Ma'am, I need him and my best friend here. Is he breathing? Ma'am, my best friend is not responding. Okay, I need you to check if he's breathing. He's not responding. Tell me if he's breathing. Ma'am, he's not Ma'am. He's not breathing? He's not responding. Please >> Okay, I understand he's not responding. I need you to verify if he is breathing or not. Ma'am, he is not breathing. He's not breathing, okay. Can I get them started? Do you know how to do CPR? Kevin tried to keep him alive, performing CPR as he begged for help on the phone. But by the time first responders arrived, it was already too late. 24-year-old Avery Weathers was pronounced dead at the scene. Okay, what's going on? Is anybody else in the car? Uh, it's just me. >> Just you? >> Me and my co-worker. I brought Okay. I drove him here. Okay. Okay. So, what's what's going on? Okay. So, what's going on? Yo, me and me and him Okay, we've been barbecuing the whole night. >> Okay. All right, we had a co-worker over. We're getting ready to rig move to another location. So, we all had a cookout. Me and him got into it. I was like, "Yo, >> You and him got into it? >> Yes, me and my co-worker. I didn't I didn't charge him first. I didn't punch him first. I I said, "Yo, if you feel like you want to whoop my ass, then go do it." >> Okay. He whooped my ass, dude. Okay. What happened after that? I just fired one shot. Get off me. Okay. All of a sudden, he's not bleeding, but he's not moving. And as you can see, Yeah. >> my [ __ ] is out of socket. My nose is bleeding. This is my best friend. We live together. Okay. Dude, Do you have an ID on you? Yes, I have my I have my Dude, I work out here. Do not Please, do not treat me like a criminal. >> I'm not. That's why I'm That's why we're talking, okay? Do you have an ID on you? >> Yes, I cut my truck off. I have an ID. >> Well, leave it The truck's fine for now. >> phone with my wife right now. Okay. Everybody knows what happened in this [ __ ] It's just So there was there was another guy out there with you guys? Yes. Where's he at? He's still on the rig. Yes, he's on the rig with the boss man supervisor who's on rig. So you guys He got mad at you. Okay, so he got mad at you. We had we had an argument about >> Yeah, you guys got into an argument. >> it wasn't even argument. It was legit I [ __ ] you not, dude. It was like well well if you don't like fight me. Okay. And the mother took off fighting me. Okay. 6'6" 230 plus pounds. Okay. 6 ft even 160 something pounds. Okay. So I know my rights. I know I have a warning shot, dude. Fired a warning shot. Okay. All of a sudden he laid It's no blood [ __ ] It's my blood. >> he standing whenever you shot? He was he was over me. Oh, he was over you? Yes, yes. >> Okay. Because we was got he he rocked me so hard my gun came out the Oh yeah, dog. He rocked me. Okay. Yeah, I mean I Yeah, no I can I can see it. >> Yeah, yeah. It's compared to compared to him he he did me pretty good. But that's my coworker. Can I see your ID? I'm not treating you like a criminal. I got to ID you, okay? All that [ __ ] is in So hang on hang on. No no don't go in the truck. Don't go in the truck. Don't go in the truck. ID me. Hang on. Okay, we'll just hang out over here then. Can you at least cut my truck off cuz Yeah, here's Stay out here in front. Give me Give me Can you put your hand right here? Just got to make sure you don't have any weapons on you. That's it. I'm not treating you like a criminal. I'm just I'm just going to pat you down. That's it. >> Dude, cuz I'm black you got to treat me like a criminal. >> No, has nothing to do with your race. Has nothing to do with your race. But if you're going to want to go by ambulance they're not going to let you go in there unless they know for sure you don't have any weapons. Okay. I can't afford an ambulance. >> You don't have to put that hand up there. You don't have to No, I obviously I have to. Okay. me you're asking me I just wanted to check you for weapons. That's all I'm doing. That's it. a cigarette lighter right there, bro. This is my coworker. We work together. You want me to turn your vehicle off? There's a rifle in there. Can you turn my vehicle off? No, you asked me to Yes. Huh? You want me to turn the vehicle off? Yes, sir. Please turn the vehicle off. My name is Deputy Rankin and I work for the Daddy County Sheriff's Office. Um, he's going to have me hang up the phone right now, okay? Cuz I we need to figure out what's going on. I'll have him call you back whenever he can, okay? I was from the from the scuffle on my knees Okay. We're going to We're going to have medics check you out, okay? Negative. Be able to Okay, cuz she's still on the phone. That's why I'm asking. Huh? We're going to put a helicopter right here. Okay. Ah, this [ __ ] hurts. He's He's a little beat up. So, we're going to We're going to try to figure out what's going on. Oh god, this hurts. Okay. I will have him call you back here shortly. All right. Hang Hang that up. We need to move our unit cuz the bird's up there. Stand over by your car, please. We need to pull your unit out of the road. Hey, I Dude, can you stand by your car cuz I need to put my car over here and I don't want to run you over. Man, I don't know if you know how it feels to have some [ __ ] pop out of place while your best friend's Okay. Can you be in pain in front of your car so I can move mine so the helicopter can land? Okay, thank you. You don't get a vote. You're going to