On May 2nd, 2025, deputies with the Jones County Sheriff's Office responded to a reported [music] domestic disturbance. Dispatch advised that a male was actively assaulting a female while a 911 call was in progress. >> John County 911. >> Yes, ma'am. I need to live up as soon as possible. >> All right. What's going on? >> Um, my neighbor, which is my sister-in-law's husband, is okay to put their hands on her. Uh-oh. >> Okay. He's beating his wife. >> He's not definitely beat her. He has put his hands on there. >> Okay. >> And I had to grab him one time cuz he t the cat. >> What's his name? >> Casey Souls. >> Casey Smalls. >> Souls. >> OKAY. >> Has he hit you? >> No, man. I grabbed him and he told me he was going to get naked. I know him. I know how to get. >> Okay. It >> Okay. Is he drunk or on any um substances or anything that you know of ASAP? >> Okay. We're down in route. Okay. Where at in the yard are they'll be able to find us. I promise you. >> Okay. >> On him. >> No, ma'am. No ma'am. >> Okay. >> Please. ASAP. It's getting us. >> Okay. What's he doing? >> He's just falling all around the house. He's got [screaming] >> that house. Okay. Who's in the house? >> Their dad. I live here. >> Okay. So, who's who's hitting who? >> He's hitting me. >> Okay. >> He just stuck his finger in my eye. He going to try to pull me off the stairs. He's going to push me back there. He's going to hit me a few times. >> Okay. Can I see your eye? My back in my arm. >> Okay. >> He's been drinking. >> Mhm. He was yelling down there so I went to go check on him and it just went from there cuz we've been separated for a long time and he's honestly mad I don't love him back is real crazy but he's eating my terrified right now. I just watched him beat me. I got you. Let me get you info real quick if you don't mind. We're going to go over there. I'm waiting on somebody else to get here and we going now. You probably don't mute it. >> What's your name? >> Justice. >> How you spell it? >> J O S T I C E >> J O S >> J U S T I C E >> J U S Robert Queen 8350. What's going on, man? What's up, brother? My kids sleep. >> Okay. Well, what happened tonight? Lots of things happened tonight. Okay. Okay. >> What's going on with >> y'all? Okay. I'm just scared to do. So mom and dad got an argument >> and there's a lot of pressure on me because I don't want to choose one and other >> Okay, I understand. >> I don't know what to do. >> Okay, so can you go down there crazy with mom? >> That's crazy to me. You've been living house. >> Okay, so who didn't do this? >> I didn't do that. >> You've been living in my house all around. What are you doing? What are you Put your hands behind you back now. PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK NOW. >> Then you need to turn around now. Put your hands behind your back. You're not going to advance on me. Turn around. All right. Turn around. Turn around. You're not on my door. Put your hands behind YOUR BACK. >> PUT YOUR HANDS [screaming] BEHIND YOUR BACK NOW. DO IT NOW. >> I HEAR YOU, BROTHER. DO IT NOW. [screaming] THEN >> YES, SIR. >> HURRY UP. >> I WILL. It's crazy. >> You could have done what I told you TO DO. LAY DOWN. YOU can I put my hands behind my back >> right now. Did you choose this to defend people like my kids? You know what I mean? >> I don't give a [ __ ] I told you to do something. >> Are you Are you Are you stupid? I am. Maybe. When a law enforcement officer gives you a command, you're supposed to follow it. >> Enforcement is what's crazy in your life. I'm not trying to protect you at this moment. I'm trying to find out what happened with this incident by hurting me and hurting me like this. Yep. Because you didn't listen. You didn't even try to hear what happened. So when you start my What do you want me to do? Put your other foot in front of you. Which one? My left rope. Which foot's in front of you? Why are you getting Why are you being Because you came to my house being an enforcer instead of a protector. I got my my job as a father is to protect my kids. What are you talking about? You're also a man. And that's crazy to me. She know it don't matter cuz you obviously not care why I'm talking about it. You're right. And you're wrong. >> Crazy. >> But you just wanted to put pain on somebody to show power >> cuz your life is you ain't telling me nothing. I know. I'm telling you. And that's crazy. No sir. No sir. No sir. I tell you touch my penis or what? MOTHER. Don't touch my penis. Don't touch my penis. You do some [ __ ] like that without my kids. I will. Why don't you go ahead and roll back over on your stomach? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Say it with YOUR CHEST. YES, SIR. THERE you go. Good job. Thanks, man. Thank you for being a dumb. You're the one being a dumbass. Because you're not listening because you're enforcing your own law. Crazy enough. I'm not enforcing your law. Why are you enforcing the laws of the state of Georgia? was obstruction. [screaming] I don't give a [ __ ] Piece of [ __ ] You're the one making yourself. You did all this. I didn't I didn't come at you one time, bro. Not one time. Not one single time did I come at you. You don't follow chari. You're welcome. You can help your girls. Sergeant Johnson 532. I don't care what your mother cuz you think you help my girls or not. It was crazy. And you understand that. I know that. Cool. You keep being a great officer. I will [ __ ] What's my next move, brother? Lay