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An online dispute turns into a physical fight that ends with a mother losing her life; as Det. Fyfe unravels names of possible suspects, he zeroes in on a gang that has been terrorising the city.
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00:00Being a homicide detective in New Orleans, you're given, like, some leeway, you know,
00:21you get some time to take off, be with your kids, your family, or whatnot, and just have fun.
00:25But, if you're up for the next homicide, or that call can come out at any time, when it happens, you have to get ready.
00:55I'm just saying I'm putting in this call now.
00:59Hey, let's piss something off!
01:01I just got my child in front of me!
01:03That's .
01:05I need you to get rid of the house!
01:07Get rid of the house!
01:08Get rid of the house!
01:09Get rid of the house!
01:10Get rid of the house!
01:11Get rid of the house!
01:12They're all saying he's in the house.
01:14That's not...
01:15I need y'all to move over that way, y'all.
01:17Move somebody to fuck the house!
01:19Move away from the house!
01:20If he's got a gun in there, he's gonna fuck you!
01:22He's gonna shoot me the first time!
01:23Move away from in front of the house, y'all!
01:26We don't know what's going on!
01:30Somebody go to the back!
01:32Cause we don't know if he's still in there.
01:33He could've went right out the back after he shot the kid.
01:36I need everybody to stay here.
01:38Hey!
01:39Hey!
01:40No!
01:41No!
01:42No!
01:43No!
01:44Stop!
01:45Stop, bitch!
01:46Y'all up here!
01:47I'm gonna deal with this bitch!
01:49We got him!
01:50The light came on in the house!
01:52I need everyone to get back.
01:54Yeah, the back light came on.
01:57I'm gonna sneak back over here to watch the rear.
02:00I'm working my way there.
02:02Hold on.
02:03This is my mother's house!
02:04That bitch did that attention!
02:06That's cruel!
02:08You's a animal, you bitch!
02:11What are you doing?
02:12All windows in the rear are off the stairs.
02:13Don't do something stupid!
02:14What are you doing?
02:15Stop!
02:16Stop!
02:17Don't grab me, right?
02:18If you pour that on me, we're gonna have a problem!
02:20I ain't talking about you!
02:21I ain't talking about you!
02:22I ain't talking about you!
02:23I ain't talking about you!
02:24Grandma, I don't like that though, bro!
02:25Then stop!
02:26Hands up!
02:27But he's not about to go do something stupid!
02:28I'm not about to do it!
02:29Don't ask you what the I'm about to do, yo!
02:30There's no people!
02:32The gas!
02:33Come on!
02:36My baby gone, huh?
02:38I'm not about to do something!
02:39There's a 30S homicide in the 7th district.
02:56Female victim, body still unseen.
03:00I don't know much.
03:03I think initial reports from the responding officers is that
03:07maybe it involves an altercation with a neighbor or a known subject.
03:13Talk to Maurice. He knows he's up next.
03:16He was sleeping.
03:18Everyone else that's working tonight is on their way.
03:23All right.
03:25Game time.
03:33I get a phone call as I'm sleeping from Detective Joe Herman.
03:41And he tells me that, all right, you're up.
03:45There's been a homicide on Bad Street.
03:47And you have the body on scene.
03:49And he said he thinks a neighbor did it.
03:51Good, buddy.
03:52Doing all right?
03:53Yes, sir.
03:53Good.
03:54Captain lives there.
03:55Uh-huh.
03:55Apparently, his dogs, he got some pit bulls or something like that attacked her sister's cabin.
04:00Okay.
04:01You go to talk to him, they got into an argument.
04:03A guy goes inside.
04:05Mm-hmm.
04:05The residence comes back out with a pistol.
04:08Shot again right there and shot again in the back.
04:11Damn.
04:12If he ran this way, he took off in the woods over that way.
04:15Okay.
04:15Don't know if he went back in the house or doubled back or not.
04:18Damn.
04:18So the house where he might be at, we don't have no hotel on the house.
04:23Nobody out there saying that they live in that house.
04:26No family members or friends or that.
04:28No, to him.
04:28That can come out.
04:29They can confirm.
04:30They saying that when the dogs attack the cat, she came and talked to him about it.
04:35Right.
04:35And then they got into it.
04:37We couldn't set up a remedy at times.
04:39It was so chaotic.
04:40We had to push them off the crime scene.
04:42Then the comes over with a gasoline can.
04:44Like, he about to find some down a little bit.
04:46Damn.
04:47And he obviously just tried to do a knock and talk to see if anybody answered them.
04:51I don't know.
04:52We don't know what you think about it.
04:56Well, it's going to be a SWAT roll.
04:58And we had one like that.
05:00The dude was on 95G.
05:01Shot at one of our cops when they knocked on the door.
05:03Yeah.
