No, no, no, NO. >> Where's the sign? Looks like in the face. I have not moved her at this point. >> EMS. Get EMS. >> This is one of those horrifying cases where what you're seeing is far from what actually happened. A child lost her mother, father, and grandmother that day. All because of a misunderstanding that could have been resolved with a simple conversation. It all began when dispatch started receiving multiple calls from a Home Depot store about a fatal shooting. Nobody knew who the shooter was or why he did what he did, but officers were soon about to uncover something that would change the course of this story entirely. >> 17497. Multiple people outside confirmed his shooting down by the garden center. >> That's traffic for you. What was he wearing? >> Light white light faded blue shirt stripes down the side white male ran back toward Davis Highway. Go ahead. Is there any victims I need? >> I'm heading in. I got a victim on 52. 52 on 52. TRAFFIC. [bell] >> She's gone. >> 174. Confirm signal 7. >> There's multiple shells. >> Yep. We're just >> Yeah, cuz we're we got casings. Don't kick them, please. >> Don't touch. >> Is she a worker here? couple and then a couple here. >> If anybody's at the front door, talk to them. They seen a little bit. >> Everybody needs to get out. Everybody needs to get out. Everybody needs to get out. Everybody needs to get out of the store. Everybody needs to get out of the store. No, but Johnny starts that up one. So, it's confirmed he left the store. >> 134. >> Hey, Mike. >> Let's not pick any of them up. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Let's not even mark them. Let's >> I mean there may be shells up in the hole he was looking out of this. >> No, we're we're okay at that point. We're good. >> Yeah, confirm. >> Yeah, let's just >> if you want to go out that side, just be careful not to kick anything. Damn it. I didn't I heard one in there. I didn't hear anything. >> I didn't hear Home Depot. >> Oh, I heard Home Depot. >> Probably just >> or still in the parking lot running. >> Where did y'all see him go? >> I was in the back. >> I WAS IN THE LIGHTING area there. >> No. No. No. NO. >> Did you see Did you see where he went? I've been working. >> The woman you see on screen isn't who she claims to be. And when officers discover the dark truth she's been hiding, it's going to turn the case upside down. >> You have to stay out right now. You have to stay out right now. >> That's my truck right there. My truck. I just loaded up truck. I saw the guy run around the corner. He had on a blue jacket, black male, >> 25 to 30, 61, slim build. You have a Glock 19 in this man running and when I saw the Glock I'm start out across the park. >> So black male around in his 20 >> mostly blue with white stripes on the sweat jacket workout jacket. Zip up the front workout jacket. I think he got in a black Cadillac SRX. >> Hey, >> have we have we cleared the entire for yet? >> No, but let's uh let's get a manager. Yeah. Let's get everybody out. >> You got this. >> Yeah, I got this. >> Yep. >> Out. We're close. >> Okay. Very good. We're going to need that. Can you get Can you get on that right video? >> Can you get on that right away? >> Sir, we don't even know. We They told us that he left the store, but we don't know. So, we need to clear the entire store. Did you see a car or anything? >> We in here. Hold on. Hold on real quick. He must know. >> She's part of the inventory crew. So, I don't know if this one belongs to her or if there's another there's another one on the other end. So, I told everybody just leave it alone. at this point. >> Yeah. >> Um, if you want to meet the other end, Well, I mean, we're we closed the whole row off. So, we don't Yeah. >> At this point, let's let's hold off cuz there are >> I don't know if you need or not. >> No, there are several casings in here and then a live a uh just a ball round laying on here. So, >> yeah, please. What's that? >> She's got what? Bullet wound in her back. Okay. THE YOUNG LADY IT'S A GREAT IT'S A GREAT >> OKAY. WHAT AM I worried about? >> I don't have anything to put on. I'm just going to look at it. >> Um, what about his hair? What his hair look like? >> I'm Yeah, it was if I saw him, I can tell you who he was. I look right at him. I know you're following every morning. >> Well, do you all think he got picked up in a vehicle or not? Or do you think >> Yes. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Black Cadillac SRX. >> A black Cadillac SRX is what Witness is telling. >> This is the Cadillac SUV. I should have hit the car. I knew I should have hit the car. We're sure he's at seven. Yeah, she is. >> She is. Yeah. >> Where's she at? Looks like in the face. I have not moved her at this point. >> Did anybody see the guy leave? Just seen a white truck hauling ass out of here. >> Where are you? >> We don't know. That's what we're trying to figure out. >> Somebody's dead. >> Oh, right here by >> All right. So, what we're going to do, this is called a show up. Um, we're going to take you to where we think we might have a person and basically you just Oh, you okay? >> Okay. >> Um, basically I'm going to drive you past it. You're not getting out of the car. If you see the person that was the shooter, just tell me. Okay. >> Upon reviewing the surveillance footage, officers saw a man enter aisle number 52 and shoot the employee seven times. >> [music] >> He then ran outside and as witnesses told them, got into a car and fled the scene. But just to be sure, police went aisle to aisle looking for any additional victims or to check if the suspect was still hiding inside the store. They found two other victims of the shooting who had escaped with minor injuries. And to better understand what had happened, they planned to interview other employees who were in the same aisle when the shooting took place. That's when they uncovered a crucial connection between the shooter and the deceased. Just for my clarification, what do