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a pleasant suburb outside vancouver washington a desperate text sent by young children
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and they sent you a text message that said help and that mom and dad were fighting and we said help help help this
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fighter days later and mom tiffany hill was at a school event when she got a phone call
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about her estranged husband keyland she looked like a ghost she said i have to go meet my social worker
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he tried to buy a gun he went to walmart and tried to purchase a bolt-action rifle to take care of a
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varmint inside his home for weeks keyland hill stalked his wife we were pressing the officer to check
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the car there's there's no way that he would have known she was here unless he
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was tracking her how long could tiffany hill keep running from keeland tiffany always said the
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only way i'm going to get out of this is if he kills me he was a terrorist he terrorized her
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they had met whilst serving in the marines was one trained killer about to target another
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his wife [Music] [Music] [Music] when the hill family moved to the city of vancouver in washington state in 2016
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they shared little about their former life with their new friends tiffany and husband keeland ex-marines
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trained to fight to kill with a domestic history of violence too once his rage with the marriage started
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kind of like getting out of hand uh that's when he started becoming more physical
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the neighborhood of sifton to the northwest of vancouver offered a new start for keeland and tiffany hill who
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kept the troubled secret pass to themselves tiffany was very closed off she didn't share
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herself with anybody but as tiffany's friendship blossomed with fellow mom karina knight she began
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to open up about her eight-year marriage before they really knew each other she didn't like him at all she thought he
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was cocky he was always flirting with everybody and you know she's she's a new yorker you know she's from
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brooklyn she doesn't she didn't do that she's very smart tiffany and keeland had been deployed to
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iraq she was his commanding officer they would work like 24-hour shifts and it just blossomed it was very short
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you know that it happened and also they started dating and i think it was they couldn't live together when they were
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going to be coming back over here so they kind of rushed to get married that way they could
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live together right away in 2008 she sustains an injury and is forced to retire from the military she retires as
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a sergeant the closer they got the more tiffany's friends learned about how troubled her marriage to keeland
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actually was i had asked her at any point in your marriage were you happy and she said at the very beginning
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but you know we met in the military and i didn't really want to date him and
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he wore me down and that was another huge red flag to me criminologist dr brian frederick
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researchers intimate partner violence he also sees the way tiffany and keelan's
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relationship began as a red flag one of the first things that these these perpetrators will do is to gain the
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trust of their you know their future victim and one way they do that is by you know
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maybe sending them repeated texts during the day oh i love you oh you're the
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person you know you're the person for me i went through tiffany's house and went
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through all of her things and i was able to find all of their love letters from the very beginning um
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and i only read one or two it was an intense love from the very beginning very codependent an intense
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love that began to flounder when the couple started a family she had just said that things
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seemed different when she'd had their oldest child he did not like the attention that she and
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the baby got he wanted a thousand percent of her all the time he'd even tell her like
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there'd be emails that she'd show me i mean he's even saying like if i can't
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have you i don't want the kids the kids that didn't matter to him it was her it
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was having her that's what he wanted two more children came along but keeland
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was determined to have tiffany to himself the move to washington seems to have been part of that need
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she did mention that they moved a couple of times to get away from family and that this was the biggest move
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to washington state she said it was to purposely get away from her family to kind of isolate her from from her family
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and friends one of the tactics in in an abusive power and control relationship is this
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what's called divide and conquer where you try to separate um your your your partner your potential
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victim from their closest friends and family the move 2 000 miles away from michigan
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was a bone of contention from the start he was offered a job out here and tiffany did not want to
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come out here her family was back there she'd been working on her community um
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back there and keelan took the job told them they were moving out here and then left her there to pack
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what tiffany said was he moved her out here to get her away from the support network that she had
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but for him it was all sunshine and daisies you know he moved out here to make a better life for the family
