Dec. 28, 2025

(Updated Release) Sovereign Citizens | Bloody Angola Podcast

(Updated Release) Sovereign Citizens | Bloody Angola Podcast

Updated with new information In the pre-dawn hours of August 16, 2012, a quiet trailer park in LaPlace, Louisiana, erupted into chaos as a group tied to the anti-government sovereign citizens movement ambushed St. John the Baptist Parish deputies....

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Season 8
Updated with new information

In the pre-dawn hours of August 16, 2012, a quiet trailer park in LaPlace, Louisiana, erupted into chaos as a group tied to the anti-government sovereign citizens movement ambushed St. John the Baptist Parish deputies. What began as a shooting in a refinery parking lot quickly escalated into a deadly firefight, claiming the lives of Deputies Brandon Nielsen and Jeremy Triche, while wounding two others.

In this episode of “Bloody Angola Podcast” Jim dives deep into this case: the ideology fueling the sovereign citizens group led by Terry Smith, the roles of primary shooters Brian  Smith and Kyle  Joekel, and the arsenal recovered from the scene. We’ll explore the arrests of seven suspects, the emotional trials that followed—including Joekel’s 2020 conviction and death sentence—and the lingering questions around Brian Smith’s mental competency, which has prevented his trial to this day.

Chapters
05:55 A Town's Heritage: Laplace, Louisiana
07:29 The Incident Unfolds: Valero Refinery Shooting
11:59 Innocent: Tanisha Bright's Story
19:15 The Shootout: Chaos at the Trailer Park
29:16 The Aftermath: Investigating the Attack
31:17 Sovereign Citizens: The Ideology
33:32 A Family's Past: The Smiths' Background
39:29 The Escape Plan: Terry Smith’s Scheme
42:18 The Perpetrators: Who They Were
45:55 The Second Shooter: Kyle Joekel Background
49:26 The Co-Conspirators: A Deeper Look
54:53 Testimonies: Voices from the Scene
1:04:15 The Sentences: Justice Served?
1:19:07 Honoring the Fallen: Remembering the Heroes

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H a wall street line, shackle change, Oh someome gird,

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it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's

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been a tentery juice as the hill Stream game wrangle three.

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I'm here, but by me to die inside these walls,

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inside the wild hadn't went no girl as.

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I It's been a very difficult day. As you can see,

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I lost two good officers.

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Today.

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I've had a number of sheriffs here and law inforcement

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throughout the state who are helping us deal with doesn't matter.

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But first let me say this, Please pray for the

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two officers that were ambushed early this morning. I have

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two deceased officers, Randon Nielsen he's thirty four years old,

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and another one of Sir Jeremy Trish, he's twenty eight

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years old. This entire tragedy unfolded early this morning as

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one of my officers was working the traffic detail in

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this particular parking lot. As he was working in this

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detail for some unknown reason at this time, a gunman

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opened fire on him multiple times. As you can see

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the car that's parked over he on the shoulder of

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Bayo Steel Road. That officer is present league at University

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Hospital being treated for multiple gunsholl booms. He should be okay.

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After the shooting took place, we were able to get

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a call from a citizen based on a description we

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got from the officer. A citizen advised up advised Saint

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john Sheriff's Office of a speeding motorist on a street

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by Riverview Trailer. Court officers proceeded to that area where

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we found a vehicle matching the description of the vehicle

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using the shooting here on Bayou Steel Road, officers came

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in contact with some individuals during this investigation, one of

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the subjects. As officers were handcuffing one of the subjects,

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they thought that investigation led us.

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To a trailer.

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When we knocked on the door, another person came to

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the door with a dog, where we could see inside

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where another individual was fully closed but laying under a blanket.

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The officers asked him to step outside as we were

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interviewing the two persons. The two subjects, another person exited

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that trailer with an assault weapon and anne bush excuse

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a bush by two officers. The investigation is ongoing. The

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officers away from the investigation. The Louisiana State Police on

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now taking over the investigation.

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angla, a podcast

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one hundred and forty two years in the making, the

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complete story of America's bloodiest present. I'm Jim Chapman, and

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before we get into today's episode, I want to mention

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why it was previously pulled and re recorded. So upon

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the initial release of this episode a few weeks ago,

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I was contacted and there were some discrepancies between some

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of the sourcing articles I use and those that well,

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all I'm going to say is there was some people

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close to the case and they had what I would

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refer to as direct knowledge. Some of it related to

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the type of weapon used in the initial shooting, and

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there were several things that occurb when the second shooting

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took place that I did not detail because of the

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information I had at the time did not stipulate it.

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So if you cover cases long enough, such as I

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have for the past six plus years, sometimes this happens.

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The information that you source, even if it's from credible sources,

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can be incorrect or be incomplete. And it's very important

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to me that what I tell you is as accurate

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as possible. Now, everyone that knows me knows there is

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no one more pro law enforcement than myself. I work

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with law enforcement and most of well, I would say

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eighty percent of my circle, if you will, or law

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enforcement folks. So when it came to this case, even

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though I was not asked to pull that episode, I

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found it best to pull it, get some additional facts,

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and re record it. So that is what I did.

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And let's get into it, and I'm going to cover

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a tragic story that occurred on August sixteenth of twenty

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twelve in Laplace, Louisiana. Now sadly, that resulted in the

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death of two Saint John Parish Sheriff's deputies and two

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more being wounded. So I'm going to cover the details

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of what happened in the results, which do include a

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death sentence inside of Bloody and Gola for one of

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the perpetrators. So let's get started. And first, as I said,

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this took place in Laplace, Louisiana, which Laplace is a town.

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It's located in Saint John Parish. It's part of the

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New Orleans metro area, if you will, and the town

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runs along the east bank of the Mississippi River and

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it's a kind of a quaint bedroom community with roughly

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twenty eight thousand residents. Now Laplace is known as the

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Onduey Capital of the World, and this was an honor

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bestowed on the town by popular Governor Edwin Edwards in

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the nineteen seventies. And because of this honor and being

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known as the on Dewey Capital of the world, the

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town does host an on Dewey Festival every year in October,

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and it's done so since nineteen seventy two. It's just

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a charming area. It's blended with some Cajun heritage, river life,

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and Southern hospitality. So definitely not the type of place

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you would expect the incident I'm about to tell you

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about occurring, and this whole incident kicked off at the

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Valero Refinery parking lot initially, and y'all, Valero is a

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global gas refinery in the area that offers high paying

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jobs to plant workers that work typically twelve hour shifts. Now,

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that particular morning, Michael Scott Boynton was doing extra duty.

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He was in the parking lot of the refinery. He

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was a sheriff's deputy. And what I'm about to tell

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you is, according to the test money of someone that

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was in the vehicle we're going to talk about. Her

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name was Tanisha Bright. So according to her testimony, she

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said that morning, her and the coworker she was writing with,

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they all got off work at four am from the

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Valero refinery and they piled into a guy by the

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name of Terry Smith's truck. And she said they were

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in their usual seating arrangement, which was Bright in the

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front seat, Terry Smith driving, and his son, Brian Smith,

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on the other side of the front seat, so she

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was in the middle. In the rear seat of that truck,

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there was a guy by the name of Kyle Yokel

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and a guy by the name of Derek Smith. So

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you have five people total in that vehicle, Terry Smith,

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miss Bright, and Terry Smith's son Brian in the front seat,

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and then in the backseat of that truck you had

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Derreck Smith and Kyle Yokel. Now, she said, initially everything

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seemed fine, nobody seemed pissed off or anything.

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And as they.

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Neared the road, a deputy working the gate shined his

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flashlight into the truck and walked towards the truck's open window.

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She said, the deputy, who was thirty three year old

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Michael Boynton, who she said she did not know at

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the time, she described as very agitated. She said she

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could tell by his body language and the tone of

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his voice. She said she didn't know why they had

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been stopped by Michael Boynton or flagged down, if you will,

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but that Terry Smith refused to pull over. She said

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the officer in Smith then exchanged some words and it

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got kind of heated, and that Boynton asked Terry Smith

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for what's known as his twit card, which, y'all, a

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twit card is basically a government issued ID card, kind

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of like an ID for people working in the maritime

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industry of it similar to a driver's license. Terry Smith

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refused to turn over his twit card, and in the meantime,

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from the backseat, Kyle Yokel started shouting for Terry Smith

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to drive away.

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She said.

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At that point, Terry Smith basically gunned it and peeled

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out of the parking lot, and she saw Deputy Bointon

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run back to his vehicle to provide chase. Now this

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is her testimony in court. She said the deputy soon

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caught up with them and he was right on the

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trail and then he pulled to the right side of

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the car and he was on the shoulder at this point,

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kind of driving along with them, and she said at

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that point Terry Smith feared into the line of oncoming traffic,

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but he had to jerk back into his lane because

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a car was heading in his direction. She said, at

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that point she felt something brush her leg. She looked

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down in Brian Smith, who is remember the son of

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the driver Terry Smith. He had grabbed an assault rifle.

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She said.

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At that point he asked his father, Terry Smith, if

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he could shoot, and his father didn't say anything. She said,

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at that point, Brian starts firing through the window at

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the deputy and Boyington was hit. Now, according to her testimony,

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she said she then pleaded with Terry Smith to pull

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over and let her out, and that basically she described

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it as.

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Him being in zombie mode.

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He just kept his eyes straight ahead on the road.

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And didn't say anything.

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Now, before we go any further, I want to say

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a few things about to Misha Bright and how she

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got caught up in all of this, because she was

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really innocent in a role. She was just in the

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wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong guys. Now,

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according to her testimony, she had moved to Louisiana from

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California with her mother. That was just a few months

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before the shooting occurred.

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She said she.

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Lived in a hotel that was nearby where she worked

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at that Voalero refinery, and that she worked for a

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contracting company that worked on a project there. So these

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folks did not work directly for Voalero refinery. They were

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contractor workers. They were working for somebody else who had

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a job in that plan. Now, somehow her mother knew

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Terry Smith. He was an acquaintance of some sort, and

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her mother also knew that he worked overtime for that

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same contractor, and she had arranged for Tanisha Bright to

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catch a ride to and from work with Terry Smith

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and the other folks that I just mentioned. But her

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mother also warned her daughter that Smith had quote a

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big gun that he always carried, and she was talking

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about Brian Smith, and she even told her daughter that

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he called his gun his girlfriend. And she would describe

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Brian Smith in particular, who did this shooting, as very

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paranoid and that he always felt like people were watching

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him and trying to kidnap him, and that one of

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the reasons he carried this assault rifle was because of

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his paranoia, So back to it. Tomi sha Bright said

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that after the shooting of Deputy Boyington, they drove to

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Riverview Moba Home Park. This is in Laplace, which is

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where the Smiths and family friend Kyle Yokel, who was

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also in that truck, if you'll remember, they lived in

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a series of four trailers.