y'all do? Are y'all >> inventory? >> Inventory. >> Okay. >> Um the the young lady that got shot, was she? >> Okay. What about the the person that did it? >> We don't know. >> Is that Is that going to be a boyfriend or do we know? >> Okay. Cuz they got the car that you got the got into four different descriptions of the car. We got a Cadillac. We got a Chevy. But we don't know if any of these cars here were involved. So I guess >> did you hear? You just heard >> I heard I heard a whole like maybe five or six shots pop. All right. I was talking to a coworker. I was right behind the front counter and I was working underneath underneath. >> Go ahead with what you saw, man. >> So I heard a gunshot. I didn't hear a gunshot first. I heard him say he's like it's like he made a comment. You think I'm talking to you? You think I'm playing with you or something like that? >> Okay, pause real quick. So, so we have two gentlemen. They're in the aisle in the in the store. Correct. >> Yeah. >> And then one of them said something said >> it's a female from my point of view. It's a female and one of my coworkers. She count. >> Okay. >> I'm on aisle one. They're like on this way behind. I heard a voice that I don't recognize. I thought he was cussing. I heard him looking down there cuz she's bending down counting. He said, "You think I'm playing with you?" or something like that. Like he made comments. You think I'm playing with you or you think I'm unload. >> So the victim is an employee. >> Yes. One of our employees. The victim is one of our employees. Man, he's mystery man. Somebody knows her like I thought and she was the person I thought she was talking to her before she started. >> Did you Did you think Did you like in their conversation did it sound like they knew each other? No, it was happening so quick >> and it was just over something she said to him. >> I don't even think she said something like we talked to each other. So it's either like they got to know each other outside of work or he must thought she was talking to him or something like that cuz all I know when I turn around I heard him that maybe his voice was like you think I'm playing with you like in a threat tone and when I turned around all I see was just he shot like seven eight rounds and he ran out the phone. >> Okay. What is her name? >> That's why I was trying to get the female. Like if you know her personally, you had to bring her. >> Y >> the witness brought in the same woman we mentioned earlier to share with the officers whatever information she had about the victim. However, she also knew quite a lot about the shooter, something she wasn't planning to reveal at all, especially since she herself was one of the pieces in this game of chess she was playing. >> Can you confirm her name for me? >> Yes. Yes. I got to come over here. >> Okay. She probably name is >> I know I know this is hard but we are trying to find this guy. Okay. Okay. What is the victim's name? >> Brooklyn. >> Her name is Oh, okay. I thought that was your name. >> I'm sorry. >> Taylor. >> Yeah, that's Brooklyn. >> Brooklyn Taylor. >> My name is I'm sorry. >> Did you hear or see anything? >> No, I was in >> Okay. And so you >> I heard gunshots and I just >> And how far away were you from this? You must have been close cuz you heard him. >> You heard him say, "You think I'm playing with you?" And then next thing you know, like seven hunch. >> Do you know her well at all to know if she has >> I know. Does she have a baby daddy? >> Yeah, she My son is a baby daddy. >> Your son is her chunk. Have they been having issues? >> No. No. >> Okay. What's your son's name? >> Keith. >> Are they broken up? >> Oh, they hadn't been together in years. >> But they have children together. >> One baby. Okay. Can you see the lead? Okay, ma'am. We have to get everything secure now. Okay. I know you're in shock and I know that this is crazy, but we got to get everything secure. All right. Just if you can write everything you told me, okay, what you heard, what you saw, current address, and all that on here. Okay. Oh. Oh, EMS. Get EMS, somebody. EMS. >> Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Okay. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. NOW, SOMEONE GET SOMEBODY NOW. >> HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY. BREATHE. BREATHE. BREATHE. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. We're getting a mess, honey. Okay. Okay. Okay. Just relax. >> They're coming. They're coming. They're coming. >> All right. Do you have seizures? Does she have seizures? >> No. >> Okay. All right. All right. Sweet. >> She just fainted. >> Get her flat. >> Watch this curb over here. She had here last. >> Okay. Breathe. Breathe. Grab one of those. >> This is baby daddy. This is her son. an issue. >> All of this was part of a plan carefully staged by the woman. In truth, she played a much bigger role in Brooklyn's murder. Something the officers would soon uncover through the suspect's phone inbox. After shooting Brooklyn, the suspect fled in his silver car, abandoned it in a movie theater parking lot and disappeared into the nearby woods. But after some time alone, he called 911, confessed to everything, and turned himself in. During interrogation, he would go on to reveal the bizarre reason behind Brooklyn's killing. >> What's happened is happened. Okay. We can't go back now. All right. What we can try to do is Yeah. I'm going >> well help us. We want to understand. But before that, >> how about we start with just your name? I don't even know who I'm talking to. How can I understand if I don't even know who you are, >> right? I told you who I am. >> It doesn't matter. >> Yes, it does. >> It does, too. Cuz I don't want to be talking to no stranger. >> Nobody cares about me. [laughter] [snorts] Nobody go. >> How can nobody give? We can't We don't even know who who your family is to be able to tell anybody. Is it okay? >> I mean, do they live here? They live in Alabama. What What's