05:03Right.
05:04Yeah.
05:04This was last week.
05:06This was a few days ago.
05:07Yeah.
05:07This is going to be a minute, right?
05:08Yeah.
05:11Tell all of them if this is going to be a SWAT roll.
05:14Tell all of them to pull out.
05:15I'm surprised this is happening right now.
05:19This is not the average crime scene.
05:20It just keeps evolving.
05:23The unsafe is the unknown about where he is.
05:27There was an incident where an officer was shot at while knocking on the door.
05:30I mean, if he's still in, he could fire shots at officers or anybody that walks in front of that house.
05:36I am worried about everyone else who's out on the scene, including all the civilians and everyone who's looking.
05:42I mean, it's extremely important to follow every safety protocol that we have in place so everyone can go home at night.
05:49Tanisha, you got the decedent's information?
05:52Yeah, her name is Sha'i.
05:53That's A-D-A.
05:54John.
05:55Mm-hmm.
05:57Perpetrator is a black male, light complexion, with a George Jefferson hairstyle, the bald spot at the top.
06:05Medium build.
06:07We're in a white T-shirt and can't get me.
06:09My T-shirt, khaki pants.
06:14Who's the witness right here?
06:15She saw it happen?
06:16Okay.
06:17What's her name?
06:19Miss Jones.
06:20Miss Jones.
06:22The mom was actually with the decedent when this happened.
06:26Hey, Miss Jones, I know this is extremely chaotic and I'm really sorry about this, but my name is Detective Maurice Stored.
06:32I'm going to be the lead detective.
06:33So right now, we still don't know if he maybe doubled back and went through a back door or something and re-enter this house.
06:38So we're going to stand by until we can get SWAT out here and enter the house.
06:42They got dogs in them.
06:43Yeah.
06:44Yeah, we're aware.
06:45But that's what it was behind.
06:46Right.
06:47Dogs.
06:47That's what I'm hearing.
06:48They come here messing with my cats.
06:50My cats live in the yard, but they got to come out and they'd like to sit right here.
06:53Right.
06:54Any experiences with him before or this was just the first time?
06:57No, I was telling him about the dogs and I used to tell him, you can't just let your dog be off a leech.
07:02So he was good.
07:04Everything was good.
07:05Mm-hmm.
07:06Then they started fooling with the cats and I started telling them about it.
07:09Yeah.
07:09I said, next time, I'm going to call the police on you.
07:12Mm-hmm.
07:12Oh, well, call the police.
07:13Call the police.
07:14I ain't saying that.
07:14I don't even know back in my house.
07:15Mm-hmm.
07:16The dogs come barking under my window at 7 o'clock in the morning.
07:19Mm-hmm.
07:19And I called this before they came out yesterday.
07:22Mm-hmm.
07:22Said they put a notice.
07:23I learned that the decedent's mom called the SPCA armed neighbor about his dog.
07:29And SPCA came out and he didn't answer, so they put a door tag on his door.
07:34So I said, you're supposed to have them on the leech.
07:36Right.
07:37And my daughter said, yeah, now your dogs come around there and attack my daughter cat, my sister cat.
07:42Mm-hmm.
07:43And he's going to say, bitch, don't come telling me about no f***ing cats and this and that.
07:47Mm-hmm.
07:47And my daughter cursed him back.
07:49Mm-hmm.
07:50He said, what bitch would you threaten me?
07:53I said, no, wait a minute.
07:55She's not threatening you.
07:56Mm-hmm.
07:57She's just telling you, you're supposed to keep your dogs on a dog on leech.
08:00Mm-hmm.
08:01So he went inside.
08:02I seen him come out.
08:04And all of a sudden, I just see the gun come up.
08:07And he shot the first time.
08:10Then after that, he just got close up on her and put a close stop back her head and shot in the head.
08:14And she just dropped.
08:19That's terrible.
08:21He didn't run inside.
08:22He walked inside.
08:23Wow.
08:24Wow.
08:24He walked inside.
08:25He didn't run.
08:26Mm-hmm.
08:28I couldn't imagine, as a parent, myself seeing anything like that with one of my kids.
08:34This incident was extremely senseless.
08:37Mrs. Jones knew that she had something to do to help us out with the case.
08:41So she was able to remain calm and just provide a really good statement.
08:46How long has he been living there?
08:48Do you know?
08:48About a year.
08:49How long have y'all been here?
08:51Been about six years.
08:52In that block, it was pretty tight-knit.
08:56We had the decedent's family who lived there.
08:58She has an aunt that lived there.
08:59She had a sister who lived right around the corner.
09:01Her mom lived there.
09:02But no one knew who this guy was.
09:05And no one on the block knows what his name is.
09:07Y'all work for you now, all right?
09:09I'm sorry all this happened.
