1 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:08,266 [Pinkie] Tymeir was the type of person 2 00:00:08,967 --> 00:00:09,967 that you could always depend on. 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:11,467 [kissing sounds] 4 00:00:12,433 --> 00:00:13,266 [Pinkie] Long as the people around him were 5 00:00:14,166 --> 00:00:15,667 taken care of, that's all he cared about. 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,200 Tymeir and Rodney was like total opposites. 7 00:00:20,133 --> 00:00:20,667 [Pinkie] Everything with Rodney was a joke. 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,600 He never really took nothing real serious. 9 00:00:24,934 --> 00:00:28,700 Tymeir always tried to just play the big brother role to Rodney. 10 00:00:29,667 --> 00:00:31,367 [Marc] Rodney, he embraced that street life. 11 00:00:33,567 --> 00:00:36,000 Rodney didn't care about nobody but Rodney. 12 00:00:36,967 --> 00:00:39,567 At the end of the day, my heart was shattered 13 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:40,700 in a million pieces. 14 00:00:44,567 --> 00:00:45,967 [Stephen] He was begging for his life, 15 00:00:46,867 --> 00:00:48,100 and his mother was begging for his life. 16 00:00:49,867 --> 00:00:51,800 You can't get any more cold-hearted than that. 17 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:54,467 That is truly an evil person. 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,100 [sinister tones playing] 19 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:14,967 [narrator] It's summer 2021, and brothers Tymeir and Rodney 20 00:01:15,734 --> 00:01:16,667 enjoy a day out with their family, 21 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,200 making social media videos at a water park. 22 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:21,567 [Pinkie] I have seven children. 23 00:01:22,433 --> 00:01:23,800 Me and my kids did everything together. 24 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:25,867 Tymeir was three years older than Rodney. 25 00:01:26,667 --> 00:01:28,467 For the most part, they got along, 26 00:01:29,233 --> 00:01:30,066 but they was the typical brothers. 27 00:01:31,033 --> 00:01:33,400 [Dayana] Tymeir always been like the clown, 28 00:01:34,033 --> 00:01:35,200 like he always been funny. 29 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:37,867 [laughs] 30 00:01:40,467 --> 00:01:43,867 Tymeir would make you laugh and smile all the time. 31 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:46,467 [kissing sounds] 32 00:01:47,767 --> 00:01:49,600 [Dayana] Rodney, I call him like the aggravator. 33 00:01:50,367 --> 00:01:51,400 He just like to mess with people. 34 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 I mean, we was a big family, so it was always fun. 35 00:02:01,867 --> 00:02:05,500 [narrator] Tymeir Dial-Hale is born on January 2000, 36 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:08,767 but his parents separate soon after his birth. 37 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,467 Shortly after the pregnancy we kind of broke up, 38 00:02:13,734 --> 00:02:15,900 and we never got back together. We just raised Tymeir together. 39 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,767 Tymeir was a happy-go-lucky little baby. 40 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:21,667 Like, he was -- 41 00:02:22,233 --> 00:02:23,967 he was a joy to have. 42 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,000 Everybody in my family loved Tymeir. 43 00:02:26,967 --> 00:02:29,500 [Pinkie] He was a mama's boy. He was sweet. 44 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:36,166 My fifth child, Rodney, was born November the 8th of 2003. 45 00:02:37,266 --> 00:02:38,900 I don't think it made a difference that they did not 46 00:02:39,467 --> 00:02:40,467 have the same father, 47 00:02:41,433 --> 00:02:43,100 because I feel like my kids grew up knowing 48 00:02:43,734 --> 00:02:45,000 they had the same mother. 49 00:02:45,433 --> 00:02:46,700 The boys fought. 50 00:02:47,333 --> 00:02:48,767 My house was always loud, 51 00:02:49,567 --> 00:02:51,266 because I had more boys than girls. 52 00:02:51,934 --> 00:02:53,000 They argued, they disagreed, 53 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,467 and then they was right back playing together. 54 00:02:56,700 --> 00:02:59,266 I feel like they was normal kids, and they loved each other, 55 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,367 but of course they had disagreements. 56 00:03:03,467 --> 00:03:05,667 Tymeir's a good brother, he was a really good brother. 57 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:08,300 [Rondale] Like he wanted us to do the right thing, 58 00:03:08,967 --> 00:03:10,400 and stay on the right path, 59 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,700 and just be, like, our best selves. 60 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,567 [Dayana] He was my little brother, but he was like a big brother. 61 00:03:17,233 --> 00:03:19,467 He always been a protector. 62 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:24,967 [narrator] When Tymeir is 12, and Rodney is eight, 63 00:03:26,066 --> 00:03:28,000 their family gets even bigger when Pinky gives birth 64 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:30,867 to her seventh child, Jeremiah. 65 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:32,500 [Pinkie] When I got pregnant with Jeremiah, 66 00:03:33,166 --> 00:03:34,667 I think everybody was upset. 67 00:03:35,333 --> 00:03:35,767 I think everybody was like, 68 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,266 "We don't want no more kids in here." 69 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:43,200 Tymeir and Jeremiah were buddies. 70 00:03:44,166 --> 00:03:45,667 All of them was really pretty close though. 71 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:51,800 [narrator] But as Tymeir and Rodney become teenagers, 72 00:03:52,934 --> 00:03:55,667 their lives start to go in very different directions. 73 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,667 [Marc] Rodney was always wanting to be tough. 74 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:03,667 Tymeir and Rodney was like total opposites. 75 00:04:04,367 --> 00:04:06,100 Tymeir learned at a young age 76 00:04:06,934 --> 00:04:08,867 that you gotta hustle to get money. 77 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,467 He would shovel snow, he would cut grass. 78 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:17,467 He never tried to go down the street-life road. 79 00:04:18,433 --> 00:04:21,166 But for Rodney, he embraced that street life, 80 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:22,166 the street culture. 81 00:04:22,967 --> 00:04:25,367 That was what he wanted for himself. 82 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:30,967 Tymeir always talked to me about how he would talk 83 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:36,700 to Rodney, and try to get him to turn his life around. 