$60 Debt Turns Deadly | Jerry Alford Jr. Interrogation — Transcript
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- 0:00Disclaimer. This video is for commentary
- 0:02and educational purposes only. All
- 0:04individuals are presumed innocent until
- 0:06proven guilty in a court of law.
- 0:08[snorts] Any footage used in this video
- 0:10is obtained through public records and
- 0:12falls under fair use for the purpose of
- 0:13reporting, analysis, and public
- 0:15interest.
- 0:17>> Okay, dude. You're up for aggravated
- 0:18murder.
- 0:19>> I know, but I didn't know it.
- 0:21>> Yes. You charging me for murder?
- 0:22>> Yeah.
- 0:23>> Yeah. On the night of November 16th,
- 0:262017, [music] 57-year-old Derek
- 0:28Alexander walked out of the Bajoo
- 0:30Convenience Store on West Market Street
- 0:32with two men shadowing him. Surveillance
- 0:35footage showed them following him
- 0:36inside, [music] watching his movements,
- 0:38and then trailing him as he stepped back
- 0:40into the cold Akran air. One was a man
- 0:43known on the streets as Raleigh, [music]
- 0:45later identified as 35-year-old Jerry D.
- 0:47Alfred Jr. The other was his companion,
- 0:5034year-old Dexter Moore, [music] who
- 0:52stayed close behind. Hours earlier,
- 0:55Alexander had confided to a family
- 0:56member that Raleigh had threatened to
- 0:58shoot him over a $60 debt. A warning
- 1:01that had left him uneasy, but not enough
- 1:02to keep him from leaving home that
- 1:04evening. As he [music] made his way
- 1:06toward Oakdale Avenue, the tension from
- 1:08that simmering dispute followed him
- 1:10through the neighborhood, carried by the
- 1:12same two men captured on [music] camera.
- 1:14What happened next occurred just steps
- 1:16from Alexander's home. A confrontation
- 1:19involving both Alford and Moore, [music]
- 1:21rooted in a small debt that had spiraled
- 1:23into something far more dangerous. The
- 1:25[music] events of that night would
- 1:26launch a major investigation, bring both
- 1:29men into police custody, and lead
- 1:31detectives [music] to sit across from
- 1:32the man Alexander feared most. These are
- 1:35the interrogations of Jerry Alford Jr.
- 1:37and Dexter Moore.
- 1:41>> Jerry
- 1:43rolling.
- 1:46Oh, he's got a sleep app.
- 1:50Hey.
- 1:52Yeah. Gary, wake up, my man. How's it
- 1:56going?
- 1:56>> How you doing?
- 1:59Detective D. This is Detective Hannah.
- 2:03YOU GOT SLEEP APNNEA, DON'T YOU?
- 2:08Little time.
- 2:15I'm going to read you this first. I'm
- 2:16going to go over this first and then
- 2:18we'll get into what we're going to talk
- 2:19about. All right. Okay. You understand?
- 2:22You with me? Okay.
- 2:25Those are Miranda warnings. You have the
- 2:27right to remain silent. Anything you say
- 2:29can and will be used against you in a
- 2:30court of law. You have the right to talk
- 2:32to a lawyer and have him or her present
- 2:34with you while you're being questioned.
- 2:36If you cannot afford to hire a lawyer,
- 2:38one will be appointed to represent you
- 2:40before any question. If you wish and you
- 2:42can decide at any time, exercise his
- 2:44rights and not make answer any questions
- 2:46or make any statements. You understand
- 2:48each of those I read to you.
- 2:51I need a yes or no, Jerry.
- 2:54>> Not an English help. Yes or no?
- 2:56>> Yep.
- 2:57>> Okay. You understand the English
- 2:58language,
- 3:00right? Did you graduate high school? I
- 3:04don't care what grade you give it to.
- 3:06>> Seventh.
- 3:07>> Seventh.
- 3:11What happened, man?
- 3:14H
- 3:16>> rough life.
- 3:17>> I see. Okay.
- 3:19You know why you're here? I appreciate
- 3:21you turning yourself in. Okay.
- 3:24On a Friday like this. So, so what
- 3:27happened? Tell me what happened, man.
- 3:29What happened at the Bajo the night of
- 3:31the 16th? November 16th.
- 3:34>> I don't know what happened.
- 3:35>> Come on, Gary. I don't.
- 3:39>> Jerry, we have you on video.
- 3:42>> I was there, but I ain't do nothing
- 3:43[ __ ] I ain't saying I wasn't at the
- 3:46store.
- 3:48>> So, what time were you at the store?
- 3:49Let's go there.
- 3:50>> I was at this that store all day that
- 3:52day. I kept going back and forth. So, me
- 3:55pick a time.
- 3:57>> Okay. What time were you there last?
- 4:00>> Oh, came I came up there. Um, no. I came
- 4:04there after that, too, I think. But I
- 4:08came there when the police was outside.
- 4:10>> Well, before the police got there. What
- 4:12time were you there?
- 4:14>> Uh,
- 4:17I was I was there a couple times. I
- 4:19don't know. Like I said, I was there a
- 4:21couple times.
- 4:22>> Who were you with?
- 4:24>> I was by myself and it was a bunch of
- 4:26people outside. I mean, I was by myself.
- 4:28I wasn't with nobody. [snorts] Okay.
- 4:32But you know this ain't going to help
- 4:33you cuz we got multiple people telling
- 4:35us that Rolley did it. Rolley did it.
- 4:38Roly did it. Do we?
- 4:40>> So this is your time to help yourself by
- 4:42telling us what happened.
- 4:44>> I don't know what happened.
- 4:47>> Roly, you know what happened.
- 4:51Come on.
- 4:51>> I don't know what happened.
- 4:53>> Something happened. What happened?
- 4:55>> I don't know.
- 4:57>> Okay.
- 4:59You know, you knew Derek, right?
- 5:01>> I come back up there and sh it's it's a
- 5:04crime scene and somebody got shot. I
- 5:06left out that place. Then we go handle
- 5:08some business.
- 5:09>> Jerry, you knew Derek, right?