09:10Like, that was a coward move, bro.
09:12Straight up crazy.
09:17No.
09:18She just said, so she's been living here for like six years.
09:20They've been living there for like, she said he's been living there for like a year.
09:23When we're doing a raid with SOD, we take a lot of precautions.
09:31All right, they got the shield.
09:33Come on, let's go.
09:34They do try and knock and announce themselves just in case they have to break a door down
09:42or anything like that.
09:43You never know what's behind that door.
09:45Everyone is angry.
10:07We have pissed off family members and loved ones.
10:10I think his mindset is that he wants to get inside the house to find a perpetrator as well.
10:13Are you serious right now?
10:16But he turned around and went back under the tape.
10:20I understand why tensions are high, but I still have a job to do.
10:23And I still have to maintain order.
10:34Come on, with your hands up.
10:43I thought that boy was going to be back now.
10:51When we go inside, the house is in disarray.
10:57I walk into the first room, and I can see there's a closed door.
11:06I open that door, and I see the dogs that may have caused everything.
11:11They're kind of aggressive looking.
11:12The only thing I decided to do, just keep that door closed while we process the house.
11:19In the house, we find a firearm, and we find some live rounds of ammunition from various
11:27caliber of weapons.
11:29When searching the house, I didn't find any photos of the occupants, so I didn't have
11:33anything to show Ms. Jones to see if she knew who the shooter was.
11:36But I do start finding a lot of mail that belongs to people that may live in the house.
11:42At this point, we don't know who the shooter was, because we had several pieces of mail
11:46that had different names.
11:47So we're just trying to collect anything that has the name of a mail.
11:52Maybe we can compare it and see who these people are.
11:59Once we're done with this crime scene, I still need to search the room where the dogs are.
12:04We call SPCA, SPCA, come back out, and then with the 7th District, just clear, make sure
12:09nobody else's in there, and maybe try to go in this one room right here and search it later.
12:15We can do that.
12:16I'm not comfortable.
12:17Yeah, that's a big-ass dog, too.
12:19I saw it.
12:20I think that's the main room I need to get in.
12:24Might have, like, ID or something, like, you know, something that IDs him.
12:30As of now, we don't have a video of the incident.
12:33All we have is a witness statement and a decedent.
12:40Where is it at?
12:41Like, on the...
12:42And right here?
12:44So it maybe went in and out, maybe through.
12:47I couldn't imagine you being a man, and you point a gun to the back of a woman's head,
12:52and she goes to walk away and ends up getting shot in front of her loved ones.
12:56This person is possibly unhinged.
13:00You don't know what he's going to do.
13:02He could be extremely unpredictable and dangerous.
13:07And we need to find him.
13:08Last night, we got a call of a female that was shot in the 7800 block of Bass Street,
13:36and she was laying right in front of the perpetrator's house.
13:40The suspect wasn't inside, but he did have, like, some vicious dog in one of the rooms
13:45that we were unable to search.
13:47So now I need to type up another search warrant.
13:50I need to go back out there.
13:52Because the suspect is still at large, my decedent's family,
13:56she has a sister that lives on the block, and her mom lives on the block in different homes.
14:03The mom and the family doesn't know him.
14:05They never knew his name or anything.
14:07He had only been living there for, like, one year.
14:09She just only knew him by face.
14:11But she did give a description of him.
14:13She told me that he had a receding hairline, kind of like George Jefferson.
14:23Detective Stewart.
14:23Hey, who you, Mr. Stewart?
14:25Yeah, how you doing, Ms. Jones?
14:27We can find this picture on Facebook.
14:29The shooter?
14:30The boy.
14:31His name is Brandon Jones.
14:34Information like that would help break a case, you know, so that's extremely important to me.
14:39So now I really want to get back to getting to the room where the dogs were,
14:42because that's probably his room.
14:44It's gone on 36.
14:45Okay.
14:46I'm going to try to send you this picture to your dog.
14:49Okay, perfect.
14:50All right.
14:51So just stay in touch.
14:53All right, I will.
14:58I was able to pull up this driver's license, and he definitely has, like, a receded hairline.
15:02She just sent me photos, and this is a few photos of them.
15:10I guess this is from social media, it looks like.
15:13And you can see it's the same guy in this photo.
15:16So I'm going to request a photographic lineup with a picture of Mr. Jones.
15:20And once that comes back from the state police, I'll get someone to do a double-blind lineup for me.
15:29We show what's called a double-blind photo lineup.
15:32We want to have an officer show that lineup who has no knowledge of the case, and he'll present that to the victim's mom.
15:38So that way, it doesn't seem like we coerced her anyway in making her pick someone out.
15:44The mom called me.
15:46She gave me the name and date of birth.
15:48Nice.
15:48Okay.
15:48So his name is Brandon Jones.
