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Homicide Squad: New Orleans - Season 3 - Episode 04: Hidden in the Shadows
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00:291-17, we got a shot shot.
00:581-17, we got a shot shot.
01:00Oh!
01:02420, we 10-4, we en route.
01:0410-4.
01:12We got a victim yet, right?
01:14No, we don't.
01:16We got about eight 9-millimeter showcases.
01:19We got some clothing, and then we got a blister pack
01:21of some narcotics, like some pills over there.
01:25Let's call before for right now.
01:27Can you keep us updated if you get any calls
01:30for gunshot victims?
01:31Careful.
01:35Now we're wondering.
01:37Please, please, please, please, please, please, please.
01:43You're in the car.
01:44Stop.
01:45Send the police.
01:46Please.
01:47Just send the police.
01:49Please.
01:49I do have this gent over to the dispatcher.
01:52Please.
01:52Don't hurry up.
01:57What you got going on?
01:58It's all right.
01:59Inside of this vehicle, they got a car.
02:01He's trying to hear it.
02:02Whoa.
02:03Don't touch the car.
02:04Don't touch the car.
02:05Oh, no.
02:11won't spill.
02:13We shook.
02:14Please.
02:15No.
02:16No, no.
02:19No.
02:21No.
02:23No.
02:31You got a response.
02:33You got a son of one.
02:37I have a deceased male victim in his 20s.
02:42From what I know so far, somebody ambush style started shooting at him.
02:49Hit him, and the person he was with drove back here.
02:53I'm not sure if it's his residence or what.
03:02That's my partner, bro. That's my partner, bro. Man, bro.
03:11Hey, we got the person that was in the car with him? In the back of the car?
03:14It's like the loser by the short.
03:16Okay. Want to take it to the 4th District?
03:18I'll let him in.
03:19Okay.
03:21The scene is chaotic. There's people screaming, trying to get to the body.
03:25Of course, they're shocked. They see their loved one is shot in the head.
03:29In the passenger seat of the vehicle,
03:32we learned that the surviving victim was the driver of the vehicle
03:36and drove the victim to the residence after the shooting.
03:40The actual shooting happened at a restaurant parking lot,
03:44which is probably five or ten minutes away.
03:47At this point, we're going to take the surviving victim
03:50back to the 4th District Station for questioning.
03:56When I arrive on scene, the victim has been taken from the scene by the coroner's office.
04:06I learned that the victim's name was Malcolm Solomon.
04:09He was 22 years old and a New Orleans native.
04:12His friends and family called him Paul.
04:16I was told there was a police officer in the gas station on the opposite side of the restaurant
04:23where the shooting took place.
04:25That officer heard the gunshots, so he called them out on the radio,
04:30and then he made his way over there.
04:33By the time he got there, the perpetrators had fled,
04:36and the surviving victim had left in her car with the deceased victim.
04:40Once they got to his house, the call was made to 911 that there was a shot person there,
04:46and then it was pretty easy to connect the two.
04:51Okay.
04:52When I got over there, somebody jumped out the dumpster and...
04:55Dumpster?
04:55Dumpster?
04:56...and start shooting.
04:56Everybody would talk to.
04:58That's the girl that was with him in the truck.
05:00Okay.
05:02Go talk to her and see what she says.
05:05Being that this was a secondary scene, there's not a lot going on here.
05:10Usually we have casings to pick up, surveillance footage to download.
05:14For this scene, we don't have any of that, which is good because we can, you know,
05:18leave the family members to grieve and come talk to them at a later point.
05:24Myself and Detective Raelle Johnson are going to the 4th District Station
05:29to interview the surviving victim.
05:34We're done collecting over here.
05:36I think we're just getting the last-minute information from the owner.
05:41Have Wayne get a number for me so I can try to get some footage.
05:44I'm at the 4th District now.
05:46We're about to talk to somebody that was with him, apparently.
05:50I'm having Detective Wayne Lewis follow up with the owner of the restaurant
05:53to see if there's any surveillance footage that captured the incident
05:56so that we can get a better idea of what happened to Malcolm.
