1 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A beautiful thirty one year 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: old Neeliewad is dead. But why Crime Stories with Nancy 3 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: Grace Take a listen to this. Everyone I've heard from 4 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: is shocked to learn that it was her body found 5 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: here in a parking lot near Mountain Brook High School. 6 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: They tell me she was loved by everyone. However, the 7 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: past year had been especially rocky for Montgomery. In February, 8 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: she was involved in what was reported as an argument 9 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: over a handgun with her husband, who at the time 10 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: was a Hoover police officer, that resulted in a gunshot 11 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: wound to her arm. The next month, she placed her 12 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: a straining order against him, and today I learned she 13 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: had just gotten over that gunshot wound to her arm 14 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: last month. I spoke with the coroner today. He isn't 15 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: releasing the cause of death at this time. I also 16 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: spoke with the Jefferson County District Attorney. He tells me 17 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: no formal charges have been filed now. Tommy Spina, the 18 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: suspects attorney, tells me he's the one who worked out 19 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: a deal to surrender his client with police today. Okay, 20 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: I don't quite understand that you've got a dead thirty 21 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: one year old Megan Montgomery by gunshot wound but no 22 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: charges filed. Again, I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. 23 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation 24 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: in series XM one eleven. We want answers joining me. 25 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: Jesse Evans, forming Deputy Chief Assistant DA joining us out 26 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: of Cobb County. He's the author of Laws of Leadership 27 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: and you can find him at Jesse dot Evans thirty one. 28 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: Karen Stark, renowned New York psychologists, joining us from Manhattan. 29 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 1: You can find her at Karen Stark dot com. With 30 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: a see doctor Kendall Crowns, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Travis County, Texas. 31 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: That's Austin and former police chief in John's Creek. Chris 32 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: Buyers now at Chris Buyer's Investigations and polygraph dot com. 33 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: But first to Nicole parton Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter. 34 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: You know, Nicole, it seems to never end. But what 35 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: I want to ask about first is how did Megan Montgomery, 36 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: beautiful young woman end up getting shot in the arm. Nancy, 37 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: this story so sad. It goes back to a fairytale beginning. 38 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: Proposed to on the beach wedding of her dreams in 39 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: New York and only wait a minute, wait a minute, 40 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: I've seen that photo, Nicole Parton, Man, you really know 41 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 1: how to tell a story, because I immediately remembered the 42 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: photo of Megan getting engaged on the beach and she's 43 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: holding up her hand showing off a beautiful, a big 44 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: I remember it in detail because it struck me. A 45 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: big round engagement ran a big round diamond with like 46 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: pavey diamonds around it, just right beautiful. And she was 47 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 1: so happy. Okay, sorry for that deviation, Go ahead, Nicole, 48 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: so super happy they couldn't wait to get married. They 49 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: head back home to Alabama from the beach, run to 50 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: the courthouse, get married a few months later, her dream 51 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: wedding in New York City. Only months after that, comes 52 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: in and thirty one year old Megan has been shot 53 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: in the arm, her bone shattered by her husband's pistol 54 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: bullet entering in, exiting out, shattering her bone. Fourteen pins 55 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: A plate put in her arm to recover. All of 56 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: this the first of many domestic problems. Okay, waite a minute, 57 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: and waite a minute. I need to go to I'm 58 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: gonna I gotta go to a doctor on this. What 59 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: is she saying, Doctor Kendall Crowns joining me, Deputy Chief 60 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: Medical Examiner, Travis County, Texas. That's Austin, doctor Crowns. What 61 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: does that mean? Fourteen pins in your arm? That can't 62 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: be good? Now. What it is is when an arm 63 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: is shattered like hers was with the gunshot wound her humorus, 64 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: which is the arm. The bone in your arm was 65 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: completely severed in half, and what they had to do 66 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: was put a metal plate to bring the bones back 67 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: together and then put screws actually into the bone to 68 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: fix that place in that plate in place. So fourteen 69 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: pins is fourteen screws holding that plate to keep her 70 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: arm back together again so the arm won't grow back naturally. 