sitting on the armrest. I saw the cheeseburger
was over in the car seat,
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and it was smashed. Some fries were on the floor. I said, there's something--
no, something ain't right,
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something ain't right. I'm a little freaked out. I'm a little scared. So I called 911.
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DREW TAYLOR: Regina
called the police. And the description that
she gave of a tattoo
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that he had triggered
one of the officers to recall that the person they
had found a couple of blocks
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away had that same tattoo. [SIRENS BLARING] NARRATOR: Dallas PD officers
head straight to Regina's son's
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home. REGINA OLIVER: The officer
kept questioning me. He said, what does
your son look like?
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I said, he has a short haircut,
a little blonde on the top. He said, he's about how tall?
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I said, he's 6' 5". He said, can you
identify your son? I said, of course. I had my phone.
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I said, this is
my son right here. I showed him pictures of him. NARRATOR: Police
are in no doubt.
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Regina's son is
the young man found gunned down in the street,
who sadly didn't make it.
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He died from his
injuries in the hospital. [GENTLE MUSIC] - I-- I lost it. I lost it.
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NARRATOR: He is not just
Regina's adored son. He is also the much-loved
local hero and NBA basketball
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superstar Andre Emmett. - Half my heart was taken,
my heart, my soul, my mind. It was-- it was a nightmare.
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NARRATOR: News of Andre's
death spreads quickly among friends and family. BRIAN EVANS: His mom calls
me, hysterical, you know.
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And her words, I'll
never forget them. She was like, "They
done killed my baby."
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It was devastating, man. Like, it was a surreal moment. KAREN OLIVER: I broke down.
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I just could not understand
why something this is tragic were to happen to someone
as sweet as Andre.
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I just could not fathom
us not having him around. It's just a day that
changed our lives forever.
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NARRATOR: Growing
up in a tough area, 37-year-old Andre
Emmett defied the odds
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to become a sporting hero. [CHEERING] PLAYER 1: Hey, hurry up, man.
PLAYER 2: Dre.
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PLAYER 1: Hey, hurry up, Dre! - It's your boy, A to the E. [BACKGROUND CHATTER] PLAYER 1: Chill out, man!
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- Got Dre, you dig? BRIAN EVANS: When
I first met Andre, we were actually eighth
graders at the time.
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We were actually playing
one-on-one basketball. And I got lucky. I won the first game.
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And after that, I can't tell
you the next time I beat him. So, you know, that's
how it started.
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KAREN OLIVER: Everybody
just recognized his talents at a very early age. And I knew then we
had a superstar.
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NARRATOR: Starting his
career in college basketball, Andre played for Texas
Tech's Red Raiders.
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REGINA OLIVER: He
always had a trick. He always had a slick move that
he thought he could, you know,
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capitalize on. [CHATTER] - I charged it to him
being a good dancer, because on basketball
courts, you got to be
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able to move a little bit. Literally, man, he would make
a move, and it looked good
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and scoring it easy. NARRATOR: Andre is still Texas
Tech's all-time leading scorer.
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- Good.
Let's change it. Ready?
Go. That's one. Practice.
You got it? My name is Charlie Miller.
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And I was a mentor,
coach, friend, brother. Watching him play live,
Andre was larger than life.
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He had a knack for scoring. NARRATOR: Drafted
to the NBA, Andre played for teams including
the New Jersey Nets and
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the Memphis Grizzlies. - Andre wanted
to make his mom proud. And that's exactly what he did.
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Every accomplishment, every
award, every trophy is-- went to his mom. [CHEERING]
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REGINA OLIVER: Andre
was a good person. He never tried to hurt anybody. [TENSE MUSIC]
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NARRATOR: As the police
examine the crime scene, they begin gathering evidence.
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- They believe that Andre
had been shot near his condo. Crime scene found a number
of shell casings, about five
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near his Range Rover,
and then some more were found down the sidewalk
near a blood trail
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that was leading
in the direction where he ultimately collapsed,
where the 911 caller found him.
