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[Music] crime [Music] this is a very tragic case that we have to examine today I know in all of these true crime
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stories there are always questions left unanswered Parts where we are often left
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to examine some information and draw our own conclusions but this case may have more
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of those types of moments than other cases but more than that in this case when you look at some of the
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information instead you find yourself asking time and time again why certain questions were not asked by others
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previously questions that should have been asked and alarms that should have been raised by those in
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power people with authority at the local level people that were elected appointed
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and paid handsome salaries and given local community privileges these are people who were
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their community and if you are one of those officials who have been granted power
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privilege and responsibility I we and so many others are asking you to make a change and to
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make a difference in this very diff difficult and tragic situation who will be the one to lead by
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example so where we are often looking for answers in these real life and very true crime
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stories this week we are also looking for questions we are looking for those who
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are decent enough to ask those questions we are looking for someone brave enough
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to stand up and say this is not right we are looking for a champion this is true crime garage and
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this is the suspicious death investigation of 18-year-old Grant [Music] Sol celebr elting 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 courts for custody of your
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little sister and unfortunately captain that is what we have here this was the case for a young Grant Solomon who
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turned 18 years old on June 13th 2020 Grant Solomon legally became an adult and Grant was
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hoping to convince the courts that he should have custody of his 14-year-old sister Gracie and why should this be
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Grant and Gracie had been in the custody of their father Aaron Solomon for the past few years now it is alleged that
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Gracie again only 14 was being abused and had been being abused by her father for some time now Grant feeling like he
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was his sister's last line of defense was eager to man up literally now that he had legally become an adult he was
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hoping to testify in court as an adult against his father and more importantly get custody of his little sister granted
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to either his mother Angie or to himself definitely there has to be a lot going wrong if a 18-year-old wants to take
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responsibility for their younger sister the situation seems to be this captain that the kids Grant his younger sister
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wanted to go live with their mother their father was preventing that from happening the courts were giving custody
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of the children to Aaron Solomon and because the courts would not Grant custody to Angie Solomon his
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ex-wife it is stated and reported that it was Grant's goal to now that he's finally an adult potentially take over
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the custody rights of his sister and in fact more importantly testify in court that his father was abusing his little
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sister well not just physically abusing her but sexually abusing her as well it's according to to the reports out
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there this is alleged abuse on all fronts and it goes without saying but this is an incredibly serious situation
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one that should not be the concern of a young man one who should be focused on his new adult life school college and
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things of that nature so 18th birthday cause for celebration in this case yes and no but that is not the only alleged
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crime in this week's story no because many have stated and very publicly at that what the captain's talking about
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that at the center of this week's case at the center of this entire story is years of alleged abuse in all forms ver
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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 Grant's
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father Aaron Solomon and air quote accident of which the details of that supposed accident are provided to the
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World by the only I witness present the allegedly abusive father we'll 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
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unlikely so this is the story a tragic story of the 2020 suspicious death of a young man 18-year-old Grant Solomon who
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lived in Franklin Tennessee but the incident will take place in Gallatin Tennessee this is the kind of case
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captain that I call a fence Builder case this incident and situation has built many fences over the last 3 years on one
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side of the fence you have those that say this is simply a very sad and very unfortunate accident and then you have
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those on the other side of that fence that say not so fast this is an intentional homicide we're going to