- 5:11>> No, I don't I don't know Derek.
- 5:13>> You don't know Derek at all?
- 5:15>> No.
- 5:16>> Derek didn't owe you money.
- 5:18>> No.
- 5:18>> You don't know Derek Alexander?
- 5:21>> No.
- 5:22>> The man that you are charged with
- 5:24killing. You telling me you don't know
- 5:26him?
- 5:27>> I don't know him. I might have seen him.
- 5:29You're going to go You're going to go
- 5:30with the turtle defense. You're going to
- 5:32stick your head in the sand and hope
- 5:34that it works out, which is a bad idea.
- 5:38>> You don't know Derek Alexander.
- 5:39>> I just told you I don't know the man. I
- 5:41might have seen him, but I don't know
- 5:43him.
- 5:44>> He didn't know you money.
- 5:46>> He don't owe me no money.
- 5:48>> You weren't going around telling people
- 5:49that he owed you money.
- 5:51>> No.
- 5:52>> That's why we're here.
- 5:53>> So all these people are It's all
- 5:55conspiracy against you.
- 5:57>> Yeah.
- 5:59But you were there. You were there after
- 6:00the cops were there. Before and after
- 6:02the cops were there.
- 6:05You don't know Derek Alexander. He owe
- 6:06you any money. How'd you know you had a
- 6:08warrant? Cuz it was on Facebook.
- 6:16[sighs]
- 6:19>> The turtle defense is not going to work
- 6:20good for you, Jerry.
- 6:21>> Yeah.
- 6:23>> We got you on video. Turtle turtle
- 6:25defense.
- 6:25>> We got you on video, man. I didn't do I
- 6:27didn't never say I wasn't at that store.
- 6:29>> We have video. We have eyewitnesses. We
- 6:32have physical evidence.
- 6:34>> We'll take you to the counter, man. Give
- 6:35me a lawyer.
- 6:38>> Nothing else to say.
- 6:39>> All right. All right.
- 6:42All right.
- 6:43>> Trying to tell you.
- 6:46>> It's cool. It ain't personal. Doing his
- 6:48job. Jerry's trying to help you out.
- 6:50>> Well, you I mean, you ain't listening to
- 6:51me, so it's nothing to talk about. What?
- 6:54Well, we're listening to you, but you're
- 6:55telling us the story, bro.
- 6:58>> No, I'm telling you the truth.
- 7:00>> You said you if you come you were there
- 7:03before and after you all day that day.
- 7:06>> You don't know Derek. You don't know
- 7:07Derek Alexander. You don't
- 7:10>> know that man like that.
- 7:13I ain't never said I ain't seen you, but
- 7:15I don't know him.
- 7:17>> Shoot him.
- 7:18>> No, I did not shoot that guy.
- 7:21>> Yeah. So, you want a lawyer? We'll get
- 7:24you a lawyer. Get your account. Okay.
- 7:25>> You know what I'm talking? That's fine.
- 7:27That's the That's better. Ain't nothing
- 7:28to talk about. I had to do it.
- 7:30>> Okay.
- 7:31>> You're up for aggravated murder.
- 7:32>> I know. But you understand what that is?
- 7:34>> Yes. You charging me for murder?
- 7:35>> Yeah.
- 7:36>> Yeah.
- 7:36>> So, if I was innocent, the wrong person.
- 7:39>> If I was innocent, I would be trying to
- 7:40hardest to tell everything I know about
- 7:42what happened that night.
- 7:44>> I don't know about that day, man.
- 7:46>> That ain't going to fly, man. It ain't
- 7:48going to fly.
- 7:49>> We got multiple witnesses. We got your
- 7:51DNA. We got physical evidence at the
- 7:53scene. We got the video.
- 7:54>> I don't know what happened, bro. I'm
- 7:56just telling you that day I was I was
- 7:58back and forth that day from that store
- 8:01and I was looking for my phone cuz I had
- 8:03lost it. But other than that, [ __ ] I
- 8:05don't know what happened, man. [ __ ] I
- 8:07come back up there. I come back up
- 8:09there. I I go catch catch my play and
- 8:12buy me some smoke. I come back. Said
- 8:14it's a crime scene. Somebody got shot.
- 8:16Like what man? Who somebody little
- 8:19dudes?
- 8:21I'm busting out. Not me. I'm not going
- 8:24to kill nobody, bro.
- 8:25>> So why you going by roly? What? Why you
- 8:27go by ry? Just just
- 8:29>> I don't go by roy.
- 8:30>> Hm.
- 8:31>> I don't go by roy.
- 8:32>> Oh, now you want to play that turtle
- 8:34game, too?
- 8:34>> No, I'm not playing no turtle game.
- 8:37>> YES, YOU ARE. I'VE SHOWN SO MANY
- 8:39PICTURES OF you from our video and guess
- 8:41what everybody says? That's Roly. That's
- 8:43Roly. I don't care about what nobody
- 8:45said.
- 8:46>> I KNOW YOU DON'T. I CAN SEE THAT. Like a
- 8:48fool saying, "Oh, that's your
- 8:50>> You're not going to admit your
- 8:51nickname's Roly."
- 8:52>> Famous.
- 8:54>> Oh, you're famous now.
- 8:55>> That's my nickname. Yeah. Famous. Rolex.
- 8:58>> All right. Roly famous. I'm going to put
- 8:59Rolly Famous. We're going to leave.
- 9:01>> Say my nickname. Say it right. It's
- 9:03Rolex. It ain't Ro.
- 9:05>> Well, everybody's giving us Roelly.
- 9:07>> Rolex.
- 9:08>> So, they're missing the X on the
- 9:09obviously they don't know what you're
- 9:11>> Yeah. They probably got to look
- 9:12something up somewhere loose.
- 9:13>> Uh-huh. So,
- 9:16>> so you lost your phone, huh? That's what
- 9:18you were looking for.
- 9:20>> Where'd you lose your phone at?
- 9:22>> I don't know where I lost it at, but
- 9:24>> Where do you think you lost it at?
- 9:26>> Somewhere on Oakdale.
- 9:27>> Huh.
