American Monster - Season 13 Episode 08- My Brother's Keeper
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00:00Tymere was the type of person that you could always depend on.
00:05Long as the people around him were sitting care of, that's all he cared about.
00:10Tymere and Rodney was like total opposites.
00:14Everything with Rodney was a joke. He never really took nothing real serious.
00:18Tymere always tried to just play the big brother role to Rodney.
00:23Rodney, he embraced that street life.
00:26I'm under arrest? Yes, I'm what?
00:28Rodney didn't care about nobody but Rodney.
00:31At the end of the day, my heart was shattered in a million pieces.
00:40He was begging for his life and his mother was begging for his life.
00:43He killed my baby.
00:45You can't get any more cold hearted than that.
00:47That is truly an evil person.
00:58It's summer 2021 and brothers Tymere and Rodney enjoy a day out with their family, making social media videos at a water park.
01:15I have seven children. Me and my kids did everything together.
01:18Tymere was three years older than Rodney.
01:21For the most part, they got along.
01:23But they was the typical brothers.
01:25Tymere always been like the clown, like he always been funny.
01:30Why you got the hat on? Because it's green?
01:35Tymere would make you laugh and smile all the time.
01:39Rodney, I call him like the aggravator. He just like to mess with people.
01:46I mean, we was a big family, so it was always fun.
01:57Tymere Dial-Hale is born on January 2000, but his parents separate soon after his birth.
02:03Shortly after the pregnancy, we kind of broke up and we never got back together.
02:09We just raised Tymere together.
02:11Tymere was a happy-go-lucky little baby.
02:15Like, it was a joy to have.
02:19Everybody in my family loved Tymere.
02:22He was a mama's boy. He was sweet.
02:26My fifth child, Rodney, was born November the 8th of 2003.
02:31I don't think it made a difference that they did not have the same father,
02:35because I feel like my kids grew up knowing they had the same mother.
02:40The boys fought.
02:42My house was always loud, because I had more boys than girls.
02:46They argued, they disagreed, and then they was right back playing together.
02:51I feel like they was normal kids and they loved each other, but of course they had disagreements.
02:57Tymere's a good brother. He was a really good brother.
03:00Like, he wanted us to do the right thing and stay on the right path and just be like our best selves.
03:09He was my little brother, but he was like a big brother.
03:12He always been a protector.
03:15When Tymere is 12 and Rodney is 8, their family gets even bigger when Pinky gives birth to her seventh child, Jeremiah.
03:26When I got pregnant with Jeremiah, I think everybody was upset.
03:30I think everybody was like, we don't want no more kids here.
03:34But as Tymere and Rodney become teenagers, their lives start to go in very different directions.
03:50Rodney was always wanting to be tough.
03:55Tymere and Rodney was like total opposites.
03:59Tymere learned at a young age that you got to hustle to get money.
04:04He would shovel snow.
04:06He would cut grass.
04:08He never tried to go down the street life road.
04:12But for Rodney, he embraced that street life, the street culture.
04:17That was what he wanted for itself.
04:22Tymere always talked to me about how he would talk to Rodney and try to get him to turn this life around.
04:31And he like pops, he just ain't listening to me.
04:34I'm like, ain't nothing you could do.
04:37Tymere always tried to talk to Rodney about doing the right things.
04:43But it went in one ear and out the other.
04:49Once he got out of high school, he was determined.
04:52And he would tell me every day, Mom, I'm doing this for you.
04:55You want me to have a diploma? I'm going to get it.
05:00I was extremely happy when Tymere graduated from high school.
05:04Rodney didn't really start misbehaving to maybe about fourth, fifth grade.
05:09He didn't want to be in school.
05:11And he was very disrespectful to teachers.
05:13And by 12th grade, he just completely dropped out.
05:16It was hard raising teenage boys all together.
05:20But Rodney was definitely the one that gave me the most problems.