right there until you told to do something else. That's what I'm asking you. I know I'm different. It's crazy. And you let my I man. And you sit there laughing, dude. Is your Is your camera on? Yep. She's got some redness to this left eye. Did she tell you how many times she pushed me for? >> Did she tell Did she tell y'all how many times she pushed me? She want you like at least 20. Where in my face, dog? Look at me. >> I don't see anything in your face. Do you hear it talking? >> You put your hands around. >> That's crazy. >> I don't see anything on your face, sir. >> No, you don't. >> I'll make sure to take photos. >> I don't care about your photos, brother. You already have your But you ain't been here the last 5 years of my life while I'm here taking care of my kids. >> No, cuz I got kids tonight only. >> I didn't come at you, brother. I didn't come at you at all. You got aggressive with her. I told you to put your hands on. How did you see me get aggressive with her face down? I How come I can't have a civil conversation? You weren't having a civil conversation. You're saying I'm just I'm supposed to have a civil conversation like this right there with your face on the porch, which means you don't care. Cool. Which means that you're doing what I told you to do. That's right. Yes, sir. But you don't care about my kids, do you? Let my mom go do coke. Be a bartender. Let me go to work like a simple man. That's cool. I hate my You're just doing your duty. Just like the dude that comes out your ass. That's crazy cuz it's [ __ ] is what I'm telling you. Nobody in this world will care about my girl. I didn't really let her go at that. But I let that girl stay in my house. After I left the hospital with her as my wife while she's pregnant with another man. >> Yeah, fair enough. >> Is she up there? >> That's how I do that. >> Yep. I sure am. And I'm not your brother. What would you like me to call you? >> Sir, it's preferable. Or sergeant. >> Sergeant. Are you going to make me? >> Yes, sir. >> Like, is this your your law or is this legal? >> This is me telling you to do something. >> I'm trying to talk to you as a >> You can talk right there. We're talking >> civilian as a citizen. I don't know what to say to you because there's obvious agenda that's not >> There is nothing to say. >> So, I'm just >> My agenda is to enforce the laws of the state of Georgia. Hi. Thank you. Hello. Hello. It's all right. Everything is all right. No, you're fine. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Something similar justice here. How about the safety of my children? >> Sir, the safety of my children. >> You could have listened to what I was telling you to do and I would gladly I would gladly explain to you how to do that. >> You may think so. You're >> you got tags because you wouldn't listen to me. cuz you won't talk to me like a person and you think law and a badge makes you be able to tase me for some reason that don't involve my children's lives like you just it don't matter you straight multiple times Right. crazy. I can't walk away from the conversation. It just got worse up here. And I went that way out there. And then after they came back down there and pushed me push me off the clut cocaine every night. I'm the one here going to work every day. Crazy. Mr. Souls, like I explained to you, if you would just talk to me, I would have given you the tools and the resources that you need. >> You're just a man that's not a man with me. You're a different type of man. >> Okay. >> You told me that you're not my brother, right? God says you're my brother. What? You're probably not a religious person. >> You'd be absolutely right. I could completely see it already. It don't matter. You are multiple times. of course. Yeah, I know. It's just it's something that I have to ask so that >> All right, sir. Listen to me. EMS is here. We're going to get you up to be evaluated by EMS. If you give me any problems, we're going to be right back on the ground where we're at now. Do you understand me? All right, we're going to do this again. I'm going roll you over on your right side. Keep your feet out in front of you and then we'll sit you up. Yes, sir. Keep your feet out in front of you. There you go. All right, stay right there for me. I had couple taser sights on chest and lower abdomen. Um, just want to have him look that, make sure everything looks all right. Um, I didn't get much chance to to speak with him before he started acting the pool. So, what happened to your foot there? Yeah. Okay. >> I don't believe that. M Justice, can we go in and talk to Yeah. You want to go in with me? Hey y'all. So, I'm Deputy Morris. You can call me AJ if you want to. Okay. Um, you're right. What did you see, darling? >> What did I see? >> Yes. >> Okay. I I stayed. We We all And the little baby, he came out here because his dad was out here. >> Mhm. >> But we were all in his room, which is right there. And Then we heard them and they were yelling and then mama was like, "Don't put your hands on me." And he kept pushing her and I just heard like yelling and I heard something clashing to the window of the table and then um I he he went in there and then he got me and my sister took us down there and then my mom came down here trying to get us. My mom yelled my name. So, I came out there and when I came out there, she followed me and he was trying to push her off the railing and then like put his hands in her