84 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,567 And he like, "Pops, he just ain't listening to me." 85 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,567 I'm like, "Ain't nothing you could do." 86 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,200 [Pinkie] Tymeir always tried to talk to Rodney about doing 87 00:04:48,433 --> 00:04:50,066 the right things, but it went in one ear and out the other. 88 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,500 Once he got out of high school, he was determined. 89 00:04:57,734 --> 00:05:00,100 And he would tell me every day, "Mom, I'm doing this for you. 90 00:05:01,133 --> 00:05:04,567 You want me to have a diploma? I'm gonna get it." 91 00:05:05,633 --> 00:05:07,800 [Marc] I was extremely happy when Tymeir graduated 92 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:09,300 from high school. 93 00:05:10,367 --> 00:05:12,467 Rodney didn't really start misbehaving, until maybe 94 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:14,266 about fourth, fifth grade. 95 00:05:14,967 --> 00:05:16,000 He didn't want to be in school, 96 00:05:16,934 --> 00:05:18,500 and he was very disrespectful to teachers. 97 00:05:19,567 --> 00:05:21,266 And by 12th grade, he just completely dropped out. 98 00:05:22,266 --> 00:05:25,000 It was hard raising teenage boys all together, 99 00:05:25,867 --> 00:05:27,767 but Rodney was definitely the one that 100 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:29,166 gave me the most problems. 101 00:05:32,867 --> 00:05:35,567 [Dayana] As siblings growing up, when Rodney was at home, 102 00:05:36,133 --> 00:05:38,200 he was a normal person. 103 00:05:38,867 --> 00:05:39,867 We would all sing together. 104 00:05:40,867 --> 00:05:44,367 I think Rodney put on a persona for the streets. 105 00:05:45,266 --> 00:05:46,867 [Rondale] It's me, Rodney, and my friend. 106 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,000 This was around the time me and Rodney spent 107 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:50,467 a good amount of time together. 108 00:05:51,467 --> 00:05:54,166 We used to go to the rec after school sometimes, 109 00:05:54,667 --> 00:05:56,800 and just be kids. 110 00:05:57,300 --> 00:05:58,066 I love that video. 111 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,000 It's me, [incomprehensible], and Rodney in that video. 112 00:06:01,834 --> 00:06:04,400 Um, it was like a little TikTok trend. 113 00:06:04,834 --> 00:06:05,567 It was funny. 114 00:06:06,433 --> 00:06:09,066 That's another TikTok of me and Rodney 115 00:06:09,767 --> 00:06:11,200 comparing, like, our features. 116 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:14,200 I had to force him to do it because people always said 117 00:06:14,867 --> 00:06:16,800 that we looked alike a lot. 118 00:06:18,033 --> 00:06:21,000 I don't really think Rodney had, like, any long-term goals. 119 00:06:22,066 --> 00:06:25,467 I think he just lived day by day. 120 00:06:27,467 --> 00:06:30,667 [Pinkie] Rodney couldn't keep a job because Rodney had did 121 00:06:31,467 --> 00:06:33,467 so much bad things in the streets. 122 00:06:34,166 --> 00:06:36,000 Rodney would shoot at people, 123 00:06:36,767 --> 00:06:38,100 and people would shoot at Rodney. 124 00:06:38,967 --> 00:06:42,200 Rodney was scared to go certain places, 125 00:06:42,967 --> 00:06:44,567 because of who he might run into. 126 00:06:47,266 --> 00:06:49,600 Tymeir worked with me at the market hall. 127 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:51,400 We were cleaning the building. 128 00:06:52,266 --> 00:06:53,967 But when Tymeir came, he made it fun. 129 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:55,266 He would laugh. 130 00:06:56,266 --> 00:06:57,000 He would be the highlight of everybody's day. 131 00:06:58,767 --> 00:07:02,100 [Tymeir] Ah! [incomprehensible] Bit my finger! 132 00:07:02,467 --> 00:07:04,166 [laughing] 133 00:07:04,934 --> 00:07:06,867 This video was at my mom's house. 134 00:07:07,734 --> 00:07:09,100 Tymeir was watching my kids that day, 135 00:07:09,734 --> 00:07:11,567 and I had came back early, 136 00:07:12,266 --> 00:07:13,567 and they was under the cover. 137 00:07:14,233 --> 00:07:14,967 He was telling them a story. 138 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:16,667 [Tymeir and kids talking] 139 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,867 And I just started recording, 140 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,667 because I thought it was so cute. 141 00:07:29,367 --> 00:07:31,000 He was a real, present uncle. 142 00:07:32,367 --> 00:07:35,166 [Rondale] Tymeir's first impression was always good. 143 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:38,467 Even when my friends met him, they would just be like, 144 00:07:39,333 --> 00:07:40,400 "Your brother's so nice. He's so sweet." 145 00:07:41,166 --> 00:07:42,400 He was kind of flirtatious, too. 146 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,400 [Nina] When me and Tymeir first started chatting, 147 00:07:51,033 --> 00:07:51,900 it was through Instagram. 148 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:57,266 Tymeir just started putting heart-eyes on my pictures, 149 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,000 telling me how beautiful I looked, and stuff like that. 150 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:02,667 And the messages, he was like, "You're cute." 151 00:08:03,333 --> 00:08:03,800 And I'm like, "You're cute." 152 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:07,266 And he was -- I'm just like, let's be cute together. 153 00:08:08,266 --> 00:08:10,767 We went on our first date in December of 2020. 154 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:12,300 We went bowling. 155 00:08:13,300 --> 00:08:16,166 My first impression of Tymeir was that he was 156 00:08:17,166 --> 00:08:19,567 really down to earth, like, a very caring man. 157 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:23,400 Tymeir described Rodney as his younger annoying brother 158 00:08:23,834 --> 00:08:24,567 that he loved. 159 00:08:25,333 --> 00:08:26,367 He would do anything for Rodney. 160 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,667 The first time that I got on the phone with Tymeir, 161 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:32,900 Rodney came into the room. 162 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,266 He pretty much did say, "Shut up, bitch," pretty much. 163 00:08:38,233 --> 00:08:39,300 And I was just like, "Who are you talking to? 164 00:08:39,934 --> 00:08:40,667 I don't have to shut up." 165 00:08:41,767 --> 00:08:43,100 And Rodney told me, "I will beat the [bleep] out you." 166 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:48,767 Rodney was definitely one of them boys that I would say 167 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:50,300 I stayed away from. 168 00:08:51,467 --> 00:08:53,100 Rodney loved guns. 169 00:08:54,333 --> 00:08:55,867 He made it very clear that that was the life that he lived, 170 00:08:56,667 --> 00:08:57,700 and the life that he loved to live. 171 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,166 You never know what a person could do. 172 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,100 [Marc] As he had gotten older, he was not a person you would 173 00:09:06,734 --> 00:09:07,767 really want to be around. 