- 9:28>> Going to the store.
- 9:30>> Okay.
- 9:31>> All right.
- 9:32>> All right. Well, you you want we'll get
- 9:33you a lawyer. We'll send you the county
- 9:35and and it'll play itself out in court.
- 9:37>> Yeah.
- 9:38>> That's your constitutional right, man.
- 9:40We're [clears throat] we're we're just
- 9:41doing our job. It ain't personal.
- 9:42>> I know y'all doing your job.
- 9:44>> So, I hope y'all find the mother that
- 9:46did it, bro.
- 9:47>> Well, we did. You're sitting right here.
- 9:49>> But we just would like to know from you
- 9:51what why did it happen?
- 9:53>> Wasn't me, bro.
- 9:54>> I did not kill that man.
- 9:56>> It wasn't so I mean, what happened?
- 9:58>> Was there something? I was not there.
- 10:01>> Well, you were at the store before and
- 10:03after.
- 10:04>> Yeah, I was at that store, but I came
- 10:05out. I left.
- 10:06>> Lost your phone. And
- 10:08>> I came out and I left.
- 10:11famous.
- 10:12>> Rolex Rolex. Yeah,
- 10:14>> Rolex.
- 10:15>> Rolex.
- 10:16>> All right. [snorts]
- 10:18>> All right. So, you don't got nothing
- 10:19else to tell us?
- 10:21>> Before we leave, cuz when we leave out
- 10:22this room, remember San County. That's
- 10:24it.
- 10:24>> All right.
- 10:25>> Huh?
- 10:26>> All right.
- 10:27>> All right.
- 10:50Dexter, what's up, my man?
- 10:51>> What's up?
- 10:52>> Not much. I see you can't stay out of
- 10:54the kind of jail. What happened now?
- 10:56>> I got kicked out of all [ __ ] That's
- 10:59>> Oh, is that what happened?
- 11:00>> It's my turn up. I'm trying to figure
- 11:02out what this about right here. about F1
- 11:06conspiracy robbery or something. I don't
- 11:09know.
- 11:11>> You know me on
- 11:13I did something. I damn sure like I did.
- 11:17I don't know what you what they talking
- 11:19about. So I came.
- 11:20>> So you were on those charges this
- 11:22morning or
- 11:23>> this morning? I had to go to court of
- 11:25everything.
- 11:26>> Okay.
- 11:27>> That's what I'm saying. They say from
- 11:28last year. What the
- 11:30>> Yeah. You just issue for me to do it
- 11:33now. I [clears throat] got out there.
- 11:35>> It says you're going to be out in 10
- 11:37five of this year.
- 11:38>> Yeah.
- 11:40>> Man, you got some time yet then?
- 11:42>> Yeah. I got two I got two months. Ain't
- 11:43nothing they going to say. Let me off
- 11:45papers and stuff. Get my stuff together.
- 11:47Finish. You know what I'm saying?
- 11:48>> Yeah.
- 11:49>> Go back to work and everything like
- 11:50that. Do what I'm supposed to do.
- 11:54>> Trying to get this situated. See what
- 11:56it's about.
- 11:57>> Okay. Well, let me I do have to read
- 11:59your Miranda warning. You're Miranda
- 12:00White's brakes to me because you
- 12:02obviously know you're going back to the
- 12:03county jail. You're not going to go
- 12:05home, right?
- 12:05>> Yeah. Yeah.
- 12:07>> So, I mean, you know that. So, I got to
- 12:10read these just so that you understand
- 12:12them. Okay. You have the right to remain
- 12:13silent. Anything you say, can, and will
- 12:15be used against you in court at all. You
- 12:18have the right to talk to a lawyer and
- 12:19have him or her present with you while
- 12:22you're being questioned. If you cannot
- 12:24afford to hire a lawyer, one will be
- 12:26appointed to represent you for any
- 12:27question if you wish. And you can decide
- 12:30at any time, exercise these rights and
- 12:31not answer any questions or make any
- 12:33statements. You understand each of
- 12:35those?
- 12:37>> All right. You wish to talk to me now
- 12:39about this,
- 12:40>> find out what this is all about?
- 12:42>> Yeah.
- 12:43>> All right.
- 12:44We had a meeting with the prosecutor uh
- 12:47the other day and they're wanting to
- 12:50charge you with complicity to aggravated
- 12:52robbery reference the whole Jerry Alfred
- 12:55Derek Alexander murder that happened on
- 12:58Oakdale back in November of last year.
- 13:04>> How we get in charge with that? cuz you
- 13:06were Jerry and they are saying that your
- 13:08statements were inconsistent with what
- 13:11exactly happened and they are
- 13:13>> so I ain't got nothing but I ain't got
- 13:14nothing to do with it. I told him I was
- 13:16in I was in the store. You seen me in
- 13:18the store. I got the chips that I said I
- 13:19went to get in my pocket. You could have
- 13:21questioned the dude at the store. When I
- 13:23I left hall, like I said, this guy shot.
- 13:25Boom. Whatever happened happens. I don't
- 13:27have nothing to do with that. I ain't
- 13:28accept it up. I don't even know the dude
- 13:30that got killed. I don't even know the
- 13:33dude that got killed. And if I did
- 13:35anything like that, like I told her, why
- 13:36would I be there when the police came
- 13:37back? I was there when the police came.
- 13:39Why would I still stay there? Like I
- 13:40ain't got nothing I ain't got nothing to
- 13:42do with that. And then and the only
- 13:44reason why I you know what I'm saying I
- 13:45was around to prove my point that I
- 13:47don't want nothing to do with nothing.
- 13:48Whatever happened ain't got nothing to
- 13:50do with me at all.
- 13:52>> But you know who Jerry Alfred is.
- 13:54>> I seen him in the store before I said
- 13:55that. I told him that. I seen him in the
- 13:57store. I supposed to change for
- 14:00you know his street name when he goes by
- 14:02too. Right.
- 14:03>> They told me his name. They told me his
- 14:04street name. They told me his name. I
- 14:06said I knew what his name was.
- 14:08>> I knew his name was They said I thought
- 14:09his name was Ro.