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She said, as sent.

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As they got there, they all got out of the

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truck and at that point she tried to run, but

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she slept in the gravel.

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She testified.

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At that point, Brian Smith turned toward her, still holding

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that assault rifle, and she said, quote, I assumed if

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he thought I was going to run, that will be

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the end of me. So she was like, screw that,

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staying and she said at that point, the group huddled

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on the concrete patio outside of the trailer that Terry

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Smith shared with his wife, and at that point Terry

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Smith ordered everyone into that trailer.

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She said.

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Once they got back in the trailer, they started hearing

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sirens in the background, and she said everyone started to panic.

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She said at that point she went toward the bathroom

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to hide because she was afraid of what was about

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to happen. Next, she said she heard an officer knock

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on the trailer door and that Terry Smith and Kyle

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Yokel went out of the door to talk to that officer. Now,

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her perspective from the inside of that trailer is that

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after Terry Smith and Kyle Yokel went outside, Terry Smith's wife,

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a woman by the name of Shaneil's Keines, told her

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that they should blame Yokel for everything. That was her testimony,

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now going on to say that Terry Smith's wife called

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Kyle Yokel crazy. She said at that point she backed

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up further into the bathroom and that Brian Smith and

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his girlfriend joined her in that bathroom, and his girlfriend's

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name was Britney Keith. She said that while she was

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in the bathroom, Brian Smith got nervous because he thought

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his dad was going to tell on him for shooting

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Deputy Bointon. She said at that point she heard shouting

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from outside the trailer, and quoting the shouting, she said

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that she heard quote, I know you fucking did it.

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I know it was you, and she said she believed

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it came from a deputy. At that point, she said

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someone else screamed. It sounded muffled, like someone was shouting

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while lying face down in the dirt. She went on

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to say that she heard the words help and then

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help Brian, and said she did not recognize the voice

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of who was saying that. She said she also heard

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someone shout Brian, kill them. She said at that point,

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Brian Smith ran from the bathroom. She also said at

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that point that she started wedging herself behind a washing

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machine that she rolled into a ball. She put her

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hands over her ears and all she heard was the

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sound of an assault rifle, and she said, I knew

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it was an assault rifle because I recognized the sound

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of the shots.

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As being the same sound of.

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The shots from that first shooting at the Valero refinery.

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She said she could also hear different sounding shots, is

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how she would describe it, and she said she knew

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those were shots fired from a pistol and not an

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assault rifle. Now, she estimated the shooting lasted around thirty seconds.

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She said Brian Smith at that point stumbled back into

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the trailer and he was bleeding badly from a wound

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to his leg, and that he fell inside of the trailer.

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His girlfriend, Britney Keith, then started screaming help. And then

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she said at that point, Kyle Yokel then returned to

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the inside of the trailer. He also was bleeding, and

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Chanelle Skanes also returned to the trailer, and according to

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Bright's testimony, she was shot through the arm.

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She said that she.

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Called nine one one, and at that point Brian Smith.

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She ever heard him tell his girlfriend to tell police

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he surrendered and at that point Tanisha Bright runs out

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of the trailer and runs to a police car, and

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a deputy helped her into a neighbor's trailer, she testified.

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So that's her story, and I'm going to give you

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some other perspectives. And I mentioned Chanelle Skaanes, who was

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the wife of Terry Smith, and she also testified in

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the trial. Now, she testified that when the first shots

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rang out, she was crouched under a picnic table outside

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of that trailer. She said her step son at the time,

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who was Brian Smith, was the man who began firing

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at deputies at that trailer park. She testified she screamed

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for Brian Smith to please stop. You're gonna kill everybody,

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Please stop, and she said deputies return fire and hit Smith,

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and he dropped his AK forty seven and fled back

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into the trailer. She said it wasn't long after the

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shooting would start again. Just as she was starting to

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crawl away from that picnic table, she said she noticed

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Kyle Yokel, who at this point had been detained by deputies.

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Somehow he escapes during all this chaos. When Brian Smith

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started shooting from the trailer, she said she saw him

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pick up the assault rifle and start firing again. She

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said at that point she started screaming again quote stop,

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oh my god, you're killing somebody. She said it was

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during that second round of shooting that she saw Kyle

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Yikel stand over and already injured deputy by the name

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of Brandon Nielsen and shoot the AK forty seven from

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point blank range, killing him. She then told the jury

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that after the shooting had stopped, she ran over to

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another deputy, later identified as Jeremy Trish, and she was

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holding his hand, telling him it was going to be okay.

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Help is on the way. Just trying to comfort this

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hero who was shot and dying by this point, and

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she said it was at that point that Terry Smith,

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her husband went up to Deputy Jeremy Trish and flipped

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him over.

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So that he was lying on his stomach.

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She said, at that point, Terry Smith told her to

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get away. She said she continued to hold this deputy's

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hand and assure him help will be on the way,

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and that he took one big breath and stopped breathing.

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That was her testimony court. So there was another officer

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who was injured during the shootout at that trailer park,

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and his name was Deputy Jason Tresh, and he testified

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for about ninety minutes, and he was very seriously wounded.

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As a matter of fact, his wounds were so bad

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that when he awoke from a medically induced coma more

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than a month after the shootings, he was missing his gallbladder,

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his spleen, in one of his kidneys. He was quite

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frankly lucky to be alive. Just horrible, tragic, and horrific.

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And he admitted during his testimony that all of this

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had caused some memory loss with him, but he really

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did his best to recount the details of August sixteenth

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of twelve and the events that led up to the

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shooting from his own perspective, and he said on August fifteenth,

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he had been assigned to a graveyard shift, which was

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six pm to six am, and he testified that around

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five am he heard a transmission over his radio that

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a man had been shot and was lying in the street.

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And he said it was much later that he would

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find out that that man, that deputy, was Michael Scott Boynton.

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And of course, the shooting being referenced here is the

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initial shooting at that Valero plant. He said, he drove

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to the reported shooting scene in Laplace, and he said

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the radio traffic was not completely clear, so he wasn't

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one hundred percent sure of what to expect. He said

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when he arrived there were several sheriff units that were

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already on the scene, and that at that point another

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message came over his radio, this time reporting a suspicious

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vehicle that was headed towards the Riverview Mobile Home Park

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in Laplace, So at that point he starts heading that way.

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He said that he arrived at the trailer park and

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he saw two deputies who responded to the dispatch report. Now,

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one of those deputies was named Anthony Bullock and the

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other one was named Brandon Nielsen. He went on to say,

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it was pitch dark and they were trying to locate

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this suspicious vehicle using a flashlight. In that they in

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fact did locate the vehicle. It was in some weeds

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in the rear of the trailer park. And he said

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at that point the three deputies they banded together to

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investigate the vehicle. And at that point a fourth deputy

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arrives on the scene, and that was Jeremy Trish, and

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this was roughly fifteen minutes after he had arrived on scene.

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The deputies were then told that the suspicious vehicle was

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a pickup truck and that he and Deputy Nielsen went

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to check that out, and they were joined by Deputy

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Jeremy Trish. Meanwhile, he said that Bullock was about fifty

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yards away from him and he started talking to a

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man who the deputy testified he couldn't make out his

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features at the time, but he could tell it was

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a man, and he could tell that this man was

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standing near a picnic table in the trailer park. Now,

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in prior testimony, Bullock had already identified that man who

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he was talking to, and he identified him as Terry Smith.

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And as a matter.

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Of fact, I want to pick up with Bullock's testimony

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quickly because he mentioned that he spoke to Terry Smith

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for ten minutes or so and that he wasn't convinced

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that Terry Smith did not have anything to do with

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the shooting at the Valero plant, even though Terry Smith

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was doing his best to convince this deputy of that.

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He said, after about ten minutes, he noticed Terry Smith's

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demeanor starting to change and that Terry Smith got very nervous.

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According to Deputy Bullock, he said it was at that

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point Terry Smith literally started having the shakes. He said

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he noticed some black residue on Terry Smith's hands, and

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he said, to this day, he doesn't know what that

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black residue was, but it looked like something that he

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had gripped. He said that once he noticed the residue,

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he called out to Jeremy Trish, who would join his

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fellow deputy, and according to Bullock, it was at that

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point he grabbed Smith's hand and that's when Smith got

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really defensive. In his words, Deputy Bullock said Smith tried

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to run, but that he wrestled Smith to the grind

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and he put handcuffs on him, and at that point

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he asked him if anyone else was in the trailer,

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to which Terry Smith replied that his wife was in

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the trailer. He said, that's when he approached the trailer

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and he saw a large dog at the door, and

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he called to Terry Smith's wife to put the dog

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on a leash. Block said, he then asked to speak

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to Chanelle Skanes, who is Terry Smith's wife, inside of

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the trailer. And he said the reason he wanted to

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do that was to prevent communication between Terry Smith and

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Chanelle Skanees so they couldn't get their stories together right.

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So he sat Upon entering that trailer, he noticed a

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man under a blanket in the bedroom, and he said

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he could see this man's hands moving under that blanket,

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under the cover, and he didn't know what was under

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that cover with this guy, of course, so he draws

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his weapon and he ordered this man to show his hands.

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Now.

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That man was later identified as Kyle Yokel, and he

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said that Kyle Yokel complied and that himself, along with

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Chanelle Skenes and Kyle Yokel then all exit that trailer together.

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He said, when they exited the trailer, and once they

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got outside of it. Kyle Yokel takes off running, and

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Bullock said that he took off after him. He catches

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up to him and he starts handcuffing Kyle Yokel, and

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he said that's when Brian Smith appeared from the trailer.

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He was brandishing an AK forty seven, and of course

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all hell breaks loose. Now, picking up with a little

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bit more of Jason Trisha's testimony, he said that it

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was a split second when he saw Deputy brand Nielsen

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and Jeremy Trish get shot. He said, at that point

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he took off running and he got shot in the back.

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He grabbed his weapon and he shot several times back

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at the individuals. Jason Trish said he did make it

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back to his vehicle and he was actually able to

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make it to the hospital and as I told you

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several weeks later, after about a month in a coma,

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he finally woke up. Now, as far as Deputy Bullock,

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he said he took shelter behind the trailer after Brian

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Smith started shooting, and he said, in one hand he

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had the gun that he had pulled out of Kyle

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Yokel's waistband, and in the other hand he was firing

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with his own weapon. He also testified that he saw

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Deputy Nielsen fall and that he saw Deputies Jeremy Trish

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and Jason Trish running in the same direction toward some

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nearby railroad tracks. He said at this point he was

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positioned behind the trailer and he and the gunmen were

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actually firing at each other through the mobile home. He

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said that's when Kyle Yokel, who had been on the ground,

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ran back toward the front of the trailer and out

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of his view. He said, after Deputy Nielsen was struck

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by bullets, he saw a pair of legs from the

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other side of the trailer, and it was at that

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point that he made it to a nearby white pickup

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truck and took cover behind the truck, and he was

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able to shoot the person whose legs were visible, presumably

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the legs. He said he didn't watch as the person

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began crawling toward the door of the trailer.