174 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:11,000 Rodney didn't care about nobody but Rodney. 175 00:09:12,033 --> 00:09:15,467 [Nina] I think the whole family felt as if Rodney 176 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:16,867 did have a problem. 177 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:19,367 I believe that if you mix with the wrong people, 178 00:09:20,033 --> 00:09:21,166 bad things are gonna happen. 179 00:09:36,667 --> 00:09:40,166 [Nina] Tymeir was working at a cleaning job 180 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:42,567 at the Market Hall, Shaker Heights, Ohio. 181 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:45,266 [car door clicks open] 182 00:09:46,767 --> 00:09:49,767 I ended up going to his house, and meeting his mom, 183 00:09:50,767 --> 00:09:53,166 and his family, and then we were inseparable. 184 00:09:54,767 --> 00:09:58,200 [Pinkie] When Tymeir first met Nina, it was fast, 185 00:09:59,033 --> 00:10:00,000 and she instantly moved in with us. 186 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,467 [Rondale] Nina became a part of our family. 187 00:10:07,233 --> 00:10:08,967 I grew to love her like a sister. 188 00:10:10,166 --> 00:10:12,700 Me and Tymeir, when we met, we started talking about kids 189 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:17,000 roughly like six months in. It was fast-paced. 190 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:24,900 When Tymeir found out I was pregnant, he was ecstatic. 191 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:30,200 [kissing sounds] 192 00:10:31,233 --> 00:10:33,300 [Nina] He was phenomenal throughout the pregnancy. 193 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:37,300 Tymeir never missed a beat when it came to our child, ever. 194 00:10:39,967 --> 00:10:43,567 He swore it was a boy. I knew it wasn't no boy. 195 00:10:44,233 --> 00:10:45,100 And I looked at him, I said, 196 00:10:45,867 --> 00:10:47,066 "You gonna cry when it's a girl." 197 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,867 [narrator] It's fall of 2021, and 21-year-old Tymeir, 198 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:55,567 and 19-year-old Nina throw a gender reveal party 199 00:10:56,266 --> 00:10:57,266 for their family and friends. 200 00:10:58,433 --> 00:11:01,166 [Dayana] We all just came out to see what he was having. 201 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,266 And he was determined to make sure that a truck had whatever 202 00:11:05,834 --> 00:11:06,667 color powder come out. 203 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:09,300 [group chanting together] 204 00:11:13,066 --> 00:11:14,066 [tires skid] 205 00:11:14,467 --> 00:11:15,900 [screaming] 206 00:11:19,967 --> 00:11:23,667 When the pink smoke came out, Tymeir was mad. 207 00:11:23,967 --> 00:11:24,767 [laughs] 208 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,166 [crowd chatters] 209 00:11:29,467 --> 00:11:31,967 [laughs] 210 00:11:33,066 --> 00:11:35,000 And he made a comment, and he said, "That's OK, Nina. 211 00:11:35,633 --> 00:11:36,367 We going to run it back." 212 00:11:37,467 --> 00:11:39,367 [Marc] It was the funniest thing, because I was like, 213 00:11:40,433 --> 00:11:43,567 "Dude, you don't pick your kids. Your kids pick you." 214 00:11:44,633 --> 00:11:46,467 [Nina] Rodney didn't show up to the gender reveal, 215 00:11:47,467 --> 00:11:49,166 but I think Tymeir understood that his brother 216 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:52,367 was in the streets, and not family oriented like him. 217 00:11:53,967 --> 00:11:55,667 [Pinkie] Rodney just didn't care. 218 00:11:56,367 --> 00:11:57,467 He just had this kind of like, 219 00:11:58,467 --> 00:12:00,166 "I don't care if you like me or not" attitude. 220 00:12:01,266 --> 00:12:03,567 [narrator] At only 18 years of age, 221 00:12:04,467 --> 00:12:06,767 Rodney is also about to become a father. 222 00:12:07,767 --> 00:12:09,767 [Pinkie] Rodney wasn't as excited as Tymeir was 223 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:11,000 to become a father. 224 00:12:11,834 --> 00:12:13,367 Rodney was just, "Oh, it is what it is. 225 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:14,967 She's pregnant, you know." 226 00:12:16,066 --> 00:12:17,767 Rodney's son's mother, they wasn't in a relationship. 227 00:12:18,967 --> 00:12:21,567 I think Rodney probably wasn't as excited 228 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:23,567 because Rodney didn't have anything. 229 00:12:24,133 --> 00:12:24,867 He didn't have a job. 230 00:12:25,967 --> 00:12:27,900 I don't think Rodney was prepared to care for a child. 231 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:33,100 [Nina] Rodney was the type of person to get angry very quickly. 232 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:37,467 You say one little thing to him, and he's going 233 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:39,667 from 0 to 100 in a second. 234 00:12:42,767 --> 00:12:46,567 When I was pregnant, Jeremiah and Rodney were 235 00:12:47,133 --> 00:12:47,667 having a disagreement. 236 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,667 And Jeremiah was so much younger than him. 237 00:12:52,133 --> 00:12:53,667 So I intervened. 238 00:12:54,233 --> 00:12:55,000 And I did tell Rodney, 239 00:12:55,834 --> 00:12:56,567 "Stop, that's your little brother." 240 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,467 Rodney did not like that. 241 00:12:59,333 --> 00:13:00,467 Rodney got in my face, threatening me, 242 00:13:01,033 --> 00:13:02,200 screaming in my face. 243 00:13:02,767 --> 00:13:04,000 I was fearful of him... 244 00:13:05,467 --> 00:13:08,367 because, for one, he's a man, and I'm pregnant. 245 00:13:09,066 --> 00:13:10,767 And for two, the aggression, 246 00:13:11,567 --> 00:13:12,467 the look in his eyes, he's angry. 247 00:13:13,467 --> 00:13:14,767 I think Tymeir and him, they were cool after it. 248 00:13:15,433 --> 00:13:16,000 You know, they're brothers. 249 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:17,300 I would never try to get between brothers. 250 00:13:18,233 --> 00:13:20,100 I didn't talk to Rodney for a couple months. 251 00:13:21,367 --> 00:13:22,900 Me and Tymeir decided that we wanted to move 252 00:13:24,033 --> 00:13:25,266 into our own apartment, because, you know, it was time 253 00:13:26,266 --> 00:13:27,867 we started our own family, begin our own life. 254 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:36,467 Me and Tymeir moved into my apartment October 15, 2021. 