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Speaker 1: Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is not.

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Speaker 2: Intended for all audiences.

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Speaker 3: Listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 1: My arms always up almost litterly.

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Speaker 4: Bellevue, Washington is a clean suburb just outside Seattle, where

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tech wealth keeps the housing costs high and the lawns

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neatly trimmed. This is how I like them. It's a

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family oriented town, filled with gorgeous parks and trails, a

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place of true Pacific Northwest tranquility. But on the morning

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of light tenth, twenty twenty, that tranquility was broken. As

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the sun shone over the neat hedges and parked cars.

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Gunshots rang out in an apartment parking lot. There was

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a man down, gasping for air.

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Speaker 5: We just turned sego gunshots and we came screaming right there.

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Speaker 6: It sounds like it's right outside.

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Speaker 5: I lived in any residence in Lakemont behind the apartments.

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Speaker 3: About five or six shots.

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Speaker 5: It sounded like a a light. Helder Ribbon, I think

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I just turned seven gunshots. Someone screaming outside helped.

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Speaker 7: It sounds like it's out a building sixteen and we

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can hear the screaming.

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Speaker 6: I'm just d seven shots and it looks like somebody

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has been shot, I mean the overlook at this month.

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Speaker 4: The calls were all coming from the same complex. Neighbors

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peered through blinds, clutching their phones, straining to make sense

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of it all by the sound alone, then, amidst the

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beeping dispatch board, the most crucial nine when one call

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finally got through.

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Speaker 1: Okay, is this so.

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Speaker 6: Overlake at Lakeland?

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Speaker 8: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay? And what's going on there?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: My husband's that shot? Okay?

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Speaker 4: It's your husband?

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The woman on the phone was d D Foe Moon.

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Her husband, forty eight year old Baron Lee, was the

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one bleeding out on the pavement.

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Speaker 6: And is it possible for me to speak to him?

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Speaker 1: Is he away?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Once?

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Speaker 4: Okay, reluctantly did passed the phones. Who her bloody husband

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as other neighbors rushed over to help Hi?

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Speaker 6: And where he shot her?

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Speaker 1: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 5: More than three moments?

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Speaker 1: Are okay? Need? Okay? I hardy cure my arms?

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Speaker 4: A literally my shirt?

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Speaker 1: Okay, sir, okay?

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Speaker 9: Where is the gun? The gun?

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Speaker 6: With the gun?

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Speaker 9: It's fun here.

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Speaker 6: Hurry can you.

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Speaker 1: Hit a hurry?

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Speaker 10: I can't hit the.

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Speaker 2: Deed.

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Speaker 4: He took the phone back after Baron dropped it on

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the ground in agony because yes hi hi, hi, yes, okay?

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Speaker 1: Who shot him? Okay? So the person is no longer there,

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no o in there, ma'am.

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Speaker 6: I need you to get a clean where I crossed

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in a plye pressure over the wound. Okay, well boon them, okay.

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I need you to get some clear I lost in

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a prie pressure okay.

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Speaker 4: Even in the harsh unforgiving some light. It took a

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moment to realize Baron's black shirt was drenched. Three shots

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had torn through his chest. Did he fought to stay calm?

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Her hands trembled as she tried to help. Then out

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of nowhere, a female neighbor appeared, clutching a first aid

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kit and reaching for the phone.

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Speaker 10: Hi, I knew hi bet Hello?

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Speaker 4: Oh here, yes, hello?

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Speaker 1: Can you hear me? Yes? I can hear you. Okay,

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So I don't want to find pressure right now. Yes,

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my name is CHRISA.

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Speaker 11: I mus find pressure to the chest room.

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Speaker 6: Okay. Did you see which way that person white you

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said he left on foot? Did you see which.

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Speaker 1: Way it was? Okay?

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Speaker 6: So where's.

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Speaker 8: I hear?

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Speaker 1: I hear okay? And is it just his chester is

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but also his arm arm okay, we have it's okay,

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I'm okay.

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Speaker 6: I want to verify with the one person or multiple ye.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Finally the chaos cracked open with a wall of sirens.

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The crowd parted as police cars tore into the complex.

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No one knew yet if the gunman was a man

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or a woman. All anyone could say was this. The

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assailant and the green hoodie vanished under the bridge towards

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the shopping center across the road.

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Speaker 6: What is the person still there with?

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Speaker 2: Did you just hear this?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: So I just heard this, and I looked up my

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back window and I watched someone run away, the person

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that shopped them. They had a great hoodie with their

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heard up green kitchen gloves and they pissed up their

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shell case students as.

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Speaker 2: They ran off.

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Speaker 4: As the caller walked outside to see if he could help,

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he noticed a clue abandoned on the pavement and.

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Speaker 5: They had picking up their Then he's out there, he

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picked up.

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Speaker 4: The shooter had chosen to attack Baron at eight thirty am,

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just as he was heading out to his car to

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go to work. Baron hadn't been robbed. His car was

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left with the keys right beside it, and his wallet

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was on his person. This was a personal attack. The

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gunman had targeted Baron, stalked him, and chosen the perfect

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time to strike. But who could harbor such a deep

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grudge against Baron Lee? A middle aged car salesman with

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a wife three kids in a quiet, uneventful life. Baron

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and his wife Didi had blended their families and had

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been together for years. They had two teenage kids from

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Dede's first marriage and one son from Baron's first marriage.

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As Baron lay in surgery fighting for his life, police

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started piecing together the few clues left behind. The good

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thing was that witnesses were everywhere. This was a large

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apartment complex, and people all looked outside when they heard

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the gun going off.

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Speaker 12: So I just walked out to the window in my

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master bedroom and I saw an individual sprinting down the

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stairs toward the street.

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Speaker 10: Okay, And then did he go to the building across

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the parking lot from you, or the carports or where?

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Speaker 2: Did he go?

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Speaker 12: Right along the carports down the stairs?

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Speaker 10: Okay, so right between the building and the car ports.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, But I heard the footsteps on the concrete as

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I was walking to the window, and then I saw

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the individual jump up on the curb there and then

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run down the stairs.

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Speaker 4: Okay. Using canines, the police tracked the scent of the

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shooter all across the complex, under a bridge, and into

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the parking lot across the street. But then the dogs stopped.

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This indicated that whoever did this got into a and fled.

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The suspect was at large.

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Speaker 10: What kind of stature did that person have?

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Speaker 12: It looks slim, bill, That's why I thought at first

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it might have been fireworks, because it looked like it

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could have been a kid almost probably five four or

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five six.

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Speaker 2: Somewhere that range.

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Speaker 12: It's hard to tell looking down, but definitely not taller

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than me based off of running next to the car,

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real quickly, gray hoodie fully over it. Could not see

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skin color, long pants on. I can't remember if they

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were bluer, right. It's weird how some things you remember

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so vividly and other things are just a blur. Yeah,

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and then holding something. I thought it would look like

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a bag in the right hands, like a football as

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the person was running down. Okay, and like I said,

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I couldn't see skin color anything else. Okay, so no

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skin color? Can you tell gender? It was either a

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teenage boy most likely, or could have been a woman.

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Speaker 10: If you were to think about things that have happened

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in the last twenty four hours forty eight hours over

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the last week, do any incidents or concerns send out

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in your mind in this complex here that would have

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resulted in a situation like that.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 12: I mean, as far as I know the family, wonderful family.

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I think they have a special needs kid and they've

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never done anything but smile and be polite, along with

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everybody else in the area.

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Speaker 2: So it just was a complete shock.

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Speaker 4: It was a complete shock. Baron Lee was a kind

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hearted car salesman. We smiled at every person he met.

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Now he was at Harbor View Medical Center full of

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bullet holes. Baron had been shot nine times all over

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his body, from his legs to his arms and chest.

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At Harbor View Medical Center, surgeons worked fast, pulling bullets,

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tying off limbs, fighting to keep him from slipping away.

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The cops were already writing it up as a homicide.

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Inside the o R, no one gave up. After hours

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of surgery, Baron opened his eyes. He didn't just live,

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he remembered everything.

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Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Baron Lee. Originally from Hawaii and

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now reside here in Istaklau, Washington.

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Speaker 4: Baron's survival was a miracle. There was no way he

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should have lived, but he did.

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Speaker 1: Total nine shots, I took two to the arm, to

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the right arm, to the left leg, I believe, one

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on the one on the right leg, two on the

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left arm, one in the chest, and one in my hip.

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Speaker 2: I believe.

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Speaker 4: Baron said that the morning was like every other except

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that his step children were in Florida visiting their grandparents,

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so it was just his wife, Didi, and his son Eric.

