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!
11:26Take it out!
11:27We're going right back!
11:28And he made a comment and he said, that's okay Nina, we're going to run it back.
11:32It 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.
11:57At only 18 years of age, Rodney is also about to become a father.
12:01Rodney wasn't as excited as Tymere was to become a father.
12:06Rodney was just, oh, it is what it is.
12:08She'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.
12:25Rodney 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.
12:50That'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
13:19because, you know, it was time we started our own family, begin our own life.
13:26Me and Tymere moved into my apartment October 15th, 2021.
13:33I went into labor when Alani February 15th.
13:37Tymere 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.
13:47Tymere was the first person to hold her.
13:50Say cheese!
13:51Cheese!
13:53First time that I seen Tymere really cradle Alani and really get in father mode,
13:58it warmed my heart.
14:02He 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,
14:12because he knew that I was healing.
14:14Look, right here. I'm your daddy.
14:17Yeah.
14:19Alani loved her dad.
14:23He was a wonderful, wonderful father.
14:30You should have seen him with her.
14:33He was amazing.
14:38Rodney's day would consist of sleeping the majority of the day and then going outside.
14:48So 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.
15:01He didn't care what I said.
15:03He was running with the wrong people.
15:05It's March 2022.
15:09Tymere and Rodney's younger brothers are driving through the city at night.
15:15Tymere's younger siblings, Rondell and Jeremiah, were all in a car together with Rodney's girlfriend.
15:23And the car was shot up.
15:26I looked back to check on Jeremiah. I 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.
15:38At that point, I knew he was hurt, but I just didn't know where. So I called 911. And they came fast. Not even two minutes fast. It was like five cop cars in an ambulance.
15:53They pulled him out the car, laid him on the ground, cut his clothes off.
16:00Jeremiah was shot. He was struck in his chest and twice in his legs. And he was grazed three times.
16:09Jeremiah should have never had to experience nothing like that.
16:12I believe that they thought that Rodney was in that car. And I believe that they maybe had a run in prior to that. And that was the outcome of it.
16:23Jeremiah was 10 years old when he was shot. He was in the hospital for a week.
16:28But he was okay. He didn't suffer any major damage.
16:32Tymere was really hurt by it. And 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. You need to do something better with your life.
16:52Tymere definitely expressed to Rodney how he felt that he should try to change his life.
17:00But Rodney just didn't want to hear it.
17:02Rodney was disrespectful. He 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.
17:54It's not that Tymere was my favorite or that I loved him more, but he was a little bit more responsible.
18:03Me 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.
18:18And that's what happened.
18:22Came downstairs and he hit me.
18:25So I hit him back.
18:29I remember the police pulling up and they arrested both of us.
18:33And we both was in jail together.
18:34When I found out that Rodney did put his hands on Yana and they were both in jail, I knew then that he didn't care about anything.
18:49I knew then that he could harm someone.
18:53I stayed away from Rodney for the most part for a couple months.
18:58I 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.
19:08Tymere started working security at a school, at a charter school.
19:12He 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.
19:27He was a natural, like the kids loved him.
19:32They really, truly loved Tymere.
19:35I believe that Rodney had some type of jealousy or envy.
19:40I believe he was probably jealous of Tymere's whole life.
19:43Rodney got in a lot of trouble, but 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.
20:01In July 2023, Wycliffe Police Department receive 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?
20:29His name is Rodney Curley.
20:31He's just harassing her.
20:33So she said that he has his gun and he showed it to her?
20:36Yes, yes.
20:37Riley 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.
20:48And from what they said, he beat her up in the hotel room.
20:53Somebody called the police and said he had the gun.
20:57Stop 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.
21:11But 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.
21:26I'm giving you a lawful order.
21:27You're under arrest.
21:28You're going to sit back in the car.
21:30I'm under arrest?
21:31Yes, sir.
21:32Put your feet back in the car.
21:33For what though?
21:34I saw a room.
21:35I saw a room.
21:36I saw a room.
21:37I saw a room.
21:38I saw a room.
21:39Sit back down.
21:40Sit back down.
21:41Sit back down, Rodney.
21:42It'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.
21:50For Rodney to actually put his hands on a woman that is carrying a child, his child at that was mind-boggling.
22:01That'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.
22:16I thought if I move out of the neighborhood, I could keep him from trouble.
22:23Getting a new house is starting over.
22:26It was hard finding the house because of Rodney.
22:29Because it was like everywhere that I looked for a house, Rodney would say, I 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, I'm at the point where I'm like,
22:43we gonna be homeless in a minute if I keep on turning down houses.
22:46So I just decided to take the house.
22:52Moving 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, I dropped Rodney off at the old house.
23:13When I got back to the old house, Tymira and Nina was pulling up.
23:18She said she had to work.