06:02They don't pay. They don't pay. They don't pay. They don't pay.
06:08Hey, how you doing?
06:10Ooh, he's been my friend, Dad.
06:13They have no reason to do him, Dad.
06:16Breathe for me, okay?
06:18Calm. Breathe in. Breathe for me so we can talk, okay?
06:23Okay.
06:24We got to find out exactly what happened.
06:26So let's just try to calm down for us real quick
06:28because we don't want to keep you in here all night, okay?
06:31We was trying to cop some weed.
06:34We was supposed to give us the weed.
06:36Mm-hmm.
06:38I got out of the car and I went in the passenger side and his car.
06:42When I went to get him the money for the weed, bro, that's when
06:46that's when two other dudes came from right behind a trash can.
06:50And they just pulled guns up to me.
06:55When I gave him my money, the other one opened the car door.
06:59I was going and said, get out.
07:01I wasn't trying to live without my money because I didn't have the weed, bro.
07:06So I was like, man, I'm trying to get out with my money.
07:09I'm trying to grab my money, too.
07:11He just got the gun and he started shooting.
07:14And when he started shooting, Paul never got out of the car.
07:19Paul never got out of the car, bro.
07:22He never got out of the car.
07:24The surviving victim has probably been through one of the most traumatic experiences
07:28she's been in her entire life.
07:30It was apparent very quickly that she was there to tell us what happened
07:34and she wanted to get justice for Malcolm.
07:36It was a red car.
07:38And then these shots didn't work by my ear.
07:41Like, I can't hear nothing out of this ear at all.
07:44Do you know these guys?
07:45I just know them on phone.
07:47If you could, show us.
07:49That's his number right there.
07:51Red Nissan.
07:52I know it was a red car.
07:53I wasn't tripping.
07:55She actually shows us a text message that the perpetrator had texted her.
07:59It says red Nissan SUV.
08:01So we know that we're looking for a red Nissan SUV.
08:05It was three people in that car.
08:07So if you could, describe the ones who...
08:10I know exactly how the one that was...
08:12And the driver's side, the one that I was giving them, gave the money to.
08:16Okay, describe.
08:17He was dark-skinned.
08:18He was tall.
08:19He looked like he was, like, 18, 19, bro.
08:23Yeah.
08:23He had, like, twists, but he had a ski mask, but his ski mask wasn't down.
08:29That's why I didn't even think nothing of it either.
08:31His ski mask was lifted up on his hair like...
08:34The other dude that opened the car on me, he was red.
08:38He had a bush.
08:39He had a red hoodie on.
08:41The other dude?
08:42I'm not gonna lie.
08:43I didn't see the other dude that good.
08:44Okay.
08:46Let me step out real quick.
08:47We'll be right back with you, okay?
08:53Hey, you could take a number for us right quick.
08:56Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:58We took the phone number that she gave us, entered it into a law enforcement database.
09:09Oh, Kimoni Johnson.
09:12Yeah, she just described it like that, too.
09:14Yeah.
09:15I should do a line-up.
09:16Yeah, do a line-up.
09:17That's her.
09:17Yeah.
09:20We're going to make a six-pack photographic line-up,
09:24and have another detective show it to her to see if she will pick out Kimoni Johnson as the driver.
09:33Detective Wayne Lewis came to the 4th District Station after looking at the footage from the restaurant parking lot,
09:38and he told us what he saw.
09:41So, a red SUV pulls up.
09:47Then it backs in.
09:51Then it pulls up, like, closer to the dumpster.
09:56Then it backs in and goes back over there.
09:59So, like, it was trying to position itself.
10:00And we're gonna get there.
10:02We know the surviving victim statements are pretty accurate,
10:05because Detective Lewis was able to tell on the surveillance footage that the perpetrators did show up in a red
10:11SUV.
10:13Then two people get out of that car from the rear driver's side and the front passenger's side.
10:19And those two people walk off camera in the direction of the dumpster.
10:25The surviving victim pulls into the spot right next to them on their passenger's side.
10:32The surviving victim gets out of her car.
