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Speaker 1: H a wall street line, shackle change, Oh someome gird,

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it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's

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been a tentery juice as the hill Stream game wrangle three.

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Speaker 2: I'm here, but by me to die inside these walls,

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inside the wild hadn't went no girl as.

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Speaker 3: I It's been a very difficult day. As you can see,

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I lost two good officers.

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Speaker 4: Today.

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Speaker 3: I've had a number of sheriffs here and law inforcement

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throughout the state who are helping us deal with doesn't matter.

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But first let me say this, Please pray for the

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two officers that were ambushed early this morning. I have

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two deceased officers, Randon Nielsen he's thirty four years old,

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and another one of Sir Jeremy Trish, he's twenty eight

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years old. This entire tragedy unfolded early this morning as

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one of my officers was working the traffic detail in

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this particular parking lot. As he was working in this

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detail for some unknown reason at this time, a gunman

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opened fire on him multiple times. As you can see

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the car that's parked over he on the shoulder of

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Bayo Steel Road. That officer is present league at University

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Hospital being treated for multiple gunsholl booms. He should be okay.

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After the shooting took place, we were able to get

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a call from a citizen based on a description we

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got from the officer. A citizen advised up advised Saint

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john Sheriff's Office of a speeding motorist on a street

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by Riverview Trailer. Court officers proceeded to that area where

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we found a vehicle matching the description of the vehicle

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using the shooting here on Bayou Steel Road, officers came

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in contact with some individuals during this investigation, one of

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the subjects. As officers were handcuffing one of the subjects,

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they thought that investigation led us.

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Speaker 5: To a trailer.

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Speaker 3: When we knocked on the door, another person came to

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the door with a dog, where we could see inside

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where another individual was fully closed but laying under a blanket.

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The officers asked him to step outside as we were

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interviewing the two persons. The two subjects, another person exited

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that trailer with an assault weapon and anne bush excuse

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a bush by two officers. The investigation is ongoing. The

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officers away from the investigation. The Louisiana State Police on

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now taking over the investigation.

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Speaker 5: Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angla, a podcast

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one hundred and forty two years in the making, the

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complete story of America's bloodiest present. I'm Jim Chapman, and

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before we get into today's episode, I want to mention

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why it was previously pulled and re recorded. So upon

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the initial release of this episode a few weeks ago,

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I was contacted and there were some discrepancies between some

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of the sourcing articles I use and those that well,

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all I'm going to say is there was some people

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close to the case and they had what I would

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refer to as direct knowledge. Some of it related to

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the type of weapon used in the initial shooting, and

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there were several things that occurb when the second shooting

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took place that I did not detail because of the

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information I had at the time did not stipulate it.

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So if you cover cases long enough, such as I

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have for the past six plus years, sometimes this happens.

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The information that you source, even if it's from credible sources,

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can be incorrect or be incomplete. And it's very important

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to me that what I tell you is as accurate

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as possible. Now, everyone that knows me knows there is

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no one more pro law enforcement than myself. I work

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with law enforcement and most of well, I would say

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eighty percent of my circle, if you will, or law

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enforcement folks. So when it came to this case, even

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though I was not asked to pull that episode, I

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found it best to pull it, get some additional facts,

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and re record it. So that is what I did.

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And let's get into it, and I'm going to cover

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a tragic story that occurred on August sixteenth of twenty

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twelve in Laplace, Louisiana. Now sadly, that resulted in the

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death of two Saint John Parish Sheriff's deputies and two

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more being wounded. So I'm going to cover the details

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of what happened in the results, which do include a

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death sentence inside of Bloody and Gola for one of

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the perpetrators. So let's get started. And first, as I said,

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this took place in Laplace, Louisiana, which Laplace is a town.

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It's located in Saint John Parish. It's part of the

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New Orleans metro area, if you will, and the town

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runs along the east bank of the Mississippi River and

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it's a kind of a quaint bedroom community with roughly

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twenty eight thousand residents. Now Laplace is known as the

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Onduey Capital of the World, and this was an honor

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bestowed on the town by popular Governor Edwin Edwards in

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the nineteen seventies. And because of this honor and being

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known as the on Dewey Capital of the world, the

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town does host an on Dewey Festival every year in October,

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and it's done so since nineteen seventy two. It's just

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a charming area. It's blended with some Cajun heritage, river life,

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and Southern hospitality. So definitely not the type of place

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you would expect the incident I'm about to tell you

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about occurring, and this whole incident kicked off at the

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Valero Refinery parking lot initially, and y'all, Valero is a

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global gas refinery in the area that offers high paying

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jobs to plant workers that work typically twelve hour shifts. Now,

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that particular morning, Michael Scott Boynton was doing extra duty.

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was a sheriff's deputy. And what I'm about to tell

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you is, according to the test money of someone that

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was in the vehicle we're going to talk about. Her

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name was Tanisha Bright. So according to her testimony, she

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said that morning, her and the coworker she was writing with,

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they all got off work at four am from the

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Valero refinery and they piled into a guy by the

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name of Terry Smith's truck. And she said they were

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in their usual seating arrangement, which was Bright in the

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front seat, Terry Smith driving, and his son, Brian Smith,

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on the other side of the front seat, so she

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was in the middle. In the rear seat of that truck,

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there was a guy by the name of Kyle Yokel

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and a guy by the name of Derek Smith. So

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you have five people total in that vehicle, Terry Smith,

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miss Bright, and Terry Smith's son Brian in the front seat,

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and then in the backseat of that truck you had

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Derreck Smith and Kyle Yokel. Now, she said, initially everything

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seemed fine, nobody seemed pissed off or anything.

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Speaker 4: And as they.

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Speaker 5: Neared the road, a deputy working the gate shined his

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flashlight into the truck and walked towards the truck's open window.

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She said, the deputy, who was thirty three year old

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Michael Boynton, who she said she did not know at

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the time, she described as very agitated. She said she

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could tell by his body language and the tone of

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his voice. She said she didn't know why they had

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been stopped by Michael Boynton or flagged down, if you will,

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but that Terry Smith refused to pull over. She said

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the officer in Smith then exchanged some words and it

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got kind of heated, and that Boynton asked Terry Smith

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for what's known as his twit card, which, y'all, a

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twit card is basically a government issued ID card, kind

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of like an ID for people working in the maritime

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industry of it similar to a driver's license. Terry Smith

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refused to turn over his twit card, and in the meantime,

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from the backseat, Kyle Yokel started shouting for Terry Smith

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to drive away.

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Speaker 5: At that point, Terry Smith basically gunned it and peeled

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out of the parking lot, and she saw Deputy Bointon

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run back to his vehicle to provide chase. Now this

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is her testimony in court. She said the deputy soon

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caught up with them and he was right on the

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trail and then he pulled to the right side of

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the car and he was on the shoulder at this point,

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kind of driving along with them, and she said at

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that point Terry Smith feared into the line of oncoming traffic,

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but he had to jerk back into his lane because

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a car was heading in his direction. She said, at

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that point she felt something brush her leg. She looked

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down in Brian Smith, who is remember the son of

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the driver Terry Smith. He had grabbed an assault rifle.

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Speaker 4: She said.

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Speaker 5: At that point he asked his father, Terry Smith, if

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he could shoot, and his father didn't say anything. She said,

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at that point, Brian starts firing through the window at

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the deputy and Boyington was hit. Now, according to her testimony,

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she said she then pleaded with Terry Smith to pull

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over and let her out, and that basically she described

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Speaker 4: Him being in zombie mode.

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Speaker 5: He just kept his eyes straight ahead on the road.

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Speaker 4: And didn't say anything.

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Speaker 5: Now, before we go any further, I want to say

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a few things about to Misha Bright and how she

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got caught up in all of this, because she was

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really innocent in a role. She was just in the

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wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong guys. Now,

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according to her testimony, she had moved to Louisiana from

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California with her mother. That was just a few months

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before the shooting occurred.

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Speaker 5: Lived in a hotel that was nearby where she worked

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at that Voalero refinery, and that she worked for a

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contracting company that worked on a project there. So these

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folks did not work directly for Voalero refinery. They were

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contractor workers. They were working for somebody else who had

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a job in that plan. Now, somehow her mother knew

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Terry Smith. He was an acquaintance of some sort, and

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her mother also knew that he worked overtime for that

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same contractor, and she had arranged for Tanisha Bright to

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catch a ride to and from work with Terry Smith

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and the other folks that I just mentioned. But her

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mother also warned her daughter that Smith had quote a

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big gun that he always carried, and she was talking

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about Brian Smith, and she even told her daughter that

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he called his gun his girlfriend. And she would describe

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Brian Smith in particular, who did this shooting, as very

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paranoid and that he always felt like people were watching

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him and trying to kidnap him, and that one of

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the reasons he carried this assault rifle was because of

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his paranoia, So back to it. Tomi sha Bright said

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that after the shooting of Deputy Boyington, they drove to

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Riverview Moba Home Park. This is in Laplace, which is

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where the Smiths and family friend Kyle Yokel, who was

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also in that truck, if you'll remember, they lived in

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a series of four trailers.

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truck and at that point she tried to run, but

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Speaker 5: At that point, Brian Smith turned toward her, still holding

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that assault rifle, and she said, quote, I assumed if

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he thought I was going to run, that will be

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the end of me. So she was like, screw that,

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staying and she said at that point, the group huddled

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on the concrete patio outside of the trailer that Terry

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Smith shared with his wife, and at that point Terry

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Smith ordered everyone into that trailer.

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Speaker 5: Once they got back in the trailer, they started hearing

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sirens in the background, and she said everyone started to panic.

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She said at that point she went toward the bathroom

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to hide because she was afraid of what was about

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to happen. Next, she said she heard an officer knock

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on the trailer door and that Terry Smith and Kyle

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Yokel went out of the door to talk to that officer. Now,

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her perspective from the inside of that trailer is that

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after Terry Smith and Kyle Yokel went outside, Terry Smith's wife,

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a woman by the name of Shaneil's Keines, told her

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that they should blame Yokel for everything. That was her testimony,

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now going on to say that Terry Smith's wife called

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Kyle Yokel crazy. She said at that point she backed

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up further into the bathroom and that Brian Smith and

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his girlfriend joined her in that bathroom, and his girlfriend's

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name was Britney Keith. She said that while she was

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in the bathroom, Brian Smith got nervous because he thought

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his dad was going to tell on him for shooting

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Deputy Bointon. She said at that point she heard shouting

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from outside the trailer, and quoting the shouting, she said

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that she heard quote, I know you fucking did it.