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NARRATOR: Devastated
by their loss, Andre's family gather close to his apartment.
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KAREN OLIVER: When I got
there, I ran up to my sister, and I said, "I'm so sorry.
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I'm so sorry." And at that point,
I just remember being very, very angry. Very angry.
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And I started to ask questions. What happened? Who did it? - Why would you shoot
someone outside their house?
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What is this over? Is it over money? Is this just
a personal vendetta. Is this a robbery?
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Is it a deal gone bad? [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Officers
canvass the neighborhood.
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DREW TAYLOR: They're looking
for any kind of witnesses. They're looking for any
kind of surveillance
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that may assist in their
investigation of why this happened and what happened. One of the big breakthroughs
that the police had
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was Andre's own Ring
camera footage in front of where Andre was shot. Was Andre's killer
caught on camera?
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[SENTIMENTAL MUSIC] REGINA OLIVER: What I
have here is something I'll always cherish--
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Andre's personal phone. It has a lot of memories of
him, his children, and some fun
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videos of him and the kids. Andre is the father
of two beautiful girls. The last video in here is when
he took his babies to the park.
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They played in the water. [SPLASHING, LAUGHTER] This has to be the last memory
that they have with their dad
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because that was the last
time they saw him. They were having fun with Dada. He loved being a father.
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He did. And they loved their daddy. He was weak behind the girls,
very weak behind those girls.
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Yes, he was. [SOMBER MUSIC] NARRATOR: Raised by his
single mom Regina, Andre was born in Dallas
in August 1982.
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- Andre and my relationship
was tight. KAREN OLIVER: He loved his mom. They were very close.
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They talked every single day. REGINA OLIVER: Andre was-- he was an awesome kid. He was full of life.
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He was fun. Everybody loved Andre. He was not a fighter. Mm-mm, he was not like that.
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He was not like that. [TENSE MUSIC] - So a piece of information
that the family provide
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to the police is that
Andre always wore two necklaces and then
a custom Rolex that
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was valued at about $80,000. At the time Andre
was found, he did not have the watch or the necklaces
that the family
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said he always wore. The police suspected
that this was a robbery. NARRATOR: When police view
Andre's Ring doorbell footage,
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it appears to confirm
their theory. Andre had just arrived
home after being at a local nightclub.
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DREW TAYLOR: So finding this
footage showing the events that happened was devastating.
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But it also told the story
of the last moments of Andre's life. The surveillance video
captures Andre in his driveway,
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and he's sitting there. And we come to find
out that he's actually eating Whataburger.
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And you see one
of the suspects approach and then point a gun at him. - Don't move.
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Don't move. Don't move. DREW TAYLOR: Andre,
he's got his hands up. And now you see the second
individual come.
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And so Andre's gonna get out. At this point-- and I'll
pause it right here-- you can see it's
kind of blurry.
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And so you can't really
see the people's faces. And you see him taking
off his jewelry.
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And he gives it to him
right there and takes off. [GUNSHOT] - Oh! - And you hear
the first gunshot,
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and you see Andre
begin to run away. NARRATOR: A neighbor's
doorbell camera captures what happens next.
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[GUNFIRE] DREW TAYLOR: And so that
was very shocking. Then you see the two
suspects run away--
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[GUNSHOT] --and another gunshot. That many gunshots tells
me that whoever is shooting
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at Andre is trying to hit him. The footage is
great in the sense that you now have
an idea of what happened.
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But because you can't
see their faces, you don't know who did it. The fact that Andre gave up
his jewelry and the shooter
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still shot him
leads you to believe that maybe this was something
more, something more personal.
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NARRATOR: Police turn
to Andre's family for help. REGINA OLIVER: Nobody I
knew or ever thought of
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wanted to hurt Andre. BRIAN EVANS: I can't
think of anybody that would want to harm Andre.
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He was a great individual,
all smiles, always giving. - This is the nicest
kid in the world who
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would do anything for anyone. Didn't have any enemies. Gave back to the community.