the deal? [snorts] >> Okay. All right. Well, at least we know where you're from. Mom and daddy still alive. >> [snorts] >> I mean, here here's the thing. I know you say nobody cares about you, but people do. >> No, you don't. No, you don't. You don't understand. All I got is my baby. That's it. Don't nobody give a damn about me. Bad ass. [snorts] >> Somebody's got Somebody's got to reach out for that baby. >> Don't you want that? You want us to call your mom, your dad, or your grandma, auntie, somebody. >> They got they don't care about it. >> They care about that. But they going to get them. [snorts] They going to kill them. >> Is that who's on your your forearm? >> No. Who's that? >> I say numb. >> Is that how you feel? [snorts] >> For a little time. Is that car registered to you? The silver one? >> Is that a friend's car? >> Okay. What's your baby's name? >> Case. >> Casey. Did she take your last name? That's good. And that's that's acknowledging that you're the daddy, right? Does your grandmother know where you at? Cuz I know you probably came from work. [snorts] We just don't want to get her upset cuz you don't think something bad happened to you when you come home from work. >> Happened to me a long time ago. >> Yeah, but you probably been standing with her and when you don't come home today with her car, >> she doesn't care about >> Yeah, she does. >> She doesn't She cares about that car. Y'all got the car. That's it. I don't care about rights. I don't care anymore. I just want to die for a long time. >> [snorts] >> Well, just like you said, no one's listening to you and no one has been listening to you. I'm listening to you today and I'm asking you, do you want to hurt yourself? >> I don't want to die. Days I wake up, I feel okay. Days I wake up, I feel like I want to. Days I wake up, I feel like I want to hurt somebody. >> Is it some It's just something that comes from when when [snorts] you were a kid and just pushing it down and pushing it down. Keith and Brooklyn had been in an on and-off relationship for the past 4 years and had been co-parenting their 2-year-old daughter, Casey. [music] Brooklyn had a protection order against Keith. When Keith found her inside the store, he shot her seven times, blowing off her face, chest, [music] hands, and back. In total, there were 29 bullet wounds on her body. Nobody shoots someone they love that much without a solid reason. But in this case, the reason was beyond belief. >> Cuz I will tell you something. That baby being born bought you some happiness, didn't she? I mean, you're not the only person in this room that's a a father or a daddy. And I know how that feels seeing that baby. You've all [snorts] been there. Try so hard to see. >> Try so hard to do right by everybody. They still do me wrong. I don't do anything. Nobody exist. Don't nobody deserve that. Don't nobody become a homeboy. I don't like this. [snorts] They don't know. They don't know what I deal with. [snorts] And here you have two guys in this room that completely are not judging you. Don't know you. Don't know your history. Don't know your past. So I know how tough it is. Look at me. I know how tough it is being young and having a baby and not knowing what am I going to do. I have to do my daddy. [snorts] My daddy's never bought me a Christmas birthday present. Never. [snorts] I never intentionally tried to cause anybody. No one in the room said you do. The good thing about this [snorts] fatherly love is that you know it's unconditional. And the same way you love her unconditional when she grows up and she making but you making them choices about boys doing [snorts] this doing that you're going to be like she like daddy you don't love me. I'm like yeah I do. I might not approve of what you're doing but I don't love you. I don't say I didn't. Okay. So that love runs both ways, Keith. All right. There is nothing in this world that you gonna do that that girl's gonna say, "I don't love my daddy." Because you you know why? You know why, Keith? Because you never had that love extended to you. And you say, "You know what? I'm not going to be like my daddy. I'm going to be better." Right? Yeah. I can't do that. I can't >> [snorts] >> I found out she cheated. I broke her phone. Got mad. Found out she cheated. I broke the window. I got mad. >> Oh, you're not supposed to get emotional. >> How was that? That's completely understandable. >> But no, they everybody calls me crazy then. Now, like like now I want to die. I want to >> and I know earlier you told me you don't want to talk about it, but do you mind if we do talk about it because I know you talked a little bit about Brooklyn and I just want to try to figure out what y'all's relationship was cuz apparently you guys at one point in time loved each other to have a baby, >> right? Cuz I'll tell you now, Keith, guess what? You could have had a baby with anybody, but you chose Brooklyn, right? I asked people, can they tell me the truth? >> And what truth were you looking for >> from people? >> I just wanted to know if she gave me the STD, which I knew she did. Just wanted her to tell. >> Cuz I'm putting the pieces together. You didn't have one going in, did you? >> No, sir. >> Keith had received medical reports stating that he had contracted gorrhea, an STD he believed he had caught from Brooklyn. When he tried to confront her about it, she kept cutting him off and even blocked him at one point, which made him increasingly hostile toward her. That's when his mother did something that ultimately made him leave work that morning, go back home, take out his 9 millimeter pistol, and shoot Brooklyn. >> I don't I don't care if she texted me or not. If Brooklyn had somebody else, I don't care about that. I'm not mad about that. But she knew she gave me something and she wouldn't talk to me or own up to it. At least don't block me when I ask you like, "Hey, I'm being real with you. If you gave me something, just let me know." >> And what was she telling