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Baron his wife and child goodbye, then headed down the

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stairs towards his car.

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Speaker 1: And I come out of the house and I'm probably

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about twenty five thirty feet from my car and I

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just unlocked it with my fob and I hear pop.

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So this is July tenth, twenty twenty. So I'm thinking, oh,

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someone's still firing fireworks. Right, So I looked to my left,

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I didn't see anything. As soon as I look to

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my right, the second shot goes off, and that's the

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one that hits my right arm and shatters my right

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arm completely, ends up dropping my keys and my fob,

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and I see this person with green gloves and a mask,

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aiming a revolver, I mean, just shooting at me.

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Speaker 4: Baron's first instinct was to use his car as a shield,

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so he moved as quickly as he could while the

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rounds kept coming.

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Speaker 1: So I run to the car. He's still firing at me.

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As I open my car door with my left hand,

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I take a shot into the back of my leg,

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and then another shot in the back of my leg,

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and I end up falling to the ground. I end

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up pulling myself behind the car door while the person's

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firing at my car, lilding it with bullets. And then

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a few seconds later, it seems like instantaneously that person

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standing over me. He comes around to the car door

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and he's standing over me. First shot goes right through

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my chest and out, and I'm thinking, oh shit, I'm

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going to die, Like what am I going to do?

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Speaker 4: That's when it all hit him, the reality of what

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was happening, But nothing compared to the pain.

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Speaker 1: It's like, initially it feels like you're getting punched and

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pierced at the same time, so like you feel that

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searing pain that goes through from the bullet, but the

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impact feels like someone just punched the crap on it,

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you know.

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Speaker 4: It's like that's when Baron made a quick decision that

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probably saved his life.

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Speaker 1: So I decide, I'm going to throw my head and

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body under the wheelwell of my steering wheel. The steering

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will call them and protect at least that part. So

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if they're gonna shoot me, they got to shoot my

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body or my legs or whatever, and not any fatal parts, hopefully, right.

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So I dive in and he unloads the rest about

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I think six more shots on the left side and

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then runs out of ammunition. I see him bend down

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pick up some shellcasings, and then I hear him run off.

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Speaker 4: That's when neighbors arrived and started tending the baron. He

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screamed for them to get his wife, afraid he was

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going to die right then and there, right in that

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parking lot.

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Speaker 1: They do that. She comes out. My wife's like, oh,

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you'll be okay, you'll make it. You're strong, don't worry

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about it. And I remember having a full blown conversation

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where they're asking her to to take care of the

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kids that I love them.

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Speaker 4: When officers arrive, they tied tourniquets on Baron's limbs. He

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was losing his vision. The pain was overwhelming as they

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lifted him into the stretcher.

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Speaker 1: As the adroning start wearing off. And I'm taking a breath.

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What's going through my head? Every time I'm breathing? Is

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this my last breath? You know? I felt like I'm

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dying right, Like I was in so much pain, and

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I was like, oh my god, am I going to

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end up? Stop breathing, you know, because I know people

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get shot. You see it on TV. Right, They're slowly

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fading out, And I'm thinking, oh my god, I'm going

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to be you know, this is my last breath. This

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is my last breath. Am I dead? Now? You know?

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That type of thing.

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Speaker 4: As a strength started to fade. Baron's racing thoughts about

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who would care for his family faded into something different.

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The ambulance raced across town while the paramedics ripped off

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Baron's clothes, desperately trying to locate all the bullet ones.

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That's when he felt himself slipping away.

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Speaker 1: And I remember I felt at ease. At one point.

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I was I was imagining myself in a metal or pasture,

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very calm, serene, and I was tired and I just

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wanted to go to sleep, and the paramedic basically shook

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me and said, hey, you got to stay awake. You

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gotta stay awake, and I'm like okay, okay, And then

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I remember I was like almost gone. I was like

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my eyes had closed and all I felt was this

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searing pain. He stuck his finger in my wound to

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wake me up, and I was like, oh, fuck, don't

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do that. I'm up.

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Speaker 2: I'm up.

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Speaker 1: I won't I won't go to sleep right And from

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then on I was up until surgery.

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Speaker 4: When Baron finally woke up from surgery, he was bewildered,

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but his first concern was his children. Did He assured

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him that everyone was safe, and then detectives arrived.

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Speaker 1: And actually the investigation started right away. I remember Detective

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Parrot and the Detective Grandness both showed up at Harbor View.

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They had told me that I was under protection media.

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No one was allowed into the hospital to come visit.

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The only person allowed was Dede. Dedey was the only

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one that was authorized to come up and see me.

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Speaker 4: The detectives wanted the obvious answers, like oh, I don't

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know the hell would do this.

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Speaker 1: When they interviewed me the first time, I basically said

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that it was Sharon without adult it was her.

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Speaker 4: Sharon Kelly was Baron's first wife. I know, I know

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Sharon and Baron. Let's just be adults here and try

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to move past it. Okay, But Baron's wife, Dede shook

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her head. Sharon was Eric's mother, She would never do

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something so horrible to the father of her son. Was

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this just Baron's trauma talking?

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Speaker 1: And Dedey had told them, oh, no, it could be

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disgruntable worker at his job. You know, he works in

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the car business. Maybe they're mad or I don't know,

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maybe her ex husband sent you know, Dedie's ex husband

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sent somebody. And you know, they said, there's all kinds

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of possibilities, and in my mind there was no other possibility.

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Speaker 4: It was easy to dismiss a man shot nine times, confused,

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scared and searching for answers. His divorce from Sharon had

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been nasty, but now they barely talked unless it was

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a drop off when they exchanged care of Eric. And

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yet what if he wasn't wrong? Dede said Baron was crazy,

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Sharon was not responsible. Still, the cops promised they'd look

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into it. They had to, but first they chased the leads.

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They did have CCTV footage from nearby businesses and traffic

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lights around Baron's apartment complex, and on those tapes something

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stuck a red Ford truck idling on the other side

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the bridge just after the attack. Then the shooter ran

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up and climbed in. This vehicle was distinct. It was

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a Ford F series single cab with diamond plate, bedcap

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and tinted headlight covers. Using traffic cameras across Bellevue, police

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tracked the truck. Thank goodness for twenty four to seven

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government surveillance. Eh well, it worked because they got lucky.

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One frame had the plate. They ran it and discovered

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that the red Ford was registered to a middle aged

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man named Arthur Mendez. And just like that, the case

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had a new name, a new direction, and a very

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unexpected turn. In July of twenty twenty, forty eight year

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old Baron Lee was on his way to work that

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the car dealership when he was ambushed outside his apartment

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by a stranger, shot nine times in the legs, chests,

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and arms, and left for dead. But somehow Baron survived,

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while detectives were stalking out a house in Mount Vernon,

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tracking the red Ford pickup that helped the shooter. Vanish

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Baron was facing something else entirely, a long, brutal recovery

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without the use of his legs or his left arm.

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Speaker 1: The first three months I was in a wheelchair. I

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couldn't walk, I couldn't do anything other than go in

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a wheelchair. When I was in the hospital, they wanted,

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because it was the middle of COVID, they wanted to

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send me home immediately. So they basically said, every day

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we're going to have you try and walk a little bit.

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And since you have two steps at home, your goal

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is to walk down two steps. If you can walk

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down two steps, we're sending you home. So I ended

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up going home in seven days. But when I was

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at home, you know, obviously I wasn't walking around.

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Speaker 4: I was still in a wheelchair with Baron immobilized. DDE,

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his wife, was the glue that held the family together.

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Speaker 1: D D's amazing, an amazing woman, and I owe a

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lot to her, not for just a shooting, but but

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she went through while I was going through rehab, was

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amazing emotionally, Physically, I don't know how she did it.

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Speaker 2: Every day.

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Speaker 1: I had to have my wounds dressed twice a day,

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so she had to go through all the bullet wounds

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and take out the gauze and put in new gauze

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and you know, clean it all out every single day,

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on top of taking care of Eric, feeding medications, all that,

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and then taking care of Sophia and Nathan, cooking, cleaning, laundry,

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all of that by herself with no help and still smiling,

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still being positive, still being supportive, still encouraging, and not

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asking for anything back at.

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Speaker 4: The time, because that's the thing. Not only did Dedie

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have to take care of Baron and her two teenage children,

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but Baron's son from his first marriage, Eric, is special needs.

