Jenea is just a super amazing young lady.
Her brother, Donell, was our fashionista
in our family.
Roy was the guy that would make her laugh and giggle.
But he was so focused on his success that he didn't pay
attention to hers. -[Crystal] And Roy has a temper.
This is someone who felt like he had been wronged.
[Crystal] I'm concerned about what she has to lose if him
and her keep going in this direction.
[gunshots blast]
[woman speaking]
We had plans, and that wasn't in our plans.
[ominous tones playing]
[narrator] A very pregnant Jenea Logan is hosting a baby shower...
...for her friends, family, and partner,
Roy Harvison, at her 24-hour daycare business.
[Crystal] Jenea is just a super amazing young lady.
You knew there was gonna be some good gift-giving if Jenea
was doing something.
[narrator] And Jenea's little brother, Donell "Pooder" McDonald,
looks to cash in.
[Crystal] He was a character --
amazing young man, very quiet, very soft-spoken, but he was
also our fashionista in our family.
His sisters and his brother spoiled him, especially Jenea.
[narrator] A few weeks later, Jenea hosts a family Christmas,
with her partner, Roy Harvison.
That was Roy.
That was his personality.
It was always good to just be around each other
and do something. It was always fun.
I think just the thought of bringing the little person into
the world -- they were happy and excited.
A family, a little family is what she wanted.
[Crystal] I am a mother of four children.
So Tierney is my oldest daughter.
Jenea is the second oldest.
Christopher is the third.
And then Donell was the youngest, and he was born in 1992.
My children grew up where there were times when the electric
wasn't on, the water wasn't on, the car was repossessed,
food was tight.
They grew up understanding that you're gonna have to work
for whatever you want, that it's not gonna come to you.
[Tierney] Jenea, she knew what she wanted to do.
She did her work, went to work, and did it all over again
the next day.
Jenea was a 4.0 student, top 10 graduating in her class.
That right there just tells you how much education in
general just meant to her.
She got a full ride, didn't have to pay anything.
[narrator] Summer 2005, Jenea reaches the end of her first year at
Ohio State, and when her youngest brother
Donell has a basketball tournament,
she goes to support him.
[Crystal] Tierney, Jenea, myself, were there to see Donell play.
At some point during the tournament, Jenea sees this
guy playing in one of the games.
The two of them found time to introduce themselves,
exchange phone numbers or whatever they did
in that moment.
So she came to me and said, "Hey, I met this guy.
"He's really cute.
"He has dreads, and I really like him.
We've been hanging out."
And I'm just like, "Well, who is he?"
She explains, "Well, his name is Roy..."
We were 19 at the time.
She knew he was still in high school, but I think she thought
he was like a senior, getting ready to graduate.
You know, you give people the benefit of the doubt,
and you just roll with things.
But she was really smitten by him.
Roy, at that time, was living with his dad and his paternal
grandmother, raising him.
[Devona] He was into sports
because he played basketball and football.
But football was where he really did his thing.
He had a lot of local success, so you could kind of see why
his family would anticipate there could be a career at
a college level and potentially a national level.
He had some skills.
[narrator] In 2006, despite a four-year age gap, Roy and Jenea
officially become a couple.
[Crystal] Donell had a hard time accepting that his sister was
dating someone who was pretty much the same age as he was.
But we all kind of, I think, began to just accept that Jenea
and Roy were gonna be together.
He was the guy that would do the goofy little quirky things
that made her laugh and giggle.
She was happy.
And by 2008, Donell meets the next door neighbor's
daughter, Mary.
So now he's more focused on his life.
[Mary] I met Donell maybe like early 2008.
I lived on this end, he lived on the other side of me.
One day, my grandma had seen him, and she said,
"That's a nice looking young man, you know,
maybe you should date him."
I wasn't really too worried about boys at that time,
but soon after she said that, we end up, you know,
talking, hanging out more, and here comes a relationship.
He always treated me nice, you know, with respect,
so we could laugh together, you know, cry together,
play around.
[Tierney] They were a cute little couple.
They was always together, so he was involved
with his relationship.
Jenea was in hers and I was raising my child, so everybody
was doing their own thing.
