THE TRAGIC MURDER OF CIARA GRIMES

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this video this video is for educational purposes and everything that i'm about to say is just information that i have found on the internet and i'm compiling into one video i just want to give a quick content warning before we get into this one this case does involve domestic violence domestic abuse um so if that's something that you don't want to watch right now something that you can't hear feel free to click out of this video i'm sure i will see you again at another point with a case that's a little bit more appropriate for you all that being said let's just get into it so this case takes place in rochester in new york in 2018 so quite a recent one i'm not used to doing such recent cases on my channel but i was requested this one and i looked into it and i felt like it was something so important for me to cover knowing the demographic of my audience my main demographic is teenage girls and women in their early 20s so i felt like this one was a really important one to cover sorry bit of a tangent there but this case takes place in rochester in new york in 2018 and rochester is from what i could find in my research quite a scary place to live the crime rates in rochester specifically are one of the highest in the whole of america don't get me wrong there are some nicer places in rochester to live like there are everywhere in every city there's the dangerous places and you know the better places to live the more safer places this area does have quite high poverty levels and high poverty levels often go hand in hand with high crime rates so that's just the kind of place that we're talking about today but rochester was home to 18 year old ciara michelle grimes affectionately known as cece to her friends and family ciara lived with her mother her brother and her sister so she was one of three siblings and ciara was very very family oriented her family was everything to her she was particularly close with her sister paris i think that's how you pronounce that and they used to watch netflix together all the time just like sit and binge watch shows with snacks that was one of their favorite like bonding activities i suppose from what i could tell in my research ciara grimes was a character she was loud she was proud she was bright she was just a very big personality she was described as sassy in quite a lot of the sources i read she had a quick weight a smart mouth she was very confident she was very strong as a woman to say she was so young as well she was just 18 just freshly an adult she would not let anyone walk all over her she was described as crazy fun she was very just bright and positive she was known for her positive energy that she brought to situations like if you were inviting ciara to an event you know it's going to be a good event because she just brings the fun everywhere she goes ciara had a boyfriend named jermaine brown he was a little bit younger than her he was 17 but i don't think there was even a full year between them they were in the same class at school and she thought he was really cool they'd actually been a thing for years literally since they were like 14 15 years old but they didn't make it official until they were like 17 18. so they'd been texting flirting you know they kind of had a crush on each other all the way through school and eventually they became a thing and ciara and jermaine would see each other pretty much every single day they were obsessed with each other like he was always at ciara's house he was friends with ciara's siblings ciara's sister even said that jimin had a thing for cookies like he always wanted cookies they were like his favorite food so she and sierra and jermaine would always bake cookies like literally every time he was at the house it was clear that jermaine made ciara very very happy and her family supported that they loved him like he was their own son or their own brother you know but outside of her relationship ciara was still very independent like even though she saw jimin every single day she knew what she wanted in life separate from him as well she was very determined she was very hardworking she knew what path she wanted to go in life and that was cosmetology she adored everything to do with like the beauty industry in general she always had her lashes done always had her makeup done really nicely she was especially into doing people's hair her mum used to complain that she would have people around at the house like every single day to do their hair they'd be just like random hair extensions lying all over the floor products everywhere just because ciara was constantly practicing on her siblings her friends herself so she was working at this dream and then eventually in early may of 2018 ciara applied for a bunch of kind of opening jobs into this career they were all kind of small jobs but she was just getting her foot in the door of the industry that she knew she wanted to be in and for one of these jobs ciara actually got a call back for an interview and she was so excited she was telling everyone she was ready to start her kind of adult life in her career however sadly ciara would never make that interview at 12 35 a.m on may 9 2018 police received a phone call from one of the more dangerous parts of rochester and this phone call was reporting a shooting it was an anonymous call and this person that reported the shooting really wasn't giving much information at all they literally just gave police a street like a location and they said there's been a shooting you probably want to go check that out and just put the phone down so police bed down to the scene as fast as they could and there they found two girls sitting in a driveway of one of the houses so one of the girls was kneeling down and the other girl was laid on the floor with her head in her friend's lap it seemed as though this girl that was kneeling was caring for the other one she was like stroking her face she was quite frantic she was saying everything's okay you're gonna be okay and this girl who was laying with her head in a friend's lap she was completely out of it i don't think she even opened her eyes she couldn't talk she was just mourning in pain so police walked over to see what the matter was and this girl that was really frantic she said she didn't know what had happened she didn't know what was wrong with her friend she just introduced herself as hayley winters she was 18 years old hayley said that she'd just been walking down the street that day when she saw this girl stumbling and eventually collapsing in this driveway so hayley ran over to go and comfort her she had no idea what was wrong but as she was telling the story