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Speaker 1: Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is

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not intended for all audiences.

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Speaker 3: Somebody that beautiful, now love in that kind the contention ways,

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there's something wrong.

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Speaker 4: Already moved was best. I don't realize that.

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Speaker 1: They say you build it and they will come.

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Speaker 5: I don't know who said that.

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Speaker 1: It's probably in a movie or something. Anyway, we built

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it about nine months ago. It's called Sword and Scale Television.

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There's nine episodes available right now, and there's many, many

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more coming next year. We made it for true crime

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fans like you, because we're true crime fans as well,

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so we wanted to make a TV show for the fans,

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buy the fans in a way that leaves out all

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the cheesiness of Hollywood, all the bad actors. Put it

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that way, and it gives you just a solid true

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crime story. Right now, it's once a month, and I

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know we said we're going to do two a month,

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but that's just on me. That's my fault. I've I've

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been crashing. I've been unable to keep pace, and unfortunately

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there's only one of me and I can only do

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so many things. Unfortunately, when you get to a certain size,

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you spend most of your time running a business being

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a CEO rather than a podcaster. It's just the way

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it is. When you get to a certain size, you

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just have to hire people, and you have to manage people,

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and you have to manage people that manage people, and

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so on and so forth, and then you become a CEO.

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And it sucks because I don't want to be a CEO,

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but there we are. We all do things we don't want.

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Speaker 5: To do in life. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: What I was really trying to say is just go

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watch it. You know, you could try it, and if

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you don't like it, you can unsubscribe at any time.

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It's really easy. You don't need to contact support or anything.

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You can just do it on your phone. So if

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you liked your crime, the place to find it a

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Sword and Scale dot com. It's usually a lesson you'll

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learn when you're young. Anything worth having is worth the

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effort to get it. You have to work hard to

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achieve the things you want in life. It won't just

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be hand to you. And this lesson is mostly true. Sure,

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there are people out there who never learn this lesson

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and everything is handed to them. But if you see

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one of these people come face to face with opposition,

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watch out, anger and chaos will ensue. You see, the

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lesson isn't really about working hard. You can work hard

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and still fail. The lesson is really about learning the

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fact that sometimes you just can't have what you want.

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I know, I know, I know. It's hard. It's hard

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to come to terms with such a reality, but it's true.

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So the quicker you accept it, the better off everyone

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will be. Because what happens is that with this eventual realization,

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though certain entitled few revert to the mentality of children.

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Children rarely act rationally or logically. Instead, they act out

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without regard for the calamity that they will cause. September two,

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twenty sixteen, was a day like any other. By three pm,

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it was eighty four degrees and cloudy, in which it's

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off Falls, Texas. On the south side of town. The

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school bell rings at McNeil Middle School and a flood

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of children pour into the sidewalk streets and alleyways. One

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such kid, thirteen year old eighth grader Mikayla Smith, looks

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for her friends before starting her walk home.

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Speaker 6: I met Carr first Sus in front of the school.

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Speaker 7: And Renault and Alani didn't walk home that day, so

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we walked across the big field that we had and

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we saw I saw Lauren on the and I called

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her name and see if it was here when we

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met up with her.

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Speaker 4: We caught up with her while she was walking.

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Speaker 1: Many kids walked home in the city of around one

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hundred thousand people. This was the first year sixth grade

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was offered at McNeil, and the neighborhood streets were filled

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with children more than normal. Mickayla caught up with her

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friend Lauren Londevaso to lament over the first few weeks

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of school.

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Speaker 6: We're talking about school and college.

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Speaker 7: We don't have any classes to get yeah, but Alex

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here in the hallways and stun usday high due time passing.

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Speaker 1: The neighborhood surrounding McNeil Middle School was full of single

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family homes very close together. There were sidewalks, but many

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kids chose to take the alley that separated backyards as

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their route home.

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Speaker 6: And stopped playing more than dumpsters. Okay and Lauren.

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Speaker 7: She started walking ahead of us, so she stilled meet

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up with her boyfriend took of him.

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Speaker 6: So she was right about.

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Speaker 1: A mere block from school. The girls stopped to part

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ways her boyfriend.

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Speaker 8: She was not secre.

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Speaker 1: On the next street over, a boy named Garrett had

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just made it to the intersection when the car flew by.

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Speaker 6: It was a gray, oldish.

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Speaker 1: He was on the sidewalk waiting to cross the street

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when he saw the tahoe stop in front of the alley.

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Speaker 2: On the corner like one of the confree was and

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Speaker 4: Always okay, I think this is an alleyway riot. There

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was like a fence covering every other girl exceptor.

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Speaker 1: Just as Lauren waved by to her friends and turned

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to walk away, a vehicle pulled up abruptly. Further down

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the alley were three other students, Elijah Hope and.

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Speaker 9: Crystal Lawrens, stopped and under the car.

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Speaker 10: We just stood there because we thought Lauren avocanovera gets

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picked up.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't uncommon for kids to get picked up on

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their route home, but something about this vehicle seemed strange. Garrett,

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on the next street over, noticed the window on the

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tahoe was down. Then he noticed something else, and then.

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Speaker 4: Did you see anything unusual? Come out of that that

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window that was down on the driver's side.

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Speaker 6: Don Okay.

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Speaker 1: Elijah Hope and Crystal saw the gun too, but didn't

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immediately recognize the danger.

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Speaker 4: At first, I.

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Speaker 11: Thought it was a paintball gun or a baby gun,

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because teenagers liked to play pranks and all that.

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Speaker 1: Then they heard the sound.

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Speaker 6: When I think back to it, it's all silent.

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Speaker 10: I just sopped them firecrafted and he didn't really think

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anything of its.

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Speaker 1: Garrett, the little boy on the street corner, recognized the

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sound immediately. His father was a cop.

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Speaker 4: I heard about four or five or seven bunchuns. Did

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you see what happened to Lauren? She found out all.

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Speaker 1: Around Suddenly, Elijah Hope and Crystal knew this was no prank, so.

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Speaker 7: We didn't think any of it until Lauren fell and

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Mikayla Brandon.

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Speaker 1: Chaos erupted in the alley and the surrounding streets as

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the tahoe sped away. Some kids froze while others ran

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for their lives. Elijah, Hope and Crystal ducked into Hope's backyard,

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but the back door to her house was locked. Garrett

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took off fronting and started banging on his neighbor's doors

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frantically to find help.

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Speaker 4: So were you knocking on the door trying to get help?

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Speaker 6: Were you scareds? Had you ever seen anything.

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Speaker 4: Like that before? Never?

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Speaker 1: After the sound of gunshots stopped, Elijah, Hope and Crystal

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slowly ventured back into the alley.

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Speaker 9: Well, we went back outside into the alley to see

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what had happened, and we had We saw.

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Speaker 4: Lauren on the ground where she had fallen, and we

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also saw me Kayla.

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Speaker 9: She looked like she was out with her phone trying

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to dial and emer.

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Speaker 6: I asked her if she was okay, and she said no,

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and like we had some of we saw my blood.

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Speaker 9: And so it was like calment woe, like we were

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asking what was going on and we asked him for

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it was like a real gun or what she said, Yes,

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she was on the trying and she was at the

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hole the hand of her work.

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Speaker 4: Human shot.

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Speaker 9: And so at that point then I I kind of

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got over the shop of the it and it was

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moren't frightened at that point, and so I pulled out

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my phone and I called my dad.