10:35Walks around the front of her car.
10:38Gets in the passenger's side of the perpetrator's car.
10:43There was an exchange of money.
10:45And then, as she's seated in the perpetrator's vehicle,
10:48roughly a minute passes.
10:51When the two people that were hiding by the dumpster approach the back of the car,
10:55one person goes and opens her door and began to rob her.
11:00She tried to take her money back.
11:02The surviving victim runs around the front of her car.
11:06One of the two started shooting at her.
11:08And, in turn, Malcolm gets shot as he's seated in the front passenger seat of her car.
11:16From what we have right now, we can't identify a license plate.
11:19But it corroborates her story as far as the timeline of events.
11:24Now I want to show the surviving victim a lineup.
11:28Being in a traumatic incident like that,
11:30I wanted to get her to look at it as quick as possible,
11:33because that face is still fresh in her mind.
11:36It's taking time to go through those pictures.
11:38Mmm!
11:40Does that make you recognize any of those persons in those pictures?
11:43Mmm!
11:54That looks like the draw book.
11:56The one that, that when I got in the car, the dark-skinned ones,
12:00they had the ski masks up.
12:02The other part was like,
12:03oh boy, no, no, no, no.
12:28They had theples, they had the
12:31As soon as I got in the car, it was just one person.
12:34And when I got in the car, I just see him.
12:36That looks like the person that was here.
12:38OK.
12:40The surviving witness identified the suspect
12:44as Kamani Johnson and said, that looks like the driver.
12:50Pretty excited that she picked him out.
12:53This essentially is going to be enough for me
12:55to get an arrest warrant for Kamani.
13:00Good morning.
13:01Do you want to sign an arrest warrant?
13:03Let me back up.
13:04We talked to a witness who gave us a number of the person
13:09she was going to meet.
13:10She identified him as the person that she met up with.
13:14Wow.
13:15What was the motive?
13:17It was a robbery.
13:18The motive was a robbery.
13:19The person that they ID'd, is that the shooter?
13:21He was the driver of the perp vehicle.
13:25We have at least two shooters, three suspects.
13:28Awesome.
13:29Yeah.
13:29That's great.
13:30Great job.
13:32At this point, we're two hours into the investigation,
13:35maybe three, and we already have one
13:37of our prime suspects identified.
13:39But there's three perpetrators, and they would all
13:43be culpable for the death of Malcolm.
13:48I was able to get search warrants for the phone number
13:52that was registered to Kamani Johnson.
13:54So hopefully, we're able to get better video footage
13:57after the sun comes up, and get a better view of what actually
14:01took place.
14:20On a late night, early morning investigation, I'll be able to go home, decompress, change clothes, shower,
14:28or maybe get a couple hours of sleep, and then come back early in the morning when business is open,
14:34and start back with the investigation.
14:45We're looking for a small red Nissan SUV may or may or may not have ballistic damage that appeared to
14:52be narcotics transaction that turned into a robbery.
14:56The female victim told us all she had was $50.
15:01It's crazy.
15:03It's stupid.
15:05I sent the warrant to vows.
15:07I would imagine they'll be up on him pretty quick.
15:10Yeah.
15:12I was able to talk to Malcolm's mother.
15:16She was handling it a lot better than expected.
15:20Everything that we've uncovered so far, he wasn't involved in the robbery.
15:24He was sitting in the car the whole time.
15:28Malcolm Solomon didn't get out of the vehicle.
15:30He was seated in the passenger side.
15:32It's just sad.
15:33I really don't know why they shot him.
15:36It's messed up that the innocent person got killed.
15:39Yeah, he was just chilling.
15:47So, the perp car was back then right here, right?
15:49The perp car was back then there.
15:50It's one of these three spots.
15:54They jump around a little bit, like, it backs in over here, and then it comes over here, and then
15:59it goes back over there.
16:00And then, when they finally pull up, it's in that second spot.
16:04Okay.
16:05She pulls up right next to it.
16:06Mm-hmm.
16:08Did you see where the casings were?
16:09Like, I know there was three groups.