police noticed that the other girl that she was comforting this girl that was in pain she had blood all over her arm police took a closer look at this girl's arm and they noticed a very clear gunshot wound straight through her arm so officers tried their best to speak with the injured girl although like i said she was completely out of it she was barely talking they were just trying to keep her coherent trying to get her name trying to find out what had happened and this wasn't really working she still wasn't talking so police decided to try and put her in more of like a recovery position until paramedics got there and as they were moving her they noticed that she hadn't just been shot in the arm well she had there was only one gunshot wound to her body but this gunshot wound had gone all the way through her arm and out of the inside kind of near her armpit and then into her chest it had gone all the way through so now that they knew the bullet had gone into her chest this was even more serious than they initially thought it was because that bullet could have done anything you know this could be life-threatening now finally paramedics arrive they lured this girl into the back of the ambulance and rush her off to the nearest hospital to get her treated for her gunshot wounds and in the meantime police decided to speak with this hayley winters this girl's friend that might be a potential witness to this up until now police were under the impression that these two girls didn't actually know each other that hailey winters had just been walking down the street when she found this girl who was clearly in pain and she just waited with the girl but haley told police that that girl was her friend and she was actually supposed to be meeting with her that day when she found her stumbling and in pain in this driveway and she said that her friend was 18 year old ciara grimes hayley told the police that she had plans to meet ciara on the corner of the street that night apparently ciara had texted her and asked her to meet specifically on that street corner which police initially thought was a little bit odd but whatever so haley said she was walking to meet ciara she wasn't on the street corner so hayley turned the corner and looked up and that was when she saw ciara stumbling down this driveway and then falling to the ground so she rushed over to help so police asked her they were like was it you that made that anonymous 9-1-1 call and she said no she didn't actually have her phone on her at that time she said she didn't even know that ciara had been shot so she didn't know there was a shooting she didn't realize that she was bleeding from the arm apparently hayley said she knew absolutely nothing about the situation and by the time she got to ciara ciara couldn't really talk you know she wasn't coherent she was just caring for her at that point in time so she couldn't even ask ciara anything about what had happened to her so police derived a few things from this if it wasn't hayley that made the 911 call who was it someone else knew about this shooting and also they just weren't fully convinced with hayley's story it was quite just like i don't know quite convenient that she was randomly meeting her friend on this corner of the street and then she turned the corner of the street and saw her friend stumbling and collapsing she didn't notice that she'd been shot or that she was bleeding i don't know it was all a very strange story it seemed as though hayley wasn't telling the police everything and one thing police noticed that kind of added to the whole odd circumstances that were going on here was that hayley and ciara both didn't seem to be dressed for the weather they were both wearing shorts and tank tops there were no jackets no jumpers nothing and this was at like nearly one in the morning in new york yes it was may but it still wasn't that warm it wasn't warm enough to be out in what they were wearing so police thought if these two girls were genuinely going to meet on a street corner surely they would have at least taken a jacket if they knew they were going to be outside they were going to be standing outside talking to each other on a street corner why are they going in shorts and a tank top so police theorized that maybe the girls were heading somewhere when this incident had taken place somewhere where they didn't need to wear jackets so they didn't bother bringing them maybe it was like in a house or maybe they'd headed from somewhere maybe this incident had happened in a house and then they'd escaped essentially they just didn't think that hayley was telling the full truth they felt like she just made a very quick cover-up story and they wanted to speak to her further so they put her in the back of a police car and they took her down to the station for questioning she wasn't necessarily a suspect but they did see her as a potential witness to this crime and she was trying to cover something up or maybe she was just too scared to tell the truth in that moment so haley was being transported to the police station meanwhile the rest of the officers stayed at the scene where they just found ciara and they started looking around for people you know potential witnesses anyone that might have seen or heard anything on the streets and that was when officers found a teenage boy walking on a nearby street and this guy was called deshawn sweet they started talking to him and they said do you know a sierra grimes and he said yeah i do why what's up so police told him about this situation and asked if he knew anything about it and he said he didn't and he was really concerned because ciara was actually his friend they couldn't tell him much obviously because it was a current investigation at this point and also because they just didn't really know what was going on with ciara you know she was being rushed to hospital they didn't know what her current physical state was so instead police just asked him what he was doing you know why he was walking the streets at this time of night and he said that he actually had a kid at home and the kid wanted some sweets so he was being a good dad walked to the shop to go get his kids some sweets but he hadn't seen or heard anything to do with the shooting or to do with sierra grimes so police again thought this was kind of weird because by now it was like 1am and you know whose kid is awake at 1am realistically awake and asking for sweets at one in the morning and the father being willing to walk to the local shop in the middle of the night to buy the kids some sweets it was a weird story so again they were looking at this desean sweet and thinking you're not telling us the full story so they said oh where do you where do you