The First 48: Girl Fight / Blink of an Eye (S9, E16) | Full Episode | A&E

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[INTRO MUSIC] NARRATOR: For homicide detectives, the clock starts ticking the moment they are called. It's overkill. The kids were in the back seat. Two people gone. We got to speak for them. NARRATOR: Their chance of solving a murder is cut in half-- You do not tell me a lie. NARRATOR: --if they don't get a lead-- This is not like you're 16. You graduated now. NARRATOR: --within the first 48 hours. Ain't nothing, nothing pretty about this situation. You just messed up. [THEME MUSIC] NARRATOR: Birmingham, Alabama. 11:00 PM. [CAR HONKS] A man rushes his girlfriend into the emergency room. She has been shot in the head. Doctors try to save her, but she doesn't survive. [CLOCK TICKING] We got a couple of female being shut inside of a car. She was actually transported to the hospital in the car that she was shot in, so the car was supposed to be a crime scene. NARRATOR: Detective Cynthia Morrow is a five-year homicide veteran. [MUSIC PLAYING] OK. Let's see what we have here. [SHUTTER CLICKS] NARRATOR: According to responding officers the victim was shot once in the head. CYNTHIA MORROW: The victim was shot through the driver side window of the car. NARRATOR: The victim's boyfriend and three young children have already been transported to homicide. They were in the car with her when she was shot. CYNTHIA MORROW: Kids were in the back seat. NARRATOR: The victim is 23-year-old Rosetia Smith. She was known for her sense of humor and her devotion to her three boys. An hour in, detectives turned to the victim's boyfriend and family members at homicide. Me and my partners, we're going to talk to each one of them and see if we can identify the shooter tonight. NARRATOR: Morrow's partner, four-year homicide Detective Mike Allison, will be the lead on the case. Allison begins with the victim's seven-year-old son Christopher who is accompanied by his aunt. Come on, little man. Come over here, little man. OK? OK. Now, in your own words, you want to tell me what you saw tonight? They were hitting at your mama? All were? NARRATOR: He says some women were hitting his mother through the driver side window. What was your mama saying to them? Was she talking to them? Yeah. She was? Oh, she was. Was they saying some bad words to her, too? Oh, they did? Do you know how many came over? Was it one, or two, or more than two? More than two. OK. You saw a gun? Did you hear a gunshot and a loud noise? No. You didn't hear it? It did? All right. We'll need a minute. We will be back, right back in here. Man, that's-- Terrible. Wow. The little guy said, I just saw a gun come in and it shoot my mama in the head. And he said, the bullet fell on me. I'm not sure whether the other adults have told him that his mama was not going to be with him anymore. It's a sad story right now. NARRATOR: Louisville, Kentucky. 10:03 PM. A call comes in from an apartment complex on the south side of town. [PHONE RINGING] [SIRENS] Police respond to the scene. They find four men shot outside an apartment building. Paramedics rushed the four men to the hospital. Two survive, but the other two are pronounced dead. [CLOCK TICKING] Before I get this call I was sitting down eating a meal with my boy and about to play a game of Madden. And unfortunately we're going to have to take a rain check on the Madden. NARRATOR: Lead Detective Will Brown is a 10-year police veteran and father of two. He's going to kick my butt, but I still wanted to play. WOMAN: Oh, my god. Oh, my god. [INAUDIBLE] Hey, Thompson. What's up? We ended up with actually two that are shot and killed and two others shot. NARRATOR: The four victims, all cousins, were shot on the front porch of their grandmother's apartment building. The two surviving cousins are in stable condition at the hospital. There's also a fifth guy. He was here with them. He went into shock. Just, I guess, traumatized. NARRATOR: The fifth victim is being treated for shock at the hospital. WILLIAM BROWN: We're going to take a look at this. Oh, my god. OK. Your victim's deceased, J'Onte Johnson. And then Quentin Knighten. NARRATOR: The first deceased victim is 25-year-old J'Onte Johnson. He lived with his grandmother in the building where he was shot. The second deceased victim is 26-year-old Quentin Knighten. He and his son lived across the hall from J'Onte. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] Is that a live round here? NARRATOR: In the front yard they find a shell casing from a medium caliber handgun. Yeah, look. Right here. NARRATOR: On the porch they find projectiles from a second gun. An assault rifle. KEVIN THOMPSON: Damn. I think I got some jacket and some round back here, and that's going to be the short, narrower thing of the SKS. WILLIAM BROWN: I'm thinking we have two shooters. There's seems to be more SKS rounds and then the medium caliber shell casing. It's overkill no doubt about it. NARRATOR: Three hours in, the team gets a potential lead. Apartment on the left here. NARRATOR: Detective Kyle Willett found a woman who says she knows one of the shooters. WILLIAM BROWN: Need her to go to the office and get the information out. KYLE WILLETT: Can you give me a brief description of the