1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: This show discusses cold case murders and the people who 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: spend their lives fighting for justice. We hope to raise 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: public awareness and invite witnesses to come forward with evidence 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: that could potentially be investigated by law enforcement. We also 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: remind listeners that everyone has pursued innocent until proven guilty 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: in a court of law, and that an arrest is 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: not a conviction. Nothing in the podcast is intended to 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: state or imply that anyone who has not been convicted 9 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing. The night 10 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: of July twenty ninth, twenty thirteen was warm, mid eighties 11 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: and partly cloudy. It had rained earlier that day, like 12 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: it does almost every day in Miami during the summer, 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: and the air was still humid. Just before ten thirty pm, 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: a call came into the Miami Police Department dispatch. 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: There was a called female shot inside of a pastor 16 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 2: of c A and there were other calls of shots 17 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 2: fire to the area. 18 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: Minutes later, an officer arrived at the intersection of Northwest 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: eighth Avenue and forty seventh Street, the southern corner of 20 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: Liberty City. The officer spotted a tudor black BMW ridden 21 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: with bulletholes. He walked over to the car. 22 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 2: They noticed a female and a passion seat will suffered 23 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 2: from multiple gunshot wounds. 24 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: The woman was wearing jeene shorts, a white tank top, 25 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: and a black baseball cap. She was bleeding and unresponsive. 26 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: The officer didn't know if she was alive. He immediately 27 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: called for an ambulance, which rushed the victim to the hospital. 28 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: She was alive, but she was barely hanging on the 29 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: scene was secured and soon more police arrived. One of 30 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: them was Lieutenant Roger Jackson. 31 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 2: Well, my name was Roger Jackson. I'm a lieutenant with 32 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 2: the Bombie Police Department. I've been here for over eighteen years, 33 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: currently assigned as the foot Operation Support Commander, and right 34 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: that I spent ten years in the Hamici Unit, both 35 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 2: as a detective and a sergeant. 36 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: But back in twenty thirteen, he was an officer, one 37 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: of many officers on duty in Liberty City that night. 38 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 2: I responded to the scene a little bit after the fact. 39 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: I was dispatched as a backup. 40 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: When police first arrived at the scene, no one was 41 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: there except the woman in the car, but shortly after 42 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: a man appeared He introduced himself to one of the 43 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: officers as Vincent Green. The officer described him as anxious 44 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: but calm. He said he had been driving the BMW. 45 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 2: He said, that's my girl. My girl got shot. That's 46 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 2: my girl. That's my girls. Kinds where my gravy okay, 47 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 2: or something to that effect. 48 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: He claimed to have run away after he'd been shot at, 49 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: but when things calmed down, he decided to come back. 50 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: The officer escorted him to a police car to wait 51 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: for further questioning. 52 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 2: He was quickly detained for interview. I transported Thank god. 53 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: The boyfriend took the homicide office to be interviewed by 54 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 2: detectives at the time. 55 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the victim was now at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. 56 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: She's been identified as thirty two year old Lawrence Web, 57 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: a well respected and popular club promoter. Lawrence lived with 58 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: her parents, Natrice and Jeffrey Christian in the same Miami 59 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: Gardens house she grew up in, and because of her 60 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: job in night life, she'd often come home late, so 61 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: Natrece didn't even bat an eye when at five am 62 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: her phone rang I thought it was her. 63 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 3: Calling, And the reason for that is that she knows 64 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 3: that if she's coming here, that she will call first 65 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 3: so that her dad can open the garage door. Because 66 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 3: you know, working clubs and things like that, people know 67 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 3: that you're making money, and you just didn't want to 68 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 3: ever take a chance with somebody's following you home. So 69 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 3: when that phone rang, I assumed that that was her 70 00:03:57,640 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 3: call it but it wasn't. 71 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: Instead it was a counselor from the hospital. 72 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 3: Ah, right, this is Jackson Murie Hospital. This is a 73 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 3: reference to pasing that the name of Lauren's Webb Prez 74 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 3: called Jackson Hospital at three o five fy fan one fight. 75 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 3: She says, Hi, this is Jackson Moral Hospital and that 76 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:26,559 Speaker 3: uncoly to inform you that Lorence web had been brought 77 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 3: into the emergency room and was shot multiple times, and 78 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 3: to hear that it was devastated. 79 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: Natrece raced to Jackson Memorial where doctors were desperately trying 80 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:40,559 Speaker 1: to keep Laurence alive. 81 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 3: She was shot nine times, and when the counselor met us, 82 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 3: that's when she explained, your daughter was bought in with 83 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 3: multiple gunshots booms, and we thought she was dead on arrival. However, 84 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 3: she yelled out and once my daughter, ye, no doubt 85 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 3: that's when they immediately took her in the operating role 86 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 3: to start surgery. 87 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: Lawrence was still alive, but the prognosis wasn't good. 88 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 3: The doctors first told me, They said to me that 89 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 3: she wouldn't made it twenty four hours. 90 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 1: Natrice wasn't in shock, but she was also confused. Her 91 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,919 Speaker 1: daughter was responsible and hardworking. She didn't understand how this 92 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: could have happened. There was something else that was troubling 93 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 1: her too. Before theatrese had even arrived at the hospital, 94 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: a man had already been there asking for details about 95 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: lawns or l as she was known. 