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Now.

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Deputy Bullock also testified that he saw a gumman standing

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over Deputy Nielsen, who had been shot, and that he

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saw this person, who was later identified as Kyle Yokel,

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fired several shots into the fallen deputy's body execution style.

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He also testified that as the bullets were flying, another

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deputy by the name of Charles Well approached the scene

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and that he basically flagged the deputy down and told

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him stop, don't come any closer. So that's the details

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that I have in this just absolutely horrific, infuriating shooting

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in which two deputies were killed, Saint john Sheriff's Deputy

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Brandon Nielsen and Deputy Jeremy Trish, and two deputies were wounded,

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of course, Michael Boynton at the first scene and Jason

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Trish wounded at the trailer park scene, if you will,

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and police would discover that these guys were members of

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what was called a sovereign citizen movement. And let me

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explain to you quickly what a sovereign say citizen allegedly is,

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and it's I guess the best way to tell you

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is it's an extremist movement of a bunch of people

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who don't believe in any sort of law. They believe

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you're in charge of yourself essentially, and they don't recognize

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law enforcement at all. They don't believe in taxes, they

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don't believe in authority, and they refer back to laws

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like laws that existed when the country was very first founded,

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as something to stand on. As far as their beliefs

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are concerned, it's absolutely ridiculous in my opinion, and I'm

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not going to spend too much time on it, but

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let's just say that they don't believe in any authority whatsoever,

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and they hate well, they typically hate cops because their

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law enforcement, and they don't believe in law enforcement, and

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they don't believe in anybody expressing any authority over them.

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So I'm going to break down for you now because

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there's so many one who each of these individuals were

469
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:06.480
and what happened to them, And I'm going to tell

470
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:09.799
you that there's one in particular that it's really going

471
00:31:09.880 --> 00:31:12.039
to shock you when I get to him. But we're

472
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.519
going to start with Terry Smith, who was involved in

473
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.759
that initial shooting at the Valera refinery. Remember, he was

474
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.240
a driver. He was approximately forty four years old at

475
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:24.799
the time of this shooting, and there's not a whole

476
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:28.039
lot of details about his early life, but he was

477
00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:33.079
very involved in the sovereign citizen movement. He would proclaim

478
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:36.880
himself as a common law judge and he would lead

479
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.799
a small group of sovereign citizens in the area, so

480
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:43.960
he was kind of like the patriarch of this group,

481
00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:48.279
if you will. And of course he gets arrested for

482
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.599
his role in the initial shooting. But guess what his

483
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.519
role in this shooting that attempted murder of the initial

484
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:01.279
officer at the Valeria plant, Deputy Boyington. It never goes

485
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:06.079
to trial. Why because he had another case penning that

486
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:09.839
would send him to Blooding in Gola to serve multiple

487
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:13.559
life sentences for rape. And let me tell you how

488
00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:17.240
disgusting this guy is. And I'm going tomber reference. An

489
00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:21.799
article in this article was written by Dan Swinson. It

490
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:26.079
ran in The Times Picky un on October fifth of

491
00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:31.319
twenty twelve, and it kind of discusses Terry Smith's past

492
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:35.000
and it reads, Adam Tennessee, a police car crunched up

493
00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:38.279
in the trailer Parks grivel drive headed for the family

494
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:42.160
exiled to the far back corner. They were so honory,

495
00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:46.200
so prone to trouble making that their landlord had moved

496
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:49.480
them there to Lot twenty eight A just to get

497
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:52.079
him out of the way. It was November of last

498
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.960
year when the detective came for forty four year old

499
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:59.599
Terry Lynn Smith, accused of raping a teenage relative. What

500
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:03.920
she found instead would take her months later to Saint

501
00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.480
John the Baptist Parish. A stack of paper she carried

502
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:11.119
from that trailer would help piece together a puzzle of

503
00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:15.279
the Smiths, their connection to a Nebraska fugitive, and the

504
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:18.680
senseless doctrine that might have driven them to gun down

505
00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:24.079
four sheriff's deputies in cold blood. On November ninth, Robertson County, Tennessee,

506
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:28.839
Detective Angela Lenney arrived at the Smith's camp, two trailers

507
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:33.200
side by side at the Red River Valley Camp in Adams, Tennessee.

508
00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:37.920
The Smiths weren't home, but a skinny redhead bolted from

509
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:41.039
that camper. He ran for the windline, leaped off a

510
00:33:41.119 --> 00:33:44.839
steep wooded bluff, and disappeared into the woods. An old

511
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:48.720
white buick with Nebraska tags sat parked outside. It had

512
00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:52.240
been stolen two months earlier. Lenny learned by a skinny,

513
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:56.319
redheaded fugitive named Kyle Yokel, wanted in two states for

514
00:33:56.519 --> 00:34:00.759
dealing dope and threatening to kill police officers. Inside the

515
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:04.480
Smith's camper, Lenny found an arsenal of guns. And ammunition

516
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:06.799
in a stack of paper she hoped would lead her

517
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:11.039
to Terry Smith's missing teenage relative. Quote. I started looking

518
00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:13.800
through it, and I discover more than what I went

519
00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:17.400
there for. The documents linked the Smith family to the

520
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:22.039
militant anti government group called Sovereign Citizens, whose thousands of

521
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:26.119
members recognize no authority higher than their own. They dabble

522
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:31.159
in conspiracy theories and file cryptic lawsuits protesting the unfairness

523
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:36.400
of taxes and driver's license and sometimes they spiral into violence.

524
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:40.280
The Smiths, they were arrogant. They didn't care about anybody

525
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.079
but themselves. That from their landlord in Tennessee. I hate

526
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.920
to say it, but I could see that ending coming.

527
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:52.119
The mere mention of Terry Smith drives a grizzled old

528
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:55.199
man in North Louisiana to weep, to beat his head

529
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:58.280
against the doorframe of his rickety old house, to curse

530
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:01.840
God in Smith and anyone else who will listen. Quote

531
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:06.719
he's killing me, he sobs. Richard Skaines has long white hair,

532
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:09.719
wears cowboy boots and denim shirts, and sinks to his

533
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:12.840
knees if the thought of Smith. His daughter Chanelle met

534
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.000
the man years ago. Her father begged her not to

535
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:20.960
marry him. Smith was manipulative, Skaines could see. He brought

536
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:24.360
up his two boys mean just like him. But his

537
00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:27.519
daughter married Terry Smith anyway, and the two took off

538
00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:31.639
to travel from state to state, factory job to factory job.

539
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:35.559
Skaine's heard of the child molestation cases in Tennessee, and

540
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:38.280
he said he helped Leamy to try to find Smith.

541
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:41.679
He begged the police to arrest him. Quote I hate

542
00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:43.920
that son of a bitch, and I always did, he

543
00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:46.800
said of his son in law. I told the detective,

544
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:49.519
if I see him, I'm going to kill him. You

545
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:52.559
better catch him before I do. But he didn't see

546
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:57.400
Smith ever again, and neither did that detective. On the

547
00:35:57.400 --> 00:36:01.239
morning of the massacre in the Laplace trailer, Chanelle Scanes

548
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:04.840
ran screaming from her trailer in an effort to protect

549
00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:08.760
the deputies that, according to witnesses, quote don't shoot them,

550
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:12.079
she wailed. A neighbor said she threw herself on top

551
00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.239
of a fallen deputy as the neighbor watched, begging her

552
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.559
husband's son and Kyle Yogl to stop firing. They allegedly

553
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.679
shot her in the arm. She is charged as an

554
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:25.719
accomplice in the shooting of the first deputy in the

555
00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:29.119
parking lot. A week later, Scane's father stood on his lawn,

556
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:33.639
littered with broken bicycles, trash in old tires, and laminated

557
00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:36.079
that his daughter, who he said was a good girl,

558
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:40.000
married such a dangerous man, so dangerous, so mean. He

559
00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:43.039
said that somebody should have seen it coming and locked

560
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:46.199
him up A long time ago. Those cops didn't have

561
00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:50.199
to die. His former landlord in that trailer park remembered

562
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:54.000
just three tenants of the hundreds he had last year. Quote,

563
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:56.880
you don't remember the good people, You just don't you

564
00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:01.239
remember the troublemakers in his threshold for recollection is high.

565
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:04.840
One of the three bad ones he recalled stole his canoes,

566
00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:08.119
cut them into pieces, and sold them a few towns over.

567
00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:11.679
Another was caught with the dead prostitute in his trailer.

568
00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:16.760
The third, the Smiths, was a family so unruly that

569
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:19.760
the landlord insisted they moved to the furthest back corner

570
00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:23.679
of the campground's overflow lot. The camp sites seventy eight

571
00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:27.559
lots were full of November due to a semiconductor plant

572
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:30.239
that was under construction in nearby Clarksville.

573
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:30.800
Tennessee.

574
00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:34.239
Until then, the landlord and his father had run a

575
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:37.920
sleepy canoe camp, a place for weeking getaways and field

576
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.599
trips on the Red River, which snaked along the back

577
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:43.159
edge of the camp shady main lot. They are more

578
00:37:43.199 --> 00:37:47.519
accustomed to nailing flip flops to their trademark quote tree

579
00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:51.159
of Souls in telling ghost stories to children than they

580
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:54.679
are housing bad laborers that the Chamber of Commerce had

581
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:58.239
asked if they expand, even temporarily to allow workers a

582
00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.400
place to live. The landlord charged the workers four hundred

583
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:03.840
dollars a month in rent, and for the most part

584
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:08.159
left them alone. The landlord got the impression Yokel was

585
00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:12.400
a follower, impressionable, and easy to reel in. The Smiths,

586
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:16.800
he believes, became Yokel's outlaw family, bonded in blood and

587
00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.000
guns and a shared distaste for authority. When the law

588
00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:22.719
came for the patriarch, the Smiths had to run, and

589
00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.440
Yokel had nowhere else to go, so he figured he

590
00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:28.719
might as well run with them. The landlord said. They

591
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:31.599
all snuck back in the next day, long enough to

592
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:35.119
hook up their trailers to their trucks and haul them away.

593
00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:38.840
Then the Smiths and Yokel once again slipped away. The

594
00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:41.920
landlord didn't know where they were headed at the time.

595
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:44.800
He didn't care so long as they were gone, but

596
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:48.639
Looney kept looking. She issued a bulletin through the Tennessee

597
00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:52.079
Fusion Center declaring Terry Smith wanted for questioning in a

598
00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:55.199
child's sex abuse case. He had a history that wove

599
00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:58.360
through a half a dozen states, the bulletin warned, and

600
00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:03.599
was affiliated with a militant organization prone to domestic terrorism.

