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to examine today I know in all of these true crime stories there are always questions left
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unanswered Parts where we are often left to examine some information and draw our
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own conclusions but this case may have more of those types of moments than other cases
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but more than that in this case when you look at some of the information instead you find yourself asking time
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and time again why certain questions were not asked by others previously questions that should have been asked
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and alarms that should have been raised by those in power people with authority at the local level
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people that were elected appointed and paid handsome salaries and given local community privileges
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[Music] these are people who were elected and appointed to be true leaders in their
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communities persons with the power to lead by example persons handed the responsibility and
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power to protect fellow members of their community most importantly the power and the responsibility to
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protect the Youth of their Community the children our children officials with the ability to make a
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change and make a difference in their community and if you are one of those officials
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who have been granted power privilege and responsibility I we and so many others are asking you to make a change
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and to make a difference in this very difficult and tragic situation who will be the one to lead by example
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so where we are often looking for answers in these real life and very true crime stories
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this week we're also looking for questions we are looking for those who are decent
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enough to ask those questions we are looking for someone brave enough stand up and say this is not right
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we are looking for a champion this is true crime garage and this is the suspicious death investigation of
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18 year old Grant Solomon [Music] thank you [Music] celebrating an 18th birthday is
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universally regarded as one of life's major milestones with good reason it is the age at which a person is first
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considered to have formally attained adulthood now one can finally legally vote marry and serve in the military so
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there is a lot of reasons to look forward to turning 18 to finally becoming an adult but one of those
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reasons should not be to now have the ability to finally have the ability to petition the
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courts for custody of your little sister and unfortunately captain that is what we have here this was the case for a
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young Grant Solomon who turned 18 years old on June 13 2020 Grant Solomon legally
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became an adult and Grant was hoping to convince the courts that he should have custody of his 14 year old sister Gracie
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and why should this be Grant and Gracie had been in the custody of their father Aaron Solomon for the past few years now
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it is alleged that Gracie again only 14 was being abused and had been being abused by her father for some time now
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Grant feeling like he was his sister's last line of defense was eager to man up literally now that he had legally become
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an adult he was hoping to testify in court as an adult against his father and more
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importantly get custody of his little sister granted to either his mother Angie or to himself definitely there has
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to be a lot going wrong if a 18 year old wants to take responsibility for their younger sister the situation seems to be
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this captain that the kids Grant his younger sister wanted to go live with their mother their father was preventing
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that from happening the courts were giving custody of the children to Aaron Solomon and because the courts would not
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Grant custody to Angie Solomon his ex-wife it is stated and reported that it was
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Grant's goal to now that he's finally an adult potentially take over the custody
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rights of his sister and in fact more importantly testify in court that his father was abusing his little sister
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well not just physically abusing her but sexually abusing her as well it's according to to the reports out there
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this is alleged abuse on all fronts and it goes without saying but this is an incredibly serious situation one that
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should not be the concern of a young man one who should be focused on his new adult life school college and things of
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that nature so 18th birthday cause for celebration in this case yes and no but that is not the only alleged crime
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in this week's story no because many have stated and very publicly at that what the captain's talking about that at
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the center of this week's case at the center of this entire story is years of alleged abuse and all forms