96 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 3: The counselor. She told me, she said, ma'am, it's some 97 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 3: guy that's been coming here all night trying to get information, 98 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 3: but we won't provide information because we needed to speak 99 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 3: to the next of kid. And sure enough, he walks in. 100 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 3: He says, Hi, I'm Vincent Green. I played for the 101 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 3: Atlanta Falcons and I was with well when she got shot. 102 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 3: And when that happened, I paused because here's a gentleman 103 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 3: that we do not know. Here's a gentleman we never 104 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,799 Speaker 3: seen before, and we're still trying to figure out what happened. 105 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: From a school of Humans and iHeart podcasts. This is 106 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: Cold Case Files Miami. I'm your host in pre Casantos. 107 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: Laurensnachristia Webb was born May twenty seventh, nineteen eighty one. 108 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: She grew up with her parents, Natrice and Jeffrey Christian 109 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: and her little brother, Jeffrey Junior and what is now 110 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: Miami Gardens. It's a working class, predominantly black city about 111 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: fifteen miles north of downtown Miami. The family lived in 112 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: a neighborhood where kids around outside together and neighbors took 113 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: care of each other. Hard Rock Stadium, where the Dolphins play, 114 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: is close by. Rappers Rick Ross and Florida also both 115 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: grew up near there. Lawrence's family was tight knit. Friends 116 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: would sometimes compare them to the Huxtables, the protagonists of 117 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: the iconic TV series The Cause We Show. 118 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 3: Her friends were like, wow, we had parents like your parents. 119 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 4: You know. 120 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 3: They used to call us back in the days the Huskable, 121 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 3: and I never understood like the Huskable because they knew 122 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 3: the love that we had in our home and the 123 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 3: love that we shared in our home. 124 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: Lawrence always had a lot of friends. She was warm 125 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: and gregarious. People wanted to be near her. 126 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 3: Everybody that she came in contact with, they loved her. 127 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 3: She was a loving person, not just saying it because 128 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: it's my daughter, but she was a type of person. 129 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 3: You can have a disagreement with her, but native she'll 130 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 3: be calling you like, hey, let's go to lunch, let's 131 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 3: go shopping. So she was that type of a person. 132 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: And she was especially close to her little brother. 133 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 3: Gosh, she loved her brother. She was Jeffrey's biggest, biggest fan. 134 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 4: Hi, I am Jeffrey Christian Junior. I am the brother 135 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 4: of Lawn's web. 136 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: Jeffrey was born eight years after his sister, but that 137 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: age difference never met much. 138 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 4: She was always, you know, in theater, dancing, and I 139 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 4: kind of took some of those things on from her. 140 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 4: Who were always making up shows, always making up silly phones, 141 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 4: always bothering our parents, screaming across the house. We had 142 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 4: an awesome relationship. 143 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: Lawrence was also into fashion. How she looked was important 144 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: to her. 145 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 4: She liked to present herself well, so you know, she 146 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 4: likes to dress nice. 147 00:08:58,400 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: When she goes out the house. 148 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,599 Speaker 3: When I say fabulous, she didn't go anywhere with her that. 149 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 3: She was always fabulous, but she stepped out to even 150 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 3: go to the grocery store. You will see her on 151 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 3: her heel zone and you know, she was always so 152 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 3: fabulous like that. 153 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: The Lawrence eventually found her calling in nightlife. That wasn't 154 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: her original path. In high school, she thought of becoming 155 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: a dental hygienist, but she pivoted first into bartending. 156 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 3: This is a funny story, but I was a little 157 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 3: bit upset because who goes to school to become a bartender. Well, 158 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 3: she heard about how well the girls make doing bartending. 159 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 3: Next thing, you know, she was in bartending school. 160 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: From there, Laurnce worked her way into event promotion, which 161 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: is also when she got her nickname fabulous l. Her 162 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 1: just l her fabulousness was now officially her calling card. 163 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 4: She was big in music and so she got into 164 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 4: the club scene and she started to throw parties and 165 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 4: you know, bring out different musical artist. Everyone knew her 166 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 4: from Rick Ross that Joe's so like everyone knew, you know, 167 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 4: this girl from Miami who threw parties, who just was 168 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 4: the life of the party, who brought the entry title made. 169 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: By twenty thirteen, Lawrence had made a name for herself 170 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: in the scene. She was working for club play a 171 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: popular hip hop club on Miami Beach. It was through 172 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: nightlife that she met Vincent Green. Her family doesn't exactly 173 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: know how they met, but they assume he was drawn 174 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: to her allure her cachet. Vincent did not play for 175 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons like he had said. He was a 176 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: twenty three year old from Miami Gardens with a rap 177 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: sheet and who'd been released from federal custody about six 178 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: months before. We don't know what he told Laurence about 179 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: himself or what she believed, if anything, but we do 180 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: know that they'd only known each other for a couple 181 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: of weeks before he brought her to that Liberty City intersection, 182 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 1: an intersection that had now been turned into a full 183 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:07,439 Speaker 1: on crime scene investigation by police. Detectives were looking for witnesses. 184 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: The CSI team arrived and began working immediately, worried that 185 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: intermittent showers might wash away whatever evidence might be there. 186 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 2: So the investigated team they take over. What's recovered was 187 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 2: one case in forty five caliber, a magazine with several 188 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 2: live for the five caliber rounds, and there was another 189 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 2: set of cases of millimeters. 