Watch this police interrogation with intense raw interrogation from the interrogation room as police conduct a full interrogation of a suspect. This raw interrogation footage captures every moment of the suspect interview, complete with deception detection techniques, and criminal psychology in true JCS style interrogation. The Background Key people: Tamara McLoyd (then 18, of Garfield Heights area), perpetrator; Shane Bartek (25), off-duty Cleveland Police Department officer (hired 2019, Fifth District); co-participants in related prior robberies included Jermaine Hagwood and Jada Hite (getaway driver); Anthony Butler Jr. later possessed/drove the stolen vehicle. Relationships: No prior personal connection between McLoyd and Bartek. McLoyd had a juvenile record, including probation (from Lorain County) for involvement in a prior armed robbery/home invasion around the time the 2021 robbery spree began. Motive: Part of a series of armed robberies and carjackings for material gain (vehicles, phones, cash, etc.) in the weeks leading up to the incident; no indication of targeting Bartek specifically as a police officer. The Crime Date/location: December 31, 2021 (New Year’s Eve), approximately 6–6:30 p.m., parking lot of Cross Creek Apartments (Rocky River Drive area, Cleveland’s West Park/Kamm’s Corner neighborhood). Bartek was leaving for a Cleveland Cavaliers game. Details: McLoyd approached Bartek from behind while armed (revolver), demanded and obtained his cellphone, wallet, and car keys. Bartek lunged for the gun; McLoyd fired (reports of shots striking him, including fatally). She fled in his Mazda. Bartek was transported to a hospital and pronounced deceased. Related prior event: On December 25, 2021 (Christmas Day), at the same apartment complex, McLoyd (with another unidentified person) carjacked a man (Raphael Hernandez) unloading his vehicle. Planning/tampering elements: Occurred amid a documented string of armed robberies/carjackings (November–December 2021) involving McLoyd and others; surveillance captured the incident; no extensive long-term premeditation specific to Bartek beyond the pattern of opportunistic armed vehicle thefts. The Investigation Suspect behavior: McLoyd fled in the stolen vehicle, later transferred it (linked via Instagram messages and other means). She was arrested hours later (at a gas station area). In police interrogation (without an attorney present), she initially denied involvement but admitted shooting Bartek and possessing the vehicle shortly after; she claimed it was accidental. She also made admissions in a recorded jail call. Key evidence: Apartment complex surveillance video of the approach, struggle, shooting, and flight; McLoyd’s DNA on the recovered revolver; Instagram messages tying her to the vehicle transfer and prior Christmas Day carjacking; vehicle recovery after a police pursuit involving Anthony Butler Jr. (who later pleaded guilty to related lesser charges); autopsy consistent with video. Inconsistencies: McLoyd’s statements shifted from denial to admission (with “accident” claim); jury rejected prior-calculation-and-design aggravated murder but accepted purposeful killing during aggravated robbery. Forensic results were mixed in strength in some areas, but video and admissions were central. Conviction and Sentencing Trial: Jury trial in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court (Judge John O’Donnell). August 3, 2022: Guilty of aggravated murder (for death during aggravated robbery; not the prior-calculation count), murder, felonious assault, aggravated robbery, grand theft, having weapons under disability, and related charges tied to the Bartek killing and Christmas Day robbery. Separate proceedings/convictions for additional November–December 2021 armed robberies (with Hagwood and Hite). Sentences: September 27, 2022 (with later resentencing adjustment for firearm specifications): Life imprisonment with parole eligibility after approximately 47 years (initially reported in the 50–54-year range before adjustment). Hagwood received about 36.5 years; Hite about 16 years; Butler about 3 years on lesser charges. Convictions (including the murder) upheld on appeal by the Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals (2023)

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