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00:00I think it's on 9-1.
00:27Hey, I see your shots fired.
00:30Over on the Becky, behind Riverside, behind the gas station.
00:35I'm on my bike.
00:36How many?
00:37How many?
00:38I don't know, three of them.
00:39Three of them.
00:40Becky and Riverside.
00:41This is behind the pantry.
00:44Pretty sorry, somebody might be here.
00:48I was just trying somebody to go in the gas station.
00:50Okay, did you have to be here?
00:52No, some guy told me to come around and go, hurry up, hurry up, go.
00:57Hey, you told me to get away from over there.
01:00Uh-huh.
01:01Yeah.
01:02I heard, I heard.
01:04The call came out that shots had been fired.
01:10I was a new boot.
01:11I was definitely a rookie.
01:12And for a rookie, you're kind of walking into the unknown.
01:16My body camera was already rolling.
01:18You know they're intel, right?
01:19It's smaller than that.
01:20It's supposed to be so next to the gas station.
01:21I'm the gas.
01:22They also, it was kind of straight out the south of the gas station.
01:25My adrenaline was definitely rushing.
01:27I was driving that night.
01:28We called him a field training officer.
01:29He was sitting on the passenger side and basically was like, all right, it's your show.
01:36Let's go.
01:37We turned down the residential street and we get out of the car and it was dead silent.
02:02I could hear the car that was revving.
02:05It was pretty eerie.
02:09Turn the car off.
02:11Yeah.
02:12The car was still on.
02:16I could see a black male sitting in the driver's seat and I could see him convulsing.
02:21And every time the male was convulsing, their engine would rev.
02:25.
02:26Have AMR step it up.
02:31Climbed in the passenger side seat.
02:33He looked anywhere from 17 to 24 maybe.
02:38I mean, he was young.
02:39Looks like he's been shot in the head.
02:41Yeah.
02:44I could see that he had a bullet hole to his head.
02:47There's brain fragmentation coming out, blood coming out.
02:49And at that time, I was basically face to face with him and kind of saw his last breath.
02:57And I kind of stepped back from there and just kind of was like, oh, shit.
03:04.
03:07A field training officer tried to feel for a pulse and there wasn't one.
03:11This was clearly a murder.
03:17Andy.
03:18Hey, it's Hoover.
03:20I don't know if you're the guy in charge since everybody's out of town.
03:24And Brad's on the funeral leave, but we had a murder.
03:28One third, just wanted to pass on.
03:31Yeah, we just got the call.
03:32The guy's dead in the car.
03:34He got shot.
03:35We're still actively working it.
03:37Black man on the car and Kentucky plates down on Prissy.
03:40Prissy and Becky.
03:42We're 10, 12, 15 minutes from Kentucky.
03:46It wasn't odd that a Kentucky car was parked here.
03:49We run a plate in our car.
03:52We were able to pull up his driver's license.
03:55And on his driver's license, it had his face.
03:57So identified the driver of the vehicle as a 25-year-old Delvin Mitchell.
04:07Delvin was my best friend.
04:12Technically, his name is Delvin.
04:15But he didn't really like it that much, so he would tell us to call him Delvin.
04:19People loved him.
04:20As soon as you walk in the room, like, you're just going to get that joy.
04:24That...
04:25It's like this wind that comes over you.
04:30Delvin did a lot of music.
04:32He never was really a rapper, but he was doing, like, the production of it.
04:38He used to hang out at the house with my son, Blake.
04:42My house used to be, like, a place where all the boys would come to chill out.
04:48So one day, Blake had come and sat down in my room and asked me if he could...
04:52if Delvin could stay with us, because he didn't have nowhere to live.
04:55First, I was kind of hesitant, because I always had people there.
04:58And then I told her, yeah, then, yeah, go ahead, we can...
05:02And then from there, me and Delvin, you know, got us a relationship as mom and son.
05:08And he used to call me mom.
05:10Oh, he ended up becoming, like, my actual brother.
05:13He went from a friend to a best friend, close friend to a brother.
05:16That's a whole different relationship dynamic.