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verbal mental emotional physical and sexual all leading to Grant's death that some are saying was a murder and many
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many saying that at least this should be investigated in a thorough proper investigation Grant died in a suspicious
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and unlikely event that was termed an accident an accident that may have only been witnessed by one person
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Grant's father Aaron Solomon and air quotes accident of which the details of that supposed accident are provided to
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the World by the only eyewitness present the allegedly abusive father will get into the details of that day in question
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after we set this up a little bit more for you right because many people are saying that these details of this
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situation do not match the photographic evidence available details that are again suspicious and unlikely
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so this is the story a tragic story of the 2020 suspicious death of a young man 18 year old Grant Solomon who lived
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in Franklin Tennessee but the incident will take place in Gallatin Tennessee this is the kind of case captain that I
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call a fence Builder case this incident and situation has built many fences over
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the last three years on one side of the fence you have those that say this is simply a very sad and very unfortunate
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accident and then you have those on the other side of that fence and say not so fast
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this is an intentional homicide we're going to start off just two guys in a garage walking a tightrope the tightrope
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is that fence built by this incident and separating a community 18 year old Grant
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Solomon was a popular and accomplished student athlete known for his intelligence athletic prowess and
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kind-hearted nature Grant was a gifted dual athlete he excelled especially in baseball and on
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the basketball court as well in fact he was garnering attention from division one teams as a pitcher
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despite allegedly enduring years of abuse from his father Grant remained an optimistic person and he was very
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protective he was very protective as a son and as a sibling he had plans to testify against his
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father once he reached adulthood and hoped to gain custody of his little sister Gracie whom he also believed was
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suffering abuse by his father unfortunately shortly after turning 18 years old Grant met a tragic fate in
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what was officially ruled an accident a vehicle accident this is when his 2015 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck rolled
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backwards into a ditch dragging him underneath the vehicle to which Grant suffers a terrible injury
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leading to his death as said the sole witness to this incident was his father Aaron Solomon
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but it's more complicated than just that of course Aaron says there were three other guys
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there at the scene trying to help him and his son but this is after Grant and the truck are already in the ditch and
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the truck is on top of Grant as we keep pointing out this story is quite complicated but I think we should start
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with the morning in question and then just take it from there right so we are going to go back
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just three years ago to what looks to be a very nice place to live work and raise
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a family this is Gallatin Tennessee Gallatin is a city located in Sumner County Tennessee with a population of a
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little more than 44 000 people this according to the 2020 census the city was established on the
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Cumberland River and is the county seat of Sumner County Gallatin is northeast of one of our favorite cities Nashville
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Tennessee this is a safe City a low crime area with crime rates well below the U.S
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national average the morning in question is July 20th 2020. this is a Monday the location of the incident is the ward
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performance Institute at 1357 South Water Avenue in Gallatin this is a baseball training facility where Grant
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Solomon was attending this event that that's labeled as an evaluation of his skills in a practice
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session now on this morning accompanying him would be his father we do need to point out
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that it's well reported that this is going to be the first time in two years that the two would be alone together
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somewhere going together just the two of them without sister Gracie or anybody else present
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there are plenty of people that are saying Grant was not looking forward to this event some have said it's because
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his father would be there some have said it's because his father insisted that he
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go to this event these type of events though are important to go to if you are hoping to
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get into a division one school or play sports at the next level we should also point out though here and
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remind everybody if you've forgotten shame on you but this is covid this is the height of covet as well and