live then like are you close to home and he pointed to a house on this street and he said that's mine and this house was right next to where sierra grimes was found literally the next house from the driveway that she was found bleeding and incoherent on desean sweet lived right next door and somehow he didn't see or hear anything when he just headed out to the store so again with desean sweet police asked if they could take him down to the station and ask him a few questions because they felt like he and hayley both knew something he did protest a little bit more than haley did you know he was like i haven't had anything to do with this i don't even know what happened like he did not want to be taken to the police station but eventually you know they persuaded him and he went so now both of those witnesses are being transported to the police station meanwhile police still at the crime scene still at this driveway they start taping it all up and you know cautioning off this area when they were approached by an older couple this couple was a middle-aged man and woman they lived just up the street and they'd walked down and asked police you know what was going on why were they taping up this area and of course police couldn't say anything and then the couple said oh was it to do with the gun shot because we heard a gunshot not so long ago so police were now willing to tell this couple a little bit more because it was clear that they knew something or they'd heard something so they said actually yes it is why did you you know witness something the couple said no they didn't see or hear exactly where it came from but they did point to this house that was next to where they were stood and they said maybe you should check this house this house that they were pointing at they said it was a known party house you know there was always teenagers in and out of there they were known to do drugs in there deal drugs from there they had guns you know she was like this house is always full of trouble makers that's probably where you want to look and this house that they were pointing at was desean sweets home so police wasted no time in this investigation they walked straight up those front porch stairs and right up to the door and they knocked to see if anyone was inside no one answered the door for a while so these two investigators are kind of knocking on the windows they're having a look around and that was when one of them noticed blood drops on the floor of this patio the blood drops led from the front door all the way along the patio down the stairs and into the street so this must have been where ciara came from and where the incident occurred so police waited around for a few more minutes they're still knocking on the door they're still knocking on the windows and they know that they can hear movement inside that house there is someone in there that is not answering the door on purpose so one of the investigators gets their torch out and they start shining it on the windows to see if they can see shadows or anything like that and when they shone it on this one particular window they saw someone literally peeking through the blinds literally hands on the blinds eyes through the slit in the blinds caught red-handed so the police are saying look we know you're in there come out we need to talk to you this is serious and that was when someone inside the home shouted out to the investigators that they wouldn't open the door unless police had a search warrant which i don't know about you but to me that insinuates immediate guilt like if you have nothing to hide and if you're not guilty of anything why can't you open the door and talk to the police of course you're trying to hide something in there but at this current moment in time there was nothing police could do you know they didn't have a search warrant so they couldn't go in they couldn't talk to these people there was nothing the police could do but there was a whole lot that the swat team could do police had reason to believe that there was an active shooter inside that house that had a gun and was not afraid to use it this was a very dangerous situation for investigators to put themselves in obviously unarmed they couldn't be walking in there when there's an active shooter and it's also a very dangerous situation for i mean everyone else the rest of society to know that there's a person in there with a gun that has used it and will continue to use it if they're not caught and arrested and stopped so for that reason police were able to call in a swat team it was going to take a couple of hours for them to assemble one i believe i don't know how that all works but it was going to take a few hours and so was the search warrant they got a fast track on the search warrant but they weren't gonna be able to have it until the next morning because this was all taking place at around one two in the morning so in order to get a search warrant i think it needs to go through the courts which obviously aren't open until the morning so all the police team could do for the moment was just sit out in their car outside this house and just make sure no one came out you know just keep an eye on it so that's what a few officers were doing they were just sat in the car watching this house until morning whereas other officers were now going up and down the street knocking on every single door all the neighboring streets asking anyone if they saw or heard anything that took place that night almost every single person whose door they knocked on said that they saw and heard absolutely nothing which is unlikely that a gunshot went off in this area and barely anyone heard it and police think that a lot of people that lived on this street that were saying oh no i didn't hear anything they think a lot of those people were scared of the inhabitants of this house because like i said this house was known for general illegal activity guns drugs fights you know there was always something going on at this house and people were kind of scared to potentially snitch on them by saying they heard a gunshot but luckily when police knocked on the door of one house actually coincidentally the house right opposite where they'd found ciara they noticed that this house had cctv cameras outside pointing towards the street so if they were lucky maybe these cameras would have been recording that night and they might have caught what happened to ciara on the other side of the road and the owner of this house thankfully was more than happy to let the police in to collect the tips to take them back as evidence and as police were collecting these tips from this guy they started asking him some general questions you know had he seen or heard anything the same