Sheriff's Office come out to the sound
of my voice with your hands up my mom
had a gun and
he what are you doing in my house I kind
have got it I don't know what happened
it's unknown where the male suspect is
he's possibly armed well he had a couple
knives and he said that I'll hit you or
I'll stab you and I made it halfway
heard a
gunshot should been
killed two Arizona college students
watch their worst fears come true when a
masked Intruder breaks into their home
in the middle of the night by the time
the cops arrive the suspect has vanished
leaving behind an arsenal of strange
weapons and the woman he senselessly
killed police must be ready for anything
but even they aren't prepared for the
shocking video the victims filmed only
moments before the shooting it's just
past midnight on October 3rd 2017 when a
young woman named Alexa from koncho
Arizona calls 911 to report a home
invasion in progress 911 we're here
mergency
hi I have in my house there and he's
still there he is still here he has uh
three knives of utility tool and a
hockey stiff came in and wanted our car
keys I persistently said no I never hit
him he did hit me where is he
now my mom has him at the front door the
call is bizarre and it only gets weirder
as Alexa cly describes the Intruder
who's apparently standing only a few
feet away has a mask on he is about
56
55 what does the mask look
like it's
black so like a black ski mask mhm even
as Alexa maintains her composure The
Sounds in the background indicate a
situation that could go off the rails at
any
[Applause]
moment okay
[Applause]
if the audio of this encounter sounds
Eerie it's nothing compared to the video
that was captured on a cell phone keep
doing
it get your get that off of there no I'm
not going to put what the are you doing
in my
house get out okay just don't shoot me
then get out get
out take that off no I can't take it
off it's my right to conceal my identity
this is my right for me this is your
house I understand I'm very sorry I came
in what the hell are you doing to my
house that's only a small part of the
video the disturbing second half will be
revealed as the police continue their
investigation in the meantime a neighbor
calls 911 to make sure that help is on
the way just stay where you're at
they're on their way they'll be there as
quick as they can got it better be fast
she's got her by knife Point yeah I know
she yeah and she got a gun oh she's got
a gun this is news to the dispatcher and
it instantly changes the dynamic of this
dangerous situation this has made
crystal clear as a dispatcher and an
operator from the sheriff's department
call back urging Alexa and her mother to
step away from the Intruder eventually
18 minutes since the initial 911 call
the operator calls back one more
time
Alexa Alexa this this is Melissa from
the county what's going
on my mom a gun
and and got it I don't know what
happened did he shoot your
mom I don't
know is anybody
injured I don't know we ran and across
the street at our neighbor's house and I
don't know what happened where's your
mom she she's in the house I don't know
if you guys got or
anything my house yeah your mom still is
the suspect still there I don't know I I
honestly have no idea I we heard a gun
shot when we were leaving the house and
she told us to run and so we ran over to
the across the
street deputies with the Apache County
Sheriff's Office arrive on the scene and
they must exercise the utmost caution
the property is nearly pitch black the
suspect's whereabouts are unknown and
it's only moments before they make a
disturbing Discovery got Open
Door Sheriff's
Office C 23 582 we got a female with a
head Moon
Sheriff's Office come out to the sound
of my voice with your hands
up it's unknown where the male suspect
is he's possibly armed start waking up
some more people and get some more units
out here start calling district one the
police will wait for backup before
breaching the house
but though that may be the cautious
Choice it doesn't guarantee their safety
the only thing I do not like them be
honest with you is we don't know if this
guy's back behind us that's um yes Ser
is is clear yeah that are is clear I
just we got a lot of brush back
here I want to get these we sure need to
get those people inside and lock the
door we have no idea where this guy's at
yeah I got you several new deputies
arrive on scene before trouble can
emerge from the darkness they enter the
house knowing that the armed suspect
could be
anywhere bathroom to the left
bathroom bathtub is
clear
toilet
there coming through
so house is
clear there's another house there are
two houses on this property this one
where 18-year-old Alexa and her roommate
Lissa Liv together and a larger one
where until tonight Alexa's mom Terry
Lyn Collins lived with her husband and
their 14-year-old son this this house is
part of this house property uh-huh
14-year-old boys over there the two
daughters that live here are over there
nobody knows she's
901 I would see El she took one right
between the eyes almost looks executions
F the suddenness with which this home
invasion turned deadly serious is
shocking and the peculiar assortment of
weapons Left Behind only adds to the
madness but it's something bizarre that
the 911 dispatcher said that the
officers now remember in Vivid detail we