601
00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:07.440
He should be considered dangerous. A half a year later,

602
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:10.719
a hitchhiker thumbing a ride on a desolate stretch of

603
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:14.440
the highway in North Louisiana would offer a similar warning

604
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:18.280
about the Smiths. The family, he told yet another sheriff,

605
00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:22.239
this one six hundred miles from Tennessee, had moved into

606
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.440
the back of a trailer park in their town. They

607
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:28.880
had a lot of guns, he said, and they didn't

608
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:32.159
like the law. And that's how that rered gives you

609
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.800
kind of a view of how just horrible these people were.

610
00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:42.280
And of course that article started off talking about a

611
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:47.320
rape of a family member, that the patriarch of this group,

612
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.360
Terry Smith, was accused of molesting, and that victim was

613
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:57.440
identified as his minor stepdaughter. Now, according to documents, he

614
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:00.840
raked her for over ten years, with the use starting

615
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:03.280
in two thousand and four, when this little girl was

616
00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:07.039
just seven years old, and continuing until the summer of

617
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:11.159
twenty eleven when she was seventeen. And the acts included

618
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:17.320
vaginal penetration, oral sex, and even object insertion into her.

619
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:20.159
And he would threaten this poor little girl that he

620
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:24.159
would kill the entire family if she ever told. Now,

621
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:28.920
in twenty eleven, when this little girl escapes the Smiths home,

622
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:33.159
she reported it and there was apparently plenty of evidence

623
00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:38.679
to substantiate this, and he eventually pleaded guilty to the charges.

624
00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:43.199
And just as sick and disgusting as this is, when

625
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:48.480
they interviewed her mother, her mother admitted to ignoring the

626
00:40:48.519 --> 00:40:51.039
signs of this, and it would be hard for him

627
00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:54.679
to believe she didn't know what was going on after

628
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:57.480
all of that time. So he has a ton of

629
00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:01.679
rape charges here, and he eventually gets sentenced for this.

630
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:05.280
This was in March of twenty sixteen, and he gets

631
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:12.360
two life terms consecutive with no probation, plus fifty years

632
00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.719
of hard labor on some other charges. He ends up

633
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:20.039
getting life. Plus Terry Smith ain't never getting out of prison,

634
00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:24.079
thank god. And all of that was tied to those

635
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:30.440
original child rape charges of a family member, and none

636
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:34.840
of that sentence was tied to what occurred in Saint

637
00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:37.519
John Parrish. Now, of course he appealed all that shit,

638
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:43.519
and those appeals were denied. And let me tell you something,

639
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.239
I don't know anything about this guy as far as

640
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:51.039
how he's going about his life inside of Bloody and Gola,

641
00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:55.519
but I can tell you convicts don't like chomos. That's

642
00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:59.280
all I'm gonna say. They don't like chomo's. So he's

643
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:04.199
either protective custody so to speak, meaning they don't let

644
00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:09.079
him in general population, or he's having quite a hard time.

645
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:12.639
And I feel not the least bit sorry for him.

646
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:15.480
So that's who Terry Smith was. And before I go

647
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:19.559
any further, I want to make this very clear. Nobody

648
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:23.719
gives a shit about these people that were involved in

649
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:28.119
this from the standpoint of the perpetrators. But you have

650
00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:31.159
to tell the story, the who, what, why, wearing how,

651
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:33.760
And I just want to make that clear. I am

652
00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:37.320
telling the complete full story, and you can't tell the

653
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:40.440
complete full story without going over what happened to these

654
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:44.519
people and how much trouble they were causing even before

655
00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:46.719
all this went down. So I want to make that clear.

656
00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:49.679
I don't give a fuck about these people, but I

657
00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:53.159
have to tell the story, so I'll move on. I

658
00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.760
told you about Terry Smith. We're going to talk about

659
00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:58.719
his son, Brian Smith, who was one of the two

660
00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:02.320
shooters at the trailer park. He was twenty four years

661
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:04.760
old when all this went down. Of course, he was

662
00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:07.760
charged with two counts of first degree murder. And to

663
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:11.239
give you a little background on him, obviously he was

664
00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:15.760
very much influenced by his piece of shit rapist's father.

665
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:19.840
He was homeschooled and at the time growing up, not

666
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:22.760
much as knowing out him outside of the fact that

667
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:25.719
he was considered a major troublemaker, kind of looked like

668
00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:30.800
a punk, and he heavily embraced the sovereign citizen ideology.

669
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:34.000
But here's something that may surprise you. In his case,

670
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:39.199
he was also never convicted or sentenced in this case

671
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:43.480
of these shootings, even though he had two charges of

672
00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:49.599
first degree murder, which are death penalty charges. Right Why well,

673
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:54.800
he was considered mentally incompetent to stand trial. He was

674
00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:59.760
actually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia with psychosis, and even though

675
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:03.199
he was never sentenced in this case, he will never

676
00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:09.199
see the free world again because he is hospitalized in Jackson, Louisiana,

677
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:12.719
where there is a state hospital where you put people

678
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:17.559
that are just mentally incompetent, and he will be at

679
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:20.440
that hospital for the rest of his life. So, just

680
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:23.039
to give me an idea of the timeline of his case.

681
00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:26.599
On August twenty fourth of twenty twelve, he gets charged

682
00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:30.159
with two counts of first degree murder plus three counts

683
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:33.639
of attempted first degree murder. On August twenty fifth of

684
00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:38.039
twenty twelve, he gets indicted for those charges. In August

685
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:42.119
of twenty thirteen, the following year, emotion is filed with

686
00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:45.599
his attorneys to bar the death penalty, and they cited

687
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:48.599
mental illness and they have a hearing, and in then hearing,

688
00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:52.679
some psychiatrist speaks and he confirms that this guy suffers

689
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:58.960
from schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia. And look from there, this case

690
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:02.159
drug out all the way to twenty twenty before a

691
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:06.760
judge by the name of Sterling Snouty ruled him mentally

692
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:10.960
incompetent to stand trial, and that was spurred by an

693
00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:15.000
audio recording from twenty seventeen from a hearing where this

694
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:17.880
guy just goes on a rant in the hearing about

695
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:22.199
the government targeting him. And as you would expect, he's

696
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:26.000
acting just completely crazy. But it was a good example

697
00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:30.480
of his stability, which is non existent in this guy's case.

698
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:34.239
And that was enough, I guess, to convince the judge

699
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.639
that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial. Not saying

700
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.119
I agree with it. I would have made him stand

701
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:44.159
trial personally, but that is the facts of what the

702
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:47.639
judge found. Now, one thing that came out as police

703
00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:52.039
investigated was he had a unique bond with the next

704
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.360
guy that we're going to talk about, which is Kyle

705
00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:57.960
Yokel and he was the other shooter at that trailer park,

706
00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:01.239
the one that picked up the AKA forty seven. So

707
00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:03.320
let's get into Kyle Yogel.

708
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:10.360
Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?

709
00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:13.079
Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

710
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:14.280
what happened in New York.

711
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:16.280
It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

712
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:17.840
you about yesterday in Louisiana.

713
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:20.920
You know what, we should do a podcast about it.

714
00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:24.000
And with that we did. Crime War Weekly covers the

715
00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:26.239
crime news headlines that have dominated the week.

716
00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:29.920
We cover trending crimes from all over the country and

717
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.480
even sprinkle in a few globally.

718
00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:35.320
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719
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:36.880
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720
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Simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link

721
00:46:40.239 --> 00:46:49.719
in the description of this podcast. He was indicted for

722
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:52.119
two counts of first degree murdyer. And a little about

723
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:55.480
his early life. He was born in nineteen eighty five.

724
00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:58.480
He was twenty eight when all this went down. As

725
00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:01.840
of today, he is a around forty years old. He's

726
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:06.039
a white male, and he grew up actually in Nebraska

727
00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:10.440
on a farm. In his early life was troubled, was rough.

728
00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:14.719
Allegedly he had an abusive father and his entire family

729
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:18.559
was plagued by alcoholism. At some point, he drops out

730
00:47:18.599 --> 00:47:21.920
of high school in the eleventh grade after he and

731
00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:26.280
his father supposedly gotten a pretty violent altercation, and from

732
00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:29.559
there he would turn to alcohol in minor crimes. By

733
00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:33.440
his early twenties, he faced some pretty stiff charges in

734
00:47:33.559 --> 00:47:39.239
Nebraska for drug possession, resisting arrest, making threats against law enforcement,

735
00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:42.960
and all of those are classified as terroristic threats. So

736
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:46.719
warrant gets put out for his arrest and he hauls

737
00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:51.119
ass and he meets up with the Smiths somehow. And

738
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.800
I told you about him being with them in Tennessee

739
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:57.719
at that trailer park. But he was just kind of

740
00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:02.440
a want to bee, as that landlord in Tennessee also said,

741
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:05.320
and I quoted him as saying, he just appeared to

742
00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:08.519
be some sort of follower and wanted to be accepted

743
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:13.480
into a group. And he was also the sixth s

744
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:20.039
Mitch that shot, if you'll remember Deputy Nielsen point blank

745
00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:22.960
after he already laid on the ground dying.

746
00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:23.800
As it was.

747
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:27.000
That's how sick and twisted this guy is. And in

748
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:32.119
the end, he gets exactly what he deserved. He gets

749
00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:35.760
the death penalty inside of bloody Angola.

750
00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:36.760
But it took a while.

751
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:40.679
He wasn't convicted until February of twenty twenty, and he

752
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:44.079
was formally sentenced to death just a couple of years ago,

753
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:47.599
in twenty twenty three, some eleven years after this incident.

754
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.719
I would imagine, because he was convicted in twenty twenty,

755
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:55.119
what happened right after he was convicted. He was convicted

756
00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:58.599
in February of twenty twenty of course, late March COVID,

757
00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:03.079
and it put things off, and he wasn't actually formally

758
00:49:03.119 --> 00:49:06.800
sentenced to death until twenty twenty three, eleven years after

759
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:11.079
the incident. He's on death row as of today. And

760
00:49:11.400 --> 00:49:15.039
in that case, get this, and this is a little

761
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:19.239
bit rare. It's not very common that you would deliberate

762
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:24.239
for just twenty two minutes to convict someone in a

763
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:27.519
death penalty case. But that's what happened here, that's how

764
00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:31.519
clear the evidence was. So we covered the actual shooters

765
00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:34.239
and what happened to them, and let's get into some

766
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:37.320
of the I guess you would call it co conspirators.

767
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:39.679
And the first person we're going to talk about is

768
00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:43.039
the wife of Terry Smith, the leader of this group.

769
00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:48.039
And her name was Chanelle Skeines. And Chanelle was thirty

770
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:50.440
seven years old when this originally went down.

771
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:51.639
She was born in.