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I know it was you, and she said she believed

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it came from a deputy. At that point, she said

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someone else screamed. It sounded muffled, like someone was shouting

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while lying face down in the dirt. She went on

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to say that she heard the words help and then

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help Brian, and said she did not recognize the voice

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of who was saying that. She said she also heard

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someone shout Brian, kill them. She said at that point,

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Brian Smith ran from the bathroom. She also said at

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that point that she started wedging herself behind a washing

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machine that she rolled into a ball. She put her

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hands over her ears and all she heard was the

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sound of an assault rifle, and she said, I knew

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it was an assault rifle because I recognized the sound

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of the shots.

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Speaker 4: As being the same sound of.

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Speaker 5: The shots from that first shooting at the Valero refinery.

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She said she could also hear different sounding shots, is

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how she would describe it, and she said she knew

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those were shots fired from a pistol and not an

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assault rifle. Now, she estimated the shooting lasted around thirty seconds.

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She said Brian Smith at that point stumbled back into

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the trailer and he was bleeding badly from a wound

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to his leg, and that he fell inside of the trailer.

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His girlfriend, Britney Keith, then started screaming help. And then

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she said at that point, Kyle Yokel then returned to

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the inside of the trailer. He also was bleeding, and

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Chanelle Skanes also returned to the trailer, and according to

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Bright's testimony, she was shot through the arm.

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Speaker 4: She said that she.

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Speaker 5: Called nine one one, and at that point Brian Smith.

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She ever heard him tell his girlfriend to tell police

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he surrendered and at that point Tanisha Bright runs out

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of the trailer and runs to a police car, and

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a deputy helped her into a neighbor's trailer, she testified.

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So that's her story, and I'm going to give you

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some other perspectives. And I mentioned Chanelle Skaanes, who was

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the wife of Terry Smith, and she also testified in

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the trial. Now, she testified that when the first shots

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rang out, she was crouched under a picnic table outside

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of that trailer. She said her step son at the time,

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who was Brian Smith, was the man who began firing

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at deputies at that trailer park. She testified she screamed

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for Brian Smith to please stop. You're gonna kill everybody,

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Please stop, and she said deputies return fire and hit Smith,

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and he dropped his AK forty seven and fled back

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into the trailer. She said it wasn't long after the

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shooting would start again. Just as she was starting to

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crawl away from that picnic table, she said she noticed

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Kyle Yokel, who at this point had been detained by deputies.

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Somehow he escapes during all this chaos. When Brian Smith

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started shooting from the trailer, she said she saw him

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pick up the assault rifle and start firing again. She

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said at that point she started screaming again quote stop,

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oh my god, you're killing somebody. She said it was

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during that second round of shooting that she saw Kyle

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Yikel stand over and already injured deputy by the name

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of Brandon Nielsen and shoot the AK forty seven from

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point blank range, killing him. She then told the jury

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that after the shooting had stopped, she ran over to

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another deputy, later identified as Jeremy Trish, and she was

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holding his hand, telling him it was going to be okay.

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Help is on the way. Just trying to comfort this

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hero who was shot and dying by this point, and

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she said it was at that point that Terry Smith,

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her husband went up to Deputy Jeremy Trish and flipped

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him over.

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Speaker 4: So that he was lying on his stomach.

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Speaker 5: She said, at that point, Terry Smith told her to

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get away. She said she continued to hold this deputy's

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hand and assure him help will be on the way,

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and that he took one big breath and stopped breathing.

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That was her testimony court. So there was another officer

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who was injured during the shootout at that trailer park,

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and his name was Deputy Jason Tresh, and he testified

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for about ninety minutes, and he was very seriously wounded.

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As a matter of fact, his wounds were so bad

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that when he awoke from a medically induced coma more

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than a month after the shootings, he was missing his gallbladder,

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his spleen, in one of his kidneys. He was quite

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frankly lucky to be alive. Just horrible, tragic, and horrific.

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And he admitted during his testimony that all of this

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had caused some memory loss with him, but he really

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did his best to recount the details of August sixteenth

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of twelve and the events that led up to the

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shooting from his own perspective, and he said on August fifteenth,

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he had been assigned to a graveyard shift, which was

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six pm to six am, and he testified that around

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five am he heard a transmission over his radio that

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a man had been shot and was lying in the street.

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And he said it was much later that he would

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find out that that man, that deputy, was Michael Scott Boynton.

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And of course, the shooting being referenced here is the

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initial shooting at that Valero plant. He said, he drove

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to the reported shooting scene in Laplace, and he said

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the radio traffic was not completely clear, so he wasn't

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one hundred percent sure of what to expect. He said

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when he arrived there were several sheriff units that were

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already on the scene, and that at that point another

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message came over his radio, this time reporting a suspicious

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vehicle that was headed towards the Riverview Mobile Home Park

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in Laplace, So at that point he starts heading that way.

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He said that he arrived at the trailer park and

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he saw two deputies who responded to the dispatch report. Now,

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one of those deputies was named Anthony Bullock and the

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other one was named Brandon Nielsen. He went on to say,

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it was pitch dark and they were trying to locate

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this suspicious vehicle using a flashlight. In that they in

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fact did locate the vehicle. It was in some weeds

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in the rear of the trailer park. And he said

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at that point the three deputies they banded together to

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investigate the vehicle. And at that point a fourth deputy

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arrives on the scene, and that was Jeremy Trish, and

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this was roughly fifteen minutes after he had arrived on scene.

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The deputies were then told that the suspicious vehicle was

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a pickup truck and that he and Deputy Nielsen went

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to check that out, and they were joined by Deputy

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Jeremy Trish. Meanwhile, he said that Bullock was about fifty

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yards away from him and he started talking to a

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man who the deputy testified he couldn't make out his

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features at the time, but he could tell it was

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a man, and he could tell that this man was

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standing near a picnic table in the trailer park. Now,

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in prior testimony, Bullock had already identified that man who

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he was talking to, and he identified him as Terry Smith.

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Speaker 4: And as a matter.

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Speaker 5: Of fact, I want to pick up with Bullock's testimony

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quickly because he mentioned that he spoke to Terry Smith

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for ten minutes or so and that he wasn't convinced

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that Terry Smith did not have anything to do with

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the shooting at the Valero plant, even though Terry Smith

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was doing his best to convince this deputy of that.

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He said, after about ten minutes, he noticed Terry Smith's

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demeanor starting to change and that Terry Smith got very nervous.

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According to Deputy Bullock, he said it was at that

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point Terry Smith literally started having the shakes. He said

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he noticed some black residue on Terry Smith's hands, and

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he said, to this day, he doesn't know what that

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black residue was, but it looked like something that he

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had gripped. He said that once he noticed the residue,

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he called out to Jeremy Trish, who would join his

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fellow deputy, and according to Bullock, it was at that

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point he grabbed Smith's hand and that's when Smith got

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really defensive. In his words, Deputy Bullock said Smith tried

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to run, but that he wrestled Smith to the grind

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and he put handcuffs on him, and at that point

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he asked him if anyone else was in the trailer,

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to which Terry Smith replied that his wife was in

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the trailer. He said, that's when he approached the trailer

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and he saw a large dog at the door, and

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he called to Terry Smith's wife to put the dog

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on a leash. Block said, he then asked to speak

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to Chanelle Skanes, who is Terry Smith's wife, inside of

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the trailer. And he said the reason he wanted to

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do that was to prevent communication between Terry Smith and

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Chanelle Skanees so they couldn't get their stories together right.

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So he sat Upon entering that trailer, he noticed a

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man under a blanket in the bedroom, and he said

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he could see this man's hands moving under that blanket,

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under the cover, and he didn't know what was under

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that cover with this guy, of course, so he draws

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his weapon and he ordered this man to show his hands.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 5: That man was later identified as Kyle Yokel, and he

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said that Kyle Yokel complied and that himself, along with

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Chanelle Skenes and Kyle Yokel then all exit that trailer together.

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He said, when they exited the trailer, and once they

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got outside of it. Kyle Yokel takes off running, and

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Bullock said that he took off after him. He catches

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up to him and he starts handcuffing Kyle Yokel, and

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he said that's when Brian Smith appeared from the trailer.

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He was brandishing an AK forty seven, and of course

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all hell breaks loose. Now, picking up with a little

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bit more of Jason Trisha's testimony, he said that it

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was a split second when he saw Deputy brand Nielsen

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and Jeremy Trish get shot. He said, at that point

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he took off running and he got shot in the back.

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He grabbed his weapon and he shot several times back

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at the individuals. Jason Trish said he did make it

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back to his vehicle and he was actually able to

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make it to the hospital and as I told you

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several weeks later, after about a month in a coma,

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he finally woke up. Now, as far as Deputy Bullock,

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he said he took shelter behind the trailer after Brian

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Smith started shooting, and he said, in one hand he

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had the gun that he had pulled out of Kyle

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Yokel's waistband, and in the other hand he was firing

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with his own weapon. He also testified that he saw

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Deputy Nielsen fall and that he saw Deputies Jeremy Trish

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and Jason Trish running in the same direction toward some

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nearby railroad tracks. He said at this point he was

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positioned behind the trailer and he and the gunmen were

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actually firing at each other through the mobile home. He

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said that's when Kyle Yokel, who had been on the ground,

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ran back toward the front of the trailer and out

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of his view. He said, after Deputy Nielsen was struck

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by bullets, he saw a pair of legs from the

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other side of the trailer, and it was at that

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point that he made it to a nearby white pickup

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truck and took cover behind the truck, and he was

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able to shoot the person whose legs were visible, presumably

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the legs. He said he didn't watch as the person

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began crawling toward the door of the trailer.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 5: Deputy Bullock also testified that he saw a gumman standing

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over Deputy Nielsen, who had been shot, and that he

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saw this person, who was later identified as Kyle Yokel,

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fired several shots into the fallen deputy's body execution style.