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Was a good kid. [GENTLE MUSIC] KRISTA TORRALVA: Andre
was known in Dallas as a really
upstanding individual,
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a role model to the youth. He was a hometown hero. Andre's story is
definitely inspirational
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for kids in Dallas,
especially in the neighborhood of Oak Cliff. That area is
historically lower income
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and has higher than average
high school dropout rates. CHARLIE MILLER: Andre was
well-loved in the community
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because Andre was a hooper. Everyone in every
neighborhood loves hooper in the urban community.
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Andre would go
play in the parks, and that's what made
Andre relatable. He was a people's person.
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He just had a big smile. He'd light up the room. He had an aura about himself. You know, a lot of people
looked up to Andre.
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BRIAN EVANS: Dre was very
charismatic naturally. It wasn't something
that he put on.
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He had, you know,
an it factor about him that everybody knew about. REGINA OLIVER: The neighborhood
kids loved to see him.
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They thought he
was a big brother. They called him Big
Bro, you know, Big Dre. BRIAN EVANS: He's
a natural hero.
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When I say that, I
mean that he's always going to want to give back. He wants to do the right thing.
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And he's just a gentle
giant at heart, man. - Woo! [BACKGROUND CHATTER] [INTRIGUING MUSIC]
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NARRATOR: Despite the video
of Andre's murder, police still have no
leads on the shooter.
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So they continue canvassing
the neighborhood. DREW TAYLOR: They were able
to locate a witness that
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heard the gunshots, looked out
of a window of his apartment that was across
the street, and saw
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two men running
into a white Chrysler 300 and then driving off. NARRATOR: Security
footage with a timestamp
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matching the door cam
footage shows the white car. DREW TAYLOR: This video
you're about to see right
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now is from someone's
apartment complex. And it captures the white
Chrysler right here, arriving.
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The people in the Chrysler
300 parked minutes before Andre had arrived. It's almost as if they
were expecting him.
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And so they were only
there for a few minutes before the shots happened. And then they ran back into the
Chrysler, and then drove away.
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Then you see the car drive off. This video made it that much
easier to say, yes, this
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is, in fact,
our suspect vehicle. - Don't move. DREW TAYLOR: Those
two individuals were
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waiting for Andre to rob him. [GUNFIRE] No one was able to positively
identify the individuals.
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How did they know he
was going to be here? Why are they waiting? Where did they come from?
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Did they follow him? [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: As police check
local traffic cameras,
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hoping to follow
the Chrysler's movements, Andre's postmortem
report is released.
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DREW TAYLOR: That autopsy
told the investigators that Andre was killed
by a single gunshot
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wound that entered his
shoulder and went to his chest. KAREN OLIVER: One bullet.
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I kept saying, one bullet
to the back of the shoulder. I said, that one bullet
would not have killed him.
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He was in such great shape. [GUNSHOT] DREW TAYLOR: The kind
of bullet that hit him was an RIP bullet, a
Radically Invasive Projectile,
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that had eight prongs,
that once it hit his body and got inside,
those prongs spread.
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They went into his shoulder
bone, into his lungs. I believe it hit his heart. There is a world that someone
shot with a regular
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bullet survives. Someone who uses this
kind of ammunition does not have much
regard for human life.
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That's just a cold killer. NARRATOR: The search for the
white Chrysler draws a blank.
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Investigators are struggling
to find new leads. DREW TAYLOR: Despite
the police's best efforts,
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the search for Andre's
killers went cold. [SOMBER MUSIC] REGINA OLIVER:
September 30, 11:00 AM,
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the day of Andre's funeral. Crazy. BRIAN EVANS: The funeral,
man, it was really sad, man.
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His mom, his aunt, the babies,
they're not knowing what's really going on. REGINA OLIVER: I
told his girls,
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"Jesus needed a superstar." Andre had a beautiful service. And I'm glad I was able
to at least touch his hand
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and kiss him before I was
able to lay him to rest. KAREN OLIVER: He meant a lot
to the people here in Dallas.