16:11There was casings there, there was casings over here, and then there was more casings.
16:15So, how far back?
16:17The placement of the casings is significant because it may be able to tell me who was standing where when
16:24the gunshots were going off.
16:27Where the call went?
16:28The call went around the epic center.
16:30Oh, okay.
16:31Trying to get away from it.
16:33Trying to get away from it.
16:33Over here, where this black car is.
16:35Really?
16:36Damn.
16:37Okay.
16:37So, there's probably them bussing back at her.
16:39Yeah, so they're shooting back at her.
16:41There's two groups of 9mm casings, and there's one .40 caliber casing.
16:46So, it appears likely that there's going to be three guns involved.
16:49The car, it pulls in here, it stops, they get in, and then it goes around.
16:54I want to go over to the next door and see if that's got audio.
16:59It's a storage facility.
17:01Looks like a decent camera.
17:04We know the surviving victim statements are pretty accurate, but the more angles that can tell us what happened is
17:10a good step in the right direction to be able to explain everything.
17:15How are you doing?
17:17Detective Johnson, Detective Deesburg.
17:19How are you all?
17:20We investigating the incident that happened over there.
17:22We saw you had a camera on the little backside back there.
17:25Do they have audio?
17:26Or no?
17:27No.
17:28It was 10.50 on Saturday night.
17:33Oh, there we go.
17:34Nice.
17:35Okay, that's the thing coming in.
17:36Yeah.
17:38Oh, yeah, this is going to be perfect.
17:39It's got a plate on it, huh?
17:41It does, yeah.
17:42It looked like it.
17:45That's one getting out.
17:48Two getting out.
17:52He starts it up and pulls over here.
17:55Mm-hmm.
17:56Shortly after, the surviving victim pulls into the spot right next to them on their passenger side.
18:01You can see shapes, you can see the cars really well, but it's pretty dark.
18:06The surviving victim told me she gets out of her car, gets in the perpetrator's car.
18:13All right, so now they're coming up.
18:15So that's the perpetrator.
18:18One of them.
18:18That's the dude in the red hoodie.
18:20He opens the door.
18:21Gun on her.
18:27Wow.
18:28That's the shot to his forehead.
18:32Yeah, she just ducked off to check cover.
18:34Mm-hmm.
18:34It's kind of shocking to actually see what occurred.
18:39Two other armed individuals creep from around the corner, and it looks like they're trying
18:44to rob the surviving victim, but at some point they just shoot.
18:50And our surviving victim is ducking and running, trying not to get shot.
18:55Malcolm Solomon.
18:56The victim was just seated in the passenger seat.
18:58He didn't do anything.
18:59He never got off the car.
19:01I honestly don't even think he saw it coming.
19:04It looks like the suspect that approached the passenger side of the car first is the one
19:08who fired the shot that killed Malcolm.
19:18This is the one who was protecting...
19:22...but he's a victim.
19:22It was a victim.
19:22Over here.
19:25Until then, I know.
19:26You're still dead.
19:27That was the victim.
19:27A human being, you know?
19:27It's not true.
19:27You're right.
19:29There.
19:29There's something.
19:29You're right.
19:31I live.
19:31You're right.
19:31You're right.
19:32You're right.
19:33You're right.
19:34But he's not in a way.
19:34You're right.
19:40And I love him.
19:43Good morning.
19:44Good morning. Good morning.
19:45So Commander Johnson, the person that's wanted for a homicide over the weekend,
19:49was located here by the U.S. Marshals this morning.
19:52They transported him and one other person to Detective Bureau.
19:56Detective Deesburg and Rayelle over there right now are questioning them.
20:00We're going to go inside and search and see if we can find any weapons or the clothing that they
20:04were in.
20:05Great. That's wonderful. All right. Good deal.
20:16Right there. Let's see it for me.
20:19Myself and Rayelle decide to talk to Kamani first
20:22because he is the one that's under arrest for second-degree murder.
20:26All right. My name is Detective Deesburg.
20:28Hey, no.
20:28My partner is Detective Johnson.
