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kids walked home in the of

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around of ,000 people. people.

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the neighborhood streets were filled with children. were

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caught up with her friend caught

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up with her friend Lauren over the

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first few weeks of school. over talking

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of single-family

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homes, School was full of

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single family homes very

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close together. many There

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were sidewalks, but many kids chose to

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take the alley. that's separated. backyards

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as they're route home. A

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mere block from school, the

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girls stopped to part ways.

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he told her bye, and she

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made it, and she was about

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to hurry. On the next street

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over, a boy named Garrett had

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just made it to the intersection

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when the car flew by. It

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was a gray, golden shot. He

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was on the sidewalk waiting to

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cross the street when he saw

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the Tahoe stop in front of

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the alley. From his perspective, he

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only saw one person. Lauren.

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by to her friends

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and turned to walk

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away, a vehicle pulled

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up abruptly. Further down

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the alley were three

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other students. Elijah, Hope,

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and Crystal. It

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wasn't uncommon for kids to

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get picked up on their

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route home, but something about

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this vehicle seemed strange. Garrett

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on the next street over

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noticed the window when the Tahoe

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was down. Then

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he noticed something else. And

10:00

then And then, did you see

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anything unusual out out of that?

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that that window that was down on

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the on the driver's side door? Okay.

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Elijah Elijah, Hope, and

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Crystal saw the gun, too. didn't

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but immediately recognize the

10:15

danger. danger. At first I thought it

10:17

was a paintball was a BB gun gun

10:19

or a BB gun to play pranks and all

10:21

that. to play tranks

10:23

and all the sound. they heard the

10:25

sounded like something popping on us. When

10:28

I I think back to it, it's all

10:30

silent. all silent. I just thought there was fire

10:33

didn't really who didn't really

10:35

first. anything about it the little

10:37

boy on the street corner, boy the

10:39

sound immediately. corner, His father sound a

10:41

cop. His father was a cop.

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I just or five him about four or

10:45

five you see or seven bench

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she Did you see what happened

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to Lauren? She felt out out

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and Crystal ground. Suddenly, was

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any of it. prank. until Warren

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fell and Michael ran. Chaos

11:01

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11:03

the surrounding streets as the as

11:05

the away. away. Some

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their lives. their lives. Elijah Hope

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and Crystal ducked into Hope's

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backyard, but... The back

11:16

door to her house was locked. her house

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was Garrett took off running

11:20

and started banging on his and

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frantically. banging to find help. doors

11:25

on the door trying to get help. Yes, ma 'am.

11:27

Are you scared? Yes, Dallas. Has you

11:29

ever seen you ever seen anything like that before? Never.

11:32

After the sound of After the

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sound of gunshots stopped, Crystal

11:36

slowly slowly ventured back into

11:39

the alley. back Well, we

11:41

went back outside alley the alley to see

11:43

what had happened. And we saw And we on the

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we saw she the ground where she had

11:47

fallen. also And we also saw She looked She she

11:49

like she was out with her phone to

11:51

dial a number. dialing her number. I

11:53

asked her if she was she was

11:55

she said she said no, and like... And so I'm

11:58

saw a blade and said it was, like, calm.

12:00

Like we were asking what was going

12:02

on. I said, it was like

12:04

a real gun or what. She

12:06

said yes. And she was on

12:08

the phone trying to get her

12:10

hand over where she had been

12:12

shot. And so I got one

12:14

thing. I like, I kind of

12:16

got over the shop and it

12:18

was more frightened at that point.

12:20

And so I pulled out my

12:22

phone and I called my dad.

12:24

I looked back towards the other

12:26

shot of the alley towards the

12:28

apartment and I thought I saw.

12:30

that car, but I wasn't sure,

12:32

so I told hope to get

12:34

in her backyard. And I ran

12:36

past everything to the front of

12:38

Hopest House to go get her

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mom to unlock the back door.

12:42

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12:44

at a loss for what to

12:46

do. Most called their parents, but

12:48

Crystal risked herself to keep her

12:50

friends safe. She had to run

12:52

past her fallen classmate. I just

12:54

really didn't want to look at

12:57

her, because I was scared. Once

12:59

her mother entered the door, what'd

13:01

you do? I hugged her and

13:03

I cried a little bit and

13:05

then I told her hope was

13:07

in the backyard. Nearby, Navy and

13:09

Army veteran John Lewis heard the

13:11

shots from his backyard and sprang

13:13

into action. I was actually in

13:15

my backyard, my patio, and I

13:17

was approaching to my daughter's 13th

13:19

birthday party. His backyard was just

13:21

on the other side of a

13:23

privacy fence from the alley. Luckily

13:25

his daughter hadn't taken the alley

13:27

that day. Normally she walks down

13:29

the alley, but she didn't on

13:31

that day. She actually went down

13:33

Kingston. She just bought her bicycle.

13:35

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13:37

the tiger, so she didn't drive

13:39

down the alley because there's glass.

13:41

So she took Kingston Street and

13:43

wrote her bike down that way.

13:45

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13:47

when he heard the shots. gunshots.

13:49

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13:51

local or semi-automatic kind of a

13:53

weapon. was firing all military training

13:55

I had kind

13:57

of kicked to kick down.

13:59

first one one was

14:01

a shot then a second

14:03

second maybe is when

14:05

when just let all the

14:07

all of them. I got fired

14:09

got fired off

14:11

in rapid succession

14:13

fast. It was fast

14:15

it was real

14:17

fast three to

14:20

five seconds maybe

14:22

all of them

14:24

all of them maybe. His Is

14:26

military training kicked in? in.

14:28

He He even recognized the sound

14:30

of the sound of the and was able

14:32

to identify the able to as

14:34

a the caliber as a 22.

14:36

The 22 has kind of a of

14:39

a short crack sound to

14:41

it it's a little heavier, a little more

14:43

a little heavier of a

14:45

a little more this was a

14:47

sound. kids started this

14:50

was when kids started to get out

14:52

of school. for the He was worried

14:54

for the other in the the community.

14:56

I instantly the the I knew I

14:58

kids were getting out of school.

15:00

I knew the direction, I knew the

15:02

direction, coming from the the shots were

15:04

I dropped the cups alley. I dropped the

15:06

ran instantly ran to I have six foot privacy notes.