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He also testified that as the bullets were flying, another

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deputy by the name of Charles Well approached the scene

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and that he basically flagged the deputy down and told

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him stop, don't come any closer. So that's the details

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that I have in this just absolutely horrific, infuriating shooting

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in which two deputies were killed, Saint john Sheriff's Deputy

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Brandon Nielsen and Deputy Jeremy Trish, and two deputies were wounded,

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of course, Michael Boynton at the first scene and Jason

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Trish wounded at the trailer park scene, if you will,

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and police would discover that these guys were members of

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what was called a sovereign citizen movement. And let me

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explain to you quickly what a sovereign say citizen allegedly is,

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and it's I guess the best way to tell you

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is it's an extremist movement of a bunch of people

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who don't believe in any sort of law. They believe

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you're in charge of yourself essentially, and they don't recognize

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law enforcement at all. They don't believe in taxes, they

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don't believe in authority, and they refer back to laws

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like laws that existed when the country was very first founded,

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as something to stand on. As far as their beliefs

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are concerned, it's absolutely ridiculous in my opinion, and I'm

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not going to spend too much time on it, but

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let's just say that they don't believe in any authority whatsoever,

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and they hate well, they typically hate cops because their

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law enforcement, and they don't believe in law enforcement, and

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they don't believe in anybody expressing any authority over them.

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So I'm going to break down for you now because

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there's so many one who each of these individuals were

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and what happened to them, And I'm going to tell

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you that there's one in particular that it's really going

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to shock you when I get to him. But we're

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going to start with Terry Smith, who was involved in

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that initial shooting at the Valera refinery. Remember, he was

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a driver. He was approximately forty four years old at

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the time of this shooting, and there's not a whole

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lot of details about his early life, but he was

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very involved in the sovereign citizen movement. He would proclaim

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himself as a common law judge and he would lead

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a small group of sovereign citizens in the area, so

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he was kind of like the patriarch of this group,

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if you will. And of course he gets arrested for

482
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,599
his role in the initial shooting. But guess what his

483
00:31:52,799 --> 00:31:56,519
role in this shooting that attempted murder of the initial

484
00:31:56,559 --> 00:32:01,279
officer at the Valeria plant, Deputy Boyington. It never goes

485
00:32:01,359 --> 00:32:06,079
to trial. Why because he had another case penning that

486
00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:09,839
would send him to Blooding in Gola to serve multiple

487
00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:13,559
life sentences for rape. And let me tell you how

488
00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:17,240
disgusting this guy is. And I'm going tomber reference. An

489
00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:21,799
article in this article was written by Dan Swinson. It

490
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:26,079
ran in The Times Picky un on October fifth of

491
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:31,319
twenty twelve, and it kind of discusses Terry Smith's past

492
00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:35,000
and it reads, Adam Tennessee, a police car crunched up

493
00:32:35,039 --> 00:32:38,279
in the trailer Parks grivel drive headed for the family

494
00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:42,160
exiled to the far back corner. They were so honory,

495
00:32:42,359 --> 00:32:46,200
so prone to trouble making that their landlord had moved

496
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,480
them there to Lot twenty eight A just to get

497
00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:52,079
him out of the way. It was November of last

498
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,960
year when the detective came for forty four year old

499
00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:59,599
Terry Lynn Smith, accused of raping a teenage relative. What

500
00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:03,920
she found instead would take her months later to Saint

501
00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:07,480
John the Baptist Parish. A stack of paper she carried

502
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,119
from that trailer would help piece together a puzzle of

503
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,279
the Smiths, their connection to a Nebraska fugitive, and the

504
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,680
senseless doctrine that might have driven them to gun down

505
00:33:18,759 --> 00:33:24,079
four sheriff's deputies in cold blood. On November ninth, Robertson County, Tennessee,

506
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,839
Detective Angela Lenney arrived at the Smith's camp, two trailers

507
00:33:29,039 --> 00:33:33,200
side by side at the Red River Valley Camp in Adams, Tennessee.

508
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,920
The Smiths weren't home, but a skinny redhead bolted from

509
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,039
that camper. He ran for the windline, leaped off a

510
00:33:41,119 --> 00:33:44,839
steep wooded bluff, and disappeared into the woods. An old

511
00:33:44,839 --> 00:33:48,720
white buick with Nebraska tags sat parked outside. It had

512
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,240
been stolen two months earlier. Lenny learned by a skinny,

513
00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:56,319
redheaded fugitive named Kyle Yokel, wanted in two states for

514
00:33:56,519 --> 00:34:00,759
dealing dope and threatening to kill police officers. Inside the

515
00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:04,480
Smith's camper, Lenny found an arsenal of guns. And ammunition

516
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,799
in a stack of paper she hoped would lead her

517
00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:11,039
to Terry Smith's missing teenage relative. Quote. I started looking

518
00:34:11,079 --> 00:34:13,800
through it, and I discover more than what I went

519
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,400
there for. The documents linked the Smith family to the

520
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:22,039
militant anti government group called Sovereign Citizens, whose thousands of

521
00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:26,119
members recognize no authority higher than their own. They dabble

522
00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:31,159
in conspiracy theories and file cryptic lawsuits protesting the unfairness

523
00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:36,400
of taxes and driver's license and sometimes they spiral into violence.

524
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,280
The Smiths, they were arrogant. They didn't care about anybody

525
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:45,079
but themselves. That from their landlord in Tennessee. I hate

526
00:34:45,119 --> 00:34:48,920
to say it, but I could see that ending coming.

527
00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,119
The mere mention of Terry Smith drives a grizzled old

528
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:55,199
man in North Louisiana to weep, to beat his head

529
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,280
against the doorframe of his rickety old house, to curse

530
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,840
God in Smith and anyone else who will listen. Quote

531
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,719
he's killing me, he sobs. Richard Skaines has long white hair,

532
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,719
wears cowboy boots and denim shirts, and sinks to his

533
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,840
knees if the thought of Smith. His daughter Chanelle met

534
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,000
the man years ago. Her father begged her not to

535
00:35:16,079 --> 00:35:20,960
marry him. Smith was manipulative, Skaines could see. He brought

536
00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:24,360
up his two boys mean just like him. But his

537
00:35:24,519 --> 00:35:27,519
daughter married Terry Smith anyway, and the two took off

538
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:31,639
to travel from state to state, factory job to factory job.

539
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,559
Skaine's heard of the child molestation cases in Tennessee, and

540
00:35:35,639 --> 00:35:38,280
he said he helped Leamy to try to find Smith.

541
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,679
He begged the police to arrest him. Quote I hate

542
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,920
that son of a bitch, and I always did, he

543
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,800
said of his son in law. I told the detective,

544
00:35:47,119 --> 00:35:49,519
if I see him, I'm going to kill him. You

545
00:35:49,639 --> 00:35:52,559
better catch him before I do. But he didn't see

546
00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:57,400
Smith ever again, and neither did that detective. On the

547
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,239
morning of the massacre in the Laplace trailer, Chanelle Scanes

548
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,840
ran screaming from her trailer in an effort to protect

549
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,760
the deputies that, according to witnesses, quote don't shoot them,

550
00:36:09,039 --> 00:36:12,079
she wailed. A neighbor said she threw herself on top

551
00:36:12,119 --> 00:36:15,239
of a fallen deputy as the neighbor watched, begging her

552
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,559
husband's son and Kyle Yogl to stop firing. They allegedly

553
00:36:19,679 --> 00:36:22,679
shot her in the arm. She is charged as an

554
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:25,719
accomplice in the shooting of the first deputy in the

555
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,119
parking lot. A week later, Scane's father stood on his lawn,

556
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,639
littered with broken bicycles, trash in old tires, and laminated

557
00:36:33,639 --> 00:36:36,079
that his daughter, who he said was a good girl,

558
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,000
married such a dangerous man, so dangerous, so mean. He

559
00:36:40,119 --> 00:36:43,039
said that somebody should have seen it coming and locked

560
00:36:43,079 --> 00:36:46,199
him up A long time ago. Those cops didn't have

561
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,199
to die. His former landlord in that trailer park remembered

562
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,000
just three tenants of the hundreds he had last year. Quote,

563
00:36:54,039 --> 00:36:56,880
you don't remember the good people, You just don't you

564
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,239
remember the troublemakers in his threshold for recollection is high.

565
00:37:01,639 --> 00:37:04,840
One of the three bad ones he recalled stole his canoes,

566
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,119
cut them into pieces, and sold them a few towns over.

567
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,679
Another was caught with the dead prostitute in his trailer.

568
00:37:12,039 --> 00:37:16,760
The third, the Smiths, was a family so unruly that

569
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,760
the landlord insisted they moved to the furthest back corner

570
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,679
of the campground's overflow lot. The camp sites seventy eight

571
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,559
lots were full of November due to a semiconductor plant

572
00:37:27,559 --> 00:37:30,239
that was under construction in nearby Clarksville.

573
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 4: Tennessee.

574
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 5: Until then, the landlord and his father had run a

575
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,920
sleepy canoe camp, a place for weeking getaways and field

576
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,599
trips on the Red River, which snaked along the back

577
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,159
edge of the camp shady main lot. They are more

578
00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:47,519
accustomed to nailing flip flops to their trademark quote tree

579
00:37:47,559 --> 00:37:51,159
of Souls in telling ghost stories to children than they

580
00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:54,679
are housing bad laborers that the Chamber of Commerce had

581
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:58,239
asked if they expand, even temporarily to allow workers a

582
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,400
place to live. The landlord charged the workers four hundred

583
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,840
dollars a month in rent, and for the most part

584
00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:08,159
left them alone. The landlord got the impression Yokel was

585
00:38:08,199 --> 00:38:12,400
a follower, impressionable, and easy to reel in. The Smiths,

586
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,800
he believes, became Yokel's outlaw family, bonded in blood and

587
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,000
guns and a shared distaste for authority. When the law

588
00:38:20,079 --> 00:38:22,719
came for the patriarch, the Smiths had to run, and

589
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,440
Yokel had nowhere else to go, so he figured he

590
00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:28,719
might as well run with them. The landlord said. They

591
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,599
all snuck back in the next day, long enough to

592
00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:35,119
hook up their trailers to their trucks and haul them away.

