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Snapped - Season 36 - Episode 06: Kimethia Coleman
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00:10A young couple become the victims of a terrifying assault.
00:17This crime scene was one of the bloodiest that I've ever seen.
00:22I could see a slash across his throat.
00:26She had several lacerations to her hands as well as to her abdomen.
00:32For law enforcement, one of their biggest priorities was to figure out who would want to do this to either
00:39of them.
00:40The evidence seems to point to a jealous stalker.
00:44She had mentioned that a guy named John with dreads had followed her.
00:49He would pop up like in crazy places.
00:55But as the investigation unfolds, detectives begin to question everything about the case.
01:02This troll of blood led to the kitchen.
01:06There was two knives missing.
01:08How did the suspect know exactly where to go to get the knife?
01:15Didn't it not make sense to me?
01:16The math just was not math.
01:20Detectives are starting to believe that John really didn't exist.
01:40January 17th, 2010.
01:43It's 3.30 a.m. in Shreveport, Louisiana,
01:46when police receive an emergency call from 24-year-old Kimethea Coleman.
02:04She's saying that her boyfriend, Ryan Spinks, they both have been attacked.
02:09This person ran out of the apartment, and she doesn't know where he is.
02:29Minutes later, officers arrive at the address,
02:32where they find 29-year-old Brian Spinks lying motionless by the door.
02:37I could see stab wounds about the head.
02:41I could see a slash across his throat.
02:45There was a great amount of blood to where when you step into the living room,
02:50you could hear the sound of liquid in the carpet.
02:55They were able to quickly establish that Brian was dead.
03:00Kim is screaming hysterically, and she's yelling,
03:04why would he do this?
03:09The officers secure the scene and escort Kimethea out of the apartment.
03:14They try to calm her down so she can explain what happened.
03:20Kimethea appeared to be in a state of shock.
03:23She was covered head to toe in blood, and she was very distraught.
03:29When they asked her who did this, she described a man with dreadlocks in a red shirt.
03:36She said he left. She didn't know which direction he went.
03:41It's normal for a victim or someone who sees a traumatic event
03:46not to be able to divulge what occurred right then.
03:51She was also injured, so we had to get her treatment and take her to the hospital.
03:56She had several lacerations to her hands, as well as to her abdomen and her leg.
04:07As Kimethea is transported to a hospital,
04:10homicide detectives arrive to take over the investigation.
04:15Before entering the apartment, they speak with two potential witnesses.
04:21The initial responding officers had located a vehicle at the apartment complex.
04:27The vehicle was stopped, and the individuals were contacted
04:31and found out to be friends of Ms. Kimethea Coleman.
04:36They were with her earlier in the day.
04:39They had arrived at the apartment to check on her when she didn't answer her phone.
04:46Whenever we interview witnesses, we want to find out anything we can, whatever they know.
04:52What type of relationship they have with the victim,
04:55what knowledge they have prior to the events that occurred.
05:00For law enforcement, one of their biggest priorities was to figure out
05:04who was Brian Spinks, who was Kimethea Coleman,
05:07and who would want to hurt them,
05:11who would want to do this to either of them.
05:19Brian Dennis Spinks was born December 15, 1980, in St. Louis, Missouri.
05:26He grew up in a family with a proud history of military service.
05:31Brian was the second child, but the first boy.
05:34And subsequently, he had two younger brothers.
05:37His father was in the military.
05:39Our mother, she was a DOD, Department of Defense employee, for security assistance.
05:45It goes all the way back to his great-grandfather being in the Korean War.
05:51My father and my grandfather were both in the World War II.
05:55And then, of course, me in the Marine Corps.
06:01After high school in 1999,
06:04Brian followed the family tradition and enlisted in the Air Force.
06:07But before he deployed, his life changed.
06:12I met Brian Spinks, I want to say, back in the summer of 2000.
06:17It was my senior year of high school.
06:19Brian had just joined the Air Force.