15:08

I over over my six foot,

15:10

I climbed up and jumped

15:12

over my six foot over fence. foot

15:14

fence. I fall with fence. I the fence,

15:16

hit the ground so hard hard that

15:18

my four blocks came off my

15:20

feet. And I didn't realize that until the place

15:22

police had arrived. This This man

15:24

the the face of danger into

15:26

into action. his his

15:28

fence and landing in the alley. alley so

15:31

so hard it blew his flip -flops. With

15:33

this with this experience and battle

15:35

both in the in and the and the

15:38

Army, It didn't matter matter he

15:40

was was barefoot. In In the

15:42

alley, he looked for

15:44

anyone that was that was hurt. I

15:46

saw a born, well I didn't know her name

15:48

at the time. I thought I just saw a

15:51

young girl laying there, and I ran to her.

15:53

As I ran to her, after two events, I

15:55

ran to her, talking out like a tunnel vision.

15:57

What I did, when I ran, I didn't know.

16:00

look in the cars, everything was just

16:02

kind of not there. And I ran

16:04

there, I don't know if there was

16:06

a shooter, I didn't know, I just

16:08

knew there was kids, I saw a

16:11

little girl laying there. And when I

16:13

approached Lauren, when I got to Lauren,

16:15

the military time kicked in, or I

16:17

was supposed to, you know, you set

16:20

the situation, see what's going on, do

16:22

you know, the active shooter, or other

16:24

people wounded, check the person that you

16:26

come up on. And I noticed that.

16:29

I'm not a doctor, I'm not

16:32

a nurse, I'm not a parent

16:34

or anything, but my training, I

16:36

know when someone's gone. Their signs

16:39

do you look for. One is

16:41

their blood, like a mass amount

16:43

of blood. So the heart stops,

16:45

and I can push blood around.

16:48

I can see much of any

16:50

other. The way she was laying,

16:52

I don't ever used her wrist,

16:55

was in a pinch position, or

16:57

anybody was conscious, or was alive,

16:59

they wouldn't, not there, to be

17:02

in that kind of position. He

17:04

wasn't a doctor or a nurse,

17:06

but he could tell Lauren wasn't

17:09

with us any longer. When he

17:11

looked into her eyes, he was

17:13

sure. When I approached Lauren, I

17:16

noticed... Sorry. I don't have to

17:18

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17:20

I... I noticed that I... I

17:23

noticed that I... when I was

17:25

a tree, it was a flat

17:27

feeling worse, or the death stare.

17:30

The feeling of the entry, like

17:32

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17:34

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17:37

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17:39

felt just, just like that, just,

17:41

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17:44

didn't, it's just, it was a

17:46

flat feeling, words, you know, something

17:48

that just happened. It was too

17:51

late for Lauren, but John could

17:53

still help Michaela. I heard a

17:55

child off my lip so come

17:58

down from the alley saying that.

18:00

another child was shot. I looked

18:02

up and that's when I saw

18:05

Michaela. She was standing there and

18:07

I ran to her and I

18:09

linked her down. By this time,

18:12

John's daughter had arrived to witness

18:14

the chaos. When I laid her

18:16

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18:19

yelled at her, give me something

18:21

to pull your holes. And so

18:23

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18:26

and it felt so fast. Michaela

18:28

was bleeding, but she seemed to

18:30

be okay. I said, you're a

18:33

champ. You're going to be fine.

18:35

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18:37

up. You're a champ. And by

18:40

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18:42

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18:44

to, you know, stop the bleeding.

18:47

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18:49

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18:51

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18:54

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18:56

situation dawned on John on John.

18:58

That's when I kind of came

19:01

to a little bit more and

19:03

realized that all hell is breaking

19:05

loose. There's just people everywhere, kids

19:08

crying, men trying. There was everybody's

19:10

crying. They're all over the place

19:12

and I try to stop. Everybody

19:15

tried to get him away from

19:17

Warren. People are trying to come

19:19

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19:22

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19:24

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19:26

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19:29

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19:31

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19:33

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19:35

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in A

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regular warm afternoon in Wichita

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Falls, Texas became a nightmare. McNeil,

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middle school students would

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never forget. 13

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-year -old would never

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forget. had been gunned

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down. Just a block

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away from Her close

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friend, Michaela Smith, was also

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shot, Smith would recover. shot,

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but on that street corner

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The havoc was still

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unfolding. street corner, the

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next was still unfolding. On

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the next for his life and

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immediately knew. something

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was wrong. running I

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was driving his there was

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a and immediately knew the

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tower towards my was wrong. When

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I pulled to the stop sign

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and saw someone something wrong. the

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alley, she why he's was strange.

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And in both both think me

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had four. When she first But she

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first saw Garrett running, her mind went

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to the more likely scenario. but

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he was running from school bullies. from

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but when she got to the stop sign

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and saw someone lying in the alley. sign

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and saw knew. that

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was more serious. alley, she knew did you think

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had happened serious. I thought maybe thought maybe she

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was hit by a vehicle. That

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was my first thought. And then I kind

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of I kind of through other scenarios

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that maybe someone maybe her because

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there her lot of kids screaming. there are

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a lot of kids screaming. of ran through

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a lot of things that through a lot

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of have happened. may have happened.

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of the reason she knew. she

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knew, she she had to try and help.

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help. She pulled She pulled up to the

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alley, told her children to stay in the car.

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the car, and approached Lauren. Lauren

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to see if she was was okay. I asked

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her if was was open to me. Did

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you think she was more

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than a woman? Why is

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that too? And we had

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already passed at a point.

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And her eyes were still

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open. And there was a

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large wound to her head.

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She is. She is too

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upset. Her body. In a

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matter of a few seconds,

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the shots were fired and

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Garrett ran. John jumped the

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fence and Sarah saw Garrett

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fleeing as she approached the

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intersection. At the same time,

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Elijah and Hope were ducking

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into her backyard, while Crystal

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ran around to the front.

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By the time Sarah Servantez

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approached Lauren, it had been

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barely more than a minute

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since the shots were fired.

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Right behind her was Jamie

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Lopez. When I turned on

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the Trinidad, I saw a

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woman first noticed a lady

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standing at the corner, kind

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of hysterical waving her hands.

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And I saw a girl

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playing in the alley in

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the opening of the alley.

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So, you know, immediately. I

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pulled over to see what

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had happened and when I

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could help and do anything.

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Jamie was a home health

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nurse and had medical training.