05:28As siblings growing up, when Rodney was at home, he was a normal person.
05:32We were all seen together.
05:35I think Rodney put on a persona for the streets.
05:38It's me, Rodney, and my friend.
05:41This was around the time me and Rodney spent a good amount of time together.
05:45We used to go to the rec after school sometime and just be kids.
05:50I love that video.
05:53It's me, Rodney, and Rodney in that video.
05:56It was like a little TikTok trend.
05:59It was funny.
06:01That's another TikTok of me and Rodney comparing our features.
06:06I had to force him to do it because people always said that we looked alike a lot.
06:11I don't really think Rodney had, like, any long-term goals.
06:16I think he just lived day by day.
06:20Rodney couldn't keep a job because Rodney had did so much bad things in the streets.
06:28Rodney would shoot at people and people would shoot at Rodney.
06:33Rodney was scared to go certain places because of who he might run into.
06:42Tymere worked with me at the Market Hall.
06:45We were cleaning the building.
06:47But when Tymere came, he made it fun.
06:49He would laugh.
06:50He would be the highlight of everybody's day.
06:52Tymere was watching my kids that day, and I came back early, and they was under the
07:08cover.
07:09He was telling them a story.
07:10Once upon a time, there was this thing called a story.
07:15And back in the day, people told the stories.
07:17You know what I'm saying?
07:18Yeah.
07:19And I just started recording because I thought it was so cute.
07:24He was a real present uncle.
07:28Tymere's first impression was always good.
07:31Even when my friends met him, they would just be like,
07:34Yo, brother's so nice.
07:35He's so sweet.
07:36He was kind of flirtatious too.
07:42When me and Tymere first started chatting, it was through Instagram.
07:48Tymere just started putting hard eyes on my pictures, telling me how beautiful I look,
07:54and stuff like that.
07:56And the messages.
07:57He was like, you're cute.
07:58And I'm like, you're cute.
07:59And I'm just like, let's be cute together.
08:02We went on our first date in December of 2020.
08:06We went bowling.
08:07My first impression of Tymere was that he was really down to earth, like a very caring man.
08:14Tymere described Rodney as his younger, annoying brother that he loved.
08:19He would do anything for Rodney.
08:22The first time that I got on the phone with Tymere, Rodney came into the room.
08:28He pretty much did say, shut up, bitch, pretty much.
08:32And I was just like, who are you talking to?
08:34I don't have to shut up.
08:36And Rodney told me, I will be the **** without you.
08:40Rodney was definitely one of them boys that I would say I stayed away from.
08:46Rodney loved guns.
08:48He made it very clear that that was the life that he lived and the life that he loved to live.
08:54You never know what a person could do.
08:57As he had gotten older, he was not a person you would really want to be around.
09:03Rodney didn't care about nobody but Rodney.
09:07I think the whole family felt as if Rodney did have a problem.
09:12I believe that if you mix with the wrong people, bad things are going to happen.
09:24I'm looking at you.
09:32Tymere was working at a cleaning job at the Market Hall, Sugar Heights, Ohio.
09:42I ended up going to his house and meeting his mom and his family.
09:47And then we were inseparable.
09:50When Tymere first met Nina, it was fast.
09:53And she instantly moved in with us.
10:00Nina became a part of our family.
10:02I grew to love her like a sister.
10:04Me and Tymere, when we met, we started talking about kids roughly like six months in.
10:11It was fast paced.
10:12We having a baby!
10:14We having a **** baby!
10:17When Tymere found out I was pregnant, he was ecstatic.
10:20I think it's my name real quick.
10:22What's up, Daddy Chicken Dumpling?
10:26He was phenomenal throughout the pregnancy.
10:29Tymere never missed a beat when it came to our child, ever.
10:35He swore it was a boy.
10:37I knew it wasn't no boy.
10:39And I looked at him and said, you're going to cry when it's a girl.
10:43It's fall of 2021.
