American Monster - Season 13 Episode 08- My Brother's Keeper
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00:00Timur was the type of person that you could always depend on.
00:07As long as the people around him were taken care of, that's all he cared about.
00:11Timur and Rodney was like total opposites.
00:14Everything with Rodney was a joke. He never really took nothing real serious.
00:19Timur always tried to just play the big brother role to Rodney.
00:24Rodney, he embraced that street life.
00:26I'm under arrest?
00:27Yes, 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.
00:37Oh my God!
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.
00:49It's summer 2021, and brothers Timur and Rodney enjoy a day out with their family, making social media videos at a water park.
01:14I have seven children. Me and my kids did everything together.
01:19Timur was three years older than Rodney. For the most part, they got along, but they was the typical brothers.
01:26Timur always been like the clown. Like he always been funny.
01:30Timur would make you laugh and smile all the time.
01:43Rodney, I call him like the aggravator. He's just like to mess with people.
01:46I mean, we was a big family, so it was always fun.
01:57Timur 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. We just raised Timur together.
02:12Timur was a happy-go-lucky little baby. Like he was, he was a joy to have.
02:19Everybody in my family loved Timur.
02:21He was a mama's boy. He was sweet.
02:26My fifth child, Rodney, was born November the 8th of 2003.
02:30I 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. My 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.
02:57Timur'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. He always been a protector.
03:17When Timur is 12 and Rodney is 8, their family gets even bigger when Pinky gives birth to her seventh child, Jeremiah.
03:25When I got pregnant with Jeremiah, I think everybody was upset.
03:30I think everybody was like, we don't want no more kids here.
03:32But as Timur and Rodney become teenagers, their lives start to go in very different directions.
03:50Rodney was always wanting to be tough.
03:54Timur and Rodney was like total opposites.
03:59Timur 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, but for Rodney, he embraced that street life, the street culture.
04:17That was what he wanted for himself.
04:22Timur always talked to me about how he would talk to Rodney and try to get him to turn his life around.
04:31And he's like, Pops, he just ain't listening to me.
04:35I'm like, ain't nothing you can do.
04:39Timur always tried to talk to Rodney about doing the right things, but 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?
04:57I'm going to get it.
04:57I was extremely happy when Timur 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.
05:17It was hard raising teenage boys all together.
05:20But Rodney was definitely the one that gave me the most problems.
05:27As siblings growing up, when Rodney was at home, he was a normal person.
05:33We were all seen together.
05:34I think Rodney put on a persona for the streets.
05:40It's me, Rodney, and my friend.
05:42This was around the time me and Rodney spent a good amount of time together.
05:46We used to go to the rec after school sometime and just be kids.
05:52I love that video.
05:53It's me, Rodney, and Rodney in that video.
05:55It 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.
06:12I don't really think Rodney had any long-term goals.
06:16I think he doesn't live day by day.
06:22Rodney couldn't keep a job because Rodney had did so much bad things in the streets.
06:29Rodney would shoot at people and people would shoot at Rodney.
06:34Rodney was scared to go certain places because of who he might run into.
06:42Timir worked with me at the market hall.
06:44We were cleaning the building.
06:47But when Timir came, he made it fun.
06:49He would laugh.
06:50He would be the highlight of everybody's day.
06:54Ah, Rodney, baby, baby!
06:59Next video, we was at my mom's house.
07:02Timir was watching my kids that day.
07:04And I came back early, and they was under the cover.
07:08He was telling them a story.
07:10Once upon a time, there was this thing called a story.
07:13And 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.
07:23He was a real present uncle.
07:27Timir's first impression was always good.
07:29Even when my friends met him, they would just be like,
07:33Yo, brother's so nice.
07:34He's so sweet.
07:36He was kind of flirtatious, too.
07:37When me and Timir first started chatting, it was through Instagram.
07:49Timir just started putting hard eyes on my pictures, telling me how beautiful I look,
07:54and stuff like that.
07:56And the messages, he was like, you're cute.
07:58And I'm like, you're cute.