23:19And I'm like, I'll take the baby.
23:22When I got to the new house, Tymira came with the air conditioner.
23:25It was fairly hot.
23:26Tymira said, I'm gonna take this air conditioner upstairs.
23:29And Rodney says, don't take all that stuff upstairs.
23:32You wasting our time.
23:33And Tymira was like, stop talking to me.
23:35He went upstairs.
23:36They go back outside.
23:38And they're in the U-Haul.
23:40But now they're arguing, like, like really arguing.
23:439-1-1, do you need police ambulance or fire?
23:50It's f***ing my car!
23:51It's no record!
23:529-1-1, do you need police ambulance or fire?
23:56It's some.
23:57It's some.
23:59I mean, I said-
24:01It's a.
24:02Oh my God.
24:03He said-
24:07hello a boy just shot a boy right here on our street and the boy is on the ground
24:20where's the person who shot him he's gone he's bringing the 911 call came in on october 3rd
24:272023 at 6 51 p.m
24:31there's a lot of chaos going on there's there's screaming there's crying there's
24:41yelling we learned that a boy shot another boy
24:46victim was in in dire straits they had recognized multiple gunshot wounds um he was not conscious
25:08okay michael can you start getting like info on the witnesses real quick the first person the
25:15officer encountered is the victim's mother the first thing that she conveyed to that
25:21officer was that one of her sons had just shot her other son um in front of her there's your son yes
25:29the killer is my son too okay yes he shot him face to face like up close right he jumped and then he
25:35came out and then he jumped he ran up to you all and stood over him and shot him so i see the blood
25:42yeah they're arguing here she said they're arguing he says you're a bitch without your gun
25:47yeah he said i'll pop your ass right now shot him yeah brothers really yeah what's the suspect's name
25:57when she gave ron d curly we learned that the suspect in this case was 19 years old
26:02that our victim's name was tamir dial hail and that he was 23 years old when i got the call from my mom
26:10and she was screaming on the phone saying ron killed tamir and when i got there tamir was laying
26:17on the ground in the neighbor's front yard as tamir is rushed to university hospital
26:24family members arrive at the scene
26:26when piggy called me everything just started going like fireworks in my brain is my baby father alive
26:47did he killed his brother in front of my child did he harm my child
26:52my daughter was with some woman that lived on the same street they had said timer had a pause
27:07so we were all hopeful you know i was just praying when i get there yelling at the police like where's my
27:17son where's my son the police was like we took him to university hospital i jumped back in the car
27:27and i sped off i just remember falling on my knees praying to god
27:37then we got the call that he was gone
27:43he wanted a good one why would you take him
27:45i wasn't ready i was shocked i couldn't believe that rodney was the person who took him unfortunately
27:59tamir was declared deceased at 7 43 p.m and almost immediately after that declaration the page goes
28:09out for the homicide unit to respond when the homicide unit arrived we do a walk through through
28:16the crime scene we discovered that there was a shell casing inside the moving van and there was
28:25multiple shell casings outside along with a blood trail that led from the moving van to the final
28:33resting place of time here hi hi how are you doing you okay no i know i know i know police speak to
28:43pinky to find out what actually happened it's like one son killed my other son in the fight i don't even
28:50i don't even know what to think i don't even know with the honest i don't know what to do
28:54i it was unbelievable i'm standing right next to time here and um
28:58um rotney says i don't fight i shoot so i'm like come on y'all like i just got this house yesterday
29:06i don't want y'all arguing be in the drama we ain't even in the house yet so the baby came out
29:11the door she was standing there he said i swear on your daughter i kill you he just pulled a gun out
29:17and shot him he shot him in his shoulder it was unbelievable time your face went from
29:25i don't think he would shoot me to i can't believe he shot me now nalani is screaming and
29:34tamir turns to jump off the u-haul so i go to try to like grab rodney but he jumped too but as he's
29:44jumping he shot three times when i finally did see tamir he was laying on his back in the grass
29:55and he would just kept saying okay okay bruh basically begging for his life and rodney shot him
30:02and now my mind is telling me to grab rodney but then my body was like running towards tamir
30:11and he shot him three more times
30:25rodney turned like to me and i ran around the other side of the u-haul because i felt like he
30:34would shoot me
30:37he was running down the street and i laid on the ground next to tamir and he died in my face
30:43we learned that the victim's one-year-old daughter was on scene and present during this incident which
30:53is adds to the tragic nature of this case we all have families we all have kids i have four kids and
31:01seven grandkids and you immediately start thinking
31:15you think about your family
31:17this family has seen a lot of tragedy at the hands of this
31:33individual it was imperative that we got him in custody as as quickly and as safely as possible so
31:41the key now is that we need to talk to him right find him yeah and make it everything's safe
31:47safe the safer we can't you have any idea where he might be she was able to give us a couple of
31:53locations where rodney may have fled to she didn't know the address but she provided a screenshot of a