10:45And 21-year-old Tymere and 19-year-old Nina throw a gender reveal party for their family and friends.
10:52We all just came out to see what he was having.
10:56And he was determined to make sure that a truck had whatever color powder come out.
11:02Five, four, three, two, one.
11:07One!
11:08Ah!
11:09Ah!
11:10Oh, my God!
11:13When the pink smoke came out, Tymere was mad.
11:19Take it out!
11:22Take it out!
11:23Take it out!
11:24Take it out!
11:25Take it out!
11:26We're going right back!
11:27And he made a comment and he said, that's okay Nina, we're going to run it back.
11:31It was the funniest thing because I was like, dude, you don't pick your kids.
11:37Your kids pick you.
11:39Rodney didn't show up to the gender reveal, but I think Tymere understood that his brother
11:44was in the streets and not family-oriented like him.
11:49Rodney just didn't care.
11:51He just had this kind of like, I don't care if you like me or not attitude.
11:56At only 18 years of age, Rodney is also about to become a father.
12:02Rodney wasn't as excited as Tymere was to become a father.
12:06Rodney was just, oh it is what it is, she's pregnant, you know.
12:10Rodney's son's mother, they wasn't in a relationship.
12:13I think Rodney probably wasn't as excited because Rodney didn't have anything.
12:18He didn't have a job.
12:20I don't think Rodney was prepared to care for a child.
12:23Rodney was the type of person to get angry very quickly.
12:28You say one little thing to him and he's going from zero to 100 in a second.
12:38When I was pregnant, Jeremiah and Rodney were having a disagreement.
12:43And Jeremiah was so much younger than him.
12:46So I intervened and I did tell Rodney to stop, that's your little brother.
12:51Rodney did not like that.
12:53Rodney got on my face threatening me, screaming in my face.
12:57I was fearful of him.
12:59Because for one, he's a man and I'm pregnant.
13:03And for two, the aggression, the look in his eyes, he's angry.
13:07I think Tymere and him, they were cool after it.
13:10You know, they're brothers.
13:11I would never try to get between brothers.
13:13I didn't talk to Rodney for a couple months.
13:16Me and Tymere decided that we wanted to move into our own apartment because, you know,
13:20it was time we started our own family, begin our own life.
13:26Me and Tymere moved into my apartment October 15, 2021.
13:31I went into labor with Nalani, February 15.
13:36Tymere was just there the whole time, rubbing my back, talking me through it.
13:41He did end up doing an emergency C-section.
13:44He was there through it all.
13:46Tymere was the first person to hold her.
13:49Say cheese.
13:50Cheese.
13:52First time that I seen Tymere really cradle Nalani and really get in father mode,
13:58it warmed my heart.
13:59He did most of the nurturing.
14:04He did the most of the getting up in the middle of the night,
14:08always made the bottles, changed the diapers,
14:11because he knew that I was healing.
14:14Look, right here.
14:15I'm your daddy.
14:17Yeah.
14:18Lonnie loved her dad.
14:22He was a wonderful, wonderful father.
14:26You should have seen him with her.
14:32He was amazing.
14:35Ah.
14:39Ah.
14:40Rodney's day would consist of sleeping the majority of the day and then going outside.
14:49So when you got your child, you can't just sleep all day and then go outside.
14:53I just don't believe Rodney was ready for a child.
14:56Sometimes I would be like, you know, get him.
14:58But he would get his son and be so frustrated.
15:02He didn't care what I said.
15:04He was running with the wrong people.
15:06It's March 2022.
15:12Tymere and Rodney's younger brothers are driving through the city at night.
15:17Tymere's younger siblings, Rondell and Jeremiah, were all in a car together with Rodney's girlfriend.
15:24And the car was shot up.
15:29I looked back to check on Jeremiah.
15:31I said, Jeremiah, are you okay?
15:33But when I looked back, he was laying on the floor and he had blood on the back of his head.