05:18Okay?
05:19That night, he got killed.
05:30And I was asleep.
05:32They woke me up.
05:34Blake called me.
05:36And told me that Delvin was dead.
05:38I think I just shut down altogether.
05:40I just got numb.
05:43I got a text message.
05:44It was, like, there's, like, a Facebook status talking about there was gunshots last night.
05:49Y'all be careful, y'all.
05:50So, like, I don't know, my heart's, like, beating real, real fast.
05:53And, like, my whole...
05:55I, like, fell to my knees, because I had a feeling that it was him.
06:02And then by the time I got to the crib, they told me that it was Delvin.
06:06I don't really remember too much of the conversation, because I was, like...
06:11I was...
06:12All I seen was red.
06:13Like...
06:14Like, who would hurt my brother?
06:15Like, I don't know.
06:16I lost it.
06:17For a long period of time, for real, I was...
06:19You know what I mean?
06:20I was lost.
06:29On scene, it was, you know, kind of that tunnel vision to what we had in the car.
06:36We crime scene off the entire area.
06:45That's when the brigade of detectives, detective sergeants, the crime scene guys, started to pile in.
06:53When I arrived on scene, and kind of processed that scene myself, just looking at things, seeing where, you know, there's a round laying there on the street.
07:10There's one in the floorboard that the victim, Delvin, has been shot in the head.
07:17You're kind of wondering, is this a setup?
07:19We don't know.
07:20There's all different kinds of scenarios, as a detective, that you run through your head to try to get it figured out as soon as you possibly can.
07:28The driver's side window also had what was consistent to be a projectile round through that.
07:38The door was open, so it could lead to a couple different things, but it looked like who shot him was in the vehicle or in close proximity of the vehicle when the shots were fired.
07:48The violence behind it was intentional, and you could tell that just from the amount of rounds that were sent through the car.
07:55It wasn't just to scare him, it was to kill him.
07:57There's two shell casings that we've seen, one in the car and one right outside the passenger side.
08:04Yeah.
08:05Because the out looks that way.
08:06Yeah.
08:07Do a...
08:08Your boys start a crime scene log.
08:09Okay.
08:10We don't have all the pieces to the puzzle yet.
08:24It was one of those eye-opening experiences of, hey, you know, we've got somebody, we know that's shot, but where's the shooter?
08:31As you're standing there, you're just...
08:34You see this, you're asking yourself why, and, you know, it's just a mystery.
08:52Black Pahoe, I'm red.
08:54You can't go southbound on Sweet'a, right?
08:56Here in my ear, the dispatch had notified us that a car was fleeing the area and other units were trying to get behind it.
09:05And as it was fleeing, they could see that the car had false plates on it, possibly involved with the scene.
09:11So, hearing that in my ear, I'm thinking, hopefully we can get this car stopped, figure out who's in the car, maybe they're involved with what happened here.
09:19Officers are initiating their lights and sirens, trying to get this guy to stop, won't stop.
09:28So now, in the back of everybody's mind, they're thinking, maybe he's our suspect.
09:33You know, he's definitely not going to stop.
09:35It's just a straight adrenaline dump, and it's just a rush.
09:43Like, we have to get this car stopped at all costs.
09:46And knowing that there's a possible gunman in this car, the level of threat just goes through the roof.
09:55There was a vehicle pursuit.
10:06We were trying to get the vehicle stopped, and it wasn't stopping.
10:08So we thought, possibly could it be involved because it's in the area.
10:12It's fleeing the area.
10:14It could be a piece of the puzzle.
10:16His sergeant or lieutenant at the time radioed and said, other counties and state police are starting to pick up on this pursuit.
10:23So now, they're pursuing the guy.
10:25But they ended up stopping him and placed him in handcuffs.
10:29Where's he from?
10:34He had an Indiana ID card.
10:39I don't know if that's going on.
10:41He had Jack Lowe's phone number.
10:43Ah, baby.
10:45We're going to want to take this guy back to Vanderburg, so.
10:50Are we going to tell him or make him?
10:52We're thinking this might be our guy.