get checked by medics. So, I can't I can't tell you if he's okay cuz I don't know, right? Whenever I got here they were already loading him up and I came talking to you, right? Okay. Dog, that's my best How long have you all known each other? >> That's my best friend, man. How long How long have you all known each other? A year and a half. A year and a half? Work together. Y'all How Y'all live together out here or no? >> Yes. At the rig in Carlsbad? >> I work at the rig, man. Okay. We shower together for work. This is Hey, bro, what's going on? This is going on. You got it under control or do you need some help? I got it or I need some help. All right. Let me catch my breath. That's my best friend. I don't know what happened tonight. We could do odds. I was getting the [ __ ] beat out of my ass. This is the best I got, bud. That's fine. It's like nothing for it to escalate the way it did, man. How far back did this happen? Oh, sir, it happened at least Oh, my god. Man, my arm. Lord. Lord. Lord. >> Okay. We're going to have medics check you out as soon as they get the other guy in the bird, all right? Oh, I really I really feel for him. That's my best friend. I really Like I said, this is just hearsay, but it's my understanding that they were sitting back here barbecuing when all this went down. Back there. Okay. All right. And that That vehicle there's nobody in this trailer right now, right? >> There is absolutely nobody in that trailer. Do we know Did Did it start inside or it started outside and stayed outside? >> was They was They was out here barbecuing and >> That'll work. >> Apparently Apparently breaking all kinds of company policy. Apparently they was drinking beer. Yeah. >> Apparently they had firearms on location. Yeah. >> But that vehicle right there belongs to Reed, the one that got one though? White one? >> one. Okay. The one that got shot. Okay. All right. So, what I will do is I'm just going to tape off here and I'm going to go around to the other side of that uh trailer and I'm going to encompass these two vehicles. Whose car is that? That belongs to you, the uh MWD hand that's in this trailer right here. Okay. He ain't going anywhere, right? Uh I ain't going anywhere in that cuz it's going to be stuck here for a while. Yeah. Well, if he if he needs a ride somewhere, somebody had to give him a ride, huh? Okay. Yep. >> If you would like, I can sit some I got pipe racks. I can sit some >> No, we're good. Pipe racks out of the way, we're We're good. All the tires I'll just tie off here. I'll wrap around them cars and I'll tie off to something on that end and then we'll be good. I'll let I mean I'll let Then Then I'll let the detectives come out and figure out if they want to go inside. >> Yeah, that it's just all there. >> But as long as we contain [music] it right now, that's that's all I'm concerned I do know I do know that that night guy from my Regal over there walked back over here and got his chair. Okay. Well, I'm going to let the detective get his statement because that way it it the more people that talk to one guy, the more variations there are and the harder it is to figure out. Okay. All right, cool. I'll tape this off. I appreciate you guys and I'll I'll get back with you guys in just a minute so I can get your names and stuff. I don't want to be black. I don't want to be white. I don't want to be green. Shoot this. No, I'm just I'm okay. I'm okay. I'll take five. I'll save five. Y'all just leave me alone, man. This is not [ __ ] fair. Yeah. I don't want to pay attention. Just leave me alone, please, please, man. I'm going to shoot my future even though know I would get beat the [ __ ] out of him. It's out of my leg. There's no telling what will happen. Yeah, I'm on the phone. Five. I'm on the The phone is dead. What? What? Hello, I got two of them on the side. Two of them on the phone. What's his name? This person. Ah. Please. Ah. Ah. Oh. Lord. Lord, Jesus. Ah. If I was on my deathbed, would I feel like I'm on my deathbed? No, I don't know I'm not. But I would rather much have help with this, man. This is affecting how I breathe because it's so Whatever, man. I'm a They can give you pain meds, but you're going to have to go to the hospital. I can't afford to go to the hospital, man. You're also bleeding out of your ear. For real? Yes. You have blood on the left side of your face that was not there earlier. If I had my phone on me, I'd show you, but I don't. Ah, it hurts. Ah. >> [screaming] >> No, no, I wouldn't do I wouldn't do that. Ah, it hurts so bad. Ah. Ah, help me out. Ah. I think it's a bill you should worry about later. Just my opinion. I can't tell you what to do. But I think it's something you should worry about later. Right now, I think you should try and get some help with your arm and all that. Yeah, help me out, man. These guys right here. Oh. What? Can I go talk to you? I'll kill you, bro. I didn't threaten him or nothing. I said if you want to fight, let's fight. He started beating the [ __ ] out of my ass, man. That's it. I told him, "Okay." I told him, "All right, that's enough." He wouldn't stop. I fired a shot, man. That's it. That's it, bro. One warning shot to get off me, man. Not to hurt him, just to be like, "Yo, you know what I mean? You know he ain't going to beat out of me. You ain't going to keep beating the [ __ ] out of me, man." HE'S NOT GOING TO KEEP beating me, man. He told me he dead, bro. Bro, he's not my best friend, bro. This is