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00:00We're at a party at a pit wheel and someone was shooting and someone got caught.
00:29Okay, hold on one second, okay?
00:31All right.
00:32Yeah?
00:33And you're at the pit wheel?
00:35Are you with the patient now that was shot?
00:38Yes.
00:39All right.
00:40Where were they shot at?
00:42I don't know.
00:43I don't know.
00:44They were one of my friends.
00:46Okay, do you know who shot them?
00:48No.
00:49Okay.
00:50I've got people in the way, okay?
00:59A call for service comes out saying there's an active shooter.
01:10So we knew that this was a warehouse concert event.
01:14As an officer, we know our job is to get there and help isolate the threat.
01:19In round two, the location, my body camera activates automatically because there's an
01:31emergency happening.
01:3424, I'm on scene.
01:3624, receive it.
01:37Anytime you hear there is a threat, there is a firearm, there is a weapon, it is normal
01:43for your brain to go, this is dangerous, this could harm you.
01:47I'm a father, I'm married, I have a family, but the sheriff's office is expected to protect
01:53the citizens of Smith County.
01:57Right now, officer just showed up.
01:59Somebody just got shot down here.
02:00Where's the shooter?
02:01They're right at the warehouse.
02:02Where's the shooter?
02:03There's a guy in a white shirt with a gun.
02:06There's a gun?
02:07He's here now.
02:07Okay.
02:08All right.
02:08So there's officers here now.
02:1024, getting reports that the gunman has already left the scene.
02:15I'm going to go ahead and double check.
02:16I'm already parked out here on the loop extension at the entrance of Tidwell.
02:20Several subjects are leaving at a high rate of speed.
02:22You might want to pick it up, guys.
02:24Nobody knows.
02:25Nobody knows at this time who the suspect is.
02:31You guys okay?
02:32Yes, somebody up there, please.
02:34He's bleeding out.
02:35Hey, sir, he got shot.
02:36Please.
02:36We got one victim, according to witnesses.
02:42Is the shooter still up there?
02:43Go, go, go, go.
02:43Shooter?
02:44Go, go, go.
02:47As deputies approach the scene, they observe people running from the location as if their
02:52life's depending on it.
02:53You don't know if one of those even could be the shooter.
02:59Or if there's multiple shooters, but you still have to get in there.
03:02Put him down.
03:03Put him down.
03:03Let me see him.
03:04Let me see him.
03:04Where'd he get hit?
03:05Where'd he get hit?
03:06I'll put a bandana right there.
03:08Okay.
03:08All right.
03:08I got an ambulance coming.
03:10Shooter.
03:10Where's he at?
03:11I don't know.
03:12Nobody knows who the shooter is?
03:13No, we don't know.
03:15We don't know who he left?
03:16There's somebody going to the hospital right now.
03:17All right.
03:17Put it down.
03:18Put it down.
03:20Ow!
03:20Trill.
03:21Trill.
03:21Where's the shooter, bro?
03:24Is it really blood right there, bro?
03:25Hey!
03:26Don't worry about that.
03:28Trill, don't worry about it, bro.
03:3024, I got one victim shot in the leg.
03:32The victim was identified as Kentrell.
03:34We want to save this man's life.
03:36But you have a femoral artery inside your thigh, and it can be 20 to 30 seconds.
03:41You can bleed out of your body.
03:42You only have seconds to go depending on if it's a deep wound.
03:47Come on.
03:48It's okay.
03:48You want me to untie me?
03:49Bandana or no?
03:50No, I ain't no.
03:51We got him.
03:53We got him.
03:54The deputy takes his tourniquet and applies it to the leg.
03:57Open your leg just slowly.
03:58Open your leg.
03:59Good.
03:59Come on.
03:59Catch you.
04:00Come on.
04:01It's okay.
04:01The big one that got shot.
04:02Come on.
04:03Come on.
04:03I don't think he's breathing.
04:04All right, look at me.
04:05No, he's laying right there by the way.
04:06This is great.
04:07This one about it.
04:08He's going to be digging just too much.
04:09All right, this might be a little tight, all right?
04:11It's going to be a little tight.
04:12It's okay.
04:13It's okay.
04:13The tourniquet has then slid in and around the thigh and applying pressure and strapping
04:18it down.
04:18We then wind it up and tighten it.
04:20We got to do that.
04:21We got to do that.