10:55He had the false plates on his vehicle, and they look suspicious.
11:00I was planning.
11:03I mean, we got felony charges in our county.
11:06So there's no extradition there that we should be able to bring him back to Vanderburg.
11:12And you guys can try to talk soon.
11:15Um, just the, him leaving the area, or that, that's awful coincidental.
11:19And, talk with Peter and the prosecutor.
11:22I mean, if they just want us to impound this and tow it back to, back tri-state to Evansville, we'll get a search warrant for it.
11:27Okay, thanks.
11:30I identified the guy as a subject named Simone.
11:34And Simone was placed in one of our patrol vehicles.
11:37And that patrol officer brought him to headquarters for an interview.
11:41Hey, what's going on, man?
11:48I'm Detective Lowe.
11:51What?
11:52This is my Sergeant Detective, huh?
11:54What's up, man?
11:55How you doing?
11:56I'm doing good.
11:58I need to ask you some questions, okay?
12:00Sure.
12:01So, I'm going to read you Miranda.
12:03Probably heard that before, right?
12:05I still have to read it to you, all right?
12:07You can tell a lot by, when interviewing subjects, by their disposition.
12:14How they act, how they talk.
12:16Are they looking you in the eye?
12:18Are they looking away?
12:20Simone had some of those, but you're thinking, well, this guy was right there.
12:24And this guy fled the scene from there.
12:28All right.
12:29Do you know why you're in here right now?
12:34Run me down what happened tonight.
12:36I don't even know, man.
12:38All I know is the police jumped behind me.
12:41And I just was just thinking about getting to my mama, man.
12:46Because, you know what I'm saying?
12:48I'm on probation and stuff.
12:50And then, like, the PO, you know what I'm saying?
12:55He said I got a warrant or whatever.
12:58So, I don't know, man.
13:03I'm stupid.
13:04Simone basically told me that he had warrants.
13:09He was scared.
13:11He didn't want to go to jail.
13:13You think, well, maybe they did flee because they have warrants.
13:17Maybe they have something else going on.
13:21Well, can you at least run me down?
13:25I'm trying to figure out something that happened tonight, and I'm trying to take you out of the equation.
13:31But I need you to tell me, like I asked you all ago, the last couple of hours before cops got behind you and you took off, what all did you do?
13:40The liquor locker right there on cover.
13:43But I ain't been nowhere else.
13:45I ain't even do nothing wrong, man.
13:47I thought I had a warrant.
13:49After we talked to him, we got a signed search warrant for his vehicle.
13:57We couldn't find anything that would tie him to it.
14:02So, we released him from that crime.
14:06It is a little frustrating because you're thinking, well, this guy was right there and doesn't have anything to do with this murder.
14:19Now you're back to square one.
14:22You got to take a broad picture and just, you don't want to get hooked on one thing and this is the way this happened.
14:27You know, that's a good thing of a good investigation as you look, you know, broadly and see who all could be involved in this and what all possibly happened here.
14:35The suspect that's still out there didn't like this guy.
14:38I mean, who killed Delvin?
14:42Still don't know.
14:43Don't have anybody else to look at right now.
14:49So, when you're going through these investigations, you want to know the victim's life.
14:59You want to build the victim, his own profile.
15:04The more information you gather, you're starting to build some sort of a lead to try to help solve this case.
15:13One thing we're going to do is look at his background.
15:17There's a couple different ways we can do it on Facebook and interviewing witnesses and talking to people.
15:22So, as we're investigating this murder, we start looking at Delvin's history.
15:30We don't have much to go off of.
15:32He has a report taken under his name for something criminal, which wasn't like something huge.
15:39There wasn't anything of interest that we would need or think that we would need to follow up with.
15:47A short time later, another detective in the office had answered a phone call.
15:55And it was a male subject, and it was named Justin Brewer, saying he'd like to talk to Detective Lowe.
16:02Pretty much almost every homicide, we do always kind of get some type of tip or, hey, you might want to know this information.
16:08That's kind of typical of every case you have.