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Eric has dystonia and hernictorus. These are two very serious

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conditions which means it will require twenty four to seven

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care for the rest of his life. Dystonia is a

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developmental disorder that causes a person to have awkward posture

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and move with twisted, repetitive motions. Crenicterus is a condition

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developed at birth when billy rubin builds up in the

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baby's brain. I think I said all those things correctly,

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but I'm sure, you'll let me know anyway in the comments. Anyway,

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this results in cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, and hearing loss.

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But the reason this all happened to Eric was not

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an act of God, but instead it was due to

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negligence from the medical system. When Eric was born, you see,

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Sharon decided at the last minute to change from her

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obgyn to a midwife at a birthing center after her

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obgyn told her she had to watch her wait during pregnancy.

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Guess she didn't like that. Anyway. Eric was born safely

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at the birthing center and then the new family returned home.

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But after a few days, Baron noticed something was off.

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Speaker 1: After they sent us home. The very next day, the

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birthing center sends a home nurse to get Eric's he'll

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proc test, which is a genetic testing, and so they

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come over and then they leave, and then over the

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next few days, I start noticing that Eric is severely jaundice.

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He looks yellow. So I call the birthing center and

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tell him, hey, you know, Eric's Eric's getting yellow and

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little concerned, and they're like, oh, yeah, that's normal, babies

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usually are a little jaundice. Just put him in some

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sunlight and he should be okay. So I did that.

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Next day, he's not getting better, and so I called

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him up again. They're like, oh, no, no, that's normal.

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He's you know, he's the Asian. Of course he's going

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to be a little yellow, you know, like that's normal.

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I was like, that's that's a weird you know, it

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seemed weird, but as a first time parent, I wasn't

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completely sure. So it wasn't till day seven, or the

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evening of day seven. My son was just crying and

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wouldn't stop crying. And he had been pretty even keel,

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I mean, it was the demeanor was really quiet, you know,

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he smiled, but he didn't cry, cry or do anything.

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So this was concerning that he kept crying. So the

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very next morning, this day eight, I go to my

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normal doctor and I take him there and my doctor says, hey,

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you need to take him to the emergency room.

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Speaker 4: So Baron rushed his eight year old son to the

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emergency room, praying that everything would be all right.

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Speaker 1: I'm headed to the er with Sharon and basically she's like, no, no,

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we need to stop with the birthing center, telling that

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they all know what's wrong. With him, and so, you know,

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against my better judgment, I listened to her. It took

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her to the to the birthing center. We get to

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the birthing center, they're like, oh, yeah, he's john this.

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We need to probably give him some milk. So they

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get bottled milk and they start feeding my son, and

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about an hour later they realized that his temperature is

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going up. It's spiking and he's not getting better, and

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they're like, oh, you need to get to the hospital.

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Speaker 4: Baron was beside himself, a million thoughts rushing through his

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head as he packed up Eric and Sharon in the

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car to go to the place he originally wanted to go,

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the emergency room.

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Speaker 1: As soon as we get into the er, a whole

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team comes into the room, grabs him, puts them on

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the stretcher, and takes them up to the newborn ICU

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and like, we don't even know what's going on, and

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so they're like, we'll have someone meet with you, and

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they end up putting us into this room and about

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a few minutes later, there's like ten or eleven doctors

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and nurses come in and they're like, you know, we

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got to you have some things to discuss with you

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about Eric, and they tell us that he has a

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severe case of hyper bilerub and he said there. They

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say that most children, when their bill Erubin levels are

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at fifteen or so, they'll put them under the blue

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light and that usually brings them down. And they said

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it goes over twenty. Typically they have to do a

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blood transfusion, taking out the bad blood and putting in

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new blood. They said my son was a forty seven.

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Speaker 4: Eric's billy Ruben levels were astronomical. Baron knew that this

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was serious, but he had no idea why it happened.

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Why had Eric's levels spiked so severely.

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Speaker 1: Apparently the person that did his genetic testing didn't submit

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it right away, and so my son had a genetic

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disorder called galactysimia where he can't break down galactos. And

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galactos is one of the components in lactose. Lactose breaks

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down into two parts, glucose and galactos, and the glucose

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gets burned up as few and galactose usually gets passed

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through the body through your urine. But the person that

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has galactysimia is not able to break that down, and

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that galactos will flow through the bloodstream and get trapped

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up inside the and that's what happened to my son.

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Speaker 4: The nurse from the birthing center had neglected to send

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Eric's genetic testing oft in time, this very serious and

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life threatening condition went unchecked, and then Eric was given

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milk by the birthing center, which was essentially like giving

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him poison.

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Speaker 1: So the doctors are telling me all these scenarios about

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how he could die. If he does survive, he's going

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to be a vegetable, or best case scenario, if he

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does survive, he'll have no motor skills, so he won't

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be able to talk or walk. And fortunately he did survive.

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But they were correct.

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Speaker 4: Eric was six years old when Baron was shot, and

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though he was not a vegetable by any means, he

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did require constant help as a medically fragile kid. So

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not only was Deeed tending to a frustrated and traumatized

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husband in a wheelchair, she also had a son in

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the same condition, plus two teenagers who were terrified that

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there was a crazed psycho on the loose wanting to

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kill their stepfather. It was absolute hell for DDI, but

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She kept a smile on her face the entire time.

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Just goes to show some women are truly fantastic. She

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00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,920
was the rock in this situation as Baron struggled.

478
00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:28,039
Speaker 1: I wasn't easy to deal with as well. You know,

479
00:28:28,279 --> 00:28:31,759
through that rehab I had, you know, emotional issues, I

480
00:28:31,759 --> 00:28:35,319
had physical issues, so you know, I had temperaments. You know,

481
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,200
obviously with what I went through, my patience was very low,

482
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,559
and she had She was the water to my fire,

483
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,200
you know, and she made sure that she got me

484
00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:47,960
balanced and told me things were going to be okay

485
00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:50,920
and we're going to make it. And we had financial

486
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,319
issues that we were stressing about and a lot of

487
00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:55,559
other things that you know, we had to deal with them.

488
00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:57,079
Most people don't understand, you know.

489
00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:02,599
Speaker 4: Well, Baron worked on his physical rehabilitation. The police were

490
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,759
setting their sights on the investigation. They checked out dde's

491
00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:10,680
ex husband as well as Sharon. D d's X was

492
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,640
out of the state at the time of the shooting,

493
00:29:13,319 --> 00:29:15,880
and then he admitted to having some beef with Baron.

494
00:29:16,519 --> 00:29:19,240
He claimed he had nothing to do with it. He

495
00:29:19,319 --> 00:29:23,400
checked out. Sharon said the same thing. In fact, she

496
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,480
told cops the only person I know in Bellevue is

497
00:29:26,519 --> 00:29:31,119
my ex husband and we rarely talk. The exes were

498
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,960
checked off the list for now, and police narrowed their

499
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,519
focus on the owner of the shooter's getaway car, Arthur Mendez.

500
00:29:39,759 --> 00:29:42,839
Arthur was about the same age as Baron, and he

501
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,839
lived in Mount Vernon, a town about an hour and

502
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,759
a half away from Baron's house in Bellevue. Instead of

503
00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:52,920
just going right up to the door and knocking, police

504
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,200
decided to stake out the Mendes house to see if

505
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,960
they could get some activity on the truck. The red

506
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,400
F one fifty was the key. Detectives had pulled even

507
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,319
more footage from the day of the shooting and now

508
00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:09,200
confirmed that the truck had arrived at Baron's apartment two

509
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:14,359
hours before the attack, circled back and exited. They were

510
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,240
also able to secure traffic light footage that showed a

511
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,079
clear shot of the passenger in the truck, a slender

512
00:30:21,119 --> 00:30:27,160
person wearing a distinctive gold chain. This person, the alleged shooter,

513
00:30:28,119 --> 00:30:31,079
also had a habit of tucking the seat belt under

514
00:30:31,119 --> 00:30:36,000
his arm rather than across his chest. They were certain

515
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,839
that this truck was the key to finding Baron's killer,

516
00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:43,160
as a group of officers staked out Arthur's house. Another

517
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,759
team investigated his life on social media. Arthur was fifty

518
00:30:47,799 --> 00:30:51,559
six years old. He had a couple of kids, loved Jesus,

519
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:56,319
and was a big football guy, but he had no

520
00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,559
known ties to Baron Lee. In fact, Arthur wasn't the

521
00:31:00,599 --> 00:31:04,400
one who drove the red F one fifty. It belonged

522
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,440
to his son, seventeen year old Quincy Mendez. Quincy was

523
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,400
your typical high schooler who flexed on social media by

524
00:31:12,519 --> 00:31:17,359
posing for bathroom selfies. He also devoted his life to

525
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,240
wrestling and had dreams of joining the military. He worked

526
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:23,720
at a tire shop and drove his F one to

527
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,240
fifty there for every shift, so the cops tracked him

528
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,880
one afternoon. They hit the jackpot when they noticed a

529
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,880
friend in the car with him. This friend wore a

530
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,440
gold chain and he tucked his seat belt under his arm,

531
00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:48,160
just like the passenger on the surveillance video had BINGO.

