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Feds - Season 2 Episode 5 -
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00:01In 2015, there were horrific crimes spreading across South Florida.
00:07The violence was extraordinary.
00:10Brutal murders, home evasion robberies, drive-by shootings, random shootings.
00:15I want who did this to my son to pay for it.
00:19We didn't know who was causing all this violence,
00:22but they were willing to kill anyone that wanted to work against them.
00:26My friend died for nothing. He died for nothing.
00:30A lot of these victims were anti-law enforcement.
00:33I had to show them I'm human. I'm just like them.
00:37One of them said, I didn't think my life mattered.
00:41It was heartbreaking.
00:43I get this phone call.
00:45Is this just a cut box with the FBI?
00:47I was like, FBI? What's going on?
00:50This case is my life.
00:52I wake up and I work it.
00:54I sleep. I dream about it.
00:57I will not stop.
00:59Sit me on the stand. Give me the Bible.
01:01I'm going to bring my own.
01:02I wish them no luck in hell.
01:06I am FBI Special Agent Jessica Box.
01:11When serious crime strikes,
01:13the Special Agents of the FBI answer the call.
01:17Fidelity.
01:19Fidelity.
01:20Bravery.
01:20Integrity.
01:22This is Feds.
01:31A lot of people look at Florida from television.
01:35They see the lights, the palm trees, the beaches.
01:40And they just think that this is paradise.
01:46That's how they lure you in.
01:48But once you get to the heart of Florida, where the heartbeat is,
01:54this is a concrete jungle.
01:57You got a lot of lions, tigers, and bears.
02:02So tread light and be careful.
02:05Everything that glitters isn't gold here.
02:16As a detective, you see these violent crimes spreading out throughout our county.
02:21And you're starting to feel like there's some connection.
02:24You definitely fear that this is getting out of control.
02:29Coming up through law enforcement, I worked a lot of undercover work.
02:32But I had never seen anything like this.
02:35We didn't know who they were, but they were terrorizing the county.
02:41Numerous different police departments were involved.
02:43Each one had one small aspect of it.
02:45It was just overwhelming state authorities.
02:48So based upon that, I put out inquiries to the FBI
02:51as to who might be available to work on these cases.
02:55I was assigned a young female by the name of Jessica Box.
03:00I worked as an intelligence analyst for the FBI.
03:04I wanted to do more.
03:06I did not want to just sit on the sidelines and be on the computer all day.
03:09And I decided that I really had to be an agent.
03:11That was really what my heart was telling me.
03:13So this case was really what I call my baby.
03:16It was my first investigation as a brand new agent.
03:20Agent Box was faced with taking over all the evidence that we had accumulated up to this point.
03:26I essentially took a 5,000-piece puzzle and dumped it in Jessica's lap.
03:33I was very nervous.
03:35I spent about a full week, without exaggeration, organizing files.
03:40We had over 49 different crimes across South Florida in a very small period of time.
03:47I went through detail after detail, case by case, trying to put the pieces to the puzzle together.
04:01On November 4th, 2015, a shooting took place in a garage in a neighborhood called Habitat in Lauderhill.
04:09Inside the garage was Roderick McCullough, a small-time marijuana dealer, Veronica Gilchrest, and her friend Donald Johnston, also known
04:16as Eddie.
04:19Eddie was the neighborhood's champ.
04:21He was just that person where you could go there for anything.
04:25He'll give you the clothes off his back.
04:29I used to call Eddie my guardian angel.
04:32As long as I'm near Eddie, I don't have nothing to worry about.
04:38That night, a little bit after 10, I'm eating my pizza.
04:44Eddie is standing not too far from me.
04:48Rod is close by me.
04:51And he begins to stutter.
04:54And I'm like, boy, get the words out your mouth.
04:57And I'm like, but when I look at him, you can see the garage doors just, like, lift up.
05:04They came in with no mask.
05:06They came in shooting with AK-47s.
05:10I was standing in the middle of crossfire.
05:14I fall, boom, then Rod falls, boom.
05:17And the last person standing is Eddie.
05:21I remember him, like, reaching in his pockets and pulling out some money and throwing it.
05:25Like, get what you want, take what you want, so you guys can leave.
05:29And they shot him.
05:32I just remember them standing on the back of my legs and shooting me close range.