15:50Then she just sent me photos.
15:51How did you get on that?
15:52They went on his Facebook.
15:53I haven't asked yet.
15:55So now that she's confirmed that, I do have a picture and everything.
15:58I'm going to send off a photographic lineup for him.
16:01Do you think we should hit the house again now that I have this information?
16:04Do I?
16:05I think you should hit the house again, but I would wait for an arrest warrant.
16:09I mean, I don't know how long it's going to take for me to get that lineup.
16:11That's the only thing.
16:12We'll make a lieutenant and see if he can't rush it for his resources.
16:16Right.
16:16Okay.
16:16If he can rush it, you never know.
16:19Okay.
16:19I'll pause.
16:20All right.
16:21Cool.
16:21I'm going to go ahead and get that done then.
16:31Life and s*** come together.
16:34Got the lineup.
16:37You want me to fill all this stuff out for you?
16:39Absolutely not.
16:40Love it.
16:42Do I have to drive myself?
16:44Yes.
16:44Seven District Station.
16:45Let me finish this one piece of paper, and then I'll meet you out there.
16:49All right.
16:49I'll leave here in the next five seconds.
16:51Perfect.
17:04Hello?
17:05Hey, is this Ms. Jones?
17:06Yes.
17:07This is Detective Stewart with NOPD.
17:08Uh-huh.
17:09Hey, I want to show you a lineup.
17:11By any chance, could you meet me at the Seven District Station, Seven District Police Station?
17:15Oh, all right.
17:16Then I'll be on my way.
17:18Okay.
17:20Okay.
17:21Bye-bye.
17:22Bye-bye.
17:22Bye-bye.
17:23Bye-bye.
17:23So right now, we're going to run to the Seven District Station, where I'm going to meet
17:30the decedent's mom.
17:33Um, she's going to look at a photographic lineup.
17:37We were definitely on pins and needles.
17:39The decedent's mom can pick out the wrong suspect.
17:42I mean, that would be the worst case scenario, or they won't pick out anyone at all.
17:45How you doing?
17:51You know it's been a hell of a night for you.
17:54Yeah.
17:56Yeah.
17:57Hi, how you doing?
17:58Good.
17:58How y'all?
17:58This is Sergeant Hyatt.
17:59Nice to meet you.
18:00Hi.
18:01This is Ms. Jones, the decedent's mom.
18:03Okay.
18:04He's going to take it from here.
18:05Okay.
18:05Okay.
18:05Okay.
18:05Okay.
18:06Okay.
18:06Okay.
18:06Okay.
18:07Okay.
18:08Okay.
18:08Okay.
18:09Okay.
18:10Okay.
18:10Okay.
18:11Okay.
18:12Okay.
18:13Okay.
18:14Okay.
18:15If Ms. Jones doesn't pick Brandon Jones out as a perpetrator, then it hurts the chances
18:21of me getting an arrest warrant for him and getting him off the streets quicker.
18:28You ready, Ms. Cameron?
18:29Yes.
18:30All right.
18:30Here's number one.
18:32No.
18:33No?
18:34Yes, sir.
18:35I can't.
18:35Can you initial that for me just to say that you saw it?
18:44Number two.
18:44No.
18:46Just initial any warrant for me just to say that you saw it?
18:54Number three.
18:56Yes.
18:58Yes.
18:59Yes.
19:00Yes.
19:01I'll never forget him.
19:02I done talked to him face to face.
19:05Okay.
19:06What is it that you're identifying this person for?
19:09Shooting and killing my daughter in front of me.
19:14And just to be clear, we looked at one, two, four, five, and six.
19:32And you looked at all of those, and you've identified person number three as the person who shot your
19:37daughter, correct?
19:38Yes.
19:40Let me get the detective to make sure he doesn't have any other questions for you.
19:43Okay?
19:43Just sit tight.
19:44He's right here, and I'm in here.
19:45Yes.
19:46I was kind of worried at first, but things are coming together.
19:57Mrs. Jones picked Brandon Jones out of the photographic lineup.
20:00I'm confident with all the information that I have.
20:29A second-degree murder, Warren, is justified for Brandon Jones.
20:34Do you have any other questions for me?
20:36If you come up with anything, just feel free to call.
20:38I just pray y'all get it.
20:40We will.
20:40We was walking.
20:42Right.
20:42At that point, he showed up.
20:44Yeah.
20:44When we, I said, y'all, cut it out.
20:47After that, he got quiet, she got quiet.
20:51We start walking.
20:52I see him door inside, but I'm thinking he's gone in the state.
20:55Boy, I know he's going to come out with a gun and shot my child.
21:00I said, why is he shooting at my daughter?
21:03And she didn't flinch.
21:04She didn't turn her head.
21:06And I, I don't know if hit, maybe.
