- In 2021, "snapped" told the story
Of eunice cristina rodriguez,
Who was building a family with 51-year-old tommy brown.
- He just longed at that point
To have a child.
- He finally felt like, for the first time,
He was gonna be able to have that family
He had always wanted.
- When tommy falls victim to a vicious attack,
Detectives must untangle a complicated web
Of relationships.
- We were told he has a couple of girlfriends.
- She was setting up, like, tension, you know,
Wanting them to be at odds with each other.
- If not for her, one wouldn't be dead
And one wouldn't be in prison for the rest of their life.
She was the ringleader here.
- Now, serving a life sentence
In the texas department of corrections,
Cristina rodriguez is ready to tell her story
For the first time.
- I'm not as evil as you think I am.
I do have a heart.
I didn't expect for things to turn out the way
They turned out.
- Cristina continues to play that victim role,
Blaming other people but never taking any responsibility
For her motives that she had to even carry out this plan.
- I coulda had stopped that fight.
I coulda had called 911.
I never thought that he would go that far.
- In an exclusive interview,
Braylon ellis, cristina's former lover
And the man convicted of the crime,
Comes forward to set the record straight.
- People need to know the truth,
What really happened, and why things happened.
- She was playing them both.
- I didn't think I would have been getting played
On the level that she was playing me on.
- Braylon, you're a liar.
♪♪
- My name is eunice cristina rodriguez.
I'm real nervous.
But there's some things that need to be said.
I wanted to-to tell some things to the family
Of the victim of what I'm in here for.
I would tell 'em that I'm sorry.
That I'm sorry that--
That I didn't do anything to help him.
- I am loving.
I am caring.
Deep inside of me, I have a heart.
I might not show it.
I'm very prideful.
But other than that, I am a good person.
- Miss rodriguez. - Mm-hmm.
- Everything I've learned about cristina, uhm,
Back then even now, I don't think it's changed,
Is that she was just a manipulator.
Clearly, she didn't seem to care about either one
Of these individuals because if not for her,
One wouldn't be dead and one wouldn't be in prison
For the rest of their life.
- I really wish I wouldn't have met neither one of those men.
And just maybe I wouldn't be here.
- September 7th, 2013.
It's just after 3:00 pm in fort worth, texas,
When authorities are called to the home
Of 51-year-old tommy brown.
- An individual was found, appeared deceased in his house.
He had a bag on his head he was face down,
But his sister who found him is the one who said,
You know, that looks like tommy.
- Whenever we went in mr. Brown's house
After we had obtained our warrant,
There was some splattering on the lower door
And around his body.
- He had a bag that was not only taped over his neck,
But there were also shoelaces tied around his neck.
- His hands were tied behind his back.
I mean these are, these are things
That are clearly consistent with murder.
- He had a lot of what I would call
Defensive wounds on his body.
This was a struggle, and you could clearly see that.
- Tommy put up a fight, the best fight he could,
But when it was all said and done,
There was just too many blows to his head,
Too many blows to his body and they-they finally won.
- It was a brutal murder, one of those scenes
That will stick with me forever.
- I did not see how bad it was.
I think that was just god shielding me,
You know, cause he knew what I could handle.
My brother was a very givin' person.
I still don't believe it.
- Born in 1961, tommy brown and his sister andrea
Grew up in fort worth.
- We was a very close knit family.
It was a family of four.
My mother, father, my brother and I.
- Tommy didn't go to college.
He just stayed home after graduating
And, uh, helped in my father's business,
Which was a janitorial service.
- Tommy was very passionate.
His work meant a lot to him.
Tommy was the kind of person
That made friends wherever he went.
- In 2004, after years of living a bachelor's lifestyle,
43-year-old tommy began a relationship
With one of his co-workers, connie moreno.
- Tommy and connie were together when I met them.
And she came along as his helper in the business.
- They had their highs and lows.
It would be real good for a while,
And then it would just go sour.
- They were kind of on again, off again.
It was kind of one of those kinds of relationships.