593
00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:38,840
Then the Smiths and Yokel once again slipped away. The

594
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,920
landlord didn't know where they were headed at the time.

595
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,800
He didn't care so long as they were gone, but

596
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,639
Looney kept looking. She issued a bulletin through the Tennessee

597
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,079
Fusion Center declaring Terry Smith wanted for questioning in a

598
00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:55,199
child's sex abuse case. He had a history that wove

599
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,360
through a half a dozen states, the bulletin warned, and

600
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:03,599
was affiliated with a militant organization prone to domestic terrorism.

601
00:39:04,119 --> 00:39:07,440
He should be considered dangerous. A half a year later,

602
00:39:07,559 --> 00:39:10,719
a hitchhiker thumbing a ride on a desolate stretch of

603
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:14,440
the highway in North Louisiana would offer a similar warning

604
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:18,280
about the Smiths. The family, he told yet another sheriff,

605
00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:22,239
this one six hundred miles from Tennessee, had moved into

606
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,440
the back of a trailer park in their town. They

607
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,880
had a lot of guns, he said, and they didn't

608
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,159
like the law. And that's how that rered gives you

609
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:37,800
kind of a view of how just horrible these people were.

610
00:39:38,159 --> 00:39:42,280
And of course that article started off talking about a

611
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:47,320
rape of a family member, that the patriarch of this group,

612
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:52,360
Terry Smith, was accused of molesting, and that victim was

613
00:39:52,519 --> 00:39:57,440
identified as his minor stepdaughter. Now, according to documents, he

614
00:39:57,559 --> 00:40:00,840
raked her for over ten years, with the use starting

615
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,280
in two thousand and four, when this little girl was

616
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,039
just seven years old, and continuing until the summer of

617
00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:11,159
twenty eleven when she was seventeen. And the acts included

618
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:17,320
vaginal penetration, oral sex, and even object insertion into her.

619
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,159
And he would threaten this poor little girl that he

620
00:40:20,159 --> 00:40:24,159
would kill the entire family if she ever told. Now,

621
00:40:24,159 --> 00:40:28,920
in twenty eleven, when this little girl escapes the Smiths home,

622
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:33,159
she reported it and there was apparently plenty of evidence

623
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:38,679
to substantiate this, and he eventually pleaded guilty to the charges.

624
00:40:39,119 --> 00:40:43,199
And just as sick and disgusting as this is, when

625
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:48,480
they interviewed her mother, her mother admitted to ignoring the

626
00:40:48,519 --> 00:40:51,039
signs of this, and it would be hard for him

627
00:40:51,079 --> 00:40:54,679
to believe she didn't know what was going on after

628
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,480
all of that time. So he has a ton of

629
00:40:57,559 --> 00:41:01,679
rape charges here, and he eventually gets sentenced for this.

630
00:41:01,679 --> 00:41:05,280
This was in March of twenty sixteen, and he gets

631
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:12,360
two life terms consecutive with no probation, plus fifty years

632
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,719
of hard labor on some other charges. He ends up

633
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:20,039
getting life. Plus Terry Smith ain't never getting out of prison,

634
00:41:20,199 --> 00:41:24,079
thank god. And all of that was tied to those

635
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:30,440
original child rape charges of a family member, and none

636
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,840
of that sentence was tied to what occurred in Saint

637
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,519
John Parrish. Now, of course he appealed all that shit,

638
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:43,519
and those appeals were denied. And let me tell you something,

639
00:41:44,039 --> 00:41:47,239
I don't know anything about this guy as far as

640
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,039
how he's going about his life inside of Bloody and Gola,

641
00:41:51,079 --> 00:41:55,519
but I can tell you convicts don't like chomos. That's

642
00:41:55,559 --> 00:41:59,280
all I'm gonna say. They don't like chomo's. So he's

643
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:04,199
either protective custody so to speak, meaning they don't let

644
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:09,079
him in general population, or he's having quite a hard time.

645
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,639
And I feel not the least bit sorry for him.

646
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,480
So that's who Terry Smith was. And before I go

647
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,559
any further, I want to make this very clear. Nobody

648
00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:23,719
gives a shit about these people that were involved in

649
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:28,119
this from the standpoint of the perpetrators. But you have

650
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,159
to tell the story, the who, what, why, wearing how,

651
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,760
And I just want to make that clear. I am

652
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,320
telling the complete full story, and you can't tell the

653
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,440
complete full story without going over what happened to these

654
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:44,519
people and how much trouble they were causing even before

655
00:42:44,559 --> 00:42:46,719
all this went down. So I want to make that clear.

656
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,679
I don't give a fuck about these people, but I

657
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,159
have to tell the story, so I'll move on. I

658
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,760
told you about Terry Smith. We're going to talk about

659
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,719
his son, Brian Smith, who was one of the two

660
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,320
shooters at the trailer park. He was twenty four years

661
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,760
old when all this went down. Of course, he was

662
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,760
charged with two counts of first degree murder. And to

663
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,239
give you a little background on him, obviously he was

664
00:43:11,599 --> 00:43:15,760
very much influenced by his piece of shit rapist's father.

665
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,840
He was homeschooled and at the time growing up, not

666
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,760
much as knowing out him outside of the fact that

667
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,719
he was considered a major troublemaker, kind of looked like

668
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:30,800
a punk, and he heavily embraced the sovereign citizen ideology.

669
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,000
But here's something that may surprise you. In his case,

670
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:39,199
he was also never convicted or sentenced in this case

671
00:43:39,599 --> 00:43:43,480
of these shootings, even though he had two charges of

672
00:43:43,639 --> 00:43:49,599
first degree murder, which are death penalty charges. Right Why well,

673
00:43:50,199 --> 00:43:54,800
he was considered mentally incompetent to stand trial. He was

674
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:59,760
actually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia with psychosis, and even though

675
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,199
he was never sentenced in this case, he will never

676
00:44:03,679 --> 00:44:09,199
see the free world again because he is hospitalized in Jackson, Louisiana,

677
00:44:09,599 --> 00:44:12,719
where there is a state hospital where you put people

678
00:44:13,159 --> 00:44:17,559
that are just mentally incompetent, and he will be at

679
00:44:17,599 --> 00:44:20,440
that hospital for the rest of his life. So, just

680
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,039
to give me an idea of the timeline of his case.

681
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:26,599
On August twenty fourth of twenty twelve, he gets charged

682
00:44:26,639 --> 00:44:30,159
with two counts of first degree murder plus three counts

683
00:44:30,199 --> 00:44:33,639
of attempted first degree murder. On August twenty fifth of

684
00:44:33,679 --> 00:44:38,039
twenty twelve, he gets indicted for those charges. In August

685
00:44:38,079 --> 00:44:42,119
of twenty thirteen, the following year, emotion is filed with

686
00:44:42,199 --> 00:44:45,599
his attorneys to bar the death penalty, and they cited

687
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,599
mental illness and they have a hearing, and in then hearing,

688
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,679
some psychiatrist speaks and he confirms that this guy suffers

689
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:58,960
from schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia. And look from there, this case

690
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,159
drug out all the way to twenty twenty before a

691
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,760
judge by the name of Sterling Snouty ruled him mentally

692
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,960
incompetent to stand trial, and that was spurred by an

693
00:45:11,079 --> 00:45:15,000
audio recording from twenty seventeen from a hearing where this

694
00:45:15,079 --> 00:45:17,880
guy just goes on a rant in the hearing about

695
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:22,199
the government targeting him. And as you would expect, he's

696
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:26,000
acting just completely crazy. But it was a good example

697
00:45:26,079 --> 00:45:30,480
of his stability, which is non existent in this guy's case.

698
00:45:31,039 --> 00:45:34,239
And that was enough, I guess, to convince the judge

699
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,639
that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial. Not saying

700
00:45:37,679 --> 00:45:40,119
I agree with it. I would have made him stand

701
00:45:40,199 --> 00:45:44,159
trial personally, but that is the facts of what the

702
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,639
judge found. Now, one thing that came out as police

703
00:45:47,679 --> 00:45:52,039
investigated was he had a unique bond with the next

704
00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:54,360
guy that we're going to talk about, which is Kyle

705
00:45:54,679 --> 00:45:57,960
Yokel and he was the other shooter at that trailer park,

706
00:45:58,039 --> 00:46:01,239
the one that picked up the AKA forty seven. So

707
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,320
let's get into Kyle Yogel.

708
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 6: Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?

709
00:46:10,559 --> 00:46:13,079
Speaker 5: Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

710
00:46:13,119 --> 00:46:14,280
what happened in New York.

711
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 6: It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

712
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:17,840
you about yesterday in Louisiana.

713
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 4: You know what, we should do a podcast about it.

714
00:46:21,119 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 6: And with that we did. Crime War Weekly covers the

715
00:46:24,039 --> 00:46:26,239
crime news headlines that have dominated the week.

716
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Speaker 5: We cover trending crimes from all over the country and

717
00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:32,480
even sprinkle in a few globally.

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Speaker 5: Simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link

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in the description of this podcast. He was indicted for

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two counts of first degree murdyer. And a little about

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his early life. He was born in nineteen eighty five.

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He was twenty eight when all this went down. As

725
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of today, he is a around forty years old. He's

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a white male, and he grew up actually in Nebraska

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on a farm. In his early life was troubled, was rough.

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Allegedly he had an abusive father and his entire family

729
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was plagued by alcoholism. At some point, he drops out

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of high school in the eleventh grade after he and

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his father supposedly gotten a pretty violent altercation, and from

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there he would turn to alcohol in minor crimes. By

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his early twenties, he faced some pretty stiff charges in

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Nebraska for drug possession, resisting arrest, making threats against law enforcement,

735
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and all of those are classified as terroristic threats. So

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warrant gets put out for his arrest and he hauls

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ass and he meets up with the Smiths somehow. And

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I told you about him being with them in Tennessee

739
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at that trailer park. But he was just kind of

740
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a want to bee, as that landlord in Tennessee also said,

741
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and I quoted him as saying, he just appeared to

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be some sort of follower and wanted to be accepted

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into a group. And he was also the sixth s

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Mitch that shot, if you'll remember Deputy Nielsen point blank

745
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after he already laid on the ground dying.