[narrator] Three years after their first meeting in 2005, Jenea and Roy
realized their priorities are changing.
[Tierney] Jenea was trying to help him achieve the dream that
he wanted to achieve, so she supported him in every
way she could, especially once he went to Kansas to
play football.
She was prepared for being there in whatever way possible,
but Jenea knows that she's not gonna be able to be fully
present all the time.
[Crystal] She graduated from Ohio State in May of '08, summa cum laude
while still working two full-time jobs
those whole four years.
And in August of '08, she opened her first
24-hour childcare center.
She was 22 years old at the time.
They get a lot of love, a lot of attention,
a lot of flexibility.
[Crystal] One of the things that was great about Success Kids was
being a 24-hour center,
we had the opportunity to really support the families in
the community that work non-traditional hours.
[Devona] It was a very stressful time for her because Roy's in school
in Kansas, so I don't know if he understood all
the responsibilities that she had, because your first
year is your hardest.
And I think that's where some of that friction starts.
And she heard rumors about infidelity.
[Tierney] I don't think he knew how important it was to respect
someone that you're dating.
[Devona] So she finds out that for certain Roy was cheating,
and she wants to confront him.
And I decided I'm gonna go with her, because I'm not sure
what may happen. I stayed in the car.
She got out,
and I hear yelling.
I look out, and I no longer kind of like see her,
but I hear her. I don't know who hit who first,
but he is pulling her by her hair.
That's when I was like, "OK, let's go."
Jenea got in the car, and she was very, very upset,
not only about hearing about the infidelity, but what had
just kind of like, transpired. She was hurt by his reaction.
She didn't want to go through that with him.
But I think we attributed it to him being younger.
He don't really know how to express his feelings or be
apologetic, like how he should be.
I wasn't for sure where they were gonna go from there.
I didn't think that he would be violent.
Nobody saw that coming.
[narrator] Roy's aggression towards Jenea puts a long-planned trip to
Jamaica in jeopardy.
[Devona] It was a matter of if she was gonna go by herself, or if
she was still going to have Roy go with her.
And she decided to allow Roy to go on this trip.
[Crystal] The whole time they were there,
she said, "We weren't getting along."
But the last day, they decided to
drink the champagne. And one thing led to another.
And several months later, it's, "Mom, I'm pregnant."
That was definitely a turning point for everything.
Now they are gonna be parents.
She knew, "I'd like to give this another go
and try to make it work."
[narrator] While Jenea rests in preparation for the baby,
Roy fools around with his friends.
As nice and as sweet as he could be, this was also that
side of him.
She didn't talk like that. So, you know, she kind of...
didn't like that type of stuff.
[Devona] Like the hand gestures and the language and stuff,
that's just, that's things that he did.
That was him on a sober day.
So that's, I mean, that's how he kind of carried
himself and talk.
Being young, he's still trying to figure out his life.
What's up, man? [kissing noises]
[Tierney] Still trying to figure out what he's doing.
She's already of that age where she's in that different type
of lifestyle.
That age gap plays a major part in their relationship.
[narrator] February 2010.
Jenea and Roy welcome Roy Jr. into the world.
[Crystal] We were all excited and happy to watch them
grow into new parents.
[Jenea speaking]
[babbling]
[Crystal] But in the beginning, it is just her and the baby.
Roy is away at school.
[Tierney] She just supported him.
She paid for him to go to school to make sure he was able
to complete the dream that he wanted to do, which was play
college football.
[Tierney] But he's not helping with anything
with Roy Jr.
And Jenea starts making statements, believing that Roy
is being selfish.
She has so many responsibilities for this child
on top of being a businesswoman.
But I think that he was so focused on his success that
he didn't pay attention to hers.
[Tierney] She was making a very big name for herself because by then,
been working on the second center.
The success of the daycares really came from the need in
the community, and so in a matter of a couple of years,
there was a 24-hour daycare center on every side of town.
[Tierney] She hired a lot of people, a lot of siblings,
and if you were of age, she would always try to offer
you some type of employment.
Donell, he was just next in line.
After high school, Donell didn't know if
he really wanted to go to school.
He was always changing what he wanted to do.
Jenea was a problem solver. So, "You ain't got no job?