- 14:10>> Okay. Here's
- 14:12here's the thing that's right.
- 14:14>> I'm going be truthful with
- 14:17>> there's a video
- 14:18>> right
- 14:18>> of the of the store outside and inside
- 14:21of the store at the bottom
- 14:23>> me talking to him asking for like I told
- 14:25>> you to look like you're more than just
- 14:27talking.
- 14:28>> I'm asking for I'm asking for some
- 14:29change. He get to talk. You want some
- 14:31change? You got this stuff quick. Give
- 14:32me some chips and everything.
- 14:34>> Right. But the victim walks in with
- 14:39>> the traffic vest on.
- 14:40>> I said I seen the victim walk in. I
- 14:42ain't got nothing to do with it. I said,
- 14:43"Yeah, I did." Got off the bus or
- 14:45whatever the bus or whatever he did come
- 14:46out. But if you watch the video, I ain't
- 14:48say nothing to the victim. I ain't
- 14:49looking at him. I ain't got nothing to
- 14:51do with nothing with the victim.
- 14:52>> You want to see the video?
- 14:53>> Yeah. I don't say nothing to the victim.
- 14:54I don't know, dude.
- 14:55>> You You don't say nothing to him.
- 14:57>> I don't look at him.
- 14:58>> The video itself, Dexter,
- 15:00>> put you in a real bad light, my man.
- 15:04Man,
- 15:05I I talked to him ask him for some
- 15:08change and get me some chips and he
- 15:11bought me if you watch the thing. He
- 15:12bought me some chips. He used some
- 15:14chips.
- 15:14>> Well, if you see anything, he used the
- 15:15food stuff. Bought me some chips. I
- 15:17know. Yeah, get you some chips. He
- 15:18bought more
- 15:19>> before or after the victim at the
- 15:22traffic walks in the store.
- 15:24>> Just I think during or something like
- 15:26that. Before it's during before, it's
- 15:29probably during and dude walking in. I
- 15:31was already in the store. I didn't come
- 15:33in store after coming already in the
- 15:35store. Mhm. And I get my and I get some
- 15:38chips and everything. I'm talking to
- 15:40good looking. What's up? What's your
- 15:41boom boom boom boom? I'm talking to him.
- 15:43That's what I do. I see somebody. What's
- 15:45up? I ain't got you know what I'm
- 15:46saying? Be a small world. You might know
- 15:48somebody I know. I just want to know if
- 15:50you knew somebody I know.
- 15:52You always be around. Oh, what's up? You
- 15:54smoke weed and everything. Okay. Okay.
- 15:56Yeah, that's cool. All right. Do you
- 15:59remember what happened when you guys
- 16:02>> first saw the victim pull up? When you
- 16:04guys were standing outside?
- 16:05>> No, I'm standing outside. That's what I
- 16:07did. I post down a little bit and I go
- 16:08home. I've been knowing the dude at the
- 16:10store since I was a kid. I know.
- 16:12>> But what did you tell you and Roy's
- 16:15conversation outside the store and when
- 16:18the guy rolls up in a car and gets out
- 16:21in the traffic? What was your guys'
- 16:23conversation?
- 16:24>> I'm just talking to him right now. I
- 16:25ain't talking to him about dude. I don't
- 16:26know, dude. I don't talk to him about
- 16:27it. I don't know, dude. I'm asking
- 16:30brother, you got some ch you want some
- 16:32weed? You okay? I don't mind asking. You
- 16:35about to get some weed or something like
- 16:36that? Cool, cool, cool. I ain't got no
- 16:39reason to lie to you. If I did
- 16:40something, I take off for it.
- 16:41>> Cuz you are lying.
- 16:43>> I'm lying.
- 16:44>> Cuz these are your these are I got your
- 16:45other statements here that you have
- 16:47already previously made, friend.
- 16:50>> So I went in the store. I said I don't I
- 16:51said I don't know. Then I said when I
- 16:53come down, I said I think you're lying.
- 16:55I think you know more than what you're
- 16:56saying you know. And I said, "Okay." And
- 16:58I then I said, "What happened?" I said,
- 17:00"I ain't got nothing to do." I never had
- 17:01nothing to do with that. I said, "Gosh,
- 17:03what?" And I ran off. I even told him by
- 17:05the thing. I said, "I'm bad dude." I
- 17:07thought he was dead and everything.
- 17:09>> So you talk about robbing dude.
- 17:11>> Hell no. Hell no. Not at all. Not at
- 17:15all.
- 17:15>> You really You really weren't involved
- 17:17in trying to rob a dude for money?
- 17:19>> No. No. I ain't got I ain't got a
- 17:22problem. My girl work at the store. I
- 17:24got to run up to the store. Did he owe
- 17:26Roie some money though?
- 17:27>> I don't know about if he owe Roie some
- 17:29money that's on him. I don't I don't
- 17:31even know, dude.
- 17:32>> What do you mean you don't know?
- 17:33>> I don't I don't know, dude.
- 17:34>> It's right here in your statement.
- 17:36>> No, I think they said he owed him some
- 17:38money. They said that he owed some
- 17:40money.
- 17:41>> That's what you said when he first pulls
- 17:43up.
- 17:44>> I said that.
- 17:45>> I said that's your
- 17:47>> That's what you told us that you told
- 17:49Roly told you
- 17:52that afterwards I don't know. I don't
- 17:54know where he going to shoot dude if he
- 17:55shot him or he about to rob a dude or
- 17:58whatever like that dude or someone else
- 18:00between them two. I ain't getting to why
- 18:02but I'mma kick dude ass and kill you
- 18:03over some goddamn money that it ain't
- 18:05owed to me. I ain't got I'm not ruthless
- 18:07like that.
- 18:08>> Maybe you thought you could have some
- 18:09whatever.
- 18:10>> No, I don't need I don't I don't I don't
- 18:12need nothing. If that's the case I have
- 18:14left when he left.
- 18:15>> I would have stayed at the store
- 18:17>> knowing like I'm on camera and
- 18:19everything like that. I would have
- 18:20stayed on the store. I didn't
- 18:21>> You guys didn't have any conversation
- 18:22about
- 18:23>> No.