05:38To the point, your body becomes numb.
05:42I prayed to God and I remember just screaming out my son's name and feeling like I let him down.
05:50And one of them came and said in my ear, bitch, stop praying.
05:56I remember thinking, this is how you're about to die.
06:01This is how you're going to go.
06:02Riddle with bullets.
06:05One of them walked over, stood on her back with both feet and pointed an AK-47 down straight at
06:11her back and fired their weapon.
06:13Her back fell laid open.
06:15Due to having sclerosis as a child, she had a titanium rod on her back and the bullet actually bounced
06:22out and she survived.
06:23That is the only reason she is walking and living right now.
06:28When law enforcement arrived on scene that night, Donald Johnston was still alive and he was rushed to the hospital.
06:34He was the son of one of our employees at the Broward Sheriff's Office, Mrs. Cathy Wilson.
06:44At 1115, I got a phone call from one of his friends.
06:50He said, Mom, Eddie's been shot.
06:53We went to the hospital.
06:55They took us to the critical care unit.
06:58He was laying there.
07:02I can't remember how many bags of blood he went through and they said, it's just not staying in.
07:07It's not staying in.
07:09I was talking to him and his eyes were somewhat closed but glazed a bit, you know.
07:17And then he started biting his lip.
07:20And the nurse saw it.
07:21And she said, stop, stop, stop.
07:24We have to put him back under.
07:25He's coming out.
07:25He's coming out.
07:26And to see him in that pain was hard.
07:30And to see him like that was hard.
07:36To know that he was alive and he heard me.
07:40And that he was actually biting his lip.
07:43Don't know if he was trying to answer me.
07:48That brings me comfort.
07:49Because he heard me, he heard my voice.
07:52He heard a familiar voice.
07:57I took a picture of him.
07:59So I got the last picture of him being alive.
08:07Seeing Kathy and imagining what it must feel like for a mom to lose her child is heartbreaking.
08:17My brother, it was one of those situations where he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
08:24I wanted to know why him, with everything that he does in the community, he's a good person.
08:31And the person that instilled those morals and those values, those Christian values in me.
08:38And he honestly, he kept it up all throughout his adulthood.
08:42So I'm like, why would someone be gunning after him?
08:44It just, it just didn't make sense.
08:48It made no sense why they were targeting this specific group.
08:52There were not tons of money and tons of drugs in this garage.
08:56I told the police.
08:57I didn't know who those guys were.
09:00There was around about $1,200 in the garage.
09:04They left that money on the ground.
09:07So it's like, what was the point?
09:09My friend died for nothing.
09:10He died for nothing.
09:14Roderick McCullough survived the shooting.
09:17But when we went to speak with him, he was very uncooperative.
09:20Claimed he didn't know anything and he didn't know why.
09:23So while processing the crime scene, we found multiple shell casings.
09:28But this was a mystery.
09:29We didn't know who the shooters were.
09:31All we knew was that there were two gunmen and they didn't wear masks.
09:37So I started looking through the cases where there were a lot of potential eyewitnesses.
09:48On October 3rd, 2015, there was a peewee football game.
09:55It was a park in Lauderhill Lakes, just like a typical Saturday afternoon.
10:00At the time, there was hundreds of kids.
10:03Kiwee football games were actively going on with their parents and everybody watching.
10:07I was told that there was over 300 people here.
10:12On that date, several gunmen walked into the park in broad daylight with no face coverings, nothing to hide their
10:21identity.
10:22I walked up to a father who was with his children and shot him point blank.
10:32They stole his money and they ran back across into their car and took off.
10:37They shot Zoe Gotti twice in the stomach.
10:40But miraculously, he was able to survive.
10:43I spoke to so many people on the street who were reluctant to talk to me.
10:50Out of 300 people, not one person came forward to say what they saw.
10:54No one wanted to talk to law enforcement.
10:56That was the first time I realized how hard my job was going to be if no one would step
11:00up and say,
11:01these people shot someone in broad daylight and my children were running around.
11:07But I started to see there was a clear pattern.
11:10Zoe Gotti and Roderick McCullen were both people that had a reputation to deal drugs in the Danie Beach and
11:17Hollywood area.
11:18What we realized is that these gunmen were specifically targeting drug dealers and people that they perceived to be law
11:25enforcement unfriendly,
11:26so that these people wouldn't testify against them.