you? >> Was she blaming it on you? [snorts] >> Was Brooklyn the only girl you had? >> Yeah. >> How long had you known that you had something? [snorts] >> Since past week was the day after I dropped her off, I started back today was gone real. >> And just like I told you just a minute ago, Keith [snorts] This is more for you and Casey than it is for anybody else in this room in this world because like I said, you said it yourself. That side of the family is going to tell Casey everything bad about you. But today, Keith gets to talk. Keith gets to say his side of [snorts] why we're here. All right. So, now we're talking probably about what, two weeks since you guys hooked up. What made you go to the doctor? >> Next day or two, my pee started tingling, turned into burning, and then it turned into discharge coming out of my boo. So I was like, well, I never in my life had no HTD. Never. So I had to go get checked out. Like that's scary. [snorts] I had to leave work. >> And how many days after that exam did you find out? >> Today? Well, before me and her hooked up, it wasn't a year. She said last time she had sex was in February. I think mine was was almost now going on month and a half, almost two months now. >> Not with her. >> Not with her. Yeah. From somebody else. >> So, does she even know that you were diagnosed and had a positive test for his dad? >> I told her like I had something. I was like, "Be real with me." I was like, "Did you give it to me?" Well, it's probably your I didn't have no problem with Brooklyn with Brooklyn being with somebody else. All I had problem was the STD. That was it. I just feel like as many times as I say, "Okay, Brooklyn, I know I got a great job. You work here. I know that. But I make more money. I don't mind paying. If we go out, if I decide to take case out for a weekend, it's going to be hard." At this point, Keith opened up quite a lot about his childhood, his relationship with his parents, and his relationship with Brooklyn and Casey. Something that would now help him explain what he did after the shooting. >> I used to cut you. >> It used to make me feel better somehow. >> He deserved to live. >> You got to be there for Casey. >> You're not going to be able to do that. >> Yeah, you can. Cuz you want You said it yourself, right? You're a product of being felt like you all alone. Guess what? [snorts] Don't do that to Casey. Be real. I like y'all. I really do the last year and a half. This feel like [snorts] the only talk I've had with anybody. It's no different than Brooklyn giving you gorrhea and her not telling you. I'm sorry. Okay. Acknowledging it, right? >> She didn't see she had the doubt. I'm going be real with you. See that doubt with it, bro? Cuz I asked her multiple times before like even waiting for too. I can speak to you for a second. I always ask. I don't even just say can we talk can we speak for a second? Do you mind talking to me? cuz you're generally a respectful guy until she blew you off. >> Yeah, but that pressure's got to come out somewhere, right? >> And it didn't hit me till I got to the door. By the time I get to the door, [snorts] it's like it's like a switch back [snorts] cuz the pressure was gone. I was going I was going to be myself. No lie, be real with y'all. I wasn't going to shoot no police officer, but I knew y'all shoot me if I up the gun on y'all. We y'all know that. So that's that was my plan. >> What changed it? anger was going like that monster that that thing that pushes me to drive to go to do it. >> It wasn't no more. It was [clears throat] truly honestly by myself then. That's why I sat there. I shook wrestle with myself in the woods. I just said, "What the you doing? What the going on, bro? It's over, bro. Call them. Call 911. Where'd your clothes go? >> I took my shirt off in the pocket. >> And I know that in the back of your mind, you're thinking about I hope somebody some kid doesn't find the gun. We found it. Okay. So, we have it. >> Thank you. I I knew I I knew when he got there I was like, "Somebody's going to shoot me down. They're going to say idiot. You left that gun on the street." The officers knew how heinous Keith's act was, but after seeing that he had honestly opened up about his troubled life and accepted the crime he had committed, they helped him connect with his grandmother to let him know he wasn't truly hated by everyone. >> Hello. >> Hello, Miss Rivers. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Yes, ma'am. This is investigator Martinez, and I'm calling from the Escam County Sheriff's Office. >> Uhhuh. >> Uh the reason I'm calling is because I'm just calling to let you um it's a courtesy call to let you know that Keith is okay. Um, >> thank you so much. I appreciate that to the highest. >> Yes, ma'am. Um, your vehicle is here at the sheriff's office. Um, >> my vehicle is there. >> Yes, ma'am. The silver car that Keith was driving. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. That needs that needs. Yes, sir. >> Yes, ma'am. We have that as well. So, u >> Can I pick it up? >> Yes, ma'am. Um, it'll probably be not today. Um, [snorts] because we have to >> because I live I live here in Cal, Alabama. >> Yes, ma'am. >> You know, in Washington County. >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. So we can when can I pick it up? >> Uh we should probably be done with it no later than Monday. Is there anything that you want to tell Ke right now? >> Oh Ke. >> Yeah. >> Look, I love you, son. I don't know what happened, but I love you and hey, I'll be hearing from you or seeing you or something. >> All right, Miss Rivers, I'll stay in contact with you. I'll send you that information. >> [snorts] [sighs] >> No doubt. Right, >> man. You just You got to know what you >> got to know to know what you meant. So, >> all right. >> Can I talk to you for a second? >> Yeah. What you got? >> I know. Yeah. I got my phone. Yeah. And stuff like that. Uh, I had text my mom beforehand. >> You had text your