- 18:24>> Rob an old dude?
- 18:25>> No. Not at all. Not at all.
- 18:27>> Roly didn't tell you he was going to
- 18:28rob.
- 18:29>> No, not at all.
- 18:31>> Not at all. And everything I'm talking
- 18:32about is what I seen. That's it.
- 18:34>> Okay.
- 18:35>> That's it. That's it. I just got you.
- 18:38That's it.
- 18:38>> And when you guys walk out of the store,
- 18:41why do you walk behind the victim first?
- 18:44Why do you look You look out the door,
- 18:46see which way he goes, and then you go
- 18:48out after him.
- 18:49>> I'm going out. I'm I'm looking out. It's
- 18:51dark and everything. I go outside. Do I
- 18:53go outside? Why didn't I Why didn't I
- 18:56follow?
- 18:56>> Why would you poke your head out to see
- 18:58which way?
- 18:59>> I'm still standing in the store talking.
- 19:00Lonnie got talking to the girl, talking
- 19:02to the dude at the store. I know the
- 19:03owner of the store since I was a kid.
- 19:04You know my sister and everything. Look
- 19:06at Okay. What's up? Boom boom boom boom.
- 19:09It's hot around anyway. I'm chilling at
- 19:12the store. I'm chilling. [ __ ] I can
- 19:14post by the store. Smoke me. He won't
- 19:15make me leave. I go up there. She sit
- 19:18there and smoke my smoke a cigarette.
- 19:20Smoke a bl. He won't make me leave from
- 19:22the house. I ain't going to the store
- 19:24and do that. But outside he [ __ ]
- 19:26smoking.
- 19:27>> Yeah, I know. But again, don't [ __ ]
- 19:29around coming out. I mean, I can smoke
- 19:31in the store. You know, me and my
- 19:32sister.
- 19:33>> But when the victim walks out with
- 19:35traffic vest on after he's done buying
- 19:37his drink,
- 19:38>> right?
- 19:39>> Who goes out the door after
- 19:40[clears throat]
- 19:41you or Roly?
- 19:43>> Roly.
- 19:45Well, he go I don't go out to follow
- 19:46that man. Why didn't I do nothing to
- 19:49him? Why would I Oh, whatever. Why would
- 19:51I just beat him up here? I beat him up
- 19:52here. Here go your money. Get your
- 19:54money. Get out of here.
- 19:56Why would I do that? No. It's a camera
- 19:58right here. No, it's a camera right
- 19:59here. No, the camera
- 20:01right here. I I know these things. So,
- 20:04that's why
- 20:04>> why would I come up missing?
- 20:06>> You need to be
- 20:08like I said, you need to be 100%
- 20:11truthful with this. This is your last
- 20:12chance. You understand? This is your
- 20:14last chance to get ahead of this cuz
- 20:17chances are the complicity of the
- 20:19aggravated robbery is not going to be
- 20:20the only charge that gets added.
- 20:22>> All right?
- 20:23>> You see what I'm saying?
- 20:24>> So unless you plan on spending a lot of
- 20:26time in prison,
- 20:28>> you need to tell us the honest to God
- 20:29truth what you saw and what happened
- 20:32outside the Bajo that day. Because if
- 20:34you don't,
- 20:36>> this is all going to come down on topic.
- 20:38You understand?
- 20:41>> All right.
- 20:42This is just the start. That's why I'm
- 20:44trying to bring you back in, give you
- 20:46one more time. We have two different
- 20:47statements from you.
- 20:49>> The first one you talked to, Detective
- 20:50Bell was a complete lie. Complete lie.
- 20:54But Detective Bell didn't know anything
- 20:56about the case either. You talked to him
- 20:58in the big conference room.
- 20:59>> Right.
- 21:00>> Then we brought you and we talked to you
- 21:02again. You told us I think maybe
- 21:06I want to say half 50% the truth maybe
- 21:10about what happened. Cuz according to
- 21:13the video, the video clearly shows what
- 21:15you told us was not all the truth.
- 21:17>> The video show that I hold I hold a
- 21:19conversation with. I talk to him. I said
- 21:21that I talked to him in the store. I
- 21:23talked to him. If he doesn't last chance
- 21:25like to come 100% truthful get ahead of
- 21:29this cuz after the [clears throat] day
- 21:32you're going to get obviously assigned a
- 21:34lawyer tomorrow and you know these
- 21:36charges are going to be added. that have
- 21:38already been added and then there could
- 21:41be more being added later this week.
- 21:43There could be more added within the
- 21:44next week or soon after,
- 21:47>> right?
- 21:47>> Cuz prosecutor really wants you to tell
- 21:49the truth and tell us what's happened
- 21:51and get ahead of this before this goes
- 21:54to trial.
- 21:55>> Okay?
- 21:56>> Cuz it's going to go to trial soon. It's
- 21:58going to go to trial next month, I do
- 22:00believe.
- 22:02So
- 22:03what happened outside
- 22:06the bottom?
- 22:10>> I came to the store
- 22:12getting some chips.
- 22:15I [clears throat] guess dude dude pull
- 22:17up.
- 22:19Dude pull up. He come to the He come to
- 22:21the store.
- 22:23He go in there.
- 22:25>> Who we talking? Who's the dude?
- 22:26>> The victim.
- 22:27>> Okay.
- 22:28>> The victim come here. I'll go in the
- 22:30store. I'm asking [clears throat] Ro.
- 22:31Let me buy me some chips. Give me some
- 22:34chips. All right. Buy me a m guess dude
- 22:38got words. I guess do beef. I don't know
- 22:40nothing about the beef. I just got you.
- 22:42I don't know nothing about him and do
- 22:44his beef or whatever. All right.
- 22:47We right there and everything. I go out,
- 22:50dude. Leave out. I'm just right there.
- 22:52I'm chilling. I'm looking whatever. Not
- 22:55out for nothing. See what's going on.