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So we had to allow
the people who have supported him
throughout the years to pay their respects.
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REGINA OLIVER: It was police,
FBI all over the church. It was crazy, because the guy
was still out.
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[TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Andre's doorbell
footage is the best evidence investigators have.
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Forensic video
analyst Nick Barreiro is routinely called
to help solve difficult cases like this.
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NICK BARREIRO: Having
video footage for a police investigation, not
only can it corroborate
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what a witness may
have said on the scene, it might be the only witness. And so what I do is I
make that truth as clear
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as it possibly can be. We use a wide variety
of different pieces of software to authenticate, enhance,
analyze video footage.
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[GUNFIRE] When we watch
this footage back, we can see the suspect come
into frame behind the victim,
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chasing the victim
down the street here. But the suspect is almost
entirely in shadow.
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So what I've done
is I've adjusted the brightness and contrast,
just to see if we can
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get a slightly better view. So, unfortunately, the level
of detail in this video
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is not quite enough
to see their faces. But there's important
details that can be extracted
from this with just
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a little bit of enhancement. We can tell that
the suspect was using a handgun, likely
with an extended magazine.
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We can see that the suspect
was right-handed. We can see that
the suspect was wearing
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what appears to be
a light-colored, maybe a gray hooded sweatshirt,
whereas none of that
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was visible in the original
unenhanced footage. We get a pretty good view
of his stature, his body type,
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the way that he walks,
the that he runs. All of that can be
critical in positively
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identifying the suspect. The video footage is important
from the investigative side.
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If you don't have
a suspect, you know, all of these things
that we've learned about the suspect from
enhancing the video can help
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to narrow your suspect pool,
can help to eliminate suspects, and help to confirm a suspect.
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[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Police appeal
directly to the public. KRISTA TORRALVA: Dallas Police
released video surveillance
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footage showing
the crime, hoped that they would
get tips to find out who those two people were.
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KAREN OLIVER: We cut on the TV. We all sat in the living
room, and we watched the news.
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[GUNFIRE] We saw the footage. We screamed. I grabbed my chest because
there were so many shots fired.
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And again, I became
very, very angry. - Andre's murder
in the driveway of his own home
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was shocking. He complied with
these robbers and gave them what they wanted
and then tried to flee,
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and they shot him in the back. And I think that that was
especially really shocking
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for the community,
that he had given these robbers what they wanted,
and they still took his life.
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NARRATOR: It doesn't take
long for tips to come in. DREW TAYLOR: Releasing
this footage paid off
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so well because Andre was
very well-respected, but also because of the heinous
nature of the offense.
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The way in which
he was gunned down helped the public want
to help out the police
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in this kind of Investigation. NARRATOR: Two men are
mentioned by several callers,
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Michael Lucky
and Keith Johnson. DREW TAYLOR: Now that we had
names in this investigation
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and we have a white
Chrysler, what became of the paramount
importance was identifying and linking
somebody of these names
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to that white Chrysler. [TENSE MUSIC] The police were able to
identify that Keith Johnson had
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a girlfriend who had recently
purchased a Chrysler 300 from a used auto dealership.
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NARRATOR: It's
a significant break. She's brought
in for questioning. - What I'm going to talk
to you about is a murder, OK?
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- Murder? - It's a murder case, yeah. So this is the case
about the basketball player, Andre Emmett.
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They shot and killed
him after he gave them their stuff, right? And he took off running, OK?
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Now, I also released that
the car that they used was a white Chrysler 300, OK? And I've got the car on video
leaving the scene, OK?
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So I know you're
the owner of the car. - But that car had been stolen. I can't report no stolen car.
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I ain't even use my real
information to get the car. I can't report no car stolen.
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NARRATOR: Police know this
claim is false, as the car was sold with a GPS tracking unit.
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- Your car had
a tracker on it, OK? And that tracker shows
everywhere the car went, OK?