20:30Hey, no. I ain't doing what's that, man. Come on. I can kill us.
20:33Kamani didn't seem surprised or worried about anything, really.
20:39Where were you at Saturday night?
20:42Saturday night.
20:45This afternoon.
20:46Yeah, it's past Saturday, the 26th.
20:49At home.
20:50What's your phone number?
20:57That's the only phone you have?
20:59Yeah.
21:00I got an arrest warrant for you, obviously.
21:02Oh, damn. He told me that.
21:04For the homicide.
21:05All right.
21:05Okay, so Saturday night, let's start again with where you were.
21:11Because I work for New Orleans, right?
21:12Yeah, it is.
21:13I know you weren't home.
21:15What?
21:16My house?
21:16Mm-hmm.
21:17I wouldn't be here if you were home.
21:19Yeah, I see what y'all are saying.
21:20But I don't leave the house.
21:23My brother don't even let me go out past 11.
21:25She'd be crying about that and if I go out, I'd be locked up.
21:27Where were you at before 11?
21:29I stay home.
21:30So if somebody said they saw you, they would be totally incorrect.
21:34Somebody said they saw me where?
21:36The mall?
21:37No, at .
21:38If somebody said they saw me at .
21:40They're hella wrong.
21:42Hella wrong.
21:43For sure, 100%.
21:44Not a lot of people that look like you.
21:46I'm 6'5".
21:47That's true.
21:48Exactly, bro.
21:49I'm 6'5".
21:49Well, if you see me as a ,, bro, you're going to notice me.
21:52Mm-hmm.
21:54Kimani tells me his name.
21:56He gives me a phone number for him, which is not the phone number that I already have for him.
22:02I have him ID'd out of a photo lineup.
22:05That's just like the draw of the dark-skinned one.
22:10So he's the alleged perpetrator.
22:14I'm not going to sit there and beg him for information.
22:18Do you know him?
22:19Who?
22:20Ray.
22:21Ray?
22:22They're my brothers.
22:23Lod brothers?
22:24Lod brothers.
22:25Gotcha.
22:27We'll see how it goes for you.
22:53So the person that was in the same apartment as Kimani, his name is Gregory Jones.
22:59Me and Deesburg, we asked him the same questions that we asked Kimani.
23:03Where were you at Saturday night?
23:06Saturday night.
23:09Inside.
23:10Inside.
23:11My grandmother.
23:12Cool.
23:14Gregory has given us a similar story that Kimani told us.
23:17Gregory states that he was home at the time of the murder because his grandmother gives him a curfew of
23:2211 o'clock.
23:24We're investigating the homicide that happened on Saturday.
23:26I don't want to be as honest as I can with you.
23:28And I'm asking you the question where you were, but I need you to be 100% sure about what
23:32you tell me next.
23:33So don't get caught up in some that you may not want to be a part of.
23:36Okay?
23:37So I want to give you another opportunity to explain about Saturday night.
23:41Saturday night?
23:43Inside?
23:44Except my grandmother.
23:55Gregory Jones is held in the custody of the sheriff's office pending the results of the search warrant.
24:07We have in the closet, on the top shelf, in a, like, purse, two guns, one with an extended magazine,
24:15.40 caliber, and then a 9mm glocks.
24:19That's what we have on scene.
24:20And then two magazines upstairs.
24:23During the search, unfortunately, we didn't find any cell phones, but it's a very exciting find.
24:29Two guns that match the crime scene in the house.
24:33So now I'm looking more at Gregory as potentially being a co-perpetrator.
24:39Today we were expecting to find Kamani Johnson, but we were not expecting to find Gregory Jones or anybody else
24:46that matched the descriptions given by the surviving witness.
24:50The other dude that opened the car on me, he was red.
24:54He had a bush.
24:56We talked to JP Deputy.
24:57I asked him to hold Gregory until we got done here to see what we got.
25:02Okay, well, go to the bureau, call NCIC, find out if the guns are stolen.
25:07Okay, good.
25:13Calling NCIC when we find guns is part of our procedure.
25:16We have to know if they're stolen or if they're not.