06:21And he had swung by the high school to help with all the recruiters.
06:26Brian was very attractive, and his smile was remarkable.
06:31We dated for about six months,
06:33and I thought that I was pregnant with Amani.
06:39In January 2001, Brian became a father.
06:43But the romance didn't last.
06:46He, of course, had military obligations,
06:49and I felt alone because the military had number one priority.
06:54He was going to do the full ride.
06:56Wouldn't have had a problem getting a job after the Air Force.
07:04Shortly after Amani was born, Brian was going to Iraq.
07:07He took long tours.
07:10He, you know, did with it the best he could
07:12and spoke to his son when he could,
07:15had the relationship with his son's mom.
07:17They co-parented.
07:20It was very difficult, especially as Amani started getting older.
07:25When we did spend time together in person,
07:29we had a good time.
07:30He made me feel loved.
07:32And, you know, I cried when he left.
07:34But I understand what he was doing.
07:36He had to serve his country.
07:43While stationed in Montgomery,
07:45he had a daughter with another woman in the Air Force.
07:48Once she became pregnant,
07:50she got discharged from the Air Force
07:52and went home to, I think, Buffalo, New York.
07:55So that was difficult in itself.
07:57And Brian only got to see her a few times.
08:00He did the best he could from a distance.
08:03But while on deployment,
08:05Brian's focus was on the men in his unit.
08:08Brian and I met when I was in the Air Force back in 2002.
08:13He and I were both stationed at
08:15Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
08:17He was kind of the organizer between all of us.
08:21We all just kind of meshed
08:23because it was the only family that we had.
08:24You know, our families were in different countries,
08:26different places.
08:27And he made sure that we had a place
08:31to come and congregate.
08:35By the time he returned home in 2008,
08:39Brian was ready to focus on his family.
08:42When he came home,
08:43it was always about Imani.
08:45It was good, you know.
08:47He talked, he checked on me.
08:50I ain't want for nothing.
08:54At a friend's get-together later that year,
08:57Brian met someone new.
08:58A young woman named Kamithia Coleman.
09:03Kamithia Coleman was from a small town,
09:06about 30 minutes outside of Shreveport.
09:09Just about everyone who knew her,
09:10loved her and liked her.
09:12She was very popular.
09:14Prom queen, homecoming queen, you name it.
09:18Kamithia was a very sweet girl.
09:20I talked to her almost every Sunday,
09:22and she would always be in church.
09:24Kamithia went on to go to Grambling State University.
09:27She chose a life of service as a social worker.
09:30She dedicated her life to serving and helping other people.
09:35She was just, seemed like almost the perfect girl
09:40to introduce to your family and to settle down with.
09:43Brian had never been this serious about someone
09:46until Kamithia came along.
09:53But little more than a year after they began dating,
09:57Brian has been killed by an unknown assailant.
10:00And investigators are now questioning two women
10:03outside the couple's apartment.
10:05One was a long-time friend, the Kamithia Coleman's,
10:09and then the second individual was her sister.
10:12The friend advises that she had been at the club
10:15with her sister and Miss Coleman downtown in Shreveport.
10:20The women say Kamithia seemed upset that evening,
10:24and it had something to do with another man.
10:27She had mentioned to the sisters
10:30that a guy named John with dreads had followed her.
10:34One of the sisters said that she did see
10:37someone at the club with dreads,
10:39but a lot of black males at that time wore dreads,
10:43and so nothing stood out to her.
10:45They say Brian was also at the club,
10:48but neither he nor Kamithia stayed for long.
10:52There's a brief conversation between the two,
10:55and Brian leaves.
10:57Then the friends notice.
11:00Minutes later, Kamithia leaves.
11:04And within a few minutes of Kamithia leaving,
11:07they left to see if Kamithia's car was still there,
11:11and they didn't see it.
11:12So they went to Brian's to make sure
11:15she got where she was going.
11:17When they got there, they heard the screaming,
11:19and they saw the police coming,
11:21and they knew something was terribly wrong.