71 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: I agree it was. It was broken in the In 72 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: the X rays that I saw, it was completely set 73 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: in half. So your your bone might be able to 74 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: kind of bring it back together, but structurally it wouldn't 75 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: be sound and it would just rebreak. So by bringing 76 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: it back together surgically and putting the pins in it 77 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 1: will heal more properly. Trying to understand fourteen pins in 78 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: your arm, what would she have gone through when that 79 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: bullet shattered her arm. So what would have happened is 80 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:30,840 Speaker 1: it broke her arm and half basically, and she would 81 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: have been unable to move it. She would have been 82 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: in intense pain. And then her arm would just kind 83 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: of be sitting there flopping because the muscles wouldn't be 84 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: attaching correctly and things of that nature, so she wouldn't 85 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: really be able to move it right and she would 86 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: be really in a lot of pain. To you, Nicole 87 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: apart and what were you saying? I interrupted right at 88 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: the fourteen pins in her arm. But that was the beginning. 89 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: That was the beginning of the abuse that was at 90 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: least documented, and things went down from there. That argument 91 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: apparently stemming over allegations that he became jealous of something. 92 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: His story, her story, her saying to the doctor he 93 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: shot me, him saying, I thought I was grabbing her 94 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 1: cell phone. I didn't realize there was a gun involved. Okay, 95 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: hold on, just a moment. So he says he was 96 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: grabbing a cell phone right and didn't know it was 97 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: a gun, right, Okay. Let me go to Jesse Evans, 98 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: former Deputy Chief Assistant DA in Cobb County in Major 99 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: Crimes homicide coal case Unit Chief. That's not easy. Author 100 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: of Laws of Leadership, Jesse Evans, thank you so much 101 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: for being with us. Did you just hear that he 102 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 1: told the arriving officers Jesse that he thought it was 103 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: a cell phone, but oh, it was a gun and 104 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: he pulled the trigger. Help me. Makes no sense to 105 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: me for as a prosecutor. That's a pretty shocking statement 106 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: to responding officers. And um, you know, listen, we know 107 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: that defendants are going to make statements that are self 108 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: serving in nature. But it's our job as prosecutors to 109 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: sort of weed through those things. Uh. You know, she 110 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: made a statement to doctors that he shot me. Um, 111 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: so it's pretty shocking that he would make a statement 112 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: like that, an assertion that clearly is not borne out 113 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: by the evidence. And Jesse, that's something I would look 114 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: forward to. Yes, man, Jesse, I'm not a judge. Okay, 115 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: you don't have to talk to me like your illegal brief. Jesse. 116 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: He's lying, he's lying, Jesse. Absolutely, a D a M 117 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: and cell phone, Like this is a cell phone. It's 118 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: not a gun. There's not a trigger, a pull. That's 119 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: total b s. Absolutely, it's a lie, Jesse. It's a 120 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: total lie and one that we as prosecutors would look 121 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: forward to meeting in court. We deal with those kind 122 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: of lines all the time, and uh, it's one that 123 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: you just look to sink ut too when you get 124 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: to the courtroom. And now she's dead. Now she's dead. 125 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: And let me go back to you, Nicole Parton, can 126 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,559 Speaker 1: you tell the rest of the staff who answered that call? 127 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: Who answered the nine one one call? His coworkers. He 128 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: was part of the Hoover County Police Department, so these 129 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: people knew him. He knew this police department well, and 130 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: they took the call, they came out, and coincidentally, there 131 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: were no charges filed against him, even though she suffered 132 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,559 Speaker 1: this horrific gunshot wound to the arm. And let me 133 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: ask you this, Nicole Parton, what if any injuries did 134 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: he suffer. He had no injuries in this particular incident. 135 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: There was nothing at all wrong with him. She suffered 136 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: all of the abuse from this gentleman. He did not 137 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: suffer anything from this incident. Also, I would just like 138 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: to point out that she has the gunshot under her arm. 139 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,199 Speaker 1: If she's struggling over a gun, you would think it 140 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: would be not in her arm. It's almost like the 141 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: gun would have had to have been pointed backwards to 142 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: have gotten the injury she got. You know what, Doctor 143 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: Kendall Crowns, there you go talking sense again. That's not 144 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: fitting into the defendant's scenario. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, Guys, 145 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: we are talking about a really gorgeous young girl, thirty 146 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: one year old Mega Montgomery now did and it all 147 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: started with a NIM one one call where she has 148 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 1: shot her arm totally disabled, just shattered. She needed fourteen 149 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: pins in it to get it back together, would never 150 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: heal on its own. Yet, isn't it true? Nicole parton 151 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 1: that somehow in that police report, wasn't she the one 152 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: deemed to be the aggressor? Absolutely so. After statements were 153 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: taken by both parties, the final conclusion was that it 154 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: was kind of a mutual argument that the two had 155 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: had and that she was the aggressor. She's five eight, 156 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five pounds. Jason McIntosh six four, 157 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty five pounds, But they say she's 158 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: the aggressor and it's her fault that her arm is shattered. Okay. 159 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: Chris Buyers, former police chief John's Craig. Now at Chris 160 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: Buyer's investigations in polygraph I want to just chew a 161 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: nail in half right now, because those cops let this happen. 162 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: She was no more the aggressor than the man in 163 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: the moon and that scenario. And I'll tell you why. 164 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: They said that, because he would lose his job on 165 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: the force in law enforcement. It was deemed he had 166 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: been the aggressor. So guarantee you he convinced her to 167 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: lie so he could keep his job. Yeah, absolutely, he 168 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: would have definitely lost his job. And what's even more 169 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: confusing to me as I read about this, Hoover Police 170 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: Department turned the case over to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, 171 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,439 Speaker 1: so basically they turned it over to the state so 172 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: that there wouldn't be any of the things we're talking about, 173 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: like they were covering for him. So clearly she had 174 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: to have told them something to take the focus away 175 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: from him being the aggressor in this, because you would 176 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: hope that once it's turned over to the state, it's 177 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: not turned over to his colleagues, that a thorough, accurate 178 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: investigation would be done. But clearly we see that that's 179 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: not what happened. Not what happened at all. As a 180 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 1: matter of fact, Chief Buyers, if a cop is found 181 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: to be guilty in a commission of a crime, it's over. 182 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: Not only do they get fired, they lose whatever police 183 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: they're gonna have. They're disgraced. Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely, and 184 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: singers of doing internal affairs investigations and then become being 185 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: a police chief. I mean that's you know, these are 186 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: the things that take you out of the job. Once 187 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: you get this, you're disgraced. You can never be certified again. 188 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: So that's exactly what happened in this. I believe he 189 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: convinced her to lot so he could keep his job. 190 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: There's no coming back from that. And to you, Jesse Evans, 191 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 1: there are very few things that I hate more than 192 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: a dirty cop, because not only are they committing a crime, 193 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 1: but they're ruining the justice system. They are disgracing Lady Justice. 194 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: And I remember the first time it really hit me, Jesse. 195 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: I had put together, along with Atlanta Vice, a case 196 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: against a child prostitution ring and I worked so hard 197 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,439 Speaker 1: on that case. The little girl, the main witness is 198 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: just thirteen, ran away the day before trial. I was 199 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: out till five am in the morning and my car 200 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: trying to find her. We found her by the way, 201 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: and I worked very closely with three vice cops. I mean, 202 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 1: every day in every flop house and drugged in stripper joint, 203 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: you name it, trying to find these guys and find 204 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: this girl. All right, the conviction happened fast forward. Jesse. 205 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: You know a year I was in the DA's office working. 206 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: I looked up. I was walking through I think the 207 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,719 Speaker 1: records room, somebody that had a TV. I looked up 208 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: and there was a sketch from a sketch artist in 209 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: federal court. You know, they're horrible. You can't tell who 210 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: the sketches, They're always terrible. And I went, wow, that 211 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: looks just like the investigator, the detective on the child 212 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: prostitution ring. Well, then the Caroin came up on the 213 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,839 Speaker 1: bottom third. It was him and as two buddies. The 214 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: three the four of us said were in that case. 215 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: They had been Jesse going into dopers homes and stealing 216 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: their plasma TV, their dope, ropes, their goal chains, their money, 217 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: their dope, stealing it