16:11My name is Justin Brewer. She said I could talk to you.
16:14Yes.
16:15Hi, how are you doing today, sir?
16:17Not doing too bad. Just in here trying to figure out an investigation I've got going on, trying to figure out what happened.
16:25Yes, sir. That's the reason why I called. I wanted to present myself to you properly and help as much as possible.
16:33But I did want to talk to you, sir.
16:36Okay.
16:37First, I wanted to tell you that, you know, Delvin, that's who you're talking about, right?
16:45Because that's the only one that I'm, you know.
16:47First of all, he wasn't a bad guy.
16:50You know, he wasn't an angel. We'll get it wrong.
16:53But, you know, he wasn't a bad guy at all, sir.
16:56He said that Delvin was a good guy. He's a great guy.
16:59He's known Delvin and his, and Delvin's family pretty much his entire life.
17:04I don't want to tell you what I think because I've heard so many different stories.
17:08I've heard so many different allegations coming from so many different situations.
17:12Okay, for example, he was having sex with a guy's wife that lived across the street from me and my wife.
17:22He also mentioned a subject named Sean.
17:27And he has either a wife or a girlfriend that was named Chastity.
17:34And supposedly Delvin was messing around with this Chastity lady.
17:41And maybe we should turn our direction towards that.
17:45Maybe Sean's mad at Delvin and decided that he's had enough and he's going to take care of it.
17:54Okay. All right. Well, you have my number, Justin.
18:01When Mr. Brewer talked about Sean being involved, so that's something you have to take in consideration.
18:06Sometimes you have retaliation killings. We were very concerned of the situation.
18:11When the gentleman that's having an affair with your significant other does end up murdered,
18:15you're always suspicious when anything like that happens.
18:17Maybe that could be one potential motive for Mr. Mitchell's demise.
18:22We need to interview him to help us find out where is this going to lead us.
18:25Mr. Brewer did contact the police department on a recorded phone call.
18:37He brought up the information that Mr. Mitchell was having a relationship with Chastity and that her husband, Sean, was not happy about that.
18:46Sean's one that I raised also. Everybody thought Sean done it. Everybody thought Sean done it.
18:53Everybody was calling me, talking about Sean, we're going to kill Sean.
18:57Me knowing Sean, growing up with Sean, like I knew that he, you know, he wouldn't do nothing like that.
19:01You know, but, you know, put nothing past nobody though.
19:04We don't know. We just know that he's a person of interest.
19:07Obviously, we're going to look at Sean's criminal history and he did have a little criminal history with disorderly conduct and lying to law enforcement.
19:18Sean said, Mom, I didn't do it. So, I believe Sean. So, I went with Sean to the interrogation place.
19:31I want to read you, Marina, just because your name is being brought up as a suspect.
19:35Yes, sir. I understand that.
19:37I had talked to Sean about the murder and that he's a possible suspect that his ex-wife, Chastity, had been seen Delvin.
19:48Well, you guys were divorced though, right?
19:50Yes, sir. Yes, I was none of my business.
19:52Yeah.
19:53You know what I mean?
19:54But then, I guess...
19:55But still.
19:56Yes, sir.
19:57Because you and Delvin were friends.
19:59Well, as far as I knew, he was.
20:00And then, I didn't get all the traumatic and sad information until after that.
20:05He didn't even really like you.
20:07And obviously, you know, by the actions of what was going on, I wasn't anything to him.
20:12Right.
20:13You know what I mean?
20:14But I didn't know all these hurtful things until after that.
20:16That night, he got killed.
20:17I had to tell Sean that I was with Chastity.
20:20He didn't know.
20:23So, he got mad and sad all at the same time.
20:27He said he was a little upset about that.
20:30But, you know, it wasn't something that he would go and take revenge out on somebody for.
20:36Why do you think your name was brought up about this, though?
20:39I think my name was brought up because everybody needs a fallback and a scapegoat.
20:45And that's who I am.
20:46Not that I'm blaming anyone.
20:47But I even immediately, when I heard it, was like, oh my goodness.
20:51What should I do?