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start off just two guys in a garage walking a tight RPP the tight rope is that fence built by this incident and
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separating a community 18-year-old Grant Solomon was a popular and accomplished student athlete known for his
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intelligence athletic prowess and kind heart Ed nature Grant was a gifted dual athlete he excelled especially in
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baseball and on 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 father once he
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reached adulthood and hoped to gain custody of his little sister Gracie whom he also believed was suffering abuse by
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his father unfortunately shortly after turning 18 years old Grant met a tragic fate in what was officially ruled an
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accident a vehicle accident this is when his 2015 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck rolled
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back backwards into a ditch dragging him underneath the vehicle to which Grant suffers a
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terrible injury leading to his death as said the sole witness to this incident was his father Aaron Solomon but it's
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more complicated than just that of course Aaron says there were three other guys there at the scene trying to help
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him and his son but this is after Grant and the truck are already in the ditch and the truck is on top of Grant as we
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keep pointing out the story is quite complicated but I think we should start with the morning in question and then
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just take it from there right so we are going to go back just three years ago to
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what looks to be a very nice place to live work and raise a family this is Gallatin Tennessee Gallatin is a city
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located in suer County Tennessee with a population of a little more than 44,000 people this according to the 2020 census
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the city was established on the Cumberland River and is the county seat of summmer County Gallatin is northeast
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of one of our favorite cities Nashville Tennessee this is a safe City a low crime area with crime rates well below
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the US national average the morning in question is July 20th 2020 this is a Monday
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the location of the incident is the ward performance Institute at 1357 southwater
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Avenue in Gallatin this is a baseball training facility where Grant Solomon was attending this event that that's labeled
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as an evaluation of his skills in a practice session now on this morning accompanying him would be his
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father we do need to point out that it's well reported that this is going to be the first time in two years that the two
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would be alone together 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 remind
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everybody if you've forgotten shame on you but this is co this is the height of CO as well and so if there was going to
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be a situation where Grant was hoping to testify against his father in court I don't think that this was going to come
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anytime soon soon as the court systems in many areas had shut down right and I'm actually a little surprised that
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this event was going on in July but you know every area handled this pandemic differently we don't know the exact
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situation this could be could be a very one-on-one type of situation what we do know though is that Grant himself did
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get covid and 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 because he wasn't 100% yet and
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ready to perform at what needs to be a high level especially if he's being evaluated by other people yeah it makes
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me wonder why his father had to be there or if he even had to be there I'm I'm wondering if this type of event if it
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was through the NCAA do they do they make you you have a a a a guardian with you yes that's a good question if you
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have to have a parent with you the other thing too is he's 18 so I don't know if
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that plays a major role but it looks to me okay let's take the alleged abuse aside right and we we have to we have to
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be fair going into this and maintain that it is alleged abuse for now we can examine this but
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with my own eyes I've not witnessed any of this or any portions of this true crime story so it's alleged abuse but
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the other reports is that of course Aaron Solomon a very controlling father very controlling
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parent especially when it came to Grant and his Athletics and his schooling and therefore it may be a
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situation Captain where parent is not required but Aaron insists on being there or Aon paid for this evaluation
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practice session right because these things are typically not cheap you'd think that his father would want some
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separation from his son that is making allegations against him many of his friends and family this is Grant's
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family and friends believe that Grant was murdered on this morning and that his suspicious
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death is as some believe an attempt by that father to silence Grant's allegations of