during these stings. And they finally 218 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: it was so bad. The dopers complained to the fans 219 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: that's bad. And the fans did a sting on them 220 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: and caught them on video. I believe robbing dopers. I 221 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: was stunned these three vice cops. I thought I knew 222 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: so well. We spent day after day after day together 223 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: working the case out on the street, and they were 224 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: dirty and I didn't even pick up on it. Nancy, 225 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: nother makes me more angry than dirty cop. I couldn't 226 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: agree with you more. You hit the nail on the head. 227 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: We entrust our law enforcement officers to protect us. They're 228 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: supposed to be protecting us in our homes, in our community. 229 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: I think the only thing that makes me more angry 230 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: than a dirty cop is a dirty, abusive cop. And 231 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: this is just a shocking breakdown that you have in 232 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: this particular case, and it was totally prevatible. Well, everybody, 233 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: I hope you're sitting down. I'm gonna play for you 234 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: some video from our friend Kate Snow and you're gonna hear. 235 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: You're gonna hear the defendant in this case threatening his wife. 236 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut. Number five. Megan's marriage 237 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: to former police officer Jason McIntosh was violent. Megan recorded 238 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: him threatening her. She knew if she left she would 239 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: be killed. That's why she didn't leave. One night in 240 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: February twenty nineteen, Suzanne says Megan took her husband's gun 241 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: to protect herself when she heard him coming towards her. 242 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: She went towards the door with the gun to keep 243 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: him away, and she said, the next thing, I know 244 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: him on the floor and I'm shot. Megan's arm was shattered. 245 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: The police who responded McIntosh's colleagues on the local force, 246 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: so Alabama's state Law Enforcement Agency took over, seizing the 247 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: gun as evidence. We win got through straining order. She 248 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: got through straining order, but after Megan moved into her 249 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: own apartment later in twenty nineteen, the Alabama Law Enforcement 250 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: Agency returned Jason McIntosh's gun to him. Did you hear 251 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: what he was saying to her? And I'm quoting him? 252 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: Laugh now, bitch, and I take that first cut off 253 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: your cheek. I don't know if you heard that. Um, 254 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: take a listen now to Andrew john Y our friends 255 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: at ABCR cut ten. She also included this video of 256 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: her husband, Jason McIntosh making threats with a gun. Ever, 257 00:16:49,320 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: what always McIntosh's attorney, Tommy Spina, says he range for 258 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: Macintosh to surrender to Mountain Brooke police Monday. If you 259 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: were listening carefully, what he is saying is and there's 260 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 1: actual video of this. Stop stop listen to me. Don't 261 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: ever play games with me, okay, because I will always win. 262 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: And he points the gun at her and says, because 263 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: I don't give a either A or the F word. 264 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: I mean, Karen's tark. This woman knows he will beat her, 265 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: and he's threatening to cut her face and pointing a 266 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: gun at her and saying, don't play games with me 267 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: because I'll always win. And he points the gun at her, 268 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: and they give the gun back to him. It's outrageous, Nancy. 269 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: It is so outrageous because they were club police for clubs. 270 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: There were a number of incidents of domestic violence where 271 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: it at someone I was straining. She moved into her 272 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: own apartment. She posted online things that he had sensed 273 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: her text messages which said this is what happens when 274 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: you're an abusive relationship. She was really trying to get 275 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: her life back together and he had to control her. 276 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: And how in the world anybody would give a gun 277 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: back when there's a restraining order protection is postly protecting her. 278 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: It's the most outrageous thing. She was a courageous woman 279 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: who tried. Really, you don't hear a lot of abuse 280 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: situations where the person is able to move out and 281 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: try and start their life again, but she did try. 282 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we were talking about 283 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 1: the gunshow death of a beautiful thirty one year old woman. 