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so if there was going to be a situation where Grant was hoping to testify against his father in court I don't
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think that this was going to come anytime soon as the court systems in many areas had shut down right
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and I'm actually a little surprised that this event was going on in July but you
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know every area handled this pandemic differently we don't know the exact situation this
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could be it could be a very one-on-one type of situation what we do know though is that Grant himself did get kovid and
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was recovering he's he's over it by this point but he's recovering and some say that he
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was not looking forward to going to this event less because of his father and more
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because he wasn't 100 percent yet and ready to perform at what needs to be a high level especially if he's being
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evaluated by other people yeah it makes me wonder why his father had to be there
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or if he even had to be there I'm wondering if this type of event if it was through the NCAA do they do they
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make you have a a a guardian with you yes that's a good question if you have to have a parent with you the other
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thing too is he's 18 so I don't know if that plays a major role but it looks to me okay let's take the alleged abuse
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aside right and we we have to we have to be fair going into this and maintain that it is alleged abuse
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for now we can examine this but with my own eyes I've not witnessed any of this or any portions of this True Crime Story
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so it's alleged abuse but the other reports is that of course Aaron Solomon a very controlling
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father very controlling parent especially when it came to Grant and his Athletics and his schooling and
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therefore it may be a situation Captain where parent is not required but Aaron insists on being there or
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Aaron paid for this evaluation practice session right because these things are typically not
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cheap you'd think that his father would want some separation from his son that is
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making allegations against him many of his friends and family this is Grant's family and friends
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believe that Grant was murdered on this morning and that his suspicious death is as some
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believe an attempt by that father to silence Grant's allegations of Aaron's sexual abuse against Grant's
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sister Gracie in an upcoming Court proceedings what I don't have a great understanding of Captain everybody keeps
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mentioning this grant is going to testify against his father or Grant was hoping to go to the courts and get
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custody of his sister or that maybe after he testifies against his father custody would finally be
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granted to his mother Angie what I couldn't sort out was if that court date was actually scheduled right because we
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already pointed out that it was covid a lot of the courts had shut down or some of them were starting to open back up
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and do Zoom proceedings we can have the reports that he was going to testify against his father we
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can have the reports that he was going to seek custody of his little sister what I don't have reports of is that an
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actual court date was set for those proceedings now this is a catastrophic incident
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as said it takes place at the ward performance Institute at 1357 South Water Avenue in Gallatin
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this is a baseball training facility where Grant was attending as an evaluation of his skills and it's a
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it's also a practice session and he seems to be playing at a higher level so if there were other
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young athletes there I'm guessing that they are on his level more so on his level that this might not be something
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that just anybody can walk into as said accompanying him was his father and this would be the first time that
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the two would be together or alone at any time it's reported that that it's two years
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by this time and that that seems crazy to me but that's the report okay so this to be clear
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Grant is going to this training facility to get evaluated to possibly play baseball on the next level his father is
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going to attend this event with him and do we know if they rode together or if they drove separately what's great about
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this case is that a lot of the information that is out there it's it's well documented and it's well presented
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to the public and so we have some very official reports to reference in this case which we don't get that in
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some of the cases but this case because it's so recent again just three years ago let's start
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by going through those official reports so the first one that we're going to review Captain is a written statement by