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Speaker 10: I looked back towards the other side of the alley,

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towards the apartments and I thought I saw that car,

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but I wasn't sure, so I told Hope to get her,

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and I ran past everything to the front of hostelse

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to go get her mom do unlocked back door.

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Speaker 1: In the aftermath, the kids were at a loss for

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what to do. Most called their parents, but Crystal risked

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herself to keep her friends safe. She had to run

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past her fallen classmate.

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Speaker 10: I just really didn't want to look at her because

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I was scared.

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Speaker 6: Once her mother answered the doorway.

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Speaker 10: I hugged her and I cried a little bit, and

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then I told her Hope was in the yeackyard nearby.

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Speaker 1: Navy and Army veteran John Lewis heard the shots from

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his backyard and sprang into action.

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Speaker 12: That was actually in my backyard on my padeo, and

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I was prepared of my daughter's thirteen ins Pirthday party.

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Speaker 1: His backyard was just on the other side of a

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privacy fence from the alley. Luckily, his daughter hadn't taken

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the alley that day.

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Speaker 12: Normally she walks down the alley, but as she did

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on that day, how did she get come back?

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Speaker 4: She actually went down Kingston.

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Speaker 12: She just bought her bicycle and she didn't want to

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pop the tiger, so she didn't drive it on the

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alley because it was glass. So she took Kingston Street

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and wrote.

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Speaker 4: Her bike down that way.

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Speaker 1: He was about to head inside when he heard the shots.

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Speaker 12: As I went to open the door. Gunshots, and well,

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I got took the place. Lowlibert semi automatic kind of

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a weapon was fired, and all milfaturings I ever had

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kind of kicked in. The first one was a shot,

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and then a second later.

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Speaker 4: Maybe is when they all just let loose, They all

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of them. When we got fired off in a rapid succession.

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It was fast. It was real fast, three to five seconds,

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maybe all of them.

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Speaker 1: Maybe his military training kicked in. He even recognized the

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sound of the gunshots and was able to identify the

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caliber as a twenty two.

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Speaker 12: Twenty two has kind of a short crack sound to it,

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the nine millimeter has. It's a little heavier and a

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little more chunkier.

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Speaker 1: Ever found knowing this was when kids started to get

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out of school. He was worried for the other children

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in the community.

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Speaker 12: I actually dropped the cups and I knew the kids

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were getting out of school.

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Speaker 4: I knew the direction, which was the shops are coming

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from those alley.

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Speaker 12: I dropped the cups and I instantly ran to out

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of six foot private defense and I jumped over my

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six I climbed up and.

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Speaker 4: Jumped over my six foot five spence up all the fence.

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I hit the ground so hard that my foot.

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Speaker 12: Blobs came off my commute, and I didn't realize that

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until after the.

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Speaker 4: Place had arrived.

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Speaker 1: This man, in the face of danger, sprang into action,

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jumping his fence and landing in the alley so hard

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it blew his flip flops. With this experience in battle,

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both in the Navy and the Army, it didn't matter

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that he was barefoot in the alley. He looked for

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anyone that was hurt.

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Speaker 12: I saw Lauren Well. I didn't know her name at

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the time. I thought I just saw a young girl

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laying there, and I ran to her. And as I

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ran to her, after tippling the events, I ran to her,

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carrying out like a tunnel vision.

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Speaker 4: When I did and I ran, I didn't know. I

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didn't live in the cars.

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Speaker 12: Everyone was just kind of not there and.

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Speaker 4: I ran there. I don't know if there was not

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a shooter. I didn't know.

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Speaker 12: I just knew there was kids. I saw a little

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girl laying there, and when I approached Lauren. When I

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got to Lauren, the military tank kicked in where.

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Speaker 4: I was supposed to. You know, he says, the situation.

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Speaker 12: See what's going on in an active shoot or other

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other people wounded. Checked the person that you come upon.

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And I noticed that I'm not a doctor and not

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a nurse, not an arm or anything but my training,

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I know when the sun is gone there signs you

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look for one. Is there blood like a MASSI amount

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of blood so the heart stops, is not going to

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push the blood around.

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Speaker 4: I didn't see much of any out the way she

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the way she was laying.

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Speaker 12: If I never quick leaves her wrist was in a

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pig position, or anybody most conscious or was alive, they

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wouldn't want there to be in that kind of position.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't a doctor or a nurse, but he could

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tell Lauren wasn't with us any longer when he looked

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into her eyes. He was sure.

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Speaker 4: When I approached Lauren, I knowed it's hard. I don't

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want your time. I noticed that.

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Speaker 12: In what we refer to in the army when I

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was the territory as the death place or the death stare,

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death knowing the entry.

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Speaker 4: Like when I got there, it just tried of like

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going into.

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Speaker 12: A bowl, a bowl, and it felt just like that.

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Speaker 4: Just I didn't hearing something, really I didn't.

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Speaker 12: It's just it was a flat feeling words, you know,

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something that just died or something just happened.

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Speaker 1: It was too late for Lauren, but John could still

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help Mikayla.

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Speaker 12: And I heard a child off and I left. So

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it come down from the alley saying another traveling shop.

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And I looked up and that's when I saw Mikayla.

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She was standing there and I ran to her and

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I put laying her down.

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Speaker 1: By this time John's daughter had arrived to witness the chaos.

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Speaker 12: When I laid her down, my daughter was there and

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I yelled at her, give me something to pull your

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holes with it. And so I got ran to the

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house and it felt so fast, and I looked at

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it Lauren or Mikayla. I said, your champ even go,

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You're gonna be fine. We're gonna get you fixed up.

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Speaker 4: You're a champion.

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Speaker 12: And by that time I looked up the hand from

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my daughter with the rating to you know, stop the braining.

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Speaker 1: Michaela was bleeding, but she seemed to be okay. She

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was conscious and coherent despite the shocking events. That's when

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the enormity of the situation dawned on John.

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Speaker 12: That's when I kind of came to a little bit

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more and realized that all hell's breaking loose. There's just

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people everywhere, kids crying, you know, women crying, men, everybody's crying.

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Speaker 4: They're all over the place.

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Speaker 12: And I tried to stop everybody try to get him

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away Lauren, and people are trying to come out of

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the AIE. I try to stop them.

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Speaker 1: I just have to say, this guy is a hero.

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He was on SENE long before the first responders or

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the police, and thank god he was. But there was

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nothing that could be done for Lauren. As the chaos

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of the scene peaked, classmates and citizens alike looked on

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in horror as the once vibrant Lauren, the girl they

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all knew, lie lifeless at the end of an alley.

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A regular warm afternoon in Wichita Falls, Texas, became a nightmare.

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McNeil Middle School students would never forget thirteen year old

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eighth grader Lauren Londevaso had been gunned down just to

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block away from school. Her close friend Michayla Smith was

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also shot, but would recover the havoc on that street. Corner,

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though was still unfolding. On the next street. Sarah Servantes

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saw Garrett running for his life and immediately knew something

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was wrong.

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Speaker 13: As I was riving Downstower, there's a young male running

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Downstower towards my vehicle and I pulled it through his

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off I mentioned, then there's something wrong there stories why

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was writing this is a strange and close both ways

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on his seat at Bourn.

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Speaker 1: When she first saw Garrett running, her mind went to

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the more likely scenario that he was running from school bullies,

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But when she got to the stop sign and saw

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someone lying in the alley, she knew that was more serious.