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perhaps keelan didn't anticipate that his wife would immediately begin to build a new support network for herself
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and the children she was new and it was like an instant thing she kind of just started saddling up to me
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and we just got to talking and from that moment on it was like we'd always known
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each other the couple fitted in fine with the community turns out i did actually like her her
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husband quite a bit him and i got along instantly and um we just became friends over that you
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know everybody loved keelan everybody that knew him liked him he was vivacious he was fun he
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was you know he was handsome you know he could woo you in a minute like he was just
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funny you wanted to be around him he was extremely personable and kind of like made you feel at ease very
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hospitable and generous and we kind of had like the same dark sense of humor and
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so we got along really well tiffany joined the parent teacher association at a children's elementary
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school and quickly gained a reputation as a generous hard-working member of the team
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a staff appreciation she went overboard she did all of the decorations she planned the whole thing she made food
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she would do like a staff breakfast to where she's up all night the night before or she's up early
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that morning getting things ready and bringing things in and they were super yummy
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and the staff just gobbled it all up quickly at one point during her really rough patch
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she was up until 2 a.m making food for our staff and she was crying because she said it's
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not enough i didn't do enough before long tiffany's friends realized that it wasn't just at school that she
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was running herself ragged she was working hard for her husband keelan too tiffany from the first day i met her she
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was a single parent and she did everything everything she did every single meal all of the cleaning
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all the school work all the school activities all the clothes shoppings all the school things
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everything tiffany did everything by herself she never asked him for help and he never offered help
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another new friend renee sundby president of the pta formed a poor first impression of keeland hill he was in our
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pta room and he was sprawled out in the chair and we were working on carnival so that's you know
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we have games and a bouncy house and balloon animals for all our kids and we are frantically prepping for carnival
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all of our spouses are helping and he's sitting in the room completely laid back with a smile on his
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face like he was a lot just he was the guy and and i just i didn't remember until later that was
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my first reaction to him was i actually took a step backwards and i thought to myself
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why are you in here why aren't you helping us because most people would you know your
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your wife is out there working you get up and you help tiffany was hard-working generous but
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her friends noted that for her husband whatever she did was never enough the marriage wasn't the way he wanted it
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to be he ex he wanted like you know a 50s style marriage where the woman stayed home and cooked
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and did what he said but tiffany was an independent spirit and she was extremely
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active in in her children's education and was volunteering all the time for everything she just gave up herself
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constantly and so he'd be upset that she wasn't she wasn't at home doing the dishes or
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cleaning the house or have dinner ready because she was so busy volunteering all the time
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you could tell there wasn't a closeness that you can see in a lot of marriages
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there weren't like the little touches the hand holdings there weren't things like that and i always saw that
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from the very beginning um whenever he'd enter a room at any time she would automatically like stiffen
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like her shoulders would kind of go up a little bit she was no longer that relaxed
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talking he'd come in the room and she automatically would start like tending
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to him like what he needed what he needed to do and like take orders from him the hill's new circle of friends sensed
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that the couple's marriage was not perfect they had no idea just how badly keelan
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treated tiffany behind closed doors he was a terrorist he terrorized her and he did it in front of the children
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who one night sent out anxious text to messages help help when keelan hill had made his wife move
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away from her family it was just step one in an escalating pattern of torment sometimes witnessed by friends and
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neighbours things were not happy inside the keelan hill household i never saw any physical behavior about
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the way he talked to her you know once he got really comfortable around us it was not that was a behavior of a good
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spouse kind of degrading things like if she you know wore a nice outfit or something he would
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he would just say you know talk down to her and oh what do you think you're so
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hot you can wear stuff like that and that was his public behavior in private it was far worse
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she was tired because he also was sleep depriving her when she would sleep he would turn on
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the tv as loud in their bedroom keeps put water all over her side of the bed so when she'd get into bed it would be
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soaking wet she told me that he would keep her awake for hours if not days at a time