I got plenty of work here at the daycare."
[indistinct speaking]
This is the backyard of her house in Canal.
[narrator] One month after Roy Jr. is born, Jenea buys
her first home.
[Devona] Most people our age weren't able to afford a house
like that. It was a big, huge accomplishment.
[Devon] But because the purchase and the responsibility was
solely coming from her and the business, I think
she didn't involve Roy that much.
[narrator] While Roy spends most of his time away building
his football career,
whenever he can, he comes home to be with Jenea
and their baby boy.
This is where the arguments and the disagreements
would come in.
Roy would berate her, saying things like she wasn't
a good mother,
that she was more worried about
success than she was the family, because she was
spending so much time at work.
And those things weighed heavy on her.
She couldn't hurt him with her words.
So her way of getting back at him was to cut his phone off,
throw clothes out of windows, cut tires, and cut off
credit cards.
[Devona] They would break up sometimes, but they always kind of,
like, got back together.
[narrator] Seven months after Roy Jr. is born, Roy Sr.
returns to Ohio to continue his college football career at
Urbana University.
[Devona] She hoped for a change with the move to Urbana because
it's a lot closer, but, you know, it was kind of
more of a disappointment, because now we don't have
the distance as being the issue.
She's created this very easy lifestyle for him where he can
put out the credit card and it's never gonna decline.
But he doesn't see that comes with a burden, and a sense of
responsibility that she's carrying alone.
She stayed simply because she wanted her kids to have
their mother and their father in the household.
[narrator] In August 2011, Jenea completes her vision of
the perfect family when she marries Roy.
[Crystal] Roy would not have been my first choice...
as her husband.
I respected her reasoning behind it, because she wanted
her child to have that family unit.
[Crystal] And I think they both
tried to the best of their ability for a long time
to make that happen.
[Devona] She's starting to, at this point, like, spend more money
to make him feel happy.
And I do think that he took her for granted at times.
[Crystal] Donell, he starts to feel like Roy is financially
taking advantage.
Jenea would often share with me that she was not happy with
a lot of the decisions that he was making.
And she's looking at the credit card statements and going,
"What did you buy at the pawn shop
that you spent $4,000 on?"
And it would be, "Oh, well, you know we went
and I bought some jewelry for me and my brother."
Or, "I bought a gun."
As much as he is a funny guy and he's a jokester,
he can turn that very quickly.
And her concern always was Roy has a temper.
He will do something stupid that will land him in prison.
[narrator] In 2013, Roy sees his dream of
being drafted fall away.
[Crystal] He never becomes the standout athlete that his family thought
he would become. That never happens.
There was some potential there, but Roy's downside was
Roy's anger.
I think that is ultimately
what decreased his ability to go to
the next level.
And as Jenea is pregnant with her second child, we hope he's
now gonna come home and he's gonna assume
the responsibility of a partner, a husband, a father.
[narrator] May 2013,
Jenea gives birth to a baby girl, Royce.
Three and a half weeks later, Donell becomes a dad for
the first time.
He loved that kid.
He loved that baby.
He gave him more attention than me, so.
[Mary] We always used to find ourselves arguing all the time
about who's taking him for the day.
He's like, "I'm taking him for the day."
And of course he would, he would pick up slack because
of course I'm a first time mom.
So sometimes I would be calling him all the time when he's at
work and I'm crying like, "I don't know what to do.
I can't get him to be quiet."
And he's like, "Do this, do that."
He was like a teacher to me all the time.
[narrator] To Jenea's disappointment, when Roy leaves college
and returns home, he doesn't follow Donell's
parenting lead.
Jenea would say, "I'm gonna have a girls' night out
and Roy, you watch the kids."
She would call to check on and Roy's went somewhere,
and he's either taken the kids to the daycare center,
or he's taking them to his dad's house.
And she's like, that's not you being responsible.
So Jenea hired a nanny, because it was hard for her to
manage everything. She could not rely on Roy
100 percent to fill in those voids.
So I think she started to feel like she wanted to have him be
a part of the business.
This is her way of giving him an opportunity to become that
responsible person.
It looks good in the beginning, but then it's the same thing.
[Tierney] She just got to that point where it was like,
"You're not my child.