284 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: They could totally have been avoided had the Hoover Law 285 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: enforcement brain trust not decided to return the gun to 286 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: a domestic terrorist beating and threatening his own wife. It's 287 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: even caught on video. He's already shot her once in 288 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 1: the arm. Was that not enough warning? Take a listen 289 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,679 Speaker 1: to our cut eight. This is Bryan Douglas w VTM, 290 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: NBC thirteen. Chief Ted Smith says she was shot in 291 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: the head and in the back. He also says evidence 292 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: shows she was most likely shot in the parking lot 293 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 1: of the Mountain Brook Athletic Complex over the weekend. Her 294 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: body found later by an officer patrolling courtyard. Oysterbar is 295 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: one of the last places Montgomery was seen. Investigators say 296 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,640 Speaker 1: witnesses with Montgomery saw Macintosh approach her table before voluntarily 297 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 1: leaving with him. I could confirm that we had video 298 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: from courtyard to it that shows mister McIntosh come into 299 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: the facility, go up to a table with multiple people 300 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: at it, including miss Montgomery, leaned down some type of 301 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: exchange with her, some type of exchange with some of 302 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 1: the other people at the table. If found guilty, Macintosh 303 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 1: could face the death penalty. Join I Mean Nicole parton 304 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com investigative reporter Nicole. What exactly happened 305 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: the night that Megan mcgomery was murdered? So Megan was 306 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: with about six friends at a local oyster bar there. 307 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: Um they were out having dinner celebrating the winning football team, 308 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: and he shows up. Jason McIntosh shows up at the 309 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: oyster bar. He walks in, He places one hand behind 310 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: her neck, one hand on her shoulder. Some of the 311 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,479 Speaker 1: friends there began to say, you know, who are you? 312 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: What's going on? And he says, this is my wife. 313 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: I'm her husband and she needs to come with me. 314 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: He walks her out of the restaurant. Surveillance shows that 315 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: he's the last person with her, walks her out, puts her. 316 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: She gets in the car with him, and that's when 317 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 1: they drive to that nearby sports complex by the high school. 318 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: And that's where tragically her life ends. He beat her, 319 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: He shot her in the back, shot her multiple times 320 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: in the head. Take a listen to our cut twelve. 321 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: This is Morgan High Tower, w b R say Fox 322 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: six And the night that Megan Montgomery was killed, she 323 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: was doing what so many people in our state were doing, 324 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: and that was watching the Iron Bull. Mountain Brook Police 325 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: confirming to us that she was last seen at Courtyard 326 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 1: two eighty watching the game. When mountain Brook Police do 327 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 1: confirm to us that Jason McIntosh, her estranged husband, showed up, 328 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 1: there was some sort of interaction and then they left 329 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: together from there, and when her body was found Sunday morning, 330 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: it's just not clear what happened. Investigators have Macintosh in custody, 331 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: but he has not been charged. One of Mega Montgomery's 332 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: best friends says his last conversation with her was about 333 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: the abuse she said she suffered. John Michael says, Well, says, 334 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: I know what she's told me and what she told 335 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 1: her friends, which was that there was this level of 336 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: fear that she experienced. His friends, his best friends, were 337 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: there for him, and she didn't feel like those people 338 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: who are meant to protect her could be there for 339 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: her without some sort of a bias happening. A bias 340 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: that's light petting for a fume on the pig, A bias. 341 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: And it wasn't just the shooting in the arm incident 342 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: where he went unscathed, all his buddies walking off. I 343 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: guess they laughed on the way back to the patrol car. 344 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: Listen to our cut one. This is reporter John Papkey, 345 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: WVTN NBCT. Two months ago, police showed up after the 346 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 1: man's wife was shot during a fight in their home. 347 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: That gunfire launched a state investigation. On February twenty third, 348 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: Hoover police responded to Village Center Street and the ross 349 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: Bridge community. They found a thirty one year old woman 350 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 1: shot in the arm. Investigators claimed the gun went off 351 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: while the then officer, Jason McIntosh, and his wife were 352 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: fighting over the fire arm. She was shot in the 353 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: arm like I mentioned, but ultimately Eliah confirmed that the 354 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,199 Speaker 1: Bessemer District Attorney's office chose not to prosecute the officer. 