- 22:56Like I'm looking I'm just looking
- 22:57outside. come back in talking talking
- 23:00with old girl and everything talking to
- 23:02everybody just kicking the boat just
- 23:03talking to everybody like I see the
- 23:05evolv
- 23:11I hear gunshots
- 23:15like what the dude on the ground roll
- 23:19you walk off I walk I'm standing I'm
- 23:21hitting them up I'm posted up you know
- 23:23what I'm saying see who I see might see
- 23:24a ride hop in with him see about to get
- 23:27injured cuz I I live down there. I just
- 23:29be down there. I know everybody down
- 23:30there. I know a lot of I used to live
- 23:32down. I know a lot of people all over
- 23:34Silver Street everywhere.
- 23:35>> Down there. I'm down there. You know
- 23:37what I'm saying? 55.
- 23:40I get out the way. I don't know what's
- 23:41coming my way. I get out the way. I pass
- 23:43do he look.
- 23:45>> What do you see when you see when you
- 23:46get a gunshot? What do you see?
- 23:48>> Nothing. I go that's when I that's when
- 23:50I come up to the thing. Like I told
- 23:51before you go you go double up up. Not
- 23:54going down. You want to go up. dude
- 23:56laying on the ground. I run past like
- 23:58I'm looking at him like, "Damn, what the
- 24:01I come back to the store like what is
- 24:03happening?" Oh, we heard gunshots. I'm
- 24:05like, "Man, dude laying over there on
- 24:07the ground." Dude laying there like he
- 24:08just sleep like like not like he shot or
- 24:10nothing. The paramedics, police and
- 24:11everybody come. I'm standing there at
- 24:13the store when the police know everybody
- 24:15coming when they when they come right
- 24:17there. I don't know who killed nobody,
- 24:20man. I ain't trying to get killed.
- 24:22>> You don't know who killed? No, I didn't
- 24:24I didn't actually see nobody. I [snorts]
- 24:26did not I didn't actually see nobody. I
- 24:28didn't actually see nobody.
- 24:30>> But where was Roly this time?
- 24:31>> He gone now.
- 24:33>> Where was Rory before that?
- 24:35>> He was at the store and he walked off
- 24:37and I'm just still kicking the ball
- 24:39showing up with my mom. This the true
- 24:41story right here.
- 24:42>> Who were you talking to,
- 24:43>> man?
- 24:44>> Outside the store.
- 24:46>> Some of y some of y people that I knew I
- 24:48know from around there. something to do
- 24:50just be around know what's up drunk [ __ ]
- 24:52made the mom cool boom whatever goes on
- 24:55after that I see that that's when I go
- 24:57that way walk off what the [ __ ]
- 25:00and then I go past I come back to the I
- 25:02come back to the store like damn police
- 25:04>> I know you come back
- 25:05>> yeah
- 25:07I know and I stand at the store and I
- 25:09pop up once again you look I smoke out
- 25:11again I leave it around the store that
- 25:14day the next day after that I still was
- 25:17coming around I still was coming around
- 25:20the show and anything like that that
- 25:21anybody that was ready to see. I don't
- 25:23have nothing to do with it. I didn't I
- 25:25didn't do it. I don't know nothing about
- 25:26it. I ain't got nothing to do with it. I
- 25:28ain't about to rhyme. I just came home
- 25:29from a joint for a robbery.
- 25:31>> Yeah, I know you did.
- 25:33>> Yeah. I ain't got
- 25:35I take I took I don't know the sign of
- 25:38deal cuz I thought dude was going to try
- 25:40to try to take me down thinking I did
- 25:41something with it.
- 25:43>> Who's going to take you down?
- 25:44>> Like the last at at the last.
- 25:47>> Okay.
- 25:47>> Yeah. I thought I would, you know what
- 25:49I'm saying? I don't know. I said at the
- 25:50store with my wife working. Why do I
- 25:51have to rush?
- 25:52>> So,
- 25:54when you walk out,
- 25:55>> right,
- 25:58>> the victim's already outside the store.
- 26:00>> Yeah, he leaving. The victim leaving. I
- 26:02just come out. Come out the store.
- 26:03>> You see where where he went?
- 26:05>> He walked up. He walked up the way, I
- 26:07guess. Where he was at? Where is Where
- 26:09is he? He walked up. He leaves.
- 26:10>> Okay.
- 26:11>> That's
- 26:12>> And where is Roly at at this point?
- 26:15I definitely I think Roy's still in the
- 26:18store. Roelly rolly walk out. I'm still
- 26:21standing there walk out like I'm
- 26:23standing there. I'm talking about
- 26:24>> Where are you standing at when you see
- 26:27>> by the um by the blue things by um store
- 26:30like the old newspaper thing or
- 26:31whatever.
- 26:32>> So you're in front of the store.
- 26:34>> Yeah.
- 26:34>> Here's Oakdale right here.
- 26:36>> Yeah.
- 26:36>> This is the parking lot right here.
- 26:38>> And I'm I'm like probably right here on
- 26:40say this. It's a blue thing right there.
- 26:42Old newspaper. This a trash can. I had a
- 26:44[clears throat] blue thing going over
- 26:49what the Nove
- 27:06is nowhere say. I come back this way
- 27:08looking like that. I'm thinking really
- 27:09well might come back this way or
- 27:11something like that. I didn't I didn't
- 27:12see I came back to the store and I still
- 27:14looping around at the store that day,
- 27:16the next day. After that, I go back in
- 27:18the store
- 27:19>> after watching the video multiple times.
- 27:23>> And you seen go
- 27:24>> multiple times. Listen, multiple times,
- 27:27>> right?
- 27:29>> You come out of the store.
- 27:31>> Uhhuh.
- 27:32>> After the victim walks out of the store,
- 27:34>> I just I came out the store and I came
- 27:36out. As you walk to the very corner of
- 27:39the building, you're standing right
- 27:41here. The victim's already walking
- 27:42around the corner, right?
- 27:44>> You're not standing in front of no blue
- 27:46things. You're clear up here by the
- 27:47street. The thing right there is right
- 27:49there. The blue thing right there cuz
- 27:50it's the fence. The blue thing, the
- 27:51trash can, the door,
- 27:53>> but you're up by the street corner.