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the father Aaron Solomon after the air quotes accident this is the written statement that he provides to the police
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officer on the scene that day and it gives all of your pertinent information that you would expect about
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the person giving the statement we don't need to go through that but his statement handwritten says my son Grant
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and I pulled into WPI separately parked side by side I was still in my car but noticed my son
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got out to get his baseball gear out of the back of his truck remember Grant is driving a
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pickup truck goes on to say I look down to check a work email and the next thing
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I know I hear and see the truck rolling backwards into the ditch I get out of my
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car to try to find my son and I saw that he was trapped underneath the truck and
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immediately called 9-1-1 so this is where it makes it a little tricky because it's like well did his father
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have to attend or is his father disattending and saying hey I'm gonna I'm your father I'm going to attend this
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event no matter if you want me to or not but they're at this event they're in the
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parking lot I'm guessing there's other individuals parked in this lot according to the statement according to what the
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next statement that we will get to the unfortunate part of this captain of course is the the horrible accident or
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the whole the whole situation in general but the added factor is that according to these reports
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and according to people that are trying to put together some form of Investigation on this incident
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there's not anybody else that seems to have 100 witness the situation themselves other than Grant's father
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Aaron and by his own statement it seems like he's missing part of the story too he looks down to check an email on his
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phone and then next thing he knows he he realizes the truck is moving backwards they're parked on an incline and we'll
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get to accident scene photos and evaluation and examine those here in a minute but they're parked on an incline
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right up against the facility right next to the building itself side by side and
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according to his statement he looks down to check his email he knows his son's already out of his truck
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goes to the rear of the truck to retrieve his baseball bag and other equipment from the back of the truck
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from the bed of the truck and then realizes oh snap the truck is moving backwards he
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gets out and does not see his son and then realizing truck in the ditch my kid is underneath the truck
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so we have we have a typed statement from the responding officer and from my understanding Captain once
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Aaron calls 9-1-1 Aaron Aaron is the first and only person to call 9-1-1 in this situation
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and police are on the scene relatively quickly but keep in mind it it's a Monday morning it's busy rush hour
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traffic people driving off to work and that's where the lack of eyewitnesses even after
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the truck is in the ditch are few and far between it's pretty slim here but we do have these air quotes
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official reports so this report from the officer says on July 20th 2020 at 8 43 a.m I was dispatched to the the location
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that we've been discussing discussing for an injury crash I arrived on scene and found a male subject that was
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trapped under his vehicle in a rocky ditch area Sumner County EMS and Gallatin fire department were already on
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scene attempting to get the mail subject out I spoke with the father of the male
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subject and he was identified as Mr Aaron Solomon Mr Solomon stated that he was meeting his son Grant at the
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facility and that he had arrived there first Mr Solomon stated that he was sitting in his vehicle when Grant pulled
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in next to him in his white pickup truck Mr Solomon stated that he observed Grant
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out of the truck and walked towards the back door area Mr Solomon stated that he
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then noticed that the truck was no longer parked beside him and he started to get out and look and heard
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a loud crash an observed Grant's truck had rolled down the hill and into the ditch Mr Solomon stated that he went
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over to the area of the truck and observed Grant under the vehicle Mr Solomon stated that he called 9-1-1 at
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that time and attempted to help his son Mr Solomon was able to get me information on his son and he contacted
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Grant's mother and notified her of the situation I gathered a written statement from Mr Solomon and he was released from
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the scene to go to Sumner Regional that's the hospital where Grant was transferred to
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I was not able to locate any other witnesses to the crash I spoke with the gym employees and asked about camera