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I'm knelt down to try

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to help her to see

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if she was okay. She

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was not moving and started

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trying to look over and

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I got her turned over.

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She was laying on her

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stomach. So I turned her

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over to start looking. And

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I was fixing to start.

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I don't know if I'm

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going to do more damage

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or not if I start

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this if I'm

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going to to

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school set up I

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start this

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on this girl's

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it went and about that

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time. is when Metagelas

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started running running

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down coming down that

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she could alley,

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yelling that she could also

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have fought, that she needed

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condition, she decided

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to focus on Michaela. she There

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really wasn't much to do There

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really wasn't much to do, but could tell

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when I first looked up.

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I Do you remember her

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eyes were open or closed? her

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eyes were They were open. They were

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open. blue eyes. eyes. Jamie

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was gone. first aid

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supplies in her, and so

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many people And

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everyone was staring everyone

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was that everyone

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was just staring at

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her like here. And one thing

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for her, so got a

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tried to and tried to

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cover up a little bit

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some first aid

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supplies in her

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car and began

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helping some good. Sarah Cervantes

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was unable to

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help and placed

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the first 911

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call. the first 911 call.

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Sarah was barely holding it together.

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Sarah was barely holding it was

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barely holding it together but

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she knew how important it

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was to relay as much

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information as possible to first

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responders. responders. Why

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is there blood in here? you know to where So

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can you tell where

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she's leaving from? In

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this tight-knit community

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it wasn't long

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before the news, did

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she touch her? It

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doesn't mean she pulled

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it at that's where

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to born. In

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this tight-knit community,

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it was. this tight -knit community.

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It wasn't long before the news

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spread through the wasn't. Michaela

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wounded dazed. called

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her mother. I hear her phone

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her phone so I'm thinking that

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maybe she she um, and

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um, she yelled at her name

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to pick up and went her

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name to pick um,

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so when she was

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just yelling my name. From yelling

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my name. I thought maybe

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that first moment

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I felt maybe she

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altercation with another student and I know

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that's not her. And so

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I kept telling her, calm

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down, and I can't understand

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what you're saying. And I

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have to do that so

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much And I thought, the

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one's going on. And to

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shut that's when she got out. So

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I'm shot, one. And I asked

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the one. And she said, so I

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me, and I was

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like, what? like, one. It It

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just went registered. And I get

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a mask of her. Mommy, I got

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she said, the chest the

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chest. said, Mommy, is not one of

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them? Mommy, I got shot in

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the chest. Imagine hearing

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I got shot in the chest. child. Imagine

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hearing that from your child.

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everything and mother dropped everything and

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left her job as an elementary school

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teacher. to rush to her to her daughter.

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mother mother had already made it to

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the scene. to the When the when the

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got word, that's something. word had

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happened. had happened. I heard the

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promotion outside. I heard that I'm

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not sure I heard neighbors and

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something about kids getting down. And

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then as I was sitting there

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trying to process that, I heard

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Bianca, just the way she said

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it, something about kids, and there

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was just something in her voice

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saying something was wrong, something was

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horrible. And as I was coming

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out of her room to try

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to find out what was going

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on, I heard the front door

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closed. And by the time I

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got to it, Bianca wasn't there.

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So when I went outside, she

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was already running down the street

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and I was kind of caught

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after her. Where are you going?

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What are you going? Vern, Londavazzo,

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didn't know what was going on

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or where his wife was running.

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The only clue he had was

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something about kids being down and

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the sound of fear in his

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wife's voice before she bolted out

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the front door. He hopped into

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his truck and started driving. As

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I was driving down there, it's

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right on the corner. I remember

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at one point stopping the truck

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and pulling it over and fixing.

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There was a thousand kids at

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that school. It's not her, I

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can't be her. So I stopped.

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And I called her cell phone.

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And if it rang, it maybe

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rang a lot at one time.

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So I answered the phone and

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instantly what I heard was screaming.

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And no, at the time that

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it was beyond a scream, but

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I heard somebody screaming her name

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and the way she was screaming.

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I knew, I instantly knew it

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cold. And I just knew I

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got out of the truck. And

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I walked down to

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the corner, and as

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I got to the

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corner, I could see

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the crime scene take.

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And as I turned

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the corner, that... But

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I almost saw that

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tumbly and everything seems

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kind of like there

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was a white frog

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around everything except for

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a little bit lying

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there. And she wasn't

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covered if there was

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going around her. And

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I just remember standing

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at the crime scene

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tape, they wouldn't let

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him go to her.

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And I could hear

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her daughter screaming in

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the background, but that

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was about all I

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could hear and just

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looking at her and

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wondering. How come down

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about doing anything? How

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come she uses my

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ear? Powerless. Vern watched

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from a distance as

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first responders finally started

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to treat Lauren. Quickly,

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the two girls were

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put into an ambulance

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headed for the hospital.

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Lauren's parents, Vern, and

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Bianca, held on to

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a threat. I could

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see her hair. I

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never was blowing her

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hair. She would be

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thinking, oh, I got

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a bet. That's not

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good, but never hearing

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her. But also what

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I heard was, um,

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the MRP. Lauren's parents,

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Vern, and Bianca, held

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on to a threat

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of hope as they

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rode with their daughter

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to the hospital. But

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when they got there,

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they were led into

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a family waiting room.

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Bianca feared it was

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because their daughter was

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gone. and

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so they told us that she was gone. Most

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people who knew Lauren. knew how special

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special she was. about That was

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something I know all know all

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parents 10 about their children, there's their children.

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There's something special about that

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child, Even in in comparison

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to my there was there was

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just something about Lauren. I don't think it's

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hard to explain just as she

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seemed that she seemed so much much than her

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years. She always said, I even being

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two or three years old, years

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old. looking over and her look

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at me at way she was

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looking at me. way she was looking at

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me. But on behind there had

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just seemed she was behind there and

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much more advanced so think a

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child would be as far

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as her compassion for people, her

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kindness, be as how tender she

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was with other people. her kindness,

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just how tender she was with

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other people. Very kind

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and open-minded. She was...

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She was very positive

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about everything. You couldn't couldn't

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help but love her her and not just us, not

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just the family, the family, but but made

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friends so easily, know,

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and You know, and we heard the kids at

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school were just almost her

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as she was so popular. I think she

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was so popular. made me the

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promise was just how she just

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how she interacted with

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people, especially other children how time

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she them them. And I never saw her

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once being somebody, a a saving thing.