07:59And he was, I'm just like, let's be cute together.
08:01We went on our first date in December of 2020.
08:06We went bowling.
08:08My first impression of Timir was that he was really down to earth, like a very caring man.
08:15Timir described Rodney as his younger, annoying brother that he loved.
08:20He would do anything for Rodney.
08:21The first time that I got on the phone with Timir, 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 f*** out 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.
09:18Timir was working at a cleaning job at the Market Hall, Shaker Heights, Ohio.
09:37I ended up going to his house and meeting his mom and his family and then we were inseparable.
09:49When Timir first met Nina, it was fast and she instantly moved in with us.
09:55Nina became a part of our family.
10:02I grew to love her like a sister.
10:04Me and Timir, 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 f***ing baby!
10:16When Timir found out I was pregnant, he was ecstatic.
10:20Look, it's my name real quick.
10:22What's up, Daddy Chicken Dumpling?
10:25He was phenomenal throughout the pregnancy.
10:29Timir never missed a beat when it came to our child, ever.
10:35He swore it was a boy.
10:37I knew it wasn't a boy.
10:38And I looked at him and I said, you're going to cry when it's a girl.
10:43It's fall of 2021 and 21-year-old Timir and 19-year-old Nina throw a gender reveal party
10:50for their family and friends.
10:53We all just came out to see what he was having and he was determined to make sure that a truck
10:59had whatever color powder come out.
11:01When the pink smoke came out, Timir was mad.
11:25And 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 Timir understood
11:43that his brother was 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.
12:01Rodney wasn't as excited as Timir 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.
12:14I think Rodney probably wasn't as excited because Rodney didn't have anything.
12:19He 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.
12:29You say one little thing to him and he's going from zero to 100 in a second.
12:34When I was pregnant, Jeremiah and Rodney were having a disagreement.
12:44And Jeremiah was so much younger than him.
12:47So I intervened and I did tell Rodney, stop, that's your little brother.
12:52Rodney did not like that.
12:54Rodney got in my face, threatening me, screaming in my face.
12:57Because I was fearful of him.
13:00Because for one, he's a man and I'm pregnant.
13:04And for two, the aggression, the look in his eyes, he's angry.
13:08I think Timir 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.
13:15Me and Timir decided that we wanted to move into our own apartment because, you know,
13:20it was time we started our own family, began our own life.
13:26Me and Timir moved into my apartment October 15, 2021.
13:33I went into labor when Alani, February 15.
13:37Timir was just there the whole time, rubbing my back, talking me through it.
13:41We did end up doing an emergency C-section.
13:43He was there through it all.
13:47Timir was the first person to hold her.
13:49Say cheese.
13:50Cheese.
13:52First time that I seen Timir really cradle Alani and really get in father mode, it warmed my heart.
14:01He did most of the nurturing.
14:04He did the most of the getting up in the middle of the night, always made the bottles, changed
14:10the diapers because he knew that I was healing.
14:14Look, right here.
14:15I'm your daddy.
14:17Yeah.
14:19Alani loved her dad.
14:23He was a wonderful, wonderful father.
14:25You should have seen him with her.
14:32He was amazing.
14:34He was amazing.
14:34Rodney's day would consist of sleeping the majority of the day and then going outside.
14:47So 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.
15:13Tymir and Rodney's younger brothers are driving through the city at night.
15:17Tymir's younger siblings, Rondell and Jeremiah, were all in a car together with Rodney's girlfriend.
15:25And the car was shot up.
15:29I looked back to check on Jeremiah.
15:31I said, Jeremiah, are you OK?
15:32But 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 called.
15:46And I went on.
15:47And they came fast.
15:48Not even two minutes fast.
15:50It 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, and I believe that they maybe had
16:18a run-in prior to that, and that was the outcome of it.
16:23Jeremiah was 10 years old when he was shot.
16:24He was in the hospital for a week, but he was OK.
16:29He didn't suffer any major damage.
16:31Timer was really hurt by it, and Rodney was really hurt by it, because Rodney felt like it was for him.