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footage and they stated that they did not have any cameras on the outside of the building that would have gotten
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video of the incident I turned the written statement and all other information over to
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mpo Wilson well there's a lot to unpack there and let's unpack that after a quick beer break
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captain now I'm going to just play devil's advocate here for a second as we go through this
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if you're going to attack your son to shut him up about these allegations of abuse towards him and his sister sexual
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and physical and other types of abuse you probably won't do that in a public location
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also a location that you don't know if they have security footage and also probably in a
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location a public location that you don't know if they have security footage or not
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and you're not in the vehicle with your son going to the facility so you don't have
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any control on where he Parks his vehicle I agree with every one of those statements
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the takeaway though would be that one this may have been something that Aaron is considering in silencing his
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son but it also it also could be something that was rather impromptu it wasn't planned
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or wasn't planned for this day at this moment they haven't seen each other in two
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years or or I shouldn't say that they've seen each other in the past two years they've not been alone right in the past
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two years and if Grant is a threat to his father by all these reports it sounds like he's
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not legally a threat to his father until he turned 18. which is like a month and
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seven days before this incident so where I'm where I'm going with this Captain is that this could be something
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that just they arrive they see each other they're in the parking lot having a conversation that starts to get nasty
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at some point and maybe one person did something that wasn't planned maybe wasn't even something that they
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would do had they been able to keep their cool but somebody did something and then had
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to find a way to cover it up right so I I agree with everything that you're saying this is not like this is not the
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ideal place to Ambush somebody yeah and we're going to get into some medical reports as well right yes we
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have again we have very official reports here some of the amen the medical stuff
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the the report from the police officer that we just went through but more importantly we have the accident scene
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photographs before we get to that though let's play that 9-1-1 call I'm trying 1357 South Water Street it's off 109
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please hurry he said 57 please hurry okay 57. uh my my son's truck backed over him and
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he's it's rolled over him and dragged him into the ditch and it's on top of it he's trapped under the truck and I
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somehow it drug him underneath it yes my son is under it I'm trying to No I'm trying to call 9-1-1
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okay what's your name oh my God my name is Aaron Solomon and you said oh my gosh
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1357 South Water Avenue right yes how old is the mail if he's 18 he just turned 18 a couple
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weeks about a month ago it's my son oh my God oh my God this is not good is he awake
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oh please hurry I don't know I don't think so he's not oh he's not alert right no he's out
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and he's trapped I got three guys here and he's trapped under the truck okay oh my God I understand sir stay on
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the phone with me while we get somebody out there what's your name Aaron Solomon
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all right Aaron huh what kind of vehicle is it it's a Toyota Tacoma Tacoma and it's the
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vehicle has to he's underneath the vehicle okay and it's okay I've got that what color is it
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it's a white truck that's my son he's it's somehow it backed up yeah yeah I'm on one I'm on with 9-1-1 right
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now oh my God oh my God oh my God was your son working on it no no he was just getting out of it it's
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the hill it's we're on an incline and I guess he didn't have it in park or something or
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it wasn't engaged or oh my God oh my God stop responding okay can you checking huh
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somebody's telling me that he's coming too okay maybe he is waking up kind of keeping still
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so he is yeah he can't move I don't think he can move I I don't know okay no he can't move his traps okay we got
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somebody in round now what are you waiting I'm telling him somebody I'm telling them talk to him
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yeah somebody talked to him [ __ ] gee there's blood is he facing up or down he's facing up they said he may ask
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for it we need to hurry oh my God so does he have blood coming out of his mouth yeah yeah there's blood coming out