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Quite of quite the opposite,

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She went out of her

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way. If she knew that If

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she knew that somebody was might

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have her way different way to

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reach out to that person. Definitely

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a happy, beautiful girl. girl. She had

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a She had a big

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heart. always She's always helping her

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friends. If you're having a bad

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day, she was the was the uplifting. She

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was very well well loved.

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Lauren made a positive impact

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on anyone who knew her. knew

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her. She She always wore a

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smile. when she when she left. at you with

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her beautiful blue eyes and

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you just knew she genuinely

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cared. With the loss of

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a community sweetheart the police

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were pressed to solve this

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attack. They needed to speak

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with Michaela and hear her

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recollection of events. I remember

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he stopped and I was

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we all kind of just

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like stopped walking and I

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was paying attention to him

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and I was looking at

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him and like he looked

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up at me and we

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made eye contact for a

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few seconds and then he

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turned and like he got

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his weapon and he pointed

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it at me and as

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I was moving I got

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hit and like I thought

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I got hit in the

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middle of my chest and

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I couldn't breathe. Michaela was

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asking if I was okay

36:59

and I couldn't speak and

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I was waiting and I

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heard him go and kind

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of like motion in front

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of everybody else could have

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moved. Michaela heard the deluge

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of shots after she was

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hit. After she motion for

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the other children in the

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alley to run, she wondered

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why no one else was

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being hit. Little did she

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know that Lauren took the

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brunt. of those shots. She

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relayed to the police what

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she remembered about the man,

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or boy, who did it.

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I'd see he looked between

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like in 20s or like

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17, 18, and he had

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brown hair, and it was

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like shaggy kind of, shaggy

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big, and he had a...

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She said she locked eyes

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with the killer and he

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was a white male between

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the ages. of 17 and

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20. with

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unkempt brown hair. acne, and

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a big nose. a big nose. her

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memory failed her her memory failed

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her. was the vehicle. he

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was driving. can you And can

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you describe the the vehicle that

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was remember? It was a

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black it had, and you had

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the silver bar bars that she would

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step on to get in.

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on getting in. As the the

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police addressed the public about the shooting.

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the shooting, They initially released the

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description that McKayla gave them. gave

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right before right before 3.30

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p.m. We received a 911 call in

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to to check welfare, shots

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fired call shots the

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call in the 5100 block in

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the alleyway. in the we

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arrived on scene, we located

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one subject that had had

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suffered what we believe we believe

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right now. Keep in mind

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this is all still

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new. It's still just occurring.

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we We saw we have

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two individuals that were a

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parent's gunshot wounds. From what was told, what

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I was told, right now,

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both victims are female. information.

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The only thing that

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we have at this

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point is a possible

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suspect driving suspect driving a black

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SUV, black truck, Michaela a

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white male, was driving

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a black truck but her

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memory the killer was driving a

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black truck, but her memory. was

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flawed. except else

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saw a guy who except

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for fence. He guy who jumped

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the gold He saw both the

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gold SUV and the black truck. which

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Not knowing which description was accurate or...

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or if if maybe there were

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two shooters. shooters. They They released both

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vehicle descriptions to the public. to

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the The shooter was a young

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white male with shaggy brown hair.

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brown hair, acne, and a and a

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big nose driving a gold colored

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SUV. Most likely

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a Chevrolet Tahoe or a

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black Dodge Truck. truck. of

40:06

days in the couple of days that followed the

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shooting. wasn't there wasn't a

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person in Wichita Falls who didn't

40:12

know of the tragedy. tragedy and the

40:14

description of the killer.

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The the community banded together

40:18

to memorialize Lauren. at

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the sight of her death sight her favorite

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color. with her favorite color, happens

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to be. to be my color,

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too. color, too. People who who

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didn't even know her. know her. came to to

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pay their respects like Joanne and

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Fostino Ramirez. Yes, we heard

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it on the radio and we heard it

40:37

on the radio and the news It

40:39

they were looking for spread widely spread

40:41

media and social media, was it on?

40:43

Yes, 'am. wanted to go look at a

40:46

memorial where they had started

40:48

putting memorial putting Morosa for Lauren. I I

40:50

did not. was a bad situation sad situation

40:52

and I didn't, we didn't

40:54

really know her or we didn't

40:56

know her at all. at all.

40:58

But he wanted to go just

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to a just take a drive It

41:02

was hard for any citizen

41:04

of Wichita Falls Falls not be

41:06

moved by the tragedy. even

41:09

even if they had no connection to Lauren.

41:11

to Lauren at all. We drove through

41:13

the neighborhood trying to find where the memorial

41:15

was. We kind of got lost, took

41:17

some of didn't know, and we

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ended up we didn't know, the

41:21

memorial site is. where the When

41:23

they found the they there were

41:26

crime people. were crying people everywhere.

41:28

not wanting to get in the way

41:30

of those who likely had a personal

41:32

connection with Lauren. connection with it in the

41:34

truck. in the truck. And just didn't want to

41:36

get out of the out you know, in

41:38

in the way. we So we just kind

41:40

of pulled over to the to the you know,

41:42

just wait a maybe, you know, declare and

41:45

then we then we but but we never got

41:47

that chance. Okay. And why did you why did you

41:49

not get that chance? while we we were waiting,

41:51

Fostido, you know, know, we just said, well, look

41:53

out for a vehicle, you know, just

41:55

to make sure we don't see a vehicle

41:57

going by. going by And we saw a

41:59

vehicle drive. bias that was the

42:01

description of the S.U.B. It

42:04

was a gold S.U.B. We

42:06

saw that it was a

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young white male that they

42:11

were possibly looking for. We

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kind of just followed him.

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He turned into, he turned

42:18

the daddy, turned into the

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apartment complex, and of course

42:23

we followed. They didn't even

42:26

know Lauren, but when they

42:28

saw a vehicle and driver

42:30

matching the description of the

42:33

news, they decided to follow

42:35

him. He drove past the

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memorial and stopped at an

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apartment complex mere feet away

42:43

from the alley. He went

42:45

to the back passenger door.

42:47

He opened the door and

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he proceeded to get what

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looked like a rival or

42:55

something. He tucked it up

42:57

under his arm like he

42:59

put the butt of the

43:02

gun underneath with the blanket

43:04

and then to wrap it

43:07

up and he like took

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it towards the apartment complex.

