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00:00Everybody go eat our food.
00:02Jenea is just a super amazing young lady.
00:06Her brother, Donnell, was our fashionista in our family.
00:11I'm trying to win a prize.
00:13Roy was the guy that would make her laugh and giggle.
00:19But he was so focused on his success
00:22that he didn't pay attention to hers.
00:24And Roy has a temper.
00:27This is someone who felt like he had been wronged.
00:30I'm concerned about what she has to lose
00:33if her and her keep going in this direction.
00:36Oh, fuck, fuck!
00:38Oh, gunfire's going off again.
00:41We have heads, and that wasn't in our plans.
00:57I'm going to win something, then I'm going to give it to you.
01:11I'm going to win something, then I'm going to give it to you.
01:16A very pregnant Jenea Logan is hosting a baby shower
01:22for her friends, family, and partner, Roy Harvison,
01:25at her 24-hour daycare business.
01:28Jenea is just a super amazing young lady.
01:34You knew there was going to be some good gift-giving
01:37if Jenea was doing something.
01:39Come on, man. I don't need to introduce nobody.
01:41I'm trying to win some prizes.
01:43And Jenea's little brother, Danelle Puder McDonald,
01:47looks to cash in.
01:49I'm trying to win a prize.
01:50I'm trying to win a prize.
01:52I'm trying to win a prize.
01:54He was a character, amazing young man,
01:57very quiet, very soft-spoken,
02:01but he was also our fashionista in our family.
02:05His sisters and his brothers spoiled him,
02:07especially Jenea.
02:09A few weeks later, Jenea hosts a family Christmas
02:14with her partner, Roy Harvison.
02:17It's Christmas time.
02:19You say it was good.
02:20That was Roy.
02:22That was his personality.
02:24It was always good to, you know,
02:30just be around each other and do something.
02:32It was always fun.
02:34I think just the thought of bringing the little person
02:36into the world.
02:37They were happy and excited.
02:40A family, a little family is what she wanted.
02:46I am a mother of four children.
02:48So Tyranny is my oldest daughter.
02:50Jenea is the second oldest.
02:52Christopher is the third.
02:56And then Donnell was the youngest.
02:58And he was born in 1992.
03:03My children grew up where there were times when
03:07the electric wasn't on, the water wasn't on,
03:10the car was repossessed, food was tight.
03:15They grew up understanding that you're going to have to work
03:19work for whatever you want that is not going to come to you.
03:23Jenea, she knew what she wanted to do.
03:26She did her work, went to work, and did it all over again the next day.
03:31Jenea was a 4.0 student, top 10 graduating in her class.
03:36That right there just tells you how much education in general just meant to her.
03:42She got a full ride, didn't have to pay anything.
03:45Summer 2005, Jenea reaches the end of her first year at Ohio State.
03:51And when her youngest brother Donnell has a basketball tournament, she goes to support him.
03:57Tyranny, Jenea, myself were there to see Donnell play.
04:02At some point during the tournament, Jenea sees this guy playing in one of the games.
04:08And the two of them found time to introduce themselves, exchange phone numbers or whatever
04:14they did in that moment.
04:16So she came to me and said, hey, I met this guy. He's really cute. He has dreads.
04:24And I really like him. We've been hanging out. And I'm just like, well, who is he?
04:31She explains, well, his name is Roy. We were 19 at the time.
04:37She knew he was still in high school, but I think she thought he was like a senior,
04:43getting ready to graduate. You know, you give people the benefit of the doubt,
04:49and you just roll with things. But she was really smitten by him.
04:54Roy at that time was living with his dad and his paternal grandmother, raising him.
05:02He was into sports because he played basketball and football,
05:06but football was where he really did his thing.
05:10He had a lot of local success. So you could kind of see why his family would anticipate
05:16there could be a career at a college level and potentially a national level.
05:22He had some skills.
05:24In 2006, despite a four-year age gap, Roy and Jenea officially become a couple.