15:40At that point, I knew he was hurt, but I just didn't know where.
15:44So I caught 911 and they came fast, not even two minutes fast.
15:51It was like five cop cars and an ambulance.
15:54They pulled him out the car, laid him on the ground, cut his clothes off.
16:01Jeremiah was shot.
16:02He was struck in his chest and twice in his legs and he was grazed three times.
16:10Jeremiah should have never had to experience nothing like that.
16:13I believe that they thought that Rodney was in that car.
16:16And I believe that they maybe had a run in prior to that.
16:20And that was the outcome of it.
16:23Jeremiah was 10 years old when he was shot.
16:25He was in the hospital for a week, but he was okay.
16:29He didn't suffer any major damage.
16:32Tymere was really hurt by it.
16:34And Rodney was really hurt by it because Rodney felt like it was for him.
16:39He kept saying that he wished he'd have been in the car.
16:44We always told Rodney, you need to put the gun down.
16:48You need to do something better with your life.
16:50Timere definitely expressed to Rodney how he felt that he should try to change his life.
16:59But Rodney just didn't want to hear it.
17:02Rodney was disrespectful.
17:04He didn't care what I said.
17:05No matter how much I chased him, no matter how much he did not care at all.
17:11I feel as if Rodney was consistently putting his whole family in danger.
17:16Rodney was a ticking time bomb, waiting to go off.
17:19As he got older, Rodney did become more violent.
17:36I don't know what it was that made him become that way.
17:41an image he had to portray or if it was just really who he was.
17:48I do think that sometimes Rodney did think that Tymere was my favorite child.
17:56It's not that Tymere was my favorite or that I loved him more,
18:00but he was a little bit more responsible.
18:02Me and Rodney got into it at my mother's house.
18:10It started over something petty.
18:12And he said that he was going to go put his gun up and come back downstairs and hit me.
18:19And that's what happened.
18:22He came downstairs and he hit me.
18:25So I hit him back.
18:26I remember the police pulling up and they arrested both of us.
18:32And we both were in jail together.
18:37When I found out that Rodney did put his hands on Yana and they were both in jail,
18:42I knew then that he didn't care about anything.
18:48I knew then that he could harm someone.
18:51I stayed away from Rodney for the most part for a couple months.
18:57I just felt like I didn't want me or my baby around that.
19:01But Tymere is busy focusing on his career and providing for his family.
19:07Tymere started working security at a school, at a charter school.
19:11He would come home every day with a story and he would just be so excited about how he impacted some child's life.
19:22He was a security officer at the school with me.
19:28He was a natural.
19:30Like the kids loved him.
19:32They really, truly loved Tymere.
19:34I believe that Rodney had some type of jealousy or envy.
19:40I believe he was probably jealous of Tymere's whole life.
19:45Rodney got in a lot of trouble.
19:47But it's hard to just say, oh, I give up on my child because he is my child.
19:51I guess I was just being a mother and thought that that was the right thing to do to just still love him regardless.
19:56I think Rodney wanted my attention so he would get it anyway, even if it was in a negative way.
20:04In July 2023, Wycliffe Police Department received another 911 call about Rodney.
20:11911, what's your emergency?
20:14Hi, my daughter is at the Green Ridge Hotel and her ex-boyfriend showed up and he has a gun on him.
20:22He shot her car up recently.
20:28What is his name?
20:30His name is Rodney Curley.
20:32He's just harassing her.
20:34So she said that he has his gun and he showed it to her?
20:37Yes, yes.
20:39Rodney called me and asked me to come pick him up from a hotel.
20:43Once I got close to the hotel, I seen a bunch of police cars.
20:47And from what they said, he beat her up in the hotel room.
20:53Somebody called the police and said he had the gun.
20:56Stop barking.
20:58Turn around and face away from me.
21:00Turn around and face away from me.
21:02Bring his money back.