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Aaron's sexual abuse against Grant's sister Gracie in an upcoming Court proceedings what I don't have a great
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understanding of Captain everybody keeps mentioning this grant is going to testify against his father or Grant was
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hoping to go to the courts and get custody of his sister or that maybe after he testifies against his father
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custody would finally be granted to his mother Angie what I couldn't sort out was if that court date was actually
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scheduled right because we already pointed out that it was covid a lot of the courts has shut down or some of them
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were starting to open back up and do Zoom proceedings we can have the reports that
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he was going to testify against his father we can have the reports that he was going to seek custody of his little
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sister what I don't have reports of is that an actual court date was set for those
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proceedings now this is a catastrophic incident as said it takes place at the ward performance Institute at 1357
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southwater Avenue in Gallatin this is a baseball training facility where Grant was attending as an evaluation of his
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skills and it's a 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
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would be the first time that the two would be together or alone at any time it's reported that that it's two
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years by this time and that that seems crazy to me but that's the report okay so just to be clear Grant is going to
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this training facility to get evaluated to possibly play baseball on the next level his father is going to attend this
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event with him and do we know if they rode together or if they drove separately what's great about this case
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is that a lot of the information that is out there it's it's well documented and
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it's well presented to the public and so we have some very official reports to reference in this case which we don't
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get that in some of the cases but this case because it's so recent again just three years ago let's start by going
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through those official reports so the first one that we're going to review Captain is a written statement by the
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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 the person
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giving the statement we don't need to go through that but his statement handwritten says my son Grant and I
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pulled into WPI separately parked side by side I was still in my car but noticed my son got
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out to get his baseball gear out of the back of his truck remember Grant is driving a pickup truck goes on to say I
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look down to check a work email and the next thing I know I hear and see the truck rolling backwards into the ditch I
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get out of my car to try to find my son and I saw that he was trapped underneath
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the truck and immediately called 911 see this 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 just attending and saying hey I'm going to 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 and according to what
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the next statement that we will get to the unfortunate part of this captain of course is the the horrible accident
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or the the whole situation in general but the added factor is that according to these reports and according to people
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that are trying to put together some form of Investigation on this incident there's not anybody else that seems
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to have 100% witnessed the situation themselves other than Grant's father Aaron and by his own statement it seems
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like he's missing part of the story too he looks down to check an email on his phone and then next thing he knows he he
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he realizes the truck is moving backwards they're parked on an incline and we'll get to accident scene photos
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and evaluation and examine those here in a minute but they're parked on an incline right up against the facility
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right next to the building itself side by side and according to his statement he looks down to check his email he
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knows his son's already out of his truck goes to the rear of the truck to retrieve his baseball bag and other
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equipment from from the back of the truck from the bed of the truck and then realizes oh snap the truck is moving
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backwards he gets out and does not see his son and then realizing truck in the ditch my kid is underneath the
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truck so we have a we have a typed statement from the responding officer and for my understanding Captain
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once Aaron calls 911 Aaron Aaron is the first and only person to call 911 in this
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situation and police are on the scene relatively quickly but keep in mind it it's a Monday morning it's busy rush
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hour traffic people driving off to work and that's where the lack of eyewitnesses even
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after the truck is in the ditch are few and far 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