11:24To detectives, the women appeared genuine
11:27in their account of the evening.
11:29So the investigation is just beginning.
11:33We didn't have enough to go on,
11:35so we needed to speak with Kamithia
11:38to find out who is John
11:40and get more information on why
11:42he followed her to Brian's apartment.
11:49coming up.
11:51Evidence reveals the brutality of the attack.
11:54The fact that the knife was broken
11:57is indicative of a very powerful or angry strike.
12:03and detectives speak with Kamithia.
12:07I don't know, of course.
12:09You've got to tell me
12:10to come back from the kitchen.
12:12who is that?
12:14Who is that?
12:14Who is that?
12:16Who is that?
12:32After speaking with Komethea Coleman's friends about the events leading up to the fatal stabbing of Brian Spinks,
12:39investigators turn their attention to the crime scene.
12:43Police are not able to talk to Kim.
12:46Her wounds are being tended to, and they're hoping that the scene could give them the answers to this puzzle.
12:56This crime scene was one of the bloodiest that I've ever seen.
13:01They observed what they thought to be at least 30 wounds to Brian.
13:06The cut from his neck, which almost had decapitated Brian, was what the lethal blow was.
13:16The amount of blood in the apartments and the amount of injuries that Brian sustained
13:22is indicative of a person with a lot of rage or anger.
13:27They have some reason to be mad enough to do that kind of damage and that much damage to another
13:36individual.
13:40The murder weapons, a pair of knives found near Brian's body, seemed to confirm their assessment.
13:47There was a knife that was intact.
13:51There was also another knife that was close by that was a handle, and the blade was located in another
13:57part of the living room.
13:58The fact that the knife was broken is indicative of a very powerful or angry strike.
14:07This trail of blood led to the kitchen, and they noticed that on the kitchen counter is this knife block.
14:17There was two knives missing from the knife block that also matched the knives that were laying next to Brian
14:25Sphinx's body.
14:26And now they are able to kind of put the pieces together that these two knives came off the kitchen
14:36counter.
14:41We did search the front door to see any type of jarring or kick marks or pry marks or anything,
14:50and none were located.
14:52They start wondering, how did he get in?
14:56Did someone leave a door unlocked?
15:01Police canvassed the apartment complex, but none of the neighbors they speak to saw what happened.
15:07That leaves one person who might be able to identify the killer, and she's in the hospital.
15:15Police now find that Komethea's wounds are not life-threatening, so they are able to talk with her.
15:23Komethea was brought to the violent crimes office there at the Shreveport Police Department, roughly around 7 a.m.
15:33Obviously, we all know why we're here.
15:37We're investigating the stabbing of Brian.
15:43Is he okay?
15:45We'll discuss all that.
15:46Will you talk to us?
15:48Is Brian okay?
15:50I told you to my mom.
15:52He's dead.
15:54This ass follow me.
15:58This is...
16:03Komethea tells police that she was out on the town.
16:07It was a girls' night out.
16:09They went to a couple of different establishments, had a few drinks, and then they ended up at Gigi's.
16:16Gigi's is one of the larger clubs in downtown Shreveport.
16:21Not long after they got to Gigi's, they saw Brian.
16:25Tell me about that.
16:26We talked, and we were...
16:28He got upset, and he left.
16:32Komethea advised us that whenever her and Brian went out separately, that they weren't supposed to meet up at the
16:39same club or go to the same places.
16:42They had an agreement that if one comes to the club, the other one has to leave, so Brian leaves.
16:49She said that she decided to go back to Brian's apartment to make sure that everything was cool.
16:58Komethea advised us that her and Brian were back at his apartment, and they were kind of talking.
17:05All of a sudden...
17:08All of a sudden...
17:10He stabbed Brian.
17:13Yes.
17:14Like, two or three times.
17:16And all I do, I know I hit him a couple of times.
17:20She said she tried to jump on him, and he pushed her back.