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yeah somehow it drug him down I think I don't know whether it wasn't in his heart or what or if it didn't Engage The
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break or it drug in underneath somehow they said he's facing up but he's bleeding from his mouth so
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Grant turn your face to the side if you can barely but be careful don't move him okay
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we can't move him we can't we can't move him thank God all right he's in there there I'm Gonna
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Let You Go okay yeah okay all right bye-bye I always find the 911 cause to be very
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fascinating yes I do as well Captain I think that they're they're often fascinating and
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but I'm always like pulled to one side of the conversation where I'm like I get there asking a
00:37:49
whole lot of questions just hurry up and get here you know I know in some areas they have the ability to Once emergency
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personnel has been dispatched to then continue on with the call and then play the call over the radio for the persons
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responding to the scene which is always very interesting and very cool because then you know that they're they should
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be getting first-hand knowledge of what the scene is what it looks like prior to
00:38:16
arriving and so you're able to jump out of your your fire truck or your ambulance and and get right into action
00:38:25
and get right to the scene you know it seems like such a silly question to say well what color is the truck well you
00:38:31
sit there if if you're an emergency and if that's your son you're you're sitting
00:38:35
there thinking who cares lady like it could be purple for all for all I care but but no it's you know as you pointed
00:38:45
out earlier Captain this is not a busy parking lot and we only know that based off of the the officer's statement and
00:38:53
Aaron's statement as well but had it been a busy parking lot just something as simple as knowing the color of the
00:38:59
truck May save the responders 20 seconds 30 seconds these could be life-saving seconds yeah and I I just want to set up
00:39:11
this scenario clear for The Listener we have a son that is going to uh Athletic Facility for some a training session
00:39:23
where he's going to be evaluated he he pulls up into that parking lot his father pulls up beside him
00:39:30
he gets out to get his equipment somehow this truck backs up over him he is now in the ditch this is what what
00:39:43
his father is saying he's now in the ditch with the truck on top of him now the father is saying that
00:39:50
there's three other men at the scene trying to help he's calling 9-1-1 it seems as if the father is talking to
00:40:02
somebody and I can't make out what they're saying but to me it sounds like whoever he's
00:40:11
talking to not the dispatcher but whoever's there with him at the scene that you can actually hear
00:40:20
them responding does that make any sense well this to me this is one of the most difficult parts
00:40:27
of this case to examine because there are a lot of people out there that say this is all a farce that that
00:40:35
these people they weren't really there uh the Aaron made them up he's acting there are other people too that are
00:40:43
saying you know clearly he's making no sense on purpose on the 9-1-1 call I think those people need to take another
00:40:50
listen to the call because he's either actually talking to other people that are there it's not that he's not making
00:40:56
sense he's talking to More Than Just Right the 9-1-1 or emergency Personnel that answered the phone
00:41:03
and that's clear he's having multiple conversations just the only other conversation that's being recorded is
00:41:09
that with the emergency Personnel right but I'm just saying my ears I'm I'm asking you a question my ears
00:41:17
when he's talking to somebody quote unquote in real life that I'm hearing some kind of response
00:41:24
from them like I hear somebody there's there there's other voices on this phone call
00:41:32
I'm glad to sit here and listen to it with you because you you play the engineer role on the show why because of
00:41:41
many reasons but one of those reasons is you have a much better ear for this sort
00:41:45
of thing than than I do in fact you have much better ear than 98 of the the world's population yeah that's been
00:41:52
tested it's we've that's been proven uh one time I drove with my father those are facility those are facts yes and we
00:41:59
tested now the thing here is I don't know if I had to lean one way or the other I'm with you that I believe that I hear
00:42:10
some kind of response or there's something in the background when he's talking clearly talking to somebody that's not
00:42:17
being recorded okay but if I had to lean one way that's the way I go but I don't
00:42:21
feel so strong or confident about that statement okay but what we do here on the 911 cause we hear
00:42:29
the ambulance come yes yes or or some people would call it ambulance ambulance or the fire truck we know that the
00:42:37
according to the officer statement the EMS and Fire Department Personnel were already on the scene when the police
00:42:44
arrived right so they would be able to tell us if there was other individuals at the
00:42:52
scene here's the problem all right so here's the problems well there's going to be there
00:43:01
there's a lot of problems when trying to investigate this case because we have one side telling us this
00:43:08
is what happened it's a cover-up it's it's a stage scene this is a murder we have the other side
00:43:16
saying this is an accident and these other people are these allegations are are crazy
00:43:24
the situation as I understand it Captain is this according to the officer what he said I
00:43:31
could find no other eyewitnesses the officer per his statement couldn't find the three people that were there
00:43:39
when he arrives on the scene now anybody that's been trying to assist in an accident or witnessed an accident uh
00:43:49
or or even a crime we all know that typically what happens is people rush to try to help and then
00:43:58
once the the appropriate people are there the people that are that know what they're doing the First Responders right
00:44:04
the experts once they're there the people that showed up to help they kind of leave at that time or but also or the
00:44:11