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They had the SUV. They

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had the SUV. the driver,

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and now the rifle. Joanne

43:19

called 911 immediately. I grabbed

43:21

a pin that wasn't a

43:24

fastie and was checked. He

43:26

just scribbled it on the

43:28

palm of my hand so

43:31

that I could, while we

43:33

were calling, let the police

43:36

know the license plate number.

43:38

Lauren's favorite color. She wrote

43:40

down the license plate number

43:43

in purple ink. She wrote

43:45

down the license plate number

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in purple ink. Lauren's favorite

43:50

color. What a coincidence. Perhaps

43:53

her spirit lives on. He'd

43:55

have it wrapped in clothes

43:57

and went in. He was

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trying to get it off

44:02

and I heard it. He

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just went into a park.

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parked a little ways away

44:09

and watched. While they waited

44:12

for police to arrive, the

44:14

suspect exited the apartment. Now,

44:17

without the rifle, he got

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back in his SUV. Yeah,

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he's leaving. when he used

44:24

an exit on the other

44:26

side. Almost like an episode

44:29

of Keystone Cops. Or perhaps

44:31

a more modern version would

44:34

be Reno 911. Still, police

44:36

knew his approximate location and

44:38

they had his license plate

44:41

number, so why put in

44:43

the work when you have

44:46

surveillance? After all, it was

44:48

only a matter of time

44:51

before he would be caught.

44:53

And if you're on the

44:55

government payroll, then... What's the

44:58

rush? Moments later, the police

45:00

made a traffic stop of

45:02

the gold SUV with the

45:04

shaggy driver. He pulled over

45:06

and cooperated with the officers.

45:08

They asked him to step

45:10

out of the vehicle and

45:13

they patted him down. Then

45:15

they searched his SUV, but

45:17

there was no gun. But

45:19

they did find a belt

45:21

buckle in the shape of

45:23

brass knuckles. and there was

45:25

enough to arrest him on

45:27

misdemeanor charges of weapon possession

45:29

and bring him in for

45:31

questioning. Twenty-year-old Cody Lott didn't

45:33

work and wasn't in school.

45:36

He lived in Seymour, Texas

45:38

about a 50-60-minute drive southwest

45:40

of Wichita Falls. He did

45:42

have shaggy hair, acne, and

45:44

a big nose. He was

45:46

thin and kind of looked

45:48

like an evil Timothy Shalomé.

45:50

if that helps. Actually, I'm

45:52

not sure if the real

45:54

Timothy shall... is good or

45:56

evil. So Timothy Shalomays walking

45:59

around these days. He asked

46:01

me. I don't even know

46:03

what that means. Anyway, don't

46:05

take my word for it.

46:07

Just Google, the two people.

46:09

Cody Lot is his name

46:11

with two T's at the

46:13

end. He claimed the only

46:15

reason he was in town

46:17

was to feed his mother's

46:19

dog while she was on

46:22

vacation. That and pick up

46:24

some money she'd left for

46:26

him. After all, you know,

46:28

like I said, he didn't

46:30

work at all. He denied

46:32

that anything related to guns

46:34

would be in his vehicle,

46:36

and explained that since an

46:38

incident last year, his family

46:40

kept guns away from him.

46:42

But I mean, like I

46:45

said, like, I used to

46:47

be able to, like, kind

46:49

of get a load of

46:51

guns, but, like, there was

46:53

an incident that happened last

46:55

summer where I had to

46:57

go to a site for

46:59

two months. So I were

47:01

since in my grandma's cat,

47:03

and I kept the gun

47:05

instead of the way for

47:08

him. Like, no one would

47:10

you have left to have

47:12

access in Seymour, Texas. His

47:14

parents reported that he was

47:16

at his grandmothers threatening to

47:18

shoot folks. That's a quote.

47:20

The event warranted the Texas

47:22

Rangers and three officers from

47:24

the Department of Public Safety

47:26

Criminal Investigation Division. One of

47:28

the CID officers was a

47:31

hostage negotiator and quickly talked

47:33

Cody out of the house.

47:35

He was later ordered to

47:37

get treatment and diagnosed as

47:39

bipolar and paranoid schizophrenic. But

47:41

yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no

47:43

connection between crazy people and

47:45

murder. Just keep telling yourself

47:47

that. Ooh, let's not stick

47:49

with toys. He knew about

47:51

murder. He fit the description

47:54

of the suspect and he

47:56

was driving an SUV that

47:58

also matched the... description.

48:01

but he was adamant. that

48:03

it wasn't was The

48:05

police though. knew something Cody

48:08

didn't. and it had

48:10

to do him. What else they found? though,

48:13

knew something

48:15

found anything else. Well,

48:18

they found a

48:20

it had to do with

48:22

what else It

48:24

only took a moment for Cody to explain

48:26

away the shell casing. He

48:28

He had been shooting. shooting a a

48:31

year ago. was being He

48:33

was being cooperative, just not very helpful.

48:35

helpful. Cheney girls would hurt

48:37

somebody. And whoever did did this,

48:39

don't we that to happen want

48:42

that to happen to

48:44

anybody Probably, I mean, from my

48:46

I mean, from my

48:49

experience whoever did this, did

48:51

this, some help. some

48:53

help. Does anyone else get the feeling did

48:55

this about needs some help

48:57

now. else get I'm talking

48:59

about some serious else get that? Unless

49:01

we can, and how are

49:03

they going to get to

49:05

help? get even get that and help

49:07

them. Does anyone else get the

49:10

feeling that they Does anyone else get

49:12

the feeling that they are talking

49:14

about him? his mother He claimed

49:16

to be a He claimed and only

49:18

his mother cared about He claimed his

49:20

claimed his father molested him and

49:22

beat his mother. mother. He He had

49:25

a long list of run of the law

49:27

and seemed to be spiraling. seemed

49:29

a life of drugs. and

49:31

crime. a life of to the police. crime.

49:34

addition to everything else, he seemed

49:36

to fit the profile of someone. else,

49:38

he it would randomly shoot two little

49:40

girls. of Of

49:42

course, he continued to deny

49:44

having anything to do. girls. Of

49:46

course, death. continued to deny having

49:48

anything to do with Lauren's death. Well,

49:51

they didn't say something that he might

49:53

come by and give it, you know?

49:55

I mean, he didn't, he thought that

49:57

wasn't, well, he think that found out.