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Speaker 4: As it was.

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Speaker 5: That's how sick and twisted this guy is. And in

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the end, he gets exactly what he deserved. He gets

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the death penalty inside of bloody Angola.

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Speaker 4: But it took a while.

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Speaker 5: He wasn't convicted until February of twenty twenty, and he

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was formally sentenced to death just a couple of years ago,

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in twenty twenty three, some eleven years after this incident.

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I would imagine, because he was convicted in twenty twenty,

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what happened right after he was convicted. He was convicted

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in February of twenty twenty of course, late March COVID,

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and it put things off, and he wasn't actually formally

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sentenced to death until twenty twenty three, eleven years after

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the incident. He's on death row as of today. And

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in that case, get this, and this is a little

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bit rare. It's not very common that you would deliberate

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for just twenty two minutes to convict someone in a

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death penalty case. But that's what happened here, that's how

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clear the evidence was. So we covered the actual shooters

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and what happened to them, and let's get into some

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of the I guess you would call it co conspirators.

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And the first person we're going to talk about is

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the wife of Terry Smith, the leader of this group.

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And her name was Chanelle Skeines. And Chanelle was thirty

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seven years old when this originally went down.

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Speaker 4: She was born in.

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Speaker 5: Nineteen seventy five, so she would be fifty years old

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approximately today as I record this, and she was the

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second wife of Terry Smith. Now, she was originally arrested

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for accessory after the fact. Now at some point her

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charges do get upgraded to being a principal to first

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degree murder, However, because she testified against Yokel, eventually she

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gets sentenced to five years in prison. She serves that

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time with good credits, and she ends up getting released

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sometime around twenty seventeen, and not much else is none

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about her. And I'm sure her role in the shooting,

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as far as trying to comfort the deputies, shielding them

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at one point from her husband, I'm sure that played

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a role. And the fact that she testified against some

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of these individuals, I'm sure that played a role in

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her sentence. And it was interesting that she cooperated pretty

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quickly considering the charges she was facing, probably a smart thing.

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As a matter of fact, in November of twenty twelve,

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she took that plea deal, so just a few months

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after all of this occurred. Now, someone that I haven't

791
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told you a whole lot about is Derek Smith. Derek

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Smith was the younger son of Terry Smith and Brian Smith,

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and he was also arrested in connection with this incident. Now,

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he was not directly involved in the shooting that took

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place at that trailer park. However, when they investigated him,

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he does get charged with two counts of accessory after

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the fact and a felon in possession of a firearm,

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and he gets some time for that because he was

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already a felon. You get found with a firearm. He

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actually picked up twelve years at hard labor for that,

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plus five years at hard labor for the accessory after

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the fact charge. He ends up serving it in a

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detention center and he gets released on good time. And

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this is an April first of twenty seven after serving

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about four and a half years of his sentence, and

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he was placed under supervised probation in the custody of

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his grandmother at that point, and maybe he learned his

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lesson right. Nope, his freedom is very short lived. As

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a matter of fact, on August twelfth of twenty seventeen,

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just five months after he was released, he gets rearrested

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for illegal weapon possession, which violated his parole. It leads

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to his return to custody and he goes back to prison.

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Now I don't have any information on if he has

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been released again or not, so I'm not going to

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speculate on that. But he did get out and five

816
00:52:48,199 --> 00:52:51,880
months later end up back in jail in twenty seventeen. Unbelievable,

817
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So I'm going to reference another article now, this article

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also from The Times Peaky un and it talked a

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little bit about Chanelle's Skanes and her testifying at a

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preliminary hearing. And I find it very interesting. It again

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helps to paint the picture here and it reads Chanelle

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Skanes knelt on the gravel of the Laplace trailer park,

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where she lived with her husband, daughter and step sons,

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clutching the hand of a Saint John Parish deputy who

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had been struck in a hell of gunfire just seconds before,

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stroking his hair and forehead.

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Speaker 4: Quote.

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Speaker 5: Are they talking to you? She asked the deputy in

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a panic, referring to the voices she heard broadcasting over

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a Sheriff's office issue radio that lay on the ground

831
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next to him. The deputy mumbled, yes, they're coming, Skins

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reassured him between bouts of sobbing and please for help,

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so frantic in fact, that she hadn't noticed her own

834
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gunshot wound in her arm. They're coming, she told him,

835
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I promise you, they're coming, but help would arrive too late.

836
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Moments later, the deputy died, one of the two casualties

837
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of a horrific ambush on August sixteenth, twenty twelve that

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ambush claimed the lives of Deputies Jeremy Trish and Brandon Nielsen,

839
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and left Deputies Michael Scott Boyington and Jason Trish with

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injury so severe that Boyington required six or seven surgeries

841
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and Trish had to have his spling, gallbladder and one of.

842
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Speaker 4: His kidneys removed.

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Speaker 5: Four suspects will stand trial for those crimes, including Skaane's

844
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husband Terry Smith, step sons Dereck and Brian Smith, as

845
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well as Kyle Yokel. Terry and Derreck Smith are charged

846
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with being a principal to attempt at first very murder.

847
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Brian Smith and Yokel are each charged with two counts

848
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of first very murder in the deaths of Jeremy, Trish

849
00:54:44,559 --> 00:54:49,159
and Nielsen. It convicted, they faced possible death sentences Skain's

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00:54:49,199 --> 00:54:52,920
and Britney Keith, Brian Smith's girlfriend, had pleaded guilty to

851
00:54:53,199 --> 00:54:57,840
accessory charges. The charges against Tamisha Bright, who told authorities

852
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she simply had hitched her at home with the Smiths

853
00:55:01,519 --> 00:55:04,360
that August day and was initially booked with being a

854
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principal to attempt at first green murtyerr were refused in

855
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October of last year on Friday morning. In a tear

856
00:55:11,119 --> 00:55:15,800
for a two hour testimony during the preliminary examination, Skanees

857
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:19,119
were called the Fear, the panic and violence had unspooled

858
00:55:19,519 --> 00:55:23,639
across the scenic Riverview Mumba home that August morning. Shortly

859
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:26,960
after four am on August sixteenth, Skane says she received

860
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:30,559
a puzzling phone call from her step son, Derek. Skane's

861
00:55:30,559 --> 00:55:32,360
had just gotten out of bed in the Moba home

862
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,880
she shared with her husband, Terry Smith, and had gone

863
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,679
to the kitchen to make coffee. She knew Terry and

864
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,320
his sons would be arriving home from the Valeria refinery

865
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,599
in Laplace where they worked late shifts, and then her

866
00:55:44,639 --> 00:55:48,000
phone rang quote, the cops are chasing us, Dereck Smith

867
00:55:48,079 --> 00:55:50,159
told her, then abruptly hung up.

868
00:55:50,519 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 4: Quote.

869
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 5: I thought he was playing a joke because he liked

870
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,400
to do practical things like that, She testified. But because

871
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:59,119
Skines knew that her husband, who drove a Chevy truck,

872
00:55:59,519 --> 00:56:02,039
did not have a driver's license, she began to worry

873
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:05,159
that perhaps the group had run into trouble. She walked

874
00:56:05,159 --> 00:56:08,719
out of the trailer just as they pulled up Terry, Derek,

875
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,599
and Brian Smith, as well as Kyle Yokel and Bright,

876
00:56:12,079 --> 00:56:15,480
a neighbor and fellow employee who Terry Smith often shuttled

877
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,760
to him from work, poured out of that truck.

878
00:56:18,159 --> 00:56:18,519
Speaker 4: Quote.

879
00:56:18,599 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 5: I asked Terry what was going on? He told me

880
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,639
that Brian had shot a guard. Terry Smith was referring

881
00:56:24,679 --> 00:56:28,719
to Deputy Michael Scott Boynton, who Brian Smith allegedly shot

882
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:32,159
with an assault rifle outside the Valeria parking lot. After

883
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,440
Boynton tried to pull them over. The Smithson sped down

884
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:38,679
by you. Steell rode back to the trailer. Terry Smith

885
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,880
told Skanes to go back inside the trailer. She obliged. Meanwhile,

886
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:46,760
he returned to his truck. The others, including Skanes, convened

887
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:50,719
inside the trailer. Keith was also present at the trailer.

888
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:55,079
According to Skaanes, Derek Smith left the trailer shortly thereafter.

889
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Quote then Brian said, Dad's turning on me. Skanes testified

890
00:57:00,159 --> 00:57:02,880
he was pacing talking, saying we had to leave, we

891
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:06,320
gotta go, we can't stay here. Skane said her testimony

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00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:10,480
that Brian Smith often exhibited paranoid behavior, peering out of

893
00:57:10,519 --> 00:57:14,400
windows as if he were being followed, distrusting his loyal

894
00:57:14,599 --> 00:57:15,679
family and friends.

895
00:57:16,159 --> 00:57:16,519
Speaker 4: Quote.

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00:57:16,559 --> 00:57:20,119
Speaker 5: I said, no, no, no, it's okay, Skane said. Terry

897
00:57:20,159 --> 00:57:23,559
Smith returned from his car with a rifle slung over

898
00:57:23,599 --> 00:57:26,679
his shoulder. As Terry Smith went to lay the rifle

899
00:57:26,719 --> 00:57:29,679
on the bed, Skane's picked up the firearm and tucked

900
00:57:29,719 --> 00:57:32,400
it under a pile of clothes in the closet, along

901
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,840
with the purse which held a handgun. Terry Smith left

902
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:40,000
the trailer, and moments later Skane's heard voices outside quote.

903
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,280
I assumed it was a police because I could hear

904
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,440
the radios. Then there was a knock on a door.

905
00:57:45,639 --> 00:57:48,239
I opened the door and there was a policeman standing there.