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Speaker 6: And what did you do down into the morn?

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Speaker 13: I usually I thought maybe should hit by a vehicle.

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Then that was my first thought. Yeah, I kind of

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went through other scenarios and maybe someone attacked her because

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there a lot of kids screaming, and I just gotta

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run through a lot of things that may have happened.

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Speaker 1: Regardless of the reason, she knew she had to try

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and help. She pulled up to the alley, told her

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children to stay in the car, and approached Lauren to

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see if she was okay.

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Speaker 6: I asked her to think, did you think she was more.

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Speaker 13: Than I'll be passed at the point her eyes first

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still open and there was a large wound forehead.

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Speaker 6: She is she's doing for buying.

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Speaker 14: Her bread in her arms.

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Speaker 1: Everything happened so fast, in a matter of a few seconds.

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The shots were fired and Garrett ran, John jumped the fence,

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and Sarah saw Garrett fleeing as she approached the intersection.

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At the same time, Elijah and Hope were ducking into

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her backyard, while Crystal ran around to the front. By

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the time Sarah Servantez approached Lauren, it had been barely

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more than a minute since the shots were fired. Right

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behind her was Jamie Lopez.

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Speaker 15: When I turned on a Trinidad, I saw.

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Speaker 16: The first noticed a lady standing at the corner kind

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of hysterical, waning her hands, and I saw a girl

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laying in the alley opening of the alley, so you know,

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immediately I pulled over to seeing what had happened and.

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Speaker 6: I can help him do anything.

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Speaker 1: Jamie was a home health nurse and had medical training

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and knelt down to try.

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Speaker 13: To help her to see if she was okay, And.

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Speaker 16: She was up moving and started trying to look over

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and I got her turned over.

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Speaker 15: She was laying old her stomach, so I turned her

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over to start looking and I was taxing to start CDR.

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Speaker 6: I remember.

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Speaker 17: Seeing there was a futtle run about and where her

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heart would have been, and thinking, I'm gonna I don't

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know if I'm going to do more damage or not

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if I start this on this girl set up where

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it went.

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Speaker 18: And about that time is when Mittagola started running from

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that app coming down from the alley, yelling that she

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had also been shot, that she needed help.

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Speaker 1: Realizing Lauren's condition, she decided to focus on Mikayla.

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Speaker 6: There really wasn't it too before And because I could

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tell when iver swept up then do you remember her

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eyes were open or globe?

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Speaker 4: They were open pretty blue? Was she's gone?

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Speaker 17: There were so many people and everyone was staring, and

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I just felt bad that everyone.

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Speaker 4: Was just staring at their light.

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Speaker 6: So I kind of play and try to cover up

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a little bits.

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Speaker 1: Jamie had some first aid supplies in her car and

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began helping Mikayla. Sarah Servantez was unable to help and

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place the first nine to one one call. You don't

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know what out anymore. Sarah was barely holding it together,

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but she knew how important it was to relay as

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much information as possible to first responders.

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Speaker 6: And playing around and leading.

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Speaker 1: You did not hear the claiming her coming her nice.

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Speaker 16: Fire me know where she's leading from?

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Speaker 7: However, I really her.

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Speaker 1: Is she's rereading right now?

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Speaker 7: Okay, she's been.

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Speaker 4: Laying around.

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Speaker 1: Cat You touch her and hold of the touch.

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Speaker 6: Where she's formed taking.

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Speaker 1: In this tight knit community. It wasn't long before the

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news spread through the neighborhood. Michaela wounded and dazed, called

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her mother.

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Speaker 11: I hear her her phone, Testine, So I'm thinking that

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maybe she had but and so I'm yelling her name

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to pick up and till then she finally and said

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she was yelling my name from that first woman. I

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thought maybe she was getting into an altercation with another student,

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and I know that's not her, and so I kept

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telling her to calm down.

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Speaker 6: And I can't under so interesting, and I asked her

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to do that so much time.

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Speaker 4: And I thought, what's going on?

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Speaker 6: And then that's when she got home.

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Speaker 19: Soon shot mama, And I asked the mother and she

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said someone shot me and I was like what, and

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just went renish.

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Speaker 6: And I kept asking her.

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Speaker 4: You don't remember her? She said, Mommy, no shot the chest.

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Speaker 6: She said, is not.

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Speaker 1: Mummy, I got shot in the chest. Imagine hearing that

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from your child. Mikayla's mother dropped everything and left her

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job as an elementary school teacher to rush to her daughter.

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Michaela's mother had already made it to the scene when

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the Landavaso's got word that something had happened.

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Speaker 4: I heard her commotion outside.

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Speaker 20: I heard, I'm not sure her neighbors and something about

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kids beating.

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Speaker 4: Down and then as I was trying to process that,

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I heard beyonda just the way she said it, something.

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Speaker 3: About kids, and there was just something in her voice

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saying something something was wrong, sometimes wrong. And as I

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was kind of about her room to try to find

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out what was going on, I.

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Speaker 4: Heard the front door close, and by the time I

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got to it, the uncle wasn't there.

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Speaker 3: And just when I went outside, she was already running

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down the street and I was.

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Speaker 4: Kind of called, after.

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Speaker 18: Where you going?

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Speaker 21: What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Vern Londevaso didn't know what was going on or where

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his wife was running. The only clue he had was

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something about kids being down and the sound of fear

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in his wife's voice before she bolted out the front door.

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He hopped into his truck and started driving.

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Speaker 4: Someone was driving down there in the corner. I remember

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at one time stopped and the.

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Speaker 3: Truck and PA thinking everything kids at that school, it's

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not her game.

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Speaker 4: Bear stopped and called her cell phone and I don't

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know anything me rang on one time, but.

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Speaker 3: Somebody answered the phone and instantly what I heard was screaming.

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Speaker 4: In at the time that it was beyond.

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Speaker 3: The screaming, but uh, I heard somebody screaming her name,

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and the way she was screaming, Uh, I knew, I knew,

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I instant knew it cold and I just knew.

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Speaker 4: I got another truck and I walked down to the corner,

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and as soon as.

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Speaker 8: I got to the corner, I could see, uh the

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crime scene tape.

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Speaker 4: And as I turned the corner that.

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Speaker 16: What I I woul.

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Speaker 4: Almost say that tunnel vision, everything seems kind of like

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there was a white fog on everything except for uh,

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what were in I saw load lying there.

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Speaker 3: And she wasn't covered that I was moving around her, and.

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Speaker 4: I just remember standing at the crime scene tape. They

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wouldn't let him go to her. And I could hear

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Ganda screaming in the background, but that was about all

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I could hear. Uh, and just looking at her in

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wonder and uh, I can how can I not do anything?

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How come she used to be.

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Speaker 1: Powerless? Verne watched from a distance as first responders finally

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started to treat Lauren Quickly, the two girls were put

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into an ambulance headed for the hospital.

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Speaker 20: Went into the ambulance and as were sitting there and

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they were working on her, and that was something back.

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Speaker 4: That was the first time I had noticed the blood.

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I didn't noticed she was on there, but I know

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I could see her hair hair to think, you know,

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that's that's But also where I heard it was.

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Speaker 1: Lauren's parents, Vern and Bianca held onto a thread of

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hope as they rode with their daughter to the hospital.

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But when they got there, they were let into a

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family waiting room. Bianca feared it was because because their

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daughter was gone.

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Speaker 4: Oh and he did come in.