21:04Bring his money back.
21:05Come on, don't.
21:07So the police stopped him and he didn't have the gun on him.
21:10But they took him to jail because she had a knot on her head.
21:15She was pregnant with his second child.
21:17You can sit back down first.
21:19You're going to sit back down.
21:20You can see me through the window.
21:22Okay.
21:23Okay.
21:24If you're not going to comply, we'll charge you with obstructing too.
21:27I'm giving you a lawful order.
21:28You're under arrest.
21:29You're going to sit back in the car.
21:30I'm under arrest?
21:31Yes, sir.
21:32Put your feet back in the car.
21:33So what though?
21:34I saw a room.
21:35Sit back down.
21:36Sit back down.
21:37Hey!
21:38On who?
21:39Sit back down, Rodney.
21:41It's really sickening to me that any man could be violent to a woman.
21:45He was arrested.
21:46Rodney went to jail for about two days and he was put on probation.
21:52For Rodney to actually put his hands on a woman that is carrying a child,
21:57his child at that was mind-boggling.
22:00That's when I did start to see that Rodney was spiraling.
22:05I started to see Rodney being more angrier, evil, mean.
22:11I think Tymira gave up on trying to tell Rodney to be different.
22:17I thought if I move out of the neighborhood, I could keep him from trouble.
22:23Getting a new house is starting over.
22:25It was hard finding the house because of Rodney.
22:28Because it was like everywhere that I looked for a house, Rodney would say,
22:33I can't live there.
22:34So Rodney said he had ops.
22:36That means he has enemies.
22:38After like maybe a couple of months of searching for a house,
22:41I'm at the point where I'm like, we're going to be homeless in a minute
22:44if I keep on turning down houses.
22:46So I just decided to take the house.
22:48Moving day arrives for Pinky and her family.
22:55Tymira left for work.
22:57So we started back in the U-Haul.
22:59But to me, Rodney was like a little off.
23:02He would see a car and he would be like, who is that?
23:04You know, every time.
23:05So he was a little jumpy.
23:07Probably about 3.30, 4 o'clock.
23:09I dropped Rodney off at the old house.
23:12When I got back to the old house, Tymira and Nina was pulling up.
23:17She said she had to work.
23:19And I'm like, I'll take the baby.
23:21When I got to the new house, Tymira came with the air conditioner.
23:25It was fairly hot.
23:26Tymira said, I'm going to take this air conditioner upstairs.
23:28And Rodney says, don't take all that stuff upstairs.
23:31You're wasting our time.
23:33And Tymira was like, stop talking to me.
23:35He went upstairs.
23:36They go back outside and they're in the U-Haul.
23:39But now they're arguing like, like really arguing.
23:499-1-1, do you need police ambulance or fire?
23:589-1-1, do you need police ambulance or fire?
24:00Hello?
24:01A boy just shot a boy right here on our street.
24:19And the boy is on the ground.
24:20Where is the person who shot him?
24:22He's gone.
24:23He's a brain.
24:25The 9-1-1 call came in on October 3rd, 2023 at 6.51 PM.
24:37There's a lot of chaos going on.
24:39There's screaming, there's crying, there's yelling.
24:42We learned that a boy shot another boy.
24:45Come here right now.
24:47Come here right now.
24:48He shot him over here first.
24:50Okay.
24:51He was right here.
24:52Okay.
24:53He's moving his foot right here.
24:54He's going.
24:55He sent you a picture of your guns.
24:57He sent me all public right now.
24:58He shot him right here.
24:59The victim was in dire straits.
25:02They had recognized multiple gunshot wounds.
25:06He was not conscious.
25:08Michael, can you start getting, like, info on the witnesses real quick?
25:14The first person the officer encountered is the victim's mother.
25:19The first thing that she conveyed to that officer was that one of her sons had just shot her other son in front of her.
25:28Here's your son.
25:29Yes.