05:31Donnell had a hard time accepting that his sister was dating someone who was, you know,
05:38pretty much the same age as he was. But we all kind of, I think, began to just accept that Jenea
05:44and Roy were going to be together. He was the guy that would do the goofy little quirky things that
05:53made her laugh and giggle. She was happy. And by 2008, Donnell meets the next door neighbor's
06:03daughter, Mary. So now he's more focused on his life.
06:09I met Donnell maybe like early 2008. I lived on this end. He lived on the other side of me.
06:16One day my grandma had seen him and she said, that's a nice looking young man.
06:20You know, maybe you should date him.
06:23I wasn't really too worried about boys at that time. But soon after she said that,
06:27we end up, you know, talking, we hanging out more. And here comes a relationship. He always treated me
06:34nice, you know, with respect. So we could laugh together, you know, cry together, play around.
06:41They were a cute little couple. They was always together. So he was involved with his relationship.
06:47Jenea was in hers and I was raising my child. So everybody was doing their own thing.
06:52Three years after their first meeting in 2005, Jenea and Roy realized their priorities are changing.
07:04Jenea was trying to help him achieve the dream that he wanted to achieve. So she supported him
07:09in every way she could, especially once he went to Kansas to play football.
07:15She was prepared for being there in whatever way possible. But Jenea knows that she's not going
07:22to be able to be fully present all the time. She graduated from Ohio State in May of 08,
07:32summa cum laude, while still working two full-time jobs those whole four years. And in August of 08,
07:41she opened her first 24-hour child care center. She was 22 years old at the time.
07:47They get a lot of love, a lot of attention, a lot of flexibility.
07:52One of the things that was great about Success Kids was being a 24-hour center. We had the opportunity
08:00to really support the families in the community that work non-traditional hours.
08:06It was a very stressful time for her because Roy's in school in Kansas. So I don't know if he understood
08:14all the responsibility that she had because your first year is your hardest. And I think that's where
08:20some of that friction starts. And she heard rumors about infidelity.
08:27I don't think he knew how important it was to respect someone that you're dating.
08:32So she finds out that for certain Roy was cheating and she wants to confront him. And I decided I'm
08:41going to go with her because I'm not sure what may happen. I stayed in the car. She got out.
08:47And I hear yelling. I look out and I no longer kind of like see her, but I hear her. I don't know who hit
09:00who first, but he is pulling her by her hair. That's when I was like, okay, let's go.
09:08Jenayah got in the car and she was very, very upset. Not only about hearing about the infidelity,
09:17but what had just kind of like transpired. She was hurt by his reaction. She didn't want to
09:25go through that with him. But I think we attributed it to him being younger.
09:33You don't really know how to express his feelings or be apologetic like how he should be.
09:40I wasn't for sure where they were going to go from there. I didn't think he would be violent.
09:48Nobody saw that coming.
09:58Roy's aggression towards Jenayah puts a long planned trip to Jamaica in jeopardy.
10:09It was a matter of if she was going to go by herself or if she was still going to have Roy go
10:15with her. And she decided to allow Roy to go on this trip. The whole time they were there, she said,
10:24we weren't getting along. But the last day, they decided to drink the champagne. And one thing led to
10:31another. And several months later, it's mom, I'm pregnant.
10:42That was definitely a turning point for everything. Now they are going to be parents.
10:49She knew I'd like to give this another go and try to make it work.
11:00While Jenayah rests in preparation for the baby,
11:05Roy fools around with his friends.
11:06As nice and as sweet as he could be, this was also that side of him.
11:17She didn't talk like that. So, you know, she kind of didn't like that type of stuff.
11:23The hand gestures and the language and stuff, that's just, that's things that he did.
11:45That was him on the sober day. So that's, I mean, that's how he kind of carried himself and talk.
11:50Oh, come on, mom. These things are up.
11:54Being young, he's still trying to figure out his life.
11:57Shut up, man.
11:57Move!
11:58Still trying to figure out what he's doing.
