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Terra.Anatolia
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00:00The investigation, the pursuit of justice, and the lasting impact on the loved ones left behind.
00:30Hey man, stay with me, okay?
00:39First responders find a man shot in the head and clinging to life.
00:43Keep breathing, keep breathing, stay with us.
00:46But he doesn't survive.
00:52For those most affected by homicide...
00:54To lose your child, to lose your baby, it hurt me to my core.
00:59The first 48 is just the beginning.
01:02It looked like the suspects and victim had no previous interactions together.
01:07That added to the pressure on me because I knew that this was going to be a random crime.
01:12This is the story of the fight for justice.
01:15There's no fingerprint that's going to put him at the duty.
01:18Is there any identification? The answer is pure and simple, no.
01:23My client had not pulled a gun until he felt that his life was in jeopardy.
01:29In the weeks, months, and years.
01:32If the defense was able to attack that evidence, then it's like a Jenga puzzle.
01:39The whole case could topple after the first 48.
01:53I was just at home. I just got back from church with my family.
01:57This was my first homicide. I was just actually assigned to the homicide unit.
02:02So, I was a little nervous. There was a lot of pressure on me.
02:05Hey.
02:1529-year-old Bradley Coleman grew up in Norcross, Georgia.
02:25He was a special education teacher and created his own clothing line.
02:29He leaves behind his parents, brother, and a six-year-old daughter.
02:34We're the voice for the voiceless.
02:36So, I tackle every case with, you know, 150%
02:39because we're working to give the family the closure they deserve.
02:44Single gunshot wound to the head.
02:47Here's a showcase.
02:48Next to Bradley, the team finds a 9-millimeter casing, a face mask, and a gun holster.
02:57This is his car.
02:59There's a phone in the car.
03:01Wallet.
03:02A holster right there on top.
03:03There were two empty holsters, so the victim probably had their own gun,
03:08and it appeared that the victim's gun may have been stolen.
03:12It's definitely unusual for this type of violence to occur in broad daylight at a very crowded gas station.
03:17So, we needed to put a picture together as far as what actually took place.
03:22One hour in.
03:24I'm in this black Impala right here.
03:27A witness comes forward.
03:30Just walk me through what happened.
03:32I saw a Mercedes park.
03:35He says a black Mercedes sedan pulled up next to Bradley's car.
03:40He saw the victim putting air into his tires.
03:42He then saw the suspect get out of the Mercedes
03:45and get into the victim's vehicle.
03:48And then the charger started backing up.
03:52Hit my car.
03:53He says Bradley got into the passenger side of his car
03:57and began fighting with the suspect.
03:59Then I saw the other guy coming off a Mercedes with a gun.
04:03A second suspect ran to Bradley's car.
04:06The other guy who was pulling the air.
04:08He also has a gun.
04:11How many shots did you hear?
04:12I heard just one.
04:15Did you see what the person looked like that he was fighting with?
04:19Back.
04:2125, 30.
04:23Black shorts.
04:24He says the suspects fled in the Mercedes.
04:27He said they had an out of state tag with light blue coloring on it.
04:31It would have been great if he could have specifically given me a tag number.
04:34But most people just aren't thinking about that.
04:36It's a stressful situation.
04:38Right now it would appear that this is going to be an attempted carjacking armed robbery.
04:43It looked like the suspects and victim had no previous interactions together.
04:49Knowing that added a little bit to the pressure on me because I knew that this was going to be a random crime.
04:55There's a lot of cameras over here.
04:57While the team downloads the surveillance video.
04:59We're going to go to an address that's on the driver's license for the victim.
05:07You can learn a lot from the victim's family about the victim, who they might be affiliated with, friends or enemies.
05:20The officer said, I'm sorry to inform you that Bradley was involved in a shooting.
05:27He did not make it from his gunshot wound.
05:32At that moment, I think I went into shock.
05:35I just could not believe what I was hearing.
05:38The first thing came to my mind, who would want to do something like that to Bradley?
05:44Everybody loves him. Nobody disliked Bradley.
05:47My husband fell to his knees.
05:54And began to weep.
05:57To lose your child.
05:59To lose your baby.
06:01It hurt me to my core.
06:06As hard as you try not to be emotional about these cases, I think it definitely impacts you while you're investigating it.
06:13But we learned Bradley's gun was legally bought. It was his gun. He had every right to carry it.