don't know where the gun's at I see a
hole across the street over this little
house over
here because he kept uh saying I'm 19 I
got blue eyes I'm 19 I got blue eyes I
guess are the police looking for a
suspect that fits that description or
was this a ploy on his part to confuse
any Witnesses he left at the scene
hoping to get more information police
speak to the neighbor across the street
man we're working this right now I'm
sorry de you how old are the
kids okay and there's a 14 there by
himself yes her husband's on his way
he's at the airport right now and
airport no somebody's flying him up okay
we don't know where this guy is that's
what we don't want nobody else my
husband's with me okay okay if you could
just go back inside we'll we'll be over
and talk to everybody in just a little
bit the deputies do a brief search of
the her property but there remains no
sign of the suspect they come back to
Barbara's house to conduct an interview
with 18-year-old elex some ladies hang
up your
phones hang up your
phones this is this is the daughter can
I talk to you want to talk to you I
can't answer any questions right now I
need to answer ask you some questions
because we need the description of the
guy so we can start trying to locate
him okay
five six white hazel
eyes about 19 he said he was younger but
I'm not sure go into another room until
we're done because I don't want to I
want to get separate things what exactly
what exactly happened how did it start
well I was in bed okay and then which
bedroom is yours the one next to the
living room next to the couch okay can I
just ask if she's alive I can't answer
any question questions I need you to
answer mine
please she's not
no I'm
sorry I thought it was my brother who
came in and so like I see a figure walk
into my room because I wasn't asleep and
he kind of just left and then he was
threatening
Lissa and um I I knew I should have felt
911 but I didn't I got out of bed and
kind of just did the tough guy act and
told him to leave and when you
threatened L what did he say uh well he
had a couple knives and he said that
I'll hit you or I'll stab you and he's
like I don't want to but if this brings
me to it okay and he wanted our car
keys and I told him no several times and
I told him to leave Alexa texted her mom
who rushed to the trailer with a gun a
situation that soon spiraled out of
control troll what kind of gun did your
mom have it was a silver revolver six
bullet it had for it at the time I heard
one shot I don't know if there are three
left in it or if there were more shots
okay
so how did he end up how all the knives
and stuff end up on the table uh my mom
told him to drop them he put them on the
ground and I picked them up and I put
them on the are they still there yeah
they're still all everything all that's
still on the table so he put all that on
you put all that on the table ipped put
on the table and the hockey stick and a
wrench now there's a chair right by the
I put it there cuz my mom wanted him to
back off okay was he sitting in the
chair never he he stood there and then
so I was on the phone with I called you
guys and then like five minutes maybe
went by
and and then she had she always had her
gun pointed towards him and he went for
it and my mom started screaming
and she told us to run
so we ran over here
and then I heard a
gunot police are ready to take Alexa and
her roommate to the police station but
there's one more member of the family
they need to retrieve they haven't yet
cleared the big house and they're
acutely aware that the suspect could be
anywhere or anyone
you got that
[Music]
on they're behind you
Liam Liam my name is Deputy Dodge I'm in
the sheriff's office I need you to come
with me right
now come with me now grab a shirt put
some clothes on we'll explain more in a
minute I need you to come with me right
now
the witness statements don't implicate
14-year-old Liam but the deputy doesn't
let his guard down grab a shirt come
with
me should this yeah probably a little
warmer yeah this way where's my mom
we'll explain everything here in a
minute with Liam accounted for there's
only one member of the family left to
speak to police meet with Ernie Collins
Terry Lynn's husband who was on the
phone with her during the Breakin Ernie
was out of town and flew back in as soon
as he got off the phone with his wife
what you he I heard my wife
telling
someone that he needed to step the back
or she was going to shoot
him he was saying stupid like I just
needed a ride I was just trying to find
a ride and Terry ly was saying you were
trying to find a ride with a a damn ski
mask and knives on
you hey
name Terry Lynn's been killed
dude she been
[Music]
killed I know while at the station the
deputies continue to question and Lissa
looking for any clues that might get
them a step closer to finding Terry
lens's killer they asked him to leave
many many times he said no gave me a
stof story that he's been living out in
the woods for like five years and that
or four years and that he left his
parents house at the age of 15 and the
the knives were his
dads he's been living out he doesn't
have a home the
baress police can hardly comprehend an
intruder who would offer this much
detail about his life while still at the
scene of the crime but if they think