16:38He kept saying that he wished he'd have been in the car.
16:42We always told Rodney, you need to put the gun down.
16:47You need to do something better with your life.
16:49Timer definitely expressed to Rodney how he felt that he should try to change his life, but Rodney just didn't want to hear it.
17:00Rodney 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.
17:38I don't know what it was that made him become that way.
17:43An image he had to portray, or if it was just really who he was.
17:47I do think that at some times Rodney did think that Timer was my favorite child.
17:56It's not that Timer was my favorite, or that I loved him more, but he was a little bit more responsible.
18:07Me and Rodney got into it at my mother's house.
18:10It started over something petty, and he said that he was going to go put his gun up and come back downstairs.
18:17And he hit me.
18:20And that's what happened.
18:22He came downstairs, and he hit me.
18:25So I hit him back.
18:28I remember the police pulling up, and they arrested both of us.
18:32And we both were in jail together.
18:34When 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.
18:52I 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.
19:02But Timer is busy focusing on his career and providing for his family.
19:07Timer 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.
19:29Like, the kids loved him.
19:31They really, truly loved Timer.
19:35I believe that Rodney had some type of jealousy or envy.
19:40I believe he was probably jealous of Timer's whole life.
19:45Rodney, he 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 Greenbridge Hotel, and her ex-boyfriend showed up, and he has a gun on him.
20:23He shot her car up, um, 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 did he show it to her?
20:36Yes, yes.
20:37Rodney 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.
20:57Stop barking.
20:58Turn around and face away from me.
20:59Turn around and face away from me.
21:01Oh, that's cool.
21:02Bring your hands behind your back.
21:04Bring your hands behind your back.
21:05Come on, don't.
21:06So the police stopped him, and he didn't have the gun on him, but they took him to jail
21:12because 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.
21:21I want to stand right here and watch out.
21:23If 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.
21:31For what?
21:31Put your feet back in the car.
21:32For what, though?
21:33Assault.
21:34Assault on who?
21:35It'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, his child at
21:58that 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.
22:14I thought if I moved out of the neighborhood, I could keep him from trouble.
22:23Getting a new house is starting over.
22:25It was hard finding a house because of Rodney, because it was like everywhere that I looked
22:31for a house, Rodney would say, I can't live there.
22:34So Rodney said he had ops.
22:36That means he has enemies.
22:37After, like, maybe a couple of months of searching for a house, I'm at the point where I'm like,
22:42we're going to be homeless in a minute if I keep on turning down houses.
22:46So I just decided to take the house.
22:47Moving 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.
23:06Probably 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 going to take this air conditioner upstairs.
23:29And Rodney says, don't take all that stuff upstairs.
23:32You'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.
23:49911, do you need police ambulance or fire?
23:53This is my car.
23:55It's no record.
23:57911, do you need police ambulance or fire?
24:00He said, hello?
24:15A boy just shot a boy right here on our street.
24:19And the boy is on the ground.
24:20Where's the person who shot him?
24:22He's gone.
24:23The 911 call came in on October 3rd, 2023 at 6.51 p.m.
24:31There'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.
24:46Come here right now.
24:47Come here right now.
24:49He shot him over here first.
24:50Okay.
24:51He was right here.
24:52Okay.
24:52He's moving his foot right here.
24:54He's going to do a picture of your guns.
24:57He's going to be all public right now.
24:59He shot him right now.
24:59The victim was in dire straits.
25:03They had recognized multiple gunshot wounds.
25:07He was not conscious.
25:08I would feel a call for you.
25:10Okay.
25:10Michael, can you start getting, like, info on the witnesses real quick?
25:15The 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, the killer is my son, too.
25:31Okay.
25:31Yes, he shot him face to face, like, up close.
25:34Right.
25:34He jumped up then.
25:35And then he 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, they're arguing.
25:46He says, you're a bitch without your gun.
25:48The victim said that.
25:49Yeah, he said, I'll pop your ass right now.