17:25After he finished stabbing Brian, he just gets up and runs off.
17:31You keep saying ass...
17:32Who is the ass...
17:34Who is the ass...
17:34Who is the ass...
17:37Komethea explains that John was a man she dated casually in the past, and he seemed to have gotten the
17:43wrong idea.
17:46I mean, I told him there would never be anything because I was with him.
17:50I was crying.
17:51And, I mean, after a couple of months, he got the picture, but then he showed back up.
17:58He would pop up, like, in crazy places.
18:04Komethea stated she saw him at the library.
18:06She also saw him near her apartment, and later saw him at the club with her friends.
18:15Despite the alarming run-ins with this man over the past month,
18:19Komethea seems strangely unable to provide investigators with any details.
18:25She could never tell us a phone number, or she couldn't even tell us his last name.
18:31She stated that he drives different cars, and he will call her from different pay phones.
18:36And the fact that she can't give us specific information about this John had us starting to question exactly what
18:46she was telling us.
18:51Police realized that she could still be in shock.
18:56So, they decide to go to the cell phones.
19:00They asked Komethea for permission to go through her cell phone.
19:06There are three voicemails on her phone.
19:08Two of them are from friends, talking about going out that night and making plans for the night.
19:12And then that third voicemail is from Brian.
19:15He left the voicemail in between the time he left the club and the time that she arrived at his
19:20apartment.
19:23He advised that he was done.
19:26He was breaking up with her.
19:30Prior to us hearing that, it appeared that her and Brian's relationship was fine.
19:40As the detectives confront her with this voicemail, she changes.
19:48Her demeanor changes.
19:53Why did he break up with you, hon?
19:56He didn't break up with you tonight.
19:59We always go through this.
20:01It's not a big deal.
20:03Officer just left him at the border.
20:06So, yeah, it's a big deal.
20:09It's a very big deal.
20:27Four hours after Brian Spinks was found stabbed to death in his apartment,
20:32investigators have just heard a voicemail from that same night in which he broke up with his girlfriend, Kimethea Coleman.
20:42The new information has them questioning if her story of a violent home invasion by a jealous stalker is true.
20:53At that point, she asks to speak to Detective Farquhar alone.
20:58They had developed a bit of a rapport, and she trusted him in a way that she hadn't developed trust
21:05with the other detectives.
21:07We step outside into a little room to where we could still watch Kimethea and Detective Farquhar in their interview,
21:15but Kimethea can't see us.
21:17I was hoping that she would finally confide to me exactly what happened.
21:38At that point, she started telling me that Brian had, in the past as well as that night, has hit
21:45her and abused her,
21:47but she felt that she deserved it, and so she didn't say anything to anyone.
21:53Kimethea stated that they argued in Brian's apartment that he'd been drinking, he was drunk,
22:00and she stated that he grabbed her by the hand, causing a minor bruise, and then Brian grabbed her throat,
22:08strangling her.
22:10She said she pushed him off, and that's when he went into the kitchen and got a knife.
22:17I don't know if it's hard.
22:20You gotta tell me that he comes back from the kitchen.
22:23He's messy.
22:26According to Kimethea, he begins to stab her about the legs and stomach area.
22:37She said she had to do something in order to defend herself in that moment.
22:42So she, at that point, got up, went into the kitchen, got her own knife.
22:48And I just, I was like, I don't can tell me how to kill me.
23:00So he just kept standing.
23:03When did the stroke get cut?
23:07Because it was kind of bad.
23:09I was trying to come, but I think he didn't follow me to.
23:13Sean did?
23:14Mm-hmm.
23:15Was he in the apartment where all this happened?
23:25She's changing the story now.
23:30It has now gone from John breaking into the apartment and attacking Brian to John walking
23:39into the apartment as she and Brian were fighting.
23:42It kind of confused her story.
23:45The fact that she brought John back in did not make sense to me.
23:50So he showed up in the middle of y'all fighting?
23:52Mm-hmm.