mama? What? >> I had text my mama beforehand. >> Okay. >> Okay. And uh, no ain't no sense of uh, holding, you know, feel me? Y'all got the phone. Y'all got to open up everything. I was lying when I said I was I was like, you know what I do? I was like I I was like I shoot I shoot somebody in front of the police and get away. I was talking obviously but I knew it didn't matter then but still it's like the only thing all shit's coming back to me at once and >> that was today you text her that. Gotcha. >> Cuz I was just telling her like I just want I was like she's like I'm going to jail like jail hell. She's like I want the police to kill. Like I told you like I just want the police to kill. >> Can I ask you a serious question? >> Yeah. >> You think I spend the rest of my life in jail? >> I don't know. And and I mean that with all sincerity. I genuinely don't. You are you're facing murder charges. I mean, obviously with what happened, I mean >> Oh, yeah. No, you know that >> I'm just and I'm just being real with you, [clears throat] but I don't know. Um, what I can tell you is on paper that that carries 25 to life. >> 25 to life. >> That's what I can tell you. >> And now the story turns back to this woman, Sheila, Keith's mother, and a supposed well-wisher of Brooklyn. Officers had now found the text messages exchanged between her and Keith on the morning he shot Brooklyn. And to their horror, she was the one who had asked him to do it. The same woman who had projected such fake concern for Brooklyn that she even fainted after hearing what had happened. She had a lot of answers to give now and the investigators weren't going to waste a minute grilling her. >> So, like I said, we are here investigating what happened. >> Yes, sir. Okay. >> So, what was your involvement in what happened on Friday? >> My involvement in what happened? My only involvement and what happened was Keith text my phone and said he said that he was gonna his thing come back think Brooklyn gave me something but he was going to let it go and that's what I said it's fine. I told Brooklyn I said crazy is texting >> what' you call >> crazy I'm sorry but I >> said crazy texting and she said uh can I see your phone? I said yeah. So she goes looks at my phone. I think they text back and forth a couple of times, but she she text him. I think they was kind of like getting a little heated. And uh she was like, he was like, "Uh, I'm going to come to her house or something." She was kind of acting like me there for a minute. And I when I got the phone back, I said, "Don't do that." And then I went to telling him, "Look, you're going to do this to Casey and this this and you're going to leave her without a mom and a dad and this and this and this this this." And he was like, "I don't care." I think he's like, "I don't have nothing to live for or whatever." I was like, "So, you hate Brooklyn that bad that you would leave Casey to be molested or abused or and that's some of the I'm not saying exact exactly the way I said it." >> And um and he's like uh cuz uh I said because she won't have her mom or her dad or whatever. And uh he's like I think he cussed me or something. I'm like okay. I said, "If you bring your ass up over here, you ain't going to see book. You go see me." And uh so and u he was like, "Well, just give me the address." I'm like, "I'm not giving." I said, "I want lunch or something." I said, "And I just I told Brooklyn I get she" She said, "Let me see the phone." I said, "Okay." So I give her the phone back and then whenever I got the phone back she had deleted a message or something clear and then heard some shots and then we run up to the front toward the front and then that's when I seen Brooklyn and I bent down her and that's like broken please get up or whatever. >> Would it surprise you to find out that the text messages on Keith's phone weren't deleted >> between you and him that day? >> Between me and him? I mean, I No, it wouldn't surprise me at all. >> It wouldn't surprise you. >> Okay. Would it surprise you that I have 32 pages of y'all's text messages? >> No, it doesn't surprise me. >> Okay. Do you want me to read some of those? >> I think you can. I mean, you can if you want to, sir. I ain't do nothing but cost me money and gave me a disease. I'm thinking to just shoot her. I know. I hate that for Casey, but I love >> That's what I told her. Don't antagonize. Go ahead. I know. That's what I told antagonize him. Go ahead. Like I said, I can't take care. I don't give a no more. >> Okay, I'll call you and tell you mother. If you want to go to jail, I'll tell you when we get close, but if you don't come kill her, you a mother. >> I would never tell anybody. Brooklyn was my baby. You can check my text from Brooklyn. I paid for the cell phone bill. I bought Brooklyn's uh helping her student. I gave Brooklyn a job. I love Brooklyn. So once again, what you just told me is in here. It's like, okay, that's fine. >> If you have to leave your baby and go to prison and have her hate you, >> you ain't hurt in Brooklyn. >> She will be dead. No problem for for her >> to only one person you hurting is you and Casey. She will be lost. Her mama, daddy, and you won't ever get touched touch your daughter again. But I swear to God, I don't care. I ain't going to jail. I said, "I don't care. I ain't going to jail." No, but I didn't say I ain't going. I was saying it like sarcastically. I ain't going to jail. I don't care. I ain't going to jail. Like, if you kill her, you're the one going to jail. I was that I was being sarcastic about. I wouldn't lie about that one. I did. >> So, Keith's intention was to shoot Brooklyn and then when the Citro showed up, he was going to shoot at them so that they could kill him. That's what Keith intentions were. And if Keith hadn't thrown the gun out of the window while fleeing from the Home Depot store, he might have actually attacked the officers and met a very different fate. But his life was the least of his mother's