12:01She's already of that age where she's in that different type of lifestyle.
12:08That age gap plays a major part in their relationship.
12:10February 2010.
12:18Jenayah and Roy welcome Roy Jr. into the world.
12:26We were all excited and happy to watch them grow into new parents.
12:30We were all excited and happy to watch them grow into new parents.
12:32Daddy!
12:33Daddy!
12:34Hey, your first time on camera.
12:41But in the beginning, it is just her and the baby. Roy is away at school.
12:47I can't hear my mommy.
12:50She just supported him. She paid for him to go to school to make sure he was able to complete the
12:56dream that he wanted to do, which was play college football.
12:58I took a bite, my baby.
13:01But he's not helping me with anything with Roy Jr.
13:06Say bye-bye.
13:08And Jenayah starts making statements, believing that Roy is being selfish.
13:14She has so many responsibilities for this child on top of being a businesswoman.
13:23But I think that he was so focused on his success that he didn't pay attention to hers.
13:31She was making a very big name for herself because by then been working on the second center.
13:38The success of the daycares really came from the need in the community.
13:43And so in a matter of a couple of years, there was a 24-hour daycare center on every side of town.
13:50She hired a lot of people, a lot of siblings.
13:53And if you were of age, she would always try to offer you some type of employment.
13:58Donnell, he was just next in line.
14:02After high school, Donnell didn't know if he really wanted to go to school.
14:06He was always changing what he wanted to do.
14:08Jenayah was a problem solver. So you ain't got no job. I got plenty of work here at the daycare.
14:15I did.
14:16I did.
14:16You're tearing these what?
14:17I'm trying to get that.
14:18I'm trying to get that.
14:20We're tearing it at.
14:22Why is you way over there?
14:23Because I'm using my goggles.
14:25Oh.
14:27This is the backyard of her house in Canal.
14:29One month after Roy Jr. is born, Jenayah buys her first home.
14:36Most people our age weren't able to afford a house like that.
14:40And that was a big, huge accomplishment.
14:44Why are you looking for me?
14:46Ask her if she's thinking about Roy.
14:48You thinking about Roy?
14:49Yep.
14:50Yep.
14:50Yeah.
14:51Yep.
14:54But because the purchase and the responsibility was solely coming from her in the business,
15:01I think she didn't involve Roy that much.
15:06While Roy spends most of his time away building his football career,
15:11whenever he can, he comes home to be with Jenayah and their baby boy.
15:15This is where the arguments and the disagreements would come in.
15:23Roy would berate her saying things like she wasn't a good mother,
15:29that she was more worried about success than she was the family because she was spending so much
15:38time at work. And those things weighed heavy on her.
15:43She couldn't hurt him with her words. So her way of getting back at him was to cut his phone off,
15:53throw clothes out of windows, cut tires and cut off credit cards.
16:01They would break up sometimes, but they always kind of like got back together.
16:07But Roy, where are you going?
16:12Seven months after Roy Jr. is born, Roy Sr. returns to Ohio to continue his college football career
16:20at Urbana University.
16:21She hoped for a change with the move to Urbana because it's a lot closer. But, you know, it was kind
16:30of more of a disappointment because now we don't have the distance as being the issue.
16:37She's created this very easy lifestyle for him where he can put out the credit card and it's never
16:45going to decline. But he doesn't see that comes with a burden and a sense of responsibility that she's
16:53carrying alone. She stayed simply because she wanted her kids to have their mother and their father in the household.
17:06In August 2011, Janaya completes her vision of the perfect family when she marries Roy.
17:12Roy would not have been my first choice as her husband. I respected her reasoning behind it because
17:24she wanted her child to have that family unit. What are you, Roy? Say trick or treat.
17:34Say trick or treat. Say hi to me. And I think they both tried to the best of their ability for a long time
17:45to make that happen. Oh, you dropped the hat, Roy.
17:51Did you drop your hat, baby? Your hat?