255 00:13:37,667 --> 00:13:41,667 I went into labor with Nalani on February 15. 256 00:13:42,533 --> 00:13:43,166 Tymeir was just there the whole time, 257 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,300 rubbing my back, talking me through it. 258 00:13:47,266 --> 00:13:48,567 We did end up doing an emergency C-section. 259 00:13:49,233 --> 00:13:50,367 He was there through it all. 260 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:53,467 Tymeir was the first person to hold her. 261 00:13:56,667 --> 00:13:59,567 [Nina] First time that I seen Tymeir really cradle Nalani, 262 00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:04,066 and really get in father mode, it warmed my heart. 263 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:09,100 He did most of the nurturing. 264 00:14:10,333 --> 00:14:12,567 He did the most of the getting up in the middle of the night, 265 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:16,100 always made the bottles, changed the diapers, 266 00:14:16,900 --> 00:14:18,600 because he knew that I was healing. 267 00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:26,800 [Pinkie] Nalani loved her dad. 268 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:30,300 He was a wonderful, wonderful father. 269 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:34,600 [baby laughs] 270 00:14:35,533 --> 00:14:37,100 [Marc] You should have seen him with her. 271 00:14:37,533 --> 00:14:38,767 He was amazing. 272 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,800 Ah! [snorting sounds] 273 00:14:44,166 --> 00:14:45,266 [laughs] 274 00:14:47,667 --> 00:14:50,100 [Pinkie] Rodney's day would consist of sleeping the majority 275 00:14:50,934 --> 00:14:51,967 of the day, and then going outside. 276 00:14:53,166 --> 00:14:56,400 So when you got your child, you can't just sleep all day, 277 00:14:56,934 --> 00:14:57,767 and then go outside. 278 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:00,266 I just don't believe Rodney was ready for a child. 279 00:15:01,266 --> 00:15:02,867 Sometimes I would be like, you know, "Get him." 280 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:06,166 But he would get his son, and be so frustrated. 281 00:15:06,834 --> 00:15:08,467 He didn't care what I said. 282 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:10,166 He was running with the wrong people. 283 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,200 [narrator] It's March 2022. 284 00:15:18,233 --> 00:15:20,100 Tymeir and Rodney's younger brothers are driving 285 00:15:20,734 --> 00:15:22,100 through the city at night. 286 00:15:23,233 --> 00:15:25,567 [Nina] Tymeir's younger siblings, Rondale and Jeremiah, 287 00:15:26,667 --> 00:15:29,100 were all in a car together with Rodney's girlfriend, 288 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000 and the car was shot up. 289 00:15:33,066 --> 00:15:34,300 [bang] 290 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:35,700 I looked back to check on Jeremiah. 291 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:37,266 I said, "Jeremiah, are you OK?" 292 00:15:38,567 --> 00:15:41,000 But when I looked back, he was laying on the floor, 293 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:43,867 and he had blood on the back of his head. 294 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:47,266 At that point, I knew he was hurt, 295 00:15:47,967 --> 00:15:49,100 but I just didn't know where. 296 00:15:49,934 --> 00:15:52,967 So I called 911, and they came fast -- 297 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:54,867 not even two minutes fast. 298 00:15:55,834 --> 00:15:57,667 It was like five cop cars, and an ambulance. 299 00:15:58,767 --> 00:16:02,000 They pulled him out the car, laid him on the ground, 300 00:16:03,266 --> 00:16:04,400 cut his clothes off. 301 00:16:05,667 --> 00:16:06,867 [Pinkie] Jeremiah was shot. 302 00:16:07,934 --> 00:16:11,567 He was struck in his chest, and twice in his legs, 303 00:16:12,266 --> 00:16:13,700 and he was grazed three times. 304 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,000 Jeremiah should have never had 305 00:16:16,734 --> 00:16:18,100 to experience nothing like that. 306 00:16:19,266 --> 00:16:20,767 I believe that they thought that Rodney was in that car, 307 00:16:21,967 --> 00:16:24,200 and I believe that they maybe had a run-in prior to that, 308 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:27,900 and that was the outcome of it. 309 00:16:28,867 --> 00:16:29,467 Jeremiah was 10 years old when he was shot. 310 00:16:30,266 --> 00:16:31,767 He was in the hospital for a week, 311 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,100 but he was OK. 312 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:37,100 He didn't suffer any major damage. 313 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:38,567 Tymeir was really hurt by it, 314 00:16:39,333 --> 00:16:40,100 and Rodney was really hurt by it, 315 00:16:40,767 --> 00:16:42,266 because Rodney felt like... 316 00:16:42,700 --> 00:16:43,700 it was for him. 317 00:16:45,266 --> 00:16:48,166 He kept saying that he wished he'd have been in the car. 318 00:16:49,266 --> 00:16:51,500 We always told Rodney, you need to put the gun down. 319 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:54,767 You need to do something better with your life. 320 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,100 [Nina] Tymeir definitely expressed to Rodney how he felt that... 321 00:17:01,367 --> 00:17:03,700 he should try to change his life, 322 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:05,867 but Rodney just didn't want to hear it. 323 00:17:07,266 --> 00:17:08,567 [Pinkie] Rodney was disrespectful. 324 00:17:09,233 --> 00:17:10,066 He didn't care what I said. 325 00:17:10,633 --> 00:17:11,767 No matter how much I... 326 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:16,166 chased him, no matter how much, he did not care at all. 327 00:17:17,233 --> 00:17:18,767 [Nina] I feel as if Rodney was consistently putting 328 00:17:19,433 --> 00:17:20,567 his whole family in danger. 329 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:24,100 Rodney was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. 330 00:17:37,667 --> 00:17:40,066 [Rondale] As he got older, Rodney did become more violent. 331 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,467 I don't know what it was that made him become that way. 332 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:51,166 That image he had to portray, or if it was just really 333 00:17:51,567 --> 00:17:52,900 who he was. 334 00:17:53,667 --> 00:17:55,266 [Pinkie] I do think that sometimes 335 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:59,000 Rodney did think that Tymeir was my favorite child. 