906
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,559
He said, Hi, how are you doing. I'd like to

907
00:57:50,599 --> 00:57:52,840
talk to you for a second. I have my dog

908
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,320
in my hand and said let me come outside. I

909
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,119
put the dog on a leash and stepped outside. When

910
00:57:58,159 --> 00:58:01,719
I did, Terry was sitting at the picnic table, handcuffed.

911
00:58:02,039 --> 00:58:05,000
Skane's testified she met his two other deputies staring near

912
00:58:05,039 --> 00:58:07,480
the corner of her trailer, and the deputy who had

913
00:58:07,559 --> 00:58:09,639
knocked on the door told her to go back in

914
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:14,039
the trailer. He followed her inside. Brian Smith, his girlfriend,

915
00:58:14,119 --> 00:58:18,280
Britney Keith and Bright had disappeared into the bathroom. Yokel

916
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,559
was lying in Skane's bed, hiding under the covers. The

917
00:58:21,599 --> 00:58:25,239
officer quickly noticed Yokel and asked him to step outside.

918
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:29,039
Skane's Yokel and the officer then left the trailer. Skane

919
00:58:29,079 --> 00:58:32,519
sat down at the picnic table. The next thing, Skane's

920
00:58:32,559 --> 00:58:36,239
need the deputies were wrestling Yokel to the ground. Skane's

921
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,880
thirteen year old daughter, who also testified on Friday, had

922
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,119
been in Dereck Smith's trailer for the entire episode, but

923
00:58:43,239 --> 00:58:47,400
she said she distinctly heard Yokel scream they're going to

924
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:50,000
kill us all. Skane said she saw one of the

925
00:58:50,039 --> 00:58:53,679
officers kick Yokel. She said another officer drew a gun

926
00:58:53,719 --> 00:58:56,840
and threatened to shoot Terry Smith as well as Skane's dog,

927
00:58:57,199 --> 00:58:59,880
who had been barking since the deputy showed up.

928
00:59:00,119 --> 00:59:00,679
Speaker 4: They put the.

929
00:59:00,639 --> 00:59:03,719
Speaker 5: Gun in Terry's face, saying he should just shoot them.

930
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:07,119
Skane said, he said, I'll just shoot the dog. No,

931
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,800
you can't shoot the dog. He said, I'll shoot both

932
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,000
of you. I'm trying to hush the dog. Skane's continued,

933
00:59:13,039 --> 00:59:15,920
and the door of the trailer swings open. Skin said

934
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,079
She then saw Brian in her peripheral vision in the

935
00:59:19,119 --> 00:59:22,239
doorway of the trailer. She heard gunshots, grabbed her dog

936
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,159
and rolled under the picnic table. She said, I heard

937
00:59:25,159 --> 00:59:28,000
a bunch of shooting, then everything went quiet and I

938
00:59:28,119 --> 00:59:29,079
was screaming.

939
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Speaker 4: Stop, stop.

940
00:59:30,079 --> 00:59:33,719
Speaker 5: Then I heard Brian say I've been shot. Skane said.

941
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,639
She began crawling toward the camper from under the picnic

942
00:59:36,679 --> 00:59:39,079
table where she had been hiding him. When she turned

943
00:59:39,119 --> 00:59:42,119
her head, she met his Jokeal walking along the side

944
00:59:42,119 --> 00:59:44,960
of the trailer. She said, Yokle knelt down and picked

945
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:49,199
up a rifle. Moments later, gunfire resumed and Skane's once

946
00:59:49,239 --> 00:59:53,039
again buried her head in her arms. Quote. I guess

947
00:59:53,079 --> 00:59:56,320
Brian had just threw the gun out the door, she said.

948
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,559
Yokel picked it up, started screaming he was going to

949
00:59:59,639 --> 01:00:03,599
kill the and he started firing down at the police officer.

950
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,920
Although Skanes later said she did not actually see Yokil

951
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:10,239
a deputy, she confirmed that she did see him point

952
01:00:10,239 --> 01:00:13,199
the barrel of the gun downward toward the ground, only

953
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:18,039
later which she noticed the deputy lying nearby. Deputy David

954
01:00:18,159 --> 01:00:22,039
Anthony Bullock, who was also present during the ambush, testified

955
01:00:22,039 --> 01:00:24,440
in September that he had seen a pair of legs

956
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:27,960
fire shots into the body of Deputy Brandon Nielsen, and

957
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,280
I quoted you that then when quiet, Skane said, she said,

958
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,920
she grabbed the dog and ran across the street to

959
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,039
Derreck Smith's trailer, where he and his thirteen year old

960
01:00:37,119 --> 01:00:40,280
daughter had been during the shooting. Skanes left the dog

961
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,639
there and ran back toward her trailer, where she noticed

962
01:00:43,639 --> 01:00:47,599
the deputy, presumably Jeremy Trush, bleeding on the ground. She

963
01:00:47,719 --> 01:00:50,719
knelt beside him. Quote, he was laying there. I asked

964
01:00:50,719 --> 01:00:53,599
if he was okay. She held his hand, smoothed his hair,

965
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:56,679
and told him help was on the way. Skane said

966
01:00:56,719 --> 01:01:00,440
that she then spotted Terry Smith. Skanees told the deputy

967
01:01:00,519 --> 01:01:03,440
that she'd be right back, and she and Smith returned

968
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:06,199
to the trailer, where Brian Smith was on the floor

969
01:01:06,239 --> 01:01:08,960
bleeding from a gunshot wound. She looked at him and

970
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:13,000
told him, quote, you're crazy. As Skin's began walking back

971
01:01:13,039 --> 01:01:16,239
to the fallen deputy, she noticed Dereck Smith and her

972
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,679
daughter coming toward her. She said she pleaded for them

973
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:23,880
to stay away. Skan's grabbed her daughter's hand and took

974
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:27,320
the child to her aunt's trailer. Skan's then ran back

975
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:31,199
to the deputy as the deputy radio continued to cackle

976
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:35,039
beside them. Skain's greened, hurry, I'm losing him. I don't

977
01:01:35,079 --> 01:01:40,039
have any weapons, please hurry. Then Skin's testified between fits

978
01:01:40,039 --> 01:01:43,639
of tears he stopped breathing. Only then skin said did

979
01:01:43,679 --> 01:01:46,840
she realize she had been shot, presumably by a bullet

980
01:01:47,079 --> 01:01:48,639
from Brian Smith's gun.

981
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:49,159
Speaker 4: Quote.

982
01:01:49,159 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 5: They grabbed me, Skane said, and got the ambulance and

983
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:54,960
I went to the hospital because I had been shot.

984
01:01:55,199 --> 01:01:58,000
Skain's was one of nine witnesses in court, etc.

985
01:01:58,639 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 4: Etc.

986
01:01:59,159 --> 01:02:01,559
Speaker 5: And I wanted to read you that because I just

987
01:02:01,599 --> 01:02:04,599
talked about Derek Smith and there's just not a whole

988
01:02:04,639 --> 01:02:08,400
lot regarding him, and there are a few more players

989
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,360
in all of this. Let's get into Britney Keith. She

990
01:02:11,519 --> 01:02:14,760
was a girlfriend of Brian Smith, and I mean, you reckon,

991
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,840
something's wrong with these girls, pickers. I mean, find a

992
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:21,320
classy guy, ladies. She was twenty three years old when

993
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:24,639
all this went down. She was also charged with accessory

994
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,840
after the fact, and she was also in that trailer

995
01:02:28,199 --> 01:02:31,800
when this incident went down. As I told you, she

996
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:36,239
also shared in that same ideology as a Sovereign Citizen

997
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:40,800
group member and during the gun battle, she was inside

998
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:44,000
the trailer when the ambush occurred. Now, she was charged

999
01:02:44,039 --> 01:02:47,039
with principal to first Green murder, and she was not

1000
01:02:47,119 --> 01:02:50,800
as cooperative as Skan's and all this she didn't testify

1001
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,280
against any other individuals, and thus her sentence was a

1002
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:58,639
lot harder than Scanes. And again it took what seemed

1003
01:02:58,679 --> 01:03:01,639
like forever to get her sentence. As a matter of fact,

1004
01:03:01,679 --> 01:03:06,039
it was February fourteenth of twenty twenty two before she

1005
01:03:06,119 --> 01:03:09,440
has sentenced to two concurrent five year terms and three

1006
01:03:09,519 --> 01:03:11,639
years of probation. But she had been in jail for

1007
01:03:11,679 --> 01:03:13,880
quite a while on all of this, so it was

1008
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:18,599
time served for her. And from what I understand, she's

1009
01:03:18,639 --> 01:03:22,800
not in jail anymore. That's just from what I understand.

1010
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:26,880
Take that with a grain of salt. Now, remember Tanisha Bright,

1011
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,320
who was twenty one at the time that all this

1012
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:32,159
went down. I've already referenced us. But of course they

1013
01:03:32,199 --> 01:03:35,519
discovered she was just wrong place, wrong time, wrong fucking people,

1014
01:03:36,159 --> 01:03:40,519
and sure her charges were dropped and rightfully so, so

1015
01:03:40,599 --> 01:03:43,599
to quickly go over everything you just heard, Terry Smith,

1016
01:03:43,679 --> 01:03:46,679
the one that was driving the car when Deputy Boyington

1017
01:03:47,039 --> 01:03:51,239
was shot in the initial shooting. He was never convicted

1018
01:03:51,239 --> 01:03:55,719
in this case. However, he was convicted for those disgusting

1019
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:59,400
rapes and incest charges. He ends up with two life

1020
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:03,920
sentences plus ninety five years, and he was the leader

1021
01:04:04,039 --> 01:04:08,079
of this group. Brian Smith, his son, twenty four. He

1022
01:04:08,159 --> 01:04:12,199
was deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, but he is

1023
01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:15,639
in a forensic mental hospital for likely the rest of

1024
01:04:15,679 --> 01:04:18,480
his life. Kyle Yukel, who was twenty eight. He was

1025
01:04:18,559 --> 01:04:23,199
convicted of two counts of first degree murder. He received

1026
01:04:23,519 --> 01:04:28,079
the death penalty inside Bloody Angola Derreck Smith twenty two

1027
01:04:28,719 --> 01:04:32,480
at the time, the son of the leader of this group.