20:52What do I need to do?
20:53Is there someone I need to speak with?
20:55Because, I mean, look, you know what I mean?
20:57Like, how it looks.
20:58You know what I'm saying?
20:59Like, your buddy's messing with your wife.
21:01Blah, blah, blah.
21:02Yeah, it looked really bad.
21:03It looked real bad.
21:04You know what I'm saying?
21:05Yeah.
21:06I mean, it did for a look.
21:07It really did.
21:08Yes, sir.
21:09And, you know, I mean, we've all watched, you've seen enough, you know, shows to know that.
21:14Sean said he went to sleep that night, that that incident occurred.
21:20And he didn't know anything about it until the next morning when he woke up.
21:24You have a past conviction of lying to the police.
21:27You know, why are we going to believe?
21:28You're going to have to show us, you know, why you're not involved in this.
21:33He said, I have an app that tracks my sleeping pattern, and it'll show you on my phone that, at that particular time and day, that I was sleeping.
21:52So we looked at his phone, looked at that app.
21:58He was just being very honest and truthful, which in our minds kind of eliminated him from this murder.
22:07Investigating something like this is hard sometimes because it's a little overwhelming, but we keep working our case.
22:14Delvin was my biggest fan, my biggest supporter.
22:24He was always pushing me to do great.
22:27I remember, like, preparing for the funeral.
22:31His birth mother did not want to show up.
22:33She did not.
22:35His sisters welcomed me in, you know, because they know that I took care of him.
22:40Then everybody got together and wanted a picture taken of all the guys together.
22:45That whole time, like, I changed to a whole different person.
22:52Like, I don't even remember who I was at that moment.
22:54And we were still trying to find the killer for Delvin.
22:57So it's just a lot going on at this moment, you know what I'm saying?
23:00Like, I can't grieve at all right now.
23:02Like, right now, it's just like, my soul's gone.
23:06You know, I don't even want to live no more myself, you know what I mean?
23:09So it really hurt, for real.
23:11And I'm still suffering.
23:13His life was taken.
23:16He didn't deserve that.
23:18There's a lot of people out here that deserve it, but he didn't.
23:32A short time later, the phone rings, and again, it's Justin Brewer.
23:36Same guy from the earlier communication.
23:39He was having sex with a guy's wife that lived across the street from me and my wife.
23:46I did find that kind of odd that another call came in.
23:49So I answered the phone.
23:51He tries to tell me several different stories about what could possibly happen to Delvin, which, in my mind, thought was kind of far-fetched.
24:02I said, did you ever meet up with Delvin?
24:04He said he was supposed to meet Delvin on the night that he was murdered.
24:11And at that particular time, I don't know that information.
24:14He didn't want to give a whole lot of information before.
24:17So you're kind of wondering why now.
24:20That night, I called him.
24:22And he was supposed to meet up with me.
24:24My wife is a cab driver.
24:25I called my wife to bring me.
24:27And he never showed up.
24:28And I didn't charge him, you know, to my heart about that because it was something so small and petty.
24:33You know, honestly, I just felt like maybe he thought it wasn't worth his time.
24:37So I asked him where they're going to meet at.
24:40It's a little apartment complex block and a half away from where Delvin got shot and killed,
24:45where he could get a bag of weed for his wife.
24:50His wife's name was Amber Brewer.
24:52She worked for a cab company, driving a cab.
24:58And he said, no, no, I met in that area and I waited all night long.
25:03He never showed.
25:04There was other detectives in the room with me.
25:06We kind of all just looked at each other in awe.
25:12We just could admit of being there that night, close to the area where Delvin was murdered.
25:18In my opinion, you're being nosy because you know something happened.
25:23And you're wanting to know what we know.
25:25And I'm not giving that to you.
25:27You heard the stuff on Facebook, like the police chase and the shooting and all that.
25:31You tried to call him or text him or what'd you do?
25:33No, sir. No, sir.
25:35After I left, I tried to call him again and he didn't answer.
25:39After we completed our conversation, like I said, did this guy really just call in here
25:45and give this story of his events that in his mind took place?