32:02map that may be the location or the area that he fled to that information was immediately disseminated
32:10to the the officers out of the street there's another thing he left it he hit his knee when we
32:15was at the old house okay he hit his knee on the u-haul definitely left it i want to explain
32:21to you guys while we're sitting here talking to you there's at least 20 30 guys out looking
32:25for you please try to find them tonight because if he pointed the gun on hers he can get another
32:31clip and come back yeah so after we leave the scene we try to learn as much as we can about
32:39rodney curly jr police know rodney is armed and dangerous i thought maybe rodney would come back
32:51to the house and i was the only witness you know i was the only person that could really say he was the
32:56person who did this he had already killed his brother so it was like if you would kill your brother
33:03you're capable of killing anybody else
33:19a week after timere's death his brother rodney curly jr remains at large but when they interviewed us on
33:27the news i basically just wanted to tell rodney to turn himself in so that not only would he be safe
33:34but other people would be safe as well turn yourself in don't hurt anybody else he killed my son
33:44i was out looking for him every single night we were looking for him to be captured apprehended or killed
33:53dead or alive i don't care how you bring him in
34:01on october 20th 2023 family and friends say goodbye to their beloved timere the funeral was packed it was
34:09just a lot of people man the whole city the whole community came out like it was amazing
34:18the hardest part was seeing him in the casket because it's like once they marry you you're gone forever
34:29it was hard to deal with that it was hard giving him my last kiss
34:40on november 16 investigators make a breakthrough in their hunt for rodney rodney was found to be
34:47hiding out in the house in the city of east cleveland
34:56as soon as rodney understood that the canine unit was coming in the house
35:01he came out of the basement and gave himself up
35:08less than two hours after the fugitive unit arrested rodney
35:12he was in the interview room with detective leg
35:17so do you want to share your version of the events or tell us what happened that day that led
35:21the whatever happened happening i'm telling him like stop like now again that's what i said
35:27i'm like but stop crying like a bitch bro you can kind of like a bitch all day stop crying like a
35:30bitch
35:31i'm like
35:38so clearly was claiming self-defense he was claiming that our victim tamir
35:43had a gun on him which there was zero evidence of and zero history of by the way
35:49So he goes down and see what I'm going to do, he gets to the rest of me, like, when we try to rest him with this hand, from his left hand, he had a gun like this, he just grabbed my gun, so my gun was falling out, I was pushing it up, he tried to go like this, I was like, wow, the gun was going to have felt, I grabbed it, I was like, he was falling out by my legs, or I was pushing it up like this, and once he seen me going through my gun, he did like this, and then like, I just tapped out.
36:19Then 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.
36:42The 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. He was in self-preservation mode.
37:00Finally, I was like, I've been the black sheep in the family my whole life, but I was always the distant 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 testify in.
37:28A trial would have been unfair, because Rodney knew what he did.
37:32The 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.
37:46So 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.
37:56Rodney pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter with a firearm, two counts of felonious assault with a firearm, and aggravated menacing.
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 time here so much, and I miss them both so much.
38:22I don't even know what to say. It's terrible.
38:24But that day was the worst day of my life, because I knew that that day I was losing both of my sons.
38:32I didn't know how to do what everybody wanted me to do.
38:36I feel 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.
38:49I love it all so much. I'm fine.
38:52And I always tell him if I take it back, let me do it.
38:55I don't.
38:57He genuinely apologized in that moment.
39:00Now, if it was genuine, I don't know.
39:01But in that moment, it felt genuine.
39:03I couldn't tell him I hated him.
39:06I couldn't, because I don't.
39:08I don't hate him.
39:09I hate what he did.
39:11This is my victim impact statement that I didn't get the opportunity to read to the judge
39:17in front of the monster that was sitting in the court.
39:21Rodney is sentenced to 23 to 28 years in prison.
39:46Rodney absolutely committed a monstrous act.
39:51There's nothing worse than killing your brother in front of your mother, in my opinion.
39:58I cry every day.
40:00That hurt.
40:02Everybody in my family is devastated about this.
40:06Tamir was everything to me.
40:07Tamir 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.
40:22You stole him from her.
40:26I wish you could have just walked away.
40:30You didn't care about anybody but yourself.
40:33Happy birthday to you.
40:36Happy birthday to you.
40:39Tamir made his mark on everybody.
40:44He was a real leader in man form.
40:50I don't think that I'll ever meet anyone like Tamir.
40:54Hi, Lena.
41:09How are you?
41:10He was extremely attentive with her.
41:12Things started to unravel.
41:15Help me, please.
41:16The interviewer asked him to draw pictures of what he saw.
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