25:52Shot him.
25:54Yeah, brothers.
25:55Really?
25:56Yeah.
25:56What's the suspect's name?
25:57Would she give you an ID curly?
25:58We learned that the suspect in this case was 19 years old, that our victim's name was Tamir
26:04Dial Hale, and that he was 23 years old.
26:07When 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.
26:20As 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.
26:44And is my baby father alive?
26:47Did he kill his brother in front of my child?
26:51Did he harm my child?
26:52Where is she?
26:53She's down there on the other side of the crime.
26:55What people got her?
26:57Where?
26:58Who has her?
26:59You're not.
26:59My daughter was with some woman that lived on the same street.
27:05They 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?
27:20The 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.
27:37Then we got the call that he was gone.
27:43He wanted a good one.
27:44Why would you take him?
27:48I wasn't ready.
27:50I was shocked.
27:51I couldn't believe that Rodney was the person who took him.
27:58Unfortunately, Tamir was declared deceased at 7.43 p.m.,
28:03and almost immediately after that declaration,
28:08the page goes out for the homicide unit to respond.
28:11When the homicide unit arrived,
28:15we do a walkthrough through the crime scene.
28:18We discovered that there was a shell casing inside the moving van,
28:24and there was multiple shell casings outside,
28:28along with a blood trail that led from the moving van
28:31to the final resting place of Tamir.
28:34Tamir.
28:36Hi.
28:37Hi.
28:37How are you doing?
28:38You okay?
28:39No.
28:39I know.
28:41I know.
28:42Police speak to Pinky to find out what actually happened.
28:46It's like one son killed my other son in the fight.
28:48I don't even know what to think.
28:51I don't even know.
28:51But to be honest with you, I don't know what to do.
28:53It was unbelievable.
28:55I'm standing right next to Tamir,
28:57and Rodney says,
29:01I don't fight.
29:02I shoot.
29:03So I'm like, come on, y'all.
29:04Like, I 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.
29:09So the baby came out the door.
29:11She was standing there.
29:12He said,
29:13I swear on your daughter, I'll kill you.
29:14He 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,
29:25I don't think he would shoot me,
29:27to I can't believe he shot me.
29:30Now Nalani is screaming,
29:33and Tamir turns to jump off the U-Haul.
29:38So I go to try to, like, grab Rodney,
29:41but he jumped, too.
29:43But as he's jumping,
29:45he's shot three times.
29:50When I finally did see Tamir,
29:52he was laying on his back in the grass,
29:55and he just kept saying,
29:56okay, okay, bruh,
29:58basically begging for his life,
30:00and Rodney shot him.
30:02And now my mind is telling me
30:06to grab Rodney,
30:09but then my body was, like,
30:10running toward Tamir.
30:13Tamir flipped his body over.
30:20So now he's laying on his stomach.
30:24And he shot him three more times.
30:28Rodney turned, like, to me,
30:31and I ran around the other side of the U-Haul
30:33because I felt like he would shoot me.
30:35He was running down the street,
30:39and I laid on the ground next to Tamir,
30:42and he died in my face.
30:43We learned that the victim's one-year-old daughter
30:50was 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.
31:02and you immediately start thinking.
31:14You think about your family.
31:18He killed my baby.
31:19You didn't have to kill him, though.
31:28You didn't have to kill him.
31:30This family has seen a lot of tragedy
31:32at the hands of this individual.
31:35It was imperative that we got him in custody
31:37as quickly and as safely as possible.
31:39So the key now is that we need to talk to him, right?
31:43Find him.
31:44Yeah, and make everything safe.
31:48As safer as we can.
31:49Do you have any idea where he might be?
31:51She was able to give us a couple of locations
31:54where Rodney may have fled to.
31:57She didn't know the address,
31:59but she provided a screenshot of a map
32:02that may be the location or the area that he fled to.
32:06That information was immediately disseminated
32:10to the officers out of the street.
32:13There's another thing.
32:14He left it.
32:14He hit his knee when we was at the old house.