17:58She's starting to, at this point, like spend more money to make him feel happy.
18:05And I do think that he took her for granted at times.
18:10Donnell, he starts to feel like Roy is financially taking advantage.
18:16Janaya would often share with me that she was not happy with a lot of the decisions that he was making.
18:25And she's looking at the credit card statements and going,
18:28what did you buy at the pawn shop that you spent $4,000 on? And it would be, oh, well,
18:34you know, we went and I bought some jewelry for me and my brother, or I bought a gun.
18:42As much as he is a funny guy and he's a jokester, he can turn that very quickly.
18:47And her concern always was, Roy has a temper. He will do something stupid that will land him in prison.
18:54Get it, baby!
19:07In 2013, Roy sees his dream of being drafted fall away.
19:12He never becomes the standout athlete that his family thought he would become. That never happens.
19:21There was some potential there, but Roy's downside was Roy's anger.
19:26I think that is ultimately what decreased his ability to go to the next level.
19:37And as Janaya is pregnant with her second child, we hope he's now going to come home and he's going
19:44to assume the responsibility of a partner, a husband, a father.
19:51May 2013, Janaya gives birth to a baby girl, Royce.
20:00Three and a half weeks later, Danelle becomes a dad for the first time.
20:06He loved that kid. He loved that baby. He gave him more attention than me, so.
20:16We always used to find ourselves arguing all the time about who's taking them for the day.
20:22He's like, I'm taking them for the day. And of course he would, he would pick up slack,
20:25because of course I'm a first-time mom, so sometimes I would be calling him all the time
20:29when he's at work and I'm crying like, I don't know what to do. I can't get him to be quiet.
20:32And he's like, do this, do that. He was like a teacher to me all the time.
20:38To Janaya's disappointment, when Roy leaves college and returns home,
20:43he doesn't follow Danelle's parenting lead.
20:46Janaya would say, I'm going to have a girls' night out and Roy, you watch the kids. She would call
20:53a check on one and Roy's went somewhere and he's either taking the kids to the daycare center or he's
20:59taking them to his dad's house. And she's like, that's not you being responsible. So Janaya hired
21:06a nanny because it was hard for her to manage everything. She could not rely on Roy a hundred
21:14percent to fill in those voids.
21:16So I think she started to feel like she wanted to have him be a part of the business. This is her
21:25way of giving him an opportunity to become that responsible person. It looks good in the beginning,
21:34but then it's the same thing. She just got to that point where it was like, you're not my child.
21:41You got to start carrying some weight too. She was trying to have him play a more important role
21:50financially and within the marriage and household. But Roy struggles with his new financial
21:56responsibilities and tensions boil over at home. In that sense, he started acting out. I'm hearing
22:04about how he is punching the wall, kicking in the door or something. And then we start to hear of these
22:16physical altercations that they're having in public where he felt like she either she said something or
22:25she had done something that was inappropriate that maybe embarrassed him. I'm concerned about what she
22:33has to lose if him and her keep going in this direction. And Janae was like, I can't live like this.
22:42I got all these things going for myself and I'm not happy. If that means that we're not together
22:47and we're co-parenting, then I'm ready to pursue that as something new. In August 2014, Roy leaves the
22:57family home. Roy was living down the street from me in apartments. He wasn't
23:01excluded from anything. We just knew they were working through whatever they were working through and
23:08that was their business. A month later, Janae files for divorce.
23:14I don't believe that he really thought that that was ever going to happen. I think he believed that it
23:22was just another one of those, yeah, Janae is just talking, give her a couple of days or week or two,
23:28we'll be back together type of situation. He still was working with us. It wasn't like she,
23:34you know, said, you can't, you're fired. You're not working with us anymore. You have to do your own
23:38thing. But he didn't have access to like her credit cards or anything like that. At this point,
23:45she's pretty much, you need to stand on your own with the salary that you're receiving.
23:49And so this meant big lifestyle change. Now, all of this jewelry and all of these guns,
23:58collectors pieces become things that you need to get rid of to take care of your responsibility.