04:22We brought them down here.
04:23We got to do that.
04:24I'm so sorry.
04:26We got to do that.
04:27All right.
04:28It's going to be a little tight.
04:2924, just for information, tourniquet's been put on.
04:41And then we can tell the blood flow is stopped and we leave it there until a medical personnel
04:47take it off.
04:48Sir, did you check on the person inside?
04:52Is there somebody inside?
04:54There's someone right there.
04:55They transported another person.
04:57He's laying right there.
04:58There should be somebody inside.
04:59Is there somebody else inside, sir?
05:01Yes, sir.
05:02Then deputies have seen the information that there was another gunshot victim at the location.
05:07Just more and more chaos.
05:0924, you hit that or outside the facility.
05:1224, we got a second victim possible.
05:14Come on.
05:15Speed it up.
05:15Three, can you pause for another victim?
05:17They found the next gunshot victim shirtless at the entrance of the club.
05:22Where'd he get hit?
05:24God, look at his mouth.
05:25I think he got hit in his mouth.
05:26I think he got hit in his mouth.
05:29That's why I'm trying to make sure I'm going to do it.
05:32Temple, we got two victims.
05:33One shot in the leg.
05:34The other one, I don't know where he's hit.
05:35He's unresponsive at this time.
05:38EMS is on scene.
05:39They're coming.
05:40Who did this?
05:41Does anybody know who did this?
05:42Nobody?
05:43No.
05:44They're providing the CPR and it's just, it's terrible.
05:49They see a small amount of blood coming out of his mouth.
05:51They see him proned out on the ground and he's not responding to anyone talking to him.
05:55Where's my victim?
05:56Up the top to the right.
05:58We get medical up there.
05:59That's when we realize that he is an actual gunshot wound to his back.
06:04Who's the shot at?
06:05This is not something we're unaccustomed to, but it's something that no one wants to deal
06:10with as a human being.
06:11What's his name?
06:12It's Keontae Barrett.
06:14K-U-I?
06:15U-N-D-T.
06:17U-N-D-T.
06:18That's what we need to ask.
06:20We learned the identity of the unresponsive victim as Keontae Barrett.
06:25He was transported to the hospital.
06:26Keontae was a real good kid.
06:39He was lovable.
06:41He was happy.
06:42He got along with his brothers and sisters.
06:44He cared for all of them.
06:46And he was showing them the way that it's supposed to be.
06:50The moment I found out about Keontae getting shot, his brother had called me.
06:55I said, Daddy, they just called me and told me Keontae got shot.
06:59I was in disbelief.
07:01They said, hurry up, get to the hospital because Keontae's been shot.
07:06Why my son?
07:08Why my son?
07:10I didn't understand.
07:12Keontae was a good person.
07:15I was asking God, you know, why?
07:20Well, we need to make sure we get our scene integrity going up so we move everybody out
07:23here just for a moment.
07:24We're up.
07:25Once we have the medically injured taken care of, we do a safety sweep of the area.
07:31We want to make sure that we don't have a shooter here anymore.
07:34We don't have an active threat.
07:38Where were they, shot in the leg or the back?
07:39Do you remember where they were?
07:40Who was shot in the leg?
07:41One is headed to the hospital right now and one is shot in the side.
07:45I don't know.
07:46You didn't see anything happen?
07:47No, sir.
07:47The shooter has left.
07:49Information was passed that another gunshot victim, Ira, had already been transported
07:55to the hospital.
07:55When I arrive on scene, I do take control of the scene, being the lead detective.
08:03Every decision from there on out goes through me.
08:07At that point, we had three victims at the hospital that had been shot.
08:11That's where the first victim was sitting.
08:15The first one got transported by POV.
08:17That wooden fence, that's where the second victim was.
08:23EMS trash where he was lying.
08:25First thing I want to do is talk to my deputies to see what they've gathered so far.
08:30Shooting happened inside, correct?
08:32Yes.
08:33You're going to walk in.
08:34There's a stage right in the middle.
08:36On the left-hand side is where the case scenes are.
08:39So let's go check that out.
08:41My deputies led me to believe that the shooting actually occurred inside the building.
08:50So, of course, we were brought to inside the warehouse.
08:55Inside the warehouse, just chaotic scene.
08:58But one thing I was able to notice right away were casings.
09:05I could actually observe them on the concrete floor.