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just to kind of play with the mental side of it and kind of slapped her around several times uh sometimes in front of
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the kids keyland was good he would never show anything in front of anybody that's
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why you could never believe that this was happening but he would do little things
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when i was there it's like he'd come in through the front door from being at
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work after tiffany hadn't slept for however many weeks in a row you know she wasn't
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eating she was just a wreck um and he'd come in and if you know if she was just talking to the kids and
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doing homework he'd automatically be like oh no hug for me you know he wanted more of that
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attention once he got comfortable with me he started speaking more freely uh of course it was
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his version of the story so my wife you know we tell each other everything and so
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she would tell me things about the relationship that tiffany had told her and and then i would hear his side of the
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story but i wouldn't tell him that i knew those things you know i'd keep that to myself
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the troubling version of events that tiffany was telling karina knight didn't
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match the stories keeland was telling his new buddy isaiah knight my own opinion i had to be careful
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because i knew all of their deep dark secrets everything terrible that he was doing to her
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and um the torment that was going on in their marriage but i knew that if i let on to him that
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i knew what was going on he would take it out on her i have to present you know a false persona basically to him i have
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to pretend like i'm still his brother i'm still his friend to protect tiffany as soon as i think he
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realized that tiffany was confiding in me is when he started changing with me it was a problem tiffany recognized only
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too well keelan would realize that she had someone to confide in and set about splitting them up
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she's like he's starting i was like what do you mean she's like he's starting he's starting to try to
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make me doubt my friendship with you i call it schmoozing kind of schmoozing over and making sure
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everyone is on his side and that she seems crazy to think about these different things that are going on
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that it's all in her head it's nothing it's nothing big it's nothing real
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of course i wanted her to leave the very first time she told me this was going on
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but he'd find her no matter what she did or where she went that was her thing
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she's like he'll find me he will find a way to me he will break apart every
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friendship and relationship that i have and i will have to go back to him because she'd always forgiven him she'd
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always let him come back accepted his apologies and he always went back to doing the same in late summer 2019
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keelan did something that tiffany could no longer keep from her friends and neighbors we were supposed to have our
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first official pta meeting at the school and she had texted me and said i don't
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know if i'll be there tonight i have a concussion all i could think of was she's supposed
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to go in a car accident because for me in my life i had never been around at least knowingly someone
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who was in a domestic violence situation september 11 2019 keeland gets angry and goes after
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tiffany he throws her into a wall he chases her down a flight of stairs she tries to call 9-1-1 she's terrified he
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slaps the phone out of her hand one of their children asked google or whatever amazon echo that they
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had to call someone they sent you a text message that said help and that mom and
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dad were fighting and we said help help and saying help something happened this friday
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okay they told her what was happening and she called 9-1-1 from a different state
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because he had taken her phone so she couldn't call 9-1-1 did you hear any yelling in the background or anything
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like that they were yelling tiffany was injured so badly in this assault that she had gotten whiplash in
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a concussion and had to be seen by neurologists the police came and he was arrested and
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that night she came to the meeting and after the meeting karina who's her best friend
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came in with her and she was crying and i said are you okay and karina said you tell her and you tell her now
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she needs to know and so tiffany had said my husband pushed me my head hit the wall i have a concussion
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he's abusive injured and in pain her children having witnessed a frightening act of violence
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tiffany hill was forced to confront the reality of her unhappy marriage her kids were getting older and she was
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seen like this is what they're going to think is acceptable for them you know that this is how people get to
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treat them this time she goes to police and she files on him this time tiffany is not going to back down
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this was the first time that tiffany's friends in vancouver had heard a full
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account of the relentless abuse that she had suffered at keelan's hands abuse which began shortly after their
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wedding when they were living in the east coast and it was right after uh right after they both got out of the
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military and i'm not quite sure all the details but basically in a drunken rage he tried to
