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with discussing the scene in more detail well can we start off by a little round
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of applause for First Responders getting there so quickly yes First Responders thank you for getting quickly getting
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there quickly the thing though here is we have a lot of people that are saying not so fast you know let's cheer the
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fire department let's cheer Ems for arriving quickly and attempting to save this young man's life but there are a
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lot of people out there that are saying the Gallatin Police Department did not do a thorough investigation did not do
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as much as they could have done to sort out this situation to figure out if this
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was not 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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beli they were responding to I'll start off on this note one it's disappointing and aggravating to me that
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it appears that we have one officer statement one officer on the scene we need to point out that this is
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a an accident scene that that if it is truly an accident resulted in the death of an individual you would think that
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more you would think that more police offic offers would be there to look at the scene you would think
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that they would spend more time at the location at the scene from my understanding this officer was there for
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about an hour after arriving we talked about this in in the boys on the road story and case that we did just a month
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or so ago 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
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would react if we did this to see if if the way that we found things aligns with
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the the the statements that were given by the persons there and and in this case just one person that says that he
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was there and present he doesn't say that he saw the vehicle take out his son he just says that at some point he
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realized it was rolling backwards he gets out of the vehicle and is now the truck is in the ditch and he realizes
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his son is underneath the truck Gallatin Police Department had a recreation expert uh an expert in
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vehicle accidents that person was not dispatched to the scene this person was not asked
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to recreate this scenario and that I think is is a huge flaw and misstep by this Police Department when
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you have that resource in in an area that we already covered they don't have a whole lot of crime here they don't
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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 long enforcement we have this horrible accident that happens at this training
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facility we have people that were driving by so my first thing if I'm in charge is I'm putting out to the news
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hey if you saw anything please contact police we we want to know we want to get some other
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perspectives on this situation also what do we know as law enforcement we know that this kid has
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made some pretty damning allegations against his father so that would be motive I would think on why you would
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want to murder your son so just just that would be enough to go hey let's recreate this accident
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right but that that that lies the problem we I can't for a second believe that the officers responding would have
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any idea of those allegations no no I understand that but I'm saying but if you did an
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investigation right you would be aware of those allegations what I'm pointing out is I'm not trying to to to say hey
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police didn't respond appropriately I'm saying that it it's reported and stated by others and I kind of agree with them
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that it doesn't appear that there was actually any investigation to confirm the one witness
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statement that you have that this is actually what went down now before people get too angry and upset with me
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Captain I I want to make sure that I don't think it was very I hope they get so angry with you that they cancel you
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but I don't think that I was well then we would both be out of jobs but I'll take the show over I don't think that I
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was very clear in in something that I was saying earlier there were more than one police officer on scene right that
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arrived and and you know we have a portion of this early morning where within minutes we need to get this kid
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out from underneath the truck we need to get him transported to the hospital try
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to save his life so we have off officers there during that time we have officers
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a lot of them are tending to the traffic and and and rerouting traffic so that we
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can keep the road clear to try to straighten out this situation now where I'm disappointed is after all of that
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that chaos is over according to the report the official police report it sounds like there's only one officer
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that remains on the scene to try to talk to witnesses to try to assess what actually happened
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and I I think that when you have a death especially in an area where we're not talking about New York City LA big
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cities like Dallas or you know that have have a lot of things to monitor that you have personnel and
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resources that could be applied here and that they could have stayed on scene longer and made a better attempt at
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figuring out what happened now getting to the accident scene itself as we told you yesterday you can go to