532
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,599
But the detectives had to keep Baron and his family

533
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,759
in the dark. Chasing down Quincy was a covert operation

534
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,240
and they couldn't risk any gossip.

535
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: I worked with the detectives. They kept asking me stuff

536
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,960
you know here and there, but they wouldn't disclose anything

537
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,920
that they found. They told me that they wouldn't because

538
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:13,279
they wanted to keep the integrity of the investigation in place.

539
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:14,960
And he said, I understand that. I said, I'm not

540
00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:17,359
in aarage. I said, just do what you gotta do

541
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,480
to make sure you can get a conviction. That's all

542
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:20,160
I care about.

543
00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:24,319
Speaker 4: The detectives found out that Quincy Mendez went to Mount

544
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,960
Vernon High School, and when they visited the schools administrators,

545
00:32:28,519 --> 00:32:32,039
they were able to identify the alleged shooter as Joseph Good.

546
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,039
The school administrators confirmed that both Quincy and Joseph were

547
00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:39,599
good kids, they never caused any trouble, and they had

548
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:44,200
zero criminal records. Still, it was time to talk with

549
00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:46,680
Quincy and Joseph and find out what the hell was

550
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:51,079
going on at the station. Joseph folded his hands and

551
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,160
listened to the detectives.

552
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 13: So before you decide on that, okay, we have some

553
00:32:59,599 --> 00:33:03,000
informing that we're willing to share with you at this point. Okay,

554
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,720
So if you want, before we get into that, you

555
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,759
can hear us out about what we have to say

556
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,319
and then make a decision about that.

557
00:33:10,039 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 2: Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah, that sounds so pretty.

558
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 14: So you're okay with talking to us at this point?

559
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,119
Do you have to like answer questions and stuff? That's

560
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,200
up to you you, Like you said, you've read your

561
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,359
rights to Yeah, the right to answer questions. You don't

562
00:33:26,359 --> 00:33:28,319
have to answer questions at any time.

563
00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 11: If you want to fill uncomfortable, you can just say, yeah,

564
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:32,920
I've heard what you wanted to say.

565
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,559
Speaker 14: I don't want to answer that, so I just rather

566
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,440
have like because I don't want to get about any

567
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:37,920
of the stuff.

568
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,759
Speaker 2: So I'm had to have so And that's fine. You're

569
00:33:41,799 --> 00:33:42,880
you're more than entitled to that.

570
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 11: What we like to do is just have you give

571
00:33:45,319 --> 00:33:48,359
us opportunity to to share with you what we have

572
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:49,880
and then you can make a decision.

573
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Yeah? Yeah.

574
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 4: Joseph didn't seem to really grasp what was happening, but

575
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,759
like a good alleged hit man, you wanted to seem agreeable,

576
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:03,400
so he nodded along as the cops told him about

577
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,799
the attempted murder they were investigating in Bellevue.

578
00:34:07,319 --> 00:34:11,559
Speaker 2: So when, like I said, we had that shitting in Bellevue.

579
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 11: After we went back, we found this this vehicle point

580
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,599
into a gas station, don bellgue. You recognize that pickup

581
00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:27,400
at all them? Yeah, kind of, I don't know. Yeah,

582
00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:28,280
I'm not sure.

583
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, you've never seen that pickup before. I know

584
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,440
a few people who've on those. Anybody that you know

585
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:36,599
that owns a pickup like that?

586
00:34:38,039 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 4: Joseph said his friend Quincy had a truck like that,

587
00:34:41,519 --> 00:34:45,719
but they didn't hang out that much anymore. In fact,

588
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,079
the last he heard the clutch went out on Quincy's truck.

589
00:34:49,599 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 2: Because you said the clutch has been out for a

590
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,480
long time. I was just trying to put a reference

591
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,519
on six five, six months. I don't know, five or

592
00:34:55,559 --> 00:34:57,639
six months clutches, I don't I don't know. I'm not

593
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:02,440
exactly se So there's that picture.

594
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,679
Speaker 14: Therefore I answer all the questions.

595
00:35:07,079 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm doing it.

596
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:16,559
Speaker 4: And just like that, Joseph shut up, smart boy. Because

597
00:35:16,559 --> 00:35:20,719
the cops weren't done with them, not even close. They

598
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:24,320
started churning out warrants, pulling everything they could from Joseph

599
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,960
and Quincy's iCloud accounts, Instagram, snapchat, emails, text you know,

600
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,679
the entire profile of your life you put online. At first,

601
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:39,239
it was just teenage noise, selfies, memes, dumb jokes all useless,

602
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,159
But two months in, buried in the noise of selfies

603
00:35:44,199 --> 00:35:49,719
and memes, a detective spotted it. An email receipt from

604
00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:55,599
brick House Security, a company that sells GPS trackers. Why

605
00:35:55,599 --> 00:36:00,599
would a teenager need a GPS tracker in the's car

606
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,920
was still in evidence. Investigators checked under the tailgate and

607
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:11,159
lo and behold, there it was, the GPS tracker, still

608
00:36:11,159 --> 00:36:15,199
clinging to the frame with a strip of cheap duct tape.

609
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,360
The detectives contacted brick House, pulling every record they had

610
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,679
related to the serial number on the device, and it

611
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:30,320
was registered to none other than Sharon Kelly Baron's ex wife.

612
00:36:31,159 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 6: Yes, I purchased a GPS tracker from you guys about

613
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:39,480
five years ago, and it's the subscription, of course is

614
00:36:39,519 --> 00:36:43,519
no longer asked? Is I am able to log in?

615
00:36:43,599 --> 00:36:47,559
But it looks like you guys may have changed the website.

616
00:36:47,199 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 7: Or service or whatever that you've used. I want to

617
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,679
reactivate that device, and then I'm not sure how. I'm

618
00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:57,320
not sure how I can if it's like track you

619
00:36:57,559 --> 00:36:58,480
or what.

620
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,639
Speaker 1: Warser devices are, it still looks the same.

621
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 10: So would you like to reactivate your service or your tracker?

622
00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 7: I would like to reactivate it.

623
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:17,159
Speaker 4: Baron was right. This was all Sharon, and apparently she'd

624
00:37:17,199 --> 00:37:19,159
been plotting this for five years.

625
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 7: Now.

626
00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:22,639
Speaker 4: The cops had to figure out how thirty year old

627
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,679
Sharon got two teenage boys to shoot her ex husband.

628
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:32,519
I'll tell you what, Some women out there are pure shit. Anyway,

629
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,440
Joseph lawyered up when they took him into custody, but Quincy.

630
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:42,159
Quincy wasn't quite as smart.

631
00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:45,079
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we had an incident in Bellevie, and that's

632
00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:46,320
what we're here to talk to you about.

633
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 13: They told you what you were arrested for.

634
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:48,559
Speaker 2: They did.

635
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 8: I was asking and they were just like, shut up

636
00:37:52,039 --> 00:37:53,440
and just leaver these typetives.

637
00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 2: That's all right, That's all I told me in honest Okay.

638
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,559
Speaker 9: Yeah, So like we said, it was, it's a pretty

639
00:37:59,559 --> 00:38:02,719
serious thing. But as we said, who right now? Who

640
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,960
think you're more minimal? But I think you've a minimal

641
00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:08,039
and you're.

642
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 11: Involvement in it, Like I think there's other people that

643
00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:12,679
are more.

644
00:38:15,639 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 2: I don't know, let's explain it.

645
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,039
Speaker 11: So there's other people that obviously haven't played a greater

646
00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:21,239
role in what happened.

647
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,679
Speaker 2: I'm not catching him up. I think as we talk

648
00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:27,239
about it and probably make more sense.

649
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,519
Speaker 13: But okay, So to be clear, you're under rest for.

650
00:38:31,519 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 3: An assaults salt and assault, yes, uh, and it's a

651
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:37,639
pretty serious one.

652
00:38:38,639 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 2: What salt you're want to solve this? Well, you don't

653
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:48,400
like beating up someone, harming another human being? Yeah, harming

654
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:49,280
another human being.