25:54It didn't make any sense.
25:56None of his stories made any sense.
25:59I believe then Justin called back one or two more times just trying to kind of feel the detect about,
26:05hey, what do you have on me?
26:06And then trying to throw shade on maybe other, just to send the investigation to another area other than himself.
26:13He kind of admitted that he was supposed to meet Delvin very close to where the incident occurred the night that he was murdered.
26:23So we had enough probable cause to get a warrant for his phone number to get call detail records, text messages, and found out that on the night of the incident, Justin had called a female.
26:38Her name's Scarlett.
26:41There were several, uh, phone calls and texts back and forth.
26:44So we all were thinking, is she the side chick that got involved?
26:47When you commit a crime such as murder, you know, the wheels are turning.
26:51I'm sure he's looking out the window, did anybody see us?
26:54You know, he called on somebody that he's had faith in, and maybe that was Scarlett.
26:58We got to talk to that person, find out how she was involved.
27:11We did some further follow-ups and found additional cell phone data.
27:16Cell phone data does not lie.
27:19The phone data showed that Scarlett was in recent contact with Justin the night of the murder.
27:25There were several phone calls and texts back and forth that was suspicious.
27:32We found out that Scarlett was living with her mother.
27:36So we went to the mother's house to try to interview her there, but she wasn't home.
27:42So we interviewed the mother at her house.
27:47Okay, Terry, go ahead and have a seat.
27:50Terry, you remember me. I'm Detective Wheeler.
27:52Yes.
27:53And this is Detective Hands.
27:54She's a very nice lady, and I believe she had some concerns about her daughter's safety since she was involved with Justin Brewer.
28:01She said, Mama, Justin wants to know if he can come to the house and stay for about 34 days.
28:10And I said, well, he's got a home.
28:13She said Justin ended up getting dropped off at Scarlett's mother's house the night of the murder.
28:20And Justin had come in, kind of in a frantic type mood, very wired, very amped up.
28:27Really, truly, honestly, didn't even want in there.
28:28Mm-hmm.
28:29But Scarlett.
28:30Yeah.
28:31It's your daughter.
28:32I know.
28:33It's your daughter.
28:34I understand.
28:35I know.
28:36I know.
28:37This is unsettling.
28:38But what I want to make sure is you're not doing something to your kid now.
28:43No.
28:44If you know something, it's important.
28:45The only time that he talked to me, he came downstairs, Scarlett was gone.
28:50And he just kept walking back and forth, you know, doing this.
28:51I really want to tell you what's going on, Mom.
28:52I think you should know.
28:53But I really don't want to tell you.
28:54But I really don't want to tell you.
28:55You know, more or less, he was admittedly bad.
28:56You know, he was, as much as I'm in the comfort zone, I do it.
28:57And I'm not sure.
28:58But I do love to tell you what she talked about.
28:59But I really want to tell you when you're doing something.
29:00I want to tell you when you're doing something that you're doing something to your kid, you're
29:01here and you're not doing something to your kid now.
29:02No.
29:03Uh, if you know something, it's important.
29:04That the only time that he talked to me, he came downstairs, Scarlett was gone.
29:05And, uh, he just kept walking back and forth, you know, doing this.
29:09And I really want to tell you what's going on, Mom.
29:10Uh, I think you should know, but I really don't want to tell you.
29:20You know, more or less, he was admitting to me, but he didn't come out and say it.
29:29According to Scarlett's mother, he said something bad had happened that night.
29:36We were starting to get more and more information.
29:39She did admit that Justin was at the house.
29:41She's a potential not eyewitness to the murder, but maybe a circumstantial witness to a murder.
29:47Do you ever get 100% of the information?
29:52The only person that really knows that is the person you're interviewing.
29:55Did he expand on that, what he wanted you to know?
29:57No. Not at all.
30:01He did not come out and say he murdered that boy.
30:04No, he did not.
30:06And I put my name on the Bible to that.
30:09He did not say that.
30:10But in so many words, I knew that something wasn't right and he does something.
30:18I mean, you could tell she was scared of him.