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DREW TAYLOR: So with
this GPS tracker, the GPS data showed that
that Chrysler 300 was
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around Club Theory,
the club that Andre had been at that night he was murdered. And it showed that that
Chrysler followed Andre
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from Club Theory
to the Whataburger, and then back to his home. As great of information
as this GPS tracking data was,
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it still didn't tell
us who killed Andre. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR:
But the Chrysler's tracker
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does reveal something else. DREW TAYLOR:
The police eventually discover through the tracking
of this Chrysler 300's
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movements that it was
taken to a salvage yard, or what's commonly
referred to as a chop shop,
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and that Keith Johnson
and Michael Lucky had driven that Chrysler 300 there
and asked that it be destroyed.
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NARRATOR: Using the tracker's
last known location leads police
to the man they believe
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helped dispose of the car. - Tell me what you
did with the car. - We just parted
the car out, sir.
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- So you parted the car out?
- Yes, sir. - OK. Where did you take the parts? - Like, I just sold them
in different places,
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different people. - Now, with regards
to the car, where's the body? Where's the body?
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- I sold it. - What junkyard do I need
to go to, to find the frame? - The-- I was at Sunshine.
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- Sunshine. NARRATOR: Police head straight
to the auto parts scrapyard, where they find the crushed
body of the Chrysler.
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DREW TAYLOR: So this
became a huge breakthrough because based on the fact that
people fitting the description
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of Keith Johnson
and Michael Lucky destroyed that
Chrysler 300, and the fact that there
were tips that they were
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the individuals
in the surveillance video, we now had evidence
linking them to the murder.
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NARRATOR: Police waste no time. 32-year-old Keith
Johnson and 29-year-old Michael Lucky are arrested
on suspicion of murder.
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- Keith Johnson
was already in jail on suspicion of prior crimes. Michael Lucky turned
himself in on a warrant.
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DREW TAYLOR: I think
for the police, this was a huge success. You started with a case that
had few leads, a little bit
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of camera footage. You get the public
involved, and now you have two
individuals arrested
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for Andre Emmett's murder. [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Then the case
takes a dramatic turn.
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Tips come in saying
a third person was involved
in Andre's killing. BRIAN EVANS: I did
some searching,
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and I came up with some
valuable information. I did go down to Dallas
Police with audio, video,
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where there's people
stating clearly from a certain part
of town saying, hey, this guy was
the one that did it.
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DREW TAYLOR: Tips were coming
in that Keith Johnson and Michael Lucky were in the car
and involved in the planned
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robbery, but that neither one
of them was the actual shooter. These tips were
coming from people
00:33:25
with extensive
criminal history. I believe the fact that
Andre was so well-respected,
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even known criminals are
trying to help the police out. NARRATOR: One name stands out--
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23-year-old Larry Jenkins. BRIAN EVANS: They had
been ringing that name for a while, Larry Jenkins.
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People had been saying
that he was the one. [GUNFIRE] DREW TAYLOR:
An individual stated
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that he had heard
whispers on the street that Larry was involved, and he
was the one that shot Andre.
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And so that person had met
up with Larry a few days later at a smoke shop. And he asked him, why did
you shoot that man if you
00:34:11
already had his valuables? And he said, he shouldn't have
run and that he'd do it again.
00:34:18
NARRATOR: Another
witness who knows Larry Jenkins comes forward. - I don't like people
who kill people.
00:34:26
I just don't like it,
and it bothers me. You know what I'm saying?
Especially this deal.
00:34:30
Let me show you this, OK? So you see-- - The other guy hit him
in the face with the gun.
00:34:36
- Yeah, he's already here. But let me just play it. - He just wasn't thinking
it was going to hit.
00:34:43
- Don't move. Don't move. Give me everything! I want everything! - Yep, that's
Larry right there.
00:34:49
"Give me everything."
That's Larry. Larry's gonna hit him
in the face with the gun.
00:34:54
- So you see he's
taking the necklace off. - Yeah. - He's handing it over.
Who's he handing it to?
00:34:59
[GUNSHOT]
Who? - Oh!
