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with discussing the scene and more detail what can we start off by a little round of applause for First Responders
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get in there so quickly yes First Responders thank you for getting quickly getting there quickly the thing though
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here is we have a lot of people that are saying not so fast you know let's cheer the fire department
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let's cheer Ems for arriving quickly and attempting to save this young man's life
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but there are a lot of people out there that are saying the Gallatin Police Department did not do a thorough
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investigation did not do as much as they could have done to sort out this situation to figure out if this was not
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exactly what it was supposed to appear to be right that this was maybe something other than the call that they
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believed they were responding to I'll start off on this Note One it's disappointing
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and aggravating to me that it appears that we have one officer statement one officer on the scene
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we need to point out that this is a an accident scene that that if it isn't truly an accident
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resulted in the death of an individual you would think that more you would think that more
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police officers would be there to look at the scene you would think that they would spend more time
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at the location at the scene from my understanding this officer was there for about an hour after arriving we talked
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about this in in the boys on the road story in case that we did just a month or so ago
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that when you have a vehicular death there are police departments and agencies that have the ability to fully
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investigate and even try to recreate the scenario to see how it would play out to see how the vehicle would react
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if we did this to see if if the way that we found things aligns with the the statements
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that were given by the persons there and in this case just one person that says that he was there and present he doesn't
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say that he saw the vehicle take out his son he just says it at some point he realized it was rolling
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backwards he gets out of the vehicle and his now the truck is in the ditch and he
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realizes his son is underneath the truck Gallatin Police Department had a Recreation expert an expert in vehicle
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accidents that person was not dispatched to the scene this person was not asked to
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recreate this scenario and that I think is is a huge flaw and misstep by this Police Department
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when you have that resource in an area that we already covered they don't have a whole lot of crime here
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they don't even have a whole lot of vehicular deaths so you got time on your hands let's use
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those tax dollars and those resources to figure out exactly what happened here let's just take a second and look at
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this if I'm law enforcement we have this horrible accident that happens at this training facility
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we have people that were driving by so my first thing if I'm in charge is I'm putting out to the news hey if you
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saw anything please contact please we we want to know we want to get some other perspectives
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on this situation also what do we know as law enforcement we know that this kid has made
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some pretty damning allegations against his father so that would be motive I would think on
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why you would want to murder your son so just just that would be enough to go hey
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let's recreate this accident right but that that and lies the problem we I can't for a second believe that the
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officers responding would have any idea of those allegations no no I understand that but I'm saying
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but if you did an investigation right right you would be aware of those allegations what I'm pointing out is I'm
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not trying to to to say hey police didn't respond appropriately I'm saying that it it's reported and stated by
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others and I kind of agree with them that it doesn't appear that there was actually any investigation
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to confirm the one witness statement that you have that this is actually what went down now before people get too
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angry and upset with me Captain I want to make sure that I don't think it was right I hope they get so angry with you
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that they cancel you but I don't think that I was well then we would both be out of jobs but I'll take the show I
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don't think that I was very clear in something that I was saying earlier there were more than one police officer
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on scene right that arrived in in you know we have a portion of this early morning where within minutes we need to