30:21She would sit there and talk to us and smoke, which I'm not a smoking fan, but it was worth it.
30:27What did Scarlett tell you that he told her?
30:30Scarlett told me that he killed me.
30:34When was this?
30:36This was...
30:37Before he left?
30:39Yeah, before he left.
30:41Justin didn't tell you personally that he did?
30:43No, he did not.
30:44I never heard that come out of this now.
30:46In a roundabout way, though, he said it.
30:50You know, in a roundabout way.
30:52Afterward, we did some interviews with Scarlett.
31:00She was not willing to give up any information.
31:03We tried to speak with Justin, but he refused to talk to law enforcement when confronted.
31:08Justin didn't want to speak with us, so we put our attention more towards Amber, Justin's wife.
31:18In the interview, phone calls before with Justin Brewer, he did inform detectives that he had been picked up that night in Amber's cab to meet Mr. Mitchell.
31:29And Mr. Mitchell had never shown up.
31:34We then go to a few cabbies.
31:37They did confirm that, yes, Amber was working that night in her cab.
31:42It had a GPS tracker in it, which is always good for us.
31:48And it shows exactly where the cab was going.
31:53It could be that break moment where, like, oh, this is it.
31:55There is almost always information on those devices that will help us along in our case.
32:04So you're hoping that happens.
32:08I went into the office, and they had come back from the taxi cab place with the GPS information.
32:14It showed Amber's cab going down to the southeast side and stopping a block or so from the murder.
32:21So it was kind of nice to look at the data and go, okay, so it puts them at the scene of the crime at the time of the murder.
32:32And then immediately after, it shows her stopping on top of Diamond Avenue over Pigeon Creek.
32:39That was the first thing we all thought, holy shit, she just threw that gun out in the creek.
32:43The dive team showed up at the bridge, and they did their process as far as searching for the gun.
32:55Are we going to find something there?
32:58My thoughts are, there's no way.
33:01There's a young man from the local news, and my first question to that reporter is, hey, when is this going to be on TV?
33:06And he said it would be on an 11 o'clock news.
33:10Evansville is not a huge community, but you look up, and there's news media trucks lined across this bridge.
33:17They were all over the story.
33:21We then got the thumbs up that there was a discovery, and the diver did a great job.
33:27He found it in pitch dark water, and he pulled that thing up, and I'll never forget it.
33:31And the next thing you know, you're looking at a slide from a Smith & Wesson.
33:37So this is more icing on the cake.
33:42We had enough probable cause to get arrest warrants for Justin and Amber.
33:52But we could not locate them here in the city of Evansville.
34:01It might have taken us a week or two, but then we got a, or I was on a date night with my wife and got a confirmation from the FBI that Amber and Justin were in custody in Shumlee, Georgia, just outside Atlanta.
34:16She was stopped while texting and driving.
34:19So at that point, things were going good.
34:24With them in custody, you'd love to sit down face-to-face with them, look them eye-to-eye, and get a full confession.
34:34Justin Brewer refused to speak to investigators, but Amber decided to speak with law enforcement.
34:39Myself and Detective Lowe walked in there thinking, okay, what are we going to hear?
34:57The best way I think to kind of start this back is just going to go back a little bit from the day before everything happened.
35:02Are we going to hear some story that just not jive with any of the evidence we have?
35:06I'm going to take you back to around January 25th of 2019.
35:10Or is she going to tell us the truth?
35:24We're being recorded. You understand that, right?
35:27Amber Brewer, I'm giving this to you.
35:31Amber Brewer did decide to speak with law enforcement.
35:33I'm going to tell you not to tell a lie at home.
35:39So if it's safe to say on 1-25-2019, that in January 25th of 2019, you were working at UCAVI.
35:46Sometime or another, did you have a conversation with Justin, and did you go pick him up at the hotel you were staying at?
35:55Yes.
35:55Okay.
35:56I went and picked him up so I could get a better leave.
35:59Okay.
36:00Amber basically told us that the night of the murder, Justin was wanting to get a little bag of weed.