- Keith Johnson. Keith Johnson right there.
[GUNFIRE] - Where was Mike then?
- That's Larry.
00:35:06
Mike might have
been in the car. - He stayed in the car? - Yeah, that's
Larry right there.
00:35:13
DREW TAYLOR: He was able to
identify Larry Jenkins's voice as being the shooter.
00:35:17
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Jenkins is
brought in for questioning. DETECTIVE: So we
got a lot of people
00:35:25
that are calling in, saying,
man, that guy's voice, that's Larry Jenkins, OK? - Man, I was [MUTED].
00:35:33
But I ain't did nobody. I'm telling you the truth, sir. I heard about it. Everybody talking about it.
00:35:40
Everybody saying they
did some crazy [MUTED]. But it ain't got nothing
to do with me, sir.
00:35:45
I promise you it don't. - All right. So you don't have any
information on this case?
00:35:50
- No, sir. I don't know nothing
about what happened besides what the news said. - Like I said, I
just wanted to let
00:35:56
you know that you're a
potential suspect in this case, OK? [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Police believe Larry
Jenkins is their shooter.
00:36:10
But to build a case,
they need more. So they access his phone
to trace his movements
00:36:18
the night Andre was killed. NICK BARREIRO: CellHawk is
an amazing piece of software.
00:36:27
It allows investigators
to see suspect's movements in a way that
was never possible before.
00:36:36
Everybody that's walking
around with a cell phone in their pocket
is essentially walking
00:36:40
around with a tracking device. Every time your cell phone
interacts with a cell tower,
00:36:46
it's logging that location. And it can actually
animate this trail on a map so you can see, visually,
in real-time exactly
00:37:01
where this device was, creating
a timeline of everywhere that that cell phone has gone
and the time that it was there.
00:37:14
DREW TAYLOR: When they
placed the information in the CellHawk,
they were able to see
00:37:18
that Larry Jenkins's
phone number identically tracking Chrysler
300's GPS location
00:37:26
the night of the murder. - What are you doing, man?
- Don't move. I want everything!
00:37:31
DREW TAYLOR: Not only do
you have two witnesses who identified that Larry Jenkins
stated that he shot him,
00:37:37
but you now have
information that shows that Larry
Jenkins's phone is following that Chrysler 300.
00:37:46
This is why we now had enough
to charge Larry Jenkins with capital murder. [SOMBER MUSIC]
00:38:01
NARRATOR: The three suspects
are all charged with murder. Larry Jenkins is
the first to face trial.
00:38:10
He pleads not guilty. REGINA OLIVER: My thoughts
going into the trial, was, this has got
to be the end.
00:38:36
The jury has to see
what criminal act was committed toward
an innocent person who
00:38:44
did nothing. DREW TAYLOR: I could
not lose this case. It was important for me
to secure justice for Andre.
00:38:58
REGINA OLIVER: Seeing
the guy, I couldn't sit still. I was a nervous wreck. I couldn't take my eyes
off the back of his head.
00:39:17
DREW TAYLOR:
The first big piece of evidence that
we introduced was, of course,
the surveillance video.
00:39:23
- Don't move. Don't move. DREW TAYLOR: That
piece of evidence was super important
because it showed just
00:39:30
the brazenness of the robbery. [GUNSHOT] That was going to be powerful
for the jury to understand,
00:39:39
these people got
what they wanted. They robbed him. But they didn't
have to kill him.
00:39:44
[GUNFIRE] - It's heartbreaking,
the fact that he died behind some material. For me, it's heartbreaking.
00:39:54
Andre gave you the jewelry. To shoot him in the back
after you already have what
00:40:02
you came for. DREW TAYLOR: When we played
that piece of evidence of the surveillance
for the jury,
00:40:11
you could look over and see
they were mortified. BRIAN EVANS: It just puts
a stamp on why he should never
00:40:19
see the light of day again. DREW TAYLOR: When you
look at all the evidence, you basically get
a version of events
00:40:28
that Michael Lucky, Keith
Johnson, and Larry Jenkins followed Andre
to the club, knew
00:40:36
that he had expensive jewelry. They followed him
back to his home. They went up to rob him.