11:30We noticed this pattern over and over again.
11:33And as time went on, I found a connection that would change the course of the entire investigation.
11:48On November 3rd, 2015, myself and my partner, Walt Foster, we got notified by supervisors of a home invasion robbery
11:59where one of the victims had been shot.
12:04By the time we arrived on the scene, the victim had already been transported to the hospital.
12:10AJ Bosfield was one of those kids that grew up in a bad environment.
12:14He was one of those kids that you thought you could change him if you gave him some options and
12:19talk him out of being on the streets.
12:21From what we were told from the witnesses on scene, Mr. Bosfield was cooperating.
12:27It didn't matter to them that he was cooperating.
12:29He was still placed onto the ground of the bedroom and shot.
12:36He was pronounced deceased at the hospital.
12:39He was not a threat to anyone and he was executed by these robbers.
12:45This murder took place 24 hours before the murder of Donald Johnston.
12:50We knew that we were dealing with criminals that were out for more than just product.
12:55They were looking to make a name for themselves and they were looking for street credit.
13:00There were drive-by shootings happening on what seemed like a daily basis.
13:05It was clear this was not the works of just a few gunmen.
13:08We were dealing with a gang working together.
13:11They were spreading across South Florida.
13:14We didn't know how far extended, but we knew we had to do something fast.
13:19At the AJ Bosfield homicide, we found two 380 cartridge casings.
13:26I went through every piece of evidence across many cases from each crime scene that had casings.
13:34And I found a very likely match.
13:42This was the residence of Corey Billings.
13:46Corey Billings was a known drug dealer in the Hollywood area.
13:50On November 25th, 2015, the car parked right where we are.
13:56Two gunmen went inside.
14:00The Corey Billings crime scene was so heinous.
14:03I mean, Corey Billings was laid out on the floor, shot several times in the head.
14:07There were nine handgun casings and eight were a 380 caliber.
14:13As law enforcement went in to clear the residence, they discovered that there was in fact a robust security system
14:20in place.
14:22We knew we needed to see exactly what footage was on it as quickly as possible.
14:27When Hollywood told me they had video of the Corey Billings home invasion robbery, I was very excited.
14:33To say the least, I thought this could be the breakthrough in the case.
14:36I dropped everything, got everybody together and had a TV set up for them and everything.
14:43But when they played the video, I realized that this was a video that I wouldn't want anyone else to
14:50watch.
14:51The violence and the nature of this crime was absolutely ruthless.
14:58You can see Corey Billings walk out a customer.
15:04The first gunman comes in.
15:09And shoots at Corey Billings and the dog.
15:13You see the second man come in.
15:16They're searching the house.
15:19We're assuming he's asking Corey Billings, where's the money, where's the drugs?
15:24And in the corner here, you can see that the first gunman is searching through the kitchen.
15:29As the first gunman walks out, he's trying to clear what we think is a jam in his firearm.
15:34And Corey Billings, we assume, thinks it's safe to get up.
15:43But the gunman tells him to get back down.
15:45We think Corey Billings was laying on the ground, clearly obeying the orders that he was given,
15:51probably pleading for his life.
15:57And he's just shot as he's laying there.
16:04Cold-blooded execution.
16:08Corey Billings was severely brain damaged and sadly passed away in 2024.
16:16While the video was a great breakthrough in our case, it's also torturous because the video was grainy enough to
16:23where we couldn't 100% positively ID somebody enough to place him into custody.
16:29When you go through a video like that for evidentiary purposes, you slow it down and you go through it
16:34frame by frame by frame.
16:37Eventually we picked up little nuances.
16:40We saw that the second person was possibly communicating with somebody outside as he would occasionally turn his head.
16:47We could see that there was a third person standing in the doorway.
16:51We couldn't see who it was at all.
16:53Just a shadow.
16:57Hollywood Police Department went and recovered fingerprints from that doorway and sent it to the lab.
17:04One of those fingerprints came back for a positive hit on Eric Hunter.
17:11Eric Hunter was very well known on the streets of South Florida.
17:15He'd been a thorn in the side of law enforcement since he was an adolescent.
17:20When I went through his social media, it was clear that he had a group following.
17:28From there, we started to build our network of potential gang members.