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get this kid out from underneath the truck we need to get him transported to the hospital try to save his life so we
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have office officers there during that time we have officers a lot of them are tending to the traffic
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and and rerouting traffic so that we can keep the road clear to try to straighten out the situation
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now where I'm disappointed is after all of that chaos is over according to the report the official
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police report it sounds like there's only one officer that remains on the scene to try to talk to witnesses to try
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to assess what actually happened and I I think that when you have a death especially in an area where we're not
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talking about New York City LA big cities like Dallas or you know that have have a lot of
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things to monitor that you have personnel and resources that could be applied here
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and that they could have stayed on scene longer and made a better attempt at figuring out what happened now
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getting to the accident scene itself as we told you yesterday you can go to freedom4gracy.com
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and there are several photos from the accident scene that were taken that day well let's try to put that link in the
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show notes and what you have here is you get pictures of this truck in the ditch
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and as we said yesterday you can see the incline of the parking lot it's a it's a
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rather small parking lot or at least from these angles of the the pictures it appears to be a small parking lot
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it's not a terrible distance you know terribly great distance from where Grant would have been parked to
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where his truck ended up but what you have here on this website is a series of photos and with each one they are
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pointing out why this is not an accident and why this is a scene that may have been staged to cover up something else
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now before we get into that I do want to tackle a couple of the other air quote suspicious
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details regarding this situation okay so I don't love when I see a situation where I feel like people are piling it
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on with with what might be unnecessary information because I think it takes away
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from the really important information and evidence in a case so one thing that I've heard stated
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multiple times is that well Aaron Solomon's statement has to be false because Grant Solomon would have
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never have stored his baseball gear in the bed of his truck that it was 8 83 degrees that morning
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when Grant left his home right to get to the facility so it's a very hot day very hot summer
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day and that any person that that is a baseball Enthusiast that that plays baseball especially at a high level that
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they would never leave their equipment out never place it in the bed of their truck especially when he's got a large
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cabin this truck Tacoma has a large cabin uh it has a back seat he could have placed all those items in the back
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seat that an athlete at this level would never put their very expensive baseball
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gears if for those who don't play baseball Google you some baseball gear it's quite
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expensive but these people say that one would never put their equipment in the bed of their truck because due to
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the heat I don't like those statements though because we don't know the every action or the intent of every person we
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don't know if he was in a hurry and even if he wouldn't typically do that then maybe he just threw it in there and took
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off the other thing too is like that doesn't stand to reason very well with me because
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last time I checked baseball is an outdoor Sport and they're playing in the heat so I don't know that I would make a
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strong argument against Aaron's statement based off of well he would never put it in the bed of his truck due
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to the Heat it was I'm sure he's played baseball in 83 85 90 degree weather and that the equipment is outside the
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baseball glove is on his person during the game so that doesn't make a whole lot of sense but for those that say this
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is a cover-up that this is intentional homicide there are some things that the scene
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captain that don't make sense they don't go along with the statement given by his
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father Aaron Solomon one of those is that there's grass between the parking lot and between this Rocky ditch area where
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the truck is found right the grass that goes from that's between the parking lot
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that the truck would have had to roll down through with Grant underneath of it there's no like the grass isn't pushed
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down there's not obvious signs that the truck rolled that way into the ditch there's not obvious signs that a person