questions they asked everyone else and he said that he had heard something he heard the gunshot that night he said when he heard it he ran straight to the window looked across the street to the house that desean sweet said he earned and this guy witnessed two boys carrying a girl out of that home and putting her on the next door neighbor's drive a whole group of them came out of the house and congregated around this girl who was now just on the floor he said the group stayed there for about a minute and then they all dispersed and this was a group of about five people so there were two girls that went back inside the house there were two boys that both fled the scene on foot one of them went running in one direction the other one walked in the other and then there was another girl that sat and stayed with the girl that was carried out until the police arrived which we know was hailey winters right from the start police knew that hayley winters wasn't telling them the whole truth and this story only confirmed it i mean especially if they had this on cctv they could confirm that hayley had been in the house that this incident had taken place in so police took the footage back to the police station they watched it back and of course it confirmed everything this guy was saying they watched as this group carried ciara out of the house hayley stayed with her as everyone just ran away unfortunately this footage was really really bad quality so police couldn't make out anyone's faces really but there was one person that police were pretty sure they could identify based on their very distinctive clothes that they were wearing that day and that was dishon sweet so again that is another person that they had caught in their lives both hayley winters and desean sweet must know what happened to ciara meanwhile ciara grimes had finally been transported to hospital and like i said she was in a very very critical condition she had only been shot once but this shot had gone straight into her chest through her arm this bullet could have caused severe damage inside sierra grime's chest but they had no idea as they were transporting her to hospital how bad it really was all they could really do was patch up her wounds and make sure she lost as little blood as possible they transported her to the hospital they were gonna get her to the operating room to try and remove this bullet and see where the damage was but sadly they didn't get that far at 1 45 am on may the 9th 2018 ciara michelle grimes was pronounced dead so now police won't just investigating a shooting they were investigating a murder and they were pretty sure that someone in that house that night had committed this one of them must be a murderer so meanwhile back at the police station they had hayley winters and desean sweet in separate questionings and both of them are very much sticking to their stories that they told the police that police now know is absolutely rubbish both of them denying knowing anything about ciara's shooting deshawn sweet said he had no idea that anything had even happened he had no idea ciara was hurt haley said that she just found sierra that way of course police knew it was absolute rubbish because they had the cctv footage to prove it but they weren't gonna let hayley and deshaun know what they knew at this point in the case police were keeping their cards very close to their chest they weren't telling these people what they knew or what they'd already uncovered in the investigation just to you know see what they said see if they incriminate themselves they weren't even telling them that ciara grimes had passed away because they wanted them to believe that ciara was going to make a full recovery and then eventually tell police herself everything that had happened they hoped that maybe this would urge the witnesses to tell the truth because if they believed ciara was going to recover and tell the truth and it was going to come out anywhere then you know they might give it over in their questionings so police knew that in order to get any kind of information from these two witnesses they were going to have to confront them with some kind of evidence they were going to have to say look we know this we have this proof that you were here because at this point these two were sticking to their story and nothing was making them move so police were gonna need concrete evidence to make them move and the only way they were gonna get this concrete evidence is if they got into that house they needed to see what was in there who was in there because someone was in there and finally as the sun was coming up that following morning they had the swat team surrounding the house they went inside with their weapons drawn they were walking around with these guns because they knew that there was an active shooter inside or there was likely an active shooter inside and this person might still be in the frame of mind to use that gun so the team ran around the first floor like the ground floor of the property and they couldn't find anyone there was actually no one downstairs at all there was nothing downstairs in the way of evidence and so they decided to go upstairs they searched a few of the rooms again no one in there and then they saw one room on the second floor where the door was closed and they thought well if anyone's gonna be in any of these rooms it's obviously gonna be the one where the door has been closed so the team kicks the door in and inside they found two girls well two women and immediately these two women put their hands up they surrendered the swat team arrested them and escorted them outside where at this point in time the street was absolutely covered in news reporters news stations people trying to film what was going on because word had gotten around that there was a swat team about to invade a house so the news caught these women being escorted to the police cars and to the police station their names were tamika williams and tamara stevens and these two women were the only people in the whole house it seemed that the rest of the group had fled in one way or another before police even got to the scene that night so these two girls were taken to the station we'll get on to that in a second while police had a big formal search of this whole house so police go into this house and they start looking around for literally anything of course they're looking for a murder weapon but they're looking through every inch every item that is in this house because anything could be evidenced they have no idea what had happened inside there the night before in one of the rooms they found a bag and so they start looking through this bag and they very quickly find that this was ciara grime's bag inside