23:53And what all did he do?
23:55He got the not-and-just the way he had me with.
23:58I guess he was trying to think of what I did.
24:01It made no sense to anyone in that room.
24:04Like, the math just was not mathing.
24:07At this point, detectives are starting to believe that John really didn't exist.
24:18The question that the detectives asked was, why didn't you just leave?
24:21You're being attacked.
24:23You get-you're able to get away.
24:25But instead of leaving, you grab a weapon and you come back to the fight.
24:30I was trying to talk to him, tell him to calm down.
24:34I'm like, okay, are you really going to do this right now?
24:38At that point, I advised Detective Holmes and Agent Dunkel to come back in.
24:44I asked Komethea to repeat what she had told me to them.
24:48At that point, she advised for an attorney.
24:51So the interview was concluded.
24:57Since it appears the stabbing was a crime of passion, police charge Komethea Coleman with manslaughter.
25:05Under Louisiana state law, they have 72 hours to gather any additional evidence.
25:12Within the 72-hour period, a detective would gather all the pertinent information to corroborate the charge or upgrade it
25:22to second-degree murder.
25:25And with that being said, they would gather more evidence, talk to more witnesses,
25:30talking to anybody that knew her or Brian Spinks and their relationship.
25:40Coming up, witnesses provide troubling new details about events leading up to the murder.
25:47She threatened to beat his ass there at the club.
25:51And medical analysis casts doubt on Komethea's story.
25:56The coroner identified 64 stab wounds.
26:01It's hard for me to fathom this incident being self-defense.
26:20It's been nearly 12 hours since Brian Spinks' murder, and loved ones have started to learn the tragic news.
26:30I just had randomly come in to my mom's house, and she hung up the phone, and she screamed my
26:38name.
26:39And it was just something about the way she screamed it.
26:44And she told me the news that Brian was killed.
26:49Just in the shot.
26:54With Komethea Coleman in custody, detectives turn their attention to locating the alleged stalker she continues to claim murdered her
27:03boyfriend.
27:05Now that Komethea's story is not making much sense, it's very important for police to rule out the John theory.
27:19Police did locate a person that fit John's description.
27:26He said he didn't know Komethea, and he didn't know Brian.
27:31They weren't able to find any type of evidence on him.
27:37No blood, no knife wounds.
27:41With the suspect having to be so close to the victim, it would have been nearly impossible for the person
27:47to not have some kind of evidence transfer from the victim to their person.
27:53Blood is very slippery, and when someone is stabbing someone, generally the knife will slip, and they will cut themselves
28:03during the events.
28:04This gentleman that was stopped had no injuries whatsoever on him.
28:08It was very clear, this is not John.
28:14Not only are investigators unable to find John, there is no evidence he exists at all.
28:23Surveillance cameras were captured from Gigi's.
28:27There was no black male with dreadlocks with a red shirt that was walking around Gigi's, stalking her.
28:35We were unable to locate any witnesses that saw this guy John, or any video to corroborate Komethea's statement that
28:45she saw him at the club, or that she saw him at the library.
28:48It became apparent to police that Komethea had literally sent them on a goose chase to find another suspect that
28:59was non-existent.
29:04The discovery means there were only two people in the apartment when the stabbing occurred, Brian and Komethea.
29:12She stabbed him in a rage.
29:17There was no John in the picture whatsoever.
29:21But it is better for detectives to still go a little bit further to get more evidence, talk to her
29:30family, talk to friends.
29:32I did receive a phone call from Brian's father, and he advised that Brian, within the past couple of weeks,
29:40was getting ready to part ways with Komethea.
29:45His description to me was, Dad, I'm being smothered.
29:49He told me, wasn't seeing any other girls, just her.
29:53But she was smothering him.
29:55And, uh, he needed some time to wait.
30:03She had been pressuring him about marriage, and he didn't feel like he was ready for that.
30:09She was getting up at night, going in his phone, going in his emails, searching the house, going through the
30:15drawers, looking for some type of incriminating evidence that he's dating another girl.