190 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: This meant at least two different guns were used the 191 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: crime scene investigator also found eleven bullet holes into BMW. 192 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: Inside the car, there was a bullet fragment lodged in 193 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: the passenger's seat backrest. There was also a purse, some CDs, 194 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: a bank with draw slip. In the back seat was 195 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: a pair of boots and a PF. Chang's bag with 196 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: some leftover chicken inside and a bullet size hole through 197 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 1: the packaging. There was no sign of Lawrence's phone, and 198 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: more importantly, no sign of either gun, the forty five 199 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,719 Speaker 1: or the nine millimeter. And the only suspect they had 200 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: so far was Vincent Green. He was waiting to be 201 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: questioned by police. 202 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:16,079 Speaker 2: Eight of you Green he caught her and his girlfriend, 203 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 2: but supposed they only had been dating for like maybe 204 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 2: two weeks or three weeks, some to that effect. 205 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: According to Vincent, he and Lawronce had spent the night 206 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: of July twenty eighth at the Grand Hotel near downtown Miami. 207 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: The next morning, July twenty ninth, they ran some errands. 208 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: Lawronce was supposed to fly to Las Vegas the following 209 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: day on a work trip and needed to take care 210 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: of some things. She went to the bank to get 211 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: some cash. She got her nails done That evening. Vincent 212 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: said that they had dinner. During the meal, Vincent was 213 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: on the phone with another man, a friend of his 214 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: from the halfway house he'd lived in after leaving prison 215 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: in late twenty twelve. They planned to meet up in 216 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: Liberty City that night. Laronce had had a couple of drinks, 217 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: so Vincent drove for BMW back into Miami. Laurrons sat 218 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 1: in the passenger seat. When they arrived at the intersection 219 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: of forty seventh Street and Eighth Avenue, Vincent got out 220 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: of the BMW. He approached the park car, a white 221 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 1: Crown Victoria. It was later described as looking like an 222 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 1: old style police vehicle. 223 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 2: Once he made it towards the driver's side, rare passenger seat, 224 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:28,959 Speaker 2: the window open, and he saw a guy with his 225 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 2: face harshly covered. He saw a laser. 226 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: The laser is a feature that can be added to 227 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: a gun to increase accuracy, a kind of sight. So 228 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: when Vincent said he saw laser, he knew it could 229 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: only mean one thing. He was the intended target. 230 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 2: There was one shot that was fired. 231 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: Somehow the bullet missed. Vincent Green, You. 232 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 2: Say you believed the gun jam or something. 233 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: Vincent then did the only thing he can think of. 234 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 2: He took off through an ad Jason alley and then 235 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 2: while he was running away from the scene, he overhears 236 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 2: several more shots. 237 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: Once he was out of range, Vincent said he called 238 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: a friend of his who lived nearby to pick him up. 239 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 1: He then called Laurnz to see if she was okay, 240 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: but Lawrence didn't answer. Instead, there was a male voice 241 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: on the phone, and. 242 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 2: The person answered the phone and stated something to the 243 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 2: effect of, just so you know your girls, they'll breathe it. 244 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: Vincent's friend arrived and drove him back to where the 245 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: shooting had happened. By this time, the police were already 246 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: at the scene, and they had doubts about his story. 247 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 2: Well, we know we have a female that shot and 248 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 2: ran away from the car, You not at the scene it, 249 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 2: and you show back up out of the blue. So 250 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 2: he was treated as a suspect. 251 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: That night, Vincent had become a person of interest as 252 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: detectives pieced together the violent assault on Lawns. They needed more, though, 253 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: so investigators visited the hospital to try to speak with her, 254 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: but she was severely injured and the police weren't able 255 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: to learn much. Honestly, it was a miracle she was 256 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: even alive. Lawrence had been shot multiple times, including once 257 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: in the head. 258 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 3: When I say she was a fighter, she was a fighter. 259 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 3: The doctors first told me, They said to me that 260 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 3: she wouldn't made it twenty four hours. 261 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: That wasn't an answer, and the trese or Lawronce was 262 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: willing to accept. 263 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 3: That, said to her, you were not born an invalid, 264 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 3: and we're going to get through this here. And that's 265 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 3: what I said, because I was determined that we're not 266 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 3: going to let this beat us. 267 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: To the doctor's surprise, over the next few months, Lawrence 268 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: began to improve. It was something the hospital staff noticed too, 269 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: Like in this video Natrice took of her doing physical therapy, 270 00:15:58,640 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: try to pass into him. 271 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 3: She's gonna pass the cone, She's gonna try and. 272 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, now there you go, Jago. 273 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 3: She was doing so great that even the nurses and 274 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 3: and and the physical therapy and everything like that, they 275 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 3: will be tired, and she'll be like, come on, come on. 276 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: You need it right, you need it right? 277 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 3: She said, Oh God, that's what she said, right, you good. 278 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: Though Laurents still had trouble communicating, na Trace recognized her 279 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: vivacious daughter, like when she'd move her leg and excitement 280 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: when whatever her friends would visit and share a gossip, 281 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: or when she sucked her teeth when someone said something incorrect, 282 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: and how she still very much cared about her appearance. 