17:35I went and collected information on literally over 100 people.
17:44Who that was, a soldier?
17:47But the same three people were always together.
17:50Eric Hunter, Derek Slade, and Marcello Gordon.
17:55It was easy to see that they were the three pieces of glue that held this gang together.
18:01And that Eric Hunter was most likely the leader.
18:04All this for me?
18:07We hit the streets and we talked to a lot of people.
18:09They were telling us that even as a young kid, he wanted to control people.
18:15He wanted to call the shots.
18:17Eric Hunter had this reputation that he was untouchable.
18:21Got me stuck in the crossfire.
18:23And guess what?
18:26It ain't no one to the ball dropping.
18:29The word on the street was that he must have had black magic promoting and assisting him.
18:35We were told that there was a woman who practiced voodoo in a storefront.
18:41And these gang members would go to her to ask for her blessing and protection from law enforcement.
18:48We had to find a way to stop Eric Hunter.
18:59A partner of mine, myself, we drove around to see if we could locate any local gang members we could
19:07talk to to kind of give us some insight into some of the crimes that were occurring.
19:13We observed what we believed to be a hand-to-hand narcotics transaction take place with a vehicle.
19:18So we decided to stop that vehicle.
19:22There's a small turn lane right up here by this light.
19:25And that's where we conducted the traffic stop.
19:30On approach to the car, my partner took the driver's side window and I took the right rear passenger side.
19:38At that point, we asked for compliance.
19:41Show me your hands.
19:42Put your hands on the dashboard.
19:43We just want to see their hands to make sure they're not going to hurt us.
19:47The front passenger and the driver immediately complied.
19:52The person in the back behind the driver was not complying.
19:56It was just kind of pretending he couldn't be seen.
20:00I continued to address him.
20:02I said, show me your hands.
20:03Show me your hands.
20:04He still didn't comply.
20:06I heard my partner ask for a driver's license registration, just like any other car stop.
20:11And I heard the driver say, you know me.
20:14I'm Eric Hunter.
20:14I don't have my ID.
20:16And at that point, I knew this car stop was going to get a little hairy.
20:22To say I was nervous would be an understatement.
20:26I felt that this male passenger in the backseat had a gun in his lap and I felt that he
20:32was getting ready to kill me.
20:34I am so convinced that this subject has a gun and that we're about to get into shooting that I
20:40point my gun at him.
20:41And I begin telling him that if he doesn't show me his hands, I'm going to kill him.
20:46He still does not comply.
20:47I can see the muscles in his hands moving.
20:50I can see the muscles in his forearms twitching.
20:53I feel like he's maneuvering the weapon to a position where he can shoot me.
20:58At the same time, I am also positioning myself to where I can get a clean shot on him that
21:04I start squeezing my trigger.
21:06And I let him know one more time to look at my weapon, to look at my finger, to see
21:11that I'm squeezing the trigger and to know that I'm about to shoot him.
21:20I thought I was going to get shot.
21:23I took my body armor and I pushed it into the window.
21:27So his only shot was going to be on my body armor.
21:31At that time, our backup started arriving.
21:33We had multiple police cars showing up.
21:37He showed me his hands, but I could tell he kind of did a slight of hand.
21:41Whatever he was holding in his hands, he moved and kept under the hat.
21:45I said, get this guy out of the car and handcuff him.
21:50I was able to search the car.
21:52First thing that I went to look for was to confirm my feeling.
21:56And I lifted the hat off the rear passenger seat.
22:01And I saw a .380 black Beretta handgun.
22:06They say when something's about to happen in police work, the hair stands up on your neck and stuff.
22:10And I knew I was very close to getting into shooting that night, possibly being shot.
22:16Eric Hunter was arrested that night for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
22:21Eventually, we identified the male in the back of the vehicle as Derek Slade.
22:27Derek Slade was convicted of a homicide when I believe he was 14 or 15 years old.
22:32His nickname was Soldier.
22:34And he was known to be extremely violent.
22:37Being face to face with a cold blooded killer, I was definitely lucky to get out of there.
22:42But I was also elated because I thought this could be the gun that could break this case wide open.
22:48Once I got the firearm, I was able to send that along with the casings from each crime scene to
22:55the FBI lab.