21:09I don't remember.
21:10But I believe I just saw two shots.
21:13Then that's when he, when he did that, he raised the gun to her head and shot it in the head.
21:18I appreciate you.
21:22God bless you.
21:26Done.
21:28Got his ass.
21:29So, um, she did pick him out in the, uh, lineup.
21:33And I do have enough for an arrest warrant now.
21:35So, all I'll do is have vows, start looking for him.
21:42It's hard knowing that an innocent person's life was taken over nothing.
21:48I still have a lot of work to do.
21:52Um, we still don't know where this guy is.
21:54Even though we have a possible suspect right now, I still have to prove it and get him in custody.
21:58I still have to prove it and get him in custody.
22:18I'm Karen.
22:23I was born and raised here in New Orleans.
22:27And, Shardae also was born and raised here.
22:32She had this smile that lit up the room, you know, and this funny little laugh.
22:37She loved to sew.
22:40She used to make little clothes at this little center on St. Claude.
22:45They didn't have fashion shows where she modeled some of her stuff she made.
22:52Yeah, she was passionate in sewing and making clothes.
22:56She didn't call me mama.
22:58She called me mommy.
22:59Uh, I missed that already, you know?
23:06I don't understand it.
23:11You're a dog and a cat.
23:13You could have walked away from that.
23:15But you go inside and come back outside with a gun.
23:18And it just didn't make no sense.
23:24I think I went in a shop or something because a gun was pulled right in front of my face.
23:29And I just stepped to the side, you know, and heard the shot.
23:34And I'm like, why are you shooting at my child?
23:36Why are you shooting at my daughter?
23:38And I'm standing there looking at all of this.
23:41Ain't nothing I could do.
23:43Nothing I could do.
23:45I just can't understand it because I could see if she was a bad person, but she wasn't.
23:55People used to say the bad ones still be here and the good ones are gone.
24:15Brandon Jones, he had some aggressive pit bulls.
24:19They were still in the house the night that the murder happened.
24:22He left them in the house, so we were unable to search this third bedroom.
24:27So now the dogs have been removed.
24:29The SPCA came out to get them.
24:32From what I'm hearing, like, we've had a few people who may have came back to this house maybe to get a few things out.
24:36I wish we could have searched it sooner, but the only thing I'm looking for is just more identifiable property,
24:42like maybe some mail ID, prescription bottles, or something like that with Brandon Jones' name on it.
24:50Even though Mrs. Jones is saying that Brandon Jones lives there, I still have to prove that it's true.
24:55The victim's family has been giving me a lot of info.
24:57They all live in that same block.
24:59Officer Bakula is already here on scene.
25:04I guess he took the interstate.
25:12Sabroski?
25:13Oh yeah, it's wide open.
25:16That's my decedent's family right there, so I'm going to go down there and holler at them.
25:22Hey, Ms. Jones, how you doing?
25:24Good.
25:25A dude and a girl went in the house,
25:28and they come out with a little drawstring bag.
25:31It looked like it might have had papers and stuff in it.
25:33All right.
25:34And then they backed up, and they went around this car.
25:38A car came down here with all tended windows driving real slow,
25:42and so the car turned around and came back, and we all went to backing up.
25:47But you never know, because we don't feel safe with him.
25:51Right, you never know, yeah.
25:52Right now, I'm on a clock with finding the suspect,
25:55and I'm also on a clock with the family, because the family wants me to find the suspect.
25:59I'm going to put everything I have into this case and find Brandon Jones.
26:03This is still so real, my baby, it's gone.
26:15Y'all ain't got no leaves, how to catch him yet now?
26:18No, I mean, we're going to catch him.
26:20We got to, we good, we good.
26:22Oh, no, I understand.
26:24Listen, I understand, because it's your...
26:25We don't know when he can...
26:27Right.
26:27You don't know what he's thinking.
26:29Sade Jones' family wants me to put surveillance on the house
26:32because they're afraid that Brandon Jones will return to the residence.
26:36But I don't think that he will return because her family lives so close.
26:41I think that he will probably send someone else there to get belongings for him.
26:46So, look, so right now, I'm just waiting on our crime letter to get here.
26:48We're going to do some follow-up investigation work,
26:50and then what I'm doing is going on the other street
26:52to check for any cameras or anything that caught him, all right?
26:54Yeah, that'll be great.
26:55Yeah.
26:55We appreciate y'all.
26:56All right, thank y'all.
26:57Hey, y'all.
27:00Thanks for coming on the cold, too.
27:02I appreciate it, y'all.
27:02I had the lights and sirens.
27:04Yeah?
27:05Yeah, y'all did have the lights on, though, y'all.
27:07You see, they're still on.
27:08I said, Danny, I said, I feel special.
27:12Ready to go in?