- When connie and tommy were on the outs,
Tommy confided in a unique friend,
A prison penpal named cristina rodriguez.
- I was incarcerated and I met him as a penpal
Through a friend.
The tommy that I knew, he was a good man.
He would come visit me, faithfully.
He sent money, put money on my commissary.
He was an awesome man.
- We stayed in contact throughout the whole 10 years
That I was incarcerated.
And I promised to go out there and be with him.
You know, if he was--
If-if that's what he wanted to do.
We were gonna be together.
When cristina was released, however,
Tommy had already made a choice to stay with connie.
- He was really in love with connie,
And he really wanted a life with connie.
And tommy was someone who really wanted
A child of his own, who loved kids.
- But plans for their future are suddenly destroyed,
When police are called to tommy's home
On September 7th 2013.
- Part of his head was split open.
I mean, his-his face looked like he'd gotten in a fight
With mike tyson.
- It was one of the most savage beatings
That I've ever seen.
- My biggest concern is trying to find who did it.
I need to get the person as quickly as possible.
- Coming up,
Authorities must determine who had motive to kill tommy.
- To strike someone in the head like that,
Would be done out of uh-uh quite a bit of rage.
- He had to protect her.
- And cristina rodriguez opens up.
- I was there.
I watched the whole thing.
It was an accident.
♪♪
- Fort worth detectives are searching the home
Of 51-year-old tommy brown
After he's discovered beaten to death
On his hallway floor.
- He was black and blue, alright?
I mean, he had bruises and contusions
All over his body.
Part of his head was split open.
- We were focused at that point
On blunt force objects,
Which would be anything that could cause a heavy impact,
Anything with-- with a lot of weight
And-and mass in general,
That would be used to beat him.
- The thing that caught me the most was there were
These shards of glass or porcelain,
At the time we didn't know.
I would just describe it as, you know, pieces
Of, like, a coffee cup or something like that.
Because there weren't that many
And it really didn't make up anything
And so it was kind of hard to figure out
What that was about.
In the kitchen there were blood drops,
So there was a strong possibility the person
Who committed this crime had injured themselves as well.
- There was a perfect, quarter-size blood drop
That was to the right of the little mat at the sink.
That was probably where the suspect
Had washed their hands or tried to clean up,
And the way that that blood drop was,
It was a perfect circle,
So that means it came just straight down.
The perpetrator had probably cut their hand,
And that was the suspect's blood.
- While crime scene investigators collect
The dna evidence,
Detectives study the scene for clues
That might point to a suspect.
- One of the first things we noticed was there was
No forced entry into the house,
And that became important from a sense that that tells us
Either this person was likely either let in
Or had access to that home.
- We did notice on entry to the residence
That there was a, what appeared to be,
A tv table of some sort.
The dust patterns on that tv table
Would have indicated that likely there should have been
A tv there, as well as the cable hookups
That were disconnected and things like that.
- We're looking for tommy's cell phone,
We're looking for tommy's wallet,
We're looking for tommy's id card,
We're looking for his debit card.
- The police learn pretty quickly
That his wallet, debit cards,
And car keys were missing as well.
- Outside, officers speak to tommy's sister,
Andrea brown.
- I started talking to another police officer
About his truck, uh, being missing
And described the truck.
- As the officer takes andrea's statement,
He has a sudden revelation.
- One of the officers had brought to my attention
Saying, "hey, a couple of days ago
"I had a call over to a convenience store,
"where there was a truck,
"and the keys were left in the truck."
And I just went back on-- on his computer, and he said,
“this is the same address that came back to.”
- It had been left with keys running,
Just roughly a mile away.
And the owner of the store thought that was unusual
That the keys were left in it.
So, he called, and it was impounded.
- As andrea is transported to the station
For her formal statement,
Detectives stop by the impound lot
To inspect tommy's truck.
- There appeared to be a lot in the bed of the truck.
There was a trashcan.
It had a trash bag and appeared to have
Some bloody items inside there.
- Detectives also discover large pieces of porcelain.