32:17He hit his knee on the U-Haul.
32:19Definitely left it.
32:20I want to explain to you guys,
32:21while we're sitting here talking to you,
32:23there's at least 20, 30 guys out looking for you.
32:25I hope that he's gone.
32:26Please try to find him tonight
32:28because if he pointed the gun on hers,
32:30he can get another clip and come back.
32:32Yeah.
32:32So after we leave the scene,
32:37we try to learn as much as we can
32:39about Rodney Curley Jr.
32:44Police know Rodney is armed and dangerous.
32:48I thought maybe Rodney would come back to the house
32:52and I was the only witness.
32:53You know, I was the only person that could really say
32:55he was the person who did this.
32:59He had already killed his brother,
33:00so it was like, if you would kill your brother,
33:02you're capable of killing anybody else.
33:19A week after Tamir's death,
33:21his brother, Rodney Curley Jr., remains at large.
33:25When they interviewed us on the news,
33:27I basically just wanted to tell Rodney
33:29to turn himself in so that not only would he be safe,
33:34but 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,
33:52apprehended, or killed, dead or alive.
33:55I don't care how you bring him in.
34:00On October 20th, 2023,
34:03family 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,
34:14the whole community came out.
34:16Like, it was amazing.
34:19The hardest part was seeing him in the casket
34:22because it's like,
34:24once they marry you, you're gone forever.
34:29It was hard to deal with that.
34:32It was hard giving him my last kiss.
34:34On November 16th,
34:42investigators make a breakthrough
34:44in their hunt for Rodney.
34:46Rodney was found to be hiding out in a house
34:48in the city of East Cleveland.
34:56As soon as Rodney understood
34:58that the canine unit was coming in the house,
35:01he came out of the basement
35:02and gave himself up.
35:04Less than two hours
35:09after the fugitive unit
35:11arrested Rodney,
35:13he was in the interview room
35:15with Detective Legg.
35:17So do you want to share
35:18your version of the events
35:20or tell us what happened that day
35:21that led to whatever happened happening?
35:24I'm telling him, like,
35:25stop crying like a bitch, bro.
35:29You've been crying like a bitch all day.
35:30Stop crying like a bitch.
35:31and you pull the gun.
35:34I'm like,
35:34you don't know why it's like that.
35:36You don't know why it's like that.
35:38You don't know why it's like that.
35:39You don't know why it's like my gun.
35:39He was claiming self-defense.
35:40He was claiming that our victim,
35:42Tamir,
35:43had a gun on him,
35:45which there was zero evidence of
35:47and zero history of, by the way.
35:49So he goes down to see what I'm talking about.
35:51So he gets some aggressive.
35:52Like,
35:52when we try to mess with him,
35:53this happens.
35:55From his left hand,
35:55he had a gun like this.
35:57He could grab my gun.
35:58So my gun,
35:59I push it.
36:00I push it.
36:02He tried to go like this.
36:04I,
36:04wow, wow.
36:06Then the gun was going to have it.
36:08I grab it.
36:09I was like,
36:10put me a father by my leg.
36:11I was pushing it up like this.
36:13Once he seen me going for my gun,
36:14he did like this.
36:15Then he was claiming that
36:31there was a tussle over his gun,
36:34you know,
36:34between the two of them.
36:36Mr. Curley was,
36:37you know,
36:37forgetting at some point
36:38that his mother was standing right next to him
36:41when this was going on.
36:43The medical examiner's office
36:44determined that
36:45Tamir had 16
36:47gunshot wound defects
36:49in his body
36:50and it was labeled a homicide.
36:53He didn't seem in any way,
36:55shape, or form
36:56remorseful.
36:58He was in self-preservation mode.
37:00I find out all that.
37:02I've been the black sheep
37:03in the family my whole life.
37:05I was always the
37:06just-
37:07Mr. Curley wanted to blame everybody
37:10but himself.
37:11Rodney is indicted on charges
37:15of aggravated murder,
37:17murder,
37:18involuntary manslaughter,
37:19felonious assault,
37:20and aggravated medicine.