- 27:54You're right up here by the corner of
- 27:56the building where the street is.
- 27:57>> And it's the fence, the blue thing, the
- 27:59trash can, and the door. Right there
- 28:00where you stand. It's the fence where
- 28:02you can get in the back of the store.
- 28:04the blue thing, the trash in the door.
- 28:06So, it's right there.
- 28:07>> YOU HAVE A CLEAR LINE of sight down
- 28:09Oakdale.
- 28:10>> Oakdale.
- 28:11>> Both ways.
- 28:12>> Both ways. And I didn't I did not see
- 28:15dude get hit. I'm right there. And
- 28:18>> comes rolling out of the store right
- 28:20behind you almost within not even a
- 28:22minute after you're standing right here.
- 28:24>> Right.
- 28:25>> And where's he go?
- 28:27>> He go that way. I don't know. I don't
- 28:29see I don't after that he leave. He go
- 28:30his way. And you see I'm still right
- 28:32where I'm at. And then I leave. I come
- 28:34back way back by the store. I leave
- 28:36after that. Boom. I'm over
- 28:39I come back to the store. I put the on
- 28:41everything. I come back. Dude, I come
- 28:44back. I seen I know some other people
- 28:45that was up the street. They telling me,
- 28:48"Oh, we don't know. We heard gunshots.
- 28:51Dude, man on the street. I run past
- 28:54that." I walk past and see what see
- 28:57what's happening on the ground. I lay
- 28:58right there. I run faster up down up.
- 29:03>> Oh, I know you ran out of hotel.
- 29:05>> Yeah. Then I come down witnesses who saw
- 29:07you run out of boat cuz you had the same
- 29:09red soul shoes on during the video.
- 29:11>> Yeah. And when I came down to the same
- 29:14outfit on,
- 29:16>> but you're still not telling us the
- 29:18truth.
- 29:18>> That is the truth. I went up. I didn't
- 29:20see actually see you saying he killed
- 29:21you. I didn't actually see Willie
- 29:22killed. Even if you walked past me, I I
- 29:25didn't see that. I didn't see I didn't
- 29:27ask any [ __ ] Nothing. I didn't see
- 29:29nothing. Go through his pockets.
- 29:31>> No. No. I didn't go through no pockets.
- 29:33No. No. No. DNA.
- 29:36>> You were rob trying to rob the dude.
- 29:38>> No, I was not trying to rob the dude.
- 29:41>> You really didn't have a thing going
- 29:42like, "Hey man, let's go. We're going to
- 29:44roll this dude as soon as he gets out of
- 29:46the store. We're going to take his beer.
- 29:47We'll take his money. We'll take his
- 29:49wallet."
- 29:50>> No.
- 29:50>> And unfortunately
- 29:52in the robbery, little old dude shoots
- 29:55him instead. And then all of a sudden
- 29:57the robbery turns real bad.
- 29:59>> No,
- 30:00>> no,
- 30:01>> no, no, no.
- 30:04>> So you weren't trying to rob old dude.
- 30:06>> No. Check his check if I would never
- 30:08mention to you about trying rob old
- 30:10dude. How about he owed him some money?
- 30:14>> If he owed him some money, that's on
- 30:15him. That ain't got nothing to do. I
- 30:16ain't rob
- 30:19victim owed him some money.
- 30:21>> I heard it from other people. The victim
- 30:23was on the ground like Yeah. Oh, we
- 30:25don't really do some money about some of
- 30:29the people around. That's how I found
- 30:31out a
- 30:33dude. Check the pockets. Check around my
- 30:35DNA. Not around. No way. I didn't do
- 30:37nothing. My DNA in his pocket. If I
- 30:39stuck a head in and pull out my DNA, of
- 30:42course.
- 30:43>> Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
- 30:45We're probably going to end up maybe
- 30:47having to do that. That's what I'm
- 30:48saying.
- 30:49>> Hope for your sake,
- 30:50>> man. Like I'm saying this last That
- 30:54that's that's it right there. That's it
- 30:56right there. Take the take the DNA. Then
- 30:58after that, let's go ahead and um
- 31:01[clears throat] take a polygraph and see
- 31:02if I knew that he was going to kill dude
- 31:04or take that. That's how far I
- 31:07do right now. You mean you check it out?
- 31:10>> I can't do a poly out there cuz a
- 31:11polygraph person isn't here.
- 31:14>> They willing to take a polygraph. Maybe
- 31:16that's something we can do later on.
- 31:18>> Thank you. I didn't know Ronnie was
- 31:20going to kill dude. Like I didn't know.
- 31:21>> You didn't see him kill dude? No,
- 31:24I don't know if he counted or nothing on
- 31:26him. I ain't got nothing to do with a
- 31:28gun.
- 31:29>> No, I didn't know he had no gun. I
- 31:31didn't know he got no gun. I didn't know
- 31:33he had I didn't know he had no gun or
- 31:35nothing. I wouldn't went in the store as
- 31:37much as [ __ ] Hey, come here.
- 31:40What are you doing? They just pull up
- 31:41for no reason. They just
- 31:43shot a gun. Here's the thing. You got 12
- 31:46people who don't know a lot about
- 31:52the law. They watch a lot of TV. Okay.
- 31:55>> Yeah.
- 31:55>> They're going to be sitting in the jury
- 31:57box.
- 31:58>> Okay. They're going to see this video
- 32:01that I'm telling you that I'm trying to
- 32:02explain to you that looks real bad on
- 32:06you.
- 32:06>> All right.
- 32:08>> Now, what do you think if you get hit
- 32:10with a murder charge? You think they're
- 32:12going to end up thinking that you had
- 32:14something to do with it from this video?
- 32:16>> Highly likely.
- 32:18>> Yeah. If I didn't think I was going to
- 32:19do it cuz but I but I did. Okay. I look
- 32:23out. I walk out. I look out and look
- 32:25back in.
- 32:27[laughter]
- 32:28I ain't wait for nobody else. I look
- 32:30out. Step back in. I don't even get to
- 32:31talking back to brother cuz you look
- 32:33like you guys are in.