27:13Let's do it.
27:17Rawlings Police.
27:20We go into the house.
27:22I immediately start finding mail with Brandon Jones' name on it and that address.
27:27Even found some mail from the IRS, which was perfect.
27:31I need something that I can use in court,
27:32and a letter from the IRS with Brandon Jones' name and address on it is pretty significant.
27:37I mean, it gets no more official than that.
27:39And there was an SPCA door tag.
27:43It corroborates everything that Ms. Jones told me about the incident.
27:50Thank you, ladies.
27:52The only thing I needed to do was just tie him to this residence.
27:54That's more than enough stuff that I have with the address on there.
27:56So, um, I'm good.
28:00After collecting all this evidence and being able to tie Brandon Jones to the house,
28:04I decided to just go canvas the neighborhood.
28:07I wanted to see if I could get anything, any type of surveillance that would show the incident.
28:12Well, I'm going to go walk and do walk around the corner,
28:14because supposedly the perpetrator ran, hopped the fence.
28:17Yeah.
28:17So I'm going to just ride around the block and go to, um, just some houses on this area.
28:23All right, appreciate it, bro.
28:24Yeah.
28:24We'll be going in a little bit.
28:26Let's do it.
28:26So we'll see what we can get from this block.
28:37Dude, I used to shoot ball right here all the time.
28:49So there was a girl and a guy in your case that were arguing?
28:51Yeah, he just popped her, bro.
28:55Crazy.
28:55There's a camera right here.
29:01Hey, how you doing?
29:02I'm sorry to bang on your door like this this morning.
29:04I'm investigating the homicide that happened.
29:06That's why I'm here.
29:07Okay.
29:07And I just wanted to see if you have any video on your ring that caught anything over here
29:12during that night.
29:13So my ring wasn't working?
29:14It wasn't working?
29:15Yeah.
29:16We've been out there for hours now.
29:20It's definitely frustrating that we were unable to find footage from the area of the crime scene.
29:26No one had a working camera in the neighborhood.
29:29See, I think there's a...
29:30See that RTCC camera right there on the pole?
29:32Oh, yeah.
29:33That's that one.
29:33And I think that's the only one they have around here.
29:35Hopefully you ran underneath it.
29:37I'm going to go to RTCC and check those cameras because I do have a pretty tight time frame.
29:41And just see if I catch a mint walking around anywhere that night.
29:45That'd be cool.
29:45Yeah.
29:46Appreciate it, bro.
29:46Yeah.
29:47Thanks, man.
29:47I'll hit you up if I need you.
29:49We'll catch you on the next one, too.
29:50All right.
29:51Perfect.
30:02What's up, fellas?
30:04Bro, you look tired.
30:06You look tired, bro.
30:07Yeah, I wasn't expecting to wake up.
30:09We got a new park to go play.
30:12Say, brother, but look.
30:13No.
30:14We got a new park to go play ball at.
30:15It's in Littlewood.
30:16I'm not doing that.
30:17Why?
30:18I used to play that all the time.
30:19No, you didn't.
30:20Yes, I did.
30:21That was a choice.
30:23Yeah, it was.
30:23A bad one.
30:24No.
30:25I'm still here.
30:25No hoop is hoop at that point.
30:27You play with some dope dealers and get to know people, though.
30:29It's community policing.
30:30You play with dudes wearing Timbs and Jabot Jeans.
30:33Right.
30:35Absolutely.
30:36You got to stay and play with them, too.
30:38I'm out, man.
30:40I do talk a lot of to Walter and to Nick Davis.
30:43They're pretty much used to it.
30:44Those are my little brothers, and I treat them like that.
30:47Lucky bastard.
30:49Hey, man.
30:50Nick Davis has a basketball trophy on his desk that I always take and put it on my desk,
30:54and I'll make him walk all the way to the other side of the office to get it.
30:57So I think he's on my desk right now, as a matter of fact.
31:01Yeah.
31:01I just went back to the house.
31:06It was Brandon, a dude named Brandon Jones.
31:09He was, um, I just went back to the house and served a search warrant on the room with the
31:13dogs, um, because I just wanted to tie him to the house.
31:16How you got the name?
31:17That name was in there the first night?
31:19It was, yeah, it was in there the first night, and I went back in that room where the dog
31:22was, there was tons of in there for him, like his, with his name and the address, like letters
31:27from IRS, you know, just a bunch of identifiable property in there.
31:31I had crime lab come out and take pictures of everything.
31:33Okay, you got a warrant on yours yet?
31:35Mm-hmm.
31:36Yeah, I got an arrest warrant.
31:37Um, I'm just pretty much checking boxes, um, at this point.
31:40I'm trying to, um, no, he's still, he's still out.
31:44And now I'm just trying to, like, get footage, see if I can see him running from that location
31:47or something.