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freedom4 gra.com and there are several photos from the accident scene that were taken that day well let's try to put
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that link in the show notes and what you have here is you get pictures of this truck in the ditch and as we said
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yesterday you can see the incline of the parking lot it's a it's a rather small parking lot or at least from these
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angles of the the pictures it appears to be a small parking lot it's not a terrible
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distance a ter you know terribly great distance from where Grant would have been parked to where his truck ended up
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but what you have here on this website is a series of photos and with each one they are pointing out why this is not an
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accident and why this is a scene that may have been staged to cover up something else now before we get into
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that I do want to tackle a couple of the other air quote suspicious details regarding this
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situation okay so I don't love when I see a situation where I feel like people are piling it on with with with what
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might be unnecessary information because I think it takes away from the really important information and evidence in a
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case so one thing that I've heard stated multiple times is that well Aaron Solomon statement has to be false
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because Grant Solomon would have never have stored his baseball gear in the bed of his
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truck that it was eight 83 degre that morning when Grant left his home right to get to the facility so it's a very
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hot day very hot summer day and that any person that that that is a baseball Enthusiast that that plays baseball
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especially at a high level that they would never leave their equipment out never place it in the bed of their truck
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especially when he's got a large cabin this truck Tacoma has a large cabin uh has a back seat he could have placed all
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those items in the back seat that an athlete at this level would never put their very expensive baseball gears if
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for those who don't play baseball Google you some uh baseball gear it's quite expensive but these people say that one
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would never put their equipment in the bed of their truck because of due to the heat I don't like those statements
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though because we we don't know the every action or the intent of every person we don't know if he was in a
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hurry and even if he wouldn't typically do that that maybe he just threw it in there and took off the other thing too
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is like that doesn't stand to reason very well with me because last time I checked baseball is
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an outdoor Sport and they're playing in the heat so I don't know that I would make a strong argument against Aon
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statement based off of well he would never put it in the bed of his truck due to the
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heat it was I'm sure he's played baseball in 83 85 90 Dee weather and 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 at the scene captain that don't make sense they
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don't go along with the statement given by his father Aaron Solomon one of those
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is that there's grass between the parking lot and between this Rocky ditch area where the truck is found right the grass
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that goes from that's between the parking lot that the truck would have had to roll down through
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with Grant underneath of it there's no like the grass isn't pushed down there's not obvious signs
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that the truck rolled that way into the ditch there's not obvious signs that a person was drugg under a car under a
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vehicle through that grass and into the ditch the reverse of that is people point to another picture that say here
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are marks on the sidewalk once this truck is finished moving it is it is partially on the sidewalk in the front
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of the truck in the ditch rear wheels on the sidewalk and people point to marks on the sidewalk that are said that the
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left rear tire the these are tracks these are indications that this vehicle drove
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forward over this sidewalk what I won't say is that I believe that 100% I will say that there are marks that appear
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that a vehicle did drive forward over that stretch of of sidewalk I can't say that Grant's truck made those marks but
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what I can say is the reverse when it comes to the grass yes Grant truck and Grant may
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have moved through that grass but there's no indication in these photographs that that happened nothing
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obvious to point that that happened the other thing that's very troubling is the statements
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that Grant's head was facing the parking lot and that his feet were facing the street
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now that to me and to many others does not ring true that he's standing at the back of the truck the truck backs up
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over him and pulls him into the ditch his head should have been facing the street his feet facing the parking lot
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unless he tumbled underneath the truck as it drug him into the ditch the problem with that though Captain is
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there's no injuries on Grant's person according to the medical record that suggests that
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he tumbled underneath the truck so his body position doesn't align with the story yeah if you're interested in this
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case you you have to take a look at these pictures and and we'll take a lot of these pictures and pull them off the