655
00:38:50,519 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 3: We also know that there is another person involves that

656
00:38:53,079 --> 00:38:58,039
needs to be held accountable for a much larger role

657
00:38:58,079 --> 00:39:02,159
in this and than you seem to have played. Okay,

658
00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:05,559
and that's the big part of what we're interested in.

659
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,679
Speaker 11: Today, right, there's a reason we're talking to you, so

660
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,679
we know there's more to what you guys did when

661
00:39:11,679 --> 00:39:15,159
you're in Belfield your time, because we've already talked with him.

662
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,119
Speaker 4: The detectives told Quincy they already knew what happened, which

663
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,079
was of course a lie, and now they needed his

664
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:28,119
side of the story. Who falls for that shit? Oh right, right, right?

665
00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:33,639
Dumb people which are usually you know, criminals. Quincy said

666
00:39:33,639 --> 00:39:37,880
that when Joseph approached him about driving to Bellevue, he

667
00:39:38,079 --> 00:39:39,840
wasn't in his right mind.

668
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 2: I can't rather remember.

669
00:39:41,159 --> 00:39:44,639
Speaker 14: Because I was on shrooms and I was on shrom

670
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,559
you know, you and Jada were smoking strings.

671
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 4: For the first time smoking shrooms.

672
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:50,199
Speaker 9: Huh.

673
00:39:51,119 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 4: To be fair, this Cops drug education probably came from

674
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:59,119
a Vhess tape. Quincy admitted that he was at Joseph's

675
00:39:59,159 --> 00:40:03,559
house tripping on shrooms with Joseph's sister when Joseph came

676
00:40:03,599 --> 00:40:07,000
home and said they were going to Bellevue the next day.

677
00:40:07,199 --> 00:40:10,000
Joseph said he had something big to do and there'd

678
00:40:10,039 --> 00:40:11,000
be money in it too.

679
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,599
Speaker 2: He told you told me at the end, like do

680
00:40:13,679 --> 00:40:16,440
you want do you want five grand? I was? I

681
00:40:16,639 --> 00:40:19,639
pretty much came in then option okay, I said, yeah.

682
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,199
How much did he say he was getting? I don't know.

683
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,760
I did. That's the standard question negotiating one on one.

684
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,719
He said, well, you give me a god, I mean

685
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,239
that's a lot of money. Five grand?

686
00:40:30,559 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 9: Yeah, I just find how much does he get in?

687
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,639
Speaker 2: Well? I think he said like probably thirteen His cut

688
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,239
was thirteen years was five? So eighteen total? Or was

689
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,119
there another person in there just getting a cut of

690
00:40:44,159 --> 00:40:46,079
that that? I don't know?

691
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 8: He just told me for me said it was just

692
00:40:50,639 --> 00:40:52,519
he's game pained on game paid as it does it.

693
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 15: So the question becomes, where did that money come from?

694
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 2: Right? Because I haven't gotten any money, but.

695
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,159
Speaker 15: What I'm saying, is he didn't have that money to

696
00:41:03,199 --> 00:41:06,840
pay you, Right, He's getting thirteen from somebody, right, yeah,

697
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,559
So what does that lead you to believe is just

698
00:41:10,559 --> 00:41:16,719
happening here? Someone told him to do it, right, Yeah,

699
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,400
he's he's being paid. He's breaking you off a piece

700
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:20,400
for being a driver.

701
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 2: Basically, right, Okay.

702
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 4: Quincy swore he had no idea who the money was

703
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,559
coming from, but he was high, and five thousand dollars

704
00:41:30,599 --> 00:41:34,920
sounded pretty good. Money was coming from, but he was high,

705
00:41:35,079 --> 00:41:38,639
and five thousand dollars sounded pretty good for a drive

706
00:41:38,679 --> 00:41:43,639
to Bellevue, even if it was some sketchy shit like oh,

707
00:41:43,679 --> 00:41:48,039
I don't know emptying a clip? Oh, before you say,

708
00:41:48,079 --> 00:41:51,559
it's a magazine not a clip. Just shit the fuck up?

709
00:41:51,679 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 2: What does it mean to take a whole clip? Or

710
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:59,480
someone shoot someone? So, you know, but yeah, but in

711
00:41:59,559 --> 00:42:00,800
my head, it's just like.

712
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 8: I thought it was just fluffy, honestly, like.

713
00:42:06,599 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 2: He who does you know that could have put him

714
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,519
onto a job like that? Put him on a job

715
00:42:13,599 --> 00:42:14,039
like that.

716
00:42:14,079 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 15: You know, Like, who's gonna say I need somebody to

717
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,000
get shut I.

718
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 2: Know, I'll call you.

719
00:42:21,679 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: That.

720
00:42:22,039 --> 00:42:25,559
Speaker 2: Not anyone I would know of all my phraser. I see.

721
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 4: The more they talk, the more it really did seem

722
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,920
like Quincy was just the tag along who got roped

723
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,920
into something too big for his warped little mind to handle.

724
00:42:39,039 --> 00:42:43,039
We are only showing you about two percent. This excruciating

725
00:42:43,079 --> 00:42:46,280
interrogation went on for nearly four hours.

726
00:42:47,039 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 2: So is it some scrapp you're supposed to go knock

727
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:54,199
off or what? No, you're know what kind of person? No?

728
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,639
Did you ever find out what kind of person it was?

729
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:58,679
He ever talk about it?

730
00:43:00,159 --> 00:43:03,119
Speaker 11: Just it could have been just a normal Joe Moo

731
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,760
citizen who's walking down the street.

732
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 2: Or was there a game banger or what? Who was

733
00:43:10,199 --> 00:43:13,360
the person I was supposed to be taken out? Oh No,

734
00:43:13,519 --> 00:43:14,079
I don't know.

735
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 8: He just talk about the dude that that that this

736
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,679
dude that was it.

737
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:25,199
Speaker 2: He did say anything. It was just like this dude

738
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:29,639
right here. I was like, what about him?

739
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 10: He's like, we need he, we need the club.

740
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 2: So yeah, he told me we need to do what

741
00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:41,280
he said Again, I didn't the clip the club? The clip?

742
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,679
What does that mean to you? He was gonna cap him? Yeah?

743
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,079
Speaker 8: Get I'm telling you guys straight up, I'm being honest.

744
00:43:50,079 --> 00:43:52,000
I mean everything I am right now, to be helpful

745
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,199
to you guys right now. I do not know who

746
00:43:54,199 --> 00:43:55,960
he's connected with. I do not know who his big

747
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,719
homies are. He told me I did it. It was

748
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,599
fun that I did it. I regret it. I shouldn't

749
00:44:04,599 --> 00:44:08,159
have it just for money or any But I don't

750
00:44:08,199 --> 00:44:09,519
know whose his connections are.

751
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 4: But the cops didn't need Quincy to confirm what they

752
00:44:13,599 --> 00:44:18,320
already knew. Sharon Kelly was behind it. They had the

753
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:23,199
brickhouse GPS data, they had the emails to Joseph. They

754
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:27,519
also had the texts between Sharon and the boys solidifying

755
00:44:27,599 --> 00:44:28,679
their guilt.

756
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,079
Speaker 1: And the conversation between Sharon and Joseph was that the

757
00:44:32,159 --> 00:44:35,559
job wasn't done, that they'll need to go back, and

758
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,679
Joseph will say, well, we need money up front because

759
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,840
you didn't pay the same thing yet, so we need

760
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,840
some of that money, or at least half upfront. And

761
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,960
apparently Quincy said he didn't want to take part of

762
00:44:48,039 --> 00:44:50,159
any of it. They didn't want to participate or help

763
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,679
or have anything to do with it anymore.

764
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 4: So when the cops showed up at Sharon's door with handcuffs,

765
00:44:57,159 --> 00:45:00,639
she didn't ask what is this all about? She didn't

766
00:45:00,639 --> 00:45:04,679
feign ignorance. She dropped her coffee cup and screamed inside

767
00:45:04,679 --> 00:45:09,559
to her brother, call my lawyer. But what still haunted

768
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:16,880
detectives was the question no evidence could answer. Why Why

769
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,519
would the mother of a special needs child who saw

770
00:45:20,599 --> 00:45:25,159
him every weekend hire teenage boys to kill her ex husband.

771
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,320
Sharon wasn't going to talk, but the cops didn't need

772
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:36,000
her to because Baron was alive and willing to tell

773
00:45:36,079 --> 00:46:11,079
them everything. In early July of twenty twenty, Baron Lee

774
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:15,400
was shot nine times by a teenage hitman. He should

775
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:20,320
have died, but somehow he didn't. Now his ex wife,

776
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:24,719
Sharon Kelly, sat behind bars, the mastermind of it all.