31:50If they would have kept the camera that way, probably would have caught the dude running
31:53out the alley, but they turned it.
31:56Where the RTCC cameras are located, it was just hard just to find anything.
32:00Normally, we'll find stuff like that.
32:02It's like Brandon Jones disappeared right after the homicide.
32:24What up?
32:25What's up, buddy?
32:26What's up, T?
32:27What up?
32:28Charlie, what the hell are you doing here so early?
32:30Oh, he's got more work to do.
32:33I need to look up Brandon Jones, because I really don't know much on him.
32:37I'm trying to find, like, an address or something to see where he's from, at least.
32:41Okay.
32:42I found addresses of some associates in the Lower Nine.
32:54Hold on.
32:54Let me write these down.
32:56You know he's about to go to the Lower Nine.
32:58Let's get after it.
33:00All right, bro.
33:00That's a shot in the dark, but see if he's over there.
33:03I mean, it would make sense for him to still be in the city somewhere.
33:05I have to go look for him at these addresses.
33:10I just can't sit around and do nothing.
33:13These addresses in the Lower Nine water is a good start.
33:23Brandon, he's a skinny, light-skinned dude, late 30s.
33:27Curly hair, but like a receding hairline.
33:28Okay.
33:31Maybe walk to the corner store to get some breakfast.
33:34It's possible.
33:35If he's not smart enough to leave, he's definitely dumb enough to go to the corner store.
33:41We have a lot of people who commit crimes, but they don't have a safe haven, don't have nowhere to hide, and they'll just, like, still be outside.
33:47Man, I remember when this area was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, and they built these houses that are, like, up off the ground after the storm.
33:58I remember before the storm, we would come to parties out here in the Lower Nine, man.
34:02They would be jumping.
34:04Even before Hurricane Katrina, I used to play basketball until, like, 3 in the morning.
34:08We would go to different neighborhoods and play basketball, too.
34:11I mean, you can't do that now.
34:12And be fine.
34:13Yeah.
34:14Now you don't know what will happen.
34:17With all the changes that the city has been through since Hurricane Katrina, I just want to be a part of helping and keeping the city safe.
34:27No one.
34:29Nope.
34:30Nothing?
34:31Nothing, man.
34:34Maybe he made it out of the city.
34:37At this point, I need to just find Brandon Jones.
34:47Man, the weather's looking real bad.
35:00I don't know if they're going to be able to do this balloon release, but, uh, I don't know.
35:04Maybe.
35:05It's got to be down to a tropical storm now.
35:07New Orleans is weird, brother.
35:09So, you never know.
35:10It'll be storming, raining, and the next thing you know, the sun is out.
35:14Right now, with this case, I mean, we're just going to a balloon release at my decedent's home.
35:20It's cool.
35:20I mean, you know, get to show some support for the family and kind of, like, meet with him again and talk to him.
35:27The mom is stressed out a little bit, you know, when I talk to her.
35:30She's going through it, of course.
35:31She was there when it happened, so.
35:33Did she witness it, didn't she?
35:34Yeah, to see that go down like that, it's messed up.
35:38I was on the phone with Viles earlier, and they're getting some phone records and stuff like that so they can kind of track him down and find out where he is.
35:45Hopefully, they can get him sooner than later.
35:49Hopefully.
35:50Yeah.
35:50So, that would be some more good news for the family.
36:03New Orleans is the type of city that will celebrate everything.
36:20They'll celebrate life.
36:21They'll celebrate death.
36:23And today, we're celebrating the life of Sade Jones.
36:26I can feel there's a lot of love on the streets tonight for Sade.
36:29All I can say is, I will never forget my little sister.
36:33I will forever keep her memory in my heart.
36:35And I pray to God for justice.
36:37Because guess what?
36:37She didn't deserve to go like that.
36:39Know what I'm saying?
36:40And it's not right.
36:41It's never going to be right.
36:43She didn't have kids.
36:44She didn't get a chance to give back to us.
36:48Something so precious, so senseless, took over nothing.
36:52I love my sister, and I will never forget her.
36:54I know Almighty God can heal all her.
36:58And I know in time, He will.
37:00But right now, I'm angry.
37:02I miss her so much.
37:03Do I wish she was healed?
37:05Yeah.
37:05But then I know she's in a better place.
37:07In the name of Jesus Christ.
37:09In the name of Jesus Christ.
37:09Amen.
37:10And we're going to keep praying for the family.
37:12Amen.
37:12Yes.
37:14So, on the count of three, y'all, we're going to say her name and express your love and let the balloons go.
37:20One, two, three.
37:26Call her name.
37:27Chardee!
37:29Chardee!
37:31May she rest in peace.
37:37Look at her though.
37:39Look at her though.