what they've heard so far is strange
Lissa gives them something that will add
a bizarre new layer to this unbelievable
story I have
video show me the
video the video taken of the suspect
that night is as peculiar as it is
harrowing Terry Lynn is seen holding the
intruder at gunpoint seemingly without
fear not knowing that these would be the
last few minutes of her life what the
hell are you doing to my house he wanted
to take our cars I just need you're
going to take their
cars at first I thought I would just
[ __ ] borrow the car and leave it in
Phoenix at a parking garage oh they
could get it I don't think so I know
they disagreed too they disagreed too so
they were saying that they would give me
a ride no no don't don't don't don't
call the cops please don't call the cops
okay you are not I'll go out the back
door no uhuh no no please just let me go
okay
no you pick the wrong house buddy boy
did you already dial yes I did okay you
dialed all right all right um You better
be thinking what you're going to do
telling these girls you've got a knife
in your side pocket excuse me I already
hit you were using voice do you were
using voice typ no I standing outside
listening to
you you know she lives next door right
next door yeah I
know come on put the phone away please
look I did not want any trouble I just
want to leave and I leave now no please
just let me leave tell me why you're
here I just wanted to ride that's it
tell me why you are here
the video ends on that uncertain note
but who could have foreseen that only
moments later the situation would turn
catastrophic guess he got a little
reckless and went for the gun when my
mom wasn't really very
aware they struggled my mom started
screaming and then told us to
run so her and I went back out the back
door no shoes
on and we made it halfway I heard a
gunshot
and I looked back and I saw a figure in
the window
moving I'm not sure who it was cuz I saw
a lot of white and he was wearing a ski
mask having listened to the statements
and watched the cell phone video the
deputy asks a reasonable question fair
to say you guys weren't really taking
this seriously at the
beginning I was trying to leave but I
didn't have any way of protecting myself
so I just told him to keep backing off
and backing off okay before finishing
the interview Alexa remembers one final
detail um he has a scar on his elbow
okay it's his right elbow
about 3 in or so maybe from a motorcycle
accident I don't know why he told me
this much about himself I really didn't
want him in my
house myun from my mom everyone Reg
regrets the way things turned out that
night none more so than Terry Lynn's
husband
Ernie I was I was yelling sh that mother
shoot him but Terry Lyn's husband thinks
he knows all too well why she didn't
pull the trigger did I tell the other
detective he was 56 I do not know um he
should be back if not I can relay that
too I don't even know how I know that
it's a short
sounded like a
kid shooting everyone may have an
opinion about Terry Lynn's decision but
now is not the time for it there is an
armed suspect on the loose police must
track him down before he strikes again a
bulletin from the Arizona Department of
Public Safety goes out to the public
identifying the suspect as 14-year-old
Joshua Cade Richardson and marks s to
the local media Ernie Collins says I
hope they catch this kid I hope he
resists because I don't want him to go
to prison and get released in 4 years
Richardson is taken into custody without
incident at the jail the 14-year-old's
mother is by his side as he's brought in
for a forensic interview because Joshua
Richardson is a minor at the time of
this interview the police department has
blurred his face for
privacy sleep
okay you have something to
eat okay are you full are you still
hungry okay you look like you need some
water you
look your whole family is
here okay we love you very
much okay we love you very much Joshua's
mom seems oblivious to the horrific
truth of what her son has done instead
she's far more concerned with limiting
the
consequences Joshua
um I understand that you probably don't
know that you have
right and I do not think it's within
your best interest to answer any
questions or talk about
things until you have an attorney
presence because those are your rights
okay his mom advises him to keep quiet
but Joshua seems to quickly forget this
recommendation after the police read him
his official rights do you agree to give
up these rights and talk with
us what so let me tell you real
quick let me talk for a second um this
is a forensic interview this is an
interrogation okay I'm not going to be
asking direct questions that's okay just
open he's going to talk about this with
an attorney present as his rights have
been okay um so the answer to that last
question I think we should re-review
that okay this time Joshua asserts his
right to speak to his attorney taking
the interview off the
table I'm
sorry this this happened okay the Apache
County Attorney's Office filed charges
against Joshua Cade Richardson for the
murder of 54-year-old Terry Lyn Collins
along with two counts of aggravated
assault against Alexa Collins and Lissa
Campbell in January 2021 Richardson was
sentenced to 12 years in prison with
credit for 1200 days already served