50:20

I'm not trying to throw my step -brother under the

50:22

bus or anything, but you should definitely look at

50:24

them. Wow. The

50:27

police didn't believe it for a

50:29

second. Remember, they had

50:31

a witness who saw Cody with

50:33

the rifle. They

50:35

started to press harder. He

50:54

finally admitted. He was on

50:56

Trinidad Drive the day of

50:58

the shooting, but he was

51:00

still claiming innocence. Cody

51:03

wanted to talk first, but

51:05

he needed to be assured that

51:07

he would be in solitary

51:09

confinement. He didn't think he could

51:11

handle being in prison with

51:14

real men. So, when officers guaranteed

51:16

they would make that happen,

51:18

he began a new story. said,

51:24

you know, well, I'm not going to

51:26

fucking interrupt you, but I was in

51:28

my little jail that was nothing to

51:30

do with it. But, uh, like,

51:33

I don't know. I've had problems,

51:35

you know, with females for a while

51:37

now, and you can can ask

51:39

him, well, I don't know, that's totally

51:42

absolutely, that's something Cody would do.

51:44

They would say, absolutely. He is, he,

51:46

as Hayden, sorry, be telling you

51:48

though, I talked about Jewish like, um,

51:50

and, uh, I, I'd that girl

51:52

without being like, of a time to

51:54

put the and a boyfriend he

51:56

was just holding a which in cave,

51:58

wasn't no man. So, the time

52:00

you sparked a jealousy He had seen Lauren walking with

52:03

the way I was going to

52:05

handle He described the had seen a walking

52:07

with her boyfriend. kid.

52:09

described the boy as no man.

52:11

Those are kid. That

52:13

wasn't no man. talking Those

52:15

are his words. Their

52:18

we're talking about sparked off

52:20

a fit of jealousy sparked off

52:22

a fit of jealousy in him, and

52:24

he decided to. What a her. What

52:27

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52:29

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55:27

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55:32

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55:42

the only one. one who shot

55:45

Lauren and Michaela. but

55:47

his reasoning for why he did it. was

55:50

even more baffling than the

55:52

act itself. was even more did

55:54

you do and

55:56

what than the act itself

55:59

I thought, well, what I

56:01

was saying, I was going to

56:03

just throw a approach, the girl,

56:05

and I thought, man, I brought

56:07

me up from the base, well,

56:09

now, I just don't know. In

56:11

case, you know, he knows, those

56:13

nice things, I went through our

56:16

trial to respect her, too, to

56:18

be nice to you, to be

56:20

nice to me. They said, I

56:22

read on says, I craze, the

56:24

definition of crazy was just repeating

56:26

the same thing. So I think

56:28

they're all of you saying that,

56:30

that, I guess, I guess, you

56:32

know, you know, you know, you

56:34

know, you know, you know, me,

56:36

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56:38

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56:41

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56:43

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56:45

me, me, me, me, me, me,

56:47

me, me, me, me, me, me,

56:49

me, me, me, me, He tried

56:51

to explain that he first thought

56:53

about introducing himself to her, you

56:55

know, not to try something else,

56:57

too, because it's like, it's just,

56:59

all these girls were just ignoring

57:01

me and disrespecting me, and all

57:03

I ever wanted was an opportunity

57:06

to be respectful and tree of

57:08

reality. He tried to explain that

57:10

he first thought about introducing himself

57:12

to her, but then remembered how

57:14

young she was. This too. pissed

57:16

him off. This is where his

57:18

rationale begins to get a little

57:20

twisted. It's important to remind everyone

57:22

that a sign of schizophrenia is

57:24

disorganized thinking. Somehow he went from

57:26

the thought of her being too

57:28

young to the idea that trying

57:31

to be nice to her or

57:33

any girl wasn't going to get

57:35

him anywhere either. So he had

57:37

to change tactics. Sure if being

57:39

nice to a girl doesn't get

57:41

her attention the next logical step

57:43

is to Kill her So you

57:45

pretty much knew what that were

57:47

around. Oh man, I've lost over

57:49

about a year. And for a

57:51

year, I've seen a lot. He

57:53

watched her for a year from

57:55

his mother's apartment. He watched her

57:58

for a year from his mother's

58:00

apartment. Every day building on his

58:02

infatuation with her. He never did.

58:04

I never even spoke into it.

58:06

Yes. I mean, I just saw

58:08

a few of the world about

58:10

me and she matches my, I

58:12

absolutely matched my description of food.

58:14

I don't want to kill a

58:16

predator. Yes. She was two. You

58:18

know, I know. He pined for

58:20

a woman and when the women

58:23

his age wouldn't have anything to

58:25

be in the presence of a

58:27

girl that's not beautiful like I

58:29

hate the child. I don't mean

58:31

the crosses and no way I

58:33

ever have lust or bonds about

58:35

this girl. The only kind of

58:37

girl I've ever seen have that

58:39

purchase were important videos. He pined

58:41

for a woman and when the

58:43

women his age wouldn't have anything

58:45

to do with him, Lauren got

58:48

caught in the crosshairs. He found

58:50

the barely pubescent girl beautiful, but

58:52

he equated Lauren's beauty to the

58:54

women in porn videos. If you're

58:56

thinking this guy couldn't get any

58:58

more out of touch, think again.

59:00

You thought of me, like this

59:02

is awesome, I want to be

59:04

patient about it, patient, you know?

59:06

And it's nothing but hell here.

59:08

I don't care what people say,

59:10

she, you know, people say, well,

59:13

like she, she, every not a

59:15

chance at life is what I

59:17

read. Like, trust me, I'm sure

59:19

she, every not a chance at

59:21

life is what I read. Like,

59:23

trust me, I'm sure, I'm sure,

59:25

like, she, every not a chance

59:27

at life was what I'm honestly.