25:19Got two guns.
25:20Both calibers match the crime scene.
25:24But right now I don't have much to charge Gregory Jones with.
25:28So running these guns to see if they're stolen can help me lock him down so that I can further
25:34investigate Gregory Jones as a potential suspect in this case.
25:39That way we can charge him, hopefully, while he's still in jail and we don't have to go look for
25:43him again.
25:47Hey, let me ask you, so we found two guns in the house.
25:50Are those y'alls or who they belong to?
25:55Huh?
25:55I don't have no gun.
25:56You don't have no gun?
26:06Right.
26:09One of the guns did come back stolen.
26:11So Gregory's getting booked on that.
26:14So he'll be in jail for a couple days.
26:24From what I have so far, Kamani is identified as the driver of the perpetrator's vehicle.
26:33There was two other perpetrators.
26:36Gregory matches the general description of the second perpetrator.
26:40He's lighter skinned.
26:42He has a bushy style haircut.
26:45But it's not enough to arrest him for murder.
27:05So what are we doing today?
27:07We're going to Malcolm's mom's house.
27:11So we arrested Kamani last Thursday.
27:14Right.
27:15So I'm just going to go give her an update, let her know that he's in jail and that he
27:19was arrested with somebody else.
27:21And we're working on Gregory Jones as a potential suspect.
27:26Yeah, it'll be nice telling her, of course, that we got one of the guys, but we still got some
27:29more work to do to find out who these other ones were.
27:32Hopefully, that'll give her a little bit of closure.
27:34Yeah.
27:42How you doing?
27:43Why don't we step inside?
27:47Meeting in person rather than simply calling them on the phone shows the family that I care about this investigation
27:54and Malcolm.
27:56We want to bring them good news that we have made an arrest and that we're continuing to thoroughly investigate
28:03the other two perpetrators.
28:06Getting justice for Malcolm Solomon is important because this can be anybody's tragic ending.
28:21All right.
28:22Well, that went pretty well.
28:24Yeah.
28:24She's been pretty calm the entire time.
28:27They had a lot of questions that I know you couldn't answer.
28:30Yeah.
28:31Unfortunately.
28:31You know, families usually do.
28:32And unfortunately, this early in the investigation, you really just can't tell them a lot.
28:37Like, I can tell you his name.
28:39Yeah.
28:39Because he's in jail.
28:40Well, you know, the other people I'm looking at, I don't want to put them out there just yet.
28:45Right.
28:47So, but I think she took it pretty well.
28:49Mm-hmm.
28:50As well as she could, I guess.
28:53You know.
28:54But I'm glad I was able to at least give him that initial closure that somebody's been arrested and that
29:01we're still working on it.
29:03Yeah.
29:04The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for possession of a stolen firearm.
29:08But we need more probable cause to charge him for Malcolm's murder.
29:12I mean, right now, the clock is ticking for these birds.
29:15Any day now, Gregory could be released or bailed out of jail.
29:33The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:34The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:35The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:35The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:36The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:36The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:37The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:37The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:39The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:41The last couple of days, Gregory Jones has been in custody for the last couple of days.
29:48I finally got the ballistics comparison back, so that's a big win.
29:56I compiled the lineup to show the surviving witness to identify another suspect at the
30:01crime scene.
30:03So we're headed to the 4th District Station to see who she picked.
30:16Good morning.
30:26Number two.
30:28I see that the surviving witness picked Gregory Jones.
30:37Okay, so what did number two do before the date of this one?
30:41I was put in the car door open.
30:44Is it a drive-up passenger door open?
30:46No, the passenger side.
30:48I think he said that he was pulling over the door handle of the car, the passenger door open.
30:55Good.
30:58With the identification process of Gregory Jones being successful and the ballistic match of
31:05the guns that were found in the house they were both living in puts me over the top with
31:10probable cause to be able to charge Gregory Jones with the homicide.
31:23Oh yeah, actually she did.
31:26Wow.
31:28She picked Gregory out and said that he was the one that opened the passenger side door.
31:33That's pretty good.