336 00:18:00,867 --> 00:18:03,066 It's not that Tymeir was my favorite, 337 00:18:03,667 --> 00:18:04,100 or that I love him more, 338 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,600 but he was a little bit more responsible. 339 00:18:11,867 --> 00:18:14,867 [Dayana] Me and Rodney got into it at my mother's house. 340 00:18:16,033 --> 00:18:18,767 It started over something petty, and he said that he was 341 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:22,800 going to go put his gun up, and come back downstairs, 342 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:23,967 and hit me. 343 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,467 And that's what happened. 344 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:31,100 Came downstairs and he hit me, so I hit him back. 345 00:18:31,533 --> 00:18:33,100 [siren wailing] 346 00:18:34,367 --> 00:18:37,000 I remember the police pulling up and they arrested both of us, 347 00:18:37,767 --> 00:18:39,000 and we both was in jail together. 348 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,800 [Nina] When I found out that Rodney did put his hands on Dayana, 349 00:18:45,467 --> 00:18:46,266 and they were both in jail, 350 00:18:47,266 --> 00:18:53,266 I knew then that he didn't care about anything. 351 00:18:54,166 --> 00:18:56,900 I knew then that he could harm someone. 352 00:18:57,867 --> 00:19:01,000 I stayed away from Rodney for the most part 353 00:19:01,533 --> 00:19:02,300 for a couple months. 354 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:07,166 I just felt like I didn't want me, or my baby, around that. 355 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:10,166 [narrator] But Tymeir is busy focusing on his career, 356 00:19:10,867 --> 00:19:12,600 and providing for his family. 357 00:19:13,700 --> 00:19:15,166 [Pinkie] Tymeir started working security at a school, 358 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:16,600 at a charter school. 359 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,467 He would come home every day with a story and he would just 360 00:19:23,567 --> 00:19:25,967 be so excited about how he impacted some child's life. 361 00:19:27,066 --> 00:19:32,266 [Marc] He was a security officer at the school with me. 362 00:19:33,233 --> 00:19:36,667 He was a natural. Like, the kids loved him. 363 00:19:37,367 --> 00:19:39,100 They really, truly loved Tymeir. 364 00:19:40,266 --> 00:19:44,266 I believe that Rodney had some type of jealousy or envy. 365 00:19:45,233 --> 00:19:47,300 I believe he was probably jealous of Tymeir 366 00:19:47,734 --> 00:19:48,467 his whole life. 367 00:19:50,033 --> 00:19:52,900 [Pinkie] Rodney got in a lot of trouble, but it's hard to just say, 368 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,500 "Oh, I give up on my child," because he is my child. 369 00:19:56,633 --> 00:19:59,100 I guess I was just being a mother, and thought that that 370 00:19:59,734 --> 00:20:00,066 was the right thing to do, 371 00:20:00,867 --> 00:20:01,767 to just still love him regardless. 372 00:20:02,867 --> 00:20:04,500 I think Rodney wanted my attention, so he would get 373 00:20:05,467 --> 00:20:06,667 it any way, even if it was in a negative way. 374 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,667 [narrator] In July 2023, Wickliffe Police Department 375 00:20:13,567 --> 00:20:15,667 received another 911 call about Rodney. 376 00:20:17,066 --> 00:20:20,667 [dispatcher and woman on phone] 377 00:20:42,266 --> 00:20:44,667 Rodney called me... 378 00:20:45,667 --> 00:20:46,800 and asked me to come pick him up from a hotel. 379 00:20:48,033 --> 00:20:52,767 Once I got close to the hotel, I seen a bunch of police cars. 380 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,166 And from what they said, he beat her up 381 00:20:56,667 --> 00:20:57,400 in the hotel room. 382 00:20:58,467 --> 00:21:00,066 Somebody called the police and said he had the gun. 383 00:21:01,667 --> 00:21:04,266 [officer speaking] 384 00:21:12,100 --> 00:21:13,767 [Pinkie] So the police stopped him, 385 00:21:14,567 --> 00:21:15,467 and he didn't have the gun on him. 386 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:17,600 But they took him to jail, because she because she had 387 00:21:18,133 --> 00:21:19,200 a knot on her head. 388 00:21:20,033 --> 00:21:21,300 She was pregnant with his second child. 389 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,467 [officer speaking] 390 00:21:45,667 --> 00:21:48,700 [Pinkie] It's really sickening to me that any man can be 391 00:21:49,233 --> 00:21:49,867 violent to a woman. 392 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:51,300 He was arrested. 393 00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:55,000 Rodney went to jail for about two days, and he was put on probation. 394 00:21:56,500 --> 00:22:00,100 [Nina] For Rodney to actually put his hands on a woman that is 395 00:22:01,266 --> 00:22:05,500 carrying a child, his child at that, was mind-boggling. 396 00:22:06,667 --> 00:22:09,567 That's when I did start to see that Rodney was spiraling. 397 00:22:10,734 --> 00:22:15,700 I started to see Rodney being more angrier, evil, mean. 398 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:18,667 I think Tymeir gave up on trying to tell Rodney 399 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:19,767 to be different. 400 00:22:21,367 --> 00:22:24,867 [Pinkie] I thought if I move out of the neighborhood, 401 00:22:25,567 --> 00:22:27,266 I could keep him from trouble. 402 00:22:28,367 --> 00:22:30,066 Getting a new house and starting over, 403 00:22:31,066 --> 00:22:32,767 it was hard finding a house because of Rodney. 404 00:22:33,934 --> 00:22:36,900 Because it was like everywhere that I looked for a house, 405 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,100 Rodney would say, "I can't live there." 406 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,900 So Rodney said he had ops. That means he has enemies. 407 00:22:42,967 --> 00:22:45,367 After, like, maybe a couple of months of searching 408 00:22:46,367 --> 00:22:47,200 for a house, I'm at the point where I'm like, 409 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,567 "We going to be homeless in a minute if I keep on turning down houses." 410 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:52,567 So I just decided to take the house. 411 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,300 [narrator] Moving day arrives for Pinkie and her family. 412 00:23:00,266 --> 00:23:01,567 [Pinkie] Tymeir left for work, 413 00:23:02,367 --> 00:23:03,567 so we started packing the U-Haul. 414 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:06,667 But to me, Rodney was, like, a little off. 415 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:08,100 He would see a car, and he would be like, 416 00:23:08,533 --> 00:23:09,166 "Who is that?" 417 00:23:10,033 --> 00:23:11,066 Every time, so he was a little jumpy. 