283 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 3: I had a young lady to come in there, do 284 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 3: her nails, do her feet. You don't give her a 285 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 3: manicure of pedicure, and uh it was. It was funny, 286 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 3: but I had to because this is who she was. 287 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 3: And I put up pictures of her in her room 288 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 3: so that she can see. You know, this is who 289 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 3: you are. We're not gonna let this hospital bed define you. 290 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: In November twenty thirteen, Lawrence was well enough that she 291 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: was able to go home. She still had a long 292 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: recovery your head, but things were looking up. 293 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 3: No Ver b twenty fifth with us Becci your day. 294 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 3: That's the day I actually brought her home. No vem 295 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 3: Ba twenty fifth, she had Thanksgiving at home with our family. 296 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: This year's celebration was especially meaningful. Lawrence sat at the table. 297 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: She couldn't converse, but she was there present. She even 298 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: indicated to her mom to wait when the rice tried 299 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: to clear away her plate of pie. Before she was finished. Unfortunately, 300 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: in mid December, Lawronce's health took a turn. One morning, 301 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: she woke up disoriented and the Trice took her to 302 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: the hospital, where she was kept overnight. 303 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 3: While keeping herup for observation. Things look like she was 304 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 3: getting ready to come home. So I said, okay, I'm 305 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 3: gonna let you get your rest and I'm gonna go 306 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 3: home and get some rest. And I always, even right 307 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 3: now today, I still get up that same time, two 308 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning because I got up just to 309 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 3: call the hospital making sure she resting okay. 310 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: But Lawrence wasn't okay. 311 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,360 Speaker 3: And once I got out there to the hospital, that's 312 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 3: when they came and told me that apparently she aspirated, 313 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 3: and when she aspirated, she wanted to cardiac arrest. 314 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: Once again, Lawrence was fighting for her life and she 315 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: was up against a lot. 316 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 3: We have to face reality because you know, knowing that 317 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 3: she had been shot so many times. So when that 318 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 3: time came out, I just had to just, you know, 319 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 3: trust trust God all the way in you know, here 320 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 3: toreth well, her dad walked in the room. After she 321 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 3: heard her dad's voice, it's what she took her lass bro. 322 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:12,959 Speaker 3: I just said to the Lord, I thank you. I 323 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 3: thank you for the thirty two years that you've giving 324 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 3: me my daughter. And I feel Lord, if it's your 325 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 3: will that you take her how you take her home. 326 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: Just before two pm on December seventeenth, almost five months 327 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: after she'd been shot, laurn'ce Webb, passed away. Her official 328 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: cause of death was complications from gunshot wounds. So the 329 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: assault case the detectives had been piecing together was now 330 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,719 Speaker 1: a homicide case. And while Vincent Green had been cagy 331 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: about actually naming the person who tried to shoot him, 332 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: he had told detectives the name of the man he 333 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 1: was supposed to meet that night. The man, he said, 334 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 1: drove the White Crown Victoria. 335 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,199 Speaker 2: He pretty much gazed the ice idea of who the 336 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 2: guy was, but he wasn't quite sure because the guy's 337 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 2: race was covered. What he was saying, I think is 338 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 2: gonna be this guy. Listen, Tevon Graham. He pretty much said, 339 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 2: Taman's name. He says, that's who I was meaning that day, 340 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: and baby, that's somebody who need to look at you. 341 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: Although Vincent Green had been unwilling to name Taevon Graham 342 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: as the man who specifically tried to kill him. The 343 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 1: City of Miami police had enough to begin looking into 344 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 1: Tevon as a possible suspect. Less than thirty six hours 345 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 1: after the shooting, Tevon came to the police station for questioning. 346 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: He gave a DNA sample, and he handed over his 347 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,199 Speaker 1: cell phone. The police eventually found the car he'd been 348 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: driving that night, the White Crown Victoria, and swabbed it 349 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: for fingerprints and DNA. They also found the potential witness, 350 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: someone who could place Tevon in the White Crown Victoria 351 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: shortly before the crime. On the evening of July twenty ninth, 352 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. The witness was in the car while her husband, 353 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 1: a state trooper, checked on a rental property they owned. 354 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: As she waited, she saw something peculiar. Two men discussing 355 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: something and walking towards the Crown Victoria. One of them 356 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: put on gloves despite the summer heat. 357 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 2: She saw individuals getting into that vehicle, a light skinned 358 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 2: mail guinea getting into the driver's seat and a tall 359 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 2: black mail getting into the driver's side or a passion's seat, 360 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 2: putting on some hanglouts, and the end they take off. 361 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 2: She found it quite suspicious. 362 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,719 Speaker 1: The woman's husband finished what he was doing and returned 363 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 1: to their car. They drove home a block away. 364 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,439 Speaker 2: A few minutes later, she hears the shots being fired. 365 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 2: She connected what she saw to the shooting and told 366 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 2: her husband, who approached officers, saying they my wife have 367 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 2: some information. 368 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: Later, the witness identified Tavon from a photo. The police 369 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: were also able to locate another witness, someone who knew 370 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: Tavon from the neighborhood. She had also seen him and 371 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: another man getting into the Crown vic. 372 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 2: She said they said they were going to the store. 373 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 2: She asked for a pack of cigarettes. The car leaves 374 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,199 Speaker 2: and a few minutes later she heard the shots being fired. 375 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,959 Speaker 2: Her fear was they were shot, so she got her 376 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,360 Speaker 2: bicyclette around the corner. She didn't see the Crown Fake, 377 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 2: but that she did see the police in the BMW. 378 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: It seemed an arrest was imminent. Laurence's family was unaware 379 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: of what the police had discovered. They were still processing 380 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 1: the magnitude of their loss and having to balance their 381 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: grief with making funeral arrangements. Lawrence's service was held a 382 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: few days after Christmas. More than six hundred people attended. 