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Speaker 1: Hey there, I'm Allison, and it's now time for Rainbow
Speaker 1: Crimes and hopefully some Unicorn justice.
Speaker 2: Hey guys, it's me CJ. I sure hope you're all
Speaker 2: doing well. I've been on my own now for almost
Speaker 2: two weeks and I haven't burnt things down yet. I
Speaker 2: touched up kitchen cabinets, purchase and put up new curtains
Speaker 2: Santa curtain rod in the living room area. I got
Speaker 2: new couch covers for the cats to put holes in,
Speaker 2: and I'm about to start painting the kitchen walls. I
Speaker 2: hate house painting a lot. I saw my bathroom to
Speaker 2: paint with the Kills mold paint and then a coated color.
Speaker 2: And the cabinet in my bathroom. Ugh, it's so gross.
Speaker 2: I gotta paint it too. There's always so much to do.
Speaker 2: Thanks to my friend Charlie who once sent me a
Speaker 2: Unicorn defensive tool, I've started making defensive tools from resin
Speaker 2: for the Pride in the Park and I've just started
Speaker 2: getting to the shirts. Oh and I'll mail off my
Speaker 2: patron shirts as soon as they're done. I did get
Speaker 2: them started, so I'll get those mailed off soon. This
Speaker 2: Minnesota is from Atlanta, Georgia. In twenty ten, the twenty
Speaker 2: ten Atlanta Black Gay Pride, hosted over Labor Day weekend
Speaker 2: September third through the sixth, was a landmark gathering for
Speaker 2: the LGBTQ plus community, organized heavily by groups like Life Atlanta.
Speaker 2: That year marked a major milestone with the debut of
Speaker 2: the Cson Film Festival, expanding the festival's arts and cultural
Speaker 2: programming beyond the traditional parties and picnics. However, the twenty
Speaker 2: ten festivities they were deeply overshadowed by tragic violence that
Speaker 2: shook the community. First, just days before the weekend long event,
Speaker 2: one of the organizers of the LGBTQ Black Pride, fifty
Speaker 2: year old Duran Robinson, was shot in the chest, where
Speaker 2: he died in the middle of Hadlock Street. No one
Speaker 2: has ever been charged for Duran's murder. It's been theorized
Speaker 2: by some of his family and friends that he was
Speaker 2: being carjacked. A witness reported hearing a heated argument and
Speaker 2: then a screen before hearing a gunshot. Police believe he
Speaker 2: was murdered by someone he knew. Duran was also a
Speaker 2: co owner of a pretty famous LGBTQ club called Tracks
Speaker 2: in Atlanta. Durand's murder is believed to not have been
Speaker 2: a hate crime, as Duran's sexual identity is really not known.
Speaker 2: He might have been gay, he might have been bisexual,
Speaker 2: he might have been straight, or he might have been asexual.
Speaker 2: One thing that is certain is the LGBTQ community embraced
Speaker 2: him as a kind and loving man who was always
Speaker 2: down to help a person in need. In fact, police
Speaker 2: had a person of interest that Durand had once helped Oubt.
Speaker 2: This person had an alibi for where he was at
Speaker 2: the time Durand was murdered. Duran's case is pretty much
Speaker 2: very cold, But the story I was really wanting to
Speaker 2: share with you happened on Sunday, September fifth, twenty ten,
Speaker 2: the day the Pride events were really starting to wind down.
Speaker 2: Twenty five year old Calvin Streeter had come to Atlanta
Speaker 2: from North Carolina for the Gay Black Pride festivities. He
Speaker 2: had planned on staying in an apartment with some of
Speaker 2: his friends on Richmond Circle. Twenty one year old Samuel Blizzard,
Speaker 2: who was endearingly called Battie, was also staying at the apartment.
Speaker 2: Samuel was a Georgia State University student studying criminal justice.
Speaker 2: Samuel was staying at the apartment until a dorm freed
Speaker 2: up on the campus. The morning of September fifth started
Speaker 2: out pretty normal. Calvin got up and he drove to
Speaker 2: a nearby convenience store to pick something up. In the store,
Speaker 2: he engaged in a conversation with twenty four year old
Speaker 2: Derek Burden. The two seemed to hit it off, and
Speaker 2: Calvin invited Derek back to the apartment to hang out.
Speaker 2: Around two PM, Calvin and Derek were sitting on an
Speaker 2: air mattress talking and that's when the renters of the
Speaker 2: apartment emerged from their sleep. See, the renters had been
Speaker 2: out clubbing and they didn't get back home until about
Speaker 2: eight a m. These men were Charles Petaway, who was
Speaker 2: Samuel's cousin in Delroy Bastian. Delroy came downstairs first, but
Speaker 2: he was never introduced to Derek, so he went back
Speaker 2: upstairs to get ready to go out again. Another friend
Speaker 2: arrived around three p m. He asked who Dereck was
Speaker 2: and Calvin told him to mind his business. Again. The
Speaker 2: friend asked who Dereck was, and again Calvin told him
Speaker 2: to mind his business. At that point, Derec took out
Speaker 2: what appeared to be a black nine millimeter pistol and
Speaker 2: he pointed it at the friend. The friend told him, man,
Speaker 2: pick that gun up. Why you pointed it at me?