09:09There's clothing items all over the place.
09:12Chairs torn down.
09:14We can see blood spatter on ground, on some objects.
09:21You can tell that from the knocked-over tables, the trash, cups everywhere, just chaos.
09:28My crime scene technician was able to show me evidence of bullet holes in the ceiling.
09:35We found out that a flyer went out for the rap group, the Head Honchos.
09:40They were inviting people to come party with them at Tidwill that night, and that's why everyone
09:47was there that night.
09:49From the evidence so far, we still had a lot of unanswered questions.
09:54We needed more to move forward with our investigation.
09:59I did have deputies go talk to witnesses that were still located on scene and bring those
10:04statements back to me.
10:06And as soon as it happened, everyone got down and I died off to the stage.
10:11The shots started going off probably like 10, maybe 10, 15 seconds after the fight started.
10:16What we need to know is who was here, why were you here, what was going on, what did you see?
10:20Colin, did you see anything?
10:22I was the DJ.
10:23Okay.
10:24I was on stage, I was DJing, and I started seeing the scuffle, so naturally, I turned the
10:31music off.
10:32When I turned off the music, the next thing I knew, I just heard the shots.
10:37And we all just got down, and when I got up, my friend Cheryl was hit and my friend Junior
10:42was hit.
10:43Colin did mention that this all started over an initial physical altercation on the
10:52stage during the concert that night.
10:54Did you see anybody that was doing the shooting?
10:56No, one of them.
10:57What's his name?
10:58PJ.
10:59PJ?
11:00PJ is one of the people involved in the shooting?
11:03Yeah, I only know his alias is PJ.
11:06Who is PJ, and is he my potential shooter?
11:10We need to find out everything we can about him, because he is still a potential threat.
11:15We still don't know exactly what happened, and it was still a mystery for us.
11:29Our deputies were continuing to get witness statements throughout the night.
11:32Receiving the name PJ, the first thing I start thinking is, was this an intentional shooting?
11:37There are so many questions and scenarios that go through my head now.
11:41We need to find out if that's even his real name.
11:44Nicknamed is PJ, or is that short for something?
11:47It might be short.
11:48We do not know.
11:49It might be.
11:50We just know about PJ.
11:52White, black, Hispanic.
11:53He is American.
11:54Anybody know where PJ lives?
11:55The apartment complex in Tyler.
11:56That's all I can tell you.
11:57He lives there with his mom.
11:58Okay.
11:59So PJ lives with his mom.
12:00Through our law enforcement resources and our research, we were able to locate PJ's address.
12:08We wanted to get our deputies and detectives over there as soon as possible so we could pick him up and bring him in for questioning.
12:15We located PJ and we interviewed him.
12:28Do you like to go by your last name?
12:31PJ, is that okay?
12:32Okay.
12:33Detective Smith, how are you?
12:34We've been out this all day.
12:36Huh?
12:37We've been out this all day.
12:38Well, yeah, I was going to say, you know we've been out this all day.
12:41So, we kind of, the place, you know.
12:43And your name may give me all day.
12:46We're good or bad?
12:49It ain't good.
12:50PJ was a young man looking to make a name for himself.
12:54He tells me that he'd go where he'd want to go, where he'd do what he'd want to do.
12:59Do me a favor.
13:00Start to finish.
13:01Tell me from the minute you got there to the minute you left.
13:05What is going on?
13:07PJ was there that night at the concert for the rap group, the Head Honchos.
13:13PJ let us know that he's had beef with the Head Honchos for a long time.
13:18During one of the Head Honchos songs they started singing, which was called Red Rum.
13:23And of course, Red Rum means murder, if you twisted words around.
13:28He got very offended by it.
13:30And this is what started PJ going on this stage and start fighting them.
13:34Tells us he's more of a physical fighter and does not carry a gun.
13:40People texting me through PJ.
13:44Was you shooting at the party?
13:45Was you shooting at the party?
13:46Was you shooting at the party?
13:47Was you shooting at the party?
13:48I know you're going to mess with guns.
13:49Are you shooting?
13:50I don't mess with guns with the .
13:51I mean, what in the world do I look like messing with a gun?
13:56I'm on probation.
13:57Get caught with one.
13:59I'm gone.
14:00I don't want to spend no time in jail.
14:03I don't have any intentions.
14:05I don't feel the need to take nobody off this earth unless they threatening me.