06:20So at that point, finding the Mercedes was critical. Because until I could definitively identify that car, I wasn't going to be able to figure out who was in it.
06:30Eight hours in.
06:34Did you get your quick trip video?
06:37Yes.
06:39Knowing that we had surveillance footage, that was huge. Because the victim can't speak. So hopefully the video could point us in the right direction of our suspects.
06:47There's the Mercedes.
06:49Passenger gets out.
06:50One of the suspects gets out of the back seat of the Mercedes and jumps into Bradley's car.
06:51They slide in there, they throw it in reverse, and they try and take the actual vehicle. It's called a slider theft.
07:08They stop.
07:11Another suspect got out of the front passenger seat, which meant that there was still somebody driving that Mercedes. So I knew I was looking for at least three suspects. That's where they're fighting.
07:22He gets shot right as he gets out of the car.
07:29Damn.
07:34The guy goes back to the car for something.
07:36So when he ran back to the Mercedes, I could actually see something fall off of his face, a blue surgical COVID mask.
07:44There you go.
07:46We can get DNA off of that. I knew it would take some time to get the DNA back, but that was a huge piece of evidence to have.
07:53You can't make out a tag or anything like that. That's the problem. And we weren't able to identify suspects because the cameras were too far away. It was too grainy.
08:02So we knew that we needed to start checking the Flock cameras and just had to sift through hundreds of images until we located a black Mercedes with a light blue tag.
08:1226 hours in.
08:23Around like 1130, the Mercedes is sitting on Flock.
08:26Less than an hour before the shooting, a Mercedes with out of state plates appears a half mile from the crime scene.
08:33It's that. He comes screaming up behind this guy.
08:40It was the only black Mercedes with an out of state license plate in that area around the time of that crime.
08:45What's the tag again?
08:48Charlie Victor.
08:50The most recent address comes back to this address.
08:54The license plate checks back to a woman in Chicago.
08:58She has at least three kids in the Winnett County area.
09:01But I didn't necessarily want to go knocking on doors and making phone calls just yet.
09:07Because if the registered owner is involved, you don't want to tip them off too early because then you might lose other evidence that could actually end up solving the case.
09:15With only six hours left in the first 48, they were able to track the vehicle on Flock the night before the murder down to Atlanta to a Texaco station.
09:34Harrison gets a lead from an officer in the West Precinct.
09:38You can see on the street cams that it's in this Texaco for like 30 minutes.
09:42We were very hopeful that we were going to be able to get footage from that night prior and actually see who was in the vehicle.
09:49Then...
09:51Your vehicle's on the move.
09:53Another Flock camera just picked up the Mercedes in DeKalb County, 30 miles southwest of Gwinnett.
10:00We were ecstatic when we heard that the Mercedes was moving.
10:03We wanted to get down there to get it stopped.
10:05We were hoping our killers are inside the car when we stop it.
10:12This is where Brad really started, playing football.
10:21I used to bring him here every day when he was playing in the rec league.
10:27Brad and his dad were really close.
10:30My son idolized my husband.
10:34He loved his mom, but his daddy was his guy.
10:36Brad was the type of kid, he was a leader on the field and off the field.
10:42He got a four-year scholarship, came back, took on that road, coaching, football, basketball.
10:50When he passed away, so many people came to us and gave us so many wonderful testimonies about his character and who he was, how he showed up for them.
11:00I think about him a lot. I think about him every day.
11:04It's an honor to be Brad Father.
11:07Hopefully one day we'll have Bradley Coleman name out here.
11:11Yup. Yup.
11:12Yup. Yup.
11:28As the first 48 slips away.
11:31I knew that I had a lot of work ahead to figure out all three people that were using that car.
11:37While one team tracks the Mercedes that just appeared on Flock in DeKalb County, Harrison and Jorstad arrive at the gas station where the suspect's vehicle was seen the night before the murder.
11:51Let's see if we can find it real quick.
11:54Oh, here it is.
11:58Pulls up.
12:00He gets out of the passenger seat of the car.
12:03There we go.
12:07Dude, the day of the homicide, one of the suspects was wearing that sweatshirt.
12:12This is awesome.
12:14Luckily, we were able to get clear face shots of them walking around the aisles and checking out.
12:20He bought a blue COVID mask.
12:25Damn.
12:27That was huge because we knew from the video at Quick Trip, a COVID mask was dropped.