59:29

It's. It's like, like, like, I

59:31

mean, it's like, it's like, it's

59:33

like, it's like, it's like, it's

59:35

like, it, it, it, it's, it's,

59:38

it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

59:40

it's, it, it's, it's, it's, it's,

59:42

it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

59:44

it's, it's, So I thought I

59:46

was just going to go ahead

59:48

and save her from the evil

59:50

of the world. If he couldn't

59:52

have her, the only thing he

59:54

could do... to save

59:56

her from the

59:58

evils that he

1:00:00

knew would eventually

1:00:03

befall her. He

1:00:05

had to, you know. knew

1:00:07

her. to the devil. because

1:00:10

all of that shit... makes

1:00:12

sense. her,

1:00:15

he had to,

1:00:17

you know, sacrifice

1:00:19

her to the

1:00:21

devil, because all

1:00:23

of that shit

1:00:25

makes sense. He

1:00:27

was glad he

1:00:29

did it so

1:00:32

people could feel

1:00:34

his pain. He was glad

1:00:36

he did it so people could feel

1:00:38

his pain. a couple What

1:00:40

a little with this kid. Boy would I

1:00:42

love a couple minutes with this

1:00:44

kid. Yeah. in a locked

1:00:46

room with no cameras. Eventually

1:00:49

he would a fantasy some

1:00:52

Eventually he would express some

1:00:54

regret. he regret that he didn't

1:00:56

kill her instantly. So. so... He

1:00:59

You didn't have to hear her. to hear her

1:01:01

scream. But her screen was

1:01:03

as it was distinct. And I'll

1:01:06

that till about that

1:01:08

to the day He said he never intended

1:01:10

for her to suffer. He

1:01:12

only wanted for her. He only

1:01:15

wanted He didn't regret what

1:01:17

he did, only that he should have done

1:01:19

it. he did, only that

1:01:21

he Think about that. done it

1:01:23

I'm going to reach out all

1:01:25

the reviews, kill myself, that. I

1:01:27

because have used one out of people in the

1:01:29

shot himself. Hey, Cody, I'm sure that I'm

1:01:31

sure that plenty plenty of people in Wichita

1:01:33

Falls that feel the same way. same way.

1:01:35

It's It's not surprising that after

1:01:37

Cody admitted to finding

1:01:40

the the -old Lauren Lauren attractive,

1:01:42

they They found several images

1:01:44

of child pornography. pornography his phone. phone.

1:01:46

One of the one of the images was

1:01:48

confirmed. by the by the National Center for

1:01:50

Missing and Exploited Children. as

1:01:52

being that of an of old. engaged

1:01:55

in a sexually explicit

1:01:58

act. was

1:02:00

arrested and charged with murder. with

1:02:02

murder, assault. assault,

1:02:04

of a prohibited weapon. and

1:02:07

three counts of possession. of of

1:02:09

child pornography. child pornography.

1:02:11

This guy is going to have a

1:02:13

lot of fun in prison. when

1:02:15

the the inmates find out. out not

1:02:18

Not only that he killed a kid, but a he's

1:02:20

also, you know. also, you know, in

1:02:22

them. in them, sexually.

1:02:24

You hear You hear that inmates

1:02:26

at the sky view unit unit in Rusk?

1:02:28

A a correctional institution that's part of

1:02:31

the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. the Texas

1:02:33

You hear that, guys? of Criminal His

1:02:35

name is Cody. hear that, guys? His name

1:02:37

is Cody Lott with two T's.

1:02:39

Anyway, Cody wasn't charged with

1:02:42

charged with capital murder. the death

1:02:44

which meant the death penalty was off the

1:02:46

table. the time, the law in At the

1:02:48

time, the law in Texas only allowed

1:02:50

capital murder charges to be applied. under a

1:02:52

few a few circumstances, including causing the

1:02:55

death of a child. of a under

1:02:57

the age of the age of 10. But

1:02:59

Lauren was 13. I hope

1:03:01

that hope that gets gets

1:03:03

the in it he can

1:03:05

and it's a shame

1:03:07

that the death penalty

1:03:09

can't be penalty can't be instated.

1:03:11

I I don't want

1:03:13

him to get insanity

1:03:15

because he clearly thought

1:03:17

it out probably for

1:03:19

a long time. time. Two years

1:03:22

years after the murder. the the

1:03:24

trial finally began. Cody's

1:03:27

hair was longer and somehow he was

1:03:29

even thinner. was even He looked

1:03:31

kind of like White Jesus on meth. white

1:03:33

Jesus on meth, or Jared

1:03:35

Lido. Of course, Of course,

1:03:37

his defense tried to play

1:03:39

the insanity card, but but Cody

1:03:42

as crazy. as crazy as he sounded. While

1:03:45

he while he did suffer from a mental

1:03:47

illness and maybe it played a part in

1:03:49

his plan. a part in thought about

1:03:51

committing this crime. about for

1:03:53

a year. crime for a year.

1:03:55

Surely... There were moments

1:03:57

of... of lucidity within

1:04:00

that year. year. A year of a year

1:04:02

of opportunities to decide. nah, I'm

1:04:04

not I'm not gonna kill her.

1:04:06

Maybe I'll Maybe I'll just play

1:04:08

some Xbox instead. And after he

1:04:10

fired he fired his gun into an

1:04:12

alley full of middle schoolers,

1:04:14

he He tried to get away with it. away with

1:04:17

He ditched the gun and then went back to retrieve

1:04:19

it. it. back to when he

1:04:21

thought he was home he was home

1:04:23

free. The line. line, he knew

1:04:25

he knew at the time of the murder. that

1:04:27

that it was morally. and legally

1:04:29

wrong. In court he sat court,

1:04:32

he sat still,

1:04:34

seemingly detached. the as

1:04:36

the terrified children. recalled the

1:04:38

events of that day. I I just

1:04:40

hope he has a long, miserable

1:04:42

life life in prison. I

1:04:44

I hope he never never sees

1:04:46

a moment, and I hope

1:04:48

he lives a long

1:04:50

time, maybe and maybe someday and he's

1:04:53

maybe then he'll show

1:04:55

some remorse where he's not

1:04:57

seen any After of

1:04:59

that so far. know, than

1:05:01

him in court, he's not, he's

1:05:03

know, he's just just And I

1:05:05

think and I think that's

1:05:08

indicative of how he

1:05:10

committed such a

1:05:12

heinous crime no remorse for it.

1:05:14

no remorse for

1:05:16

it. of trial in less days

1:05:18

of trial in less than an

1:05:20

hour of deliberation. was the verdict

1:05:22

was guilty. was and he was

1:05:24

sentenced to 20 years for the

1:05:26

aggravated assault. on Michaela.

1:05:28

Ten 10 years for each

1:05:31

count of child pornography. in

1:05:33

a life in prison. a life in the murder.