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website and throw them on our social media so you can uh see those but it's a quad cab truck so going back to the
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equipment makes more sense that you'd put it in the quad cab and not so much the the bed of the truck but I can agree
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with that you wouldn't want it to be rolling around in the bed of the truck you uh would prefer that it's more
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secure in the quad cab we do have several people that have stated that Aaron Solomon has changed his story in
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that regard that that no oh I I must be mistaken he might have gone back to the rear door rather than to the tailgate to
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retrieve his his gear the problem for us here in the garage Captain we can only report
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and make an opinion on the the evidence as it is as that we can view with our own eyeballs people can give those
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statements but we've not heard Aaron say that we've not heard Aaron change his story on record and we've not witnessed
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or or reviewed a another written statement that is different other than the one we have pictures of the crime
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scene so important but I'm going to play Devil's Advocate again look at this parking lot this is
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not like a parking lot that is hidden away from a major road a lot of people passing by a
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very and it's not like this ditch was hidden this ditch is towards the main road
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so to it becomes very difficult because you go if if he's going to commit a crime he
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is making he is committing a crime out for everybody to see but again most of the time people don't plan to
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murder someone and most in most homicides it's reactionary good point and again that's what I I don't think
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that anybody or at least I don't believe that that Aaron Solomon is like oh once
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we get to that parking lot I'm going to kill that kid and here's my plan no I don't think that's what happened at all
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if if Aaron is responsible for the death of his son his son died due to a severe head
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injury right severe head injury is super reactionary when we have an altercation
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between two individuals person a picks something up that's heavy and hard and Strikes person
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B in the head or face with it resulting in the death of the individual but it's reactionary the person may have taken a
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swing at the other person not even with the intent to kill but the attempt to just the intent to attack or lash out at
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them right and so if in fact Aron is responsible for the death of his son I I think what we're we're examining here is
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is he reacted that there's an altercation verbal altercation that leads to some kind of physical attack
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and then all of a sudden we have person a who's going holy [ __ ] I have to cover this up now what can I do
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what can I do oh I can put him in the ditch and and and and drive the truck over him uh it'll look like it'll look
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like the truck rolled over him the other thing too that's difficult about this situation again no eyewitnesses and I
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get what you're saying yes this looks like a busy road and this parking lot's not close to the road it's not far from
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the road at all but these are people the people on the on the street are going to
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work they're going 35 40 m hour they have places to go and it would if in fact this is an accident and the truck
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rolls over Grant they're likely going to see passer buyers may see the truck rolling
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backwards they're not going to see somebody underneath the truck and it's only going to take a split second for
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that truck to start it that truck weighs about 4,000 lbs so if it's not in park or once it starts to go and go backwards
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on this incline it's going to move rather quickly and it's going to whatever is in its path it's going to
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[Music] 2023 all right we are back cheers mates cheers to you Colonel cheers to everybody out there especially the
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people in the back look we try to stay water in this situation right we're we're two guys
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standing on the fence the fence that is divided or light beer a community here uh people that say this is intentional
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homicide people that say that this is an accident staying water and looking at this situation some of these
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pictures the state of the truck to me looks like it was involved in the exact accident that Aon Solomon is saying that
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it happen I mean if you look at the the bumper the damage to the rear bumper the
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damage to the rear of the truck it looks to me and makes sense to me that that truck went down the incline backward hit
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those hit that ditch with the rocks and when it was so the the truck is going to take the shape of the
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incline itself right it's going to be at the same angle as the incline itself and
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when it hits that ditch that the damage to the back of that truck truck looks to
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me like it hit that ditch going backward into the ditch so that would stand a reason with
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Aaron's statement that he gives to police but I just want to point out that that damage to that vehicle would happen
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whether there was a driver in there or not the other thing that is interesting too that also points to confirm Aaron's