31:35Well, I'm about to head back to headquarters and type up this arrest warrant, so.
31:40All right, bro.
31:42I'm hoping that Gregory Jones is still in jail.
31:44Thank you so much.
31:46You're welcome.
31:46So that I can go charge him with the homicide without having to
31:49track him down and arrest him again.
31:51All right, let's go type this arrest warrant.
32:20You got the warrant typed up?
32:22I should check if he's still in there.
32:26Jefferson Parish jail.
32:30Now that I have the arrest warrant in hand, I want to see if Gregory Jones is still in
32:35jail for the gun arrest by Jefferson Parish.
32:38Search.
32:39He is not in there.
32:40So yeah, so he's bonded out on his stolen gun charge.
32:45It's frustrating that he's not in jail anymore, but the arrest warrant's never going to go away,
32:50so he'll get picked up eventually.
32:53The marshals are going to find you pretty much wherever you go.
32:56Here we go.
32:58I'll send this warrant off to Vows to go look for him again.
33:01Once he's in custody, it'll be another clearance for this case.
33:07And then I'll have to work on the third perpetrator, see what I can find out on him.
33:42I'll be right back.
33:42I'll be right back.
33:51I'm definitely intrigued about why he has the plate from the perpetrator vehicle, why
33:56it's on a different car.
33:57So hopefully he can explain that or he's going to have some more serious questions to answer.
34:03He might be the third suspect.
34:13I usually ask how you doing, but I know it's kind of a rough morning for you.
34:18So my name is Detective Deesbury, it's Detective Jefferson.
34:23I'm interested in your car that you have right now, where you got it from, who you got it
34:28from, and pretty much everything like that.
34:31I bought it last Tuesday.
34:34Okay.
34:35Where'd you buy it from?
34:37A homeboy of mine on West Wego, website of a friend.
34:41Yeah.
34:41Was the plate on the car when you bought it?
34:43No.
34:44Where'd you get the plate from?
34:46So I was waiting on the template, and I just got a plate from the junkyard, and just in
34:56between get my template because I didn't want to get pulled over.
34:58That's what happened.
34:59Okay.
35:00What are you talking about?
35:01It's like a bend until I just throw old stuff.
35:03We just throw all our junk in.
35:05It's aluminum.
35:06So we just throw it in.
35:07And you just wanted that payment.
35:08I just went from, you know, a plate.
35:10Okay.
35:11And just put it on the fire until, like I said, my product template came in.
35:14So no telling when that plate came in.
35:16Right, there's no telling.
35:17I was just using it as a stopgap, man, between getting, I didn't think it was going to be
35:21all this.
35:22He doesn't really know what's going on.
35:23He seems very nervous.
35:25I pretty much explained to him where the plate is from.
35:28He doesn't know anything about the homicide.
35:30And he just explained how he came into possession of the plate.
35:56The plate on this car came off of a homicide vehicle.
36:00I'm not worried about the car itself.
36:02I just want to take the plate off, photograph the plate on the car.
36:05Okay.
36:05And then fingerprint the plate after you take it off.
36:08Okay, sounds good.
36:12License plates are pretty conductive to lifting fingerprints off of them.
36:17Because they're a smooth surface, they're not permeable.
36:19So I'm hoping that if the plate was taken off of the perpetrator vehicle by the suspects,
36:25maybe their fingerprints will still be on the license plate somewhere.
36:29We got one right there.
36:31Okay.
36:31One right there.
36:35We got some right here in the middle.
36:42One right there.
36:46Nine oh five for prints?
36:48Yes.
36:48Six?
36:50Yes.
36:50Two on the front, four on the back.
36:52So this dude, he works at the scrapyard.
36:54She was like, man, I'm just going to grab this plate that's in the box.
36:58Put it on my car so I don't get pulled over between then and now.
37:02What's the odds of grabbing that plate?
37:03I was like, bro, you grabbed the worst possible plate
37:06you could have grabbed out of that.
37:06Oh, my God.
37:07So out of all of the plates in the box,
37:09he grabs the one that's tied to a murder.