12:32Let's see what happens outside.
12:36He got out of the driver's seat.
12:38This is phenomenal.
12:39But I didn't see a third suspect get out of the car.
12:42So I knew that it was going to be difficult to identify the third suspect.
12:46And we still needed a whole lot more evidence before we were able to arrest the two from the Texaco footage.
12:54The next night in Clayton County, an hour south of Gwinnett.
12:58We got it. We got it.
13:00Patrol locates the suspect vehicle.
13:02I was excited.
13:04I was hoping that the car was going to have three suspects.
13:08The same people who were in it at the Texaco and the Quick Trip.
13:11Possibly with all the evidence, the gun, Bradley's gun.
13:14Is that your car?
13:16No, it's fine.
13:18But they find a woman behind the wheel.
13:20Whose car is that?
13:22I'm not sure who's the deal.
13:23She claims a man dropped the Mercedes off yesterday after her sister rented it for cash.
13:28Once I was able to verify that she had taken possession of that Mercedes after the homicide,
13:34I didn't believe that she was going to be involved in the actual homicide.
13:37There was little disappointment, but we knew now that we needed to talk to whoever rented out this vehicle,
13:44and hopefully they could point us in the right direction, our suspects.
13:52The next morning,
13:53while CSI searched the Mercedes.
13:59Hey, this is Detective Harrison.
14:01I'm actually just following up on a hit-and-run accident,
14:04and I ran the tag, and it looked like it was registered to your mom.
14:08Oh, of course.
14:10I'm a car rental company. I rent our vehicle.
14:12The good thing is that he actually required people to provide driver's licenses
14:17and to get rental insurance, things that you don't typically see in word-of-mouth type rentals.
14:23It was July 10th.
14:34The men returned the car around 2 o'clock.
14:37So based on that, I knew that they were in possession of the car within an hour or so after the homicide.
14:42All right. You're welcome.
14:44Bye.
14:46He quickly sent me pictures of the driver's licenses.
14:49The first one is going to be a Miles Collins, and the second is going to be a David Booker.
14:54This is a big turning point because we needed to try to match them to the two individuals who got out of the vehicle at the Texaco.
15:00These are the two dudes that rented the car in that Texaco footage. I think that's probably him. David Booker.
15:10David Booker.
15:12I am running David Booker.
15:1620-year-old David Booker has prior convictions for theft by receiving stolen property.
15:22You can see he's got like a cross dagger tattoo between his eyes, which you can see in the footage.
15:27David Booker's on parole.
15:30And then this is Miles.
15:3320-year-old Miles Collins has no prior convictions in Gwinnett County.
15:37He is the father of a seven-week-old daughter.
15:40He's already wanted in Gwinnett County.
15:43Collins has an active warrant for failure to appear on prior charges.
15:46At this point, I'm going to go ahead and get the warrants for murder on David Booker, and then the fugitive unit is going to start working to locate him.
16:03A week later...
16:05Booker is arrested. He's on his way up now.
16:09The fugitive unit found Booker at an address he gave his parole officer.
16:13I was excited when I found out that David Booker was in custody.
16:17The stakes are high on this interview.
16:18There's definitely a lot of pressure riding on getting some kind of confession from him.
16:22And getting him to identify the third suspect.
16:26Hey David, how's it going?
16:34Remember what you were doing back on July 10th?
16:37I went to a barbecue on Saturday.
16:40Smoked and chilled with my friends.
16:43What about Friday?
16:46On Friday, I was at work.
16:48After work, he says his girlfriend drove him to a gas station in her car.
16:54Did you ever rent cars to go drive around to wherever you need to go?
16:58I don't even have a license.
17:00I can almost see David's type of resistance and denial.
17:03But also, I know the evidence that I have to dispute anything they say.
17:09Would it help if I showed you a picture?
17:12Picture?
17:14You can see your dagger tattoo.
17:19I can't really see anything and I know that's not me.
17:23This is you, man.
17:25You and your buddy.
17:27What buddy?
17:28This guy.
17:29I don't even remember seeing this guy at the gas station at all.
17:32David, come on now.
17:34I was definitely frustrated in the interview with David.
17:36He kept denying all the evidence that I put in front of him.
17:38Even his own picture that you could see, it's his face, it's his face tattoos.
17:44He was still denying it.
17:46Why are you being charged with murder?