24:07For him, it was this big culture shock. And in his moments of desperation,
24:13he made a lot of really bad choices and decisions.
24:20As Janae struggles with Roy, Danelle surprises Mary.
24:25It's Valentine's Day or the day after Valentine's Day. We went to a jewelry store downtown. And he's
24:32like, you know, pick out what ring you want. What ring do you want? And I said, what you up to? He's
24:37like, well, you said you was going to leave me, you know, when you was 21, if I didn't marry you.
24:41And I don't want to lose you. And I don't want to be without my son. You know, I want us to be a family.
24:48A month later, Roy decides to follow in Danelle's footsteps
24:52and makes a move to show his commitment to Jenea.
24:56Roy came to me and he said, do you think if I threw Jenea a birthday party,
25:01that she would come? And I said, yeah.
25:03That's her 29th birthday party.
25:13Jenea and Roy were happy. They were together. And for a few days, things were great.
25:20But that Sunday, Roy said to my oldest son, Christopher, you ain't got to look for a place
25:27to stay because I'm going to be moving back home. You can move into the apartment. And Jenea was like,
25:32no, not happening. And he kind of looked at her like, yeah, whatever. You know, I'm going to move
25:37back home. The next day I went to her house and she just very calmly was like, you know, mom,
25:45he's going to make me get a restraining order. The very following day, April 1st,
25:51the office was closed. We had scheduled a training session. The class was supposed to be myself,
25:59Jenea, Tierney, Donnell, and Big Roy. But Jenea said, he's not coming. I just can't wait for this
26:07divorce to be over and kind of said, okay. And we started the class. 1130 rolls around and we take
26:15a break for lunch. Tierney and I left. Jenea and Donnell were going outside. The fact that we needed to
26:25go just a couple of blocks away is what has me here today.
26:36I saw him. He had a gun. And he shot the person in the middle of the street.
26:52911, what's your emergency?
26:54Yeah, there's a guy just shot two people at Cushing. He's leaning over the guy right now.
27:02He's hiding behind a silver Camaro.
27:05Two plainclothes officers drive down Parsons Avenue and witness an active shooter.
27:11He stopped and started shooting that bill. You need to cross him back up for them.
27:15Got a suspect shot, two people. He's in the car now.
27:18We got him pinned down. You got to send us a pin three.
27:21Listen, we got officers coming out there. Is there an officer shot?
27:24Not yet. Give me some help.
27:28I'm giving my partner a ride back to the precinct substation to pick up his cruiser.
27:33When we heard an alert call go over the CPD radio.
27:40The next thing I know, we're in the scene.
27:43I can see one male slumped over the wheel in the parking lot of a daycare.
27:53I see a female face down in the middle of the street. And our shooter at the time had his back to
28:00me. It looked like he was rifling through the car or doing something with the male slumped over the
28:04wheel. My immediate thought was active shooter. I have to stop this guy before he gets into the daycare.
28:12He starts to turn to put his attention on us. That's when I see the gun. In a matter of a few
28:18seconds, we're trying to comprehend everything that's going on here. I'm thinking about what's
28:22my backdrop if I have to discharge my firearm? Where are these rounds going? If he's shooting at me,
28:28where are those rounds going?
28:29We give loud verbal commands, drop the gun, drop the gun. He looked at us and he said,
28:37you're going to have to kill me. It felt like time slowed. It felt like 20 minutes. I know it's a
28:44matter of seconds. He starts to raise that firearm. He's refusing to drop that gun. And it's time for us
28:51to act. I fired multiple rounds. He fell to the pavement. The gun fell from his body. He was
29:08motionless. He wasn't talking. We thought he was dead. I remember I was the first to get on the air
29:16with the walkie and ask for three medics for three possible DOAs. It wasn't until the first uniform
29:22backup officer arrived that I really just took a deep breath and just started to soak in the gravity
29:28of the situation that we had just stumbled upon. It was immediately apparent to our medics that the two
29:36victims were deceased. I didn't realize our suspect was alive. Medics rushed to save the suspect as
29:46officers secure the area. Because we were involved in a police officer involved shooting, we are removed
29:53fairly quickly and backup officers come in and tape off our scene, secure everything so that it was
29:59untouched. We have a crime scene search unit who will come in and work the inner perimeter of that
30:07scene and collect that firearm. They're collecting samples. They're looking for where rounds ended up,
30:15his rounds and ours. They're taking photographs. We're trying to determine who we're dealing with,
30:21what occurred here. As the crowd grows, news of the incident starts to spread.