1028
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:36,440
He pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm and accessory

1029
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:41,159
after the fact. He was released in twenty seventeen. However,

1030
01:04:41,199 --> 01:04:45,320
he was re arrested in twenty seventeen for weapons violations.

1031
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:48,920
I don't know where he's at as of this point.

1032
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:53,519
Chanelle Skaines, Terry's wife, pleaded guilty. Was the first person

1033
01:04:53,639 --> 01:04:56,719
to take a plea in this case. Of course, she

1034
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:03,280
testified in trial, and she received five years probation, primarily

1035
01:05:03,679 --> 01:05:06,920
for her help with the prosecution. Now, a couple of

1036
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:10,519
things that are worth mentioning that occurred during all of this,

1037
01:05:11,119 --> 01:05:14,440
And it came out during the testimony of Deputy Michael

1038
01:05:14,559 --> 01:05:20,199
Boynton that he was having some very serious issues with

1039
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:24,400
his police radio system that day. So again I'm going

1040
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:28,159
to directly reference an article by The Times Picky in

1041
01:05:28,239 --> 01:05:31,920
this was May twenty fourth of twenty thirteen, where Boynton

1042
01:05:32,119 --> 01:05:36,840
testified on just that subject. Says Deputy Michael Boyington lay

1043
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:39,920
flat in his patrol card, dazed and bleeding from the

1044
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:43,360
four bullets that had torn into his body just seconds before.

1045
01:05:43,639 --> 01:05:46,440
He had seen the muzzleflash from the truck window and

1046
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:50,159
felt the searing pain that followed. Now ahead of him,

1047
01:05:50,559 --> 01:05:54,119
the truck's brake lights were fiery red where they're coming

1048
01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:57,480
back for him to finish him off. Boynton's hand was

1049
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,400
on his radio, moving the dial, hoping to hear the

1050
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:02,559
familiar chirping sound of a connection.

1051
01:06:03,199 --> 01:06:03,599
Speaker 4: Nothing.

1052
01:06:04,079 --> 01:06:07,840
Speaker 5: For the third time that morning, Deputy Boynton's police radio

1053
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:11,440
had failed him. As the legal proceedings continued for the

1054
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:14,960
group accused of shooting Boyington and three other Saint John

1055
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:19,320
the Baptist pair Shriff's deputies last August, killing two testimony

1056
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:23,199
in a preliminary hearing has spotlighted something deputies in the

1057
01:06:23,199 --> 01:06:26,159
parish have known for a long time. Throughout Saint John

1058
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:30,159
there are areas where emergency radios cannot snag a signal.

1059
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,079
Boynton was the first to come into contact with the

1060
01:06:33,119 --> 01:06:36,679
alleged attackers on August sixteenth, about four am in the

1061
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:40,119
Laplace parking lot. But when Boynton tried to call for

1062
01:06:40,199 --> 01:06:43,559
backup before the deadly bat of violence began to unferral,

1063
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:48,519
nothing happened. His radio couldn't find a signal. During testimony

1064
01:06:48,559 --> 01:06:52,199
in a preliminary hearing last month, Boynton said he tried

1065
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:56,440
unsuccessfully he uses radio at least twice before he was shot,

1066
01:06:56,800 --> 01:06:59,480
and at least once after. By the time he was

1067
01:06:59,519 --> 01:07:03,119
able to reach headquarters, the truck and his passengers were

1068
01:07:03,159 --> 01:07:06,280
well on their way to a Laplace trailer park where

1069
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:09,400
they would attack and kill more deputies. So I just

1070
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:12,599
wanted to reference that, and I'm not going to read

1071
01:07:12,639 --> 01:07:16,760
the rest of the article, but pretty crazy that these radios,

1072
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:20,159
these deputies were having so many problems with these radios,

1073
01:07:20,159 --> 01:07:22,800
and man, that is serious, and I thought it was

1074
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:26,440
important to mention that in reference just a piece of

1075
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:30,159
that article and another thing worth mentioning. While awaiting some

1076
01:07:30,239 --> 01:07:33,320
sort of trial, it also came out that Terry Smith

1077
01:07:33,519 --> 01:07:37,239
was planning an escape from jail, and that was reported

1078
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:41,119
by The Times picking You on February twenty seventh of

1079
01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:45,760
twenty fifteen. And here's what was reported about that incident.

1080
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:48,840
It said Terry Smith, one of the three men indicted

1081
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:51,920
in connection with the shooting death of to Saint John

1082
01:07:52,039 --> 01:07:55,599
the Baptist pair sheriff's deputies and the waiting of two others.

1083
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:59,800
Jailbreak plans were foiled before he could make his attempt.

1084
01:08:00,119 --> 01:08:04,679
A Batinery's television station reports another inmate at the Hunt

1085
01:08:04,719 --> 01:08:09,519
Correctional Center located in Saint Gabriel told guards about Smith's plans,

1086
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:14,119
and that was reported by WBRZ television. According to the

1087
01:08:14,159 --> 01:08:18,079
news report, that appeared Smith was planning a shawshank redemption

1088
01:08:18,239 --> 01:08:21,560
type of escape attempt, having dug a hole in the

1089
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:25,199
center black wall, and it made gloves from boots and

1090
01:08:25,239 --> 01:08:28,800
a vest from a sack in some legal papers. The

1091
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:33,199
TV station also reported Smith had survival guide tips and

1092
01:08:33,279 --> 01:08:39,039
so that's how that read. Thank god that guy did

1093
01:08:39,079 --> 01:08:41,840
not get away. Now I'm going to reference one more

1094
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:45,119
article today because it gives you an idea of the

1095
01:08:45,199 --> 01:08:49,720
mindset of these individuals. And it's really an article on

1096
01:08:50,119 --> 01:08:56,239
the families of the fallen, you know, asking why, which

1097
01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:00,000
if you ever have a Tragy situation happened in your family,

1098
01:09:00,199 --> 01:09:03,600
that's a question, right, that's the human side of a tragedy.

1099
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:06,880
You want to know why. So I'm going to reference

1100
01:09:07,079 --> 01:09:09,840
this article from the time speaking you from June ninth

1101
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:13,159
of twenty fourteen, and it reads Eddie Trush leapt up

1102
01:09:13,199 --> 01:09:15,600
from her seat in the back road of the courtroom

1103
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:18,920
and ran outside. She looked up towards the sky, and

1104
01:09:19,039 --> 01:09:23,159
she screamed for hours, for days on end, listening to

1105
01:09:23,399 --> 01:09:27,079
dozens of witnesses recount Howur's son, Saint John the pad

1106
01:09:27,319 --> 01:09:31,640
Baptist parish Shier's deputy Jeremy Trush, was shot dead at

1107
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:35,479
a Laplace trailer park last summer. But in that one moment,

1108
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:37,439
as she heard how he tried to run from an

1109
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:41,800
assault rifle fire, Eddie Trush was broken by grief. Her

1110
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:45,000
whole world changed that day August sixteenth of twenty twelve,

1111
01:09:45,279 --> 01:09:47,880
a date that will forever be seared into the parish

1112
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:52,199
collective memory and wasn't yet dawned in two deputies, Brandon

1113
01:09:52,239 --> 01:09:56,239
Nilson and Jeremy Trush, but fathers and husbands lay dead

1114
01:09:56,399 --> 01:09:59,840
in the gravel of a scenic riverview mobile home park

1115
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:04,039
and laplace. Two other deputies were grievously injured. In the

1116
01:10:04,119 --> 01:10:07,159
years since the shooting, the wounded deputies have returned home

1117
01:10:07,199 --> 01:10:11,600
from the hospital, though with permanent disabilities and constant reminders

1118
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:14,720
of the whares they've faced that morning. The winners of

1119
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:18,239
the two dead strangers before had become best friends. They

1120
01:10:18,239 --> 01:10:20,960
call each other nearly every day to cry or shout

1121
01:10:21,079 --> 01:10:24,640
or laminate all the things that their husbands had missed birthdays,

1122
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:28,960
first fishing trips, dance recitals, and skin knees. Quote. You

1123
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,640
wouldn't think it would take an entire year to realize

1124
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:36,159
he's never coming home, said Nielsen's wife, Danielle. It's unbelievable

1125
01:10:36,239 --> 01:10:38,479
that it has been a year. Sometimes it feels like

1126
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:42,359
I saw him last week. Sometimes it feels like forever.

1127
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:46,359
The community continues to warm with them. A ceremony marking

1128
01:10:46,399 --> 01:10:50,319
the anniversaries schedule for Friday. The details of the shootings

1129
01:10:50,319 --> 01:10:53,239
have been pieced together through a half dozen hearings and

1130
01:10:53,319 --> 01:10:57,840
testimony from other officers. The killers accomplices and innocents who

1131
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:01,319
witness some of the events, but the family still struggle

1132
01:11:01,399 --> 01:11:04,399
to comprehend what might have provoked a group of strangers

1133
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:07,760
to gun down for good men. There's just one word

1134
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:11,359
all can come up with, evil, And I couldn't agree

1135
01:11:11,359 --> 01:11:14,119
more with that. As they sat in jail cells for

1136
01:11:14,199 --> 01:11:16,600
a year, the family accused of the killings that have

1137
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:21,520
written various manifestos maintaining their allegiance as sovereign citizens. A

1138
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:25,119
loose but volatile group of anti government extremists. They are

1139
01:11:25,199 --> 01:11:28,960
described by the FBI as domestic terrorists, and their encounters

1140
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:34,760
with authority, particularly police, routinely turned violent. Quote they proclaim

1141
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:38,600
me anti government bitch. I am a sovereign citizen, one

1142
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:41,560
of the accused wrote in a wrap found scribbled on

1143
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:43,720
the back of a police report in his jail cell.

1144
01:11:44,199 --> 01:11:47,159
Quote you approach me, you better be ready to get

1145
01:11:47,199 --> 01:11:50,680
in to where a badge is of sin. You will

1146
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:53,760
be put to death. My bullets will be cutting through

1147
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:58,880
your vest. Seven people were originally charged in the massacre.