418 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,166 Probably about 3:30, 4:00, I dropped Rodney 419 00:23:15,734 --> 00:23:17,300 off at the old house. 420 00:23:18,066 --> 00:23:19,667 When I got back to the old house, 421 00:23:20,367 --> 00:23:21,867 Tymeir and Nina was pulling up. 422 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:23,567 She said she had to work, 423 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,266 And I'm like, "I'll take the baby." 424 00:23:26,934 --> 00:23:27,967 When I got to the new house, 425 00:23:29,166 --> 00:23:31,000 Tymeir came with the air conditioner. It was fairly hot. 426 00:23:32,266 --> 00:23:33,367 Tymeir said, "I'm going to take this air conditioner upstairs." 427 00:23:34,433 --> 00:23:36,200 And Rodney says, "Don't take all that stuff upstairs. 428 00:23:36,834 --> 00:23:37,500 You're wasting our time." 429 00:23:38,433 --> 00:23:39,867 And Tymeir was like, "Stop talking to me." 430 00:23:40,367 --> 00:23:40,867 He went upstairs. 431 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:44,000 They go back outside, and they're in the U-Haul. 432 00:23:45,033 --> 00:23:47,900 But now they're arguing, like, like really arguing. 433 00:23:52,367 --> 00:23:54,000 [ringing] 434 00:23:54,567 --> 00:23:57,100 [dispatcher speaking] 435 00:23:58,667 --> 00:24:00,500 [Pinkie screaming] 436 00:24:19,967 --> 00:24:22,567 [dispatcher and caller speaking] 437 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:36,100 The 9-1-1 call came in on October 3, 2023 at 6:51 P.M. 438 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:39,567 [car dinging] 439 00:24:40,033 --> 00:24:41,367 [car door shuts] 440 00:24:42,266 --> 00:24:43,567 [Stephen] There's a lot of chaos going on. 441 00:24:44,667 --> 00:24:46,767 There's screaming, there's crying, there's yelling. 442 00:24:47,633 --> 00:24:50,700 We learned that a boy shot another boy. 443 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:54,166 [officer] Yeah, [incomprehensible] 444 00:24:56,066 --> 00:24:57,867 [officer] OK, OK. 445 00:25:04,967 --> 00:25:06,900 [Stephen] Victim was in dire straits. 446 00:25:07,867 --> 00:25:11,300 They had recognized multiple gunshot wounds. 447 00:25:11,867 --> 00:25:13,100 He was not conscious. 448 00:25:13,633 --> 00:25:14,800 [officers speaking] 449 00:25:18,467 --> 00:25:19,567 [Michael] Yeah. 450 00:25:20,633 --> 00:25:22,100 [Stephen] The first person the officer encountered 451 00:25:22,667 --> 00:25:23,767 is the victim's mother. 452 00:25:24,834 --> 00:25:27,100 The first thing that she conveyed to that officer, 453 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,800 was that one of her sons had just shot her other son 454 00:25:32,233 --> 00:25:33,367 in front of her. 455 00:25:34,066 --> 00:25:35,266 [officer and Pinkie speaking] 456 00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:05,800 [Stephen] We learned that the suspect in this case 457 00:26:06,767 --> 00:26:09,000 was 19 years old, that our victim's name was 458 00:26:10,033 --> 00:26:12,500 Tymeir Dial-Hale, and that he was 23 years old. 459 00:26:13,667 --> 00:26:16,166 When I got the call from my mom, and she was 460 00:26:17,333 --> 00:26:18,867 screaming on the phone, saying, "Rodney killed Tymeir." 461 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,767 And when I got there, Tymeir was laying on the ground 462 00:26:23,467 --> 00:26:25,800 in the neighbor's front yard. 463 00:26:26,934 --> 00:26:28,767 [narrator] As Tymeir is rushed to University Hospital, 464 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,166 family members arrive at the scene. 465 00:26:43,767 --> 00:26:46,567 When Pinkie called me, everything just started going 466 00:26:47,233 --> 00:26:49,400 like fireworks in my brain. 467 00:26:49,967 --> 00:26:51,767 Is my baby father alive? 468 00:26:52,734 --> 00:26:54,867 Did he kill his brother in front of my child? 469 00:26:55,433 --> 00:26:57,000 Did he harm my child? 470 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:09,100 My daughter was with some woman that lived on the same street. 471 00:27:09,934 --> 00:27:12,467 They had said, "Tymeir had a pulse." 472 00:27:13,567 --> 00:27:18,166 So we were all hopeful. You know, I was just praying. 473 00:27:19,233 --> 00:27:21,800 [Marc] When I get there, yelling at the police, like, 474 00:27:22,533 --> 00:27:24,200 "Where's my son? Where's my son?" 475 00:27:24,734 --> 00:27:25,867 The police was like, 476 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:29,867 "We took him to University Hospital." 477 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,767 I jumped back in the car, and I sped off. 478 00:27:34,834 --> 00:27:39,367 I just remember falling on my knees praying to God. 479 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,100 Then we got the call that he was gone. 480 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:50,767 He one of the good ones. Why would you take him? 481 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:56,467 [Nina] I wasn't ready. I was shocked. 482 00:27:57,266 --> 00:27:59,367 I couldn't believe that Rodney... 483 00:28:00,767 --> 00:28:02,300 was the person who took him. 484 00:28:03,667 --> 00:28:08,667 [Stephen] Unfortunately, Tymeir was declared deceased at 7:43 P.M. 485 00:28:09,667 --> 00:28:13,000 And almost immediately after that declaration, 486 00:28:14,133 --> 00:28:17,166 the page goes out for the homicide unit to respond. 487 00:28:18,367 --> 00:28:21,467 When the homicide unit arrived, we do a walkthrough through 488 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:22,567 the crime scene. 489 00:28:23,467 --> 00:28:26,166 We discovered that there was a shell casing 490 00:28:26,734 --> 00:28:29,066 inside the moving van, 491 00:28:30,033 --> 00:28:32,767 and there was multiple shell casings outside, 492 00:28:33,834 --> 00:28:35,867 along with a blood trail that led from the moving van 493 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:40,367 to the final resting place of Tymeir. 494 00:28:41,066 --> 00:28:42,700 [officer and Pinkie speaking] 495 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:46,967 [Nina crying] 496 00:28:48,367 --> 00:28:50,600 [narrator] Police speak to Pinkie to find out what actually happened. 497 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:00,066 [Pinkie] It was unbelievable. 498 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:06,066 I'm standing right next to Tymeir and Rodney says, 499 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:07,800 "I don't fight. I shoot." 500 00:29:19,467 --> 00:29:21,000 He just... 501 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:23,000 pulled a gun out and shot him. 502 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:24,700 [bang] 503 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:26,900 [Pinkie] He shot him in his shoulder. 504 00:29:27,433 --> 00:29:28,166 It was unbelievable. 