Speaker 2: When Derek didn't answer, the friend went upstairs to get
Speaker 2: Delroy so they could go run errands. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Calvin might have thought this Derek guy was hot, but
Speaker 2: he was a hot mess pulling a gun on someone
Speaker 2: for asking a simple question. Bred flags were all over
Speaker 2: that little scenario, But I do get the feeling Calvin
Speaker 2: was attracted to Derek. Derek is between five nine and
Speaker 2: five ten, with light brown skin, and he wore his
Speaker 2: hair in short, little dreadlocks. By telling his friend to
Speaker 2: mind his own business, maybe he thought he was playing
Speaker 2: it cool in front of Derek because he was hoping
Speaker 2: to get some Later in the early part of the evening,
Speaker 2: as Samuel and Calvin were at the apartment, Derek returned.
Speaker 2: Samuel aka Fatty let Derek in, although they had never
Speaker 2: met before. Once inside the apartment, Derek pulled out his
Speaker 2: handgun and he forced Fatty to his knees. He then
Speaker 2: shot Fatty point blank, execution style in the back of
Speaker 2: his head. Derek then went searching for anyone else in
Speaker 2: the apartment. He found Calvin, who was in a back bedroom.
Speaker 2: Derek shot Calvin in his head and left him for
Speaker 2: dead in the room. As he went around the apartment
Speaker 2: looking to steal anything of value, he was also looking
Speaker 2: to see if any more people were there, so it
Speaker 2: seems Calvin and Fatty were the only ones there at
Speaker 2: the time. He ended up taking Fatty's laptop and backpack
Speaker 2: and then fleeing the apartment. Not too long later, homeowners
Speaker 2: in a nearby subdivision detained a suspicious appearing man. This
Speaker 2: man was lurking on their property, so they called the police,
Speaker 2: but by the time the Atlanta Police showed up twenty
Speaker 2: minutes later, great response time. By the way Atlanta PD,
Speaker 2: the suspect had gone, leaving behind a backpack. Inside the
Speaker 2: backpack was a gun, the actual murder weapon used to
Speaker 2: kill Fatty and Calvin in Fatty's laptop. Around ten PM,
Speaker 2: Delroy arrived back at the apartment. He was there to
Speaker 2: pick up Calvin and Fatty to take him to the
Speaker 2: Pride events, but discovering his friend's dead. He called for
Speaker 2: the police, an investigation was conducted, evidence was gathered. Police
Speaker 2: had no idea who would kill these men. Finally, a
Speaker 2: year and a half later, DNA would come back from
Speaker 2: a cigarette butt that was found in the apartment belonging
Speaker 2: to a man named Derek Burden. The reason his DNA
Speaker 2: hit from the database was because of prior felony convictions
Speaker 2: for robbery and burglary. Remember Last Minuneso, the real murderer,
Speaker 2: was also caught for DNA on a cigarette bud. Moral
Speaker 2: of the story, if you're a killer, don't smoke and
Speaker 2: leave your butt around. Derek was finally picked up by
Speaker 2: the Atlanta police in twenty twelve, nineteen months after murdering
Speaker 2: Calvin and Fatty. At his trial, the homeowner who had
Speaker 2: detained him where Derek dropped the backpack testified, and I
Speaker 2: believe the bevy of other witnesses who saw Derek in
Speaker 2: the apartment on September fifth, twenty ten, they also testified.
Speaker 2: Derek was found guilty of six felony charges of murder,
Speaker 2: three for each of his victims, and that was incorporated
Speaker 2: into a malice murder charge. He was also found guilty
Speaker 2: of armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession
Speaker 2: of a firearm with intent to commit a crime, and
Speaker 2: possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was
Speaker 2: found guilty of all charges on December thirteenth, twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: Derek was sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility
Speaker 2: of parole, plus an additional ten years currently under the
Speaker 2: jurisdiction of the Georgia Department of Corrections in a maximum
Speaker 2: security facility. Derek did file on a pill with the
Speaker 2: court system. He claimed that his prior felony convictions should
Speaker 2: not have been admissible in court because it was irrelevant
Speaker 2: to the case he was being tried for. Now guess
Speaker 2: what his appill was denied. I urge all of my
Speaker 2: Rainbow Warriors to be careful who you bring home. They
Speaker 2: might be cute on the outside, but no one knows
Speaker 2: for sure what darkness they harbor on the inside. Rest
Speaker 2: in power, Calvin and Fatty. I now leave you with
Speaker 2: a joke or two. One lesbian spent the night having
Speaker 2: sex with thirteen different lesbians, and it wasn't all at
Speaker 2: the same time. It was all at different times. The
Speaker 2: next day she died. Her autopsy report came back that
Speaker 2: she died from a crack overdose. And lastly, two condoms
Speaker 2: walk by a gay bar. One turns to the other
Speaker 2: and says, hey, want to get ship faced. I heard
Speaker 2: that warriors all your groans. I love you and you
Speaker 2: matter so very much. Remember it's not a crime to
Speaker 2: be gay or to live your truth, unless you're a murderer.