You got to start carrying some weight, too."
She was trying to have him play a more important role
financially and within the marriage and household.
[narrator] But Roy struggles with his new financial responsibilities,
and tensions boil over at home.
In that sense, he started acting out.
I'm hearing about how he is punching the walls, kicking in
the door or something.
[Crystal] And then we start to hear of these physical altercations
that they're having in public, where he felt like she either
she said something or she had done something that was
inappropriate that maybe embarrassed him.
I'm concerned about what she has to lose if him and her
keep going in this direction.
And Jenea was like, "I can't live like this.
"I got all these things going for myself and I'm not happy.
"If that means that we're not together and we're
co-parenting, then I'm ready to pursue that as something new."
[narrator] In August, 2014, Roy leaves the family home.
[Tierney] Roy was living down the street from me in apartments.
He wasn't excluded from anything.
We just knew they were working through whatever they were
working through and that was their business.
[narrator] A month later, Jenea files for divorce.
[Crystal] I don't believe that he really thought that that was ever
going to happen.
I think he believed that it was just another one of those,
yeah, Jenea's just talking, give her a couple of days
or a week or two, we'll be back together type of situation.
[Tierney] He still was working with us.
It wasn't like she, you know, said, "You can't, you're fired.
"You're not working with us anymore.
You have to do your own thing."
But he didn't have access to like her credit cards
or anything like that.
[Crystal] At this point, she's pretty much, "You need to stand on your
own with the salary that you're receiving."
And so this meant big lifestyle change.
Now all of this jewelry and all of these guns,
collectors pieces become things that you need to get rid of to
take care of your responsibility.
For him, it was this big culture shock.
And in his moments of desperation, he made a lot of
really bad choices and decisions.
[narrator] As Jenea struggles with Roy, Donell surprises Mary.
[Mary] It's Valentine's Day, or the day after
Valentine's Day.
We went to a jewelry store downtown, and he's like,
you know, "Pick out what ring you want, what ring
do you want?" And I said, "What you up to?"
He was like, "Well, you said you was going to leave
"me, you know, when you was 21, if I didn't marry you.
"I don't want to lose you, and I don't want to be without
my son, you know, I want us to be a family."
[narrator] A month later, Roy decides to follow in Donell's footsteps
and makes a move to show his commitment to Jenea.
[Crystal] Roy came to me
and he said, "Do you think if I threw Jenea a birthday party
that she would come?" And I said, "Yeah."
That's her 29th birthday party.
Jenea and Roy were happy.
They were together, and for a few days,
things were great.
But that Sunday, Roy said to my oldest son,
Christopher, "You ain't got to look for a place to stay,
"because I'm gonna be moving back home.
You can move into the apartment."
And Jenea was like, "No, not happening."
And he kind of looked at her like, "Yeah, whatever.
You know I'm gonna move back home."
The next day, I went to her house.
And she just very calmly was like, "You know, mom, he's going
to make me get a restraining order."
The very following day, April 1st, the office was closed.
We had scheduled a training session.
The class was supposed to be myself, Jenea,
Tierney, Donell, and Big Roy.
But Jenea said "He's not coming.
I just can't wait for this divorce to be over," and kind of
said "OK," and we started the class.
11:30 rolls around, and we take a break for lunch.
Tierney and I left.
Jenea and Donell were going outside.
The fact that we needed to go just a couple of blocks away
is what...
has me here today.
-[phone dial tones] -[phone ringing]
[woman speaking]
-[phone dial tones] -[phone ringing]
[operator speaking]
[man speaking]
[woman speaking]
[narrator] Two plainclothes officers drive down Parsons Avenue and witness
an active shooter.
[woman speaking]
[officer speaking]
[operator speaking]
[siren wailing]
I'm giving my partner a ride back to the precinct substation
to pick up his cruiser when we heard an alert call go over
the CPD radio.
The next thing I know, we're in the scene.
[siren wailing]
I can see one male slumped over the wheel in the parking lot
of a daycare.
I see a female face down in the middle of the street.
And our shooter at the time had his back to me.
And it looked like he was rifling through the car
or doing something with the male slumped
over the wheel.
My immediate thought was, active shooter.