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statement is the rocks that are seen in the devil's strip right that that that strip of grass between the curb of the
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road and the sidewalk right there are several rocks that are of the exact same size of the rocks in the ditch that have
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now due to the truck going backward into that ditch have kicked them up into that
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grassy area behind the truck so those are some physical things that we can see in
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these photos 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
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to is that I'm a garage guy Captain garage guy guess what not vehicle accident scene
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experts so we can form an opinion we can deliver our opinion based off of what we
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are seeing here but just know we are not experts in this realm guess who is a person that
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worked for the Gallatin Police Department who was never dispatched to this scene so we should not be sitting
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here three years later with all these questions this should have been determined by somebody who has the
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expertise the knowledge the education the resources to form an exact expert opinion opinion that actually
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matters in this case you wouldn't have to be sitting here listening to two two garage guys talk about the the accident
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scene or crime scene murder scene if we had that expert there're at the scene to
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assess the situation and document everything I'm going to sound like Captain repeat but if I'm law
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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 Rush him to the hospital and we know he
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died now we need to investigate this a little further how did he die blunt force trauma to the Head okay well there
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could have been an altercation did his father cause this blunt fort's trauma and then try to cover it up why is the
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body not found in the position that you'd think the body would be found in exactly where's these other eyewitnesses
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where's the statements from the First Responders where's a investigation into the father's background there was no
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investigation in this accident and that that's where I'm saying it makes it very
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difficult for us to have a strong opinion because we're not qualified to give that
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opinion the person that is was not dispatched to the scene right no and and that's what I'm saying is so frustrating
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is because no investigation maybe the day of maybe that's a mistake but no investigation at all huge
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mistake and and and I don't think this kid deserve 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 court to get custody custody
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of his sister these are horrible accusations again though we're asked to examine this and the problem is what's
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the proof of that we don't have Grant to tell us yes that's my intention that's what I was going to do we have hearsay
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we have other people saying well that's what was going to be done that's what Grant's intentions were right if there
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was an actual court date if there was an actual attorney that was hired to do so
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if there were steps because you don't just wake up one day and go taking Dad to court we're see you at 10:00 a.m. bro
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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
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regarding the medical information to Grants injuries into his death is that you end up with a bruise on his upper
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thigh a bruise to his hip a a blow to the jaw area and a single fatal blow to the back of Grant's head and there are
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no other injuries listed on this medical report now I want to point out here first off that
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a fatal blow single fatal blow to the back of Grant's head makes total sense to me when you tell me that this car
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this vehicle starts to go down the incline backs over this individual who is getting his gear out of the back of
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the truck and knocks him down and he smacks the back of his head on the black top on the concrete and that is the that
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is the shot that killed him makes sense to me the problem then becomes again his
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head is facing the parking lot and street fa and shoes and feet facing the street that doesn't make any physical
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sense to me that doesn't seem to to ring true with the statement given to police
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so I question that big time I I the other part though there there's an argument that that Aaron once at
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the medical facility told told the doctors no we don't need an autopsy you know doesn't
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want further investigation into the death of his son because he's trying to cover up the murder right so so but the
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problem is when you review the report it's permission for postmortem examination and your your your options
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here for the medical personnel to fill out and put an X next to which one is granted refused not requested they put
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an X next to not requested not requested and telling them not to do an autopsy are two very
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different statements right two very different statements what if what if father was never asked do you want an
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autopsy or can we perform an autopsy according to the medical personnel who may not have a dog in the
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fight they check the box that says not requested well this is a good point let's stay on this point for a second