17:48Well, I definitely don't know nothing about a murder, but...
17:50Well, you do, because you're on video.
17:51At the group trip.
17:52Well, I don't.
17:53It's not me.
17:55It's definitely frustrating that the confession was not obtained from David.
17:58But I was hoping that once I got the phone records back for David Booker and Miles Collins, I could see who they were talking to that might point me in the direction of who that third suspect would be.
18:07Two weeks into the investigation, the fugitive unit finds Miles Collins in Lithonia, 18 miles south of Gwinnett, and brings him in on his outstanding job.
18:10It was definitely frustrating that the confession was not obtained from David.
18:12But I was hoping that once I got the phone records back for David Booker and Miles Collins, I could see who they were talking to that might point me in the direction of who that third suspect would be.
18:25Two weeks into the investigation, he is in custody.
18:29The fugitive unit finds Miles Collins in Lithonia, 18 miles south of Gwinnett, and brings him in on his outstanding warrant.
18:38Based on the surveillance footage, we felt pretty confident that Miles Collins was just the driver, and I believe that the third person that had yet to be identified was actually going to be the shooter.
18:50So we were really hopeful that Miles was going to be able to tell us who that third person that we're looking for is.
18:55I need to talk to you about what happened a couple of weeks ago over there at that quick trip.
19:01So talk about that Mercedes that you and David rented a couple of days before that.
19:04Okay.
19:05Miles claims that he rented the Mercedes to a friend right after he picked it up.
19:19And who was that?
19:23That man.
19:25He didn't have any contact information for Man Man, and that Man Man brought the car back to him supposedly after the homicide.
19:34So here's my only issue with that.
19:36Here you are at a Texaco in Atlanta with the car Saturday morning at about 1.30 a.m.
19:44And David was with you.
19:45I don't remember.
19:46I remember these half the pics.
19:56This is you and David?
19:57Mm-hmm.
19:58Okay.
19:59I'm confused that Miles admitted that that was him and David at the Texaco.
20:03Because David Booker had already said it wasn't him, he wasn't there.
20:07Mm-hmm.
20:08If you want to go down for a murder that you...
20:09I'm not.
20:10I didn't do nothing wrong.
20:11Well, you didn't shoot him.
20:12I ran into the car.
20:13That's it.
20:14I'm not no killer.
20:15We'll be back in a few minutes, all right?
20:16We couldn't charge Miles Collins with the murder because he admitted to being at the Texaco, but we didn't have him at the Quick Trip homicide scene.
20:28Will you stand up for me?
20:31Miles will be held in Gwinnett County Jail on his outstanding warrant.
20:36We knew we were going to have to wait for their phones to come back and map it to our crime scene and see where that phone is in relation to when the crime occurred.
20:51Four days later...
20:53The first cell tower hit of interest is going to be on the day of the homicide.
20:59The phone records for Collins and Booker are finally in.
21:03This puts Miles Collins there in the area when the Mercedes was there.
21:08And then the next time it hits, it's hitting down here where they returned the vehicle.
21:13So there's definitely enough probable cause to charge them in the murder.
21:17And then we were able to see who David and Miles were talking to prior to the homicide and then right after the homicide.
21:24Harrison looks up the number.
21:27And it was Josiah Hewley.
21:2920-year-old Josiah Hewley has no previous convictions and is the father of a one-year-old daughter.
21:36So I'll send a search warrant application over to the district attorney's office to get his location information from his phone.
21:42He's the best suspect I have right now.
21:47Seven weeks in...
21:52We got the phone records back for Josiah Hewley.
21:56At 11.24 a.m., it hits right up the street from the Quick Trip.
22:02And then again at 12.50, like right over there basically after the homicide.
22:07Josiah's phone records put him near the crime scene around the time of the murder.
22:12They also reveal something else.
22:14Looking at the content they were posting on social media, tipped us that they may be involved in some gang activity.
22:19So it was extremely important to find Josiah because we thought he was going to be our shooter.
22:24After three weeks of searching for Josiah.
22:34The U.S. Marshals got Josiah taken into custody right as he came out of a job interview.
22:38I really needed a confession from Josiah Hewley because I wasn't able to get one from David Booker or Miles Collins.
22:46All right Josiah, I'm Detective Harris and this is Detective Jorstad.
22:50We need to talk about what happened out there at that Quick Trip.
22:52Recognize that car?