face. And then um we went back inside and he said, "If you want to go down there, go. But I don't care. Just go and live that life. I don't care." And then the police showed up and then we came down here. >> Up here. >> No. What? I don't think >> Did he say anything for us? >> He saw exactly what I thought. I thought I saw him choking her. It It looked like it cuz he was pushing her off the railing. >> Okay. And that was down at your dad's house. >> Um and then I heard something in here. >> He I was praying >> when you were in your cousin's room. >> Yes. Then we were both I was praying and then when he took us down there I was looking around. I said, "Where's mama?" He said, "I don't I don't know." And he and I don't I don't know where she was where um he was and or where Tatum was. I know Joshua was in there and he just took us down there and then I heard Tatum over there, the baby over there. And I just heard him crying and I just went inside and then I saw all that. >> Mhm. >> And >> you came inside out here. >> I went inside there and then I saw and I came back out on that porch and saw all that. >> Gotcha. Okay. >> And then we came back. We just ran back up here. >> Mhm. Okay. How old are you? >> I'm 10. I'm going to be 11 in September. >> Okay. So, really soon. So, you're going into fifth grade? >> Okay. Okay. Well, thank you guys for talking to me. If you need anything at all, you can always call the sheriff's office or you can ask your mama to call us or anything. Okay, >> mama. Well, when we were on the porch over here, >> when um when I was out there, mama when he was trying to push off the railing, mama was yelling, "Call your gaga." Which that's >> my go. She was just yelling at me to call my gaga. I my phone was up here, so like I couldn't call her. Daddy wouldn't let us come up here. Daddy said no, no, no. >> While they were on the porch, he would not let us come up there. But then when we went inside, he said, "Go up there." >> Okay. >> Then when mommy came in there, she said, "Don't come." >> Yeah. And there was just so scary. >> Yeah. >> Right. Especially big guys like your dad. Yeah, that can be a lot. >> And down in the garage, he has a gym and he like wheels stuff down. He has a bag. >> Okay. He works out as well. >> I was supposed to go to my friend's house tomorrow. I still think I am going. >> Yeah. So, that'll be fun. >> Yeah. Well, I his concern to me is um is he going to jail [music] >> tonight? He is. Yes, ma'am. >> Will he be back? Cuz I don't want him to be mad at you. >> I hope he's not going to be mad at y'all. >> I want him to be gone for one week. >> You want him to be >> Are we going to see one week? >> Probably not in jail. But >> for one week, >> but you will again. He's not going to be gone forever. >> I'm scared. >> You don't want to? I don't Why do you be gone for one night? Why? >> It's It's not going to be that, darling. It's not going to be that. And he ain't going to be able to hurt y'all anyway. >> He would never hurt y'all. >> He'll do if he had to. [laughter] >> He will have to whoop your butts if he has to. That's called discipline. >> I'm just >> And what he's saying to y'all about whooping your butts is not the same as what he saw tonight. >> And he drinks every night. So sometimes he does yell a lot. Well, that's fine, baby. >> Really not what triggered it. We left to go get food. >> Yeah, >> we brought him back some. >> Yeah, there we go. >> It's not the kind of entertainment you want. >> Do you live here? >> Yeah. Do you see anything or anything? I know they probably over there, but see what I see. Would you mind talking to me about the other side of your car? Yeah. >> Dylan explained that after Justice returned from getting food, Casey and Justice got into an argument which escalated into a physical altercation, including pinning her against a wall, eye gouging, shoving, and slapping her, punching her in the face, striking her in the back multiple times, all while their children were nearby and distressed. Even when Justice fled to Dylan's house, Casey followed her again to assault her. Dylan moved the children to safety and when he tried to stop Casey himself, Casey threatened him saying he would be next if he did not stop. Ultimately, Dylan called the police. Well, I appreciate you speaking with me. Um, understand if it goes according to go testify. So, um, if he gives you any problems, I know y'all live right here. have no like she don't fine [ __ ] we've been for months now >> they've been doing pretty good >> Mhm. But he's the group a little bit better. >> Right. >> You know, you're not always behind the door, >> right? Right. You only see what's in the eye of the boat and on my end. >> Yeah. >> You didn't have a blackout prior to uh tonight, did you? Is there like just one or two to you? >> It looks like this [ __ ] right here. >> Yeah, that's what I'm doing. >> Did he hit that dermal? He just I don't know. His hand was right here and he literally just index your eye. >> Yeah. >> You see? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> No, I was just sorry you had to do that. Oh, well, you know, if you don't listen and you really can't carry all of that and try to get up. >> I got you. I got it. >> Sure. >> Bye. Bye-bye. Casey Rodney Souls was arrested and charged with battery, family violence, first offense, cruelty to children in the third degree, two counts, and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.