383 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 4: The funeral was so packed and to see so many 384 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 4: people from I don't want to get religious or anything, 385 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 4: but to see so many people from the streets come 386 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 4: into the church and like want to change their life 387 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 4: because of the light. 388 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: My sister was, you know, in typical style. Lawrence looked fabulous, 389 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: complete with full makeup and a customed made dress. 390 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 4: Like I said, my sister loved to present herself. She 391 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 4: always presented herself wealth. So when I saw her the 392 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 4: day before the funeral, she looked like her herself. Of course, however, 393 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 4: she wasn't wearing any lashes, and my sister always kept 394 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 4: her lashes though, so I, you know, I was like, 395 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 4: she can't go like that. So I went to the 396 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 4: store and Boston Lashes. Came back to the funeral home 397 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 4: and I put the lashes on for her. 398 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: I just really couldn't let her go out like that. 399 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 4: When I go out, I want to go out. How 400 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,439 Speaker 4: everyone knows how everyone remembers me. Everyone remembers her to 401 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 4: be fabulous, and that's how we allow her to go out. 402 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 3: I all know that how she liked everything in style. 403 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 3: Everything is style. So when I say she went out 404 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 3: with a signature, she went out with a signature. And 405 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 3: I made sure of that. 406 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: We made sure that she had a nice gown. 407 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 4: It had the bottom of the gown the tool like 408 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,880 Speaker 4: overflowing out of the casket. 409 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 3: She had an open casket, a full open casket, and 410 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 3: only thing you saw for nothing but diamonds, because that's 411 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 3: who she were. And she always loved that song by Rihanna, 412 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,040 Speaker 3: shine Bright like a Diamond, and that's what we He 413 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 3: made sure we engraved on her attunement that says shine 414 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,919 Speaker 3: bright like a diamond. It was very hard because of 415 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,719 Speaker 3: the simple fact is that you know who wants to 416 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 3: lose that daughter at thirty two. 417 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: In December twenty thirteen, while the police were still compiling 418 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: their case against Tevon Graham, a man came forward to 419 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,399 Speaker 1: the police with some information. This man was Tevan's stepbrother. 420 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 1: Earlier that year, he and Teyvon had both been in 421 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: Miami's Federal Detention Center on separate, unrelated charges. He claimed 422 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: that one day Tavon had confessed his shooting Lawns after 423 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 1: failing to kill Vincent. 424 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 2: Said that Tamon told him that he shot the girl 425 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 2: because he wanted to see blood and there was no witnesses. 426 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 2: He wanted to make sure there was no witnesses and 427 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 2: that he used a gun provided to him by his stepbrother. 428 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,679 Speaker 1: This was an important fact. The police had found multiple 429 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: bullets casings on the scene, casings which clearly showed two 430 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 1: different guns had been used, and no actual weapons had 431 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: been found. Now, Tavon's stepbrother said he had given Tavon 432 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: a gun, a gold gun with a red laser. 433 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 2: According to tay Bond's conversation with his brother is that 434 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 2: the gun jam and the magazine fell out from the 435 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 2: first weapon, and he was able to treat the second 436 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 2: weapon from the driver and fired. Chased them halfway, but 437 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 2: then he realized, okay, he's god, let me just shoot 438 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 2: up the car, and that's what he did. 439 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: Tavon stepbrother's statement did two things. It corroborated the physical 440 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: evidence the police had found, and it also corroborated the 441 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,360 Speaker 1: story Vincent Green had told about that night. But why 442 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: would he snitch? 443 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 2: He pretty much stated that it was wrong and didn't 444 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 2: need to shoot it as an innocent female was like 445 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 2: uncalled for. But there's also this theory that he was 446 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 2: afraid of him though oh, I mean he was afraid 447 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 2: of Taybar. I think there was that fear that Tehlan 448 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 2: would get out of prison, they did start killing some 449 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 2: of the people who may have knowledge of this particular incident. 450 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 1: With the stepbrother's new information, the police now had an 451 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: alleged confession backed by Vincent Green's story about the night 452 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: and two witnesses identifying Tavon in the car shortly before 453 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: the shooting, and so in twenty fourteen they drew up 454 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: in a restawrant, but the warrant wasn't executed, It wasn't 455 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: even submitted to a judge. 456 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 2: I can never really quite get why. I spoke to 457 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 2: the lead detective at the time, and he riatho much 458 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 2: said that the state was every usself about having enough 459 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,679 Speaker 2: to move forward with the case. The only thing I 460 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 2: can say that one might have kept that from moving forward. 461 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 2: The only thing I could think of was at meeting 462 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 2: what the state attorneys, and they said, we don't have 463 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 2: enough right now. 464 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: Burden of proof is an important part of the American 465 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 1: justice system because there's a difference between what the police 466 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: need to make an arrest and what the prosecution needs 467 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: in the courtroom to prove guilt to a jury. 468 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 2: Our threshold to make an arrest is marble cause the 469 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 2: state attorney's thresshold is beyond the reason about We get 470 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 2: frustrated because it's like, hey, this is what we have, 471 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 2: and the state attorney is like, h the story is 472 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 2: missing a few pieces. You need more. Why would this 473 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 2: person do this? Who would do this? What about this? 474 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 2: What about that? It's so many different questions we have 475 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 2: to answer before we get bring this before a jury, 476 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 2: go back and work on this case. Right. 