23:01At that point, I tried to get him to stop thinking about how this was going to affect him for the rest of his life and just think about the family of Bradley Coleman.
23:14You got a little girl, right? He had a little girl too. And she's going to grow up without a dad now because of what happened to him.
23:27I think that just kind of all hit him very hard. That kind of flipped something in Josiah.
23:32At least you're alive. That family, they will never get to talk to him, see him ever again. Think about that little girl.
23:46You could definitely see the internal struggle he was having with trying to do the right thing.
23:52Do the right thing.
23:55I didn't mean to do it. I was panicking.
24:01The only reason I had him is because I was in fear.
24:05I was in fear because I know he got a gun.
24:22The way it happened, it just happened so fast.
24:31Once Josiah starts to confess, our goal is just to keep him talking.
24:35So walk me through what happened.
24:37Because if he's focused on recalling the events that took place, the less likely it is to have a moment to pause and think,
24:51OK, I've said too much. Now I need to stop talking.
24:53When I see his gun, I'm passing the seat.
24:58So when I seen him get up, I tried to get out of the car.
25:03So I'm thinking he was going to go for his gun.
25:08But he jumped in the car.
25:11He started hitting me, beating me up.
25:14Where was your gun?
25:16In my own hands.
25:17I wasn't trying to touch that man. I wasn't trying to do nothing like that.
25:23He pushed me out of the car.
25:27He was moving towards his gun.
25:30Like, I didn't aim in his head. I didn't do nothing like that. I didn't want to kill that man.
25:36So you're saying you shot him, but you weren't meaning to shoot him in the head?
25:41Yes, OK.
25:43It's just everything just fell out of place.
25:48I believed everything up to his self-defense claim.
25:52But I do feel like he legitimately did have some remorse for what happened.
25:57Just turn around with your hands, by your mouth.
25:59Josiah's DNA matches what was recovered from the mask at the scene.
26:04After the interview, I was able to confidently say that Josiah Hughley shot Mr. Coleman.
26:11That David Booker was the suspect that got out of the front passenger seat.
26:14And then Miles Collins was the driver of that vehicle.
26:18All three were charged with Bradley's murder.
26:20Josiah's interview was kind of the nail in the coffin.
26:25It felt great to successfully close my first homicide case.
26:29And it felt really good for me to be able to deliver that result for the family of Bradley Coleman.
26:35We were thankful. Now we were waiting to have our day in court.
26:39When we first heard about this case, it took us all aback because it was so tragic to think that someone could be doing something as harmless as putting air in their tires and they end up killed is unconscionable.
26:57My initial assessment was, what in the world am I going to do?
27:02What kind of defense can I raise?
27:05My client admitted to shooting Mr. Coleman, but Josiah had not pulled a gun until he felt that his life was in jeopardy.
27:14So I tried to argue for voluntary manslaughter.
27:20Any time you got three defendants, it's challenging to persuade the jury that everybody is just as guilty as the shooter.
27:31Jurors want to know, why did it happen?
27:33The evidence indicated they are gang members who have dedicated their lives to this kind of lifestyle.
27:41They were trying to steal a car to further their status in the gang.
27:45They came to steal, but they were prepared to kill, and that's what happened.
27:51More than a year after Bradley's shooting death, the trial of David Booker, Miles Collins, and Josiah Hewley begins.
28:00Stay ready.
28:01The night before, I prayed because I knew that I would have to look at these three guys that had murdered my son.
28:13There was no fear, but there was anxiety.
28:16It was very difficult, very, very difficult.
28:20As the state's first witness, Bradley's mother takes the stand.
28:24Miss Coleman's testimony was so important because you want to put a human face on this trial.
28:33He was an educator, and he educated children that transition out of the jail system back into society.
28:40Bradley was so much to so many people.
28:42If they had known Bradley, he would have tried to motivate them, encourage them to do good, to get a job.
28:49He would have been that type of big brother to them.
28:52That's just who he was.
28:53Day three of the trial, the state calls Miles Collins' girlfriend.
29:03Right after David Booker had been arrested, he ended up doing a search warrant at Miles' girlfriend's house.
29:08I interviewed her mother, and she indicated that her daughter got very upset after talking to Miles because Miles told her that his friend did a felony murder, and they're all going to be away for a long time.
29:22Man, that was a pivotal moment in the trial. How was she going to testify? She is the mother of the child of Miles Collins. Is she going to be cooperative? Is she going to answer? How is she going to be?