37:41Look at her though.
37:48How you doing?
37:49We still trying to deal with it.
37:51Yeah.
37:51I know it's hard.
37:52It's hard.
37:53I just pray to get this food off the street.
37:56It'll make me sleep so much better.
37:58Yeah.
37:58As soon as we catch them, y'all going to be the first to know.
38:00Really?
38:10Mm-hmm.
38:10Really?
38:24Mm-hmm.
38:26Can I send you verbose for a search warrant?
38:27Because I need that room searched.
38:29All right.
38:30Perfect.
38:30Thanks, bro.
38:32Wow.
38:33Who's that?
38:34Bro, this dude is way in Elkhart, Indiana.
38:38Have you ever heard of that?
38:39Where's that?
38:40Indiana, bro.
38:42Oh, look, here it is.
38:43City of Elkhart.
38:45City with a heart.
38:47I got a phone call this morning saying that we located Brandon Jones in a hotel room.
38:51At this point, I don't think he knows anything.
38:53I don't think he knows that they've tracked him to that hotel.
38:56The marshals are going to hit the hotel room in a little bit, and I'm about to type up
39:00verbose for a search warrant to send it to them so they can search that room for a gun
39:04or ammunition.
39:05Something just tying that back to the crime scene, that would be great.
39:08I'm excited to get Brandon Jones off the street.
39:12I'm just hoping that they can safely get him in custody and nothing else happen.
39:16Yo, what's up?
39:35Hey, man, they got him in a room.
39:37Uh-huh.
39:38They searched the room.
39:39They didn't even need a warrant, but they didn't find nothing in there.
39:42Okay.
39:42So they got him in custody?
39:44Yeah.
39:45All right.
39:45Perfect, bro.
39:46I appreciate that.
39:47No problem, man.
39:48It's time.
39:49All right.
39:49Thanks.
39:50All right.
39:51Bye.
39:51God, I got his ass.
39:54That's awesome, man.
39:54That is crazy.
39:55I wish they could have found that damn gun, though.
39:59Yeah, that would have sealed the case up a little bit.
40:03Last night, I did get approached by several family members at the visual who were just mad
40:08that we didn't have him in custody yet, and they were asking why we didn't release his picture
40:12through the media and stuff like that.
40:14But that's not stuff that we really like to do.
40:16We like to do it kind of like this, where no one really sees him on the news,
40:21no civilians trying to apprehend him or approaching him if they do see him on the news.
40:26We like to get him as safely as possible, and I think this is the safest way to do it.
40:30You going to call mom?
40:31Dude, I have to.
40:31I told her that she would be the first person I called.
40:34You did last night.
40:35So, yeah, I'm calling her now, actually.
40:38Hello, Officer Stewart.
40:44Hey, Ms. Jones.
40:44How you doing?
40:46I'm busy.
40:47Good.
40:47So, I'm just calling to let you know that we have him in custody.
40:52Oh, yes, yes, yes!
40:56Oh, yes, Lord, thank you.
41:01Where y'all got him at?
41:03Can't tell me that.
41:04No, I'll tell you.
41:05He was all the way in Elkhart, Indiana.
41:07Yeah.
41:08What?
41:09Yeah.
41:10Damn.
41:11So, like I told you last night, it's hard to run from a murder warrant.
41:15It doesn't matter where he go.
41:16You know, we were going to catch him, so.
41:18God bless you, Lord, and God bless y'all, too.
41:21I appreciate it.
41:22Thank you, Ms. Officer Stewart.
41:24You're welcome.
41:24You're welcome.
41:25All right, bye.
41:27Perfect, man.
41:27There we go.
41:30That felt good.
41:31Definitely excited.
41:33I'm just happy they got him.
41:34This is a very shocking case.
41:58You never know what's going to happen or what someone may do.
42:00At this time, I have not been able to speak with Brandon Jones or get a statement from
42:04him.
42:05He has an attorney, and he doesn't want to talk.
42:07Sometimes it is frustrating when the perpetrator decides that they don't want to talk, because
42:11you do want to know, like, what's going through their mind, what happened that provoked you
42:14to do what you did.
42:16Being that you don't want to talk, it's not going to hurt my case.
42:19I do have an eyewitness.
42:20But most importantly, I feel like Sade Jones will get justice for what was done to her.
42:35As police, we see people at their worst times.
42:38They don't call us because they're having a good day.
42:40I do feel like my background and where I'm from, that I am able to communicate with people,
42:47you know, and I can relate to them.
42:49I just want to do my part in helping this city.
42:52I'm confident that through my work that I can make New Orleans a better place.
42:57New Orleans is definitely my city, and I love my city a lot.
43:01I'm me.
43:02I love my city a lot.
43:04I love my city.
43:08I love my city.
43:09I love my city.
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