there they found a letter that was addressed to her and also her school id and so this proved that ciara had been inside that home that night but other than that there was absolutely nothing in the rest of the house there was no gun there was no blood there was no forensic evidence really there was just absolutely nothing nothing to identify anyone else there was no one else's school bag there with an id in it or anything like that basically police were hoping to find a lot more from that search than they actually did so searches extended onto the nearby streets they had police walking up and down the street looking in neighbours gardens just in case anything had been ditched possibly like a murder weapon or anything and it was just a few houses away one of the detectives noticed something shining in like a pile of mud so he goes over and he digs it out and there he finds a gun and it had intentionally been covered with all this dirt and leaves so it was very very likely that this was the murder weapon so it was bagged up and sent to the police station where all the interviews were still going on by the way the next morning they'd been going on for hours now police had four witnesses hayley winters and deshawn sweet still and now tamika williams and tamara stevens after reviewing the cctv footage police knew that they were looking for a group of five and here they have four there were three girls on the cctv footage not including ciara and two boys so they had the three girls they had one of the boys but where's the other one so police decided to confront all four of these witnesses with the cctv footage they said look we've got literal footage of you at the scene with this person this person and this person we need the name of that final person on that footage because for all police knew that could be their killer that could be their murderer and they have no idea who they were they just ran off and they haven't been seen since but every single one of these witnesses all four of them said nothing not a word the footage proved that they were lying but somehow they were all sticking to their original stories that they knew nothing about this hayley winters was the last one to be shown the cctv footage and eventually she was the first one to crack police had hoped this would be the case i mean out of all of these people hayley winters seemed to be the one with the most compassionate side she was the one that had stayed with ciara until police arrived she was the one that had her head in her knee she was struck in her face you know it seemed like she was the only one in this group that even gave half a crap about this whole situation and they were right because hayley did eventually crack and changed her story completely she now told police that she and ciara had met up that day because ciara wanted to go and meet a boy at this house hayley said that the two of them were only in this house for a matter of minutes when all of this went down she said the two of them went inside and they went upstairs hayley had no idea who any of these people in this house were there were a group of them she had no idea who this boy was that ciara was meeting either she said that ciara and this boy went into a bedroom and haley was just kind of left outside by herself so while she was waiting for ciara to come back out she went to the toilet which was on the other side of the house hayley said she was only in there for two minutes and when she came out of the bathroom she heard yelling she rushed to where the yelling was coming from and she found that group of people standing over ciara who was now laying on the ground ciara was now unresponsive all these people around her were like tapping her face trying to talk to her she wasn't saying anything she wasn't looking at anyone hayley said she got really really panicky at this point and she was asking everyone you know what's happened what's happened to her is she okay and none of them were answering her hayley claimed like i said that she didn't know anyone in this house so she didn't know this group of people that were now crowding her friend but based on her descriptions of these people police were able to kind of derive who she was talking about at what point and they found that the people standing around ciara at this point were tamika tamara and deshawn so the three of them began to lift ciara grimes while hailey just kind of stood there and watched and then they turned to her and began yelling at her to kind of join in and help them so the four of them then carried ciara out of the house and on to the neighbor's driveway where they again put her down on the floor and it was there that hayley knelt down she put ciara's head on her lap she was stroking her she was telling everything was gonna be okay while the other three just left she remembers one of them saying you stay here with her while one of them ran away and two of them ran back in the house and that was the last she saw of anyone until the police turned up she said she didn't have her phone on her in this moment so she couldn't even call for an ambulance or anything like that and she had no idea who had made the anonymous call to police based on this story police believed it was either tamika or tamara inside that house that had phoned the police tamika and tamara by the way were sisters police found that out so anyway that was hayley winter's story and police still didn't fully believe it they thought she was covering certain parts up it was all just quite convenient still wasn't it i mean they'd been in this house for two minutes when all of this happened and she just happened to be in the bathroom so she didn't see anything it's also weird that she knew none of their names you know had she not introduced herself to anyone in this house and surely ciara would have told her best friend the name of the boy that they were both going to meet i don't know it was all just very very convenient for her i suppose and one thing that she also very conveniently left out was the other mail that police knew were there based on the cctv footage there were two boys there and haley didn't mention another boy well other than the one that ciara was going to meet at all it seemed that the only boy in hayley's story was desean so was she still covering for this other guy so they tried and tried and tried with hayley winters because they knew she was their best bet at finding out you know the 100 truth and she just wasn't giving them any more and it was at this point that detectives realized that they weren't going to get any more out of her unless they confronted her with something or gave her something and that was when they decided that they were gonna tell hayley that ciara