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location that we've been discussing discussing for an injury crash I arrived on scene and found a male subject that
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was trapped under his vehicle in a rocky ditch area suar County EMS and Gallatin
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fire department were already on scene attempting to get the male 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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get out of the the truck and walked towards the back door area Mr Solomon stated that he then noticed that the
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truck was no longer parked beside him and he started to get out and look and heard a loud crash and observed Grant's
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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 911 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 suar Regional that's the hospital where Grant was transferred
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to 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
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to mpo Wilson well there's a lot to unpack there and let's unpack that after a quick beer
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so much for buying t-shirts and keeping the lights on in the True Crime garage Studios cheers to you captain now I'm
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going to just play devil's advocate here for a second as we go through this if you're going to attack your son
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to shut him up about these allegations of abuse towards him and his sister sexual and physical and other types of
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abuse you probably won't do that in a public location also a location that you don't
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know if they have security footage and also probably in um location a public location that you
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don't know if they have security footage or not and you're not in the vehicle with your son going to the facility so
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you don't have any control on where he Parks his vehicle I agree with every one of those
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statements the takeaway though would be that one this may have been something that
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Aaron is considering in silencing his son but it also could be something that was rather
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impromptu it wasn't planned or wasn't planned for this day at this moment they haven't seen each
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other in two years or or I shouldn't say that they've seen each other in the past
00:32:42
two years they've not been alone right in the past two years and if Grant is a threat to his father by all these
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reports it sounds like he's not legally a threat to his father until he turned 18 which is like
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a month and seven days before this incident so where I'm where I'm going with this
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Captain is that this could be something that just they arrive they see each other they're in the parking lot having
00:33:10
a conversation that starts to get nasty at some point and maybe one person did something that wasn't
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planned maybe wasn't even something that they would do had they been able to keep
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their cool but somebody did something and then had to find a way to cover it up right
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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 have again
00:33:47
we have very official reports here some of the the medical stuff the the report from the police officer that we just
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went through but more importantly we have the accident scene photographs before we get to that though
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let's play that 911 call where's your emergency it's 1357 southwater street it's off 109 please hurry you said 57
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please hurry okay what's going on 57 uh my my son's truck backed over him and he's it's rolled over and drag him
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into the ditch and it's on top of him he's trapped under the truck and I I yeah he somehow it drug him underneath it yes
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my son is under it I'm trying to no I'm I'm trying to call 911 okay what's your name oh my
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God my name is Aaron Solomon and you said 1357 southwater Avenue right yes how old is the
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male he's 18 he just turned 18 a couple weeks about a month ago it's my son oh my God oh my God this is not good is he
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awaken oh please hurry I don't no I don't think so he's not he's not alert right no he's out and he's trapped I got
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three guys here and he's trapped under the truck okay oh my God I understand sir stay on the phone meanwhile we got
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somebody out there what's your name Aaron Solomon all right Aaron huh what kind of
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vehicle is it it's a Toyota Tacoma Tacoma and it the the vehicle has to he's underneath the vehicle okay I've
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got and and it's okay I've got that what color is it it's a white truck that's my son he it's somehow back
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up yeah yeah I'm I'm on I'm on with 911 right now oh my God oh my God oh my God was your son working on
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it no no he was just getting out of it it's the hill it's we're on an incline and I guess he didn't have it in park or
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something or it wasn't engaged oh my God oh my God I can't believe still not responding no no and he's still under TR
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no one can get from under we saw units and round to you I'm just asking you questions for we can
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update them okay can you check and see he's breathing I I somebody's telling me that