477 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Jackson thinks this is what must have hampered the arrest, 478 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 1: warrant and the state's pursuit of charges because, for reasons 479 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: he can't fully explain, work on Lawrence's case seemed to 480 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: come to a halt. It was, for all intents and 481 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: purposes cold. There was one, however, who hadn't stopped working 482 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: on the case, who hadn't stopped thinking about it. Every 483 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: single day. 484 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 3: I sent over six hundred emails I did. I had to. 485 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 3: You gotta trust the police, you gotta help make sure 486 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 3: they be held accountable. 487 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: To Natrice didn't know how close detectives had come to 488 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: making an arrest, or that the investigation was now stalled. 489 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: She just knew nobody was getting back to her. So 490 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: the trice it felt like they didn't care about Lawrence. 491 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 1: So Although she may have stopped hearing from the police, 492 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: the police didn't stop hearing from her. 493 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 3: I had to be the one to contact them, you know, 494 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 3: over and over and over things like that. You got 495 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 3: to allow the detectives to do their job, but at 496 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 3: the same time, you got to let them know that 497 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 3: you are a family member that's not going to give 498 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 3: up no matter what, You're not going to give up. 499 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: That Persisi since eventually paid off. In December twenty sixteen, Jackson, 500 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: who was now a sergeant in the homicide unit, was 501 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: asked to take a look at Lawrence's case. He hadn't 502 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: been involved in it since he'd driven Vincent Green to 503 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: the station for his interview the day she was shot 504 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: back in July twenty thirteen, but he was about to 505 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: be so. 506 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 2: My lieutenant at the time. He called me and he says, listen, 507 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 2: take a look at this case. I don't think there's 508 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 2: anything in it. But we have this woman, the mother, 509 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 2: she calls every day. I want you to deal with her, 510 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 2: and I want you to just reassign the case and 511 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 2: just see, you know, where it goes. It was almost 512 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 2: like him telling me, I don't want to deal with her. 513 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 2: You deal with her and whatever you can do, do 514 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 2: if you can't can't do it. 515 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: That mother, of course, was the Trice. Now more than 516 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: three years since he'd reported to the scene of the 517 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: shooting in Liberty City. On that warm summer night, Jackson 518 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: took another look at Lawrence's case. He wasn't expecting much, but. 519 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 2: Once I went back to really take a look at him, 520 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 2: to all the statements reading before I realized, Man, I 521 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 2: feel like we got a case here. 522 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: He reached out to the trees and listened to what 523 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,719 Speaker 1: she had to say. This is Christian Is. 524 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 2: She's wonderful because she kept the foot on the pedal. 525 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 2: She would not let my bosses forget about this case. 526 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 2: She will email whatever she needed to email. She will 527 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 2: email the state attorney to make sure that they were 528 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 2: putting pressure on us. She was calling there every single day. 529 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 2: She was not going to allow this case to go 530 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 2: cold forever. 531 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 3: Nothing was done until twenty sixteen when Sergeant Jackson came on. 532 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 3: When Sergeant Jackson came on the scene in two thousand 533 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:03,800 Speaker 3: and sixteen is when it started to progress and it 534 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 3: did stop. He worked hard on this case, very hot 535 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 3: on this case, and I commend him for that. But 536 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 3: It's just just a heartbreaking part of it to know 537 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 3: that this is a case that could have been starved. 538 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 3: Long timical, long timical. 539 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: By twenty seventeen, Roger Jackson, who was a sergeant at 540 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: the time, was fully invested in solving la Rons's case, 541 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: a case that had been sitting idle in the Miami 542 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: Police Department's files for the past three years. 543 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 2: Any extra time I had, I would spend, you know, 544 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 2: following up on this case, trying to piece it together. 545 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 2: The work was already done. It was just need facilitating 546 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 2: certain days, maybe going back and reinterview certain people, following 547 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 2: up with people, making sure that the DNA he sent 548 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 2: out to ram just kind of piece the days together. 549 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: He also caught an early break. 550 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 2: We also received a letter from inmate and apparently he 551 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 2: was with Tabor Graham at a facility of Florida. 552 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: In the years after Lawrence's death. Tavon Graham had been 553 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,959 Speaker 1: arrested for a probation violation on an unrelated charge and 554 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: sent to federal prison in Central Florida. The inmate had 555 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: met Tavon there and Jackson was curious about what he 556 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: had to say, so. 557 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 2: I said, Okay, well, I'll go pay the visit. So 558 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 2: I went up to the Federal Penitentiary and I had 559 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 2: a conversation with him. 560 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: This man said that one day in twenty fifteen, he 561 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: and Tavon had been in the prison library together. Almost offhandedly, 562 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: Tavon told him what had happened in Miami two years earlier. 563 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 1: Tevon said he'd convinced a guy he knew to drive 564 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: him to meet Vincent green because Vincent owed him some money, 565 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,480 Speaker 1: but that was just a ruse. Tavon just wanted to 566 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: kill Vincent, so as soon as he saw him, he 567 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: shot at him, and then he shot Laurent's web multiple times. 