14:09What I mean by threatening is in a kill to be killed situation.
14:12PJ did not see who the shooter was, did not.
14:16After our interview with PJ, it was determined that we didn't have any evidence at that time.
14:22We had nothing to hold him on.
14:24I'm more scared of the police than I'm scared of another African-American.
14:28We did eventually let him go and leave the sheriff's office.
14:33Can you take me?
14:34I will.
14:45We were, of course, looking for all types of leads.
14:48So I sent my fellow detectives to the hospital so they could talk to the victims to see if they could relay any new evidence to see who had shot them.
14:57So one of the victims my detective spoke to at the hospital was Cantrell.
15:02Cantrell actually was shot in the leg while on scene.
15:07We were trying to figure out if there was a beef with somebody, if there was somebody pissed off at you or him.
15:15If you guys were up there rapping, was it a rap battle?
15:18Were you talking crap about somebody?
15:20We were just trying to get, like, we were just trying to get people out of the state that didn't belong.
15:25Do you know who that dude was?
15:34Cantrell just gave me a very vague statement that he was at the club.
15:39He heard people fighting and then he was shot.
15:43Cantrell just didn't really give any indication that he knew who the shooter was.
15:48There was a lot of things that weren't answered that I needed answers to.
15:52So after speaking to Cantrell, we located another victim that had also been shot in the leg, Ira, who was in another part of the hospital.
16:03Tell me about when you got hit.
16:05Did you feel it in the back?
16:06No, like, no, with the, uh, I had got punched in the eye first.
16:10Like, somebody hit me in the eye, and then it was like maybe three seconds later, it was pow, pow.
16:16And then, I don't know, I didn't feel the gunshot at first.
16:19But then, like, I slowly started falling down, and I was like, yeah, I got shot.
16:25Ira stated that there was a fight that had broken out, and he ended up getting shot in the leg.
16:31Ira also said he didn't see who shot the gun.
16:35We asked him if he could identify anybody on that stage that was included in the fight, and the name he gave us was Trayvon Maddox.
16:44But that was his own friend, and he had no thought in the world that his own friend would shoot him.
16:50However, Trayvon Maddox needs to be located, because now I'm interested in what Tray has to say and what he observed that night.
16:59The atmosphere that night in the hospital lobby, it was what you would expect, um, with a lot of concerned people looking for information on their family member or their friend.
17:14We also noticed the other victims, Keontae's parents, were there sitting in a consulting room to where they, they were alone away from everyone.
17:24Detective Loftus and I began speaking to the parents.
17:28The parents.
17:29Alright, Ron.
17:30Your son, what's your son's name?
17:32Keontae.
17:33Keontae.
17:34K-U-Y.
17:35U-N-E-T-A.
17:36Barrett.
17:37He got a tattoo on his arm.
17:39Is it?
17:40A red, on my blue rose with Susan.
17:42Susan.
17:43I love the tattoos.
17:45Yeah.
17:46Yeah, on his shoulder.
17:47I forgot what that name is.
17:49Um, he, he was brought in, um, it was too much damage.
17:57He didn't make it?
17:58No, sir.
17:59Oh my God!
18:00Oh no!
18:01We had to notify them of what had happened.
18:06Keontae had passed and we, we knew at that point we were working a homicide investigation.
18:13And the, the totality and everything kind of got a lot more intense at that point.
18:20They told us that, um, they couldn't save him.
18:26That they lost him.
18:29That was the moment that it sunk into me that, I'm gonna have to bury a child.
18:35I just lost a son.
18:38And I was asking God like, what did, what did I do?
18:43What did I do wrong for you, for, for you to punish me because you took my son from me?
18:52I died when Keontae died.
18:53I died when Keontae died.
18:57I died when Keontae died.
19:04Oh, .
19:06Oh my God!
19:07Oh my God!
19:08Oh my God!
19:09Oh my God!
19:10Oh my God!
19:11Oh my God!
19:12Oh my God!
19:13Oh my God!
19:14Oh my God!
19:15Oh my God!
19:16Just calm down!
19:17When I did let them know, the father was extremely distraught.
19:21He actually knocked me against the wall, getting out the door.
19:25And the whole room went dark because he knocked me up against the light switch.
19:30After I notified the parents, they left the room and notified everybody that was outside
19:35that were also waiting for information.
19:38The whole ER erupted.