772
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:56.679
Nineteen seventy five, so she would be fifty years old

773
00:49:56.719 --> 00:50:00.880
approximately today as I record this, and she was the

774
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:05.159
second wife of Terry Smith. Now, she was originally arrested

775
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:08.679
for accessory after the fact. Now at some point her

776
00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:11.960
charges do get upgraded to being a principal to first

777
00:50:11.960 --> 00:50:17.320
degree murder, However, because she testified against Yokel, eventually she

778
00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:20.639
gets sentenced to five years in prison. She serves that

779
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:24.159
time with good credits, and she ends up getting released

780
00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:28.920
sometime around twenty seventeen, and not much else is none

781
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.519
about her. And I'm sure her role in the shooting,

782
00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:36.719
as far as trying to comfort the deputies, shielding them

783
00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:41.000
at one point from her husband, I'm sure that played

784
00:50:41.039 --> 00:50:45.239
a role. And the fact that she testified against some

785
00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:48.480
of these individuals, I'm sure that played a role in

786
00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:52.239
her sentence. And it was interesting that she cooperated pretty

787
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:56.559
quickly considering the charges she was facing, probably a smart thing.

788
00:50:56.599 --> 00:50:58.800
As a matter of fact, in November of twenty twelve,

789
00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:02.800
she took that plea deal, so just a few months

790
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:05.639
after all of this occurred. Now, someone that I haven't

791
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:09.840
told you a whole lot about is Derek Smith. Derek

792
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:14.400
Smith was the younger son of Terry Smith and Brian Smith,

793
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:18.079
and he was also arrested in connection with this incident. Now,

794
00:51:18.119 --> 00:51:22.639
he was not directly involved in the shooting that took

795
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:28.119
place at that trailer park. However, when they investigated him,

796
00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:31.800
he does get charged with two counts of accessory after

797
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:35.400
the fact and a felon in possession of a firearm,

798
00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:38.320
and he gets some time for that because he was

799
00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:41.519
already a felon. You get found with a firearm. He

800
00:51:41.559 --> 00:51:45.360
actually picked up twelve years at hard labor for that,

801
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:50.280
plus five years at hard labor for the accessory after

802
00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:53.880
the fact charge. He ends up serving it in a

803
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:57.440
detention center and he gets released on good time. And

804
00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:01.639
this is an April first of twenty seven after serving

805
00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:04.679
about four and a half years of his sentence, and

806
00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:08.119
he was placed under supervised probation in the custody of

807
00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:12.159
his grandmother at that point, and maybe he learned his

808
00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:16.760
lesson right. Nope, his freedom is very short lived. As

809
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:19.599
a matter of fact, on August twelfth of twenty seventeen,

810
00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:24.239
just five months after he was released, he gets rearrested

811
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:30.719
for illegal weapon possession, which violated his parole. It leads

812
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:35.199
to his return to custody and he goes back to prison.

813
00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:39.519
Now I don't have any information on if he has

814
00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:43.480
been released again or not, so I'm not going to

815
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:48.159
speculate on that. But he did get out and five

816
00:52:48.199 --> 00:52:51.880
months later end up back in jail in twenty seventeen. Unbelievable,

817
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:55.559
So I'm going to reference another article now, this article

818
00:52:56.159 --> 00:53:00.239
also from The Times Peaky un and it talked a

819
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:05.400
little bit about Chanelle's Skanes and her testifying at a

820
00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:10.559
preliminary hearing. And I find it very interesting. It again

821
00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:14.239
helps to paint the picture here and it reads Chanelle

822
00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:17.280
Skanes knelt on the gravel of the Laplace trailer park,

823
00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:20.119
where she lived with her husband, daughter and step sons,

824
00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:23.400
clutching the hand of a Saint John Parish deputy who

825
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:26.719
had been struck in a hell of gunfire just seconds before,

826
00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:28.639
stroking his hair and forehead.

827
00:53:28.719 --> 00:53:29.119
Quote.

828
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:32.199
Are they talking to you? She asked the deputy in

829
00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:36.159
a panic, referring to the voices she heard broadcasting over

830
00:53:36.199 --> 00:53:39.239
a Sheriff's office issue radio that lay on the ground

831
00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:43.639
next to him. The deputy mumbled, yes, they're coming, Skins

832
00:53:43.719 --> 00:53:47.679
reassured him between bouts of sobbing and please for help,

833
00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:50.599
so frantic in fact, that she hadn't noticed her own

834
00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:53.960
gunshot wound in her arm. They're coming, she told him,

835
00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:57.599
I promise you, they're coming, but help would arrive too late.

836
00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:01.480
Moments later, the deputy died, one of the two casualties

837
00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:05.360
of a horrific ambush on August sixteenth, twenty twelve that

838
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:10.000
ambush claimed the lives of Deputies Jeremy Trish and Brandon Nielsen,

839
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:13.559
and left Deputies Michael Scott Boyington and Jason Trish with

840
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:18.000
injury so severe that Boyington required six or seven surgeries

841
00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:21.079
and Trish had to have his spling, gallbladder and one of.

842
00:54:21.079 --> 00:54:22.199
His kidneys removed.

843
00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:26.840
Four suspects will stand trial for those crimes, including Skaane's

844
00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:31.280
husband Terry Smith, step sons Dereck and Brian Smith, as

845
00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:34.719
well as Kyle Yokel. Terry and Derreck Smith are charged

846
00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:37.559
with being a principal to attempt at first very murder.

847
00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:41.199
Brian Smith and Yokel are each charged with two counts

848
00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:44.480
of first very murder in the deaths of Jeremy, Trish

849
00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:49.159
and Nielsen. It convicted, they faced possible death sentences Skain's

850
00:54:49.199 --> 00:54:52.920
and Britney Keith, Brian Smith's girlfriend, had pleaded guilty to

851
00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:57.840
accessory charges. The charges against Tamisha Bright, who told authorities

852
00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:01.199
she simply had hitched her at home with the Smiths

853
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:04.360
that August day and was initially booked with being a

854
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:07.960
principal to attempt at first green murtyerr were refused in

855
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:11.039
October of last year on Friday morning. In a tear

856
00:55:11.119 --> 00:55:15.800
for a two hour testimony during the preliminary examination, Skanees

857
00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:19.119
were called the Fear, the panic and violence had unspooled

858
00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:23.639
across the scenic Riverview Mumba home that August morning. Shortly

859
00:55:23.719 --> 00:55:26.960
after four am on August sixteenth, Skane says she received

860
00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:30.559
a puzzling phone call from her step son, Derek. Skane's

861
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:32.360
had just gotten out of bed in the Moba home

862
00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:34.880
she shared with her husband, Terry Smith, and had gone

863
00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:37.679
to the kitchen to make coffee. She knew Terry and

864
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:41.320
his sons would be arriving home from the Valeria refinery

865
00:55:41.360 --> 00:55:44.599
in Laplace where they worked late shifts, and then her

866
00:55:44.639 --> 00:55:48.000
phone rang quote, the cops are chasing us, Dereck Smith

867
00:55:48.079 --> 00:55:50.159
told her, then abruptly hung up.

868
00:55:50.519 --> 00:55:50.800
Quote.

869
00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:52.880
I thought he was playing a joke because he liked

870
00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:56.400
to do practical things like that, She testified. But because

871
00:55:56.440 --> 00:55:59.119
Skines knew that her husband, who drove a Chevy truck,

872
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:02.039
did not have a driver's license, she began to worry

873
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:05.159
that perhaps the group had run into trouble. She walked

874
00:56:05.159 --> 00:56:08.719
out of the trailer just as they pulled up Terry, Derek,

875
00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:11.599
and Brian Smith, as well as Kyle Yokel and Bright,

876
00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:15.480
a neighbor and fellow employee who Terry Smith often shuttled

877
00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:17.760
to him from work, poured out of that truck.

878
00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:18.519
Quote.

879
00:56:18.599 --> 00:56:20.880
I asked Terry what was going on? He told me

880
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:24.639
that Brian had shot a guard. Terry Smith was referring

881
00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:28.719
to Deputy Michael Scott Boynton, who Brian Smith allegedly shot

882
00:56:28.760 --> 00:56:32.159
with an assault rifle outside the Valeria parking lot. After

883
00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:35.440
Boynton tried to pull them over. The Smithson sped down

884
00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:38.679
by you. Steell rode back to the trailer. Terry Smith

885
00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:42.880
told Skanes to go back inside the trailer. She obliged. Meanwhile,

886
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:46.760
he returned to his truck. The others, including Skanes, convened

887
00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:50.719
inside the trailer. Keith was also present at the trailer.

888
00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:55.079
According to Skaanes, Derek Smith left the trailer shortly thereafter.

889
00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:59.960
Quote then Brian said, Dad's turning on me. Skanes testified

890
00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:02.880
he was pacing talking, saying we had to leave, we

891
00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:06.320
gotta go, we can't stay here. Skane said her testimony

892
00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:10.480
that Brian Smith often exhibited paranoid behavior, peering out of

893
00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:14.400
windows as if he were being followed, distrusting his loyal

894
00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:15.679
family and friends.

895
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:16.519
Quote.

896
00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:20.119
I said, no, no, no, it's okay, Skane said. Terry

897
00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:23.559
Smith returned from his car with a rifle slung over

898
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:26.679
his shoulder. As Terry Smith went to lay the rifle

899
00:57:26.719 --> 00:57:29.679
on the bed, Skane's picked up the firearm and tucked

900
00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:32.400
it under a pile of clothes in the closet, along

901
00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:35.840
with the purse which held a handgun. Terry Smith left

902
00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:40.000
the trailer, and moments later Skane's heard voices outside quote.

903
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:42.280
I assumed it was a police because I could hear

904
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:45.440
the radios. Then there was a knock on a door.

905
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:48.239
I opened the door and there was a policeman standing there.

906
00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:50.559
He said, Hi, how are you doing. I'd like to

907
00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:52.840
talk to you for a second. I have my dog

908
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:55.320
in my hand and said let me come outside. I

909
00:57:55.400 --> 00:57:58.119
put the dog on a leash and stepped outside. When

910
00:57:58.159 --> 00:58:01.719
I did, Terry was sitting at the picnic table, handcuffed.

911
00:58:02.039 --> 00:58:05.000
Skane's testified she met his two other deputies staring near

912
00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:07.480
the corner of her trailer, and the deputy who had

913
00:58:07.559 --> 00:58:09.639
knocked on the door told her to go back in

914
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:14.039
the trailer. He followed her inside. Brian Smith, his girlfriend,

915
00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:18.280
Britney Keith and Bright had disappeared into the bathroom. Yokel

916
00:58:18.400 --> 00:58:21.559
was lying in Skane's bed, hiding under the covers. The

917
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:25.239
officer quickly noticed Yokel and asked him to step outside.