29:36I'm going to talk about the statements that your mother said that you made.
29:41Okay.
29:43In particular, the statement you made was, Miles was never going to see his baby again. Do you recall saying that to your mother?
29:49No, I don't.
29:51Okay.
29:53The next statement was, our friend did a felony murder.
29:58Objection, Your Honor.
30:00I jumped up because I couldn't believe my ears. You can't let the state speak evidence and plant a seed in the juror's mind.
30:11Objection, Your Honor. I have a motion.
30:14The jury's going to step out.
30:16It was very confusing. Things were looking kind of crazy.
30:18I am making a motion for a mistrial.
30:22It wasn't looking good. It didn't feel good. It didn't look good. I'm like, Lord, have mercy.
30:28That was a comment by the prosecutor that's now put a statement in one of these young men's mouth that one of their friends committed a felony murder. So I would ask for a mistrial.
30:47The state in front of the jury basically made the statement. Miles said his friend committed a felony murder as if it was a fact. But we don't know that that's true. The judge can say disregard that. But that's going to be impossible for a jury to forget.
31:07I'll be back.
31:08I'll be back.
31:10I'll be back.
31:11The judge took a very long break.
31:13It was very tense in the courtroom.
31:16We didn't really know which way the judge would go.
31:20I can't unring the bell. The state's comment was so improper and prejudicial that I'm going to have to grant a mistrial for all three defendants.
31:31At that point, we didn't know what was going to happen.
31:38It sent shockwaves through the court. A lot of hushed voices, disappointment. What can we do now?
31:48A mistrial, if it's based on prosecutorial misconduct, then the defendant has the protection of double jeopardy. You cannot retry them.
31:56But if it's done unintentionally, then that just means that the jury's sent home and we start over again. And that's what happened in this case.
32:06Heading into the retrial, prosecutors Williams and Melvin worked to sharpen their approach.
32:19I was thankful for the first trial because I saw some hiccups in the presentation of the evidence.
32:25So in the retrial, I don't want to come stumbling out of the gate.
32:30No slip-ups, no hiccups. It had to go smoothly.
32:40Two and a half years after Bradley was killed, the retrial begins.
32:46What the evidence is going to show you is that Josiah Healy was the shooter.
32:50That David Booker provided armed support and that Miles Collins drove them to the QT and away from the QT.
32:56There's no DNA evidence, ultimately, that's going to identify David Booker as being present at the scene of the QT.
33:03There will be nothing to show that Miles Collins was at that scene.
33:08Josiah Healy was the easiest one to prove by far. We had his DNA. We had his confession.
33:15All right, Josiah, like I said earlier on, Detective Harrison, Detective Dorstad.
33:20The interview evidence was invaluable because he actually admitted it in his interview.
33:26He had said what I had wanted the jury to hear, that yeah, I shot him.
33:31But defense attorney Drake presents a different take on Josiah's confession.
33:50What Josiah was saying is that it was either him or me.
33:54That was the only thing I thought, it was either him or me.
33:56And that's when he pulled his gun.
33:58But he's saying everything just happened so quickly, which I thought would support voluntary manslaughter.
34:05Because it happened just like that.
34:08What Josiah said was a boatload of BS.
34:12How can you claim self-defense when you're coming to steal another man's property?
34:17That was crazy. It was really crazy.
34:20I felt confident with Josiah Healy, but I could definitely see it have going a different way for David Booker and Miles Collins just because there wasn't as much evidence.
34:38That's why the cell phone evidence was crucial in the case because that is hard evidence.
34:46This is David Booker's phone information, his digital DNA.
34:51This cell data shows where he was during this crime.
34:55Look, he's right here, right at the quick trip at the time of the murder.
35:02And then we've got following the murder, him leaving and going back to where the Mercedes has ultimately dropped off.
35:12That cell phone evidence was absolutely compelling.
35:17It was the linchpin of the case.
35:19But for Miles Collins, his cell data was the most limited of the three.
35:25We don't have the same kind of information with him.
35:28So Miles' attorney cross-examined cell data expert, John Wilbanks.
35:33In fact, there is no phone record from Mr. Collins' phone ever in an area that encompasses the quick trip, is there?
35:43I had no data showing you.
35:45Do you think I have anything else? Thank you very much, sir.