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Speaker 8: When man came in, the old her me, he's started scream.

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Speaker 4: I was trying to tell her it's not that they're

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just here that took.

479
00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:25,119
Speaker 8: Us what they're going to do, and and has someone

480
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:25,839
they told us.

481
00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:26,519
Speaker 4: That she was going.

482
00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: Most people who knew Lauren knew how special she was.

483
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,599
Speaker 21: Always something about Lauren. And I know all parents have

484
00:30:36,759 --> 00:30:39,000
that to him about their children. There's something special about

485
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,920
that child. But even in comparison to my sons that

486
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,640
there was just something about them.

487
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:45,839
Speaker 4: And everybody I don't.

488
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 20: Heard explained that she seemed so much wiser than her years.

489
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,559
She always said I remember even being two or three

490
00:30:53,599 --> 00:30:56,960
years old and looking over and then seeing her looked

491
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,640
at me, and the way she was looking at me,

492
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,960
that there was something going on behind there.

493
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 4: And I just think she was just so much more advanced.

494
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 20: I think even think the child would be as far

495
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,119
as her compassion for people, her kindness of just how

496
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,000
tender she was with other people, very.

497
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,799
Speaker 6: Kind and open.

498
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:19,279
Speaker 22: My good.

499
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 6: She was very positive about him.

500
00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:28,799
Speaker 22: You could help but love her and not just us,

501
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,200
not just a family. But she made friends so easily,

502
00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:35,519
you know, and or we heard the kids at school

503
00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:41,160
would just almost idolized her that she was so popular.

504
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,039
Speaker 4: Probably would't many of the promised. It was just how

505
00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:48,480
she interacted with people, especially other children. How kind she

506
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,960
looks to them. I never thought her once be.

507
00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:56,759
Speaker 21: Mean to somebody, say anything, quite the opposite.

508
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 4: She went out of her way if she knew if.

509
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 3: Somebody was child, she might have her way to reach

510
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:05,240
out to that person.

511
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,279
Speaker 23: Definitely a happy, beautiful girl.

512
00:32:09,519 --> 00:32:10,519
Speaker 22: She had a big heart.

513
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,039
Speaker 23: It's always helping her friends. If you're having a bad day,

514
00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:16,440
she was the uplift.

515
00:32:17,839 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 4: She was very well loved.

516
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,599
Speaker 1: Lauren made a positive impact on anyone who knew her.

517
00:32:24,559 --> 00:32:27,519
She always wore a smile when she looked at you

518
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,440
with her beautiful blue eyes, and you just knew she

519
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:37,119
genuinely cared with the loss of a community sweetheart. The

520
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,880
police were pressed to solve this attack. They needed to

521
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,559
speak with Mikayla and hear her recollection of events.

522
00:32:46,759 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 7: I remember he stopped in Alice. We all kind of

523
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:58,319
just like stopped walking, and I was paying attention to him,

524
00:32:58,359 --> 00:33:01,559
and I was looking at him, and like he looked

525
00:33:01,599 --> 00:33:05,359
up at me. We made eye contact for a few seconds,

526
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,480
and then he turned and like he got his webband

527
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,440
and he pointed it at me, and as I was moving,

528
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,079
I got hit, and like I thought, I got hit

529
00:33:17,119 --> 00:33:20,119
in the middle of my chest. And I couldn't breathe,

530
00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:24,960
and Kyral was asking me if I was okay, and

531
00:33:25,039 --> 00:33:27,720
like I couldn't speak, and I was waiting at her

532
00:33:27,759 --> 00:33:33,039
to go, and kind of like motioning for everybody else.

533
00:33:34,759 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: Mikaela heard the w shift shots after she was hit.

534
00:33:39,119 --> 00:33:41,640
After she motioned for the other children in the alley

535
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,119
to run, she wondered why no one else was being hit.

536
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,079
Little did she know that Lauren took the brunt of

537
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,240
those shots. She relayed to the police what she remembered

538
00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:58,039
about the man or boy who did it.

539
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:07,039
Speaker 7: I see between my kid twenty cirt like seventeen eighteen.

540
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:12,679
He had brown hair and it was like shaggy, kind

541
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:19,760
of shaggy, big, and he had acne and he had

542
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:20,639
a big nose.

543
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: She said. She locked eyes with the killer and he

544
00:34:25,119 --> 00:34:28,320
was a white male between the ages of seventeen and

545
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:34,199
twenty with unkempt, long brown hair, acne, and a big nose.

546
00:34:35,519 --> 00:34:39,679
But where her memory failed her was the vehicle he

547
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:40,320
was driving.

548
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 6: And can you just ride the vehicle? It was a

549
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:45,400
blood truck.

550
00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:50,760
Speaker 7: And it had a silver those silver bars that she

551
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,079
was step on to get in.

552
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: As the police addressed the public about the shooting, They

553
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,000
initially released the description that Kayla gave them.

554
00:35:01,679 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 2: Just right before three point thirty pm, we received a

555
00:35:05,039 --> 00:35:07,400
nine one call in the reference to check welfare and

556
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:12,199
reference to shots fired call in the fifty Kingston actually

557
00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:16,079
in the alleyway. When we arrived on scene, we located

558
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:21,559
one subject that had suffered what we believe right now,

559
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,480
keep in mind, this is all still new, it's still

560
00:35:25,199 --> 00:35:29,639
just occurring. We saw we have two individuals that were

561
00:35:30,079 --> 00:35:34,760
suffered from a parent's gunshots. From what I was told

562
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:39,000
right now, both victims are female. Suspect information the only

563
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,239
thing that we have at this point is possible suspect

564
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:49,559
driving a black SUV, black truck type vehicle, White male,

565
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:51,719
shaggy brown.

566
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:56,079
Speaker 1: Here, Mikayla recalled the killer was driving a black truck,

567
00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:01,159
but her memory was flawed. Everyone else saw gold suv,

568
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,000
except for John, the guy who jumped the fence. He

569
00:36:05,079 --> 00:36:09,320
saw both the gold Suv and the black truck. Not

570
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,840
knowing which description was accurate or if maybe there were

571
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,400
two shooters, they released both vehicle descriptions to the public.

572
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,000
The shooter was a young, white male with shaggy brown hair,

573
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:26,840
acne and a big nose, driving a gold colored SUV,

574
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:32,440
most likely a Chevrolet Tahoe or a black Dodge truck.

575
00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:36,320
In a couple of days that followed the shooting, there

576
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,440
wasn't a person in Wichita Falls who didn't know of

577
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:44,679
the tragedy and the description of the killer. The community

578
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,360
banded together to memorialize Lauren at the sight of her

579
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:53,440
death with her favorite color purple happens to be my

580
00:36:53,559 --> 00:36:58,079
favorite color too. People who didn't even know her came

581
00:36:58,119 --> 00:37:03,079
to pay their respects, like Joe Anne and Bostino Ramirez.

582
00:37:03,639 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 6: Yes, we heard it on the radio and the news.

583
00:37:06,119 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 4: Who they were looking for?

584
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,519
Speaker 24: It was pretty widely spread throughout news media and social media.

585
00:37:10,679 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 17: Was it on?

586
00:37:11,199 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am.

587
00:37:12,519 --> 00:37:15,119
Speaker 14: Plastina wanted to go look at a memorial where they

588
00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:17,559
had started putting morals up for Lauren.

589
00:37:18,519 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 4: I did not.