918
00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:29.039
Skane's Yokel and the officer then left the trailer. Skane

919
00:58:29.079 --> 00:58:32.519
sat down at the picnic table. The next thing, Skane's

920
00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:36.239
need the deputies were wrestling Yokel to the ground. Skane's

921
00:58:36.280 --> 00:58:39.880
thirteen year old daughter, who also testified on Friday, had

922
00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:43.119
been in Dereck Smith's trailer for the entire episode, but

923
00:58:43.239 --> 00:58:47.400
she said she distinctly heard Yokel scream they're going to

924
00:58:47.480 --> 00:58:50.000
kill us all. Skane said she saw one of the

925
00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:53.679
officers kick Yokel. She said another officer drew a gun

926
00:58:53.719 --> 00:58:56.840
and threatened to shoot Terry Smith as well as Skane's dog,

927
00:58:57.199 --> 00:58:59.880
who had been barking since the deputy showed up.

928
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:00.679
They put the.

929
00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:03.719
Gun in Terry's face, saying he should just shoot them.

930
00:59:03.800 --> 00:59:07.119
Skane said, he said, I'll just shoot the dog. No,

931
00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:09.800
you can't shoot the dog. He said, I'll shoot both

932
00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:13.000
of you. I'm trying to hush the dog. Skane's continued,

933
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:15.920
and the door of the trailer swings open. Skin said

934
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:19.079
She then saw Brian in her peripheral vision in the

935
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:22.239
doorway of the trailer. She heard gunshots, grabbed her dog

936
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:25.159
and rolled under the picnic table. She said, I heard

937
00:59:25.159 --> 00:59:28.000
a bunch of shooting, then everything went quiet and I

938
00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:29.079
was screaming.

939
00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:29.559
Stop, stop.

940
00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:33.719
Then I heard Brian say I've been shot. Skane said.

941
00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:36.639
She began crawling toward the camper from under the picnic

942
00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:39.079
table where she had been hiding him. When she turned

943
00:59:39.119 --> 00:59:42.119
her head, she met his Jokeal walking along the side

944
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:44.960
of the trailer. She said, Yokle knelt down and picked

945
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:49.199
up a rifle. Moments later, gunfire resumed and Skane's once

946
00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:53.039
again buried her head in her arms. Quote. I guess

947
00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:56.320
Brian had just threw the gun out the door, she said.

948
00:59:56.760 --> 00:59:59.559
Yokel picked it up, started screaming he was going to

949
00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:03.599
kill the and he started firing down at the police officer.

950
01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:06.920
Although Skanes later said she did not actually see Yokil

951
01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:10.239
a deputy, she confirmed that she did see him point

952
01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:13.199
the barrel of the gun downward toward the ground, only

953
01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:18.039
later which she noticed the deputy lying nearby. Deputy David

954
01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:22.039
Anthony Bullock, who was also present during the ambush, testified

955
01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:24.440
in September that he had seen a pair of legs

956
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:27.960
fire shots into the body of Deputy Brandon Nielsen, and

957
01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:31.280
I quoted you that then when quiet, Skane said, she said,

958
01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:33.920
she grabbed the dog and ran across the street to

959
01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:37.039
Derreck Smith's trailer, where he and his thirteen year old

960
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:40.280
daughter had been during the shooting. Skanes left the dog

961
01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:43.639
there and ran back toward her trailer, where she noticed

962
01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:47.599
the deputy, presumably Jeremy Trush, bleeding on the ground. She

963
01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:50.719
knelt beside him. Quote, he was laying there. I asked

964
01:00:50.719 --> 01:00:53.599
if he was okay. She held his hand, smoothed his hair,

965
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:56.679
and told him help was on the way. Skane said

966
01:00:56.719 --> 01:01:00.440
that she then spotted Terry Smith. Skanees told the deputy

967
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:03.440
that she'd be right back, and she and Smith returned

968
01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:06.199
to the trailer, where Brian Smith was on the floor

969
01:01:06.239 --> 01:01:08.960
bleeding from a gunshot wound. She looked at him and

970
01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:13.000
told him, quote, you're crazy. As Skin's began walking back

971
01:01:13.039 --> 01:01:16.239
to the fallen deputy, she noticed Dereck Smith and her

972
01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:19.679
daughter coming toward her. She said she pleaded for them

973
01:01:19.760 --> 01:01:23.880
to stay away. Skan's grabbed her daughter's hand and took

974
01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:27.320
the child to her aunt's trailer. Skan's then ran back

975
01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:31.199
to the deputy as the deputy radio continued to cackle

976
01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:35.039
beside them. Skain's greened, hurry, I'm losing him. I don't

977
01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:40.039
have any weapons, please hurry. Then Skin's testified between fits

978
01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:43.639
of tears he stopped breathing. Only then skin said did

979
01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:46.840
she realize she had been shot, presumably by a bullet

980
01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:48.639
from Brian Smith's gun.

981
01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:49.159
Quote.

982
01:01:49.159 --> 01:01:52.480
They grabbed me, Skane said, and got the ambulance and

983
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:54.960
I went to the hospital because I had been shot.

984
01:01:55.199 --> 01:01:58.000
Skain's was one of nine witnesses in court, etc.

985
01:01:58.639 --> 01:01:58.880
Etc.

986
01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:01.559
And I wanted to read you that because I just

987
01:02:01.599 --> 01:02:04.599
talked about Derek Smith and there's just not a whole

988
01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:08.400
lot regarding him, and there are a few more players

989
01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:11.360
in all of this. Let's get into Britney Keith. She

990
01:02:11.519 --> 01:02:14.760
was a girlfriend of Brian Smith, and I mean, you reckon,

991
01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:17.840
something's wrong with these girls, pickers. I mean, find a

992
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:21.320
classy guy, ladies. She was twenty three years old when

993
01:02:21.320 --> 01:02:24.639
all this went down. She was also charged with accessory

994
01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:27.840
after the fact, and she was also in that trailer

995
01:02:28.199 --> 01:02:31.800
when this incident went down. As I told you, she

996
01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:36.239
also shared in that same ideology as a Sovereign Citizen

997
01:02:36.280 --> 01:02:40.800
group member and during the gun battle, she was inside

998
01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:44.000
the trailer when the ambush occurred. Now, she was charged

999
01:02:44.039 --> 01:02:47.039
with principal to first Green murder, and she was not

1000
01:02:47.119 --> 01:02:50.800
as cooperative as Skan's and all this she didn't testify

1001
01:02:50.920 --> 01:02:54.280
against any other individuals, and thus her sentence was a

1002
01:02:54.320 --> 01:02:58.639
lot harder than Scanes. And again it took what seemed

1003
01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:01.639
like forever to get her sentence. As a matter of fact,

1004
01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:06.039
it was February fourteenth of twenty twenty two before she

1005
01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:09.440
has sentenced to two concurrent five year terms and three

1006
01:03:09.519 --> 01:03:11.639
years of probation. But she had been in jail for

1007
01:03:11.679 --> 01:03:13.880
quite a while on all of this, so it was

1008
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:18.599
time served for her. And from what I understand, she's

1009
01:03:18.639 --> 01:03:22.800
not in jail anymore. That's just from what I understand.

1010
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:26.880
Take that with a grain of salt. Now, remember Tanisha Bright,

1011
01:03:26.920 --> 01:03:29.320
who was twenty one at the time that all this

1012
01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:32.159
went down. I've already referenced us. But of course they

1013
01:03:32.199 --> 01:03:35.519
discovered she was just wrong place, wrong time, wrong fucking people,

1014
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:40.519
and sure her charges were dropped and rightfully so, so

1015
01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:43.599
to quickly go over everything you just heard, Terry Smith,

1016
01:03:43.679 --> 01:03:46.679
the one that was driving the car when Deputy Boyington

1017
01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:51.239
was shot in the initial shooting. He was never convicted

1018
01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:55.719
in this case. However, he was convicted for those disgusting

1019
01:03:55.880 --> 01:03:59.400
rapes and incest charges. He ends up with two life

1020
01:03:59.480 --> 01:04:03.920
sentences plus ninety five years, and he was the leader

1021
01:04:04.039 --> 01:04:08.079
of this group. Brian Smith, his son, twenty four. He

1022
01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:12.199
was deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, but he is

1023
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:15.639
in a forensic mental hospital for likely the rest of

1024
01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:18.480
his life. Kyle Yukel, who was twenty eight. He was

1025
01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:23.199
convicted of two counts of first degree murder. He received

1026
01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:28.079
the death penalty inside Bloody Angola Derreck Smith twenty two

1027
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:32.480
at the time, the son of the leader of this group.

1028
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:36.440
He pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm and accessory

1029
01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:41.159
after the fact. He was released in twenty seventeen. However,

1030
01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:45.320
he was re arrested in twenty seventeen for weapons violations.

1031
01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:48.920
I don't know where he's at as of this point.

1032
01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:53.519
Chanelle Skaines, Terry's wife, pleaded guilty. Was the first person

1033
01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:56.719
to take a plea in this case. Of course, she

1034
01:04:57.000 --> 01:05:03.280
testified in trial, and she received five years probation, primarily

1035
01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:06.920
for her help with the prosecution. Now, a couple of

1036
01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:10.519
things that are worth mentioning that occurred during all of this,

1037
01:05:11.119 --> 01:05:14.440
And it came out during the testimony of Deputy Michael

1038
01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:20.199
Boynton that he was having some very serious issues with

1039
01:05:20.360 --> 01:05:24.400
his police radio system that day. So again I'm going

1040
01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:28.159
to directly reference an article by The Times Picky in

1041
01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:31.920
this was May twenty fourth of twenty thirteen, where Boynton

1042
01:05:32.119 --> 01:05:36.840
testified on just that subject. Says Deputy Michael Boyington lay

1043
01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:39.920
flat in his patrol card, dazed and bleeding from the

1044
01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:43.360
four bullets that had torn into his body just seconds before.

1045
01:05:43.639 --> 01:05:46.440
He had seen the muzzleflash from the truck window and

1046
01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:50.159
felt the searing pain that followed. Now ahead of him,

1047
01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:54.119
the truck's brake lights were fiery red where they're coming

1048
01:05:54.159 --> 01:05:57.480
back for him to finish him off. Boynton's hand was

1049
01:05:57.480 --> 01:06:00.400
on his radio, moving the dial, hoping to hear the

1050
01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:02.559
familiar chirping sound of a connection.

1051
01:06:03.199 --> 01:06:03.599
Nothing.

1052
01:06:04.079 --> 01:06:07.840
For the third time that morning, Deputy Boynton's police radio

1053
01:06:07.880 --> 01:06:11.440
had failed him. As the legal proceedings continued for the

1054
01:06:11.480 --> 01:06:14.960
group accused of shooting Boyington and three other Saint John

1055
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:19.320
the Baptist pair Shriff's deputies last August, killing two testimony

1056
01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:23.199
in a preliminary hearing has spotlighted something deputies in the

1057
01:06:23.199 --> 01:06:26.159
parish have known for a long time. Throughout Saint John

1058
01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:30.159
there are areas where emergency radios cannot snag a signal.