concerns. >> Don't call Nanny and tell her she will try to talk you out of it. I know. And I ain't even tell her I wife I left. I'm just going to say I got to go to the dentist. Don't even go there. She won't. She won't know you left. Don't shoot up my mother car. I don't want to die. That's you. >> I didn't hype. >> I'm not. Wait till I put her out. I was going to wait till she got out. Okay, that's another thing. If she don't get out of that car, mama. >> Oh, of course. And I have to drag her out or can't I'm going to ask you to step out cuz I'm going to open the door and just shoot her as long as you don't shoot me. Hell, if you getting off right now, I'll give you the address here and you can ride over. >> It had to be Brooklyn. I would never >> and do it so that you don't have to do it in front of Casey. >> I would never do that. But but I understand where your hands >> Why would Brooklyn send that message? >> I don't know. Well, I get I don't know. Well, here here's what hold on here. Here's the problem. >> Okay, >> so what you've told us thus far is that well, Brooklyn took your phone. She text took it. >> But but then you're but then you're texting him. Now conveniently, you're only sending the messages that that make you look good. You're trying Hold on, let me finish. that you're trying to talk him out of it and then you want to come back with the when there's the messages that he'll talk about shooting and get then also oh Brooklyn's got my phone again. So you guys are just handing the phone back and forth then. >> No, I'm sorry. >> Well, that's what you're saying. >> That's what you're saying because you're acknowledging a text message and then when when the one that comes up that that's bad Oh, no. That wasn't me. That was Brooklyn. >> So that what you're saying is cuz he's reading this. You're right. You're right. So, what you're saying is you and Brooklyn are standing there back and forth. Sir, >> bear in mind we got video of the >> I'm saying no, no, no, that we're not sending that back and forth. >> Okay. Well, then then explain to me how the how the order of the messages goes cuz you're saying, well, Brooklyn must have sent that. >> No, there it was. >> And she there's no gaps. There's like this is >> this is seconds. These are within seconds of each other. >> This is 1120 1126 52 seconds. Your response is 11:27 5 seconds. So, you're like, "Receive it. Read it." Oh, respond. There's no Oh, look at this. >> I'm sorry. >> Hold up. Let me get erase these texts cuz I don't want nobody to know I was texting your stupid I'm sorry. I didn't hear what he say. I didn't hear what he said. I didn't hear what he said, sir. >> Read it. >> And don't Wait, I already Hold up. Let me get get it. >> Yeah, I did. >> There. Yeah, you did. No. Yes, I did. >> Oh, of course you did. >> So, you've been sending them this whole time. >> No, I didn't send them all. I'm telling you. >> They're still on your phone. >> Yeah, they're on I'm sure they're on my phone. >> All these text messages are still >> I'm sure they're on my phone. >> Cuz you said you were going to delete them. So, >> I did not. They're in my phone. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Well, it's good cuz I got your phone. >> I said, [laughter] "Okay, that's fine." >> Cuz then Keith says, "I already deleted mine." Trust me, I ain't going to say about us even talking today. Don't act like you love Casey cuz you don't give a about that little girl and you love you and you alone. >> Watch as she tries to put all the blame on Brooklyn for texting Keith to kill her. >> What's the address? You willing to leave her at the mercy of the world to possibly get be abused, neglected, and god knows what because you didn't put on a rubber. You're going to make her suffer for something she had no control over. But you love her. Okay, I'm g I'm getting I'm getting hit. Give me a minute. I'm on lunch. Riplin knew what she was what was coming behind lying to me. She knew I was going to kill her. So if she's okay with it, I am too. Regardless of who knows, Casey didn't know. It's not Casey's fault. It's all I know. Don't really give a about you and Brooklyn. know it was both y'all's fault. Hers for giving it to you and you for not wearing a condom. Like I said, I don't give a that baby. But that you didn't love her enough to give a about what happened to her. That she wasn't enough for you. Maybe she should have meant more to you than her mama and daddy would still be here. She wasn't important enough and you just had to prove a point. I promise I'll remind her of that the rest of her life. >> And you're shaking your head because you sent that. >> I did. I did say that. >> But you're But you're in that same message. Tell him you gonna give him the address. And you do. Stand by. He's getting >> No, no. Let him let him do his. >> So, let me finish it. She will probably end up committing and she'll be with y'all anyway. I did say in give me 10 minutes. I'm going to give you the address and you ain't close yet. >> See, you're saying the same message. >> Yes, sir. I I'm I'm telling I'm shaking my head. Yes. I I did say that. >> So, you're acknowledging that you were going to send him the address. >> I wasn't going to send him the address cuz I said, "Listen, if you before you go any further, can I say please? Can I say one thing before you go any further?" >> Cuz I even told him I was on lunch. I wasn't I wasn't on lunch then. >> I don't care where you >> Okay. Yes, sir. I'm sorry. Yes, sir. >> But you're telling him I'm going to send you the address. Stand by. He's getting there. Just let let him do his thing. >> Yes, sir. Understandable. Your response is, "I can't wait to get back to that store and to give you the address cuz you're going to have to shoot me today. I'm done. Told you about cussing me. All I want is that address, mama. I'm done talking. I'm done talking enough. I know what's going to happen and I'm okay with that. I'm done already. Been thinking it