22:56They were able to link it to the Corey Billings attempted homicide, the A.J. Bossfield homicide, as well as
23:04many different drive-by shootings that had happened all over South Florida.
23:08So this was a huge breakthrough.
23:19Once we had Eric Hunter and Derek Slade locked up, while you want to have a sense of elation that
23:24they're off the street and you feel like you've accomplished your goal, this is really the beginning of the case.
23:31Eric Hunter is in jail, but he has connections outside of jail.
23:35The other gang members were still targeting victims on his orders.
23:41And if we didn't do something, he was going to get time served and just walk out of jail.
23:47I sat down and explained to my boss, I'm not only going to put these guys in jail for a
23:51few months, these guys are going to go to jail for the rest of their lives.
23:56To take them down, we had to prove that they were an organized crime group.
24:00We have to show that they worked together, that they shared the proceeds of their crimes and worked in unison
24:07to commit these crimes.
24:09And that's all part of a RICO case.
24:14RICO was originally designed to be used against the mafia.
24:17The first time ever, the reputed heads of all five crime families in our town were hauled into court on
24:23one indictment.
24:24The RICO statue allows you to present in court evidence of a bunch of different crimes.
24:30It is literally an organized crime statute, but it's hard to do, it's rarely done.
24:35I was working with Paul Schwartz and Jeff Kaplan, who are legends.
24:40Usually we're the ones asking the questions.
24:42They're known for doing big RICO cases.
24:45They are known for being aggressive and not stopping until they get their guys in jail.
24:50In order to build a RICO case, you need to explain this group.
24:55In this particular case, we really couldn't do it by just circumstantial evidence.
24:59Extremely difficult scenario, no cooperators, no undercover agents, no victims, nothing.
25:06We were concerned that Special Agent Box was somewhat inexperienced.
25:13But as time progressed, Jessica Box found a way to get things done.
25:21I spent upwards of a year going through social media and cell phones, thousands, if not more, images and messages
25:30back and forth.
25:31I needed information to show that they worked together, that they were an organization.
25:36When I found a new piece to the puzzle, I would get so excited.
25:41Jessica showed me social media posts from these gang members ended with the word on site.
25:47And the derivation of that is that they will kill you on site.
25:52And so any piece of information where they use the word on site, I was able to take that and
25:57show that they are part of the on site gang.
26:01We had a list of over 100 main subjects that we're concerned about were part of this violent group.
26:08So we had significant information to explain the existence of this gang, but nothing significant enough to place them in
26:16prison for any length of time.
26:20As time went on, I was under pressure to finish the case.
26:25But we ran into roadblock after roadblock.
26:31I was very frustrating as a mother.
26:34At that time, there was no closure for me because I didn't know where we were going with this case.
26:44The people that killed my son, I want them to be accountable.
26:49There's a reason we have laws.
26:51Laws are supposed to protect the innocent, not protect the guilty.
27:02At this time, we still hadn't built the RICO case, and we didn't have enough evidence to hold Hunter any
27:08longer.
27:09He drove around the community very boldly.
27:14He was willing to kill anyone that wanted to work against him.
27:20One night, we went to church, we were coming home, and we were making a left onto our street.
27:29And a car came next to us.
27:34And I looked at my husband, and I looked at the car.
27:38He was going same speed.
27:42It was like right next to us, and he just looked at me, and I looked at him.
27:53And then he went away.
27:56And I remember writing down the tag number and calling the detectives.
28:01I got a phone call back later on that night telling me,
28:05Kathy, this is one of the guys that's involved with this case.
28:11It just, it sent chills.
28:14It sent chills.
28:17Kathy Wilson had a legitimate reason to be concerned.
28:21Because Eric Hunter is very dangerous.
28:23Some people literally packed their entire family up and moved out of Florida because they were mentioned on a Facebook
28:30post by Eric Hunter.
28:32They were shooting up people's homes.
28:35I was scared for my family.
28:43Eddie, he died November 4th of 2015.
28:49Every year, I go out to the garage where it happened.
28:52I light a candle.
28:54I play some of the songs that we used to listen to every day.
28:57And I sit out there for a few hours.
29:00Pay my respects.
29:02And to just give thanks and honor to Eddie for being such a real person and a good friend.
29:11Two years passed.
29:14In regards to the police department, I was like, they'll never figure it out.