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choke the life out of her literally and she managed to get out of the house and got to a neighbor's house and
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the police were called and he was arrested but eventually he got her to drop the charges then she
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said they moved to maryland and he was abusive in maryland and she said i would call 9-1-1 and the police would
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show up and they would say well you've been drinking just go sleep it off in the basement that's what they
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told him they wouldn't arrest him they just told him to go sleep in the basement
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detective tanya woolstein was ready in waiting when tiffany went to vancouver's
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domestic violence prosecution center to document the full history of her husband's abusive behavior
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eighty percent or so of domestic violence victims recant they don't want to cooperate with investigations they
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are in such a state of being manipulated and gaslighted and financially dependent a
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number of other things tiffany had made that decision to break away she was reporting she was she was asking for
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help tiffany explained that this is all a game to keelan and he's threatened to
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kill her before and to kill her or hurt her would mean nothing to him it's all a
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game to him and she felt like she'd be the one to lose what tiffany and i talked about was
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a brief history of their relationship and then focused on what had been going on
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more recently the authorities decide that action is needed against the trained killer
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keyland hill the day after the attack clark county officials issue a no contact order against keelan hill
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in the paperwork that tiffany fills out supporting this no contact order she has
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written that if he were angry enough and drunk enough and he had a gun he would use it on me and he would kill
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me some victims we do have great concerns about their safety and tiffany would be one so i would say
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i have more contact with tiffany than the average domestic violence victim more along the lines of domestic
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violence victims who i am seriously concerned will be seriously harmed or murdered by their
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abuser keelan was served with the protection order and arrested he was arrested for
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interfering with the report of domestic violence and assault keeland was released on bail the no
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contact order barred him from going within 250 feet of his wife and from contacting her in person or by phone he
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was also banned from buying or possessing a gun would this be enough to protect mrs hill
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from her angry controlling husband especially after he had the restraining orders and after he had been out of jail
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he was showing me the dark side he had a seriously bad evil in him they had met married and had three
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children but by september 2019 it seemed that tiffany hill's husband keeland
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had murder on his mind keelandhill may have been arrested in order to stay away from his wife but the
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former marine was not in a mood to obey orders keelan was released on bail after his
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arrest and he almost immediately began to violate the protection order he began making inquiries trying to work
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out where tiffany would be and when she would be there one of the things that keyland did after the protection order
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was he went to the bowling alley and tried to get coaching for his daughter and he asked the folks at the
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bowling alley would tiffany be present while her daughter was being instructed several days later tiffany receives a
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facetime call from keeland she doesn't answer it he later claims that oh it it
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was an accident but it continues one violation after another minor transgressions on the face of it
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but former homicide detective rod demery believes they speak volumes about keelandhill's attitude
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when someone is made so many different violations of a protection order then it's clear that
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they have no intention on ever following that protection order probably after the first violation
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certainly the second violation some steps should be taken he was still texting her every day sending her
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facebook messages all the way through october on october 6th a phone call that devastated tiffany we have an assembly
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at the school she gets a phone call she comes back out of the room that she was in
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she looked like a ghost and i said what's going on and she said i have to go meet my social worker
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he tried to buy a gun he went to walmart and tried to purchase a bolt-action rifle to take care of a
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varmint inside his home that is the day that i think her soul died she was just a shell of a human she was
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so devastated that he had tried to buy a gun and and what that was going to mean to her
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as he tried to purchase this weapon the background check was completed and it showed up that he had been charged with
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domestic abuse and had a protected order against him background checks are linked through all
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law enforcement systems it's almost real time so if someone's attempting to buy a
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weapon and they have a protection from abuse order or something like that the jurisdiction that issued is almost
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immediately notified the theory behind it is to catch someone in the act because it is illegal to attempt to
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purchase a weapon knowing that you have a protection from abuse order against a sheriff's deputy