777
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:30,440
She wasn't talking, but to her dismay, Baron was alive

778
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:36,519
and he remembered everything. Because what no one knew then

779
00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:40,360
was that Sharon hadn't just tried to kill him once.

780
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,119
She'd been laying the groundwork for years.

781
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,199
Speaker 1: She had tried to run me over twice prior once

782
00:46:47,199 --> 00:46:49,599
in twenty fifteen. This is before I ended up fleeing

783
00:46:49,639 --> 00:46:51,960
the state of Washington because I wasn't getting help. She

784
00:46:52,039 --> 00:46:54,280
actually had me on her hood and she was She

785
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,880
actually tried to hit me. I ended up jumping up

786
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,840
and ended up on her hood and she drove, you know,

787
00:47:00,079 --> 00:47:02,440
couple hundred yards before I was able to roll off

788
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,880
the car and get away from her. The second time

789
00:47:06,039 --> 00:47:09,480
was in front of the Kirkland Police Department during a

790
00:47:09,599 --> 00:47:13,559
cussy chanceror and they said that basically it was a

791
00:47:13,639 --> 00:47:16,519
themistic issue and that we would have to deal with

792
00:47:16,519 --> 00:47:19,039
it in family court, which just boggled my mind. So

793
00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:21,400
someone tries to kill me, but it's a family issue.

794
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,480
So I ended up going to family court and I'm

795
00:47:24,519 --> 00:47:26,679
told in family court that we just need to learn

796
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:27,880
to co parent better.

797
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 4: Sharon and Baron's amicable phase was short lived. They met

798
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,440
online in two thousand and five. Baron was working in

799
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,840
Nevada at the time, and Sharon was young, pretty and

800
00:47:41,599 --> 00:47:44,679
looking for someone to take care of her. Though they

801
00:47:44,679 --> 00:47:48,679
were over a decade apart, they pursued a relationship through

802
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:53,280
phone calls and texts, and before long, Sharon left Washington

803
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,880
to meet Baron in Nevada.

804
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,119
Speaker 1: And she wanted to come down to Vegas and she

805
00:47:58,199 --> 00:47:59,760
asked if it was okay to bring her to younger

806
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,960
brother with her to meet me, and you know, stay

807
00:48:03,119 --> 00:48:06,079
a couple of weeks, and so I was like, yeah,

808
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:07,920
you know, if you want to come down and visit,

809
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,199
no problem. You know, I was single at the time,

810
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,119
nobody lived with me and you know, at space. So

811
00:48:14,199 --> 00:48:16,119
she came down to Vegas and she brought her her

812
00:48:16,119 --> 00:48:19,920
brother Timmy and her brother Joshua, who were like five

813
00:48:20,039 --> 00:48:22,199
and I want to say five and seven or five

814
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:23,119
and eight at the time.

815
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 4: With her young brothers and toe, Sharon showed up in

816
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,639
Las Vegas, and surprisingly, Baron welcomed them with open arms.

817
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,920
Being a product of the foster care system himself, Baron

818
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:37,719
just couldn't turn anyone away.

819
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: We hit it off, and then, you know, the interaction

820
00:48:42,599 --> 00:48:45,199
I had with her brothers surprised her as well. Her

821
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:49,440
brothers were so used to just doing whatever they wanted

822
00:48:49,599 --> 00:48:52,159
and having you know, no discipline, and so when they

823
00:48:52,199 --> 00:48:55,199
came to stay with me, you know, set some ground

824
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:59,519
rules and basically the way they treated her was not

825
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,079
very good, and I, you know, I told him that

826
00:49:02,079 --> 00:49:04,000
that's not you know, allowed, you know, and that kind

827
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,800
of stuff, and started parenting them. And the two weeks

828
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,119
that they were going to stay ended up turning into

829
00:49:10,199 --> 00:49:11,480
like four months thying with me.

830
00:49:12,559 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 4: Their relationship moved quickly. They decided to move back to

831
00:49:16,159 --> 00:49:20,000
Washington so Sharon could be closer to the family. Baron

832
00:49:20,079 --> 00:49:26,199
agreed without hesitation. After settling in, they got married. Baron

833
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:30,920
believed they shared the same ambitions, a driven, adventurous future.

834
00:49:32,079 --> 00:49:36,199
Sharon had away with words. Soon they decided to start

835
00:49:36,199 --> 00:49:41,639
a family. Then Eric was born. His birth was traumatic,

836
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:48,880
leaving him severely medically fragile. Baron stepped up. Sharon did not.

837
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 1: I worked in the car in the street at the time.

838
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,400
I worked for Toyota, and I worked twelve hour days

839
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,119
to get up in the morning at six, and I'd

840
00:49:56,199 --> 00:49:59,920
come home about six and I would find Eric so

841
00:50:00,079 --> 00:50:03,559
looking with in his walker or you know, his little

842
00:50:03,599 --> 00:50:07,119
walker thing, and he'd be crying and screaming, and Sharon

843
00:50:07,159 --> 00:50:10,559
would be sitting on the couch watching Korean dramas or

844
00:50:10,599 --> 00:50:13,920
whatever it is that she was watching, and she would say, oh, yeah,

845
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:16,400
he's been like that all day. And I'm like, then,

846
00:50:16,559 --> 00:50:18,679
why aren't you changing him? Why aren't you doing anything.

847
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,519
It would take me, you know, three four hours to

848
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,679
calm him down, you know, because he had been, you know,

849
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,760
in that high emotional state for so long.

850
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 4: Whether she was depressed, overwhelmed or just playing lazy. Sharon's

851
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:39,400
mothering went from bad to worse. Barn new things were unmanageable.

852
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,639
He tried to get help for his wife, but she

853
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,039
insisted she was fine, and so was Eric.

854
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:48,119
Speaker 1: So the last job for me was that I found

855
00:50:48,119 --> 00:50:53,360
out that she was having Eric. Someone babysit Eric, like

856
00:50:53,559 --> 00:50:56,360
they're not medically trained to babysit him, but they were

857
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,639
babysitting him while she was going out and having an affair.

858
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 4: Baron had enough, not out of anger but fear. His son.

859
00:51:05,599 --> 00:51:10,400
Eric's health was on the line with estonia and her nictorus.

860
00:51:11,039 --> 00:51:16,679
Every day required constant specialized care, and Sharon couldn't handle it.

861
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,559
She wasn't just failing as a mother, she couldn't even

862
00:51:20,559 --> 00:51:22,639
be trusted as his nurse.

863
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,599
Speaker 1: And so I was like, okay, I'm done, you know,

864
00:51:25,639 --> 00:51:27,320
like this is it. So I came home one day

865
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,800
and I picked up Eric and I was trying to

866
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,840
leave the house and she's asking what you're doing, and

867
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,960
I'm saying, I'm leaving him, taking Eric with me, and

868
00:51:35,039 --> 00:51:38,440
she got mad and started pulling on Eric, and I

869
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,239
was afraid he was gonna get hurt, so I gave

870
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,679
him to her and she starts screaming, you know, like

871
00:51:43,679 --> 00:51:46,000
like she's being abused or something, and just at the

872
00:51:46,039 --> 00:51:50,360
top of her boys screaming, and the neighbors end up

873
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:54,360
calling the police. When the police come, and she says, oh, yeah,

874
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:58,079
that I'm abusing her and abusing my son, breaking furniture

875
00:51:58,119 --> 00:52:00,400
and doing all this stuff. And I'm like, I haven't

876
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,639
even touched her, I haven't done anything to her, and

877
00:52:03,079 --> 00:52:05,599
I haven't broken anything. And so the police do their

878
00:52:05,599 --> 00:52:08,480
investigation and they realize that none of what she's saying

879
00:52:08,599 --> 00:52:11,880
is true, but they advised that one of us leave,

880
00:52:12,039 --> 00:52:14,519
and I said, well, she has my son. If she

881
00:52:14,599 --> 00:52:17,880
wants to go and leave with him, then go ahead.

882
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,199
I'll just deal with it in court. And so she

883
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:21,960
takes off.