355 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: Then yesterday officers were called to that home again and 356 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: found the wife with scrapes and red marks after a 357 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: fight with McIntosh. Now, McIntosh has been arrested and charged 358 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: with domestic violence third degree, a misdemeanor. He was booked 359 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,199 Speaker 1: into the Hoover City Jail and posted a one thousand 360 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: dollar bond an hour later. Now McIntosh resigned from the 361 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: Hoover Police Department on March twentieth. That has less than 362 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: a month after his wife was shot during net scuffle 363 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 1: in their home. So now he's back. You heard not 364 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: only about the shooting in the arm incident, but then 365 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: cops are back at the home where she is scraped 366 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,399 Speaker 1: up and bruised. But yet, Jesse Evans and I'm not 367 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: shooting here, I'm not cutting off your head. You're just 368 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: the messenger. But the DA's office chosen not to prosecute. 369 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 1: What's that about. That's insane, Nancy. These domestic cases are 370 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: so predictable. And when you see this history of violence 371 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: between somebody, listen, Megan Montgomery had a right to live 372 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: her life violence free and not terrorized by the person 373 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 1: living in her home. We as prosecutors have an obligation 374 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: to take these cases seriously because they can have the 375 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: gravest of consequences when you don't. So to say that 376 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: there's a breakdown here in the system, that will be 377 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: an understatement you know, Jesse Evans, former Deputy Chief Assistant 378 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: DA in Cobb County. They have a lot of homicize 379 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: in Cobb County because it's close to Atlanta. Long story short, 380 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: jeff See, I remember, you know, as a felony prosecutor, 381 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: you know that by the time we get a domestic 382 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: violence case, it's no longer a simple battery or a 383 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 1: shove or a push or a red mark. Somebody's dead 384 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: or they're agg assaulted. In other words, they're shot, they're stabbed, 385 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: and they lived through it. I remember distinctly, I had 386 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:25,360 Speaker 1: just gotten my own courtroom and with a great judge, 387 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: the Honorable Luther Alverson. He was the oldest judge in 388 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: the courthouse, Jesse. I don't know if you remember him. 389 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: And therefore he swore, he swore he would keep the 390 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: lowest jail count in other words, the lowest amount of 391 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 1: people in jail waiting to be tried in his courtroom. 392 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: And he always said, Miss Grace, we got to keep 393 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 1: the lights in the courtroom burning. In other words, we 394 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: were going to try cases every other week. That's how 395 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: I ended up trying so many cases, Jesse. So I 396 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: remember the first time I saw a woman She was 397 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,199 Speaker 1: a real pale looking very thin. She came into the 398 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: courtroom and she had her leg as I recall, the 399 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:14,120 Speaker 1: right leg in a cast from the hip down, walking 400 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: on crutches. I mean a full on cast. I don't 401 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: mean a boot on her foot. I mean the big, thick, 402 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: white cement looking cast. She came in with the boyfriend 403 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:34,959 Speaker 1: who had done this to her to drop charges. And 404 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: I looked at them and I questioned her about you 405 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: don't want to. It's already gone through a grand jury 406 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: in Diamond. That's why I've got it. And I said no, 407 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: And to the defendant, I said, this is not her decision. 408 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 1: She's trying to drop charges against you. I'm the one 409 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 1: that's gonna put you in jail, not her not dropping it. 410 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: So why didn't they do that? Jesse? All right, I 411 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: couldn't agree more Nancy, And I'm shocked by the decision making. 412 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 1: I always hate to second guess my peers. At the 413 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 1: same time, you have to take these domestic environment cases seriously. 414 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: The moment that you don't, they can have tragic consequences. Sure, 415 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: the victims sentiments and their wishes are always a factor, 416 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: but it's never a siding factor. For what we as 417 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: prosecutors do. And I think that there was a terrible, 418 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: terrible travesty of justice here that the prosecutors and this 419 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: wasn't just a simple battery case, as you noted, that 420 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 1: this was a case where she was actually shot. Me 421 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 1: on the idea that you would reduce those charges or 422 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: not take it to the felony level, whatever the victims 423 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 1: wishes are, that's pretty shocking to me. And as hard 424 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: as domestic violence cases may be to prosecute because of 425 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: all of the things that go along with them, sometimes 426 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 1: you have to make that tough decision as a prosecutor 427 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 1: and say the word, no, I'm not going to let 428 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: this case go. It's too serious. And while you may 429 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: not realize the full deadly consequences of what might happen 430 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: when we fail to prosecute a case, we certainly recognize 431 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: what those potential consequences are and we're going to make 432 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,640 Speaker 1: that tough decision. We should be making that tough decision 433 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: that we're going for whatever the wishes of the victim. 