30:20It progressively got worse, the jealousness and the insecurities.
30:29Brian's loved ones say the tension between him and Komethea finally reached a breaking point on the night of January
30:3717th.
30:39Air Force OSI detectives interviewed the Brian Spinks friends who went out with him that night.
30:46They state that Brian was at Gigi's, dancing with a friend, but not intimately or anything of that nature, just
30:55a friendly dance with another female.
30:59Komethea sees Brian dancing with this female.
31:02She gets enraged and figures this must be a side piece.
31:10And they argue.
31:15She threatened to, to beat his ass there at the club for dancing with someone else.
31:21That night, I saw a different side of Kim that I had never seen before.
31:27I had never seen her react this way.
31:31Eventually, cooler heads prevailed, and we sat down with Kim.
31:36She said to me, she was like, you know, Shane, you know, I'm sorry.
31:40You know, I love him.
31:41And, you know, I overreacted.
31:43And so, in my mind, the night was over.
31:46And everything was fine.
31:48I had no idea what happened after that until the next morning.
31:54Through all the interviews that we did, we feel that Komethea was jealous, and that when Brian tried to break
32:02it off with her, that it just made her lose her mind.
32:07And that if she couldn't have him, no one could.
32:26Police in Shreveport, Louisiana, have arrested Komethea Coleman for stabbing her boyfriend, Brian Spinks, to death.
32:35But Komethea insists she was acting in self-defense.
32:40Being that there was accusation of abuse, we pulled up any type of police records.
32:45But there were no records between Brian Spinks or Komethea.
32:52Investigators look to Brian's autopsy to provide definitive answers.
32:58Once the coroner got him down to the morgue and they conducted the autopsy,
33:02they identified 64 stab wounds.
33:07When somebody's trying to defend themselves from an attacker,
33:11they are trying to de-escalate the situation.
33:14Trying to put a little distance between them and their attacker just to stop the incident from occurring.
33:21It's hard for me to fathom this incident being self-defense.
33:28Detectives are left with, how is it that this 100-pound female was able to overtake this 5'11", muscle
33:39-bound male who's in the military?
33:45When we got the autopsy report back, it showed that his blood alcohol level was over twice the legal limit.
33:54And that he probably would not have been able to fight back.
34:01Her entire defense on the self-defense side was, he attacked me.
34:07There was no way that Brian, with the .174 blood alcohol content,
34:13attacked her, walked to the kitchen, came back, and stabbed her.
34:24Chimethia's own injuries also seemed to contradict her story.
34:29She first claimed that John had stabbed her,
34:32and then she claimed that Brian had stabbed her during their fight,
34:38in which she was defending herself.
34:41But the Caddo Parish coroner said that they were not penetrating,
34:46that they were superficial wounds,
34:48which would leave him to believe that they were self-inflicted.
34:54Maybe the murder was not premeditated,
34:56but she went to extreme lengths to create evidence,
35:01to create the optics that would support her story.
35:05She was desperate to stay out of trouble,
35:07so much so that she harmed herself.
35:14On January 19th, 2010,
35:18less than 72 hours after Brian's murder,
35:21prosecutors upgrade Chimethia's charges
35:24from manslaughter to second-degree murder.
35:28Second-degree murder is the intentional killing of another person,
35:33whereas manslaughter is killing someone in the heat of the moment.
35:39The fact that she did 64 stab wounds to him,
35:44as well as a severe laceration to his throat,
35:48was more indicative that she meant to kill him.
35:52The behavior they said she displayed wasn't the Kim I know,
35:57wasn't the Kim I've talked to.
36:00I couldn't believe the viciousness.
36:05A trial date is set,
36:07but as her day in court approaches,
36:10Chimethia's attorneys introduce a new strategy for her defense.
36:14She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
36:18There were motions filed.
36:21There was a mental evaluation conducted,
36:23and she was deemed incompetent to stand trial.