590
00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:23,599
Speaker 14: It was a bad situation and we didn't really know her,

591
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,119
or we didn't know her at all.

592
00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 6: But he wanted to go and just take a drive

593
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:27,800
a find it.

594
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: It was hard for any citizen of Wichita Falls to

595
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,840
not be moved by the tragedy, even if they had

596
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,960
no connection to Lauren at all.

597
00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 14: We drove through the neighborhood trying to find where the

598
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,599
memorial was. We kind of got lost, take some streets

599
00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:47,800
we didn't know, and we ended up on Trinidad where

600
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,519
the memorial site it is.

601
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,639
Speaker 1: When they found the memorial, there were crying people everywhere,

602
00:37:55,559 --> 00:37:57,840
not wanting to get in the way of those who

603
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,239
likely had a personal connection with Lauren. They waited in

604
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:02,679
the truck and.

605
00:38:03,039 --> 00:38:05,159
Speaker 6: We just didn't want to get out of the truck

606
00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:07,000
and you know, be in.

607
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 14: The way, So we just kind of pulled over to

608
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,480
the side to you know, just wait, maybe able to

609
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:12,840
clear and then we could see.

610
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,119
Speaker 4: But we never knot that chance.

611
00:38:15,199 --> 00:38:17,519
Speaker 6: Okay, and why did you not get that chance?

612
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 14: Why we were waiting fun Stato, you know, we said, well,

613
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,639
look out for a vehicle, you know, just to make

614
00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:26,079
sure we don't see the vehicle going by. And we

615
00:38:26,119 --> 00:38:28,760
saw a vehicle drive by as it was the description

616
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:29,719
of the sub.

617
00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:31,639
Speaker 6: It was a gold sub.

618
00:38:33,039 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 14: We saw that it was a young white male that

619
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,360
they were possibly looking for.

620
00:38:36,519 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 6: We kind of just followed them.

621
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 14: He turned into Uncle turn Daddy turned into right into

622
00:38:42,599 --> 00:38:46,599
the apartment complex, and of course we followed.

623
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 1: They didn't even know Lauren, but when they saw a

624
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,880
vehicle and driver matching the description of the news, they

625
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,079
decided to follow him. He drove past the memorial and

626
00:38:58,159 --> 00:39:02,880
stopped at an apartment complex mere feet away from the alley.

627
00:39:03,559 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 14: He went to the back passenger door. He opened the

628
00:39:07,519 --> 00:39:10,440
door and he proceeded to get what looked like a

629
00:39:10,519 --> 00:39:13,159
rifle or something. He tucked it up under his arm

630
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:14,239
like he put the butt.

631
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,119
Speaker 6: Of the gun underneath.

632
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 14: With the blanket some then the wrap it up and

633
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:22,960
he like ticket towards the apartment complex.

634
00:39:24,159 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: They had the suv, the driver and now the rifle.

635
00:39:29,559 --> 00:39:31,639
Joanne called nine one one.

636
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 4: Immediately I grabbed a pin that was in Faustino's check.

637
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 14: He just scribbled it on the palm of my hand

638
00:39:38,119 --> 00:39:39,599
so that I could while we were.

639
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 6: Calling, let the police. You know the license plate number?

640
00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 4: What color ink was that?

641
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 6: It was a purple ink.

642
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,079
Speaker 1: She wrote down the license plate number in purple ink,

643
00:39:52,079 --> 00:39:59,079
Lauren's favorite color. What a coincidence. Perhaps her spirit lives on.

644
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 7: We were driving a lot of the accidents that happened

645
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,440
at Trendad and came back and we.

646
00:40:07,559 --> 00:40:10,320
Speaker 13: Pulled into a certain road and it goes to the

647
00:40:11,119 --> 00:40:13,280
saut the apartment and then.

648
00:40:13,159 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 6: As a kid that just.

649
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 13: Drove up in a tapo a jaggie hair and hats

650
00:40:16,519 --> 00:40:18,079
and he got it.

651
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 4: Looks like enlartment.

652
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 7: He had it wrapped in clothes and rankings and he

653
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,400
was trying to get it off in a hurry, and

654
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:25,639
he just went into apartments.

655
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 1: They were parked a little ways away and watched while

656
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,000
they waited for police to arrive. The suspect exited the apartment,

657
00:40:36,159 --> 00:40:40,079
now without the rifle. He got back in his suv.

658
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's leading, going.

659
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 4: Is becoming out the foreignment complex.

660
00:40:50,679 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 1: They expected him to exit the complex the way he entered,

661
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,480
but they lost him when he used an exit on

662
00:40:57,519 --> 00:41:02,360
the other side, almost like an episode of Keystone Cops,

663
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,960
or perhaps a more modern version would be Reno nine

664
00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:12,440
one one. Still, police knew his approximate location and they

665
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,400
had his license plate number. So why put in the

666
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,840
work when you have surveillance? After all, it was only

667
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,159
a matter of time before he would be caught. And

668
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,360
if you're on the government payroll, then what's the rush.

669
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,360
Moments later, the police made a traffic stop of the

670
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:34,199
gold suv with the shaggy driver. He pulled over and

671
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,400
cooperated with the officers. They asked him to step out

672
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,320
of the vehicle and they padded him down. Then they

673
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:46,960
searched his SUV, but there was no gun. But they

674
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,880
did find a belt buckle in the shape of brass knuckles,

675
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,840
and there was enough to arrest him on misdemeanor charges

676
00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,320
of weapon possession and bring him in for questioning. Twenty

677
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,239
year old Cody Lot didn't work and wasn't in school.

678
00:42:05,119 --> 00:42:07,800
He lived in Seymour, Texas, about a fifty to sixty

679
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:13,280
minute drive southwest of Wichita Falls. He did have shaggy hair,

680
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:18,280
acne and a big nose. He was thin and kind

681
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:24,719
of looked like an evil Timothy shallow May if that helps. Actually,

682
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,599
I'm not sure if the real Timothy Schallo May is

683
00:42:28,119 --> 00:42:32,039
good or evil. So timminy Timothy Shallo May is walking

684
00:42:32,079 --> 00:42:35,960
around these days, he asked me. I don't even know

685
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,440
what that means. Anyway, don't take my word for it,

686
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,519
just google the two people. Cody Lot is his name,

687
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,400
with two teas at the end, he claimed the only

688
00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:52,760
reason he was in town was to feed his mother's

689
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,440
dog while she was on vacation. That and pick up

690
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,880
some money she'd left for him. After all, you know,

691
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:05,360
like I said, he didn't work at all. He denied

692
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,880
that anything related to guns would be in his vehicle

693
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,960
and explained that since an incident last year, his family

694
00:43:13,039 --> 00:43:15,079
kept guns away from him.

695
00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:17,760
Speaker 25: But like I said, I used to be able, like

696
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,920
kindly get away in the villain, but like it was

697
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,119
an incident that happened my son or where I had

698
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:23,719
it to a sideport for two months.

699
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 26: Ever since then my grandmas had the villains and so

700
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:27,119
of the lake room.

701
00:43:27,679 --> 00:43:30,639
Speaker 4: By no way you have access or township.

702
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 5: Up in that way.

703
00:43:32,079 --> 00:43:36,679
Speaker 1: The incident he so casually refers to was an armed

704
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:42,840
standoff with deputies in Seymour, Texas. His parents reported that

705
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,239
he was at his grandmother's threatening to shoot folks. That's

706
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:51,519
a quote. The event warranted the Texas Rangers and three

707
00:43:51,559 --> 00:43:55,840
officers from the Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigation Division.