434 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: Maybe crime stories with Nancy Grace, guys, we were talking 435 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: about the death of a beautiful young woman, Megan Montgomery, 436 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,959 Speaker 1: was so avoidable take a listen to our cut seven. 437 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: This is NBC's reporter Kate snow Listen. More women were 438 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: killed by domestic partners with guns in twenty nineteen than 439 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: all the people who died in mass shootings that year. 440 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: What makes You the most angry? Season? Didn't nobody believe Megan? 441 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: They weren't on her side, not just Megan. Megan's story 442 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: has been repeated across this country thousands of times. Earlier 443 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: this year, Jason McIntosh pleaded guilty to murder and was 444 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 1: sentenced to thirty years. Weeks before she died, Megan said 445 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: she wanted to educate other women about the warning signs 446 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: of domestic violence. So that's what her family is doing. 447 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: Her father, Johnny, she's not allowed, but she's saving a 448 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: lot of people right now. Let me also point out 449 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: and correct me if I'm wrong to call parton Jackie. Also, 450 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: he murdered her just sixteen days after her paper ploys 451 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: give him back his gun? That's right? Is right? Only 452 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: sixteen days? Asked her? His gun is returned? And I 453 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: think it's also important to note she was doing everything right. 454 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: She filed the restraining order, she filed for divorce, she 455 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 1: moved in with her parents. Then she got her own place. 456 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: She was trying, she was in counseling for domestic abuse. 457 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: She was doing everything she could. While she was doing 458 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: everything right, he was busy texting the lead detective with 459 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, begging for his gun back, 460 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: texting the lead detective, I need my weapon. I'm going 461 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: to open a security business. I need my gun. I 462 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: need my gun. His persistence paid off, and he wound 463 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: up meeting the lead detective in a parking lot. That 464 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: lead detective handed him back his weapon. Sixteen days later, 465 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: Megan Montgomery is dead. Well, there was a third person 466 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: in that parking lot, Satan just hovering, hovering over the 467 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: moment he convinced the detective to give him back his gun. 468 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: And let me ask you something, Chris Buyer's Forum, Police 469 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: Chief John's Creek. That doesn't sound official to me. Don't 470 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: you go back to the courthouse or the DA's office 471 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: and get your property. Why do you meet in a 472 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: parking lot and somebody hands you your gun? Well, what's that? Yeah, 473 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: that's that doesn't sound right at all. It sounds like 474 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: that the Atlanta or the Alabama Investigative Department took his 475 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: weapon during the investigation of the shooting. Once he was 476 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: cleared of that and no charges were filed on that, 477 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: they should have been the one releasing that from the 478 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: evidence room. You should have been signing vouchers to take 479 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: possession back a detective meeting. You're in a parking lot 480 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: to return evidence. Is that that's shades man, You're not kidding, 481 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: Jesse Evans form a prosecutor. That's not right. I never 482 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: met a defendant in a parking lot and gave them 483 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: their weapon or their crack cocaine or their stolen property. No, yeah, absolutely, 484 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: I mean that's not the way that things are supposed 485 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 1: to happen. And let's add to it too, that there 486 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: was a restraining order as well, so whether the charges 487 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 1: were dismissed or not, there was absolutely no reason that 488 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: they should have been given back to him in the 489 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: first place, much less in a parking lot under these circumstances. 490 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: That's not how it happens. Even if there's no legal 491 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: basis to retain that firearm as evidence or because it 492 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: can't be returned to somebody because of a restraining order, 493 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 1: this is just not the way you do. We have 494 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 1: evidence rooms, we have protocols, we have forms that need 495 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: to be filled out. You have to make a chain 496 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 1: of custody, document trail of what happens with these types 497 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: of things. The idea that you would simply text the 498 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 1: lead investigator and meet him in a parking lot that 499 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: just screams shady to me. Guys, take a listen to 500 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 1: our cut number eleven. This is your Porter Stoney Sharp, 501 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: ABC thirty three SLASH forty about what happened the night 502 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: Megan is murdered. Mountain Brook police escorted Jason McIntosh into 503 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,239 Speaker 1: the county jail. He was wearing an orange jumpsuit and 504 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: his hands and feet were shackled. Being charged with capital murder. 