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was drugged under a car under a vehicle through that grass and into the ditch the reverse of that is people point to
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another picture that say here are marks on the sidewalk once this truck is finished moving it is it is
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partially on the sidewalk and the front of the truck in the ditch rear wheels on the sidewalk and people
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point to marks on the sidewalk that are said that the left rear tire these are tracks these are indications that this
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vehicle drove forward over this sidewalk what I won't say is that I believe that 100 percent I will
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say that there are marks that appear that a vehicle did drive forward over that stretch of of sidewalk
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I can't say that grants truck made those marks but what I can say is the reverse
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when it comes to the grass yes Grant's truck and Grant may have move through that grass but there's no
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indication in these photographs that that happened nothing obvious to point that that happened
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the other thing that's very troubling is the statements that grants had was facing
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the parking lot and that his feet were facing the street now that to me and to many others does
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not ring true that he's standing at the back of the truck the truck backs up over him and pulls him into the ditch
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his head should have been facing the street his feet facing the parking lot unless he tumbled underneath the truck
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as it drug him into the ditch the problem with that though Captain is there's no injuries on Grant's person
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according to the medical record that suggests that he tumbled underneath the truck so his body
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position doesn't align with the story yeah if you're interested in this case you you have to take a look at these
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pictures and and we'll take a lot of these pictures and pull them off the website and throw them on our social
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media so you can see those but it's a quad cab truck so going back to the equipment
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makes more sense that you'd put it in the quad cab and not so much the the bed of
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the truck but I can agree with that you wouldn't want it to be rolling around in
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the bed of the truck you uh would prefer that it's more secure in the quad cab we
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do have several people that have stated that Aaron Solomon has changed his story
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in that regard that that no uh oh I I must be mistaken he might have gone back to the rear door
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rather than to the tailgate to retrieve his his gear the problem for us here in the garage
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Captain we can only report and make an opinion on the the evidence as it is as that we can view with our own eyeballs
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people can give those statements but we've not heard Aaron say that we've not heard Aaron change his story
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on record and we've not witnessed or or reviewed a another written statement that is different other than
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the one we have pictures of the crime scene so important but I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate
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again look at this parking lot this is not like a parking lot that is hidden away from a major road right and
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that's why a lot of people passing by a very and it's not like this ditch was hidden
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this ditch is towards the main road so to it becomes very difficult because you go
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if if he's going to commit a crime he is making he is committing a crime out for everybody to see but again most of
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the time people don't plan to murder someone and most in most homicides it's reactionary good point and again that's
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what I I don't think that anybody or at least I don't believe that that Aaron Solomon is like oh once we get to
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that parking lot I'm gonna kill that kid and here's my plan no I don't think that's what happened at
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all if if Aaron is responsible for the death of his son his son died due to a severe head injury
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right severe head injury is super reactionary when we have an altercation between two individuals
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person a picks something up that's heavy and hard and Strikes person B in the head or face with it
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resulting in the death of the individual but it's reactionary the person may have taken a swing at the
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other person not even with the intent to kill but the attempt to just the intent
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to attack or lash out at them right and so if in fact Aaron is responsible for the death of his son I I think what
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we're we're examining here is he reacted that there's an altercation verbal altercation that leads to some
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kind of physical attack and then all of a sudden we have person a who's going holy [ __ ] I have to