- 32:36>> No. I mean I mean I'm allowed to talk
- 32:39I'm allowed to talk to anybody. All
- 32:40right. If I talk to somebody, that's not
- 32:42mean you talking about going kill
- 32:43somebody. You ain't got nothing to do
- 32:44with that. They don't know who we was
- 32:45talking about. It might look like I'm
- 32:47not even talking to you. So, I'm about
- 32:48to go do something. But that don't mean
- 32:50I said nothing to you about going to
- 32:51kill nobody. I'm about to rob you.
- 32:53Nothing. Me and you talking right now. I
- 32:55can beat somebody at one point. They
- 32:57can't. Oh, yeah. You he told me.
- 33:00>> Even if we had a plan, we would rob the
- 33:03dude.
- 33:03>> Why would I Why would I sit? I sit all
- 33:05the way back.
- 33:07I sit all the way back. Why would I be
- 33:09right there with him? right there with
- 33:11why would I go if I was a dude going to
- 33:13kill why would I be right there if he
- 33:15was going to kill me why would I just
- 33:17ain't got to kill the woman just beat
- 33:18him up and do it like that I said
- 33:21question I'm asking you did I said
- 33:23that's the thing if a person seen last
- 33:25time from my other room they would have
- 33:26seen a minute to about this look I just
- 33:29this what I this this what I did you
- 33:34when you heard shots
- 33:35>> I took off that way I go that way go I'm
- 33:39going
- 33:40I came back. I'm not about to leave. I
- 33:42came back. I did nothing. What's the
- 33:43point?
- 33:47Get out.
- 33:50>> Did Roy come through his pockets?
- 33:51>> I don't know where did I see what did
- 33:54the whole
- 33:56area. That's what I was going to do.
- 34:01Okay. I can still turn around.
- 34:07Whatever happened
- 34:09that ain't got nothing to do with me
- 34:10with him DUDE BACK GOING
- 34:13>> NOW you been charged for custo
- 34:15>> and I didn't rob nothing what did I rob
- 34:17ain't no DNA saying I did nothing ain't
- 34:19no evidence showing that I did nothing
- 34:21to do I didn't do nothing to do I didn't
- 34:23even speak to him when he came in
- 34:25>> I hope the DNA don't come back with you
- 34:27>> it didn't I know what it is that came as
- 34:29the whole thing DNA oh yeah you got DNA
- 34:32in this pocket oh yeah that that's
- 34:34murder and everything I know how this
- 34:35stuff Bro, I got others is down like
- 34:38people is down for murders and stuff. I
- 34:40know stuff but ain't not even a like TV
- 34:43show and TV show leave out a lot.
- 34:45>> Well, TV is not the reality.
- 34:47>> Ain't the reality. I know. I know what
- 34:48it is. I got to explain to you
- 34:51>> and I wouldn't do that. I just had a
- 34:52daughter. Like I'm trying to see my
- 34:53daughter. Girl, I a trying to see your
- 34:54brother through picture. She never know
- 34:55who I am. I'm in jail. I ain't trying to
- 34:57do that. My daughter 8 months. I'm
- 34:59trying to go ahead and take the DNA look
- 35:01like his DNA nowhere around you. and was
- 35:04like that by get that out the way.
- 35:06Hopefully make a home October 5th.
- 35:09>> Okay.
- 35:10>> For real. I lie to you. I'm a man of my
- 35:12word. If I did something, I take out
- 35:16I damn I'm call.
- 35:18>> So, is there anything else you're going
- 35:19to tell me for?
- 35:20>> Yeah.
- 35:21>> I mean, that's give you your chance
- 35:23right here.
- 35:24>> Yeah. I I told you I ain't got nothing
- 35:26to do with whatever happened to nothing
- 35:28to do that got nothing to do with me.
- 35:30>> We're not talking about just what
- 35:32happened with dude getting
- 35:34I'm talking about now getting robbed.
- 35:36>> I didn't I ain't got nothing to do with
- 35:37him getting killed. Got pass. I got talk
- 35:40about cuz you had to do something with I
- 35:42ain't got nothing to do with him getting
- 35:44killed. Check that man's body for DNA.
- 35:46That might say it won't be on his hands
- 35:48in his pockets on his shirt around him
- 35:50in the grass on that sidewalk. You can
- 35:52cut the whole little piece of strip
- 35:54that's around him and then DNA check.
- 35:56However do your little DNA stuff check
- 35:58all that. Okay. All right. Thank Yeah.
- 36:01Get you back to the county. All right.
- 36:03>> All right.
- 36:03>> Thanks for coming over, my man.
- 36:05>> Yeah.
- 36:25>> Tip your hand up.
- 36:29All
- 36:32right, turn around. Put your palms
- 36:34together behind your back like your
- 36:36brains. Put them together
- 36:38more comfortable.
- 36:57All right, come on up.
- 37:02In the aftermath of the shooting,
- 37:04detectives pieced together surveillance
- 37:06footage, witness [music] statements, DNA
- 37:08evidence, and the cell phone left near
- 37:10the scene, all of it pointing to Jerry
- 37:12Alfred Jr. and his accomplice, Dexter
- 37:14Moore. Both men were [music] arrested
- 37:16and tried together in early 2019. The
- 37:19jury found that while the killing wasn't
- 37:21premeditated, Alfred had shot [music]
- 37:23Derek Alexander during the
- 37:24confrontation. He was convicted of
- 37:27murder with a firearm [music]
- 37:28specification and weapons under
- 37:30disability. Judge Joy Malik Oldfield
- 37:33sentenced him to life in prison with
- 37:35parole eligibility after 21 [music]
- 37:37years when all mandatory terms are
- 37:39combined. Moore, whose involvement the
- 37:41jury deemed lesser, was [music]
- 37:43convicted of complicity to felonious
- 37:45assault and obstructing justice and
- 37:47received a 5-year sentence. Every appeal
- 37:50that followed, from the trial [music]
- 37:51court to the 9inth District Court of
- 37:53Appeals and ultimately the Ohio Supreme
- 37:55Court, left the verdicts in place.
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