35:50To prove Collins' involvement, the state needs to show why Miles would have been at the scene.
35:56Establishing the gang connectivity was vital.
36:01The gang evidence provides that motive.
36:05The risk if the defense was able to attack that gang evidence, discredit it, say it doesn't apply,
36:12then all of a sudden, it's like a Jenga puzzle.
36:16The whole case could topple.
36:31Okay, stay ready.
36:33Here we are.
36:34Take the list to pick up Stacy's number one of three.
36:37We're just trying to show they were connected together through that gang.
36:42What's the secret about this post?
36:44This was located after a search warrant for Mr. Booker's Instagram account.
36:49And looking on some of the social media posts, we're able to make that connection.
36:54And what's significant about this is it says 9-3 gangsters with a red broken heart.
36:59So right there, big flag, we're dealing with 9-3 gangsters.
37:03On this one, the hand sign that Mr. Booker is demonstrating right there, you'll notice that he's doing it in the 9-3 gangster hand sign.
37:11What we saw was that David Booker's, Miles Collins were each representing 9-3 bloods.
37:17And the slider crimes is something that the 9-3 bloods do.
37:22In fact, Collins had pleaded guilty to slider crimes before in Rockdale County back in 2023.
37:29Based on your investigation, were warrants obtained from Miles Collins for the theft of that Ford Explorer?
37:36Yes.
37:37And that was at a QT gas station?
37:39Yes.
37:40The jury heard that Mr. Miles Collins had two prior slider crimes at QT gas stations.
37:49This last one is the chilling video of Mr. Booker flashing his Glock 9.
37:54But you'll also notice he's wearing the exact same sweatshirt that he was wearing when they murdered Mr. Coleman.
38:02Your Honor, it's time to save us.
38:07After seven hours of deliberations.
38:17Ladies and gentlemen, the jury has informed me that they have reached a verdict.
38:24My heart dropped. I got so nervous. I was thinking about my son.
38:30State of Georgia versus David Jared Booker and count one, felony murder.
38:39We the jury find the defendant guilty.
38:41When the judge read that verdict, it was just a sign of relief.
38:47It's finally over with now.
38:49But then with Mr. Collins, I wasn't 100% confident.
38:55Count one, felony murder. We the jury find the defendant guilty.
39:01It's very surreal in that moment.
39:06Mr. Hughley, would you please stand?
39:10This is a young kid and his whole life is on the line at this point.
39:15Count one, felony murder. We the jury find the defendant guilty.
39:20And then the verdict for the gang charges was guilty on all counts for all defendants.
39:32We are raging.
39:33Before the sentencing.
39:35Your Honor, a parent should never, ever have to bury their child.
39:47We do not want another parent, child, sister to suffer at the hands of these three individuals.
39:54The fates of all three are now in the hands of the judge.
39:59Mr. Hughley, count one, felony murder. I sentence you to life without the possibility of parole.
40:08Each of the defendants got life without possibility of parole.
40:12But then, after the judge sentences Miles Collins.
40:16Hope I'm happy.
40:18After he murdered our son, he turned around and said to my family, I hope you're happy.
40:23And that almost set off a riot in the courtroom.
40:25Family! Family!
40:30It brought a lot of rage to the family.
40:34Because the guilty verdict meant everything to us.
40:38All three got exactly what they deserved.
40:41So a life for a life, that's the way I look at it.
40:53This is a life that was cut short.
40:59But thank God that he had already started building his legacy.
41:05And he won't be forgotten.
41:07Will you pass me the hangers?
41:17It's been three years and 23 days today that Bradley has been gone.
41:23And we miss him so much.
41:25We loved him so much.
41:27We're getting ready for a photo shoot and we wanted to roll out the legacy collection,
41:31which is the collection that we created after Brad's passing.
41:35That's one of the things that's helping us to be able to go on, is continuing his legacy.
41:40He created this brand so that he can be able to provide for his daughter and also help with his student athletes.
41:46He would use the proceeds from posture.
41:48This was his pride and joy.
41:50It was his baby.
41:52Let's get the clothes out over here.
41:55Bradley did so much in his 29 years than most people do in a lifetime.
42:01Okay, let's start lining up.
42:03He was so kind and so loving.
42:06You got everybody?
42:08You got everybody in there?
42:11He's still speaking to us.
42:13His presence is forever with us, leading us, guiding us, directing us.
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