30:27Tierney and I were pulling into a fast food restaurant and my phone rang and I looked down
30:37at the caller ID and I seen it was our staff member who was filling in at the class for Big Roy.
30:47She screamed that Mr. Roy just shot and killed Ms. J and Mr. D.
30:51Ms. J and Mr. D. is what the staff affectionately called Jenea and Donnell.
31:05So I'm like, what's going on? And she's just like, drive, drive. And she said like, he just shot my babies.
31:12And I'm just driving, trying to get down the street as fast as I could. And got to the end of the alley,
31:17I seen Jenea laying in the middle of the street. Jenea's body was laying face down
31:28in a pool of blood. There was the yellow police tape and police cars and there was a crowd of people.
31:40They were just trying to figure out what's going on when the police escorted us and put us in the
31:46pack of a police cruiser. I never seen Donnell. All I know is he was laying in the car.
31:53I just hear them come over and pronounce them over the radio that they both were gone.
31:58The way it was positioned, that police car allowed me for a long period of time to continue to look at
32:12Jenea's body lying there in the street. I couldn't even rationalize what was happening.
32:22As Crystal and Tierney process what they are seeing, EMTs rush and injured Roy to the hospital.
32:28To shoot Donnell who had nothing to do with it, it just wasn't, it was uncalled for.
32:34I just think just because he was there, he just, he killed them too.
32:42We talked to Crystal and she's forthcoming and telling us that there were some issues.
32:48Jenea was trying to divorce Roy and that there have been some threats and some back and forth where
32:55uh, she wants to break it off. He doesn't want to. And I think that's the, the huge intervening factor here.
33:05Prosecutor James Lowe starts to piece together how the incident has unfolded.
33:10But it was not a clear perfect video of the entire crime at all. Which is why surveillance videos and
33:18witnesses are so important together. The witness can put the video in perspective and show you what
33:25you don't know you're looking at unless you were there. Tell me what exactly happened,
33:29what you saw. I've heard four gunshots, saw a guy, fire shot, then walk over to
33:37the street where Kosseth is where a girl had run out and shoot her and then basically run back and shoot
33:47someone in the car. You say he shot her. How many shots do you think he fired at that point? Two. He shot at
33:53the officers? Yeah. And there was return fire. It wasn't that Donnell got out of the car and they had an
34:03argument and said something and they shot him. It's that he walks right up, shoots Donnell.
34:13Then he shoots Janelle. And then comes back and makes sure that Donnell is dead by shooting him again.
34:22She is stumbling into the roadway and instead of just letting her stay there, he walks up to her,
34:29points the gun and shoots her in the head. I mean, that to me is unbelievably barbaric. And to do that to
34:41family members, you know, your kid's uncle and your kid's mother, it's horrific. That's not, you know,
34:49I'm upset and I shot someone. I lost it. That's an execution. We got a double homicide. It was in broad daylight.
34:57There's several witnesses. We've got a suspect. And I was told he was expected to survive.
35:04Now I'm looking for is enough of a mode to explain why someone would lose their mind
35:09and do something so horrific.
35:10You're always looking for the reason why. So please attempt to interview him. They need to figure out
35:27what his mindset was and why he might have done something like this unprovoked.