1059
01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:33.079
Boynton was the first to come into contact with the

1060
01:06:33.119 --> 01:06:36.679
alleged attackers on August sixteenth, about four am in the

1061
01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:40.119
Laplace parking lot. But when Boynton tried to call for

1062
01:06:40.199 --> 01:06:43.559
backup before the deadly bat of violence began to unferral,

1063
01:06:43.920 --> 01:06:48.519
nothing happened. His radio couldn't find a signal. During testimony

1064
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:52.199
in a preliminary hearing last month, Boynton said he tried

1065
01:06:52.360 --> 01:06:56.440
unsuccessfully he uses radio at least twice before he was shot,

1066
01:06:56.800 --> 01:06:59.480
and at least once after. By the time he was

1067
01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:03.119
able to reach headquarters, the truck and his passengers were

1068
01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:06.280
well on their way to a Laplace trailer park where

1069
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:09.400
they would attack and kill more deputies. So I just

1070
01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:12.599
wanted to reference that, and I'm not going to read

1071
01:07:12.639 --> 01:07:16.760
the rest of the article, but pretty crazy that these radios,

1072
01:07:16.760 --> 01:07:20.159
these deputies were having so many problems with these radios,

1073
01:07:20.159 --> 01:07:22.800
and man, that is serious, and I thought it was

1074
01:07:22.880 --> 01:07:26.440
important to mention that in reference just a piece of

1075
01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:30.159
that article and another thing worth mentioning. While awaiting some

1076
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:33.320
sort of trial, it also came out that Terry Smith

1077
01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:37.239
was planning an escape from jail, and that was reported

1078
01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:41.119
by The Times picking You on February twenty seventh of

1079
01:07:41.320 --> 01:07:45.760
twenty fifteen. And here's what was reported about that incident.

1080
01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:48.840
It said Terry Smith, one of the three men indicted

1081
01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:51.920
in connection with the shooting death of to Saint John

1082
01:07:52.039 --> 01:07:55.599
the Baptist pair sheriff's deputies and the waiting of two others.

1083
01:07:55.920 --> 01:07:59.800
Jailbreak plans were foiled before he could make his attempt.

1084
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:04.679
A Batinery's television station reports another inmate at the Hunt

1085
01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:09.519
Correctional Center located in Saint Gabriel told guards about Smith's plans,

1086
01:08:09.960 --> 01:08:14.119
and that was reported by WBRZ television. According to the

1087
01:08:14.159 --> 01:08:18.079
news report, that appeared Smith was planning a shawshank redemption

1088
01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:21.560
type of escape attempt, having dug a hole in the

1089
01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:25.199
center black wall, and it made gloves from boots and

1090
01:08:25.239 --> 01:08:28.800
a vest from a sack in some legal papers. The

1091
01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:33.199
TV station also reported Smith had survival guide tips and

1092
01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:39.039
so that's how that read. Thank god that guy did

1093
01:08:39.079 --> 01:08:41.840
not get away. Now I'm going to reference one more

1094
01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:45.119
article today because it gives you an idea of the

1095
01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:49.720
mindset of these individuals. And it's really an article on

1096
01:08:50.119 --> 01:08:56.239
the families of the fallen, you know, asking why, which

1097
01:08:56.840 --> 01:09:00.000
if you ever have a Tragy situation happened in your family,

1098
01:09:00.199 --> 01:09:03.600
that's a question, right, that's the human side of a tragedy.

1099
01:09:03.800 --> 01:09:06.880
You want to know why. So I'm going to reference

1100
01:09:07.079 --> 01:09:09.840
this article from the time speaking you from June ninth

1101
01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:13.159
of twenty fourteen, and it reads Eddie Trush leapt up

1102
01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:15.600
from her seat in the back road of the courtroom

1103
01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:18.920
and ran outside. She looked up towards the sky, and

1104
01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:23.159
she screamed for hours, for days on end, listening to

1105
01:09:23.399 --> 01:09:27.079
dozens of witnesses recount Howur's son, Saint John the pad

1106
01:09:27.319 --> 01:09:31.640
Baptist parish Shier's deputy Jeremy Trush, was shot dead at

1107
01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:35.479
a Laplace trailer park last summer. But in that one moment,

1108
01:09:35.560 --> 01:09:37.439
as she heard how he tried to run from an

1109
01:09:37.439 --> 01:09:41.800
assault rifle fire, Eddie Trush was broken by grief. Her

1110
01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:45.000
whole world changed that day August sixteenth of twenty twelve,

1111
01:09:45.279 --> 01:09:47.880
a date that will forever be seared into the parish

1112
01:09:47.880 --> 01:09:52.199
collective memory and wasn't yet dawned in two deputies, Brandon

1113
01:09:52.239 --> 01:09:56.239
Nilson and Jeremy Trush, but fathers and husbands lay dead

1114
01:09:56.399 --> 01:09:59.840
in the gravel of a scenic riverview mobile home park

1115
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.039
and laplace. Two other deputies were grievously injured. In the

1116
01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:07.159
years since the shooting, the wounded deputies have returned home

1117
01:10:07.199 --> 01:10:11.600
from the hospital, though with permanent disabilities and constant reminders

1118
01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:14.720
of the whares they've faced that morning. The winners of

1119
01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:18.239
the two dead strangers before had become best friends. They

1120
01:10:18.239 --> 01:10:20.960
call each other nearly every day to cry or shout

1121
01:10:21.079 --> 01:10:24.640
or laminate all the things that their husbands had missed birthdays,

1122
01:10:24.760 --> 01:10:28.960
first fishing trips, dance recitals, and skin knees. Quote. You

1123
01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:31.640
wouldn't think it would take an entire year to realize

1124
01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:36.159
he's never coming home, said Nielsen's wife, Danielle. It's unbelievable

1125
01:10:36.239 --> 01:10:38.479
that it has been a year. Sometimes it feels like

1126
01:10:38.600 --> 01:10:42.359
I saw him last week. Sometimes it feels like forever.

1127
01:10:42.840 --> 01:10:46.359
The community continues to warm with them. A ceremony marking

1128
01:10:46.399 --> 01:10:50.319
the anniversaries schedule for Friday. The details of the shootings

1129
01:10:50.319 --> 01:10:53.239
have been pieced together through a half dozen hearings and

1130
01:10:53.319 --> 01:10:57.840
testimony from other officers. The killers accomplices and innocents who

1131
01:10:57.880 --> 01:11:01.319
witness some of the events, but the family still struggle

1132
01:11:01.399 --> 01:11:04.399
to comprehend what might have provoked a group of strangers

1133
01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:07.760
to gun down for good men. There's just one word

1134
01:11:07.960 --> 01:11:11.359
all can come up with, evil, And I couldn't agree

1135
01:11:11.359 --> 01:11:14.119
more with that. As they sat in jail cells for

1136
01:11:14.199 --> 01:11:16.600
a year, the family accused of the killings that have

1137
01:11:16.720 --> 01:11:21.520
written various manifestos maintaining their allegiance as sovereign citizens. A

1138
01:11:21.560 --> 01:11:25.119
loose but volatile group of anti government extremists. They are

1139
01:11:25.199 --> 01:11:28.960
described by the FBI as domestic terrorists, and their encounters

1140
01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:34.760
with authority, particularly police, routinely turned violent. Quote they proclaim

1141
01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:38.600
me anti government bitch. I am a sovereign citizen, one

1142
01:11:38.640 --> 01:11:41.560
of the accused wrote in a wrap found scribbled on

1143
01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:43.720
the back of a police report in his jail cell.

1144
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.159
Quote you approach me, you better be ready to get

1145
01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:50.680
in to where a badge is of sin. You will

1146
01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:53.760
be put to death. My bullets will be cutting through

1147
01:11:53.840 --> 01:11:58.880
your vest. Seven people were originally charged in the massacre.

1148
01:12:00.079 --> 01:12:03.880
Sovereign citizen Terry Smith has announced his deep distrust in

1149
01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:06.760
the government. With his two sons, Brian and Derek, the

1150
01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:10.720
Smith family originally from North Louisiana, has stuck together, moving

1151
01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:13.840
from state to state, trailer to trailer, picking up jobs

1152
01:12:13.840 --> 01:12:18.199
as welders and day laborers at construction sites. Terry Smith's wife,

1153
01:12:18.199 --> 01:12:22.680
shaneil Skenes, and Brian Smith's girlfriend Brittany Keith traveled with

1154
01:12:22.840 --> 01:12:26.600
them in Tennessee months before the shootings in Laplace. They

1155
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:30.960
met like minded Nebraska outlaw Kyle Yokel, who fled his

1156
01:12:31.119 --> 01:12:34.079
home state in a high speed chase after threatening to

1157
01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:37.439
kill any cop who tried to control him. Yokel and

1158
01:12:37.479 --> 01:12:40.520
the Smith family had a few things in common. Both

1159
01:12:40.520 --> 01:12:42.680
were on the run from the law, and both shared

1160
01:12:42.680 --> 01:12:46.640
a profound hatred for law enforcement. Brian Smith and Yokel

1161
01:12:46.680 --> 01:12:50.479
would months later become the accused gumman in the Laplace killings,

1162
01:12:50.760 --> 01:12:54.239
but prosecutors suggested in court filings had planned to slaughter

1163
01:12:54.359 --> 01:12:57.000
officers long before they moved into the back of the

1164
01:12:57.119 --> 01:13:00.840
Laplace trailer park. Derreck Smith, during one of his many

1165
01:13:01.039 --> 01:13:05.199
prior incarcerations, wrote his brother a letter from jail. Quote,

1166
01:13:05.439 --> 01:13:08.319
Dad said he wanted to go to war with the police. Well,

1167
01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:11.560
I'm gonna see if he bout that he scrubbled. I

1168
01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:14.159
ain't got nothing to live for anymore. So I'm gonna

1169
01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:17.239
take everyone to hell with me. I found out where

1170
01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:21.439
my old po and he means probation officer lives. I'm

1171
01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:23.920
gonna get his wife and kids and let him live

1172
01:13:23.960 --> 01:13:27.000
in pain. That letter, found in one of the son's

1173
01:13:27.079 --> 01:13:31.039
trailers after the Laplace massacre has become evidence in this

1174
01:13:31.199 --> 01:13:34.399
case against them. Prosecutors point to it is proof that

1175
01:13:34.479 --> 01:13:38.319
the father not only knew of his son's murderous intentions,

1176
01:13:38.479 --> 01:13:42.000
but encourage them. Of the seven charged, only three still

1177
01:13:42.039 --> 01:13:45.560
await trial. One twenty two year old Tanisha Bright, was

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released after authorities decided she was telling the truth. And

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of course we went through all that, so I won't

1180
01:13:53.000 --> 01:13:56.000
go through it again. It does pick up at the

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01:13:56.079 --> 01:13:59.680
ENDEA article and it says Eddie Trish still catches herself

1182
01:13:59.800 --> 01:14:02.439
wading for her twenty seven year old son to walk

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01:14:02.479 --> 01:14:05.880
through the door. He stopped by often just to say hello,

1184
01:14:06.119 --> 01:14:09.039
drink a coke, snack on a Hershey bar. It took

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01:14:09.279 --> 01:14:12.640
Moss before she stopped buying his favorite treats. He was

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01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:16.079
married to Mistic Trust and they had a toddler together

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01:14:16.239 --> 01:14:19.800
named Kate, who had just turned three. Jeremy has missed

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01:14:19.960 --> 01:14:23.479
all of the everyday things, she said, tucking him into bed,

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01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:27.760
teaching me how to fish. Kate doesn't have that anymore.