884
00:52:23,039 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 4: It was the point of no return. Two weeks later,

885
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,800
Sharon filed the restraining order and the state put Eric

886
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:34,559
in her care. That's what the state does. Favors women

887
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:40,719
in situations like this. It happens all the time. Must

888
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:44,960
be that male privilege I keep hearing about. That's when

889
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,119
the war started. For the next five years, Baron fought

890
00:52:49,119 --> 00:52:52,760
for custody while Sharon played the system, demanding support and

891
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:57,119
collecting benefits. Her son wasn't a child doer anymore. He

892
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:01,760
was a paycheck. At least that's what her family convinced

893
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,239
her of. The woman Baron had fallen in love with

894
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:10,519
had transformed into a bitter, entitled mother who expected sympathy

895
00:53:10,519 --> 00:53:14,239
from the world because she had a special needs child.

896
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,440
A lot of that going around these days.

897
00:53:18,039 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: Her her family are you know what we call them

898
00:53:22,679 --> 00:53:28,440
career welfare cases, you know. And then her mom basically

899
00:53:28,599 --> 00:53:32,599
lives off welfare, uses welfare because she has multiple kids,

900
00:53:32,639 --> 00:53:37,719
so she uses welfare to survive. And their mentality and

901
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,280
I saw this in text where like, you know, oh

902
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,840
you can do this? Is this you don't have to work,

903
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,199
you know, you can get welfare, you can live off

904
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,480
his child support. So it was more of like, oh,

905
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,440
you know, I don't have to do anything anymore, and

906
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,880
I can, you know, abuse the system and that type

907
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:56,360
of stuff.

908
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 4: It became clear that Sharon wanted sole custody Eric, not

909
00:54:01,119 --> 00:54:04,239
to care for him, but because there was a million

910
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:08,039
dollar settlement tied to his birth injury. Though they could

911
00:54:08,039 --> 00:54:12,519
not sue the birthing center directly, the insurance paid them

912
00:54:12,679 --> 00:54:13,920
for what happened to Eric.

913
00:54:14,559 --> 00:54:16,679
Speaker 1: I took that money and I put into a special

914
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,960
needs trust so later on, when Eric's eighteen, hopefully that

915
00:54:21,039 --> 00:54:24,920
money will grow and help you take care of him

916
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,519
when we're not there anymore. One of the things that

917
00:54:28,559 --> 00:54:31,800
I found when we broke up because I access to

918
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,360
all of her phone records as well, and so there

919
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,599
was text messages where she had planned, you know, to

920
00:54:37,679 --> 00:54:42,039
siphon money out of our accounts. Also when we break up,

921
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,840
that they were going to utilize the courts to force

922
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,920
me to pay child support, and that eventually she's wanting

923
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,679
to get access to the trust fund money.

924
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 4: Sharon had custody of Eric until he was three years old,

925
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,079
and during that time she did her best to put

926
00:55:01,159 --> 00:55:06,440
him in a more medically fragile state, demanding a feeding tube,

927
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:12,280
a tracheotomy, and a do not Resuscitate order, all things

928
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:18,920
doctor said he didn't need. So she hospital shopped until

929
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,679
she got the feeding tube and the DNR. What a bitch.

930
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: During this time, I expressed a ton of concerns because

931
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,719
he was being hospitalized, he was being sick, she was

932
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:33,079
trying to do things that didn't seem appropriate. But because

933
00:55:33,119 --> 00:55:38,000
I didn't have medical medical making decisions, she was able

934
00:55:38,079 --> 00:55:41,039
to go to the hospitals and convey what she wanted.

935
00:55:42,079 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 4: That's when CPS stepped in. Sharon was diagnosed with Munchausen

936
00:55:47,159 --> 00:55:52,559
by proxy and deemed unfit. Eric was placed in foster

937
00:55:52,679 --> 00:55:57,400
care pending a parenting plan. For Baron. It was a nightmare,

938
00:55:58,119 --> 00:56:03,320
a legal disaster. His life narrowed to one goal, bringing

939
00:56:03,559 --> 00:56:13,599
Eric home, but the courts leaned towards Sharon. I wonder why, oh, right, right? Female?

940
00:56:14,639 --> 00:56:19,480
This was despite her erratic behavior and her obvious lack

941
00:56:19,519 --> 00:56:24,480
of concern for her own child's well being. Then came

942
00:56:24,559 --> 00:56:28,840
twenty seventeen, a custody exchange at the Kirkland police station.

943
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,960
Sharon didn't just lose control. She threw Eric on the

944
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:38,239
floor instead of placing him in a wheelchair. That changed everything.

945
00:56:39,159 --> 00:56:43,719
For the first time, someone besides Baron saw her rage firsthand.

946
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,880
Baron and Dedi took Eric home. He stayed with him

947
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:53,159
full time, but legally, Sharon was still considered the primary caregiver.

948
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:58,039
Let's face it, the family court system is more than broken,

949
00:56:59,039 --> 00:57:03,599
it's pure shit. Anyway, Baron didn't water to have contact

950
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:08,119
with Eric for obvious reasons. Shared custody was just not

951
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:09,880
an option for him.

952
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: She was after Eric. Was the way that Eric was

953
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,000
being hospitalized or the things that she was doing. It

954
00:57:16,079 --> 00:57:19,159
looked to me like she wanted him to die, but

955
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,000
in a way that no one was going to question

956
00:57:22,239 --> 00:57:25,519
her and say that he's it's because he's medically fragile,

957
00:57:25,599 --> 00:57:27,519
or this is you know, this is the cause of

958
00:57:27,519 --> 00:57:30,280
his death is because he had complications.

959
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,679
Speaker 4: There was one incident where Eric's home nurse aid found

960
00:57:34,719 --> 00:57:38,239
him nearly dead at Sharon's house and he had to

961
00:57:38,239 --> 00:57:42,079
be rushed to the hospital. Things like this just kept happening.

962
00:57:42,719 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: And here's the thing is the family court system ignored

963
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:49,679
it all. Like the GL was saying, hey, this this

964
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:52,960
boy is not safe around her. He needs you know,

965
00:57:53,079 --> 00:57:55,679
and they ignored it all. They when it came to

966
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,039
whatever she did, it doesn't matter who spoke on my behalf,

967
00:57:59,039 --> 00:58:01,239
whether it's me was, whether it was a GL, whether

968
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,800
it was a social work, it didn't matter. The courts

969
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:04,519
never listened.

970
00:58:05,559 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 4: Baron, Indeedie cared for Eric while Sharon had visitation. What

971
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:14,079
she really wanted was money. If Baron was gone and

972
00:58:14,199 --> 00:58:17,400
Eric returned to her care, she thought she could get it.

973
00:58:18,199 --> 00:58:21,639
So she went through her little brother, the same one

974
00:58:21,719 --> 00:58:26,960
Baron once looked after in Vegas, and she found Joseph Good,

975
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,400
setting in motion her final plot to get rid of

976
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:34,639
her ex husband. Sharon's little brother put the word out

977
00:58:34,639 --> 00:58:38,119
amongst his friends at high school, and Joseph took the bait.

978
00:58:39,159 --> 00:58:43,320
It was that easy. With Baron dead, the money would

979
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:49,599
be all hers money, money, money, money, or so she thought.

980
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,639
Speaker 1: But what Sharon didn't realize is the way the trust

981
00:58:52,679 --> 00:58:57,480
is set up, unless it's needed for medical reasons, that

982
00:58:57,639 --> 00:58:59,719
money will never be pulled out, and he can't be

983
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,960
pulled out. It's cash. It's going to be pulled out

984
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,840
to pay for medical reasons only. So in other words,

985
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,639
if there's a medical bill, then it goes directly to

986
00:59:08,679 --> 00:59:11,119
the medical company, not to us, and then we pay

987
00:59:11,239 --> 00:59:14,039
them the medical company. But that wasn't what she thought.

988
00:59:14,079 --> 00:59:15,519
She thought she would have access to it.

989
00:59:16,559 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 4: For years, Sharon had threatened Baron and worse, their son,

990
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:27,440
but what she did was so outrageous, so unhinged, that

991
00:59:27,519 --> 00:59:30,280
when Baron spoke up, he sounded like a man describing

992
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:34,519
the plot of a bad movie. No one believed him,

993
00:59:35,159 --> 00:59:39,519
and the family courts only emboldened her. Every time Eric

994
00:59:39,599 --> 00:59:43,280
landed in the hospital or CPS got involved, she was

995
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:48,159
given a pass because she's the mom years of getting

996
00:59:48,199 --> 00:59:53,280
away with it convinced her of one thing she could

997
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,639
get away with murder.