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cover this up now what can I do what can I do oh I can put him in the ditch and and drive
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the truck over him uh it'll look like it'll look like the truck rolled over him the other thing
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too that's difficult about this situation again no eyewitnesses and I get what you're saying yes this looks
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like a busy road and this parking lot's not close to the it's not far from the road at all
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but these are people the people on the Dr on the street are going to work they're going 35 40 mile an hour
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they have places to go and it would if in fact this is an accident and the truck rolls over Grant
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they're likely going to see passer buyers may see the truck rolling backwards they're not going to see somebody
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underneath the truck and it's only going to take a split second for that truck to
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start that truck weighs about 4 000 pounds so if it's not in park or once it starts to go and go backwards on this
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incline it's going to move rather quickly and it's going whatever's in its path it's going to knock it down and either
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cheers to you colonel cheers to everybody out there especially the people on the back
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look we try to stay water in this situation right we're two guys standing on the fence the fence that is divided
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or light beer a community here uh people that say this is intentional homicide people that say that this is an accident
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staying water and looking at this situation some of these pictures the state of the truck to me looks like
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it was involved in the exact accident that Aaron Solomon is saying that I have I
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mean if you look at the the bumper the damage to the rear bumper the damage to the rear of the truck
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it looks to me and makes sense to me that that truck went down the incline backward
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hit those hit that ditch with the rocks and when it was so the the truck is going to take the shape of the incline
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itself right it's going to be at the same angle as the incline itself and when it hits that ditch that the
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damage to the back of that truck looks to me like it hit that ditch going backward
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into the ditch so that would stand a reason with Aaron's statement that he gives to police but I
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just want to point out that that damage to that vehicle would happen whether there was a driver in there or not
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the other thing that is interesting too that also points to confirm Aaron's statement is the rocks that are
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seen in the devil's strip right that that strip of grass between the curb of the road
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and the sidewalk right there are several rocks that are of the exact same size of the rocks in the
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ditch that have now due to the truck going backward into that ditch have kicked them up into that grassy area
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behind the truck so those are some physical things that we can see in these photos
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that would say or suggest to somebody like me a garage guy that that truck did exactly what Aaron
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Solomon said it did the thing here is though and the thing that I want to keep circling back to
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is that I'm a garage guy Captain garage guy guess what not vehicle accident scene experts
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so we can form an opinion we can deliver our opinion based off of what we are seeing here
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but just know we are not experts in this realm Guess Who is a person that worked for the Gallatin
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Police Department who was never dispatched to this scene so we should not be sitting here three
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years later with all these questions this should have been determined by somebody who has the expertise the
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knowledge the education the resources to form an exact expert opinion opinion that
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actually matters in this case you wouldn't have to be sitting here listening to two two garage guys talk
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about the the accident scene or crime scene murder scene if we had that expert there at the scene
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to assess the situation and document everything I'm gonna sound like Captain repeat but
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if I'm law enforcement why isn't the officer staying there longer and doing a more thorough investigation of the scene
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exactly but let's say that's just a mistake okay but now once they rushed him to the hospital and
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we know he died now we need to investigate this a little further how did he die blunt force
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trauma to the Head okay while there could have been an altercation did his father cause this blunt for its trauma
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and then try to cover it up why is the body not found in the position that you'd think the body would be found in