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When he comes here, we talk about his father, We

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01:14:30.439 --> 01:14:35.000
go through pictures. He will remember his dad. Dozens of

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01:14:35.119 --> 01:14:38.359
fellow officers and family packed the back rows of the

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01:14:38.359 --> 01:14:42.479
courtroom whenever Smith's and Yokel are set to appear. But

1194
01:14:42.640 --> 01:14:46.439
Danielle Nelson tries to avoid the hearings. She likes to

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01:14:46.479 --> 01:14:49.319
remember the things she loved about her husband, How he

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01:14:49.439 --> 01:14:52.199
changed the words to songs to make her laugh while

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01:14:52.239 --> 01:14:55.239
they drove him the car, how he made funny faces

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01:14:55.279 --> 01:14:57.840
when his picture was taken. How much he loved his

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01:14:57.920 --> 01:15:01.560
two daughters and three step sons. Quote. We were a team,

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01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:04.840
she said. He was my best friend. The only part

1201
01:15:04.840 --> 01:15:07.560
of him she wants to forget is how he died.

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01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:10.640
She doesn't get every hearing so she can manage to

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01:15:10.680 --> 01:15:12.479
get up in the morning and be strong for her

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01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:17.000
youngest daughter, now getting ready to start the third grade. Quote,

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01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:19.359
I'm all she's got now. I've got to be strong.

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01:15:19.399 --> 01:15:21.560
I've got to take care of us, give her the

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01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:25.479
sense of security we have when he was here. That's

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01:15:25.600 --> 01:15:28.479
all on me now, and I wouldn't wish that on

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01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:32.119
anybody else. She is woken up three hundred and fifty

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01:15:32.199 --> 01:15:35.960
nine mornings without him, but all the first have passed

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01:15:36.119 --> 01:15:39.359
for now for her, the first Christmas, first birthdays, first

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01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:44.399
day of school, graduations, first Thanksgiving alone, and she hopes

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01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:48.279
that now, without the constant tide of milestones, she might

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01:15:48.399 --> 01:15:50.600
finally get some peace.

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01:15:52.119 --> 01:15:53.680
And you know it's.

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01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:58.920
People don't sometimes think about how tough when these things

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01:15:58.960 --> 01:15:59.880
happen is out there.

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01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:01.560
It is on the families.

1219
01:16:02.960 --> 01:16:07.000
My heart just breaks for all of these families, and

1220
01:16:07.399 --> 01:16:10.920
people often forget that they're victims too. So I've told

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01:16:10.920 --> 01:16:12.880
you all that, but I hadn't told you a whole

1222
01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:16.000
lot about the two fallen officers, And I want to

1223
01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:19.199
honor them and just tell you a little more about them.

1224
01:16:19.359 --> 01:16:25.000
And we'll start with Brandon Joseph Nielsen. And according to

1225
01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:28.880
what I've read about him, he was born in nineteen

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01:16:29.199 --> 01:16:33.760
seventy seven. He dedicated his life to law enforcement, which

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01:16:33.840 --> 01:16:37.399
culminated in a one year term as a deputy sheriff

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01:16:37.439 --> 01:16:41.119
with Saint John the Baptist Sheriff's Office, where he served

1229
01:16:41.279 --> 01:16:45.239
as a motorcycle officer. He was thirty four years old

1230
01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:47.159
at the time of his death, and he was known

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01:16:47.159 --> 01:16:50.439
by his colleagues for his dedication and positive spirit. He

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01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:54.079
was survived by his wife and five children, and his

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01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:58.319
parents and his sister, and of course, annual memorials continue

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01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:02.920
at the Sheriff's office, with remembrances on social media, etc.

1235
01:17:03.840 --> 01:17:08.880
Honoring Nilson as exactly what he was, a hero who

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01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:13.119
was shot and killed while serving his community. Also killed

1237
01:17:13.199 --> 01:17:17.119
Jeremy Michael tresh He was born in nineteen eighty four,

1238
01:17:17.199 --> 01:17:20.399
from what I understand, just twenty seven years old at

1239
01:17:20.439 --> 01:17:24.880
the time of his death. He was a dedicated family man,

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01:17:25.119 --> 01:17:29.520
survived by his wife and son, and he was known

1241
01:17:29.720 --> 01:17:32.720
as having a kind of a passion for fishing, a

1242
01:17:32.760 --> 01:17:35.840
hobby that later community thumb raisers would be held in

1243
01:17:35.880 --> 01:17:39.359
his memory, like fishing tournaments and things of that nature.

1244
01:17:40.560 --> 01:17:44.439
And he embodied a strong commitment to helping others, which

1245
01:17:44.560 --> 01:17:47.720
was a trait that extended from his personal life into

1246
01:17:47.720 --> 01:17:52.800
his professional life, obviously as a law enforcement officer. He

1247
01:17:52.920 --> 01:17:56.640
served with the Saint John Pears Sheriff's Office for approximately

1248
01:17:56.680 --> 01:18:00.760
four years until he was gunned down, and he specifically

1249
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:03.880
assigned as a canine handler, and he had a reputation

1250
01:18:04.119 --> 01:18:08.520
for selflessness and dedication to protecting and serving in the

1251
01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:12.039
Sheriff's office. Of course, honor him. He has a memorial

1252
01:18:12.119 --> 01:18:16.399
page as well on their website. Now, I also want

1253
01:18:16.439 --> 01:18:20.640
to mention Jason Trish, who was also shot. He underwent

1254
01:18:21.159 --> 01:18:25.560
a kidney transplant in twenty seventeen, and from what I understand,

1255
01:18:25.600 --> 01:18:27.720
he's a return of the Sheriff's Office in an IT

1256
01:18:28.199 --> 01:18:33.439
role despite having some pretty tough mobility challenges now and

1257
01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:36.760
as far as Michael Boyington, he was discharged from the

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01:18:36.840 --> 01:18:42.119
hospital within three months of the shooting, despite being shot

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01:18:42.199 --> 01:18:45.880
with an assault rifle. A pretty strong guy right there.

1260
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:50.720
If that doesn't speak to just his sheer strength, and y'all,

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01:18:50.760 --> 01:18:53.439
I know that was a hard one for you to hear,

1262
01:18:53.920 --> 01:18:56.600
but think about it. Next time you come across someone

1263
01:18:56.640 --> 01:18:59.720
in law enforcement, maybe shake their hand, thank them for

1264
01:18:59.760 --> 01:19:03.479
their service, because this type of shit can happen anytime

1265
01:19:03.960 --> 01:19:10.199
on any day, in any given place. And I'm sure

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01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:14.399
that I did not cover every detail in this case,

1267
01:19:14.439 --> 01:19:17.479
as much as I would have loved to. I just

1268
01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:22.800
don't have access to everything in this case. I wasn't there.

1269
01:19:22.920 --> 01:19:26.880
I don't have direct knowledge. I would, however, extend an

1270
01:19:26.920 --> 01:19:31.720
invitation to anyone from the families of the slain officers

1271
01:19:31.760 --> 01:19:35.199
to those still in law enforcement in Saint John Parrish,

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01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:39.960
I would love to know more about who these deputies were,

1273
01:19:40.760 --> 01:19:44.800
and just an open invite to any of you that

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01:19:44.840 --> 01:19:50.119
would like to come on Bloody Angola and shine a

1275
01:19:50.359 --> 01:19:53.720
light on who these guys were outside of what I

1276
01:19:53.760 --> 01:19:58.000
was just able to find by reading about them. Open invite,

1277
01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:01.800
come on the show, let's talk about it. I just

1278
01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:05.239
can't speak to what occurred on the inside of that

1279
01:20:05.479 --> 01:20:09.960
because I don't have any direct knowledge of that. And look,

1280
01:20:10.079 --> 01:20:13.800
anytime we cover these cases, as I said from the beginning,

1281
01:20:13.880 --> 01:20:18.319
no matter how good our intentions are, information sometimes can

1282
01:20:18.399 --> 01:20:24.479
get slightly twisted. I'm all about correcting the record. Let

1283
01:20:24.520 --> 01:20:28.800
me know if something is grossly misstated somewhere in this podcast,

1284
01:20:28.920 --> 01:20:31.640
I'll be happy to correct it and correct that record.

1285
01:20:31.920 --> 01:20:35.600
I'm certainly not perfect, but I'm only as good as

1286
01:20:35.640 --> 01:20:39.239
the information that is out there available to the public.

1287
01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:42.279
So if it's something you would like me to bring up,

1288
01:20:42.399 --> 01:20:45.880
I can certainly bring it up on a subsequent episode

1289
01:20:46.119 --> 01:20:50.960
of Bloody and GOWA. Again, my sincere thoughts and prayers

1290
01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:55.560
to everyone who knew and loved, not only those heroes

1291
01:20:55.640 --> 01:20:59.279
that lost their life in this event, but those that

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01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:04.239
were injured and everyone with the Saint John the Baptist

1293
01:21:04.439 --> 01:21:09.239
Parish Sheriff's office. Thank you all so much for listening,

1294
01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:13.520
and until next time. For Bloody Angola, A podcast one

1295
01:21:13.920 --> 01:21:16.880
and forty two years in the making, the complete story

1296
01:21:17.079 --> 01:21:18.760
of America's Bloody is present.

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01:21:19.600 --> 01:21:36.840
Peace a wall.

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01:21:36.800 --> 01:21:47.720
Street line, shackle chain, whosome gurdy. It's calling my name.

1299
01:21:49.600 --> 01:21:56.720
There is no mercy and it's been a tentery juice

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01:21:56.840 --> 01:21:58.840
as the Hustream game.

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01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:01.640
Rule three.

1302
01:22:03.159 --> 01:22:03.840
Come in.

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01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:14.319
Fine, f'm me to die inside these walls, inside the

1304
01:22:14.359 --> 01:22:28.479
wild and when the walks, I'm know it's oldbody angleler,

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01:22:31.479 --> 01:22:34.840
ohbody Angle.