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shows up at the scene and talks to keyland and keelan's real calm that that deputy then reports it to
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the clark county officials in washington state the following day a warrant was issued
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for keelan hill's arrest but by then no longer living in the family home deputies struggled to locate him
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he said he stayed at a friend's house his other friend who lived a half hour 45 minutes from their house
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and he would also say things like he's living in his car you know by the river
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but he would just say things you know i don't know if it had any truth to them
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whatsoever he was he had so much untruthfulness about him he would just say whatever he had to so he's not
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arrested nothing happens and he's still out there five weeks would pass before
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police could take him into custody in the meantime everyone around tiffany did what they could to keep her safe
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we did plan on here are the things that we need to do to try to keep you safe because we know that he's out there
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trying to purchase firearm we talked about calling 911 immediately and leaving the area immediately and
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many other things we'd been practicing lockdowns at the school they were prepared they were
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you know security guards at the school every day i believe they sent his picture to all
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the staff members and you know this person is because there's a restraining order
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he could have came and got the kids out of school because the restraining order wasn't at based at the children it was
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on her but she was always there if keyland showed up doors locked they hit the button
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classrooms lock everything locks whenever we go to somewhere i would go somewhere first take a look around make
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sure he wasn't there and then she'd come behind me you know if we went out to lunch
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i'd go in first let her know okay you're good and then she could come in
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and can you imagine like what a way to live i think the hardest part for me was being at the school and walking out to
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my car with tiffany and the kids because i never tried to let her walk out by herself but having to tell my 10 year
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old if you see the kids dad and i tell you to run i want you to run and i want you to hide
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and i don't want you to come find me i don't want you to look back i don't want
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you to come for me i want you to find a safe place just a few days after keelan's shopping
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trip to oregon another breach of the restraining order on october 10th 2019 keelan shows up at the peach tree
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restaurant where coincidentally tiffany hill is there we have a just a board meeting at our restaurant here in
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vancouver and we're all leaving and i see this man walking up and he smiles at me and i think to myself
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well that looks like keyland and i said okay he's not supposed to be here he
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can't be here and i hear tiffany say oh my god and she starts running for the
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car keelan's yelling at her i just want to see my kids and then realizes you know we're all
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coming towards him like this is going to be us forming a circle right around her
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and he runs sheriff's deputies were called to the peachtree restaurant and when they arrived he had already
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left for another four weeks keeland hill remained a free man free to continue terrorizing his wife free to keep
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turning up wherever she might be in restaurants at the grocery store at the school
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how was he doing it on november 7th the support group and tiffany made a breakthrough of sorts
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tiffany reports that keeland keeps showing up at all kinds of locations where she is
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wherever she is he just seems to be there she tells police police go to talk to kylan they find him at a bowling
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alley he appears to be trying to delete an app on his phone why would keyland want to hide an app on
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his phone from the cops all of a sudden tiffany's friends knew how keeland was able to keep showing up
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wherever she was i tell her the only way for him to know that you're here because we're parked in
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the very back is he has to be following you or tracking you that is the only way
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the parking lot was all the way in the back i mean you would have never seen someone pull in and park
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we knew that he was somehow tracking her we didn't know how we didn't know if it
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was by our phone or if there was something on our car but we just we knew that there was some way of him tracking
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her we were pressing the officer to check the car check the car there's there's no way
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that he would have known she was here unless he was tracking her eventually they searched tiffany's
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vehicle and beneath the wheel well of the vehicle was a small black box that was used as a gps tracking device
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[Music] at that point killing was arrested taken into custody for stalking and violating his protective order his
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vehicle and his cell phones were taken as evidence on november 8 2019 tiffany hill goes back to the prosecution center
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to report yet more violations of the domestic violence no contact order and the vancouver police decide you know they
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want to do a risk assessment tiffany was very concerned that keelan was going to
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murder her we use a danger assessment that's essentially a lethality predictor
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for our victim she scored very high on that 31 out of 41 which is an extreme risk category for us