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because we we see this with a lot of cases especially when there's some controversy over the the
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the findings of a case one side goes no no no you got to remember it's evidence 100% evidence
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100% true the father said hey we don't need to look into this any further if that is 100% true that's
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pretty damning right but we don't have any proof that that's 100% true and a lot of these
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cases espe you know a lot of these True Crime cases when when there's sides the sides
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start making up what is factual evidence or exaggerating yes right you know because it because by doing that they
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get to prove their point right and that's where I wanted to see Court proceedings in order in in steps taken
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in that manner here permission for postmortem examination granted refuse not requested not requested is the box
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that's checked if it was refused the medical ex the medical personnel would have checked the box of refused then the
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next line on this report medical legal autopsy requested options for the medical personnel to check yes or no
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just says no right doesn't mean that the father was asked it doesn't mean that the father came running into the room
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going whatever you do don't do an autopsy we're against it it just says requested no it was not requested it
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could be a conversation that was never had now if we want to point the finger MH at some possibly wrongdoing or again
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a misstep again garage guy humble garage opinion here but this I'm echoing what a
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lot of people in the medical field a lot of doctors and nurses will tell you that
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is standard procedure in many jurisdictions many counties and States across this great land
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that when a person of this age dies 18-year-old young man perfectly healthy not just perfectly healthy I
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mean goodness an athlete a a somewhat gifted athlete as well we're talking about 6' three very healthy Grant
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Solomon dies at a young age again it's typical it's protocol it's normal procedure in many areas that
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an autopsy is conducted that did not take place here I cannot guarantee that it would have gave
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us a lot of evidence one way or the other but again when these measures are not taken these steps are not taken it's
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hard to sit here and say what it could have indicated for us what it could have told us what that
00:36:21
information could have honed in on well this case to me it's it's it's tragic on
00:36:26
three levels one you have a grant 18-year-old just starting his adult life seems to be a good kid promising
00:36:36
opportunities and his life is taken too short the other tragedy here is that law
00:36:42
enforcement doesn't investigate this suspicious death lay to rest some of these rumors
00:36:49
you 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
00:36:56
public ultimately pays you for Serve and Protect and some people believe that you
00:37:02
didn't protect the rights and the justice of this 18-year-old individual the other tragic thing here is and it's
00:37:11
very difficult watch and I'm not even suggesting that you watch it but um it's powerful and difficult all at
00:37:20
the same time but like we said Grant at 18 years old is going to get or try to get
00:37:29
custody of his sister because he is claiming that she was abused mentally physically emotionally sexually every
00:37:40
kind of abuse from her father and she has made a video of this and and and put out her claims out to the public yes so
00:37:50
she makes Gracie makes a uh YouTube video where she is reading a letter that that she wrote or reading a document
00:37:59
that she constructed of her own words that is explaining the years of abuse from her
00:38:07
father and it's on a scale one to 10 it's all levels of of that she hits all levels
00:38:17
when she's talking about throughout her lifetime here's this item where you're going okay well that's not such a big
00:38:24
deal but again not in her shoes and then there other items that she brings up and
00:38:28
you're like my God that is terrible but she in 2021 makes this YouTube video of her
00:38:37
talking about the abuse that she suffered at the hands of her father and this is a year after the death of her
00:38:43
older brother and if these allegations accusations are in fact true like we pointed out in the trailer
00:38:54
yesterday Grant may have thought he he was the last line of defense for his little
00:38:59
sister and if in fact he was going to take his father to court to try to gain custody
00:39:06
of his little sister because that's that's the big part of this murder and accusation right
00:39:16
that not only did he kill his son but he killed his son to silence him right and
00:39:22
therefore that implies that he's silencing him because this abuse was real again we sit here and we try to
00:39:31
examine this stuff secondhand with no firsthand knowledge ourselves and try to make heads or taals
00:39:41
of it now why did did the father have custody instead of the mother or instead of having shared custody this divorce
00:39:50
looks to me like a big mess and a large part of it appears that Aaron who is look he's successful he's educated his
00:39:59
wife successful and educated as well but Aon is a anchor news anchor for 14 15 years in this
00:40:11
community and he is presenting a story that his ex-wife during the court he files for a divorce the next year that
00:40:19
divorce is granted then he gets custody of his son and his daughter we all have heard of situations or even witness
00:40:28
situations where one parent wants to take the kids just to destroy the other parent just to to make their life
00:40:39
miserable because things didn't work out we've we've seen that that could be the
00:40:43
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
00:40:50
three hours on the relationship between Mom and Dad here and the speculation on statements that were made by both about
00:40:59
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
00:41:06
basically boil down to Aaron saying that my ex-wife is crazy she's a drug addict
00:41:14
she's an unfit mother and therefore you court system should should award me custody of my children then years later
00:41:24
after Grant is dead or or or or after Grant is killed after his death people were saying well during the course of
00:41:33