708
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,599
One of the CID officers was a hostage negotiator and

709
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:05,119
quickly talked Cody out of the house. He was later

710
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:10,719
ordered to get treatment and diagnosed as bipolar and paranoid schizophrenic.

711
00:44:11,679 --> 00:44:14,360
But yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no connection between crazy people

712
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:19,039
and murder. Just keep telling yourself that, Oh, let's not stigmatoise.

713
00:44:20,119 --> 00:44:23,760
He knew about murder. He fit the description of the suspect,

714
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,480
and he was driving an SUV that also matched the description,

715
00:44:28,639 --> 00:44:33,480
but he was adamant that it wasn't him. The police, though,

716
00:44:34,039 --> 00:44:37,239
knew something Cody didn't, and it had to do with

717
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,559
what else they found in his tahoe.

718
00:44:41,199 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 4: Anything else.

719
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:48,199
Speaker 24: Well, they found a spent twenty two shell case.

720
00:44:50,199 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 7: Hmm.

721
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: It only took a moment for Cody to explain away

722
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:58,880
the shell casing. He had been shooting a year ago.

723
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,440
He was being cooperative, just not very helpful.

724
00:45:03,599 --> 00:45:09,679
Speaker 27: Girls with her somebody and then whoever did this, we

725
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:16,199
don't want that to happen to anybody else. Probably, I mean,

726
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:20,559
from my experience, who ever did this probably needs some help.

727
00:45:21,079 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 28: Now.

728
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:25,280
Speaker 27: What happened to the girl's terrible Whoever did to this

729
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,400
definitely need some help, man.

730
00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 4: And I'm talking about some serious psychological help.

731
00:45:31,679 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 27: And how are they going to get that unless we

732
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:35,760
can find out you do.

733
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: That and help with Does anyone else get the feeling

734
00:45:40,039 --> 00:45:43,760
that they are talking about him? He claimed to be

735
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:48,000
a loner and only his mother cared about him. He

736
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,679
claimed his father molested him and beat his mother. He

737
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,079
had a long list of run ins with the law

738
00:45:54,199 --> 00:45:57,760
and seemed to be spirally into a life of drugs

739
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:02,719
and crime. To the police in addition to everything else,

740
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,280
he seemed to fit the profile of someone who would

741
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,920
randomly shoot two little girls. Of course, he continued to

742
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,679
deny having anything to do with Lauren's death.

743
00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:17,639
Speaker 4: I always say that brother.

744
00:46:17,559 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 25: He's got a long brown hair, and like like, oh,

745
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,679
they didn't say something about you might come by and

746
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:29,760
give a gun you can, I'd find out, she Tullabean

747
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:33,639
over text message, she's a joy might come by ride.

748
00:46:35,079 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 5: That's right.

749
00:46:35,559 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 28: I don't.

750
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 26: I'm not trying of like in the bus and I

751
00:46:38,519 --> 00:46:40,840
might tell you. I bet I've the verses at you.

752
00:46:41,159 --> 00:46:43,599
But he's just like I've tried to seek out who

753
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,199
he come in and I'm kind of got screwed up.

754
00:46:47,599 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to throw my step brother under the

755
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,639
bus or anything, but you should definitely look at him.

756
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 5: Wow.

757
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,519
Speaker 1: The police didn't believe it for a second. Remember they

758
00:46:58,559 --> 00:47:02,599
had a witness who saw Cody with the rifle. They

759
00:47:02,639 --> 00:47:07,840
started to press harder you were.

760
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 25: And at the same time all this happened, and now

761
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,480
he didn't tell you that seriously.

762
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:25,039
Speaker 1: Because yeah, he finally admitted he was on Trinidad Drive

763
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:29,440
the day of the shooting, but he was still claiming innocence.

764
00:47:30,679 --> 00:47:32,920
Cody wanted to talk first, but he needed to be

765
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,840
assured that he would be in solitary confinement. He didn't

766
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,960
think he could handle being in prison with real men.

767
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:45,480
So when officers guaranteed they would make that happen, he

768
00:47:45,599 --> 00:47:47,000
began a new story.

769
00:47:47,639 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 25: He get ready, this is the story of a size

770
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,360
that patients the finishing.

771
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,559
Speaker 4: You know, well, I'm not going to fucking had many

772
00:47:55,440 --> 00:48:02,519
They might overdial that has nothing like out following.

773
00:48:02,639 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 26: You know, femails for a while now and anything you

774
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,239
can a seen boy on. Absolutely, that's something cold with you,

775
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,559
they would say, absolutely, he is he as hating the

776
00:48:12,599 --> 00:48:16,559
sort of at though I talked about you, Asham, and

777
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,360
I've seen that grows up in munch of the times

778
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:20,079
of putting other.

779
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 4: Friend and work and who was just oldly with chunk

780
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:23,920
with your kids. That wasn't no man.

781
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,639
Speaker 26: So at the time of just started je seeing me man,

782
00:48:28,199 --> 00:48:30,480
and I thought that was the way I.

783
00:48:30,559 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: Was going to handle with He had seen Lauren walking

784
00:48:34,639 --> 00:48:38,039
with her boyfriend. He described the boy as a little

785
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:43,360
punk looking kid. That wasn't no man. Those are his words.

786
00:48:44,599 --> 00:48:48,719
Remember that we're talking about two thirteen year olds. Their

787
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,559
relationship sparked off a fit of jealousy in them, and

788
00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:56,760
he decided to shoot her. What a romantic If you

789
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,639
think this doesn't make any sense yet, just wait, It's

790
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:46,480
only gonna get worse. Twenty year old Cody Lotte only

791
00:49:46,639 --> 00:49:50,920
tried to lie for a little while before the excitement

792
00:49:51,039 --> 00:49:54,119
of sharing his story got the better of him, and

793
00:49:54,199 --> 00:49:58,400
he confessed that's what simple people do. They just offer

794
00:49:58,559 --> 00:50:03,360
up everything all at once. They can't keep their stupid

795
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:07,000
little mouth shut, so they blab and blab and blab.

796
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,320
Cody Latt admitted he was the only one who shot

797
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:15,639
Lauren and Mikayla, but his reasoning for why he did

798
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:19,360
it was even more baffling than the act itself.

799
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,039
Speaker 4: More specifically, I mean, what did you do then?

800
00:50:23,079 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 5: What what happened?

801
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 4: Well, on the day before an article stud and I

802
00:50:28,039 --> 00:50:30,280
was going to just do approach the girl, and I thought, man,

803
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,079
the rocket, I'm a beastful man. I go stucking real

804
00:50:33,119 --> 00:50:36,360
with go. So the a that end cased me.

805
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 26: You know, I was felling a nice handwaythro nothing. You know, well,

806
00:50:40,159 --> 00:50:43,400
I tried, you would be nice to men, they said,

807
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:45,239
Azon says crazy.

808
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 4: The benefinition of crazy is just refuting.

809
00:50:47,519 --> 00:50:48,119
Speaker 28: The same thing.

810
00:50:48,599 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 4: So as I get the obvious.

811
00:50:50,039 --> 00:50:51,679
Speaker 14: Thing that I guess just you know.