I have to stop this guy before he gets into the daycare.
He starts to turn to put his attention on us.
That's when I see the gun.
In a matter of a few seconds, we're trying to comprehend
everything that's going on here.
I'm thinking about, what's my backdrop if I have to discharge
my firearm? Where are these rounds going?
If he's shooting at me, where are those rounds going?
We give loud verbal commands, "Drop the gun, drop the gun."
He looked at us and he said,
"You're gonna [bleep] have to kill me."
It felt like time slowed. It felt like 20 minutes.
I know it was a matter of seconds.
He starts to raise that firearm.
He's refusing to drop that gun, and it's time for us to act.
[gunshots blast]
[witnesses speaking]
[Peck] I fired multiple rounds. He fell to the pavement.
The gun fell from his body. He was motionless.
He wasn't talking. We thought he was dead.
I remember, I was the first to get on the air with the walkie and ask
for three medics for three possible DOAs.
It wasn't until the first uniformed backup officer
arrived that I really just took a deep breath and just started
to soak in the gravity of the situation that we had just
stumbled upon.
It was immediately apparent to our medics that the two victims
were deceased.
I didn't realize our suspect was alive.
[sirens wailing]
[narrator] Medics rush to save the suspect as officers secure the area.
[Peck] Because we were involved in a police officer-involved
shooting, we are removed fairly quickly and backup officers
come in and tape off our scene, secure everything so that it
was untouched.
We have a crime scene search unit who will come in and work
the inner perimeter of that scene and collect that firearm.
They're collecting samples, they're looking for where
rounds ended up, his rounds and ours.
They're taking photographs, we're trying to determine
who we're dealing with, what occurred here.
[narrator] As the crowd grows, news of the incident starts to spread.
[Crystal] Tierney and I were pulling into a fast food restaurant
and my phone rang. -[buzzing]
And I looked down at the caller ID, and I seen it was our staff
member who was filling in at the class for Big Roy.
She screamed that Mr. Roy just shot and killed Ms. J and Mr. D.
Ms. J and Mr. D is what
the staff affectionately called Jenea and Donell.
"I'm like, what's going on?" She's just like, "Drive, drive."
She's saying, like, "He just shot my babies."
I'm just driving, trying to get down the street as fast as
I could, and got to the end of the alley.
I seen Jenea laying in the middle of the street.
[Crystal] Jenea's body...
was laying face down...
in a pool of blood.
There was the yellow police tape and police cars,
and there was a crowd of people.
They were just trying to figure out what's going on.
when the police escorted us and put us in the back of
a police cruiser. I never seen Donell.
All I know is he was laying in the car.
I just hear them come over and pronounce him over
the radio that they both were gone.
[Crystal] The way it was positioned, that police car
allowed me, for a long period of time, to continue to look at
Jenea's body lying there in the street.
I couldn't even rationalize what was happening.
[narrator] As Crystal and Tierney process what they are seeing,
EMT's rush an injured Roy to the hospital.
[Tierney] To shoot Donell, who had nothing to do with it,
it just wasn't, it was uncalled for.
I just think just because he was there,
he just, he killed him too.
[Lowe] We talked to Crystal, and she's forthcoming
and telling us that there were some issues.
Jenea was trying to divorce Roy, and that there had been
some threats and some back and forth, where she wants to
break it off, he doesn't want to, and I think that's the huge
intervening factor here.
[narrator] Prosecutor James Lowe starts to piece together how the incident
has unfolded.
It was not a clear, perfect video of the entire
crime at all, which is why surveillance videos
and witnesses are so important together.
The witness can put the video in perspective and show
you what you don't know you're looking at unless
you were there.
[officer speaking]
[witness speaking]
[officer speaking]
[witness speaking]
[officer speaking]
It wasn't that Donell got out of the car, and they
had an argument, and said something,
and then he shot him.
It's that he walks right up, shoots Donell.
[gunshot blasts]
-Then he shoots Jenea. -[gunshot blasts]
And then comes back and makes sure that Donell is dead by
shooting him again.
[gunshot blasts]
She is stumbling into the roadway,
and instead of just letting her stay there, he walks up to
her, points the gun, and shoots her in the head.