19:50They were distraught.
19:52They were upset.
19:53They were sad.
19:54And it was, it was just chaos.
19:59They better not hit it!
20:00Back up!
20:01You better not hit it!
20:02Back up!
20:03Back up!
20:04Back up!
20:05Back up!
20:06Back up!
20:07Everybody back up!
20:08Back up!
20:09Back up!
20:10Get everybody out of here!
20:12Everybody out!
20:13Back up!
20:14Everybody out!
20:15Back up!
20:16Everybody out!
20:17Back up!
20:19There were pictures coming off the wall.
20:22Tyler P.D. officers were struggling to keep people at bay, to keep them from tearing the
20:28room up.
20:29There was a ton of emotion in that room.
20:31Everybody, come on!
20:32Come on!
20:33Everybody get some help!
20:34Get some help!
20:35Get some help!
20:36Get some help!
20:37I knew that!
20:38Everybody crown the ring!
20:39Let me go!
20:42Let me go!
20:43Let me go!
20:44Let me go!
20:45Let me go!
20:46The very next thing we needed to do was get back control of that situation and get
20:51everybody out.
20:52It was a tense situation.
20:54It was a bomb ready to go off.
20:56Back up!
21:01Back up!
21:02Back up!
21:03We were no longer working just a shooting.
21:07We were working a murder.
21:09Emotions were high.
21:11Names were being thrown out.
21:13Blame was being thrown out, which caused people to actually start fighting each other
21:17because of who they were accusing or who they were protecting.
21:20One of the names that was being thrown out was Trayvon Maddox.
21:25We needed to turn our attention to Trayvon and get him in for an interview.
21:37During our research on information on Trayvon Maddox, it was brought to our attention that
21:43he had a previous arrest for an unlawful carry of a weapon.
21:46This definitely tells us that Trayvon could possibly be armed with a handgun and he possibly
21:52is our shooter.
21:53Through our law enforcement resources, we were able to produce an address for Trayvon.
21:58So the next morning, myself, Detective Smith, Detective McClanahan all went to Trayvon's
22:10apartment to make contact with him.
22:13We were in the hospital.
22:14Hey!
22:15Trayvon!
22:16How are you?
22:17Good morning!
22:18Hey!
22:19So of course, you know why we're here, right?
22:21About what happened last night?
22:22Yeah, because I know you were one of the individuals there, right?
22:25Yes, ma'am.
22:26Okay.
22:27Trayvon tells me right away, I was expecting you guys to come to my house.
22:31He appeared to be calm, cooperative, wasn't really worried that we were there.
22:36Did you ever go to the hospital?
22:37I couldn't go to the hospital because they thought I did it.
22:40They thought, like, I shot him, like, literally.
22:42They thought...
22:43Who said that?
22:44Everybody, like, all his family, like, because they were trying to fight with my friend,
22:49right?
22:50Mm-hmm.
22:51He said that he knew that a lot of people were so-called trash-talking him, calling him
22:56the shooter, saying that he's the one that shot Keontae and being blamed for it.
23:00So I continued to press Trayvon on what happened at the club.
23:05People came on stage and they hit my homeboy, Trill.
23:08So when they hit him, gunshots went off.
23:11Mm-hmm.
23:12And when the gunshots went off, I heard two gunshots, right?
23:15I heard two gunshots.
23:16He got hit in the leg.
23:17He said, oh, I'm shot.
23:19So I grabbed his gun.
23:21I shot in the air.
23:22There's a bullet hole in the...
23:23You can go look at Tidwell.
23:24There is a bullet hole in the air where I shot right in the air.
23:27And then three more shots went off at us.
23:29At what?
23:30At us.
23:31On stage.
23:32When Trayvon mentioned that he grabbed a gun from Cantrell's waist, this was the first
23:35time I've heard that Cantrell had a gun on him.
23:38Now, according to Trayvon, he said he wanted to fire Cantrell's gun, fire it in the air because
23:44he wanted people to scatter and run away.
23:47He actually told us to go check the ceiling at Tidwell, which we already knew there was
23:54holes in the ceiling.
23:55So this was something that supported his story.
23:58But was it the initial first shot?
24:00It's still unknown at this point, but it's important that we find out.
24:05Where's the gun at?
24:06He said, where's the gun?
24:07The gun is in my car.