officer or EMT or somebody will say you know we need you to kind of clear out of
00:44:15
this area we you know let us do our thing yeah and we also know that there are people there
00:44:22
there's probably a time frame that you have to be there at this Athletic Facility
00:44:28
to perform and to be evaluated so these people that minus stop to help they might have an
00:44:36
appointment to go inside so when they go hey the the ambulance came and the firefighters are here and
00:44:43
they got this under control we're going inside yeah the the other thing too to keep in
00:44:48
mind though with it being the the covid year they may be doing these evaluations and
00:44:53
the practices more one-on-one oh that's right yeah and so that's what I'm saying but everybody would have like
00:44:59
an appointment time and staggering these throughout the day and we do have the officer statement that he receives the
00:45:05
call at 8 37 a.m so there's a chance that that um Grant's appointment would have been
00:45:12
the first of the day which would make sense when you see the the accident scene photos where there just appears to
00:45:21
be no other vehicles in the parking lot other than emergency personnel and the thing here is too like
00:45:30
so this this is why I'm I'm trying I have to stay water in this situation this is a very fluid situation stay
00:45:37
water examine each situation as we go through it the evidence as we go through it and not to lean one side or the other
00:45:47
prior to to looking at any of this information that we have to review so the thing is
00:45:54
yes I'm with you if I had to pick a side I believe that he is talking to somebody
00:45:59
so that would imply yes there were these three other people or two other people he references three in the 9-1-1 call he
00:46:05
being Aaron the father right we at least know that there's look I I can lean towards the idea there as at least one
00:46:13
other individual there the problem then becomes this those persons just because they're there
00:46:22
during the 9-1-1 call does not mean that they witnessed any portion of this accident right it only means that they
00:46:29
stopped to help after they see a big white truck in a ditch right next to a busy road
00:46:37
we don't per the officer statement have any other eyewitnesses well the other problem too with without having these
00:46:44
eyewitness statements we don't know if the father tried to flag down individuals to get help right and here
00:46:52
becomes the problem later when the people were saying the side that says this is intentional
00:47:00
homicide when they are asking for these three people to come forward that were there
00:47:06
that we say that we believe we can hear them responding to Aaron Solomon it's my understanding Captain those
00:47:14
people have never come forward they got they have no dog in the fight why wouldn't they come forward and say
00:47:21
this is what I witnessed this was my experience while I was there I saw a father that was panicking and wanting to
00:47:27
try to get his son to safety or or the reverse I saw a guy that didn't seem to care
00:47:33
about what was going on and nobody you know other other than me and these other two guys that were trying to help this
00:47:40
guy was kind of just hanging out the the thing that I want to sort out here is why is what is clear that I can
00:47:50
tell from him talking to the emergency Personnel the father yeah and to the supposed three guys that are there
00:48:01
he's not down in the ditch if those other three guys are there he's not down in the ditch you can what again the re
00:48:08
the interaction between the father and the three guys that are there to help it seems to be that they are relaying
00:48:14
information to him that he is then in turn telling to Emergency Services and I want to know why is he not down in
00:48:25
that ditch is is it as simple as he couldn't get a signal down there or maybe his phone was in his vehicle so
00:48:32
when they said hey call 9-1-1 he had to get out of the ditch go back up to his vehicle and maybe he's not thinking
00:48:38
clearly because this is a panic situation yeah but we all know the Simplicity of it is if you can be
00:48:50
there with the person that needs help that is the quickest way to get information to the people that can offer
00:48:56
help to be right next to that person and unless you cannot communicate with emergency personnel
00:49:05
and be next to the person that that's the only explanation of why this man wouldn't be down in the ditch with the
00:49:11
truck and with his son well I also think these quote unquote eyewitnesses that have never come forward one maybe it's
00:49:19
because they're coming from a far away land to go to these uh this tryout this evaluation it could be a
00:49:29
regional tryout these guys could be from you know a couple hours away right and it's difficult to say who these people
00:49:36
are without them coming forward but I want to make something clear before we go too far down this road
00:49:42
if these people do exist it's my understanding that they are they are passer buyers that stopped because
00:49:50
they right they saw yeah these are people that should have been just driving to and from work it's 8 30 in
00:49:55
the morning right these weren't individuals no because they would have stuck around in the police officer who
00:50:01
was there within minutes would have interviewed them uh yeah because they could have went into the facility and
00:50:06
said hey right the only person that the officer says he was able to speak with are two guys that were working in the
00:50:12
gym they're working in the the facility that that Grant was supposed to go to to
00:50:18
attend this this session now I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the other side like I said I was playing Devil's Advocate and
00:50:24
I gotta come back to this other side a big uh question for me is I'm the father I pull into a parking spot I check my
00:50:35
phone I look up my son's car has now backed up I get out of my vehicle I see that the vehicle
00:50:46
has somehow dragged and trapped my son under the under the car right then I'm making the phone call
00:50:58
if I make it a 911 call right away right when there is an emergency there is nobody at the scene at that
00:51:06
time there's no eyewitnesses because they wouldn't have had time to get there and to be in that ditch
00:51:13
helping my son when I made that call does that make sense no what I'm saying is if if the way he's
00:51:26
telling this story if it happened the way he told the story that instantly when he looked back once
00:51:34
he gets out of that vehicle and he sees his son underneath that car that's the moment you're calling 9-1-1