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exactly where's these other eyewitnesses where's the statements from the First Responders
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where's a investigation into the father's background there was no investigation in this accident and that
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that's where I'm saying it makes it very difficult for us to have a strong opinion because we're not qualified to
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give that opinion oh but that's what but the person it is was not dispatched to the scene right no and and that's what
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I'm saying is so frustrating is because no investigation maybe the day of maybe that's a mistake but
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no investigation at all huge mistake and and I don't think this kid deserved this I don't think Grant deserves
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especially once you find out once you hear that this guy was going to take his father to
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court to get custody custody of his sister these are horrible accusations again though we're asked to examine this and
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the problem is what's the proof of that we don't have Grant to tell us yes that's my intention
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that's what I was going to do we have hearsay we have other people saying well that's what was going to be done that's
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what Grant's intentions were right if there was an actual court date if there was an actual attorney that was
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hired to do so if there were steps because you don't just wake up one day and go taking Dad to court see you at 10
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A.M bro no it don't work that way you have to take steps to get to those Court proceedings I need to see that those
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steps were taken to confirm that that was this young man's intent that that was his intentions yeah or if I'm law
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enforcement I talk to the family they say well that's his intent well let's now talk to his to friends of Grant and
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are they saying the same thing I mean it's just uh it's very tragic so what we have here regarding the
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medical information to Grants injuries into his death is that you end up with a bruise on his upper thigh a bruise to
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his hip a blow to the jaw area and a single fatal blow to the back of Grant's head and there are no other injuries
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listed on this medical report now I want to point out here first off that a fatal blow single fatal blow to the back
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of Grant's head makes total sense to me when you tell me that this car this vehicle starts to go down the incline
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backs over this individual who is getting his gear out of the back of the truck and knocks him down and he smacks
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the back of his head on the blacktop on the concrete and that is the that is the
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shot that killed him makes sense to me the problem then becomes again his head is facing the parking lot
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and street fate in shoes and feet facing the street that doesn't make any physical sense to
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me that doesn't seem to to ring true with the statement given to police so I question that big time I I the other
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part though there's an argument that that Aaron once at the medical facility told told the doctors no we don't need
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an autopsy you know doesn't want further investigation into the death of his son
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because he's trying to cover up the murder right so so but the problem is when you review the report it's
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permission for postmortem examination and your your options here for the medical personnel to fill out and put an
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X next to which one is granted refused not requested they put an X next to not requested
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not requested and telling them not to do an autopsy or two very different statements right two very different
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statements what if what if father was never asked do you want an autopsy or can we perform an autopsy according to
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the medical personnel who may not have a dog in the fight they check the box that says not
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requested well this is a good point let's stay on this point for a second because we we see this with a lot of
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cases especially when there's some controversy over the the findings of a case one side goes no no no you gotta
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remember it's evidence a hundred percent evidence a hundred percent true the father said
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hey we don't need to look into this any further if that is a hundred percent true that's
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pretty damning right but we don't have any proof that that's a hundred percent true and a lot of
00:36:30
these cases especially you know a lot of these True Crime cases when their sides the sides start making
00:36:37
up what is factual evidence or exaggerating yes you know because it because by doing that they get to prove
00:36:47
their point right and that's where I wanted to see Court proceedings in order and and steps taken in that manner here
00:36:55
permission for postmortem examination granted refuse not requested not requested is the box that's checked if
00:37:03
it was refused the medical ex the medical personnel would have checked the box of refused then the next line on
00:37:11