37:12Hey, Mr. .
37:13Step on out.
37:21I don't think he's going to be one of my perpetrators.
37:24He was pretty straightforward about where he got the plate
37:26from.
37:27That plate could have come in off the street
37:29from any of the dozens of local scrappers
37:33that go around and just pick up metal and trash
37:37and bring it to these scrapyards.
37:39Now I'm just still looking for this car
37:42and see if we can find Gregory Jones.
37:46The arrest warrant is a paper document.
37:49It goes into a nationwide database.
37:51So no matter where you're at in the country,
37:53if a police officer stops you and runs your name,
37:57they're going to see that you're wanted for murder.
38:00They'll find him.
38:02Cannot run the paper.
38:03They're going to see that you're supposed to be one of my perpetrators.
38:32They'll find him.
38:32What's up, dude?
38:33Waynathan, see you over there.
38:35All right, what's going on, buddy?
38:37So they finally found Gregory Jones.
38:40Oh.
38:41The marshals picked him up in the east.
38:43They were having trouble finding him.
38:45They couldn't pin him down close enough to hit a house.
38:49How the arrest went?
38:50Anything crazy?
38:51No, the marshals pretty much just said they rolled up on the house and he was outside.
38:54They saw him go inside, so they surrounded the house, called him out, but he came out
39:00unarmed, hooked him up, and took him to jail.
39:03Good decision.
39:04Yeah.
39:05Kamani and Gregory's cell phone records both came back and put him on scene, traveling
39:10from their house to the scene, and then back to where they laid up that night.
39:15Okay, done.
39:16It's over.
39:16So we have the guns, phone records, putting them on scene, the car right by their house.
39:22Like, we got everything.
39:24Didn't you get, like, a license plate off the car?
39:26Yeah, the plate was on somebody else's car that worked at a junkyard.
39:30We took the plate and fingerprinted it, but none of the fingerprints are suitable, but
39:34that doesn't hinder my investigation.
39:37Any updates on the third suspect?
39:40Not really.
39:41You got the two you need right now?
39:43Yeah, for sure.
39:44With that being said, how do you think Malcolm's family going to react to it?
39:48I think they're going to be relieved, because four or five months I've been telling them
39:51that we've been looking for this dude, and we finally got Gregory in jail.
39:55You know, he's not running around anymore.
39:57The marshals are relentless.
39:59They'll find you.
40:00Congrats.
40:01Thanks, bro.
40:01Thanks, bro.
40:03Thanks, bro.
40:12Thanks, bro.
40:45thank you all for being here today we gather not only in remembrance but in resilience
40:53we honor survivors their stories and the voices that have emerged through the pain
40:57demanding healing and justice we are here to hold space for those of you who've lost
41:04uplift those who are still healing and stand united in our commitment to justice for all
41:10please now welcome orleans parish sheriff susan hudson good evening everyone i look at these
41:18these beautiful pictures these beautiful faces your brothers your sisters your children you know
41:26i just can't think of any deeper pain than the loss of a child i think we owe it to
41:32this community we
41:33owe it to you to take it further and try to prevent this from happening in the future
41:38and we want your help to be able to do that we do not want this circle to grow and
41:42grow and grow
41:44chief gurney thank you so much sheriff i really do appreciate all of you coming out here i think
41:51that it's important that as those who have experienced pain and heartbreak move towards
41:56a sense of healing you know that you're not doing this alone my commitment to you on the part of
42:02the
42:03new orleans police department is that we pledge to you our support when you need that love when you need
42:08that support when you need those resources please reach out to us we stand here today with all of
42:15those families that have experienced this pain and trauma as you remember and find solace in the
42:20thoughts of your loved ones being in a better place as a homicide detective you're the voice for the
42:31victim essentially you have to get the answers for the family to have closure
42:40this was a difficult case to work malcolm was totally innocent just wrong place wrong time and it's not
42:47just important for nlpd it's important for everyone in the city for us to solve these crimes and the
42:52people that are responsible are going to face the consequences i definitely think i've gotten justice for
42:59malcolm solomon
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