through and this is the only way." I'm don't care why you so quick to start. But again, must be scared of Brooklyn or some I don't know. I promise I'm heading back to get it and give it to you cuz I'm done. You don't have to respect me, but you not going to disrespect me. You disrespecting me trying to tell me if I love my child or not. That's your problem. You don't see it this this. But again, I think it's a woman thing. She gonna be on the floor right at 11:55 a.m. You sent a screenshot >> of the of the address >> of the address from your work? >> I did. I did. >> So, you acknowledge the address? >> Yes, sir. I did. >> So, we're sitting here playing games. >> No, I'm You're 45. >> You're asking me a question and I'm answering it. So, he's 45 minutes away. >> And I told him I said, "You're not going to have to see me before you see both." >> What? Let me ask you this while we're here. Why on earth would you send him that address? You had no idea where that girl was if it hadn't been for you sending that address. >> You you you basically put this these things in motion. You s look, you sit here and tell me that you love Brooklyn, but you set that girl up to be killed >> is what happened. You sent him the address. If you had just not sent him the address, he would have had he wouldn't know where y'all were in school. >> He was going to kill Brooklyn's mom. Brooklyn told me that. >> What? Where? But where does he say that? >> He does Brooklyn. >> Oh, it's convenient to throw that out. >> No, you >> It's convenient. So, so he's going to kill Brooklyn's mama. So, you got your address down so he come Brooklyn. >> No, no. You I mean you I'm you >> you just didn't want him to kill Brooklyn and Sister Nelson. >> Bingo. Cuz you didn't want to be in the car. >> No. No. >> That's the way that started off. >> If you would let me tell you the truth. >> Well, hey, I listen. Hold on. She I'd love for you to tell us the truth. I I would love for us not to sit here and waste our time. >> Yes, sir. >> Making up a bunch of BS trying to put this on a dead girl >> that your son murdered. I will tell you something. At least your son sat across from us and manned up and told him what he did. >> Listen, let me tell you. >> Okay, talk, please. >> Okay. When I told Brooklyn, I told her that and you can check the police records. They'll tell you. When I told her what's going on, she said, "Don't don't don't let him go." I said, "We'll She said he'll kill my mama." He said, "He'll go shoot up mama and Casey." I think he's not going to shoot Casey. She said he she said, "Well, he and he shot at their house." She said, "Well, he'll tell my mom." I said, "Work another moment." She said, "Don't let him go." I said, "We call the police." She said, "He told me, and you can ask your mom this. If I called the police again, he was going to kill my mom." >> In her text messages, Sheila had even come up with an alternate plan for Keith. One where he could kill Brooklyn after her shift, making it look like a driveby and ensuring it didn't happen in front of Casey. But Keith took a different route. He even stopped his vehicle for a while, contemplating whether or not he should go through with it. But his mother's texts fueled his anger, ultimately leading him to brutally shoot 18-year-old Brooklyn. >> He saw Brooklyn when he put seven rounds in her. >> But I told her, "Don't come out of that bathroom >> and shot two more people in the process." One of those is Baby Doll. >> She didn't shoot Baby Doll. >> We have a video. >> Look at the video. Please look at it. >> We did. We watch it right after the shoot happens. Keith goes this way and you come running around the aisle. >> So I was in Floring. I was in Floring, which is bad. I mean, you're wearing a bright ass red shirt, matching shoes. I mean, you're using the spot. >> We >> Tell me I'm wrong, >> sir. No, you're not. >> What were you supposed to be? Because they were supposed to be your manager been hunting for you for 10 damn minutes. >> If you you said you said have the tape, you see where everybody Okay. Yes, sir. You see where everybody's at? >> If you watch the tape, me and Brooklyn both go in the bathroom at the same time. If you watch the tape, you can see that. >> And I told her, I said, "Don't come out of this bathroom." >> Why? >> Cuz she knew what was going on. >> But she did. Cuz right here you said uh >> I know what I said but I'm telling you I ain't told her nothing. I But you look at the tape. Please look at the tape. We go in the bathroom at the same time. >> So which one are you which one are you playing? Are you playing >> you you say you're trying to play Keith, but you basically walked him right to you guys. And you know what would have fixed this whole thing? I would have even bought this if you would have if you would have done all this and then in the 40 minutes that you had between y'all's last text message and when he put seven rounds in her if you would have picked up the damn phone and called 911 and said my son's on his way here to kill his girlfriend and I had the proof in text messages. You got pissed off and I didn't think he was coming. >> And even if he knew, do you know how many Home Depots there are in Pensacola? I mean, he he could have driven around all afternoon trying to find out probably never gotten there. >> I'm sorry. >> But you shot the address right to him. Come on. Come get her after I've called you a for not doing it. After I've told >> I swear to God, I didn't get >> Okay. Come on. So, so again, we're back to we switch back the phone back and forth. So, it's me texting, it's her texting, it's me texting, it's her text, it's me texting, it's her texting. The flow doesn't Your story doesn't hold water cuz the flow doesn't make sense. I don't care what anybody says about him. He owned every damn bit of this. Every last bit. >> I mean, I >> And he didn't throw you under the bus. >> No, I understand he didn't. I understand that he did. >> The The only