this report medical legal autopsy requested options for the medical personnel to check yes or no
00:37:18
just says no it doesn't mean that the father was asked it doesn't mean that the father
00:37:24
came running into the room going whatever you do don't do an autopsy we're against it
00:37:30
it just says requested no it was not requested it could be a conversation that was
00:37:36
never had now if we want to point the finger at some possibly wrongdoing or again a
00:37:45
misstep again garage guy humble garage opinion here but this I'm echoing what a lot of
00:37:53
people in the medical field a lot of doctors and nurses will tell you that is standard procedure in many jurisdictions
00:38:01
many counties and States across this great land that when a person of this age dies
00:38:09
18 year old young man perfectly healthy not just perfectly healthy I mean goodness an athlete a a somewhat
00:38:19
gifted athlete as well we're talking about six foot three very healthy Grant Solomon
00:38:25
dies at a young age again it's typical it's protocol it's normal procedure in many areas that in
00:38:35
autopsy is conducted that did not take place here I cannot guarantee that it would have
00:38:43
gave us a lot of evidence one way or the other but again when these measures are
00:38:50
not taken these steps are not taken it's hard to sit here and say what it could have
00:38:55
indicated for us what it could have told us what that information could have honed in on well this case to
00:39:02
me is it's it's tragic on three levels one you have a Grant 18 year old just started his adult life seems to be a
00:39:11
good kid promising opportunities and his life has taken too short the other tragedy here is that law
00:39:19
enforcement doesn't investigate this suspicious death laid to rest some of these rumors you
00:39:27
have some of these answers or you had the ability to get these answers and you didn't do so and that is what the public
00:39:34
ultimately pays you for is Serve and Protect and some people believe that you didn't
00:39:40
protect the rights and the justice of this 18 year old individual the other tragic
00:39:46
thing here is and it's a very difficult watch and I'm not even suggesting that you watch it
00:39:53
but uh it's powerful and difficult all at the same time but like we said Grant at 18 years old is going to get or
00:40:05
try to get custody of his sister because he is claiming that she was abused mentally physically
00:40:15
emotionally sexually every kind of abuse from her father and she has made a video of this in in
00:40:25
and put out her claims out to the public yes so she makes it Gracie makes a uh YouTube video where she is reading a
00:40:34
letter that that she wrote or reading a document that she constructed of her own
00:40:38
words that is explaining the years of abuse from her father and it's on a scale one to ten it's all levels of
00:40:52
of that she hits all levels when she's talking about throughout her lifetime here's this item where you're going okay
00:41:00
well that's not such a big deal but again not in her shoes and then there's other items that she brings up and
00:41:06
you're like my God that is terrible but she in 2021 makes this YouTube video of her talking
00:41:15
about the abuse that she suffered at the hands of her father and this is a year after the death of her older brother and
00:41:23
if these allegations accusations are in fact true like we pointed out in the trailer
00:41:30
yesterday Grant may have thought he was the last line of defense for his little sister
00:41:38
and if in fact he was going to take his father to court to try to gain custody of
00:41:45
his little sister because that's that's the big part of this murder and accusation right that
00:41:54
not only did he kill his son but he killed his son to silence him right and therefore that implies that he's
00:42:03
silencing him because this abuse was real again we sit here and we try to examine
00:42:09
this stuff second hand with no first-hand knowledge ourselves and try to make heads or tails of it now
00:42:20
why did did the father have custody instead of the mother or instead of having shared custody this divorce looks
00:42:29
to me like a big mess in a large part of it appears that Aaron who is look he's successful he's educated his
00:42:37
wife successful and educated as well but Aaron is a anchor news anchor for 14 15 years in this community
00:42:49
and he is presenting a story that his ex-wife during the court he files for a divorce the next year that divorce is
00:42:58
granted then he gets custody of his son and his daughter we all have heard of situations or even witness situations
00:43:07
where one parent wants to take the kids Jess to destroy the other parent just to
00:43:14
to make their life miserable because things didn't work out we've we've seen that that could be the
00:43:21
situation here or what Aaron is saying and I don't want to go too far down this road Captain because I think we could do
00:43:28
three hours on the relationship between Mom and Dad here and the speculation on statements that were made by both about
00:43:36
each other over the years but to keep it short and sweet again we don't know if this is true or not but the statements
00:43:43
basically boil down to Aaron saying that my ex-wife is crazy she's a drug addict
00:43:52
she's an unfit mother and therefore you court system should award me custody of my children
00:44:01
then years later after Grant is dead or or after Grant is killed after his death
00:44:08
people were saying well during the course of that custody dad only custody that Dad is
00:44:17
verbally physically abusive to the son and then all kinds of abusive to the daughter
00:44:23
treating her almost like a wife or sexually abusing her at times rather than a little girl
00:44:32
the thing here that the thing that when I look at this case that makes my blood boil
00:44:39
I cannot tell you if Angie Solomon is all of the things that Aaron Solomon said she was right or if
00:44:49
that she is all of the things that Aaron Solomon seems to have been able to convince the courts that she was
00:44:57
those could all be true for all I know I've never had a conversation with the woman I think they're probably
00:45:03
exaggerated maybe even lies but I don't know that for sure so maybe the courts were right to award
00:45:10
air and custody of these kids I also don't feel like I can sit here with 100 certainty convinced one way or
00:45:19
another that this was a murder or an accident right and look the the people that want