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he's coming too okay maybe is waking up kind of keeping still so he is he yeah he can't move I
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don't think he can move I I don't know okay no he can't move his trap okay we got somebody in round now would he wakes
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up he might be somebody down there and talk to him yeah somebody talk to him [ __ ] there's blood is he facing up or
00:37:23
down he's facing up they said he may aspirate when need to hurry oh my God so does he have blood coming out of
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his mouth yeah he's yeah there's blood coming out yeah somehow it drug him down I
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think I don't know whether it wasn't in park or what or if it didn't Engage The break or it drug him underneath
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somehow they said he's facing up okay but he's bleeding from his mouth so Grant turn your face to the side if
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you can barely but be careful don't move him okay we can't move him we can't we can't
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move [Music] in all right beon they're there I'm Gonna Let You Go okay yeah okay uhuh
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byebye I always find the 911 calls to be very fascinating yes I do as well Captain I
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think that they're they're often fascinating and but I'm always like pulled to one side of the conversation
00:38:37
where I'm like I get they're asking a whole lot of questions just hurry up and get here you know I know in some areas
00:38:43
they have the ability to Once emergency personnel has been dispatched to then continue on with the call and then play
00:38:52
the call over the radio for the person's responding to the scene which is always very interesting and
00:38:58
very cool because then you know that they're they should be getting firsthand knowledge of what the scene is what it
00:39:05
looks like prior to arriving and so you're able to jump out of your your fire truck or your ambulance and and get
00:39:14
right into action and get right to the scene you know it seems like such a silly question to say well what color is
00:39:20
the truck well you you sit there if if you're an emergency and if that's your son you're you're sitting there thinking
00:39:27
who cares lady like it it could be purple for all for all I care but but no it's you know as you pointed out earlier
00:39:36
Captain this is not a busy parking lot and we only know that based off of the the officer statement and Aaron's
00:39:44
statement as well but had it been a busy parking lot just something as simple as
00:39:49
knowing the color of the truck May save the responders 20 seconds 30 seconds these could be life saving seconds yeah
00:39:59
and I I just want to set up this scenario clear for The Listener we have a son that is going to a Athletic
00:40:10
Facility for some a training session where he's going to be evaluated he he pulls up into that parking
00:40:17
lot his father pulls up beside him he gets out to get his equipment somehow this truck backs up
00:40:28
over him he is now in the ditch this is what what his father is saying he's now in the ditch with the
00:40:38
truck on top of him now the father is saying that there's three other men at the scene trying to help he's
00:40:47
calling 911 it seems as if the father is talking to somebody and you I can't make out what they're saying
00:40:58
but to me it sounds like whoever he's talking to not the dispatcher but whoever's there with him at the scene
00:41:08
that you can actually hear them responding does that make any sense well this to me this is one of the most
00:41:17
difficult parts of this case to examine because there are a lot of people out there that say this is all a farce that
00:41:25
that that these people they weren't really there uh that Aaron made them up he's
00:41:31
acting there are other people too that are saying you know clearly he's making no sense on purpose on the 911 call I
00:41:38
think those people need to take another listen to the call because he's either actually talking to other people that
00:41:44
are there it's not that he's not making sense he's talking to More Than Just Right the 911 or emergency Personnel
00:41:51
that answered the phone and that's clear he's having multiple conversations just the only other conversation that's
00:41:59
being recorded is that with the emergency personel right but I'm just saying my ears I'm I'm asking you a
00:42:05
question my ears when he's talking to somebody quote unquote in real life that I'm hearing
00:42:13
some kind of response from them like I hear somebody there's there there's other
00:42:19
voices on this phone call and I'm glad to sit here and listen to it with you because
00:42:26
you you play the engineer role on the show why because of many reasons but one of those reasons is you have a much
00:42:34
better ear for this sort of thing than than I do in fact you have much better ear than 98% of the the world's
00:42:41
population yeah that's been tested it's we that's been proven time and time I drove with my father to facility those
00:42:49
are facts yes and we tested now the thing here is I don't know if I had to lean one way or the
00:42:57
other I'm with you that I believe that I hear some kind of response or there's something in the background when he's
00:43:05
talking clearly talking to somebody that's not being recorded okay but if I had to lean one way that's the way I go
00:43:12
but I don't feel so strong or confident about that statement okay but what we do
00:43:16
hear on the 911 cause we hear the ambulance come yes yes sir or or some people would call it ambulance ambulance
00:43:26
or the fire truck we know that the according to the officer statement the EMS and Fire Department Personnel were
00:43:33
already on the scene when the police arrived right so they would be able to tell us if there was other individuals
00:43:42
at the scene here's the problem all right here's the here's the problem with the ambulance well there's
00:43:51
going to be there there's a lot of problems when trying to investigate this case
00:43:56
because we have one side telling us this is what happened it's a cover up it's it's a stage scene this is a murder we
00:44:06
have the other side saying this is an accident and these other people are these allegations are are
00:44:14
crazy the situation as I understand it Captain is this according to the officer what he said I could find no other
00:44:23
eyewitnesses the officer per his statement couldn't find the three people that were there when he arrives on the