00:40:45
Andre gave them his
jewelry, then he ran. And that's when Larry opened
fire, shooting at him.
00:40:51
[GUNSHOT] And when you go through all the
motives, it's pure and simple-- just greed.
00:41:06
NARRATOR: The trial
lasts four days. The jury find Larry Jenkins
guilty of capital murder.
00:41:18
KRISTA TORRALVA: I looked
across the courtroom to Andre's mother, and she was
hunched forward, crying softly.
00:41:26
And I can't imagine
what that moment was like for her,
to secure a conviction but know that her son was
not going to be coming home.
00:41:36
- To me, looking at him,
knowing what he had did, [CLICKS TONGUE], he didn't
look remorseful, not at all.
00:41:47
He had no heart. He had no-- no soul. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] KRISTA TORRALVA:
The video footage
00:42:00
was a major role
in this case and the cornerstone of the
prosecution's case at trial.
00:42:09
NICK BARREIRO: The prevalence
of Ring doorbells, Arlo cameras, Nest cameras,
that footage has proved
00:42:17
pivotal in so many
criminal investigations that the world that we live in
now, I'm not going to say it's
00:42:25
impossible to commit
a crime and not be captured on video
somewhere, but it's practically impossible.
00:42:32
NARRATOR: Jenkins is
sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
00:42:39
BRIAN EVANS: I
think he got what he deserved-- life in prison. You have to be behind bars.
00:42:44
You can't see and be
out in the world. KAREN OLIVER: I'm
sure he's going to run into some Andre
Emmett fans in prison.
00:42:59
So he will be
constantly reminded of the horrible, horrific thing
that he did to our family.
00:43:12
DREW TAYLOR: This
event didn't just result in Andre Emmett's loss. A mother lost her son.
00:43:21
A community lost a local hero. But most importantly,
two little girls, they lost their dad.
00:43:28
That's the totality of what
happened when these individuals took Andre's life. [SOMBER MUSIC]
00:43:41
NARRATOR: Jenkins'
accomplice, Keith Johnson, takes a plea deal and is
convicted of aggravated robbery
00:43:47
and sentenced to 20 years. Murder charges against
Michael Lucky are dropped. - Andre, being a local hero,
a city legend of Dallas, Texas,
00:44:05
they took one of their own. BRIAN EVANS: Andre grew up
maybe a block or two away.
00:44:16
And we would come here in the
past and play pickup games, you know, just have fun in the
summertime and stuff like that.
00:44:25
NARRATOR: Today, this
basketball court in Oak Cliff, Dallas, pays tribute to Andre.
00:44:33
BRIAN EVANS: The city knew
that Andre played here a lot. It was named after
him, you know,
00:44:37
just in honor
of the person he was and the athlete that he was. The most important
memory on this court
00:44:46
specifically was the day that
they opened it as Dre's court. - 1, 2, 3. ALL: Long live Dre!
00:44:53
BRIAN EVANS: This
whole place was packed. The city stepped out
for Andre on that day.
00:44:58
[CHEERING] He'd be happy
to know that there's something with his name
on it in his community,
00:45:07
right by where he grew up at,
right near his high school, where kids can go
and enjoy themselves.
00:45:13
I've seen more kids trickle
in, playing full court. And so to see that
and to know when they say,
00:45:19
Where are y'all going to go
play basketball at today? they're going to say, we're
going to Andre Emmett's
00:45:24
court, right? That's the part that,
like, makes my heart smile. That's the part where I'm like,
good job, well done, Andre.
00:45:32
There we go. REGINA OLIVER: I'm so grateful
to have had him 37 years. He was a big part of me.
00:45:53
He'll be forever
remembered, forever loved. I just miss him so much. My angel. He is my angel.
00:46:09
He is. [THEME MUSIC] [AUDIO LOGO] [AUDIO LOGO]