29:19Because anything that's going on in the ghetto, they don't really care.
29:27It's how we're raised, it's what we're taught, and it's what we know.
29:30So I kind of, I gave up on them.
29:35By this point, we were running out of options.
29:38I was told that to keep the case alive, we need someone on the inside.
29:43We need somebody to explain to us their organization.
29:46You need somebody to talk.
29:50Anyone that knew these gang members, I'd always ask them,
29:53Who do you think would be the first to talk to me?
29:56Without a doubt, everyone named Marcella Gordon.
29:59Marcella Gordon was a lifelong criminal, mostly violent crimes.
30:04Jessica Box had her laptop and showed him all the evidence that we had.
30:08You could tell that he was seriously thinking about it.
30:11We spoke to his mother.
30:13We explained just how much trouble he's in and how he's looking at the rest of his life in jail.
30:18And still, he refused.
30:20It was devastating.
30:24Just a couple days later, we were listening to Marcella Gordon and Derek Slade jail calls.
30:30We would monitor calls that were taking place between our suspects and people on the outside.
30:35The on-site gang were trying to find information on Special Agent Box.
30:41It was clear that Eric Hunter and the on-site gang had my name.
30:46Is he looking for my address? Is he looking to come get me and do a drive-by shooting?
30:52I was really fearful of what might happen.
31:02One day, I get this phone call.
31:05This is Jessica Box with the FBI.
31:08And I was like, FBI?
31:09How you get my number?
31:10Why you got my number?
31:11And what's going on?
31:12What did I do?
31:14When we first started the investigation, I was told, don't bother talking to Veronica Gilchrist.
31:20They said she's anti-law enforcement.
31:22She won't work with you.
31:23She won't help you.
31:25In the Donald Johnston homicide, we still didn't know who the shooters were.
31:31So I finally decided, let's go talk to her.
31:33What's the worst that could happen?
31:36When I pull up, I'm literally looking for this big six-foot Harley Davidson riding lady with probably a buzz
31:46cut or a mohawk.
31:47And I got this little bitty lady, 120 pounds soaking wet, and she looked like she makes the best gingerbread
31:54men.
31:57I remember the day so clearly.
31:59She walked in polite, kind, and then tearful.
32:05She told her story.
32:08I presented pictures of the main subjects of the case.
32:15We came to Eric Hunter.
32:18I was like, you look familiar.
32:21And I sat there and I thought about it long and hard.
32:26I remember he actually came to the garage to buy weed at least three separate times.
32:35It didn't dawn on me that, like, he's in here casing the place.
32:41Agent Box asked me, did I want to testify?
32:45Eric Hunter and the on-site gang had a long track record of intimidating witnesses.
32:50He did multiple drive-by shootings on people that he thought would testify against him.
32:55Veronica knew this was very dangerous.
32:59If that's what I could do to pay Eddie back, I was ready.
33:04Sit me on the stand.
33:05Give me the Bible.
33:06I'm going to bring my own.
33:07I wouldn't have put them away for the rest of their life and the afterlife.
33:13So, yeah.
33:17She was just so brave and I was so inspired by her.
33:23And I think it's a lesson all of us need to have is you always get back up even when
33:28you're shot down.
33:32So, I went back and looked at the Donald Johnston homicide.
33:37Inside the garage, we found multiple AK-47 cartridge casings.
33:42But outside, we found a single 9mm casing.
33:46While all of the shooting was happening in the garage, one gunman was standing outside.
33:51I realized that this was actually very similar to the Corey Billings attempted homicide, where Eric Hunter was standing in
33:58the doorway and 9mm cartridge casings were found.
34:03So, I started looking back through any photos of Eric Hunter taken around that time.
34:08As I dug deeper, I found a picture on Derek Slade's social media.
34:14Eric Hunter is holding two liquor bottles and appears to be celebrating.
34:19This photo was posted just mere hours after the Corey Billings attempted homicide.
34:25Then I go on to Derek Slade's cell phone and look through the photos from that same night.
34:31And lo and behold, I find a very similar image of Eric Hunter holding the two liquor bottles.
34:37But one major thing is different.
34:39There was the 9mm gun lying right next to him.
34:43Of course, Derek Slade was smart enough not to post the image of the gun, but the pictures are almost
34:48identical.