THING THE ONLY THING THAT IS just throwing me under the bus. >> The only The only thing he said is, "Hey, just so y'all know, when you get my phone, you going to see some text messages from my mom and I." That's all he said. I >> I mean, I understand about trying to throw me under the bus. And I know how it looks. Yes, sir. >> That's all how it looks. That's how it is. I hope Kaya never take another breath. >> That's what I said. >> That's what I said. Yes, sir. Yeah, that's what you said. >> Yes, no idea. >> And you know what? Honestly, that's the one that bothers me the most because like you were willing like to put that on your daughter >> because >> because you didn't think you How about you do all of those things? How about you weren't broke then? How about you get broke? You were her damn supervisor. You could have got her out of there. You could have put her ass in the car and drove down the street. >> I cared about. You knew what he was coming to do. You knew. You knew before you even got back from lunch. >> I >> That is the understatement of the year. >> I did. But my intention was nowhere near to hurt Brooklyn. And I And I know you don't believe me. I understand that. >> It's hard. You gaslighted that boy. >> 100%. You gaslighted him. Like he was on fire and you just kept pouring gas on it. What about if three more people would have been killed that day? >> What would you tell their family? >> Cuz you can tell you cuz two more people were shot. You can say whatever you want, but two more people were hit. >> I know. I didn't know that. >> Cuz that's the thing. Bullets were going through Brooklyn. That's how close he was. >> Until the very end, Sheila continued to defend herself and tried to prove that she wasn't aware of anything. But the investigators knew better. >> You know what Kee said? She said when he told her you gave him, >> not this again. >> Not this again. And turned turned her back on him and that's when he shot her. >> Which sounds like she was really aware of what the what the text message that had trans y'all. >> Oh my gosh. Keith is here and ran the other way and she said, "Oh, not >> cuz she just told me he was coming here to kill me." >> Well, she apparently she thought you were. >> So, the normal reaction would be if someone's coming to kill me, I'm going to stand there and look at and say, "Oh, not this again." >> I'm not lying. I did tell him, but I I'm not trying to deny that. >> Hell, he shot up He shot up somebody on your property. >> Shot up somebody on my property. >> Oh my god. He was on probation for it. the the damn corporal sitting right out there is the one that investigated it. He >> he didn't shoot up nobody on my property. OKAY. HE GOT SHOT. His friends got shot. >> He shot back and that's why he was on probation. >> No, that he that he was on THAT WAS DOWN THE STREET. THAT WAS NOT ON MY PROPERTY. I WAS IN THE HIGHWAY. >> GOD. >> No sir. >> You can Oh, GOD HAVE MERCY. ANYTHING THAT WAS NOT ON OUR PROPERTY. >> OKAY, WHATEVER. >> But you But you but you knew that. >> No, it was not in front of my house. >> You knew that he shot somebody before or shot at somebody. >> Him and a boy shot at each other. >> Okay. put. Okay. So, thank you. So, you knew he shot at someone before? >> Yes or no? It's an easy question. >> I did. >> Okay. >> And you knew he had a gun? >> No, I did not know he had a gun. >> He shot at somebody before. How could you not know he had? >> That was 5 years ago. >> Your mama knew he HAD GUNS? >> WELL, I DON'T HE DON'T LIVE WITH ME, SIR. >> But don't you think that if you would have called her and said, "Hey, >> I did call her." You did >> and check my phone. I did call her. >> Okay. When? Well, the first time he said he was coming, I called her. I said, "Keith said he's coming over here. He's acting crazy again." She said, "You know how he is." I said, "Yes, yes, ma'am. I know how he is." >> On the flip side, he said he felt better after he shot her. So, I mean, hey, at least you relieved that anger. He wasn't even mad at you anymore. >> I didn't. >> And you did not warn her because if you >> I did warn her. I swear to God. I told him, "Don't come out of the bathroom." I said, "Broo, don't come out of this bathroom." Now, that I did say. Now, I'm not I don't care what nobody said. I told her, "Do not come out of the bathroom." I said, "Look, don't come out of this bathroom." Now, I did tell her that. >> Your final text messages to him. Okay, whatever. I don't care. Do whatever you do. >> I got to work. I'm working >> cuz I'm going I'm going home today, not to hell or to jail. >> I said and I said, "I'm working." I said, "Leave me alone. >> Stop text me. I'm working. Do whatever you want to do. It don't affect me. I way." >> And then after that, I told as we move into the bathroom, I'll be back. And I understand what you're saying. >> So that's why you are being charged with firstdegree premeditated murder principal. >> For their crimes, Keith was charged with firstdegree premeditated murder and Sheila was charged as a principal to first-degree premeditated murder. Both were held without bond. [music] During their trial, prosecutors presented surveillance footage showing Sheila pacing around the store for about an hour, texting on her phone, and frequently looking out the front door. evidence that proved her role as a lookout and facilitator. Although her defense tried hard to portray her as someone who was actually trying to stop Keith from killing Brooklyn, she was ultimately sentenced to life in prison without parole. The judge also found Keith guilty of murdering Brooklyn in a fit of rage, believing she had given him an STD, and he too was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Prosecutors later revealed that Brooklyn in fact had no STD, but she lost her life because Keith gave into a rage born out of a misconception that could have been resolved through a conversation. YouTube thinks you'll love the video on screen. Click to watch now.