37:21I didn't want to have to
37:24subject me or my other children
37:26to testify in.
37:28A trial would have been unfair
37:29because Rodney knew what he did.
37:33The defense requests a plea
37:35of 10 to 12 years.
37:38As a mother of both of them,
37:40I felt like 10 to 12 years
37:42wasn't fair
37:43because he killed his brother.
37:46So I told the prosecutor
37:48not to tell me any plea deals
37:50if it wasn't over 20 years.
37:52just take what your punishment
37:55and take accountability.
37:59Rodney pleads guilty
38:00to involuntary manslaughter
38:02with a firearm,
38:03two counts of felonious assault
38:05with a firearm,
38:06and aggravated medicine.
38:08When I got there,
38:09I couldn't breathe.
38:11So all I could really get out
38:13was a couple of words.
38:15I just really want to say that.
38:17I love Rodney so much.
38:19I love Tymeier so much.
38:20and I miss them both so much.
38:22I don't even know what to say.
38:23It's terrible.
38:25But that day was the worst day
38:26of my life
38:27because I knew that that day
38:29I was losing both of my sons.
38:32I didn't know how to
38:34do what everybody wanted me to do.
38:36I felt like maybe
38:37if he felt my pain
38:38from my words,
38:40it would hit him
38:41that this is reality.
38:43I believe that
38:44that was when he realized
38:46that he had destroyed his family.
38:49I don't know what to say.
38:50I'm sorry.
38:52And I was telling you,
38:53I take it back
38:54and we do it.
38:55I don't know.
38:57He genuinely apologized
38:59in that moment.
39:00Now, if it was genuine,
39:01I don't know,
39:01but in that moment,
39:02it felt genuine.
39:05I couldn't tell him
39:05I hated him.
39:06I couldn't,
39:07because I don't.
39:08I don't hate him.
39:09I hate what he did.
39:10This is my victim impact statement
39:14that I didn't get the opportunity
39:16to read to the judge
39:17in front of the monster
39:19that was sitting in the court.
39:21I'm here for my son,
39:23who was the best child
39:26you could ask for.
39:28He was loved by everyone.
39:31The only enemy he had in life
39:32was in his own household.
39:35What the killer did
39:37to me
39:38was rip my heart out.
39:42Rodney is sentenced
39:43to 23 to 28 years
39:46in prison.
39:46Rodney absolutely committed
39:48a monstrous act.
39:51There's nothing worse
39:52than killing your brother
39:53in front of your brother,
39:55in my opinion.
39:58I cry every day.
40:00That hurt.
40:02Everybody in my family
40:03is 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
40:16if I could talk to him right now.
40:18You took
40:19my daughter's father away.
40:22You stole him from her.
40:26I wish you could have just
40:27walked away.
40:30You didn't care about
40:31anybody but yourself.
40:32Happy birthday to you!
40:36Happy birthday to you!
40:40Tamir made his mark
40:41on everybody.
40:42He was a real leader
40:47in man form.
40:50I don't think that I'll ever meet
40:52anyone like Tamir.
40:54He was extremely attentive
41:11with her.
41:12Things started to unravel.
41:15Help me, please!
41:16The interviewer asked him
41:18to draw pictures
41:19of what he saw.
41:20on the road.
41:24It's a long time of
41:26he was talking to me,
41:27mainly to help me.
41:27But,
41:28you're thinking,
41:28my love is perfect,
41:29but it's for me.
41:30And I'm not going to be
41:30through this front of you,
41:30in the back.
41:32See you in the back.
41:32It's going to be
41:33like,
41:34you're going to find me
41:35something like this,
41:35and you're going to be
41:36a dream.
41:37And I'm going to be
41:38a dream.
41:38It's going to be
41:39like,
41:39you're going to come
41:40to the park.
41:41You're going to let it
41:41to it
41:42be a dream.
41:42Have faith
41:44get it free.
41:44You're going to leave
41:46into a dream.
41:48You're going to be
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