568 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 2: He said that she's the only person that could have 569 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,720 Speaker 2: ideed him. He was happy when she ultimately passed away. 570 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: Jackson had looked at the case with a careful eye, 571 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 1: and he wondered if Vincent Greene himself also might have 572 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 1: more to say to me. 573 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:31,239 Speaker 5: The key is finding out what you miss, revisiting some 574 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 5: of your witnesses, because they may remember things now that 575 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,319 Speaker 5: they may not remembered back then, but they're not going 576 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 5: to be proactive in contact to you. 577 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 2: That's number one. Number two, they may be more cooperative 578 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:50,439 Speaker 2: now than before because being a witness can be hard, right. 579 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,399 Speaker 2: You're afraid, you know, if this person's gonna come back 580 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:53,840 Speaker 2: after me. 581 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: They're worried. Jackson's instincts were right. 582 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 2: I wanted to reinterview the and when I met with him, 583 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 2: he was very cooperative. 584 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: I didn't think he was going to be that cooperative 585 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: he was this time. Vincent Green identified Tevon Graham by 586 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 1: name as the man who tried to shoot him and 587 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 1: did shoot La Rons the night of July twenty ninth, 588 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,919 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. He later explained why it took him so long. 589 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: He was afraid of Tevon and what he might do 590 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,120 Speaker 1: to him, and he also didn't want to be seen 591 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,360 Speaker 1: as a snitch. The police had never located the guns 592 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 1: that were used that night, and the only place Tavon's 593 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,800 Speaker 1: DNA had been found was in the White Crown Victoria, 594 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: a car Tevon admitted to driving. Still, Jackson felt confident 595 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:39,760 Speaker 1: they had enough for an arrest warrant. 596 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,080 Speaker 2: There's no da NAW on the same boat we do. 597 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,959 Speaker 2: I also know that he was Warank Gloves right now. 598 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 2: We do know that's his vehicle. We do have his 599 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 2: brother's statement. We do have the statement right before the shooting. 600 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 2: The ex wife of the trooper who identified him as 601 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 2: getting into the job aside rear passenger to see putting. 602 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 1: Those There was also this statement from the witness who 603 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,440 Speaker 1: knew Tavon personally and had seen him getting in the car, 604 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,359 Speaker 1: and the alleged confessions he'd given both his stepbrother and 605 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 1: the other inmate, and of course the statement from Vincent 606 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: Green himself saying it was Tavon who shot at him, 607 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 1: and that it was Tavon who'd answered Lawrence's phone that 608 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 1: night telling him his girl was still alive. 609 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 2: So there's solely different moving pieces here that are connects 610 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 2: to mister ground. We're able to put together a case 611 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,320 Speaker 2: enough for the state to move onward. 612 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,320 Speaker 1: This time the warrant was signed and executed. Tavon Graham, 613 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 1: who had been out of federal prison since April twenty seventeen, 614 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 1: was arrested by Miami police in May twenty eighteen. He 615 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 1: was charged with one count of murder and one count 616 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,719 Speaker 1: of attempted murder. But now there was the trial, and 617 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 1: trials can be unpredictable. Stories can change, Witnesses may not 618 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,359 Speaker 1: show up or may not remember details clearly. They may 619 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,759 Speaker 1: have ulterior motives for testifying it may or may not 620 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: be believed by a jury. There's a lot that can 621 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,840 Speaker 1: change for how you think a case will go. And 622 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 1: even with all the evidence the prosecution had, there was 623 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: still a big question. Why was Taevon shooting at Vincent 624 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,920 Speaker 1: in the first place, and why did he want him dead? 625 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,359 Speaker 1: In this case, the reason is complicated. We don't know 626 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 1: all the nuances and probably never will. But according to Vincent, 627 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 1: he'd first met Tavon at a halfway house in January 628 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,800 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. They had been sent there after being released 629 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,759 Speaker 1: from federal custody. Vincent said he helped Tavon out, giving 630 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,720 Speaker 1: him some clothes and some cash. He said they became friends. 631 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 2: There's a few motives and theories when it comes to that. 632 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:53,480 Speaker 2: We know that Miston, Grain and Avon became close with 633 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:54,719 Speaker 2: another gentleman. 634 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,120 Speaker 1: This other gentleman was also living at the halfway house, 635 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 1: and according to Vincent, both he and Tavon had developed 636 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,400 Speaker 1: a sexual relationship with him. Vincent said Tavon became jealous 637 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: of this, especially when rumors started going around about it. 638 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,600 Speaker 1: Vincent later said this is why he and Tavon decided 639 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,400 Speaker 1: to meet up the night of July twenty ninth, twenty 640 00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:21,840 Speaker 1: thirteen to specifically discuss the rumors, the relationship, the jealousy. 641 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,920 Speaker 2: Now to day of the incident. There was some text 642 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 2: messages exchanged Green mister Graham and mister Green was apparently 643 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,399 Speaker 2: Graham was upset at him about some then that's what theory, right. 644 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,840 Speaker 2: There's also this other theory Taymy Graham, I wrecked the 645 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 2: vehicle aloneing to a girlfriend of another girlfriend of mister 646 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:48,160 Speaker 2: Greed and owed him some money. It was just this 647 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:53,160 Speaker 2: whole maze of just conflict, right, so could have pinpoint 648 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,880 Speaker 2: the conflict, but we do know there was some motive 649 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,920 Speaker 2: within those two because of the conflict. 650 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,719 Speaker 1: Vincent Green never mentioned his sexual relationships with men in 651 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 1: those first interviews with police, but he did eventually acknowledge 652 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,399 Speaker 1: it as the team was prepping for trial where he'd 653 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 1: testify against Tevon Graham. 654 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,520 Speaker 2: We weren't concerned that the defense was going to zeray 655 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 2: in on that fact that A. You didn't mention x waze, 656 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:21,919 Speaker 2: you didn't mention that you have relations where the men 657 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 2: and doing our prep for trial, he said, listen, that 658 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,360 Speaker 2: was personal choice, he said, my mom didn't even know 659 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,120 Speaker 2: at the time, and I didn't want anybody to know, so, yeah, 660 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,440 Speaker 2: I left that fact out, So that was very powershble. 