36:10Who set up the deal to get the bag of weed?
36:13He did.
36:14Okay.
36:15And we're talking about, and who did he set it up with?
36:18Um, that young man right there.
36:21His name was on that paper.
36:22Devin.
36:23Devin Mitchell.
36:23She said she picked Justin up.
36:28They drove to the southeast side of Evansville to meet Devin that night.
36:35We just enter into the parking lot.
36:38Okay.
36:38And what happens there?
36:39We get in the car that he was driving.
36:43Devin's car?
36:43Mm-hmm.
36:44Okay.
36:44And what happens in there?
36:45Um, he takes off out the parking lot and I can't, I'm not going to tell you which direction
36:50we went in because at the point we get in the car, I'll leave it up to them to figure out
36:56whatever they're doing because, you know, I'm just, I'm with my husband.
36:58I understand.
37:00She gets in the back passenger seat of Devin's car and Justin gets in the front seat.
37:08And they drive around a little while.
37:13So I'm in the back seat, minding my own business.
37:16Susie pulls over, my husband pulls out a gun.
37:18And I'm not used to those type of things.
37:22I'm not trying to yell.
37:23So I just, I got out the car and took off running.
37:26Okay.
37:27And, um, that's, that's when I heard, um, the gun go off.
37:33She, she couldn't remember how many times you heard it go off?
37:35No.
37:35Justin's got a gun pointed at Delvin.
37:41And she says she jumps out of the car and takes off running.
37:45And she gets a short distance and hears some gunshots.
37:50People give false confessions.
37:53We did not find anything deceitful in her, in her interview with us.
37:57Everything was consistent with our investigation.
38:01Okay.
38:01At some point, do you stop your cab at the, the Pigeon Creek Bridge there?
38:05Yes.
38:05Okay.
38:05And do you get out?
38:06Yes.
38:07And what do you do there?
38:08Well, my, my vehicle was smoking.
38:10I did make a maintenance report about it.
38:12And, um, I don't, I don't know if it, if it was smoking.
38:17So, but, um, I drew the slide that he told me I had to get rid of.
38:21So after she tells us this story, you're pretty confident you, you've had the right guy.
38:29You've been hearing his name.
38:30He's made calls to you.
38:31He's made calls to you.
38:32It all matches up.
38:34Mr. Mitchell was a very young man, and to be killed over a bag of marijuana, it is tragic.
38:43He's not going to get his life back, and he's not going to get his life back, and the family doesn't have him back.
38:49I don't know if it's a lack of respect for a human person, or it's just the disdain for not getting something you think you deserve.
38:58I don't know what causes this.
39:03Amber testifies against her husband.
39:07She was charged with obstruction.
39:12She was released on time served.
39:17Justin was ultimately charged with murder.
39:22They found him guilty.
39:23He was sentenced, and the judge recommended 85 years in prison.
39:32Scarlett was ultimately convicted of obstruction of justice for lying to law enforcement.
39:38And she was sentenced to two years and 182 days.
39:45We've done phone calls before where people have actually called in and talked to law enforcement, knowing they're the suspect.
39:50They want to know what the word on the street is, but curiosity kills the cat sometimes, and that's what happened in this case.
40:00In my mind, in my heart, I hope the family knows that we did everything we could, and that we did get justice for Delvin.
40:07Delvin, he was a star.
40:17I mean, he was just great.
40:23He didn't really get a chance to even live life.
40:28Delvin, I'm still having trouble with it.
40:35I sit at home all the time.
40:36I really don't deal with anybody.
40:39I don't deal with anybody.
40:45I hope Justin really thinks about what he's done and how bad he impacted a lot of people.
40:55Delvin was the joy of a lot of our lives.
40:58And now we don't have that joy no more.
41:04You stole that joy from us.
41:09He took my bestest friend.
41:15So I'm hurt still to this day.
41:20He was the life of the party.
41:22There ain't no more parties no more.
41:27There ain't no more parties no more.
41:27He went all right.
41:29The world's far.
41:34I was so busy.
41:34I am hurt.
41:35I love you.
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