24:11Like, I didn't drive in my car here because I was drunk.
24:14It was at Tidwell.
24:15I gave my keys back to my homeboy.
24:18It was still hard to believe that he didn't know where this gun was.
24:22It was definitely suspicious.
24:23So we needed to bring him down to our office for more questioning.
24:27We don't have a rest warrant or anything from you, okay?
24:29Our main goal is just to find out what is going on.
24:31I will be right here if y'all have any rest warrant.
24:34Well, no, here's it.
24:35Well, now I will say this, though.
24:37We do need you to come with us, though, okay?
24:57Yeah, it's going down this way.
25:01When we arrive to our office with Trayvon, of course, we walk him in and we sit him in one of our interview rooms.
25:09We know he had more to give.
25:11We know he knows more than actually what he told us.
25:14And we're hoping to go in there and get that information from him.
25:22From the beginning and as best as you can, everything you can remember, okay?
25:27So, we was all on stage and, like, we're performing and there's a group that don't like us.
25:31And one of them got mad when he got on stage and pushed my homeboy and then he hit him.
25:36And when he hit him, I heard a shot, like, somebody shot.
25:39And my homeboy looked at me and he said, I got shot.
25:41And then I grabbed my homeboy's gun and I shot in the air to make everybody leave.
25:45And that's when I heard three more shots in the crowd.
25:47And then everybody, like, ran, like, after them three shots.
25:50And then there was this big dude, the G-dude.
25:52He was outside with a gun.
25:53He initially stuck with his story.
25:56But during further questioning, he finally revealed to us a name of an individual that he saw outside of the club with a gun in his hand and gave us the name G, which stood for Giavari.
26:07It could be the fact that he's just trying to get all this off of him and steer us in a different direction.
26:14But it's still a lead we need to follow up with because Giavari could have been the possible shooter, too, of Keontae.
26:20All right, sit tight for a second.
26:22Trayvon admitted to shooting a gun in a place that was full with innocent bystanders, a very crowded place.
26:33So we made the decision to go forward and arrest him for deadly conduct, which is a felony charge.
26:40He was taken to our Smith County jail.
26:47We still had unanswered questions, especially with the gun that Trayvon used.
26:54Where it was, you know, we had no idea at that point.
26:57And this was something that was very important to this case because, again, in the back of my mind, he still could be responsible for Keontae's death.
27:07It is extremely important to find the gun that Trayvon used because that's something that we can do ballistic analysis on to prove if he was responsible for Keontae's death or he just shot up in the ceiling.
27:22Trayvon being charged and arrested at the time gave us a little time to conduct more investigations to find out what actually is true about what he told us.
27:33Due to Trayvon mentioning Giavari to us, especially with a gun in his hands, he's now become someone of interest to us in this case.
27:42During our initial research with Giavari, he had no criminal history.
27:46He had no connection to any of our victims, but we need to follow up any lead that leads us to anyone who could be responsible for Keontae's death.
27:54So we start watching him during surveillance.
27:59Then I received word from my narcotics detectives and fellow deputies of they saw Giavari get in his car and followed him.
28:10We had the radio on, and we were listening.
28:14He could be armed and dangerous.
28:16Hey, felony stop, guys.
28:18Felony stop.
28:195070's putting over just by the 12-volt motel.
28:27It's a high-risk traffic stop where officers, when they initially get out, they don't approach the vehicle.
28:33They actually will have weapons drawn, and they will call out the suspect out of their vehicle and have them walk back to them because, again, he could be potentially armed.
28:43Driver, roll down your window.
28:48Turn off your engine.
28:50Take your keys out of the ignition.
28:54Go ahead, throw your keys out.
28:55Knowing a suspect might be armed, you have to be ready for in and in everything, especially when you're investigating the shooting, and he could be one of the shooters.
29:08I've been in law enforcement 20 years.
29:12I don't know if I've ever done a simple traffic stop and not been nervous.
29:18Open the door from the outside.
29:31Go ahead and step out.
29:32Keep your hands visible.
29:34Keep your hands up.
29:40Step out.
29:43Just step out.
29:45Keep your hands up.
29:46Turn away from me.
29:48Back up slowly.
29:51During the felony traffic stop, deputies were able to call out the individual driving the car back to them and properly detain him.
30:01They were able to identify the individual as being Giovari.
30:08What's going on?
30:13Use the key to open the trunk? It's in the trunk?