1148
01:12:00,079 --> 01:12:03,880
Sovereign citizen Terry Smith has announced his deep distrust in

1149
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:06,760
the government. With his two sons, Brian and Derek, the

1150
01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:10,720
Smith family originally from North Louisiana, has stuck together, moving

1151
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:13,840
from state to state, trailer to trailer, picking up jobs

1152
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:18,199
as welders and day laborers at construction sites. Terry Smith's wife,

1153
01:12:18,199 --> 01:12:22,680
shaneil Skenes, and Brian Smith's girlfriend Brittany Keith traveled with

1154
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:26,600
them in Tennessee months before the shootings in Laplace. They

1155
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:30,960
met like minded Nebraska outlaw Kyle Yokel, who fled his

1156
01:12:31,119 --> 01:12:34,079
home state in a high speed chase after threatening to

1157
01:12:34,159 --> 01:12:37,439
kill any cop who tried to control him. Yokel and

1158
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:40,520
the Smith family had a few things in common. Both

1159
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:42,680
were on the run from the law, and both shared

1160
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:46,640
a profound hatred for law enforcement. Brian Smith and Yokel

1161
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:50,479
would months later become the accused gumman in the Laplace killings,

1162
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:54,239
but prosecutors suggested in court filings had planned to slaughter

1163
01:12:54,359 --> 01:12:57,000
officers long before they moved into the back of the

1164
01:12:57,119 --> 01:13:00,840
Laplace trailer park. Derreck Smith, during one of his many

1165
01:13:01,039 --> 01:13:05,199
prior incarcerations, wrote his brother a letter from jail. Quote,

1166
01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:08,319
Dad said he wanted to go to war with the police. Well,

1167
01:13:08,359 --> 01:13:11,560
I'm gonna see if he bout that he scrubbled. I

1168
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,159
ain't got nothing to live for anymore. So I'm gonna

1169
01:13:14,199 --> 01:13:17,239
take everyone to hell with me. I found out where

1170
01:13:17,279 --> 01:13:21,439
my old po and he means probation officer lives. I'm

1171
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:23,920
gonna get his wife and kids and let him live

1172
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:27,000
in pain. That letter, found in one of the son's

1173
01:13:27,079 --> 01:13:31,039
trailers after the Laplace massacre has become evidence in this

1174
01:13:31,199 --> 01:13:34,399
case against them. Prosecutors point to it is proof that

1175
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:38,319
the father not only knew of his son's murderous intentions,

1176
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:42,000
but encourage them. Of the seven charged, only three still

1177
01:13:42,039 --> 01:13:45,560
await trial. One twenty two year old Tanisha Bright, was

1178
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:49,760
released after authorities decided she was telling the truth. And

1179
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:52,800
of course we went through all that, so I won't

1180
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:56,000
go through it again. It does pick up at the

1181
01:13:56,079 --> 01:13:59,680
ENDEA article and it says Eddie Trish still catches herself

1182
01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:02,439
wading for her twenty seven year old son to walk

1183
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:05,880
through the door. He stopped by often just to say hello,

1184
01:14:06,119 --> 01:14:09,039
drink a coke, snack on a Hershey bar. It took

1185
01:14:09,279 --> 01:14:12,640
Moss before she stopped buying his favorite treats. He was

1186
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married to Mistic Trust and they had a toddler together

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named Kate, who had just turned three. Jeremy has missed

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all of the everyday things, she said, tucking him into bed,

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teaching me how to fish. Kate doesn't have that anymore.

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When he comes here, we talk about his father, We

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01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:35,000
go through pictures. He will remember his dad. Dozens of

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fellow officers and family packed the back rows of the

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courtroom whenever Smith's and Yokel are set to appear. But

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01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:46,439
Danielle Nelson tries to avoid the hearings. She likes to

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01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:49,319
remember the things she loved about her husband, How he

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01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:52,199
changed the words to songs to make her laugh while

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they drove him the car, how he made funny faces

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01:14:55,279 --> 01:14:57,840
when his picture was taken. How much he loved his

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two daughters and three step sons. Quote. We were a team,

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01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:04,840
she said. He was my best friend. The only part

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of him she wants to forget is how he died.

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She doesn't get every hearing so she can manage to

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get up in the morning and be strong for her

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youngest daughter, now getting ready to start the third grade. Quote,

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I'm all she's got now. I've got to be strong.

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I've got to take care of us, give her the

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sense of security we have when he was here. That's

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all on me now, and I wouldn't wish that on

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anybody else. She is woken up three hundred and fifty

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nine mornings without him, but all the first have passed

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for now for her, the first Christmas, first birthdays, first

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01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:44,399
day of school, graduations, first Thanksgiving alone, and she hopes

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that now, without the constant tide of milestones, she might

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finally get some peace.

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Speaker 4: And you know it's.

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Speaker 5: People don't sometimes think about how tough when these things

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happen is out there.

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Speaker 4: It is on the families.

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Speaker 5: My heart just breaks for all of these families, and

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01:16:07,399 --> 01:16:10,920
people often forget that they're victims too. So I've told

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01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:12,880
you all that, but I hadn't told you a whole

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lot about the two fallen officers, And I want to

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honor them and just tell you a little more about them.

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And we'll start with Brandon Joseph Nielsen. And according to

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01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:28,880
what I've read about him, he was born in nineteen

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seventy seven. He dedicated his life to law enforcement, which

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culminated in a one year term as a deputy sheriff

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with Saint John the Baptist Sheriff's Office, where he served

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01:16:41,279 --> 01:16:45,239
as a motorcycle officer. He was thirty four years old

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at the time of his death, and he was known

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01:16:47,159 --> 01:16:50,439
by his colleagues for his dedication and positive spirit. He

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was survived by his wife and five children, and his

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01:16:54,239 --> 01:16:58,319
parents and his sister, and of course, annual memorials continue

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01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:02,920
at the Sheriff's office, with remembrances on social media, etc.

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Honoring Nilson as exactly what he was, a hero who

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was shot and killed while serving his community. Also killed

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Jeremy Michael tresh He was born in nineteen eighty four,

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from what I understand, just twenty seven years old at

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01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:24,880
the time of his death. He was a dedicated family man,

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survived by his wife and son, and he was known

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01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:32,720
as having a kind of a passion for fishing, a

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hobby that later community thumb raisers would be held in

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01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:39,359
his memory, like fishing tournaments and things of that nature.

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And he embodied a strong commitment to helping others, which

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was a trait that extended from his personal life into

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01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:52,800
his professional life, obviously as a law enforcement officer. He

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01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:56,640
served with the Saint John Pears Sheriff's Office for approximately

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four years until he was gunned down, and he specifically

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01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:03,880
assigned as a canine handler, and he had a reputation

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for selflessness and dedication to protecting and serving in the

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Sheriff's office. Of course, honor him. He has a memorial

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page as well on their website. Now, I also want

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to mention Jason Trish, who was also shot. He underwent

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01:18:21,159 --> 01:18:25,560
a kidney transplant in twenty seventeen, and from what I understand,

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01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:27,720
he's a return of the Sheriff's Office in an IT

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01:18:28,199 --> 01:18:33,439
role despite having some pretty tough mobility challenges now and

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01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:36,760
as far as Michael Boyington, he was discharged from the

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hospital within three months of the shooting, despite being shot

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with an assault rifle. A pretty strong guy right there.

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If that doesn't speak to just his sheer strength, and y'all,

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I know that was a hard one for you to hear,

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but think about it. Next time you come across someone

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01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:59,720
in law enforcement, maybe shake their hand, thank them for

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01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:03,479
their service, because this type of shit can happen anytime

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01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:10,199
on any day, in any given place. And I'm sure

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that I did not cover every detail in this case,

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as much as I would have loved to. I just

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don't have access to everything in this case. I wasn't there.

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I don't have direct knowledge. I would, however, extend an

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invitation to anyone from the families of the slain officers

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01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:35,199
to those still in law enforcement in Saint John Parrish,

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I would love to know more about who these deputies were,

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01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:44,800
and just an open invite to any of you that

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would like to come on Bloody Angola and shine a

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01:19:50,359 --> 01:19:53,720
light on who these guys were outside of what I

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01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:58,000
was just able to find by reading about them. Open invite,

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01:19:58,159 --> 01:20:01,800
come on the show, let's talk about it. I just

1278
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:05,239
can't speak to what occurred on the inside of that

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01:20:05,479 --> 01:20:09,960
because I don't have any direct knowledge of that. And look,

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01:20:10,079 --> 01:20:13,800
anytime we cover these cases, as I said from the beginning,

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01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:18,319
no matter how good our intentions are, information sometimes can

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01:20:18,399 --> 01:20:24,479
get slightly twisted. I'm all about correcting the record. Let

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01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:28,800
me know if something is grossly misstated somewhere in this podcast,

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01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:31,640
I'll be happy to correct it and correct that record.

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01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:35,600
I'm certainly not perfect, but I'm only as good as

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the information that is out there available to the public.

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01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,279
So if it's something you would like me to bring up,

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I can certainly bring it up on a subsequent episode

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01:20:46,119 --> 01:20:50,960
of Bloody and GOWA. Again, my sincere thoughts and prayers

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01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:55,560
to everyone who knew and loved, not only those heroes

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01:20:55,640 --> 01:20:59,279
that lost their life in this event, but those that

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01:20:59,319 --> 01:21:04,239
were injured and everyone with the Saint John the Baptist

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01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:09,239
Parish Sheriff's office. Thank you all so much for listening,

1294
01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:13,520
and until next time. For Bloody Angola, A podcast one

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01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:16,880
and forty two years in the making, the complete story

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01:21:17,079 --> 01:21:18,760
of America's Bloody is present.

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01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 4: Peace a wall.

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01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 1: Street line, shackle chain, whosome gurdy. It's calling my name.

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01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:56,720
There is no mercy and it's been a tentery juice

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01:21:56,840 --> 01:21:58,840
as the Hustream game.

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Speaker 4: Rule three.

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Speaker 1: Come in.

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01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:14,319
Speaker 2: Fine, f'm me to die inside these walls, inside the

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01:22:14,359 --> 01:22:28,479
wild and when the walks, I'm know it's oldbody angleler,

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01:22:31,479 --> 01:22:34,840
ohbody Angle.