812
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,159
Speaker 29: Me being look at how I do whatever, meeting and

813
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:59,119
nice is there's something that amazing being deep you you know,

814
00:50:59,559 --> 00:51:02,719
I have the show us nothing else to because it's

815
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,039
like it's just Elvis girls who just ignored me, a

816
00:51:06,199 --> 00:51:09,840
vicious secting me and I either wanted was an opportunity

817
00:51:10,039 --> 00:51:12,000
to be the set for the entry of her.

818
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,760
Speaker 1: He tried to explain that he first thought about introducing

819
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:20,639
himself to her, but then remembered how young she was.

820
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:26,320
This too, pissed him off. This is where his rationale

821
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,199
begins to get a little twisted. It's important to remind

822
00:51:30,199 --> 00:51:36,119
everyone that a sign of schizophrenia is disorganized thinking. Somehow,

823
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,559
he went from the thought of her being too young

824
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,159
to the idea that trying to be nice to her

825
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,719
or any girl wasn't going to get him anywhere either,

826
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:50,960
so he had to change tactics. Sure, if being nice

827
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,320
to a girl doesn't get her attention, the next logical

828
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,920
step is to kill her.

829
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,800
Speaker 26: There's anything I just plopped in my head and I said,

830
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:04,360
you know what I want to.

831
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 24: Do in this book and do this is he gets

832
00:52:06,519 --> 00:52:08,800
something out of my h I start her. I ain't

833
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,079
to go by my car like a couple of days before.

834
00:52:11,679 --> 00:52:13,679
Speaker 4: I mean I planed out a little here. I looked

835
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,159
like like gins or something.

836
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 24: To me like that, I was like out something else

837
00:52:17,559 --> 00:52:20,480
like you a BLI so you you pretty much knew

838
00:52:20,519 --> 00:52:22,119
what we're oh man.

839
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 4: I gotched over about a year and then for a

840
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,159
year I had seen her their grand that I had

841
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:29,400
access to a join it.

842
00:52:31,199 --> 00:52:34,280
Speaker 1: He watched her for a year from his mother's apartment

843
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:38,960
every day, building on his infatuation with her.

844
00:52:39,639 --> 00:52:42,559
Speaker 4: You never did, I never even spoke into it this.

845
00:52:43,199 --> 00:52:45,400
I mean I just saw he would look good about.

846
00:52:45,199 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 24: Man, and she matches my absolutely matched my distribution of food.

847
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 4: I wanted to Cuba prep. Yes, and she was too young,

848
00:52:54,039 --> 00:52:55,880
I know, but she was a trap.

849
00:52:57,719 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 27: I've never had the opportunity to even get in a

850
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,960
fres other girl that's not beautiful like I've seen those

851
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:03,440
on them like.

852
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,320
Speaker 26: I hate the mean the crushes is never way I

853
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:07,199
ever have lost.

854
00:53:07,079 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 4: STI bonds about this girl right on.

855
00:53:09,039 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 24: I kind of girl I've ever seen and have that

856
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,480
purchase story of porn dyos.

857
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,199
Speaker 1: He pined for a woman and when the women his

858
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:21,000
age wouldn't have anything to do with him. Lauren got

859
00:53:21,119 --> 00:53:26,920
caught in the crosshairs. He found me barely pubescent girl beautiful,

860
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,639
but he equated Lauren's beauty to the women in porn videos.

861
00:53:32,679 --> 00:53:34,760
If you're thinking this guy couldn't get any more out

862
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:36,559
of touch, I think again.

863
00:53:37,039 --> 00:53:39,039
Speaker 24: So I told you, girl, I wasn't wearing loss.

864
00:53:39,079 --> 00:53:39,199
Speaker 7: Man.

865
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 4: I was born a prophecy.

866
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:41,320
Speaker 10: You know what I mean.

867
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 4: I mean, I was like, man, it's son of the devil.

868
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,719
This was a deep man, It's so spiritful.

869
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,039
Speaker 26: So I go, I have to know, hey, man, I

870
00:53:48,199 --> 00:53:50,880
had it no, but you felt me like, this is awesome.

871
00:53:51,119 --> 00:53:54,599
Speaker 4: I had the pasion about it. Page you know, I

872
00:53:54,679 --> 00:53:56,639
need nothing but cattle here. And I don't care what

873
00:53:57,079 --> 00:53:57,599
people said.

874
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,199
Speaker 24: She you know, people said my she she never even

875
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,239
thought a chance in life was with iver head like

876
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,119
trust me, I'm sure she said that that her innocence

877
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,360
was gonna slowly start being plunge.

878
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 4: Is you know what that always say? No, he goes

879
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:11,079
up onish you.

880
00:54:11,679 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 26: It's like she would have been up going like a

881
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,880
clowdy being rave, or she there would have been.

882
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,159
Speaker 4: Something all worse than what I did would have happened

883
00:54:18,199 --> 00:54:18,440
to her.

884
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 24: So I thought I was just gonna go ahead and

885
00:54:20,519 --> 00:54:22,360
stay of her from the needles of the world.

886
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,159
Speaker 1: If he couldn't have her, the only thing he could

887
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,280
do to save her from the evils that he knew

888
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:34,440
would eventually befall her, he had to, you know, sacrifice

889
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:39,360
her to the devil. Because all of that shit makes sense.

890
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 4: I felt like I need to prove I.

891
00:54:41,559 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 13: Was a man.

892
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 4: I'll tell you that.

893
00:54:42,599 --> 00:54:42,800
Speaker 25: I know.

894
00:54:43,119 --> 00:54:45,639
Speaker 4: I didn't know how else think of about it. You know,

895
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,760
I'm gout. I went a head and they went about

896
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,719
it about it, you know, you know what.

897
00:54:51,159 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 26: Finally wants to show all off to you about fine,

898
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,320
who want to show with pain that's been got warned?

899
00:54:58,360 --> 00:54:59,559
Speaker 4: Tweaty and Alice and other.

900
00:55:00,159 --> 00:55:04,639
Speaker 1: He was glad he did it so people could feel

901
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:10,119
his pain. What a little bitch boy? Would I love

902
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:13,320
a couple of minutes with this kid in a locked

903
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:14,599
room with no cameras.

904
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a fantasy.

905
00:55:19,079 --> 00:55:23,159
Speaker 1: Eventually he would express some regret, regret that he didn't

906
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:27,840
kill her instantly so you didn't have to hear her scream.

907
00:55:28,519 --> 00:55:33,079
Speaker 4: But her scream was it was the saint, And I'll

908
00:55:33,119 --> 00:55:34,159
beat about that to day.

909
00:55:34,159 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 1: Add up, he said he never intended for her to suffer.

910
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:43,599
He only wanted for her to die. He didn't regret

911
00:55:44,039 --> 00:55:47,119
what he did, only that he should have done it differently.

912
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 27: Think about that, Michelle already has killed myself, so I

913
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,840
should feeble and shot in the cell.

914
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, Cody, I'm sure that there's plenty of people

915
00:56:00,079 --> 00:56:03,119
in Wichita Falls that feel the same way. It's not

916
00:56:03,199 --> 00:56:06,760
surprising that after Cody admitted to finding the thirteen year

917
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:11,480
old Lauren attractive, they found several images of child pornography

918
00:56:12,199 --> 00:56:16,039
on his phone. One of the images was confirmed by

919
00:56:16,079 --> 00:56:19,639
the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as being

920
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:23,960
that of an eight year old engaged in a sexually

921
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:30,159
explicit act. Cody was arrested and charged with murder, aggravated assault,

922
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,119
possession of a prohibited weapon, and three counts of possession

923
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,679
of child pornography. This guy is going to have a

924
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:43,880
lot of fun in prison when the inmates find out

925
00:56:44,679 --> 00:56:46,519
not only had he killed a kid, but that he's

926
00:56:46,559 --> 00:56:53,159
also interested in them sexually. You hear that inmates at

927
00:56:53,199 --> 00:56:57,239
the Skyview Unit in Rusk, a creeshional institution that's part

928
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:00,760
of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. You hear that guys.