30:18Good.
30:20Hey, he said you need the key to open up the trunk. That's where the pistol's at.
30:24During Giovari's felony traffic stop, officers located a handgun in the trunk of his vehicle.
30:34Finding a firearm in Giovari's vehicle was very important, especially if this could be the potential murder weapon of Keontae.
30:43Do you mind passing that seat?
30:44Yeah.
30:45Once they had Giovari detained and in custody, they did bring him down to the sheriff's office for an interview.
31:04He was willing to talk to us.
31:06He was willing to talk to us.
31:07You start.
31:08All right, so boom.
31:09I probably wasn't even there for like 15 minutes.
31:13So I get there, whatever this is. I mean, I can tell there's a lot of tension going on from some guys that's on the dance floor and some guys that's on the stage.
31:25And they just start fighting on stage, probably 10, 16 seconds. That's when you hear the first shot.
31:34Pow!
31:35And then after the first one, like two more went out. That was like back to back. They were like pow, pow.
31:40So we had everybody trying to get out the door or whatever.
31:44I wouldn't have got my gun. I grabbed my gun from the car. I didn't have my gun at first. I grabbed my gun from the car.
31:50Giovari stated that he actually retreated his gun from his car, but it was after the shots had been fired already and people were running out of the building.
32:02Giovari tells us that he went to grab his gun and it was for his protection.
32:06Giovari admitted getting his firearm from his vehicle, but he also stated that he didn't shoot.
32:13I was skeptical to anything Giovari was saying.
32:17He was very adamant on clearing his name and wanting us to know and believe that he had no involvement in the death of Keontae Barrett.
32:37He shared a lot of information with us and was very forthcoming.
32:42But Giovari was arrested on unrelated charges for marijuana.
32:48We still need to take that weapon and still have it analyzed, see if it is ruled out or potentially the murder weapon.
32:55As we continue to investigate, a rumor was brought to our attention that a man named Nathan Austin was in possible possession of the gun that Trayvon used.
33:11With that information, a team of investigators went to locate Nathan and found Nathan at a pond.
33:26When detectives approach Nathan in the pond, the first thing he says to them is, I'm looking for the gun that Trayvon used.
33:33Nathan does tell detectives he is responsible for throwing the gun in the pond.
33:38So with this new information, we brought Nathan to our office for further questioning.
33:45This is Detective Teresa.
33:46Hi Nathan.
33:47I'm going to turn my phone on silent, okay?
33:51So she shows up and she's like, I've got this, Tray gave me this gun.
33:55She wanted to throw it in late, Tyler.
33:57I was just like, that's dumb.
33:59Nathan did admit to us that he was there at Tidwell after they went to the hospital.
34:06While he was at the hospital, he was actually approached by a girl there who said that she was at the concert that night and that she had possession of Trayvon's gun.
34:17I was like, just come out of my land and put it in my lake so that then you don't get seen on the side of the road.
34:22She just kept freaking out, freaking out, freaking out and said she wanted to get rid of it and I was like, fine just give it to me and I'll do it.
34:27So she took the gun out of the trunk and handed it to you?
34:30Yeah, she followed me down to the lake and then I had third in the lake.
34:36At this point, since we don't know the actual identification of the actual shooter, Nathan is now suspect as well.
34:44Everybody's a suspect until the actual shooter is identified.
34:48During my interview with Nathan, he allowed us to search his cell phone, which provided us messages between him and Trayvon.
34:56Trayvon wanted Nathan to recover the gun from the pond because he believed this would clear his name.
35:03It was very important for us to recover this weapon, this gun that was now in this pond.
35:12It's a big piece of evidence because any gun recovered in this case is a potential murder weapon, the weapon that killed Keontae Barrick.
35:21The main priority is locating the gun, so the die team was assembled.
35:26And the die team was able to locate the gun in the pond.
35:35We have Trayvon's gun and Giavari's gun sent off for testing to see if one of those matches the bullet.
35:47And that took Keontae's life.
35:49Eventually, we did get the results back.
35:52In the investigation, we located and tested Giavari's gun, and we also tested the gun located in the pond that was used by Trayvon and discarded by Nathan.
36:14One of the guns resulted in being a match for the gun used to kill Keontae.