35:30But Roy invoked his rights not to talk and asked for a lawyer. We had obviously the right person
35:38since he's shot on the scene. I had witness statements. I had the surveillance videos from
35:44different angles. But I'm looking for more information.
35:48Officers look into Roy's movements on the day of the murders and make an unexpected discovery.
35:56We found he's going to pawn shops and gun stores actively trying to get a gun.
36:05And when he was unsuccessful, he shows up with a gun that had its serial number scratched off.
36:12I don't know when he got this gun, but it appears to me he's been planning
36:17this altercation at least that day. He knows where Janaya is, he knows where most of the family are,
36:27and gets out and just starts shooting right away.
36:34There is no intervening acts at all. It is, I'm going there to murder these people,
36:40and that's exactly what he did. Officers are not charged with any
36:43wrongdoing in the shooting of Roy Harvison and now have clear evidence he prepared for the attack.
36:48They are still trying to understand why Donnell gets taken out first.
36:52This is someone who felt like he had been wronged, and I think Roy was worried about Donnell
36:58getting out of the car and interfering with him murdering his wife. So I think that's why
37:05he pulls up and he blocks the car. Donnell, he's what I consider an innocent bystander. He was not the target.
37:17So that day, I went on my lunch break, and that's when I got the phone call from
37:21one of Roy's sisters who work at the daycare. She said, Donnell got shot and then got shot.
37:28I could tell in her voice she's real frantic. She said, you know, just go straight to the hospital.
37:33And then Crystal calls me, and she says, um, sit down. And I said, nope, just tell me what's going on.
37:39And she said, he's gone. And I just felt,
37:52I just felt like a part of me just leave.
37:54This is somebody that I've spent most of my life with. And we was together all the time.
38:03This is my first love, everything. And I expected to be with him for the rest of my life.
38:10And we have heads, and that wasn't in our plans.
38:12As the family come to terms with their grief, Roy faces court.
38:25We indicted him with two counts of aggravated murder, based on purposeful and prior calculation
38:30design, along with death penalty specifications for killing two or more individuals.
38:35To the family's dismay, Roy's defense team draws out the proceedings.
38:41For three years, he pled not guilty. And during the course of those three years,
38:48my daily prayer was, Lord, change his heart. And I don't want to go through a trial.
38:58And I knew at that point in my life emotionally, I couldn't handle it.
39:02I got a call from Crystal, who told me she was rethinking the death penalty and opened negotiations up.
39:15January 19, 2018. Roy Harvison finally stands before a judge to accept a plea deal
39:22of 66 years to life for the murders of Jenea and Donnell.
39:27This is as violent as it gets. Everyone that he knew or touched,
39:32or cared for at some time, was affected by his actions that day, and continued to be affected by what happened.
39:42I struggle with, what did we do to you other than love you? We're not a perfect family.
39:49Didn't say we got it all right, but I just don't believe that there is nothing that my daughter could
39:54have ever done to him that would warrant you take in her life in the way that you did, including her
40:04brother who was innocent, to whatever was going on in their marriage, and just destroying our family that way.
40:12I still don't understand it. I still don't get it. I walk back my own words of,
40:20I forgive you because sitting here today, I can't, I can't forgive him for his actions
40:31that have now changed our lives forever.
40:41Jenea was a dedicated mother, someone who was trying to be a positive change in the community.
40:48She was a pioneer before she knew she was a pioneer.
40:51Donnell, he was just a young, young loving guy, a great father, and someone who was still trying to
41:02find their purpose. Life would probably be a lot different if they still were here.
41:17Life is a brave man.
41:21If you want to be a Christian father, you can find him a Christian father, and I can't
41:23find her that far and see you.
41:26If you will, that says you're there both ways to get to do, and I go through to
41:30you!
41:31If you want to make a Christian father, he will be a Christian father.
41:34If you want to have a Christian father, you'll be a Christian father.
41:37Have you been a Christian father and then?
41:38Of course, I will make a Christian father.
41:41If he wishes you, I will do something like that.
41:44Just be true.
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