505 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 1: No bond set for the death of Megan Montgomery, his 506 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: a strange wife. New details this morning. Megan Montgomery's final moments, 507 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: according to Mountain Brooke Pete, Montgomery, was lasting at a 508 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: bar on Highway to Wady. She with Macintosh, and police 509 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 1: now believe the couple went directly to the mountain Brook 510 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: Athletic Complex, where Montgomery was shot multiple times in the head, 511 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,479 Speaker 1: and Macintosh's attorney now tells us a restraining order was 512 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: in place, demanding both parties to stay away from each other. 513 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 1: And today Montgomery's visitation will be held in Homewood. Nicole 514 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: Parton Crime online dot Com investigative reporter was she did 515 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: I hear she was shot in the back? She was. 516 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: That's correct. She was shot in the back and then 517 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: in the head multiple times. To you, doctor Kennel Crown's 518 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: renown medical examiner, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Travis County, Doctor 519 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: Kennel Crown, she's clearly running away from him. She's shot 520 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: in the back. Yeah, that would be what It appears 521 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: that she had turned away from him and was trying 522 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: to get away. He probably shot her in the back, 523 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: dropping her to the ground, and then finished her off 524 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: by putting more into her head. Guys, take a listen 525 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: to our friend Kate Snow NBC News is our cut sakes. 526 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: I hope you're sitting down. A spokesperson for the Alabama 527 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: Law Enforcement Agency told NBC News they had no legal 528 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: justification to keep the weapon, stating the restraining order Megan 529 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: had did not restrict mister McIntosh's access to firearms, but 530 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: Alabama law specifically says no person who is subject to 531 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: a valid protection order for domestic abuse shall own a 532 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: firearm or have one in his or her possession or 533 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 1: under his or her control. The law says this person 534 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: shouldn't have a gun. Harriet so that. Lindsay Nichols is 535 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,840 Speaker 1: Federal policy director at the Gifford's Law Center. She says 536 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 1: Alabama and thirty six other states mirror a federal law 537 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 1: that says anyone convicted of a domestic violence crime or 538 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,440 Speaker 1: subject to a final restraining order is prohibited from possessing 539 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: a gun. But few states have actual procedures to track 540 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: abusers and have them surrender their firearms. The federal law 541 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 1: that says to these people are prohibited from sessing guns, 542 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: it doesn't automatically make the guns disappear out of their hands. 543 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,879 Speaker 1: It's as if the mandate is there, but there's no 544 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,799 Speaker 1: mechanics for how to implement it. That's exactly right. Well, 545 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: I can tell you this, handing over a gun to 546 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 1: a known domestic terrorists and a parking lot is not 547 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: what the statute envisions. Let's just let's just say, Jesse Evans, 548 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 1: it's not the spirit of the statute. Would you agree? Oh, 549 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: I totally agree. And here's the thing about it. You know, 550 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,880 Speaker 1: if you want to get your firearms back, and I 551 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 1: have evidence that you're a domestic abuser. You're gonna have 552 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: to fight for it. You're gonna have to get your 553 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: lawyer involved. This may be something that we as prosecutors 554 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 1: forced the court, but listen when you there's multiple ways 555 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: to take a firearm, and it's not just pending charges 556 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: or whether it's collected as evidence of a crime. The 557 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 1: existence of the restraining order, whether it is explicit about 558 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: no firearms or not, the mere existence of it should 559 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 1: be a legal basis for not returning that firearm to 560 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: abuser so that you can avoid just these kind of 561 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,919 Speaker 1: militias circumstances. They didn't see the law because they didn't 562 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: want to see the law. They didn't hear the law 563 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,720 Speaker 1: because they didn't want to hear the law. They didn't 564 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:16,360 Speaker 1: act because they didn't want to act against one of 565 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 1: their co workers. Jason Macintosh. Megan Montgomery's a strange husband 566 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:32,120 Speaker 1: and cop. Her family devastated. But all I can do 567 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 1: is give you this information. Megan's Domestic Violence Prevention Fund 568 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 1: is at CFB ham from Birmingham dot org. Slash Megan's Fund, 569 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,280 Speaker 1: National Domestic Violence Hotline eight hundred seven nine nine Safe 570 00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 1: eight hundred seven nine seven two three three Goodbye friend,