998
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: As horrible as you may think that the shooting was

999
01:00:00,079 --> 01:00:02,239
shooting was the best thing that happened to me. The

1000
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:05,519
shooting gave me a voice. A lot of men go

1001
01:00:05,599 --> 01:00:08,719
through this, and this is one of the hardest things

1002
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:12,800
as a man sitting on an island by yourself. I

1003
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,920
was telling people what was going on at work, my

1004
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,320
personal life, my family, and I would always get that

1005
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,559
eye roll, you know, not you know, not blatant, but

1006
01:00:23,679 --> 01:00:26,000
you could tell like, yeah, he's full of shit type

1007
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,360
of look right, like, oh, he's not telling all the

1008
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:32,280
truth or he's exaggerating. But the shooting a lot of

1009
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,920
people to see that, now what I say is true, right,

1010
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,880
Like what I've been saying all my life is true.

1011
01:00:39,199 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 4: Joseph Good was charged with attempted murder and unlawful possession

1012
01:00:43,039 --> 01:00:46,840
of a firearm, then sentenced to thirteen years in prison.

1013
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:51,039
Quincy Mendez received eight years for the assault on Baron

1014
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:55,760
and was sent to a juvenile detention center. Baron has

1015
01:00:55,800 --> 01:01:00,639
since forgiven both of the boys. Sharon, on the other hand,

1016
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:04,400
was eventually offered a plea deal, taking her charge down

1017
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:09,159
to solicitation of attempted murder in the second degree, she'd

1018
01:01:09,199 --> 01:01:13,639
be looking at thirteen years, not twenty five. Then for

1019
01:01:13,679 --> 01:01:18,039
shits and giggles, they lowered her charge a smidge more,

1020
01:01:19,039 --> 01:01:21,679
probably because of the tits and puss, you know.

1021
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: But in the plea deal, the prosecutor offered her one

1022
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:29,280
hundred and fifty months, And my argument to the courts

1023
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:34,480
was that the fact that they were reducing this the plea,

1024
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,039
she should have got the maximum of the reduction plea,

1025
01:01:38,199 --> 01:01:42,559
not an agreed average of that plea. And so the

1026
01:01:42,599 --> 01:01:45,239
reason I wanted that was one, at one hundred and

1027
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:47,760
fifty months, she would get out when Erik is seventeen.

1028
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:51,039
And my concern is that I'd have to deal with

1029
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,440
this family court bullshit again on top of having to

1030
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,199
deal with her trying to kill me. So I told

1031
01:01:58,239 --> 01:02:01,440
the court that one, she shouldn't get less time than

1032
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,960
the shooter or the driver, So she should get one

1033
01:02:05,039 --> 01:02:07,519
hundred and sixty the maximum hundred and sixty five months,

1034
01:02:07,599 --> 01:02:10,480
which will allow me to set up guardianship and do

1035
01:02:10,559 --> 01:02:13,880
everything that's needed before she gets out, so Eric will

1036
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,320
already be eighteen by the time she gets out.

1037
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 4: It was abysmal. It was outrageous. How could Sharon receive

1038
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:27,159
a lighter sentence than the teenagers she hired to shoot Baron?

1039
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,480
Without her, none of this would have ever happened.

1040
01:02:32,079 --> 01:02:34,519
Speaker 1: That's what appalled me. Them all is like I even

1041
01:02:34,559 --> 01:02:38,320
stated that in court, you know the fact that she

1042
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:40,519
not just ruined my life, in my son's life, but

1043
01:02:40,559 --> 01:02:42,880
she ruined two teenagers as well. You know, I s

1044
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:45,639
They're like, you know, she deserves a lot more than

1045
01:02:45,679 --> 01:02:46,519
what she was given.

1046
01:02:47,639 --> 01:02:51,079
Speaker 4: Sharon is behind bars, and she'll be there until her

1047
01:02:51,119 --> 01:02:56,280
son turns eighteen. But for now, one legal problem remains

1048
01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:58,199
that Baron is still trying to fight.

1049
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:02,719
Speaker 1: Technically, Sharon still has custody. I wanted to go to

1050
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:06,360
trial and get custody, but she was in county for

1051
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,000
three years, and during that time they wouldn't allow me

1052
01:03:09,079 --> 01:03:12,079
to move forward with the family court case, saying that

1053
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:15,079
she had a right to be there and that I

1054
01:03:15,119 --> 01:03:17,960
couldn't move forward. So this whole time, I've been waiting

1055
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:21,079
to get custody, and because it took so long, they

1056
01:03:21,119 --> 01:03:25,000
closed the case and I had to petition to reopen

1057
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,000
the family court case so I can still fight for custody.

1058
01:03:28,039 --> 01:03:29,239
I still don't have custody.

1059
01:03:30,199 --> 01:03:35,079
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable, But barn is still fighting for custody, for control,

1060
01:03:35,159 --> 01:03:41,039
for peace. Sharon is behind bars for literal murder, but

1061
01:03:41,079 --> 01:03:45,599
not forever. One day she'll walk free, and as co parents,

1062
01:03:45,639 --> 01:03:51,360
their paths will cross again. Can you imagine they share

1063
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:55,400
a child? Not just any child, but Eric, a nonverbal,

1064
01:03:55,679 --> 01:03:59,800
vulnerable boy, will need care for the rest of his life.

1065
01:04:00,159 --> 01:04:02,400
Will he ever say he wants to see his mother?

1066
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:07,840
Will she even care now that the money's gone? Sharon

1067
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:14,119
Kelly was evil, not misguided, just plain evil, munch housing

1068
01:04:14,239 --> 01:04:19,639
by proxy, delusions of grandeur, abusing a medically fragile child.

1069
01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:24,639
She was dangerous and calculated, and for years she had

1070
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:28,960
Eric all to herself. Baron still lies awake, wondering what

1071
01:04:29,159 --> 01:04:32,679
she did during that time, the early years shape a

1072
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:36,400
child forever, and if she left him in filth when

1073
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:39,159
they were married, through him on the police station floor

1074
01:04:39,199 --> 01:04:42,840
in front of strangers, then what actually happened behind closed

1075
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:46,519
doors when she was alone, when she could get away

1076
01:04:46,559 --> 01:04:52,000
with anything. But Baron can't live in those shadows, not anymore.

1077
01:04:53,039 --> 01:04:56,159
This isn't just about Sharon's twisted plan to kill Baron.

1078
01:04:57,119 --> 01:05:00,679
It's about the man who survived it to be a father.

1079
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:05,400
That should have been the end of it, but it wasn't.

1080
01:05:06,159 --> 01:05:09,639
It was the start of something bigger, a second chance

1081
01:05:09,719 --> 01:05:13,760
for Baron. Now he's on the advisory board of a

1082
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:19,440
nonprofit organization for foster children called Root twenty one, and

1083
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:23,480
he's fighting to change the system, pushing laws to protect

1084
01:05:23,559 --> 01:05:27,199
fathers and family court, including one bill in the House

1085
01:05:27,239 --> 01:05:30,880
and another in the Senate. And at home with his

1086
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:34,320
wife died and his kids, he's building the life Sharon

1087
01:05:34,519 --> 01:05:38,800
tried to destroy. Baron didn't just survive by luck. He

1088
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:45,039
survived for a reason. For Eric. Everything he does is

1089
01:05:45,079 --> 01:05:49,920
for his son. What a great dad. The shooting didn't

1090
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:54,840
ruin him, It revealed the truth. Sharon is a threat,

1091
01:05:55,239 --> 01:05:58,719
and in twenty thirty six, she'll be out, free to Rome,

1092
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:03,800
free to plot. Baron knows she's not done after thirteen

1093
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:08,719
years in a cell to stew on vengeance. So maybe

1094
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:12,320
he'll move to another state, to another country, whatever it takes,

1095
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:17,119
because in thirteen years he'll need to disappear before she

1096
01:06:17,239 --> 01:06:24,000
finds him again and does even worse. Who knows what

1097
01:06:24,199 --> 01:06:26,639
that bitch is capable of.

1098
01:07:05,719 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 7: Well.

1099
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:09,239
Speaker 16: That episode was produced by Mish Barber way, one of

1100
01:07:09,239 --> 01:07:13,239
our one of our long time producers. We've had producers

1101
01:07:13,239 --> 01:07:16,119
here for I don't know what, six, seven, eight years now,

1102
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,480
so try to keep track of how long they put around.

1103
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:22,719
Speaker 4: She's very talented. Though very talented lady always puts that

1104
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:28,159
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1105
01:07:28,599 --> 01:07:34,000
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1106
01:07:34,559 --> 01:07:36,920
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1107
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,440
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1108
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1109
01:08:00,079 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 11: Its s