00:44:31
scene now anybody that's been trying to assist in an accident or witnessed an accident uh or or even a
00:44:42
crime we all know that typically what happens is people rush to try to help and then once the the appropriate people
00:44:50
are there the people that are that know what they're doing the First Responders right the experts once they're there the
00:44:57
people that showed up to help they kind of leave at that time or but also or the
00:45:02
officer or EMT or somebody will say you know we need you to kind of clear out of
00:45:06
this area we you know let us do our thing yeah and we also know that there are people there there's probably a time
00:45:14
frame that you have to be there at this Athletic Facility to perform and to be evaluated so these people that might
00:45:24
have stopped to help they might have an appointment to go inside so when they go
00:45:30
hey the the ambulance came and the firefighters here and they got this under control we're going inside yeah
00:45:37
the the other thing too to keep in mind though with it being the the covid year they may be doing these evaluations and
00:45:44
the practices more oneon-one well that's yeah but that's what I'm saying but everybody would have like a appointment
00:45:50
time and staggering these throughout the day and we do have the officer statement
00:45:55
that he received receives the call at 8:37 a.m. so there's a chance that that um Grant's appointment would have been
00:46:03
the first of the day which would make sense when you see the the accident scene photos where there just appears to
00:46:11
be no other vehicles in the parking lot other than emergency personnel and the thing here is too like
00:46:21
so this this is why I'm I'm trying I have to stay water in this situation this a very fluid situation stay water
00:46:28
examine each situation as we go through it the evidence as we go through it and not to lean one side or the
00:46:37
other prior to to looking at any of this information that we have to review so the thing is yes I'm with you if I had
00:46:47
to pick a side I believe that he is talking to somebody so that would imply yes there were these three other people
00:46:52
or two other people he references three in the 911 one call he being Aaron the father right we at least know that
00:46:59
there's look I I can lean towards the idea there as at least one other individual there the problem then
00:47:07
becomes this those persons just because they're there during the 911 call does not mean
00:47:14
that they witnessed any portion of this accident right it only means that they stop to help after they see a big white
00:47:23
truck in a ditch right next to a busy road we don't per the officer statement have
00:47:31
any other eyewitnesses well the other problem too with without having these eyewitness statements we don't know if
00:47:37
the father tried to flag down individuals to get help right and here becomes the
00:47:44
problem later when the people are saying the side that says this is intentional homicide when they are asking for these
00:47:55
three people to come forward that were there that we say that we believe we can hear them responding to Aaron
00:48:02
Solomon it's my understanding Captain those people have never come forward they got they have no dog in the
00:48:09
fight why wouldn't they come forward and say this is what I witnessed this was my
00:48:13
experience while I was there I saw a father that was panicking and wanting to try to get his son to safety or or the
00:48:21
reverse I saw a guy that didn't seem to care about what was going On and nobody you know other other than me and these
00:48:28
other two guys that were trying to help this guy was kind of just hanging out the the the thing that I want to sort
00:48:37
out here is why is what is clear that I can tell from him talking to the emergency Personnel the father yeah and
00:48:46
to the supposed three guys that are there he's not down in the ditch if those other three guys are there he's
00:48:55
not down in the ditch you can what again the the interaction between the father and the three guys that are there to
00:49:02
help it seems to be that they are relaying information to him that he is then in turn telling
00:49:08
to emergency services and I want to know why is he not down in that ditch is is it as
00:49:17
simple as he couldn't get a signal down there or maybe his phone was in his vehicle so when they said hey call 911
00:49:24
he had to get out of the ditch go back up to his vehicle and maybe he's not thinking clearly
00:49:30
because this is a panic situation yeah but we all know the Simplicity of it is if you can
00:49:41
be there with the person that needs help that is the quickest way to get information to the people that can offer
00:49:47
help is to be right next to that person and unless you cannot communicate with emergency
00:49:54
personnel and be next to the person that that's the only explanation of why this
00:50:00
man wouldn't be down in the ditch with the truck and with his son but I also think these quote unquote eyewitnesses
00:50:08
that have never come forward one maybe it's because they're coming from a far away land to go to these uh this triy
00:50:16
out this evaluation it could be a a regional try out these guys could be from you know a couple hours away right
00:50:25
and it's difficult to say who these people are without them coming forward but I I want to make something clear
00:50:30
before we go too far down this road it if these people do exist it's my understanding that they are they are
00:50:38
passer buers that stopped because they they saw yeah these are people that should have been just driving to and
00:50:44
from work it's 8:30 in the morning right these weren't individuals no cuz they would have stuck around and the police
00:50:50
officer who was there within minutes would have interviewed them like yeah cuz they could have went went into the
00:50:56
facility and said hey right the only person that the officer says he was able to speak with are two guys that were
00:51:02
working in the gym they're working in the the facility that that Grant was supposed to go to to attend this this
00:51:10
session now I'm going to I'm going to go to the other side like I said I was playing Devil's Advocate now I got to
00:51:15
come back to this other side a big uh question for me is I'm the father I pull into a parking
00:51:24
spot I check my phone I look up my son's car has now backed up I get out of my vehicle I see that
00:51:36
the vehicle has somehow dragged and trapped my son under the under the car right then I'm making the phone
00:51:47
call if I'm making a 911 call right away right when there is an emergency there is nobody at the scene
00:51:56