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we were all very concerned about tiffany's safety for now tiffany's extremely dangerous
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husband keelan was safely behind bars but for how long on november 21 2019 keyland hill had a bail hearing
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the state believes that if the defendant is released he will kill the victim the
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prosecutors argue to the judge this man is dangerous if if he gets out he will kill her
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so they argue for keelan's bail to be raised from 75 000 to 2 million dollars she had hired a
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lawyer for her to advocate for her who told the judge he will kill her tiffany is begging you he will kill her she had
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done all these things to help protect herself and to work within the system i stopped reporting because he's made
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aware of it if i report and i'm scared of his anger and retaliation despite my non-report he continued to
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escalate because he feels he's smarter than everybody else and he's untouchable in a
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statement read out in court tiffany tried to explain the fear and threat that she had lived under every day
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he's here now because he placed a tracking device on my vehicle and tried to possess a weapon
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those two things are major indicators of what i've known all along deep down that
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he's going to kill me if he's given the opportunity i beg you to not allow him to get to me
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and my children i have no family here nowhere to go we have no money and nowhere to
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hide from him he's made sure of that thank you following supreme court bail guidelines
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keyland hill was released the judge looks at the records and he says well i don't know i mean this guy
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you know he doesn't have a criminal history because of course he has forced tiffany to drop all the charges
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including attempted murder he has a job he's gainfully employed he's not a flight risk
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uh he has served in the military honorably and then the prosecutor argues well if
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you're going to not raise the bail then at least put an electronic tracker on him and the
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judge says no i don't think so for a period of a month he had violated domestic violence orders the protection
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orders 64 times that we know of washington state senator linda wilson who campaigns to protect
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domestic violence victims thinks that tracking perpetrators is essential to stopping them she's fought for a law to
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better monitor abusers the gist of it is for victims of domestic violence that can
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get electronic monitoring on their abuser uh this bill will create a real-time notification of this electronic
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monitoring so 24 7 and then if the abuser gets too close then they will um get an alert on their
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phone through an app for tiffany hill there was no such protection keeland hill is released on bail two hundred fifty
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thousand dollars bail meaning he only had to post twenty five hundred dollars would putting keenan hill back on the
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streets be shown to be a mistake we heard the tones that initially sounded like perhaps a school shooting
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it came out rather quickly that this wasn't like an active shooter situation
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vancouver washington november 26 2019 tiffany hill's mother had arrived from
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new york to support her daughter that afternoon keelan hill drives to sarah j anderson elementary
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school the school where he knows that his wife will soon be arriving to pick up their three children he must have
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been parked in such a way that he could see tiffany's car so he could see when
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she came out he was there in the lot for approximately 20 minutes talking on the
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phone with his mother after the 20 minutes he pulled out of his parking spot pulled up in front of tiffany's vehicle
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so he was parked kind of perpendicular to her vehicle got out of the vehicle stood in front and the driver's side
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shot several times through the driver's side window and then had some kind of a malfunction
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with his firearm it appears i went back to his his car trunk and appeared to kind of reload or clear his malfunction
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came to the side of the driver's side and fired a couple additional rounds then got into his car and fled
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the fact that you would fire inside a vehicle there there are all sorts of dangers
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of a ricochet pass through oh god it's just it's numerous firing a firearm in any small space is a
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dangerous undertaking also in the car tiffany's mother tiffany's mom was shot trying to
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protect her tiffany's mom leaned over and and did the the thing that they do
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you know just the instinctual reaching out to try to protect her daughter and she was shot and in her arms and her
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hands several times clark county uh deputies were actually executing a warrant just a few blocks
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away so when the call came out they left the scene of the warrant and i believe he had probably heard the the sirens
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so they were right on him as he was leaving keelan's first objective and his primary
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objective was to kill tiffany and then secondarily he perhaps would have focused on others and perhaps if clark
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county hadn't been so close and he had more time we don't know what he would have done
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so i'm certainly grateful that they were there because i believe they saved those
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children's lives once first responders get to a school and there's been a shooting like that