that custody dad only custody that Dad is verbally physically abusive to the son and then all kinds of
00:41:43
abusive to the daughter treating her almost like a wife or sexually abusing her at times rather
00:41:51
than a little girl the thing here the the thing that when I look at this case that makes my
00:41:59
blood boil I cannot tell you if Angie Solomon is all of the things that Aaron Solomon
00:42:09
said she was right or if that she is all of the things that Aaron Solomon seems to have been able to convince the courts
00:42:17
that she was those could all be true for all I know I've never had a conversation with
00:42:23
the woman I think they're probably exaggerated maybe even lies but I don't know that for sure so maybe the courts
00:42:31
were right to award air in custody of these kids I also don't feel like I can sit here with 100% certainty convinced
00:42:41
one way or another that this was a murder or an accident right and look the the people
00:42:47
that want to fight for Grant fight for Gracie fight for Angie they're going to be very upset with me saying this I'm
00:42:52
just a guy being honest with you I've looked at all of the evidence and I can see evidence that supports both theories
00:43:02
that this is a homicide that this is an accident but again if we would have just
00:43:06
had that damn expert there to determine that for us we wouldn't have to make that
00:43:12
assessment 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
00:43:23
this could have been a straight up vehicle accident tragic accidental death of Grant
00:43:30
Solomon and Aaron Solomon is still sexually abusing his daughter don't we live in a world where
00:43:38
Angie Solomon is just as crazy and addicted to drugs as he said that she was and he was still abusing his
00:43:46
daughter yes I don't think we need to make an assessment on those items for one of these crimes to be true
00:43:56
yeah and if you watch her video I mean my my take away from it is I have no reason to not believe that what Gracie
00:44:04
is stating on those what Gracie is stating during that video is is true and so why aren't there charges being
00:44:13
brought to against her father Gracie in that video is approximately 15 years of age the the the just sheer shame and
00:44:25
embarrassment in in having to put together that statement and then release it to the
00:44:33
world for her to to stand up over that potential shame and embarrassment God bless her that's not
00:44:41
an easy thing to do she's 15 approximately at the time of that video she's 14 at the time of her older
00:44:48
brother's death and that took place in 2020 the divorce was finalized and custody given to Aaron Solomon in 2014
00:44:59
six years prior she has made claims Gracie has made claims that he was in some forms sexually abusing her at a very
00:45:10
young age and all of this carrying through up until around the time of Grant's death I'm with you Captain I I can't see
00:45:22
anything in that statement other than I I believe this little girl and the the other problem I have is these
00:45:31
allegations of abuse by Gracie were presented to her school at different courses at different
00:45:38
times in her life there's documentation to back up my previous statement and I want to live in a
00:45:48
world of course where parents don't abuse their children but what do we tell our kids that if someone is abusing you
00:45:57
if someone is harming you if somebody's doing something to you that you don't like or that they shouldn't do who do
00:46:02
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 tell
00:46:11
children that are not ours if your abuser is one of your parents you should be able to go to your
00:46:20
school officials and tell them I want to live in a world where when that abused child goes to those school officials and
00:46:28
reports this and says you know the stuff my dad does it's weird and it's hurting
00:46:32
me and I don't know what it is I want to live in a world where those school officials take it to the next level take
00:46:38
it to the next step and do something about it not turn the child away not hand them back into the arms of their
00:46:45
accused abuser if that abuse is true this community failed this little girl well I'm thankful for all the
00:46:55
listeners to allow us for this to be our job because it's a subject that obviously
00:47:03
we're both fascinated with but this case was very difficult especially with the abuse allegations yeah with the
00:47:12
Gracie video is is very difficult but where where we stand today is again why no investigation into this
00:47:22
death and also where we stay as far as where Gracie is concerned she is she is not in the custody of her mother she is
00:47:31
in the custody of D CS so again when we have these accusations by Gracie why is there we have these allegations against
00:47:45
the father is there being a is there an investigation being looked into to these
00:47:54
allegations exactly and look we all want to live and raise our families in a nice
00:48:01
neighborhood in a in a nice Community Gallatin Tennessee is a nice Community nice area Franklin Tennessee nice area
00:48:09
where these people live and and worked and the thing is we want to live in these nice areas
00:48:17
in these nice communities for resources that can prevent a murder or investigate a
00:48:26
homicide investigate this death investigate these abuse Alle allegations and none of these resources
00:48:35
seem to have been utilized in this situation it seems very backwards to me I can't sit here and make a full
00:48:44
assessment or form a great opinion of what I confidently believe happened in Grant Solomon's death I can't form a
00:48:52
great confident opinion in what happened in their divorce or who was right or who
00:48:56
was wrong or who should have had custody of the children but what I can sit here
00:49:01
and say is that the the abuse allegations the reports to the school the reports to other people that could
00:49:09
have stepped in seem to have Sid stepped this situation rather than looking at it
00:49:15
in the eye and facing it head on I encourage every one of you to go to freedom4 gra.com Freedom the number4
00:49:24
gra.com look at the information there it is a very one-sided website but you can look at the
00:49:33
information and do just what we did here we didn't fall on the side of homicide with everything that we reviewed from
00:49:40
their website go there and form your own opinions on these on the information that's presented there and more
00:49:48
importantly one thing I do want to give the website kudos for and the people that put this website together that they
00:49:54
do offer resources to those out there quick reference resources to those out there that if you have suffered any
00:50:02
abuse or know someone that has if you or someone you love is the Survivor of sexual abuse rape or incest
00:50:12
do know that you can call Rain which is r a i NN the rape abuse and incest national network at 800
00:50:24
65646 73 or you can visit their website to chat with a counselor we're not saying
00:50:32
that there can be charges brought in the death of Grant and we can't say that there should be charges brought in the
00:50:38
abuse of Gracie but what we can say with certainty is there should be proper investigations into both
00:50:46
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