00:51:41
correct and all I'm saying is I don't think that would have gave enough time for on like a passerby
00:51:50
a passer buyer to see that there was an emergency and to drive their vehicle around get out of their vehicle and get
00:51:58
into a ditch by the time I made that call exactly and that's why I asked the question earlier of I want to know why
00:52:07
he's not down in the ditch with his son because if if he goes down there as he says in his statement I got out of my
00:52:15
vehicle only to go and find the the truck in the ditch in my son underneath is he trying to call 9-1-1 and he can't
00:52:24
he can't get a signal for whatever reason and so he runs back if anybody bothers to so if you go to freedom for
00:52:33
gracie.com you can see the accident photos that were taken that day there on this website
00:52:42
and you will see very clearly why it makes sense that the truck would go and roll down the hill I when I first
00:52:52
started looking at this case I had made the assumption that we were probably talking about a five-speed manual
00:52:58
transmission and that maybe he just didn't put it in the park now it I later learned that this was an automatic
00:53:05
transmission but that still could be the case according to several people and unfortunately Grant is not here for
00:53:12
us to ask him but according to several people Grant was nervous about going to Gallatin that day possibly nervous about
00:53:19
being alone with his father even if it's just for minutes and maybe in his nervousness he failed
00:53:27
to put the vehicle into park and left it in neutral does not set the parking brake he's
00:53:33
parked on an incline goes around to the back of the truck the truck starts to move backwards topples over top of him
00:53:40
dragging him down into the ditch that is not an improbable situation that is not a highly unlikely situation
00:53:49
but what people will point out is some of the other evidence when you get into the details does not line up with him
00:53:56
with with the truck causing his death yeah so sticking with the 9-1-1 call I don't know if I hear
00:54:05
much acting I mean there's a couple times where he's going you know you know please hurry or
00:54:12
like oh my God or so so maybe there's a little bit of that going on but uh for the most part it's like I
00:54:22
don't I don't know if this his I don't know if his response to the dispatcher leans one way or the other uh a
00:54:29
situation where he's trying to cover up a situation where the father is trying to cover it up or is it just a situation
00:54:36
that it was a horrible accident yeah it's often I find it rather difficult and I know that a lot of
00:54:43
people think oh man you can hear it in that person's voice I I don't want to sit here and pretend
00:54:49
that for for one second we listen to a lot of these 911 calls we play a lot of the 911 calls when we examine these
00:54:56
cases and look the majority of the time I can't from the sound from the tone to the
00:55:05
words that the caller is saying determine if a person is guilty or innocent there are those rare occasions
00:55:12
that it's it's quite obvious right which way to lean but not knowing Aaron Solomon
00:55:19
not not having had conversations with him not not knowing his life experiences it's very difficult to say is this man
00:55:27
acting or is this just a guy who this is how he responds or this is he's in panic
00:55:35
mode and he's not he's not his normal self one thing we should point out though the to people that are not
00:55:41
familiar with this case is Aaron Solomon is he worked professionally at a rather
00:55:48
high level as a news anchor for at least 15 years and so where some people may not have
00:55:57
taking drama classes or public speaking courses or any of those things I would assume
00:56:05
he's educated in that Realm and so if somebody would have the ability to put on a front
00:56:14
to play a part he might possess that that ability to do so well and let me just point this out
00:56:22
though too because like I said I hear somebody in the background I'm going to assume that there's those
00:56:31
are some eyewitnesses or people that are trying to help so with a lot of these other 9-1-1 calls
00:56:39
when you look at you know the um when you look at like the Scott Pearson 9-1-1 call or you you look at some of
00:56:46
these other 9-1-1 calls they're calling 9-1-1 and they are by themselves so it to me it'd be a little bit easier
00:56:56
to go okay I need to call 9-1-1 and I need to put on this show that I'm freaked out right
00:57:03
a little bit harder to do if you have other people had that scene the thing here for me with in regard to
00:57:11
the 9-1-1 call and to forming a strong opinion about that 9-1-1 call two things two bits of information that are missing
00:57:20
that I think are key players in this situation one why is he not in the ditch with the
00:57:28
sun and he's he's up in the the parking lot and we know this based off of of several
00:57:35
statements that are given but also the his interaction with those people the three guys that are here helping me and
00:57:43
his his conversation with emergency Personnel he's not in the ditch with his son I need to know the answer to that
00:57:49
question is it because he could not get a signal is it because he was just panicking did not know what to do
00:57:55
the other bit of information that is missing here too is what time was Grant's appointment right because we
00:58:02
know that the officer saying I got a call an emergency Call at 8 37. well if Grant's appointment was 8 30
00:58:13
it seems like there might have been enough time for something to happen to something to
00:58:20
go down in that parking lot or or near that facility an argument to take place between Father and Son
00:58:29
an argument that leads to violence between Father and Son there would be there seems like there
00:58:36
would be time for that if the appointment's at nine they're arriving early to me that changes
00:58:42
the totality of the evidence those I think are are bits of information that are lacking here that
00:58:50
that should be included in this story again my humble garage opinion like you like to say
00:58:59
is I I think there's there's some kind of evidence that shows that this 9-1-1 call wasn't made immediately exactly
00:59:07
that's that's what I'm saying I think that if we had those answers to those two questions
00:59:12
we could we could better form an opinion on that that regard [Music] I want to thank everybody for joining us
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here in the garage until tomorrow be good be kind and don't let it [Music] foreign
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