505 00:29:29,333 --> 00:29:32,166 Tymeir face went from, "I don't think he would shoot me," 506 00:29:32,934 --> 00:29:34,166 to, "I can't believe he shot me." 507 00:29:35,367 --> 00:29:37,467 Now Nalani is screaming, 508 00:29:38,367 --> 00:29:42,667 and Tymeir turns to jump off the U-Haul. 509 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,000 So I go to try to,like, grab Rodney, but he jumped too. 510 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:51,300 But as he's jumping, he shot three times. 511 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:52,400 [bang] 512 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:53,500 [bang] 513 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:54,667 [bang] 514 00:29:55,367 --> 00:29:57,166 When I finally did see Tymeir, 515 00:29:58,066 --> 00:29:59,400 he was laying on his back in the grass, 516 00:30:00,433 --> 00:30:02,467 and he would just kept saying, "Okay, okay, bro." 517 00:30:03,533 --> 00:30:06,900 Basically begging for his life. And Rodney shot him. 518 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,567 And now, my mind is telling me 519 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,867 to grab Rodney. 520 00:30:14,934 --> 00:30:16,467 But then, my body was, like, running toward Tymeir. 521 00:30:20,867 --> 00:30:24,166 Tymeir flipped his body over. 522 00:30:25,233 --> 00:30:26,266 [voice breaking] So now, he's laying on his stomach. 523 00:30:27,266 --> 00:30:28,266 [bang] 524 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:30,400 [Pinkie] And he shot him three more times. 525 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:31,667 [bang] 526 00:30:31,967 --> 00:30:33,166 [bang] 527 00:30:33,834 --> 00:30:36,367 Rodney turned, like, to me. 528 00:30:37,333 --> 00:30:38,200 And I ran around the other side of the U-Haul, 529 00:30:39,066 --> 00:30:40,100 because I felt like he would shoot me. 530 00:30:41,867 --> 00:30:43,467 He was running down the street, 531 00:30:44,367 --> 00:30:47,266 and I laid on the ground next to Tymeir, 532 00:30:47,834 --> 00:30:49,066 and he died in my face. 533 00:30:51,567 --> 00:30:55,700 [Stephen] We learned that the victim's one-year-old daughter 534 00:30:56,700 --> 00:30:58,400 was on scene and present during this incident, 535 00:30:59,367 --> 00:31:01,567 which adds to the tragic nature of this case. 536 00:31:03,066 --> 00:31:05,467 We all have families, we all have kids. 537 00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:08,166 I have four kids and seven grandkids, 538 00:31:09,033 --> 00:31:10,066 and you immediately start thinking -- 539 00:31:11,467 --> 00:31:13,066 [breathes deep] 540 00:31:14,867 --> 00:31:16,300 [sniffs] 541 00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:20,667 [voice breaking] You... 542 00:31:21,266 --> 00:31:22,100 think about your family. 543 00:31:26,567 --> 00:31:27,867 [sobbing] 544 00:31:34,867 --> 00:31:37,767 This family has seen a lot of tragedy at the hands 545 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:40,367 of this individual, and it was imperative 546 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,200 that we got him in custody 547 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,367 as quickly and as safely as possible. 548 00:31:45,066 --> 00:31:47,266 [officer and Pinkie speaking] 549 00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:58,967 She was able to give us a couple of locations 550 00:31:59,667 --> 00:32:01,867 where Rodney may have fled to. 551 00:32:03,066 --> 00:32:06,500 She didn't know the address, but she provided a screenshot 552 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:10,667 of a map that may be the location, or the area 553 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:12,300 that he fled to. 554 00:32:13,266 --> 00:32:15,166 That information was immediately disseminated 555 00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:17,667 to the officers out on the street. 556 00:32:18,367 --> 00:32:21,166 [Pinkie and officer speaking] 557 00:32:39,367 --> 00:32:43,367 So after we leave the scene, we try to learn as much 558 00:32:44,133 --> 00:32:45,767 as we can about Rodney Curlee Jr. 559 00:32:48,367 --> 00:32:49,500 [sirens] 560 00:32:50,633 --> 00:32:52,200 [narrator] Police know Rodney is armed and dangerous. 561 00:32:53,433 --> 00:32:56,600 [Pinkie] I thought maybe Rodney would come back to the house, 562 00:32:57,266 --> 00:32:57,967 and I was the only witness. 563 00:32:59,166 --> 00:33:01,000 You know, I was the only person that could really say he was 564 00:33:01,567 --> 00:33:02,166 the person who did this. 565 00:33:03,567 --> 00:33:06,100 He had already killed his brother, so it was like, 566 00:33:06,834 --> 00:33:07,667 if you would kill your brother, 567 00:33:08,567 --> 00:33:10,667 you're capable of killing anybody else. 568 00:33:23,767 --> 00:33:25,767 [narrator] A week after Tymeir's death, 569 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,500 his brother, Rodney Curlee Jr., remains at large. 570 00:33:30,767 --> 00:33:32,767 [Pinkie] When they interviewed us on the news, I basically just 571 00:33:33,967 --> 00:33:37,800 wanted to tell Rodney to turn himself in so that not only 572 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,667 would he be safe, but other people would be safe as well. 573 00:33:45,867 --> 00:33:48,367 [Marc] He killed my son. 574 00:33:49,333 --> 00:33:52,667 I was out looking for him every single night. 575 00:33:53,533 --> 00:33:56,500 We were looking for him to be captured, 576 00:33:57,066 --> 00:33:58,600 apprehended, or killed, 577 00:33:59,667 --> 00:34:01,367 dead or alive, I don't care how you bring him in. 578 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,266 [narrator] On October 20th, 2023, 579 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,467 family and friends say goodbye to their beloved Tymeir. 580 00:34:13,667 --> 00:34:16,166 [Pinkie] The funeral was packed. It was just a lot of people. 581 00:34:17,700 --> 00:34:21,166 [Marc] Man, the whole city, the whole community came out. 582 00:34:21,734 --> 00:34:23,367 Like, it was amazing. 583 00:34:24,300 --> 00:34:25,166 [voice breaking] The hardest part was seeing 584 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,767 him in the casket, because it's like, 585 00:34:29,667 --> 00:34:31,266 once they bury you, you're gone forever. 586 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:36,667 It was hard to deal with that. 587 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:39,867 It was hard giving him my last kiss. 588 00:34:44,867 --> 00:34:47,867 [narrator] On November 16, investigators make 589 00:34:48,767 --> 00:34:50,500 a breakthrough in their hunt for Rodney. 590 00:34:51,633 --> 00:34:53,200 [Stephen] Rodney was found to be hiding out in a house 591 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:55,000 in the city of East Cleveland. 