25:30The killer is my son, too.
25:31Okay.
25:32Yes.
25:33He shot him face to face, like, up close.
25:34Right.
25:35And then he came out of the end.
25:36And then he jumped me.
25:37He ran up to you all and stood over him and shot him.
25:41So I see the blood.
25:42Yeah.
25:43They're arguing here.
25:44She said...
25:45They're arguing.
25:46He says, you're a bitch without your gun.
25:48The victim said that.
25:49Yeah.
25:50He said, I'll pop your ass right now.
25:52Shot him.
25:53Yeah, brothers.
25:55Really?
25:56Yeah.
25:57What's the suspect's name when she gave you Andy Curley?
25:59We learned that the suspect in this case was 19 years old.
26:03That our victim's name was Tamir Dial Hale.
26:06And that he was 23 years old.
26:08When I got the call from my mom, and she was screaming on the phone, saying Rodney killed Tamir.
26:14And when I got there, Tamir was laying on the ground in the neighbor's front yard.
26:21As Tamir is rushed to University Hospital, family members arrive at the scene.
26:26When Piggy called me, everything just started going like fireworks in my brain.
26:44Is my baby father alive?
26:47Did he kill his brother in front of my child?
26:50Did he harm my child?
26:52Where is she?
26:53Where is she?
26:54She's down there on the other side of the crime scene.
26:55Where people got her?
26:56Where who has her?
26:59My daughter was with some woman that lived on the same street.
27:04They had said, Tamir had a pause.
27:07So, we were all hopeful.
27:10You know, I was just praying.
27:13When I get there yelling at the police, like, where's my son?
27:18Where's my son?
27:19The police was like, we took him to University Hospital.
27:25I jumped back in the car, and I sped off.
27:30I just remember falling on my knees, praying to God.
27:36Then we got the call that he was gone.
27:42If he wanted a good one, why would you take him?
27:49I wasn't ready.
27:50I was shocked.
27:51I couldn't believe that Rodney was the person who took him.
27:57Unfortunately, Tamir was declared deceased at 7.43 PM, and almost immediately after that declaration, the page goes out for the homicide unit to respond.
28:12When the homicide unit arrived, we do a walk through through the crime scene.
28:17We discovered that there was a shell casing inside the moving van, and there was multiple shell casings outside along with a blood trail that led from the moving van to the final resting place of Tamir.
28:35Hi.
28:36Hi.
28:37Hi.
28:38How are you doing?
28:39You okay?
28:40No.
28:41I know.
28:42I know.
28:43Police speak to Pinky to find out what actually happened.
28:46It was unbelievable.
28:47I'm standing right next to Tamir, and Rodney says, I don't fight, I shoot.
29:03So I'm like, come on, y'all.
29:05I just got this house yesterday.
29:06I don't want y'all arguing, being the drama.
29:08We ain't even in the house yet.
29:10So the baby came out the door.
29:11She was standing there.
29:12He said, I swear on your daughter, I'll kill you.
29:15He just pulled a gun out and shot him.
29:20He shot him in his shoulder.
29:22It was unbelievable.
29:23Tamir's face went from, I don't think he would shoot me, to I can't believe he shot me.
29:31Now Nalani is screaming, and Tamir turns to jump off the U-Haul.
29:38So I go to try to, like, grab Rodney, but he jumped too.
29:43But as he's jumping, he shot three times.
29:50When I finally did see Tamir, he was laying on his back in the grass.
29:54And he just kept saying, okay, okay, bruh, basically begging for his life.
29:59And Rodney shot him.
30:01Rodney shot him.
30:02And now my mind is telling me to grab Rodney.
30:08But then my body was, like, running towards Tamir.
30:12Tamir flipped his body over.
30:18So now he's laying on his stomach.
30:23And he shot him three more times.
30:28Rodney turned, like, to me.
30:31And I ran around the other side of the U-Haul because I felt like he would shoot me.