events that led up to tonight? WOMAN: I received a call from my ex-husband. NARRATOR: The woman says before the shooting her ex-husband spoke to a man that may be involved. The man had just been in a fight and was angry. WOMAN: He was very, very intoxicated. That's a reference to people he was fighting with? Mm-hmm. NARRATOR: She says her ex-husband told her the man's name. OK. [MUSIC PLAYING] JON LESHER: We got Tawain Lewis. NARRATOR: Tawain Lewis, AKA, Chum is 31 years old. He has a history of trafficking a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence, fleeing and evading police all from around the area where this shooting took place. Have two victims that survived. If he's our guy, they'll be able to pick him out. NARRATOR: In the morning, detective Chris Middleton and Sergeant Aaron Crowell take a photo pack containing Chum to one of the surviving victims, Demarcus. Hey. What's up, man? You Demarcus? DEMARCUS: Yeah. Can I talk to you for a minute, partner? Where did you get hit at? Right in the hip? Where at? Boy, you got real lucky. You was sitting there minding your own business, wasn't you? NARRATOR: He says he and the four other victims were walking to a liquor store when they were confronted by a man. NARRATOR: He says, after the argument, they bought some drinks and went to their grandmother's porch to hang out. A little while later, the same man approached with a handgun. NARRATOR: He says then he noticed another man approach. He was carrying an AK-47. Yeah. NARRATOR: Demarcus says the two men started firing. He jumped up and ran. CHRIS MIDDLETON: Well, I got some pictures here I'd like for you to look at. OK? Do you recognize anybody on this paper? [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Louisville Detective Will Brown is working a shooting of four cousins that killed J'Onte Johnson and Quentin Knighten. Their potential suspect is 31-year-old Tawain Lewis, AKA Chum. Now Detective Chris Middleton is showing a photo pack to one of the surviving victims. [OMINOUS MUSIC] CHRIS MIDDLETON: That's who shot you all last night? Yeah. NARRATOR: He picks out Tawain Lewis, AKA Chum, as the shooter with the handgun. NARRATOR: He says he remembers hearing part of a nickname that Chum was calling the second shooter. NARRATOR: Meanwhile, at the hospital, the second surviving victim also picks out Chum from a photo pack, but he doesn't know the second shooter either. WILLIAM BROWN: Why do you think he was tripping? WILLIAM BROWN: I'm going to make sure they pay for this. He said that the guy has a problem with powder cocaine. And when I was in narcotics, one thing you learn is they become very paranoid, so that might have contributed to the problem. And it's just sad because just in a blink of an eye with a very nasty weapon you can take down a whole family. NARRATOR: With 18 hours gone-- It's that building there. NARRATOR: Brown meets with detectives Corey Cadwell and Kevin Trees to look for Chum at his last known address. [KNOCKS] WILLIAM BROWN: Police. NARRATOR: In Birmingham, detectives Mike Allison and Cynthia Morrow are working the case of Tia Smith shot in her car while her three children were in the back seat. Now Detective Mike Allison just learned that the shooting occurred during a fight between Tia and a group of women. Allison turns to the victim's boyfriend hoping he can explain what went down. NARRATOR: He explains that they were driving home from a friend's house when Tia spotted a car in a parking lot with four women inside. You ever seen them before? Was tonight the first time? NARRATOR: He says Tia pulled over to confront the women, but he doesn't know why. All right. NARRATOR: Tia started arguing with the women through their car windows, then the women in the other car got out. Mm-hmm. I'm not sure if we know anything more. He don't know who they were or why they were fighting. I guess that's one part of the puzzle we're still going to have to figure out. NARRATOR: Meanwhile, one of the victim's friends has come forward. She may have the answers detectives are looking for. We've got a witness up here that says she knows these girl's full names, and she knows about the beef that's been going on between the two groups. So I'm going to talk to her and see if she can give me some names. I'm going to pull up some pictures. All right. Were you present when all this happened? Tell me what you know about what's been going on. NARRATOR: She says the group of women who called had been arguing with her over a man. Tia was over at her house during the argument. OK. Did they have a problem with Rosetia? - No. - No? No. NARRATOR: She says Tia left to go home before the women came over. She thinks Tia ran into them while driving out of her neighborhood. NARRATOR: They find all four women. None of them have criminal records. It's just crazy. I mean, the victim didn't have anything to do with the beat that was going on. Didn't even know the suspect. Doesn't make any sense to me. MIKE ALLISON: We're going to come back in the morning, and try to get some good addresses on these girls, and then go pick them up. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: At 3:45 AM the team calls it a night. Thank you all very much. NARRATOR: Less than four hours later, Allison gets a call at home. We got a call. Two of the girls that were in the car have come in. NARRATOR: The two women say they want to talk. Right now they're not saying the name of the girl who had the gun. CYNTHIA MORROW: How are you doing? I'll show you [INAUDIBLE]. You're going to tell me exactly what happened? Mm-hmm. And you do not tell me a lie. OK? NARRATOR: She says that she and three other women pulled into a parking lot on the way to confront the victim's friend. A little while later, the victim drove up and started yelling at them. OK. NARRATOR: She says the car started pulling away. That's when she heard a gunshot. When did you first see the gun? All right. Now, this is where I'm going to stop. Mm-hmm. This is where you got to be careful. A child with is mother's brain splattered on his leg sitting Mm-hmm. in the back seat told me about the gun. He watched his mother get her head blown off tonight. OK? So I'm going to ask you again. When did you first see the gun? [OMINOUS MUSIC] NARRATOR: In the Birmingham shooting of Tia Smith, Detective Mike Allison is questioning one of the four alleged female suspects to find out who pulled the trigger. I'm going to ask you again. When did you first see the gun? All right. Who are we talking about that said, "I think I done shot somebody." LaQuintta? NARRATOR: She says her friend LaQuintta Turk was the shooter. And you're fighting over what? A boy, basically? You never thought that maybe we just need to just let this go? NARRATOR: In the next room the other witness confirms LaQuintta Turk as the alleged shooter. CYNTHIA MORROW: I mean, it's just crazy. It makes no sense. And of course, if you're going to fight you need to make sure everybody's on the same page and no one brings a gun to a fistfight because stuff like this can happen. And that's her. NARRATOR: 22-year-old LaQuintta Turk has never been arrested. MIKE ALLISON: I don't believe she's a cold blooded killer, but the fact remains that we got a young lady who's dead tonight. And this girl's probably responsible for it. NARRATOR: The team heads out to LaQuintta's workplace. [MUSIC PLAYING] In the Louisville double homicide of cousins J'onte Johnson and Quentin Knighten, Detective Will Brown is looking for suspect, Tawain Lewis, AKA Chum, at his apartment. WILLIAM BROWN: Police. [KNOCKS] We're going to keep on looking for him until we find him. Right now we got to identify the second shooter, and I have a fifth victim in the case. He wasn't shot, but he was shot at. And he may be my only chance of identifying the second shooter. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: The next day with less than seven hours left in the first 48 the fifth victim agrees to meet with Brown. WILLIAM BROWN: What's up, bro? I'm Detective Brown. NARRATOR: Brown hopes the man can help him track down the second shooter, but he refuses to even identify Chum. Just relax, man. No, I'm not going to get you-- man, we got two guys that got shot up that was like, man. Thank you. Two people gone. They can't speak for themselves. We got to speak for them. Man, you're giving them too much power. What makes them strong is I walked up on them. They seen my face. Me and my boy just sprayed them. I'm invincible. If you want to sit there and say, I don't know none of the guys who shot him, that's something. You got to live with that because J, and Q, you, Tawain, Demarcus didn't deserve it. NARRATOR: The victim claims he never got a look at the second shooter with the AK-47. WILLIAM BROWN: Do you think-- You almost died out there, and you don't want to put somebody away. That's what you have to deal with as a police officer. We're still at square one trying to look for our second shooter. NARRATOR: As the clock runs out both suspects are still at large. Chum, I don't think he's going to leave the city. Once we get a hold of that suspect we'll be able to figure out who was his accomplice in this horrible act. We'll catch these guys. NARRATOR: In the first 48, Louisville Detective Will Brown responded to a multiple shooting that killed J'onte Johnson and Quentin Knighten-- identified one suspect 31-year-old, Tawain Lewis, AKA Chum, but could not identify his accomplice, searched for Chum, but he was nowhere to be found. [MUSIC PLAYING] Patrol units continue the search for Chum. Four days later, the pressure pays off. Chum turns himself in. He's came with his attorney, and at this time he does not want to give a statement. So we're going to provide some of his rights and transport him over to corrections. WILLIAM BROWN: I'm a little disappointed about Chum. We're not going to get some of the answers to the questions in the case. The key to the case is us talking to people close to Chum. Try to get some insight maybe who else might have committed this crime. That's the only thing I'm worried about. This other guy that's on the streets with that weapon. An assault rifle. I want to get him off the streets. NARRATOR: In the Louisville shooting deaths of J'onte Johnson and Quentin Knighten, Detective Will Brown is charged one suspect, Tawain Lewis, AKA Chum. Now Brown is on the hunt for a second suspect. Brown spends three months searching for leads on the second shooter. Then he gets a potential break from Chum's visiting records in jail. There's an individual on the visiting log that has been to see him at least six times. We're going to go talk to this person and see if they can add anything to the case. NARRATOR: Brown is hoping Chum's friend will be willing to talk. NARRATOR A few hours later-- WILLIAM BROWN: Seandre Horsley. NARRATOR: --Brown finds Mookie in the database. Seandre Horsley just turned 18. WILLIAM BROWN: His criminal history, it's not that significant. We don't have access to juvenile records. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Brown takes a photo pack containing Horsley to Demarcus-- the surviving victim who was shot in the leg. NARRATOR: Demarcus IDs Horsley as the second shooter with the AK-47. WILLIAM BROWN: Now we can go pick him up. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: The next day, patrol picks up Horsley and brings him to headquarters. I really would like him to talk. Want him to give me some type of association with Chum. It's going to be tough. I'm Detective Brown. I'm working the Saddlebrook case. Do you remember that case? [KNOCK] Ding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. NARRATOR: Horsley admits to knowing Tawain Lewis, AKA Chum. WILLIAM BROWN: What do you know about the case, Mookie? Is Mookie not your name? OK. So nobody calls you Mookie? Why would Chum call you Mookie? Think back to when that happened. Somebody told me that you was with Chum shortly before all this went down. You know what-- you know what it is. NARRATOR: Horsley claims he doesn't hang out in the neighborhood where the shooting took place. That dog-- you hear what you just said? Can I repeat it? Yeah. Go ahead. Man, now I remember. Now I know I definitely ain't got nothing to do with it because I was over here. You either know you did it, or you know it didn't. [OMINOUS MUSIC] NARRATOR: In the Birmingham murder of 23-year-old Tia Smith, Detective Mike Allison is pursuing a suspect, 22-year-old Laquintta Turk. Now the team has arrived at Laquintta's work to take her into custody. [MUSIC PLAYING] Ready, John? You ended up with three other girls. Start at that point when you met up. NARRATOR: She confirms that they were on their way to talk to the victim's friend when they pulled over. NARRATOR: Laquintta says she and her friends jumped out of their car. NARRATOR: She says two of her friends started fighting with the victim through her car window. OK. NARRATOR: She claims that the victim's boyfriend reached under his seat for something. What did you guys do? [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: In the Birmingham shooting of a young mother, Tia Smith, Detective Mike Allison is talking to the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Laquintta Turk. And I pulled the gun. What did you guys do? OK. Tell me what was going through your mind when you pointed that gun towards her? Based on the way this situation happened, that's a capital murder offense. Now I've got your statements and all the other witnesses-- even the child that was in the back seat. OK? But I'll tell you, there's a-- there's a mother of three children dead tonight, and it's messed up. There ain't nothing, nothing pretty about this situation. All right. Her justification was that the boyfriend was reaching up under the seat, so she just pointed and fired. So I think it was just a bad decision on her part, and it's got her in a rough spot right now. At least right now she's going to be charged with murder. NARRATOR: 16 hours in, Detective Allison closes his case. In the first 48, detectives Mike Allison and Cynthia Morrow responded to the murder of Tia Smith, found out that four women were suspected to be involved in the shooting, learned Laquintta Turk was the alleged shooter, and arrested Laquintta, who admitted to pulling the trigger. [MUSIC PLAYING] The best thing that I feel that I can do for my sisters and my daddy is to take care of these boys so they can have a better life than she did because that's what she wanted. Takes a lot of love, and I think you got that. Mm-hmm. We're going to always have her memories. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: In The Louisville shooting that killed J'onte Johnson and Quentin Knighten, Detective Will Brown is interrogating Seandre Horsley, AKA Mookie, the alleged second shooter. This is not like you're 16 or 17. You've graduated now. Two men are gone. Two other men are jacked up for life, and I'm dealing with this. I'm dealing with this every day. There's enough to arrest him. He's going to jail for murder. Stand up against that wall right there. WILLIAM BROWN: Arguments happen. But to see this range of violence, I don't see it too often. I think he was put into this by Chum. And he looks up to Chum in some ways. And when Chum came to him for help, he wanted to show that he was up for it. That he's one of the boys. You've got five guys that know each other just having a good time, sitting laughing on the porch, and two people out of nowhere come up and shoot them. In a blink of an eye, two of those people are not with us anymore. There is going to be justice. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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Length: 45min 5sec (2705 seconds)
Published: Sat Jan 13 2024
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