34:49You can actually see from the timestamps that they were taken just minutes apart.
34:53It was heart-wrenching to know that they could attempt to kill somebody.
34:58And later on, not only celebrate, but post it to social media in a bragging way.
35:07That picture was a key piece of information to show us that that gun was in fact with them that
35:13night.
35:14But we had to develop evidence as to who actually fired those shots.
35:19Because the clarity of the video was not very good, we sent it to a movie production company who tried
35:26to enhance it.
35:31It was much clearer.
35:34It was much clearer.
35:56We just looked at him back and looked at myself and put a ghost tattoo on his forehead.
35:57I had this tattoo on his forehead.
35:59And I knew right then it was Marcelo Gordon.
36:11unless marcella gordon cooperated i knew that we would never get a rico case i knew that the rest
36:17of the guys would walk out of jail and commit murder again we went over to the jail and we
36:24showed him the videotape we explained to him that we thought it was overwhelming evidence and that
36:30just that alone is going to give him a life sentence he teared up he was very emotional about
36:36watching it um and still refused to talk to us i looked him in the eye i said this case
36:43is my life
36:45i sleep and think about it i dream about it i i wake up and i work it all the
36:51way till 10 or 11
36:52o'clock at night this is all that i do this is how dedicated i am this is i will
36:57not stop until
36:58you're in jail for the rest of your life marcello gordon lifted his t-shirt to show us he had
37:05a large
37:06tattoo on his body that said on site this was the moment marcello gordon decided to cooperate
37:15he opened up to us and began to reveal the missing pieces of the puzzle he was able to show
37:21how eric
37:22hunter would give them guns or tell them who to rob hunter was the leader derek slade and i were
37:28the
37:29enforcers we had other individuals who would help us out he described who those individuals were
37:34and they would share the loot he told us the on-site gang was responsible for the murder of
37:41donald johnston aj bossfield the attempted murder of cory billings and zo gotti it's almost like you have
37:50this kind of iceberg and all of a sudden it starts breaking to pieces and it just makes it easier
37:55to get the next person and say hey marcello gordon's cooperating you're in trouble
38:01it's ironic how a gang that built their entire reputation on targeting victims that they didn't think
38:08would work with law enforcement ultimately flipped and decided to not only talk to law enforcement but
38:16also get on the stand and testify against one of their own part of a vicious gang responsible from
38:21everything to home invasions to murders that's how the fans describe these men who are now facing
38:27federal charges tonight mbc6 you look at them and they could be anybody's son anybody's brother
38:39is not until they open their mouth and they start speaking and they talk about everything they've done
38:49i don't hate but i do recognize hatred and i do recognize evil
38:56marcello gordon told us at the donald johnson homicide when they approached the garage hunter was outside
39:05and that they started opening up the garage slade was just shooting and slade was the one who shot
39:13um donald johnston i want who did this to my son to pay for it
39:24veronica stood up in court each time and faced the people that literally gunned her down
39:30and i cannot imagine how scary that must be uh their families were sitting in court behind them
39:37and i'm sure she was worried about retaliation but she stood there and let the court and the judge know
39:44exactly what she went through i spoke my piece and i wish them no luck in hell
39:52gordon was sentenced to 34 years
39:55derrick slate was sentenced to two life terms plus 30 years
39:59in eric hunter's case he got 39 years
40:06if it wasn't for a special agent box uh i don't know that we'd be sitting here today
40:11when this case looked like it would stall and we had nothing she had that tenacity and that drive
40:17to continue to work this case year after year after year
40:22to bring so much closure to a lot of victims and justice for their families
40:31it's been so long
40:34you've made my job worth it
40:38any moment when i am questioning or i'm tired or i don't want to keep going or i don't want
40:44another
40:44case i think of you i have a different outlook at you know dealing with law enforcement now
40:50i know it was sleepless nights i know time sure you probably did just want to give up but you
40:55never
40:55gave up on i feel like you didn't give up on me now i can sleep peacefully at night and
41:01i just thank
41:02you for that you know you my hero girl
41:10next time on feds
41:13he called himself the next john wick
41:17i just screamed to the top of my lungs
41:20i was going to do it
41:22he's a real life murder for money hitman
41:26no words can explain that feeling
41:30you
41:30you
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