30:37He was running down the street.
30:39And I laid on the ground next to Tamir, and he died in my face.
30:47We learned that the victim's one-year-old daughter was on scene and present during this incident,
30:53which just adds to the tragic nature of this case.
30:58We all have families.
31:00We all have kids.
31:01I have four kids and seven grandkids.
31:03And you immediately start thinking.
31:15You think about your family.
31:18He killed my baby.
31:22He didn't have to kill him though.
31:28You didn't have to kill him.
31:30This family has seen a lot of tragedy at the hands of this individual.
31:35It was imperative that we got him in custody as quickly and as safely as possible.
31:40So the key now is that we need to talk to him, right?
31:43Find him.
31:44Yeah.
31:45And make everything safe.
31:47Mm-hmm.
31:48The safer we can.
31:49Do you have any idea where he might be?
31:51She was able to give us a couple of locations where Rodney may have fled to.
31:57She didn't know the address, but she provided a screenshot of a map that may be the location or the area that he fled to.
32:07That information was immediately disseminated to the officers out on the street.
32:13There's another thing.
32:14He left it.
32:15He hit his knee before we was at the old house.
32:16Okay.
32:17He hit his knee on the U-Haul.
32:18Definitely left it.
32:19I want to explain to you guys.
32:21While we're sitting here talking to you, there's at least 20, 30 guys out looking for you.
32:25I hope that he's fine.
32:26Please try to find him tonight because if he pointed the gun on hers, he can get another clip and come back.
32:32Yeah.
32:33So after we leave the scene, we try to learn as much as we can about Rodney Curley Jr.
32:45Police know Rodney is armed and dangerous.
32:49I thought maybe Rodney would come back to the house and I was the only witness.
32:53You know, I was the only person that could really say he was the person who did this.
32:58He had already killed his brother.
33:00So it was like, if you would kill your brother, you're capable of killing anybody else.
33:05A week after Tamir's death, his brother Rodney Curley Jr. remains at large.
33:25But when they interviewed us on the news, I basically just wanted to tell Rodney to turn
33:30yourself in so that not only would he be safe, but other people would be safe as well.
33:36Turn yourself in.
33:38Don't hurt anybody else.
33:41He killed my son.
33:44I was out looking for him every single night.
33:49We were looking for him to be captured, apprehended, or killed, dead or alive.
33:55I don't care how you bring him in.
34:00On October 20th, 2023, family and friends say goodbye to their beloved, Tamir.
34:07The funeral was packed.
34:09It was just a lot of people.
34:11Man, the whole city, the whole community came out.
34:16Like, it was amazing.
34:18The hardest part was seeing him in the casket.
34:22Because it's like, once they marry you, you're gone forever.
34:26It was hard to deal with that.
34:31It was hard giving him my last kiss.
34:35On November 16th, investigators make a breakthrough in their hunt for Rodney.
34:45Rodney was found to be hiding out in a house in the city of East Cleveland.
34:52As soon as Rodney understood that the K9 unit was coming in the house, he came out of the basement and gave himself up.
35:04Less than two hours after the fugitive unit arrested Rodney, he was in the interview room with Detective Legg.
35:16So do you want to share your version of the events or tell us what happened that day that led to whatever happened happening?
35:23I'm telling him, like, stop crying like a bitch, bro.
35:28You've been crying like a bitch all day. Stop crying like a bitch.
35:32I'm like, shit, man, I don't mind it's like that.
35:36You look down, you see my gun.
35:38She's a real gun.
35:40She's no brother.
35:41She's a real gun.
35:42She certainly was claiming self-defense.
35:43He was claiming that her victim, Tamir, had a gun on him, which there was zero evidence of and zero history of, by the way.
35:49So if you look down, she's, you're gonna get some of the worst.
35:50And you look like when you're talking about this happens.
35:55When his left hand, he had a gun like this, he could grab my gun.