had passed away and immediately as soon as haley heard this she broke down in tears she was screaming in this interrogation room but still stuck to her story she wasn't giving them anything more so by now in the investigation it had been about 12 hours since ciara grimes had passed away and i just want to add in here that no one told her parents the whole time detectives insisted that it was vital to their investigation that no one could know that ciara had passed away in order to make their witnesses talk but somehow that included her parents her parents weren't even witnesses to her murder so i don't understand why they weren't allowed to know but anyway over half a day later they eventually went round to her home and informed her family that ciara had passed away so detectives sat down with ciara's family and they were asking them about ciara's life her friend group you know was there anyone that might want to cause her any harm in her life and that was when ciara's mother turns to the officers and very bluntly just says look into her boyfriend jermaine brown the same boyfriend that we spoke about right at the beginning of this video the boyfriend that ciara had a crush on for years before they were eventually a thing the boyfriend that she was so happy with that everyone saw them as such a positive nice couple they spent all day every day together you know they seemed like they were made for each other but that was just the surface of that relationship it turned out that as of lately their relationship hadn't been so happy over the last few months in the run-up to this jermaine brown had changed a lot he went from a very nice respectful boy you know her family did genuinely really like him in the beginning and then as time went on he started getting in trouble with the law a lot he was taking drugs he had guns he actually had his first ever jail sentence not long before this incident and ciara's family ciara literally begged and pleaded for her mum to take her to the jail house so that she could go and visit her boyfriend ciara was just so in love with him she didn't want to be away from him but she wasn't seeing this very rapid decline in in just how he was her mother said that jermaine was becoming a boy that she didn't even recognize anymore this wasn't the boy that her daughter had initially brought home ciara's siblings told police that jermaine was actually cheating on her quite frequently at the time that this all happened it started off as just one girl you know it was just a mistake it was just a one-time thing but then as time went on it was progressively more and more and it was now at the point where he was practically cheating on her like every single week her mother said she hadn't realized quite how bad her daughter's relationship had become until one day she got a knock on the door from the mailman who informed her that he thought ciara might be in trouble so her mother asked why what's wrong with my daughter and the mailman said well i'm really sorry to tell you this but i think i just saw your daughter being beaten by her boyfriend on the next street over and there was another instance in which ciara's mother had come home to ciara and jermaine just sat on the surface watching tv and she noticed that ciara was wearing a hat and ciara never wore hats immediately she felt like something was off so she went over to ciara tried talking to her and ciara wasn't looking up at her mother so again she felt like something was wrong eventually her mum just walked over and took the hat straight off ciara's head and when she did it revealed a bunch of injuries bruises cuts red marks bumps all over ciara's head and immediately her mother was just heartbroken that her daughter was going through this and she was so in love with this boy that was doing this to her and she was enraged at the boy that was doing this jimin who was literally sat next to her daughter on the sofa in this moment so ciara's mother grabbed him off the surfa pulled his face right up to hers and said you better stay away from my daughter or i'm getting the police involved to which jermaine just said something to the effect of do it ciara loves me she's not gonna press charges anywhere he knew the power that he had over ciara and he knew that nothing was ever going to happen to him because she was too scared and too in love with him to ever stand up to him from that moment on ciara's family really really tried to keep her away from jermaine but it was so hard i mean he was banned from their house but she would still sneak out and go and see him they couldn't physically just keep her locked in the house forever and it turned out that this domestic violence had been going on for months behind the scenes and no one had ever noticed and ciara had never told anyone not even like her closest friends or her siblings no one knew that jermaine was like this they all kind of got a feeling based on certain things that ciara would say or they would notice certain injuries and so they would try to ask questions but ciara would eventually just kind of make excuses for jimin and say oh well you know he's had a bad childhood he's got a rough home life at the moment and things like that she would even defend him to her friends it ended up causing so many fights between ciara and her own family because her family were doing everything they could to protect her and it seemed as though she was just kind of going against it all until eventually ciara was just so sick of her family you know being on her back about this whole thing that she just ran away she went and lived with jermaine for three weeks until eventually her mother received a surprise phone call from ciara in the middle of the night and she was just saying mummy i'm in pain i'm in pain it turned out that jermaine brown had hit his girlfriend sierra grimes with a pull or like a big plank of wood i couldn't figure out exactly what it is but a big heavy object and she was she was in a bad way so her mum jumped out of bed raced to where ciara was at picked her up took her straight to the hospital to be treated because these were bad injuries that she had and all her mum remembers was ciara just sobbing just crying saying why does he keep doing this to me why does he keep hurting me and all her mom could do was just comfort her in that moment she just said baby it's not your fault it's not your fault that he does these things to you she just felt so hopeless like there was nothing more that she could do to protect her baby she'd done everything she could she tried to keep them apart but her daughter was just so brainwashed by this guy that she just kept going back no matter how hard he hit her or how bad he hurt her after this incident