661 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:41,000 Speaker 1: The trial began on July tenth, twenty twenty three, almost 662 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,640 Speaker 1: exactly a decade after Lawrence was shot. The jury her 663 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:48,280 Speaker 1: testimony from Vincent Green, from Lieutenant Jackson, from the neighbor 664 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,400 Speaker 1: who identified Teavon putting gloves on, and many others. On 665 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,480 Speaker 1: July eighteenth, Tavon Graham was brought to the stand under oath. 666 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,640 Speaker 1: He categorically denied everything that had been said about him 667 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 1: and his involvement in the murder. He said he didn't 668 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,439 Speaker 1: have beef with Vincent. In fact, he barely knew him. 669 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,479 Speaker 1: He said Vincent had never given him money. He said 670 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,879 Speaker 1: he'd never been in a relationship with the man, and 671 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 1: that he hadn't been jealous of Vincent. He said he 672 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,360 Speaker 1: didn't meet up with Vincent that night in July twenty thirteen, 673 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,040 Speaker 1: that in fact, his car, the White Crown Victoria, was 674 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,439 Speaker 1: parked in an entirely different neighborhood. He said he had 675 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 1: never shot at Vincent, that of course he didn't shoot lawns. 676 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: He said he'd never confessed to his stepbrother or the 677 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,680 Speaker 1: other inmate. In fact, he said he'd never even met 678 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,200 Speaker 1: this inmate never seen him before in his life. In 679 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,080 Speaker 1: Tavon's account, on the evening of July twenty ninth, twenty thirteen, 680 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,960 Speaker 1: he'd gone to the barber shop. He'd then spend the 681 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,240 Speaker 1: rest of the night at his grandfather's house playing video games. 682 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,840 Speaker 1: The State of Florida Versus Tavon Graham went to the 683 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:57,000 Speaker 1: jury on July nineteenth, twenty twenty three. They deliberated for 684 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,840 Speaker 1: around three hours before they came back with a verdict. 685 00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,360 Speaker 1: Tevon was found guilty of first degree murder and attempted 686 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,560 Speaker 1: first degree murderer. The trace was there when the verdict 687 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,680 Speaker 1: was read. She had been at everything. 688 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 3: I was at every hearing, every hearing. I didn't move 689 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,480 Speaker 3: when the judge broke for whatever reason. That's the only 690 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,919 Speaker 3: time that I would get up and walk out. Other 691 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:30,800 Speaker 3: than that, oh no, I stayed for everything. It was 692 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:35,920 Speaker 3: a feeling that I can't really describe to you, because 693 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 3: it was so overwhelming to be able to sit in 694 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:49,320 Speaker 3: their courtroom every day, and to hear testimony at the testimonies, 695 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:57,560 Speaker 3: and to be able to see him like has no 696 00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 3: regards to human life. 697 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,880 Speaker 1: Now, as the verdict was in, it was time for 698 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,160 Speaker 1: the sentencing. One of the prosecutors asking Natrees to give 699 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,759 Speaker 1: an impact statement to the judge. In it, she expressed 700 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,800 Speaker 1: the pain of losing her daughter, how she's still grieving 701 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,719 Speaker 1: Laurns's absence, but how beautiful the thirty two years they 702 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,960 Speaker 1: had together were. She also had a message for Tivon 703 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:20,840 Speaker 1: Graham directly. 704 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:26,919 Speaker 3: I said to him, I don't know you. I don't 705 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:31,160 Speaker 3: know anything about you. And I said one thing for sure, 706 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:37,120 Speaker 3: I can never bring my daughter back. Nothing that I 707 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,799 Speaker 3: could do to bring my daughter back, I say, But 708 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,920 Speaker 3: what I can say to you is that you have life. 709 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,680 Speaker 3: You have life, and the God that we serve is 710 00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:55,160 Speaker 3: a just God. And I told him I forgave you 711 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,120 Speaker 3: a long time ago, from the beginning. And I told 712 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:02,399 Speaker 3: him I prayed for you every day, and I did. 713 00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:07,120 Speaker 3: And I know that my family and my friends may 714 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,080 Speaker 3: have thought I was crazy, but I prayed for you. 715 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,239 Speaker 1: It was a powerful moment. And then the judge read 716 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:14,840 Speaker 1: the sentence. 717 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:23,080 Speaker 3: Yet life went out, parole, Yeah, life went out parole. 718 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:28,840 Speaker 1: Tavon Graham is currently in prison. Shortly after his conviction, 719 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,120 Speaker 1: his attorney filed the motion for a new trial. He 720 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,800 Speaker 1: argued that because there was no actual physical evidence tying 721 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,760 Speaker 1: Tavon to the shooting. No DNA, no fingerprints, no gun, 722 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,560 Speaker 1: and no actual witnesses besides Vincent Green, there was no 723 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,240 Speaker 1: way the state proved he'd committed it. Tavon's lawyer also 724 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,799 Speaker 1: argued that the court aired in its response to a 725 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,800 Speaker 1: jury request during deliberation. As of the time of this recording, 726 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,120 Speaker 1: the court is still reviewing the appeal. 727 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:03,319 Speaker 3: You don't have to always remember that anytime that you 728 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 3: know a person has gone to trial, they have rights, 729 00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:12,560 Speaker 3: just like I have rights. So those are his rights 730 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,960 Speaker 3: that he could appeal this judgment. And only thing we 731 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:20,440 Speaker 3: can do or that I could wisdom mother, it's continue 732 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:25,160 Speaker 3: to pray and trust God that everything will come back 733 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,879 Speaker 3: afar and that's all I can do. 734 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,719 Speaker 1: Next time, on Cold Case Files Miami, we speak with 735 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,879 Speaker 1: Miami Dade State Attorney Catherine Fernandez Rundel, where she gives 736 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,560 Speaker 1: us a look at what happens behind the prosecution. 737 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,799 Speaker 3: They will do whatever it takes on behalf of these 738 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,919 Speaker 3: victims to go to court and fight for them, fight 739 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,640 Speaker 3: for the voiceless and for the powerless. 740 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,880 Speaker 1: If you have information to share on any cold case, 741 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,440 Speaker 1: please call her, send in a tip with your local 742 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,560 Speaker 1: crime stoppers or Law Enforcement Department in Miami. 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