[gunshot blasts]
I mean, that, to me, is unbelievably barbaric.
And to do that to family members, you know, your kid's
uncle and your kid's mother, it's horrific.
That's not, you know, I'm upset, and I shot someone,
I lost it. That's an execution.
We got a double homicide. It was in broad daylight.
There's several witnesses. We've got a suspect.
And I was told he was expected to survive.
Now, I'm looking for is enough of a motive to explain why
someone would lose their mind and do something so horrific.
[Lowe] You're always looking for the reason why.
So police attempt to interview him.
They need to figure out what his mindset was and why
he might have done something like this something like
this, unprovoked.
But Roy invoked his rights not to talk and asked for a lawyer.
We had, obviously, the right person since he shot
on the scene. I had witness statements.
I had the surveillance videos from different angles.
But I'm looking for more information.
[narrator] Officers look into Roy's movements on the day of
the murders and make an unexpected discovery.
[Lowe] We found he's going to pawn shops and gun stores,
actively trying to get a gun.
And when he was unsuccessful, he shows up with a gun that had
its serial number scratched off.
I don't know when he got this gun, but it appears to me
he's been planning this altercation at least that day.
He knows where Jenea is.
He knows where most of the family are, and gets out
and just starts shooting right away.
[gunshot blasts]
There is no intervening acts at all.
It is, "I'm going there to murder these people,"
and that's exactly what he did.
[narrator] Officers are not charged with any wrongdoing in the shooting
of Roy Harvison, and now have clear evidence he prepared
for the attack.
They are still trying to understand why Donell gets
taken out first.
[Lowe] This is someone who felt like he had been wronged,
and I think Roy was worried about Donell getting out of
the car and interfering with him murdering his wife.
So I think that's why he pulls up and he blocks the car.
Donell, he's a, what I consider an innocent bystander.
He was not the target.
[Mary] So that day I went on my lunch break and that's when I got
the phone call from one of Roy's sisters who work
at the daycare.
She said, "Donell got shot, Jenea got shot."
I could tell in her voice, she real frantic.
She said, you know, "Just go straight to the hospital."
And then Crystal calls me, and she says, "Sit down."
And I said, "Nope, just tell me what's going on."
And she said, "He's gone." And I just felt...
[stifled vocalization]
I just felt like a part of me just...leave.
This is somebody that I've spent most of my life with.
We was together all the time.
This is my first love, everything.
And I expected to be with him for the rest of my life.
And we had plans, and that wasn't in our plans.
[narrator] As the family come to terms with their grief,
Roy faces court.
[Lowe] We indicted him with two counts of aggravated murder based on
purposeful and prior calculation design, along with
death penalty specifications for killing two
or more individuals.
[narrator] To the family's dismay, Roy's defense team draws
out the proceedings.
For three years, he pled not guilty.
And during the course of those three years,
my daily prayer was,
Lord, change his heart,
and I don't want to go through a trial.
I knew at that point in my life, emotionally,
I couldn't handle it.
[Lowe] I got a call from Crystal, who told me she was rethinking
the death penalty and opened negotiations up.
[narrator] January 19, 2018, Roy Harvison finally stands before a judge
to accept a plea deal of 66 years to life for the murders
of Jenea and Donell.
[Peck] This is as violent as it gets.
Everyone that he knew or touched or cared for at some
time was affected by his actions that day,
and continue to be affected by what happened.
[Crystal] I struggle with, what did we do to you other than love you?
We're not a perfect family.
Didn't say we got it all right, but I just don't believe that
there is nothing that my daughter could have ever
done to him...
that would warrant you taking her life in the way
that you did,
including her brother, who was innocent,
to whatever was going on in their marriage and just
destroying our family that way. I still don't understand it.
I still don't get it.
I walk back my own words of, "I forgive you," because sitting
here today, I can't.
I can't forgive him for his actions that have now
changed our lives
forever.
[kissing noises]
[Tierney] Jenea was a dedicated mother, someone who was trying to be
a positive change in the community.
She was a pioneer before she knew she was a pioneer.
Donell, he was just a young, young loving guy,
a great father, and someone who was still
trying to find their purpose.
Life would probably be a lot different
if they still were here.