though i think something must have clicked in ciara's brain and she realized that she needed to get away from jermaine brown the next morning her mother took her out and they got a protection order against jermaine brown and her mother was so proud of her the family was so relieved they thought all of this was finally behind them they weren't gonna have to deal with him anymore ciara wasn't gonna have to deal with him anymore they were finally gonna be happy this was on may 3rd 2018 that she got this protection order and just six days later on may 9th ciara was murdered so now police had heard all of this information from ciara's family they knew that that other boy from that cctv footage that was there that night it just had to be jermaine brown he had a criminal record that seemed to snowball out of control in the previous couple of months this was a boy that a couple of years prior only got in trouble like once in a blue moon but around the time of this incident he was adding new charges to his record every week there was possession and selling drugs there was possession of illegal weapons there was gang activity and then the latest addition to his record was this protection order for ciara they also found in his record that he actually had two sisters and these two sisters were tamika williams and tamara stevens those two girls that were found inside that home and were now in police custody were jermaine brown's sisters and that was actually their home that was jermaine brown's home that ciara was shot in but anyway speaking of these witnesses police now had another piece of evidence to confront them with so they went into hailey winters and they said look do you know a jermaine brown she said yes and so police told her everything they knew about ciara's abusive relationship with this boy and i don't know if it was because hayley knew that police were kind of on to jermaine or if she thought that they were going to get there in their own time anyway but she decided that she was going to finally tell them the actual truth she said that on the day of the shooting she and ciara had gone to meet up with deshawn sweet and jermaine brown at the local park despite this protection order that she'd taken out six days prior ciara still wanted to see him i mean it was really hard for her family to actually keep him aware this was the first time that she had seen him since she got the protection order out so it had been six days that was the longest i think we'd ever really gone without seeing each other since they first met and hailey said that when they were at the park things were really good between ciara and jermaine they seemed like they were just head over heels in love again you know no arguing no fighting absolutely nothing so later that night they all decided to go back to jermaine's home and haley didn't think twice about this because of how good ciara and jermaine had been through the day you know if they'd been arguing hayley said she would have put an end to that and been like no i don't want to go back to his house but she thought everything was fine so they did once they arrived they all went up to jermaine's bedroom they were all messing around and then jermaine gets out a gun he was showing it off he was letting everyone look at it and ciara was really interested in this she wanted to see it closer she was messing with it in her hands she was asking about it and he was like oh yeah i just got it from you know some guy and as they were playing around with this gun jermaine took it off ciara and pressed it against her arm and in a joking way said i should shoot you right now he's laughing you know this is supposed to be a joke for him but the rest of the group know what he's like you know ciara's in an abusive relationship with this guy they all know what he's done to her before and they don't take it as a jerk so immediately they all start yelling at him like yo just chill put the gun down stop doing this this is not funny and he takes the gun and he takes the magazine out and he's like yo chill it's not even loaded like it's fine and they're still protesting they're like no this is not funny put the gun down we're not even playing this and then all of a sudden jermaine brown pulls the trigger and shoots sierra grimes in the arm he'd taken the magazine out yes but what he didn't know was that there was actually a bullet in the chamber of that gun so a bullet shot out when he pulled that trigger hayley said that immediately ciara started to try and make her way out of the room she was holding her arm she was stumbling out of the door at this point no one had any idea how badly ciara had been injured she was covering her arm her arm was by her side so no one knew the bullet had entered her chest at all ciara managed to stumble all the way down the stairs and when she reached the bottom she collapsed to the ground she couldn't even make it out of the front door and at this point she could barely move and that was when the whole group picked her up and took her outside to the neighbor's driveway which is what they caught on cctv and hayley said that in that moment jermaine did seem genuinely concerned he said he wanted to stick around until police arrived but because of his criminal history you know he's been involved in all sorts of things before he knew that if police arrived and he was there and he had the gun and he was the one that shot it then he would be in big trouble so he fled he just ran away and left his girlfriend or his ex-girlfriend bleeding out on the street so that was hayley's actual story the story that police believe to be the truth but i mean she has lied a lot every single time she was questioned actually she lied she says that it was a careless accident that stemmed from a joke you know jermaine was just playing around he didn't know there was a bullet in it he meant to just you know scare everyone by pretend shooting her but based on his violent history towards ciara and the way that it just snowballed and snowballed and snowballed maybe it was getting to the point where he was thinking of shooting her but like i said hayley is known for lying in this case so police are like yeah it does sound kind of true but how much can we trust this girl so in order to try to confirm her story her version of events they also confronted desean sweet and they got him to tell his version of events and it was almost identical to hayley so it seemed like that was the real version of events that happened that night and so they asked hayley and deshawn if they knew where jermaine was at that point in time and both of them said they had no idea where he went desean said that he gave him the gun so it was deshawn that actually buried that gun