36:27She was transferred to a mental health facility for 90 days.
36:32At the end of that 90 days,
36:35she had a second evaluation.
36:37November 2011,
36:39it was determined that Chimethia Coleman
36:40was able to stand trial and testify.
36:48On April 23, 2012,
36:51Chimethia Coleman's murder trial begins.
36:54Despite the results of her psychiatric evaluation,
36:58her defense remains the same.
37:01Battered wife syndrome
37:03was one of the elements of her insanity defense,
37:08that she was beaten enough
37:11and that she was abused
37:12and endured so much abuse
37:14that one day she just couldn't take anymore
37:16and she fought back.
37:18The defense tried to paint Brian as an abusive person
37:22and tried to claim that he had PTSD
37:25because he had served in the Middle East
37:27and that he came back
37:29and took all of that out on Chimethia.
37:33For prosecutors,
37:34the question is whether the jury will believe it.
37:38Only two people know what really occurred
37:41during the relationship,
37:41and one of them is no longer here to tell their story.
38:05At her murder trial,
38:07Chimethia Coleman claims
38:09the abuse she suffered at the hands of her boyfriend,
38:12Brian Spinks,
38:13drove her to commit a desperate act
38:15of self-preservation.
38:17Police and prosecutors say otherwise.
38:21Throughout the investigation
38:23and throughout the preparation for the trial,
38:25there was just no evidence
38:27that pointed to Brian being an abusive person.
38:33She was saying that he beat on women
38:36and he beat on me.
38:38Brian would hit the fly.
38:41Chimethia Coleman is a disturbed female
38:46who could not take no from her boyfriend,
38:50who did not want to be with her anymore.
38:53That's what made her snap.
39:01Prosecutors present Chimethia's 911 call
39:04as definitive proof
39:06her actions were premeditated.
39:09I went back and listened to that phone call.
39:12You can hear Brian in the background.
39:19She gets real loud and kind of screams.
39:21And if you listen closely,
39:23you can hear Brian start to gurgle.
39:29Hello?
39:31Okay, what's going on there?
39:36I think that is when she delivered the final blow
39:40while she was on the phone with another woman.
39:49Hearing his voice one last time crying for help
39:58was truly a gun merchant.
40:04I can't imagine a human being doing what she did to somebody.
40:10What she did was...
40:16Amanda didn't deserve to leave like that.
40:28Who would have thought a sweet young lady
40:31with a future, a loving family,
40:33who would believe she would do such a horrendous crime?
40:48The jury in this trial deliberated two hours,
40:52and they came back with a unanimous,
40:55guilty as charged verdict of second-degree murder.
41:02Chimethia Coleman is sentenced to life in prison
41:06without the possibility of parole.
41:09She will not spend another day in freedom.
41:13She'll be locked up,
41:14but that still doesn't help his friends and family.
41:24We was trying to plan Imani a big surprise birthday party
41:27because it was going to be the first time
41:29Brian was in the U.S.
41:31when his birthday hit.
41:33She took that from me.
41:34The man that was supposed to be my guide through life,
41:37you know?
41:38Like, she took that.
41:41I can't get that back.
41:44I believe Brian would be extremely proud of his son,
41:47of the man that he has become.
41:50I wasn't completely stripped
41:52because I got a grandson
41:53that reminds me of every time I look at him and talk to him.
41:57His same voice,
41:59Brian still is.
42:03I respect what he did in the service,
42:05the sacrifice that he made.
42:06Great father willing to do anything for the kids,
42:09even though it was from afar.
42:12I still feel his spirit around me.
42:15He was a good person, you know?
42:18No matter what happened,
42:19you know, even how he died,
42:22they ain't who he was.
42:24My father was an abuser.
42:26He took care of his kids.
42:28I just want people to know
42:29that my father was a good man.
42:32My father was a good man.
42:32I literally died who I was a good man.
42:43And I didn't like him to have him said.
42:44I look for him,
42:44He said,
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