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immediately the school is going to be on lockdown there's going to be a parameter
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set around the school and a search is going to begin i just heard part of the lockdown procedure
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um go into place and i wasn't quite sure like is this real or not real so i was at work at the domestic violence
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prosecution center so we heard the tones it initially sounded like perhaps the school shooting
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so we all began gearing up and getting ready to leave it came out rather quickly that this wasn't like an active
00:36:38
shooter situation and then they mentioned tiffany's name on the air and that's when i
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knew it was tiffany it was devastating i mean i remember just yelling to a boyd across the office it's tiffany it's
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tiffany and just feeling so terrible as one set of first responders rushed to help tiffany and her mother another was
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on the tail of the fleeing keeland hill keelan was located and he let police on a high-speed chase speeds up
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to 75 miles per hour on busy streets in a situation such as a fleeing person in a very populated area or dangerous
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area one has to decide which one would cause the less amount of damage letting this person run
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free or pursuing them but if the police officers pursued or the first responders
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pursued keelan it was because they thought he was a higher risk by fleeing with a firearm
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because it was a danger he was a danger to himself and he was a clear danger to other people the deputies actually
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attempted to stop his vehicle by ramming it with theirs and pursued him until he got caught in
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traffic and that's when keelan exited the vehicle turned to face the oncoming
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officers and shot himself a marriage forged in war had ended in the death of mr keeland hill and his
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wife tiffany in the meantime word was starting to get out there had been an incident at the
00:38:24
school i had just gotten home from work all of a sudden uh her phone just started
00:38:29
blowing up you know karina have you heard but there's a shooting at the school it's
00:38:35
tiffany i had just turned on my phone and was already on facebook and it said school
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shooting and i knew instantly i called her phone first i called the school and then about three minutes
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later the school called me um and they said you need to get here the kids are waiting for you they know you're coming
00:38:58
someone actually called me and and told me about an hour later yep it was tiffany
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uh they're not telling us if she's gone or not um but you know i think she is i have um
00:39:15
friends who are in the medical community so i texted and said he shot he shot her
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and he killed her and rumor has it he shot himself and she texted me back and said yeah
00:39:26
he's he's gone tiffany and her mother were both taken to the hospital tiffany was pronounced
00:39:31
dead on arrival and her mother miraculously survived we immediately left our three kids with
00:39:37
our neighbor we booked it down to the school we had to be cleared before we could go in when we
00:39:45
went in there the kids had no idea what was going on they saw their mother get shot but they didn't know she was dead
00:39:51
we were with the children when the when the sheriff told them that their father had killed their mother and then
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killed himself the shocking crime was reported widely senator linda wilson became even more
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determined to push forward her bill to protect domestic abuse victims well i was watching television and i saw
00:40:12
the police report on the news and of course when i saw that it broke my heart because i um
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witnessed domestic violence as a child pretty consistently senator wilson contacted karina
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and had said you know i'd really like to use tiffany's name for this act we're trying to pass to become a law
00:40:34
and then with our testimony you know our personal experience and what we knew it went from
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there and it wasn't in my mind it wasn't gonna stop i told them this that i would like to honor tiffany
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in a way that would help others i think it's an important piece of legislation and i think that at the at
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the very best it can save lives and at the very least maybe give uh the victims of domestic violence control and some
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feeling of peace in their lives wilson believes being able to track their abusers movements is essential to
00:41:09
protecting victims had this technology been around then and tiffany had been have been available to
00:41:16
it she would have known more often when he was lurking because she would be notified on her
00:41:24
phone or her watch then they would get a real-time notification so as soon as that happened then they would be
00:41:30
notified that this person was within their geoprotection zone so many times with domestic violence
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victims these they it's the element of surprise that takes them off guard washington state lawmakers passed the
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tiffany hill act in 2020. all those in favor of adoption of the proposed substrate please say aye
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aye all those opposed say no the proposed substrate is adopted her friends believe it will protect more
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women like tiffany not only in washington but across the usa which is exactly what tiffany would have wanted
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she loved god she loved people she would give you the shirt off of her back she loved her kids her community she
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worked really hard at building a community she knew how important it was she knew
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it it takes a village tiffany hill is gone but because of her the domestic violence victims will be
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safer in our state and tiffany really will continue to serve in a different way tiffany and keenan hill were married in
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2008. keeland murdered tiffany in november 2019 moments before taking his own life
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in april 2020 the tiffany hill act to protect victims of abuse was signed into law
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