my best friend, bro. Bro, he cannot be dead, man. Dog, he cannot be dead, man. He cannot be dead. He's not dead, man. Hey, listen. He's not dead, man. Can we uh He's not dead, man. >> get you to come back in and talk a little bit? We we got to figure out what we need to do with you, my man. Dog. Bro. There's no way I took somebody in my eyes. No way I took my best friend's life. There's no way I took No. Thank y'all. Hell no, man. Hell no, man. Hell no. No. No. All right. You guys not going to arrest this guy? We don't know yet. We just We haven't even been to where it happened at. Okay, but he's I mean, he's admitted to shooting him. Right. So, I mean, we can't just keep him in the back of the ambulance. Okay. Satterfield. He wants to know what we're going to do with the guy. I mean, he doesn't want to go to the hospital, but he's admitted to shooting the guy. So, >> to know if we're going to arrest him or not. Go to the hospital with them. What do you suggest, bro? I trust you more than I I can't I can't give you a Me personally, if it was me, I'd get checked out. You're bleeding from the ear. You got what looks like a possibly dislocated shoulder. You're a little beat up. It wouldn't hurt to get checked out. You think I'll be all right, man? I don't know. I've never I've I've had dislocated shoulders before, but that was like 20 years ago. I I don't know what >> been in a situation. I've never had to shoot a gun. You know what I mean? No. They can take you up there, you can get checked out, or you'll hang out with us. >> man. They're not going to do anything to you. Bro, I don't want to defend my life. They're not going to do anything that you don't want them to do, okay? >> Go to the jail. Arrest my life. Do I got six months over here? That's the last one The last thing I want as a man is to get ready to bring another human being in this life. You [snorts] have to defend a life. Defend my life, bro. And then get my [ __ ] thrown away in the system cuz I'm black. You know, just cuz I'm black. Not because I was right and I was wrong, because I'm black. That's hurt, man. That hurts more than anything. If you're going to go up with them, they'll stick an IV in you and give you some pain meds on the way up there. Either way, you're going to have to get that arm checked out. No No one's saying that. >> man? I didn't do nothing to nobody, man. You want to fight me, then fight me, [ __ ] Get off me, man. He wouldn't get off me. I [ __ ] tried to fight, dude. I didn't think he was going to kill. It was self-defense, man. He was my [ __ ] best friend, dude. We talked about everything. It's because I'm black, dude. They're going to say murder. Murder, murder, you you tried to murder. Hey, wake up, man. We talking in this [ __ ] Wake up, man. I forgive you, bro. Wake up. After the shooting, Kevin was rushed to the hospital for his injuries, and once treated, he was taken into custody for interrogation. >> We stay together, man. It's like It's not a married couple, but we would we would argue like a married couple. Sure. You know, if we bet who go to the bathroom faster, you best believe we always, you know, trying to not compete with each other, but I told you. Right. >> You know, I just want to be right. He just want to be right. I know that. Let's put 20 push-ups. Let's put 20 bucks behind that. You know, let's make it, you know, worth our while, whatever. Um not going to lie, I don't know what topic came up, but it was a topic that we didn't agree on. And to me, it was a normal we don't agree on this [ __ ] I'm going to say what I say. I'm going to listen to you. Speak your [ __ ] cuz I'm not going to, you know, just >> Right. You know, typical friendship [ __ ] man. Like >> Sure. How long have you known Avery? Over a year. Over a It don't matter. You're going to be gone in a week. None of that [ __ ] dude. So, yeah, I I, you know, go to um uh over his mom's house and whatnot. Going and I pay my daughter in Houston and whatnot. Got a freaking 8-year-old son in Alabama. Like all this [ __ ] and believe it or not we got so much in common. Our children are the same age. Only difference is his twins my daughter's but they're twins. I had two of them and when I say we oh man Dude, this is unreal. Where did he hit you at first? In my in this area. Cuz he's right-handed. He hit me in my face. Um And honestly from that lick I remember going to the ground and just getting humbled, man. I get up run away he's still like reaching out trying to grab the back of my shirt and I'm I'm like a little brother. He's 33, I'm 29. Just turned 29 so I call him big bro. So I'm looking at him like a big brother really I don't recognize right now. You know? Like for one all right, you know, you put your hands on me but damn you trying to beat the hell out of me, dude. Like dude, you this [ __ ] hurt my feelings. This [ __ ] hurt my feelings, man. You got me all [ __ ] up. You [ __ ] up me, man. You [ __ ] up me, bro. Came and swung again. You know what I mean? He hit me. And that's when it everything got quiet. In May 2024, nearly 2 years after the incident on May 15th, 2022, Tevin Morissette was found not guilty of second-degree murder with a jury accepting that he acted in self-defense. However, he was convicted of tampering with evidence and sentenced to 3 years in prison. Having already spent significant time in custody, he was released and placed under supervised probation bringing the case to a legal close. >> [music]