592 00:34:55,433 --> 00:34:57,600 [siren wailing] 593 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,367 [Stephen] As soon as Rodney understood that the K-9 unit 594 00:35:05,467 --> 00:35:07,200 was coming in the house, he came out of the basement 595 00:35:07,734 --> 00:35:09,100 and gave himself up. 596 00:35:12,467 --> 00:35:17,000 Less than two hours after the fugitive unit arrested Rodney, 597 00:35:18,033 --> 00:35:20,967 he was in the interview room with Detective Legg. 598 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,266 So Curlee was claiming self-defense. 599 00:35:46,133 --> 00:35:47,767 He was claiming that our victim, Tymeir, 600 00:35:48,567 --> 00:35:50,867 had a gun on him, which there was 601 00:35:51,967 --> 00:35:53,700 zero evidence of, and zero history of, by the way. 602 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,900 [Stephen] Then he was claiming that there was a tussle 603 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,166 over his gun, you know, between the two of them. 604 00:36:42,233 --> 00:36:43,400 Mr. Curlee was, you know, forgetting at some point 605 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:46,367 that his mother was standing right next to him when 606 00:36:46,867 --> 00:36:47,667 this was going on. 607 00:36:48,767 --> 00:36:50,667 The medical examiner's office determined that Tymeir 608 00:36:51,567 --> 00:36:55,400 had 16 gunshot wound defects in his body, 609 00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:57,100 and it was labeled a homicide. 610 00:36:58,433 --> 00:37:02,467 He didn't seem in any way, shape, or form remorseful. 611 00:37:03,266 --> 00:37:04,166 He was in self-preservation mode. 612 00:37:13,367 --> 00:37:16,367 Mr. Curlee wanted to blame everybody but himself. 613 00:37:18,066 --> 00:37:20,100 [narrator] Rodney is indicted on charges 614 00:37:21,266 --> 00:37:24,166 of aggravated murder, murder, involuntary manslaughter, 615 00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:26,500 felonious assault, and aggravated menacing. 616 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:30,667 [Pinkie] I didn't want to have to subject me or my other 617 00:37:31,266 --> 00:37:32,467 children to testifying. 618 00:37:33,166 --> 00:37:35,066 A trial would have been unfair, 619 00:37:35,767 --> 00:37:37,166 because Rodney knew what he did. 620 00:37:38,333 --> 00:37:41,400 [narrator] The defense requests a plea of ten to 12 years. 621 00:37:42,767 --> 00:37:47,000 As a mother of both of them, I felt like 10 to 12 years 622 00:37:47,934 --> 00:37:50,967 wasn't fair, because he killed his brother. 623 00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:54,967 So I told the prosecutor not to tell me any plea deals 624 00:37:55,633 --> 00:37:56,667 if it wasn't over 20 years. 625 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,567 Just take what your punishment, and take accountability. 626 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,800 [narrator] Rodney pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter with a firearm, 627 00:38:08,834 --> 00:38:10,600 two counts of felonious assault with a firearm, 628 00:38:11,166 --> 00:38:12,667 and aggravated menacing. 629 00:38:13,667 --> 00:38:16,100 [Pinkie] When I got there, I couldn't breathe. 630 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,266 So all I could really get out was a couple of words. 631 00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:40,600 [Pinkie] I didn't know how to do what everybody wanted me to do. 632 00:38:41,667 --> 00:38:44,367 I felt like maybe if he felt my pain from my words, 633 00:38:45,233 --> 00:38:47,467 it would hit him that this is reality. 634 00:38:48,567 --> 00:38:52,667 I believe that that was when he realized that he had 635 00:38:53,233 --> 00:38:53,767 destroyed his family. 636 00:39:02,367 --> 00:39:04,567 He genuinely apologized in that moment. 637 00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:07,066 Now, if it was genuine, I don't know, but in that moment 638 00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:08,166 it felt genuine. 639 00:39:09,567 --> 00:39:10,900 I couldn't tell him I hated him. 640 00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:13,867 I couldn't, because I don't. I don't hate him. 641 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:15,000 I hate what he did. 642 00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:20,266 This is my victim impact statement that I didn't get 643 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:22,667 an opportunity to read to the judge, 644 00:39:23,767 --> 00:39:25,700 in front of the monster that was sitting in the court. 645 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,166 "I'm here for my son, who was the best child 646 00:39:32,166 --> 00:39:34,667 "you could ask for. He was loved by everyone. 647 00:39:35,834 --> 00:39:40,166 "The only enemy he had in life was in his own household. 648 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,200 What the killer did to me was rip my heart out." 649 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,767 [narrator] Rodney is sentenced to 23 to 28 years in prison. 650 00:39:52,734 --> 00:39:55,500 Rodney absolutely committed a monstrous act. 651 00:39:56,667 --> 00:39:58,900 There's nothing worse than killing your brother in front 652 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:00,500 of your mother, in my opinion. 653 00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:05,100 [Marc] I cry every day. The hurt. 654 00:40:06,333 --> 00:40:10,000 Everybody in my family is devastated by this. 655 00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:13,467 [Pinkie] Tymeir was everything to me. Tymeir was my best friend. 656 00:40:14,166 --> 00:40:15,500 I miss everything about Tymeir. 657 00:40:16,967 --> 00:40:18,200 I don't forgive Rodney. 658 00:40:19,667 --> 00:40:21,166 [Nina] I would tell Rodney, 659 00:40:21,967 --> 00:40:22,767 if I could talk to him right now, 660 00:40:23,166 --> 00:40:24,867 "You took... 661 00:40:25,533 --> 00:40:26,200 "my daughter's father away. 662 00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:29,166 "[voice shaking] You stole him from her. 663 00:40:30,767 --> 00:40:34,767 "I wish you could have just walked away. 664 00:40:35,734 --> 00:40:36,867 You didn't care about anybody but yourself." 665 00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:40,900 [group singing] Happy Birthday to you! 666 00:40:41,467 --> 00:40:44,500 Happy Birthday to you! 667 00:40:45,433 --> 00:40:46,900 [Nina] Tymeir made his mark on everybody. 668 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:53,367 He was a real leader in man form. 669 00:40:54,767 --> 00:40:59,467 I don't think that I'll ever meet anyone like Tymeir. 670 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,600 [sinister music] 671 00:41:13,033 --> 00:41:14,900 [child] Daddy! 672 00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:16,567 He was extremely attentive with her. 673 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,266 Things started to unravel. 674 00:41:21,467 --> 00:41:25,266 The interviewer asked him to draw pictures of what he saw.