00:45:25
to fight for Grant fight for Gracie fight for Angie they're going to be very upset with me saying this I'm just a guy
00:45:31
being honest with you I've looked at all of the evidence and I can see evidence that supports both theories
00:45:40
that this is a homicide that this is an accident but again if we would have just
00:45:44
had that damn expert there to determine that for us we wouldn't have to make that assessment
00:45:51
here's the other thing that I want to point out even if this was an accident don't we live in a world where this
00:46:02
could have been a straight up vehicle accident tragic accidental death of Grant Solomon
00:46:08
and Aaron Solomon is still sexually abusing his daughter don't we live in a world where Angie
00:46:17
Solomon is just as crazy and addicted to drugs as he said that she was and he was still abusing his daughter
00:46:25
yes I don't think we need to make an assessment on those items for one of these crimes to be true
00:46:33
yeah and if you watch her video I mean my take away from it is I have no reason to not believe that what Gracie is
00:46:42
stating on those what Gracie is stating during that video is is true and so why aren't there charges being
00:46:50
brought to against her father Gracie in that video is approximately 15 years of age
00:46:59
the the the just sheer shame and embarrassment in in having to put together that statement and then release
00:47:07
it to the world for her to to stand up over that potential shame and embarrassment
00:47:17
God bless her that's not an easy thing to do she's 15 approximately at the time of that video she's 14 at the time of
00:47:25
her older brother's death and that took place in 2020 the divorce was finalized in custody
00:47:33
given to Aaron Solomon in 2014 six years prior she has made claims Gracie has made
00:47:41
claims that he was in some forms sexually abusing her at a very young age and all of this carrying through
00:47:53
up until around the time of Grant's death I'm with you Captain I I can't see anything in that statement other than I
00:48:03
I believe this little girl and the the other problem I have is these allegations of abuse by Gracie
00:48:11
were presented to her school at different courses at different times in her life
00:48:18
there's documentation to back up my previous statement and I want to live in a world
00:48:27
of course where parents don't abuse their children but what do we tell our kids that if someone is abusing you if
00:48:35
someone is harming you if somebody's doing something to you that you don't like or that they shouldn't do who do
00:48:40
you go to you tell Mom or you tell Dad or you tell them both right but it takes a Village People and what do we
00:48:49
tell children that are not ours if your abuser is one of your parents you should be able to go to your school
00:48:58
officials and tell them I want to live in a world where when that abused child goes to those school
00:49:05
officials and reports this and says you know the stuff my dad does it's weird and it's hurting me and I don't know
00:49:10
what it is I want to live in a world where those school officials take it to the next
00:49:15
level take it to the next step and do something about it not turn the child away
00:49:21
not hand them back into the arms of their accused abuser if that abuse is true this community failed this little girl
00:49:31
well I'm thankful for all the listeners to allow us for this to be our job because
00:49:39
it's a subject that obviously we're both fascinated with but this case was very difficult especially
00:49:46
with the abuse allegations yeah yeah with the Gracie videos is very difficult but where where we stand today is again
00:49:56
why no investigation into this death and also where we stand as far as where Gracie is concerned she is she is not in
00:50:07
the custody of her mother she's in the custody of d c s so again when we have these accusations
00:50:15
by Gracie wire is there we have these allegations against the father is there being a is there an
00:50:27
investigation being looked into to these allegations exactly and look we all want to live
00:50:37
and raise our families in a nice neighborhood in a nice Community Gallatin Tennessee is a nice Community
00:50:44
nice area Franklin Tennessee nice area where these people live and and worked and the thing is
00:50:52
we want to live in these nice areas and these nice communities for resources that can prevent
00:51:01
a murder or investigate a homicide investigate this death investigate these abuse
00:51:09
allegations and none of these resources seem to have been utilized in this situation
00:51:17
it seems very backwards to me I can't sit here and make a full assessment or form a great opinion of what I
00:51:25
confidently believe happened in Grant Solomon's death I can't form a great confident opinion in what happened in
00:51:33
their divorce or who was right or who was wrong or who should have had custody of the children
00:51:38
but what I can sit here and say is that the the the abuse allegations the reports to the school the reports to
00:51:45
other people that could have stepped in seemed to have sidestepped this situation rather than looking at it in
00:51:53
the eye and facing it head on I encourage every one of you to go to Freedom for gracie.com Freedom the number four
00:52:02
gracie.com look at the information there it is a very one-sided website but you can look at the information and
00:52:12
do just what we did here we didn't fall on the side of homicide with everything that we reviewed from their website go
00:52:20
there and form your own opinions on these on the information that's presented there and more importantly one
00:52:27
thing I do want to give the website kudos for and the people that put this website together that they do offer
00:52:32
resources to those out there quick reference resources to those out there that if you have suffered any
00:52:40
abuse or know someone that has if you or someone you love is the Survivor of sexual abuse rape or incest
00:52:49
do know that you can call rain which is r a i n n the rape abuse and incest national network at
00:53:03
800-656-4673 or you can visit their website to chat with a counselor we're not saying that there can be charges
00:53:11
brought in the death of Grant and we can't say that there should be charges brought in the abuse of Gracie but what
00:53:18
we can say with certainty is there should be proper investigations into both allegations
00:53:24
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