35:59My gun's a gun.
36:00I should wanna pussy.
36:02He tried to go like this, and then the gun was gonna have to grab it.
36:09I was like, put me a fork by my legs, or I was pushing it up like this.
36:13Once he seen me going for my gun, he did like this.
36:17And then like, I just tapped at him.
36:20In my head, I had a switch on my gun.
36:22I ain't gonna lie to you.
36:23Show me that.
36:25Feel me?
36:26He shot the big gun shot.
36:28Like, it went on.
36:29Then he was claiming that there was a tussle over his gun, you know, between the two of them.
36:36Mr. Curley was, you know, forgetting at some point that his mother was standing right next to him when this was going on.
36:43The medical examiner's office determined that Tamir had 16 gunshot wound defects in his body, and it was labeled a homicide.
36:54He didn't seem in any way, shape, or form remorseful.
36:58He was in self-preservation mode.
37:00Finally, I don't know that.
37:02I've been the black sheep in the family my whole life.
37:05I was always the gisting woman.
37:08Mr. Curley wanted to blame everybody but himself.
37:13Rodney is indicted on charges of aggravated murder, murder, involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, and aggravated menacing.
37:23I didn't want to have to subject me or my other children to testifying.
37:28A trial would have been unfair because Rodney knew what he did.
37:33The defense requests a plea of 10 to 12 years.
37:38As a mother of both of them, I felt like 10 to 12 years wasn't fair because he killed his brother.
37:47So I told the prosecutor not to tell me any plea deals if it wasn't over 20 years.
37:53Just take what your punishment and take accountability.
38:00Rodney pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter with a firearm, two counts of felonious assault with a firearm, and aggravated medicine.
38:08When I got there, I couldn't breathe.
38:11So all I could really get out was a couple of words.
38:15I just wouldn't want to say that.
38:17I love Rodney so much.
38:19I love Tymeer so much, and I miss them both so much.
38:22I don't even know what to say. It's terrible.
38:25But that day was the worst day of my life.
38:28Because I knew that that day I was losing both of my sons.
38:31I didn't know how to do what everybody wanted me to do.
38:36I felt like maybe if he felt my pain from my words, it would hit him that this is reality.
38:43I believe that that was when he realized that he had destroyed his family.
38:49He genuinely apologized in that moment. Now, if it was genuine, I don't know.
39:01But in that moment, it felt genuine.
39:04I couldn't tell him I hated him. I couldn't.
39:07Because I don't. I don't hate him. I hate what he did.
39:11This is my victim impact statement that I didn't get the opportunity to read to the judge.
39:18In front of the monster that was sitting in court.
39:22I'm here for my son, who was the best child you could ask for.
39:28He was loved by everyone.
39:30The only enemy he had in life was in his own household.
39:35What the killer did to me was rip my heart out.
39:43Rodney is sentenced to 23 to 28 years in prison.
39:47Rodney absolutely committed a monstrous act.
39:51There's nothing worse than killing your brother in front of your brother, in my opinion.
39:58I cry every day. That hurt.
40:02Everybody in my family is devastated about this.
40:05Tamir was everything to me. Tamir was my best friend.
40:09I miss everything about Tamir.
40:12I don't forget Rodney.
40:15I would tell Rodney if I could talk to him right now.
40:18You took my daughter's father away.
40:21You stole him from her.
40:24I wish you could have just walked away.
40:30You didn't care about anybody but yourself.
40:32Happy birthday to you.
40:35Happy birthday to you.
40:36Happy birthday to you.
40:39Tamir made his mark on everybody.
40:42He was a real leader in man form.
40:48I don't think that I'll ever meet anyone like Tamir.
40:54Light Tamir.
41:08Hi Lena, how are you?
41:10He was extremely attentive with her.
41:13Things started to unravel.
41:15Help me please!
41:16The interviewer asked him to draw pictures of what he saw.
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