36:19When I did receive the results of the ballistic testing, proving which gun shot and killed Keontae,
36:28I decided to go to the Smith County jail where Trayvon was still being held on the deadly conduct charge
36:34and actually give him the news of my findings.
36:37We do have to tell you something.
36:41What do you think?
36:42Well, it's not good news.
36:44What do you think?
36:45What do you think?
36:49We dragged the pawn, got the gun back, and it was where they were at, okay?
36:53There was no magazine.
36:54But we do know for a fact, from evidence, they were shot more than once.
37:00Barrett?
37:01Mm-hmm.
37:02Keontae?
37:03Keontae?
37:04Yeah.
37:05Yeah.
37:06Yeah.
37:07Yeah, he was murdered by that gun.
37:09How was he murdered by that gun?
37:11How was he shot by that gun if I never, I did not shoot him with that gun? How was he murdered by that gun?
37:19Ballistic analysis came back and showed that Trayvon's gun mashed the bullet that killed Keontae Barrett.
37:26The bullet that killed Barrett came from the gun that was in your hand.
37:31How did they, how?
37:33Please tell me now.
37:34Because there's a new Mac, okay, forensic science, okay?
37:37They did all the testing.
37:39The gun was shot more than once.
37:41There was a witness who said that you didn't double tap.
37:44You may have not realized it.
37:46I did not shoot that boy.
37:49That was my friend.
37:50I know.
37:51He kept on repeating that he'd shot up in the ceiling.
37:55He also would say maybe it was a ricochet.
37:58Maybe the bullet bounced.
37:59But again, I told Trayvon that even if it was a ricochet, the science behind it and all the evidence, even if with a ricochet, you're responsible for that bullet.
38:10You knowingly pulled the trigger and you're responsible for wherever that bullet goes.
38:15He was in disbelief.
38:16He still did not believe that he killed Keontae.
38:20Why would I shoot him?
38:21Honestly, I believe it was an accident.
38:25I do believe it was an accident.
38:30I mean, he had took a life.
38:31He should have been, in my eyes, remorseful, apologizing.
38:43I understand being in disbelief, but it didn't seem like there was too much remorse there.
38:48Keontae was dead.
38:51His family is grieving.
38:54He knew Keontae.
38:56As a result of the investigation, Trayvon pled to the charge of mass slaughter and was sentenced in 10 years.
39:12There was no time that I thought Nathan Austin was responsible for the death of Keontae Barrett.
39:17There was nothing pointing towards him being involved.
39:20It's still unknown if there's more than one shooter.
39:23Until this day, we still have not been able to identify who else shot that night.
39:28But we know Trayvon Maddox shot Keontae.
39:32I don't believe Trayvon did it intentionally.
39:35I believe it was an accident.
39:38But you have to question, when he said he shot in an error, what exactly does that mean?
39:43There's no way to tell, and somebody died from it.
39:46It was a relief to be able to let the parents know that we had found the person responsible for killing Keontae.
39:55And when I first heard that they had arrested somebody and who it was, I mean, I knew this kid.
40:02And I knew this kid's parents.
40:05And had that kid would have came to me and told me that it was an accident, that he accidentally did that,
40:11then I could have forgiven him for that.
40:15But due to the fact that he tried to hide it and cover it up and act like he didn't do it,
40:22and didn't show no remorse when we was in the courtroom,
40:25nah, I don't accept the type of sentencing that they gave him.
40:32My life is still in 2019.
40:35The day my baby died, that's the day I stopped living.
40:39I really haven't processed it.
40:41I know he's not coming back.
40:43And I know Keontae would want me to go on, but it feels like I'm stuck in 2019.
40:48When my son died, I died.
40:51After Keontae passed, his brothers and sisters, we had these made for him.
41:03It's a keepsake for Keontae to always remember him by.
41:08On the back, it's got a saying on it.
41:11You'll always be near to our hearts.
41:14This is my memory of him.
41:17I mean, it's just, you know, it's bittersweet.
41:21He was a good kid, taken too soon.
41:26He was a good kid.
41:30He wasn't a good kid.
41:33He was a good kid.
41:35He was a good kid.
41:37He was, you know, so have no kids.
41:39He was a good kid.
41:41I can't see him at all.
41:42He wasn't a good kid.
41:43I'm okay.
41:44I'm sorry.
41:45I'm sorry.
41:46I just don't think we're too bad.
41:47He was a good kid.
41:48I'd be able to commit to his problems.
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