929
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:07,800
His name is Cody Lot with two teas. Anyway, Cody

930
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:12,519
wasn't charged with capital murder, which meant the death penalty

931
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:15,960
was off the table at the time. The law in

932
00:57:16,039 --> 00:57:19,800
Texas only allowed capital murder charges to be applied under

933
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,840
a few circumstances, including causing the death of a child

934
00:57:23,519 --> 00:57:27,840
under the age of ten, but Lauren was thirteen.

935
00:57:28,559 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 28: I hope that Cody Lot gets the fullest senates he

936
00:57:32,079 --> 00:57:34,960
can and it's a shame that the death penalty can't

937
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:42,119
be can't be instated. I don't want him to get insanity,

938
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:47,440
because he clearly thought it out, probably for a long time.

939
00:57:48,679 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: Two years after the murder, the trial finally began. Cody's

940
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,599
hair was longer, and somehow he was even thinner. He

941
00:57:57,679 --> 00:58:02,440
looked kind of like white Jesus on meth or Jared Leito.

942
00:58:03,719 --> 00:58:07,039
Of course, his defense tried to play the insanity card,

943
00:58:07,079 --> 00:58:12,239
but Cody wasn't as crazy as he sounded. Well, he

944
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,159
did suffer from a mental illness, and maybe it played

945
00:58:15,159 --> 00:58:18,320
a part in his plan. He thought about committing this

946
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:25,639
crime for a year. Surely there were moments of lucidity

947
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:31,199
within that year, a year of opportunities to decide, Nah,

948
00:58:31,519 --> 00:58:34,360
I'm not going to kill her. Maybe I'll just place

949
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:38,880
some Xbox instead, and after he fired his gun into

950
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,199
an alley full of middle schoolers, he tried to get

951
00:58:42,239 --> 00:58:45,159
away with it. He ditched the gun and then went

952
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:49,239
back to retrieve it when he thought he was home free.

953
00:58:50,559 --> 00:58:53,559
The bottom line, he knew at the time of the

954
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murder that it was morally and legally wrong. In court,

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he sat still, seemingly detached, as the terrified children recalled

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the events of that day.

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Speaker 22: I just hope he has a long, miserable life in

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that prison. I hope he never seen a free moment,

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and I hope he lives a long time and maybe someday,

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when he's old and gray and maybe dan he'll show

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some remorse where he's not seen any signs of that

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so far. You know, watching him in court, he's not

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He's just emotionless, and I think that's in negative of

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how he committed such a hand heinous crime and shows

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no remorse for it.

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Speaker 1: After five days of trial, in less than an hour

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of deliberation, the verdict was guilty. Then he was sentenced

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to twenty years for the aggravated assault on Mikayla, ten

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years for each count of child pornography, and a life

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in prison for the murder. Of Lauren. He is, though,

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eligible for parole on September third, twenty forty six, a

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day that's quite fitting because it's one day after the

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thirtieth anniversary of Lauren's death.

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Speaker 30: He robbed so many people, so many kids out there

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that day of their innocence, And.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels two years. Sometimes it feels like it

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was just yesterday. Sometimes it feels like it was a

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million years ago. But we've had this day in.

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Speaker 30: Our sight since that happened, hoping that the person responsible

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for so much suffering would finally face justice for that

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and have to do some suffering of his own. The

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result of today it doesn't bring Lauren back.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't make us miss or any less. It doesn't

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make your death any less tragic.

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Speaker 30: There is a kind of a closure that you get

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when you know that the person responsible is gonna is

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going to suffer.

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Speaker 1: But that wasn't good enough for the Land of Aso's.

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They sought to change the law that governed capital murder charges.

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They wanted to raise the age requirement from ten to

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fifteen so that killers like Cody Lot in the future

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would be able to be sentenced to death. It's something

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that keeps coming up over and over again. But I

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don't think anyone can truly understand the importance of the

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death penalty unless you've had someone taken from you like this.

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The need for revenge, the need for justice, for accountability

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is overwhelming. Even though you may not agree with the

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government killing citizens, this is a case where the citizens

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themselves demand it, and they did it too. The following year,

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on the day before the third anniversary of her death,

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Governor Abbott signed Lauren's Law into effect, raising the age

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limit to fifteen years of age.

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Speaker 9: I'm going to be signing Cineville seven nineteen, which is

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known as Lauren's Law.

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Speaker 20: But we all agree that they're nothing more vulnerable, nothing

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more precious than our children, and we have to be

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able to change laws to.

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Speaker 23: Reflect that there are to be future victims that are children.

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This is for them, and I know our daughter would approve.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully, Cody Lott will never get out of prison. Why

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should he. The effects of what he did linger in

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the minds of her family and friends. It will until

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they're dying day, So why shouldn't he have to suffer

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until his Crystal suffered panic attacks After the event, many

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kids were no longer allowed to walk home from school.

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Michaela will always be reminded of the violent end of

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her beloved friend every time she feels the bullet fragment

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still inside her chest. The devil didn't make Cody Lot

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kill Lauren. That's silly. Stop believing in fairy tales. You're

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an adult. That was just how his drug riddled brain,

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which wasn't too great to begin with, rationalize the guilt

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he felt for doing such a thing. He didn't hear

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voices shouting commands. He didn't talk to the devil. He

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certainly didn't talk to God, that's for sure. He was

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just a leech to his mother, a parasite.

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Speaker 4: To his community.

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Speaker 1: He was an uneducated, unemployed, lazy piece of shit who

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thought the world owed him something. Does this sound familiar yet,

1029
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because it describes everyone we've ever talked about over the

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last eleven years now. And when the world didn't hand

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him a girlfriend, he didn't wonder what he was doing wrong,

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And of course not, no, why would you? Why would

1033
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you do that? Why not just blame everyone else instead,

1034
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blame the world around It's not me, it's everybody, it's

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everything right, right? You know how this pattern of thinking

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perpetuates and wiggles its way into our brains, every one

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of us, not just idiots like Cody. This entitlement, this

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sense that somebody owes you something. It's cancer. This is

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the result of cancer. Cody Lot never learned the lesson

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that sometimes you just can't have what you want.

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Speaker 7: You just can't.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way. But then again, it's not

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like he even tried to work hard and make a

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life for himself. Now, no, that'd be too hard. Instead,

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why not take it out on poor Lauren, to which

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a good life just seemed to come naturally. A senseless

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01:05:49,119 --> 01:05:53,679
act committed randomly that only made sense in one man's mind,

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but affected those kids and their families for the rest

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of their lives. Why blame yourself when you can blame

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the world instead. Speaking of being disappointed, this is our

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last regular episode before I take a much needed break,

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which I promise you is very necessary. We'll have one

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more plus episode before we go. We'll see you right

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back here next year for season twelve.

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Speaker 5: Stay safe st st st st st st st

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Speaker 19: St st stand the st st st stand statist sta