at that time there's no eyewitnesses because they wouldn't have had time to get there and to be in that ditch
00:52:04
helping my son when I made that call does that make sense no what I'm saying is if if the way he's
00:52:17
telling the story if it happened the way he told the story that instantly when he
00:52:23
looked back once he gets out of that vehicle and he sees his son underneath that car that's the moment you're
00:52:31
calling 911 correct and all I'm saying is I don't think that would have gave enough time for on like a a passer by a
00:52:41
passer Byer to see that there was an emergency and to drive their vehicle around get out of their vehicle and get
00:52:48
into a ditch by the time I made that call exactly and that's why I asked the question question earlier of I want to
00:52:57
know why he's not down in the ditch with his son because if if he goes down there
00:53:03
as he says in his statement I got out of my vehicle only to go and find the the truck in the ditch and my son
00:53:11
underneath is he trying to call 911 and he can't he he can't get a signal for whatever reason and so he runs back if
00:53:19
anybody bothers to so if you go to Freedom forg gra.com you can see the accident photos that
00:53:28
were taken that day there on this website and you will see very clearly why it makes sense that the
00:53:37
truck would go and roll down the hill I when when I first started looking at this case I made the assumption that we
00:53:46
were probably talking about a 5-speed manual transmission and that maybe he just didn't put it into park now it I
00:53:54
later learned that this was was an automatic transmission but that still could be the case according to several
00:54:00
people and unfortunately Grant is not here for us to ask him but according to several people Grant was nervous about
00:54:07
going to Gallatin that day possibly nervous about being alone with his father even if it's just for
00:54:13
minutes and maybe in his nervousness he failed to put the vehicle into park and left it in
00:54:20
neutral does not set the parking brake he's parked on an incline goes around to the back of the truck the
00:54:27
truck starts to move backwards topples over top of him dragging him down into the ditch that is not an improp
00:54:35
situation that is not a highly unlikely situation but what people will point out
00:54:41
is some of the other evidence when you get into the details does not line up with him with with the
00:54:49
truck causing his death yeah so sticking with the 911 call I I don't know if I hear much
00:54:56
acting I mean there's a couple times where he's going you know you know please hurry or like oh my God or so so
00:55:06
maybe there's a little bit of that going on but uh for the most part it's like I
00:55:12
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
00:55:19
situation where he's trying to cover up a situation where the father is trying to covered up or is it just a
00:55:26
situation that it was a horrible accident yeah it's often I find it rather difficult and I know that a lot
00:55:34
of people think oh man you can hear it in that person's voice I I don't want to sit here and pretend that for for one
00:55:41
second we listen to a lot of these 911 calls we play a lot of the 911 calls when we examine these cases and look the
00:55:49
majority of the time I can't from the sound from the tone to the words that the caller is saying determine if a
00:55:58
person is guilty or innocent there are those rare occasions that it's it's quite obvious right which way to lean
00:56:07
but not knowing Aaron Solomon not not having had conversations with him not not knowing his life
00:56:15
experiences it's very difficult to say is this man acting or is this just a guy who this is how he responds or this is
00:56:25
he's in panic mode and he's not he's not his normal self one thing we should point out though that to people that are
00:56:31
not familiar with this case is Aaron Solomon is he worked professionally at a at a rather high level as a news anchor
00:56:41
for at least 15 years and so where some people may not have taking drama classes or public speaking
00:56:52
courses or any of those things I would assume he's educated in that realm and so if somebody would have the
00:57:01
ability to put on a front to play a part he might possess that that ability to do so well and let me just point this
00:57:13
out though too because like I said I hear somebody in the background I'm going to assume that
00:57:21
there's those are some eyewitnesses or people that are trying to help so with a lot of these other 911
00:57:29
calls when you look at you know the the um when you look at like the Scott Peterson 911 call or you you look at
00:57:37
some of these other 911 calls they call 911 and they are by themselves so it to me it'd be a little
00:57:46
bit easier to go okay I need to call 911 and I need to put on this show that I'm
00:57:51
freaked out right a little bit harder to to do if you have other people at that scene the thing here for me with in
00:58:01
regard to the 911 call into forming a strong opinion about that 9111 call two things two bits of information that are
00:58:10
missing that I think are key players in the situation one why is he not in the ditch
00:58:18
with the sun and he's he's up in the the parking lot and we know this based off of
00:58:25
of several statements that are given but also the his interaction with those people the three guys that are here
00:58:32
helping me and his his conversation with emergency Personnel he's not in the ditch with his son I need to know the
00:58:39
answer to that question is it because he could not get a signal is it because he
00:58:43
was just panicking did not know what to do the other bit of information that is missing here too is what time was
00:58:50
Grant's appointment right because we know that the officer saying I got a call an emergency Call at
00:58:59
8:37 well if Grant's appointment was 8:30 it seems like there might have been enough
00:59:07
time for something to happen to something to go down in that parking lot or or near that facility an argument to
00:59:17
take place between Father and Son an argument that leads to violence between Father and Son there would be
00:59:25
there seems like there would be time for that if the appointment's at 9: they're
00:59:29
arriving early to me that changes the totality of the evidence I th those I think are are bits
00:59:39
of information that are lacking here that that should be included in this story again my humble garage opinion
00:59:48
like you like to say is I I think there's some kind of evidence that shows that this 9th one
00:59:55
call wasn't made immediately exactly that's that's what I'm saying I think that if we had those answers to those
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