1:05:36

for the murder of He

1:05:38

is, though, eligible for

1:05:40

parole on for parole on September

1:05:43

3rd, 2046, a a day

1:05:45

that's quite fitting, because

1:05:47

it's one day

1:05:50

after the 30th anniversary of

1:05:52

of Lauren's death. death. He

1:05:54

robbed so many people, so many kids

1:05:57

out there that day of their innocence

1:05:59

and uh... It feels two years, years.

1:06:01

Sometimes it feels like it was

1:06:03

just yesterday. just Sometimes it feels

1:06:05

like it was a million

1:06:07

years ago. was a million had this but

1:06:09

day this day our sight that happened

1:06:11

happened, hoping that the person responsible

1:06:14

for so much suffering would finally

1:06:16

face justice for that and have

1:06:18

to do to do some suffering

1:06:20

of his own. his own. The result

1:06:22

of today it doesn't bring

1:06:24

Lauren back. doesn't back. It her make us

1:06:26

It doesn't make her death

1:06:28

any less tragic. make her death

1:06:30

any less tragic. of a closure that

1:06:32

you get a closure you when

1:06:34

you know that the person responsible

1:06:36

the person going to suffer is going to

1:06:38

is but that wasn't good enough for

1:06:40

the land of enough for the land

1:06:43

sought to change the law

1:06:45

that governed. governed capital charges.

1:06:47

They They wanted to raise the

1:06:50

age requirement from from 10. to 15, so that

1:06:52

so that like Cody Lot in the

1:06:54

future would the future. to be sentenced

1:06:56

be able to be sentenced. that keeps

1:06:58

coming up over and over again, It's

1:07:01

something that think keeps coming up

1:07:03

over and over again, the importance

1:07:05

I don't think anyone can

1:07:07

truly understand. had someone the importance

1:07:09

of The death penalty. revenge.

1:07:11

The need for revenge. had someone

1:07:13

from you. Like this. The need.

1:07:15

The need. The need. need. The need for

1:07:18

revenge. The need. The need. The the

1:07:20

need. The need. for justice,

1:07:22

for for accountability. is

1:07:25

is overwhelming. Even though you even

1:07:27

though you may not agree with. the

1:07:30

government. killing killing, citizens.

1:07:32

is a case This is a case

1:07:34

where the citizens themselves demanded.

1:07:38

And they did it too. did

1:07:40

it too. year The following

1:07:42

year on the day before the third

1:07:44

anniversary of her death. death, Governor

1:07:46

Abbott Lauren's law.

1:07:49

into raising the age

1:07:51

limit to 15 years. 15 years

1:07:53

of age. I'm going going to

1:07:55

be signing Senate Bill which

1:07:57

is known as known as Lauren's

1:07:59

Law. agree that there nothing more

1:08:02

vulnerable nothing more precious than our

1:08:04

children and we have to be

1:08:06

able to change the law to

1:08:09

reflect that. There are going to

1:08:11

be future victims that are children.

1:08:14

This is for them and I

1:08:16

know our daughter would approve. Hopefully,

1:08:30

Cody Lott will never get

1:08:32

out of prison. Why should

1:08:34

he? The effects of what

1:08:36

he did linger in the

1:08:39

minds of her family and

1:08:41

friends. It will, until their

1:08:43

dying day. So why shouldn't

1:08:45

he have to suffer? Until

1:08:47

his. Crystal suffered panic attacks

1:08:50

after the event. Many kids

1:08:52

were no longer allowed to

1:08:54

walk home from school. Michaela

1:08:56

will always be reminded of

1:08:59

the violent end of her

1:09:01

beloved friend every time she

1:09:03

feels the bullet fragment still

1:09:05

inside her chest. The devil

1:09:07

didn't make Cody Lot kill

1:09:10

Lauren. That's silly. Stop believing

1:09:12

in fairy tales. You're an

1:09:14

adult. That was just how

1:09:16

his drug-riddled brain, which wasn't

1:09:18

too great to begin with,

1:09:21

rationalized the guilt he felt.

1:09:23

for doing such a thing.

1:09:25

He didn't hear voices, shouting

1:09:27

commands, he didn't talk to

1:09:29

the devil, he certainly didn't

1:09:32

talk to God, that's for

1:09:34

sure. He was just a

1:09:36

leech to his mother, a

1:09:38

parasite, to his community. He

1:09:41

was an uneducated, unemployed, lazy

1:09:43

piece of shit who thought

1:09:45

the world owed him something.

1:09:47

Does this sound familiar yet?

1:09:49

Because it describes everyone... we've

1:09:52

ever talked about over the

1:09:54

last 11. years now. And

1:09:56

when when the

1:09:58

world didn't

1:10:00

hand him a

1:10:03

girlfriend, a he

1:10:05

didn't wonder what he was

1:10:07

doing wrong. Of course not. No,

1:10:09

why would you? Why would

1:10:11

you do that? why would Why not

1:10:13

just blame everyone Why not just blame

1:10:15

Blame the world around. It's not

1:10:17

me. It's everybody. It's

1:10:20

It's everything. It's everything. Right?

1:10:22

Right? You know how know

1:10:24

how this pattern of

1:10:27

thinking perpetuates and

1:10:29

its way into our

1:10:31

brains? our brains. one of

1:10:33

us, not just idiots

1:10:36

like Cody. like

1:10:38

This entitlement, this

1:10:40

sense that sense that

1:10:42

you something. owes you

1:10:44

something. It's This is

1:10:46

the result of cancer.

1:10:49

Cody Lot never learned learned

1:10:51

the lesson that sometimes

1:10:53

you just can't

1:10:55

have what you want.

1:10:57

You just can't. It It doesn't

1:10:59

work that way. way. But

1:11:02

then again, it's not like

1:11:04

he even tried to work

1:11:06

hard and make a life

1:11:08

for himself. for himself. Now, be, that'd

1:11:10

be too hard. Instead,

1:11:12

why not take it

1:11:14

out on out on poor Lauren? To which

1:11:17

which a good life

1:11:19

just seemed to come to come,

1:11:21

naturally. A A senseless act

1:11:23

committed randomly that only made

1:11:25

sense in one man's mind, but

1:11:27

affected those kids and their families those

1:11:30

the rest of

1:11:32

their lives. for the rest of

1:11:34

their yourself yourself you

1:11:36

can blame the

1:11:38

world blame the world instead?

1:11:59

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1:12:19

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1:12:21

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1:12:23

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1:12:26

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1:12:28

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