and covered it with dirt and leaves and whatever but after that he had no idea where jermaine had gone and that was what police now had to figure out they had this guy that had shot an innocent girl and killed her he was a murderer and right now he was just at large he could be anywhere after looking at jermaine brown's records like his criminal records and stuff they found that he was actually doing court in the next couple of days to sort out a completely separate charge that had happened so they decided to wait outside that court building and see if he arrived and sure enough he did he arrived for his court hearing when he was on the run after committing murder if there's any place to not turn up at when you know you're wanted by the police it's probably a court hearing that deals with the law i don't know though it's good that he turned up there police managed to get hold of him before he even entered the building and he was arrested on suspicion of the murder of ciara grimes and when police found him when he arrived outside the courtroom he was actually wearing a t-shirt that seemed to be like a memorial t-shirt for ciara it had a picture of the two of them on and it said forever on it and his intentions with this t-shirt are not very clear is he trying to show that he feels remorseful is he showing off in some kind of sick way or was it a way for him to try to cover up what he'd done acting like he was the the sad heartbroken boyfriend whose girlfriend had just been murdered by someone you know it's unclear what his intentions were with that t-shirt but it's very very strange that he even thought to do it after he was the one that killed her when jermaine brown was taken for an interview i think it's very safe to say that remorse was the last emotion in this guy's brain he just did not care about any of this he was very flippant with detectives he was smirking at them when they asked certain questions a lot of it was just like nah i don't know what you're talking about don't know what you're talking about but at this point police didn't even need a confession from him they kind of wanted one to make this all easier but they didn't need one they had two almost identical versions of events from hayley and deshawn jermaine just wasn't giving them anything and so in that moment they decided they didn't need anything and they charged jermaine brown with manslaughter the reason that it wasn't murder and the reason that it was manslaughter so the difference between murder and manslaughter is killing with intent with murder you intend to take someone's life with manslaughter you're just acting in a reckless way that endangers people but you didn't intend to take a life if that makes sense and because hayley and deshaun testified that when jermaine brown pulled the trigger he didn't think there were any bullets in it he'd taken out the magazine so he thought it was safe but he was still acting in a reckless way even pretending to shoot someone with a real gun and as a result of that a life was taken so maybe he didn't mean to kill ciara when he pressed that trigger but he did and so he gets manslaughter for that ciara grimes friends and family were not happy with this charge at all as i'm sure a lot of you guys aren't as well based on jermaine's past behaviors towards ciara he was just getting more and more and more violent with this girl he abused her he hurt her he beat her he hit her with things threw things at her and her family believed that this time he just went one step higher and shot her he was getting worse and worse and worse with the things he was doing as this relationship was going by so it makes sense that the next bad thing he does was shoot her especially due to how he left the situation as well they literally just dragged sierra to the curb of the street like she was garbage and then he ran away and left her if this was really an accident if he really shot the love of his life as he seems to think by accident then why didn't he stay with her why didn't he make sure that she was okay if this was really an accident none of the other kids that were there that night well i see a kids they were actually all adults they were all like 18 19 apart from jermaine who was 17. none of the others were actually charged with anything because they all testified against jermaine this happens quite often when someone that was involved in like a big crime like this was gonna get a small charge related to it the court can say right okay well we'll give you a deal where we won't charge you with that as long as you give evidence against this person that has the big charge i hope that makes sense but essentially they all testified against jermaine brown they all told their versions of the story in court which meant that jeremy and brown would get put down for murder and they in exchange for that they would not get anything and again ciara's friends and family were not happy with this at all they just feel like the justice for ciara just was not there her murderer got manslaughter and all the people that were involved got absolutely nothing when they were the ones that you know ran away they all left ciara to die that night they all took her out to the curb and did nothing one of them potentially called 9-1-1 anonymously but the rest of them did nothing to help jimin brown pled guilty to his manslaughter charge and he was given and i guarantee that this will make you very very angry he was given between two and six years in prison between two and six years the minimum that he could serve for killing this 18 year old girl with her whole life ahead of her was two years in prison it's 20 21 now this happened in 2018 so any day now he could just be out of jail after killing sierra grimes ciara's family have since said that they hope some good comes out of what happened to ciara you know whether it's telling her story and maybe a girl that's out there hears ciara's story and it urges her to get away from her own abusive boyfriend then they say that that's a positive to come out of this they tell ciara's story every chance they get in the hopes that anyone else that is suffering through through any kind of domestic violence whether that's boyfriend girlfriend wife husband even a parent or even a friend a housemaid anything if this story gives them the courage to get out of that relationship when they can while they still have their lives then sierra didn't die in vain you know she helped other people to keep their lives and that's exactly why i wanted to 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Channel: Eleanor Neale

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Length: 56min 13sec (3373 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021