- It was immediately evident,
Okay, that's going to be consistent
With those small shards of what looked like ceramic
That were on the floor near tommy's body.
- At that point,
They realized that those ceramic pieces
Were a toilet tank lid.
- The heavy ceramic portion that you would lift up
To fix the toilet if you had to, that,
They believed, could've been used as a murder weapon.
- Being in homicide close to fifteen years now,
I have never had another offense or a murder
Where a toilet tank lid was used as a weapon,
And so that was pretty unique to this case.
- To strike someone in the head
With the thick porcelain like that,
To have it shatter would be done out of, uh-uh,
Quite a bit of rage,
And would be, as you could imagine,
Extremely violent hit,
Uh, to-to shatter that thick of a porcelain.
- Inside the cab of the truck,
Detectives find their first lead.
- There were a few items that were found,
One being a bus ticket.
The bus ticket was in the name of, uh,
A eunice rodriguez.
- No, because I wanted them to find me.
I knew they were gonna find me anyways.
The neighbors knew me.
They knew I used to go there frequently.
I was the last person to see him.
♪♪
Within hours of finding 51-year-old tommy brown
Brutally murdered inside his fort worth, texas home,
Detectives sit down with the woman who found his body,
Tommy's sister, andrea.
According to andrea,
Tommy had a longtime girlfriend,
Connie moreno, but she wasn't the only woman
In tommy's life.
- He has a couple of girlfriends, we were told.
- Then, andrea drops a bombshell.
His other girlfriend is eunice cristina rodriguez.
- They were able to discover that eunice
Goes by cristina most often,
And they were able to make that connection
That it was cristina that the bus ticket
Was purchased for.
- The more we learned about cristina,
The more we felt like there's--
There's some red flags here.
- Eunice "cristina" rodriguez was born in 1976.
- I grew up in el paso, texas.
Me and my sister, when we were young my dad remarried.
And, um...
The lady raised us like we were her own.
- Despite a loving home,
Cristina got on the wrong path.
- I started doing a lot of things
That I wasn't supposed to, although our parents raised us
To be better than that.
I started to ditch school,
Hang out with the wrong crowd.
And just start do drugs, steal.
- Over the years, cristina had three daughters,
But she struggled to make ends meet.
- I ended up with a man.
We were on drugs.
And we stayed in and out of jail.
And I ended up losing my kids to the state.
- When cristina was released from prison in 2011,
She visited her new beau tommy brown in fort worth
At the home he shared with connie.
- He would pay for me to come see him.
And he would tell me that he wasn't with her anymore,
That they were through.
But that yet, connie was still living in his house.
But he would tell me that the only reason why he wa--
She was letting her stay there was because, uh,
He didn't want her in the streets,
And he still cared for her.
I was in love with him and I was naïve,
So I was like, "okay,
"if that's just the reason why, then so be it."
- He did have a couple of girlfriends,
But I think his one goal was to find somebody
Who wanted to start and share a family with him.
- Just five months before tommy's murder,
Tommy had told andrea that cristina rodriguez
Had offered to help him start a family.
- He told me she agreed that
She would have a baby for tommy and connie.
Because she really appreciated everything
That my brother had did for her.
He said that they were intimate once
For the sole purpose of having a child.
- She told tommy that she was pregnant with his child.
- He told me it was around
April of 2013
That she was expecting.
He was excited that he was going to be a dad.
- However, cristina refutes the claim that she offered
To help connie and tommy have a child.
- I was not tryin' to be nobody's surrogate.
No.
The baby I was gonna have was tommy's baby.
Connie can have her own babies.
She had kids of her own.
She just didn't have kids with tommy.
He would tell me that there was nothing
Going on between them.
That I didn't have nothing to worry about.
But every time that I would go over to his house,
I would see connie there.
And she would tell me, you know,
That tommy's lying to me,
That she lives there.
And that she's been living there.
And that they're still having, uh, intercourses.
It's like I was with a man that was living a double life.
- Detectives learn that the complicated relationship
Between cristina, tommy, and connie ultimately led
To connie moving out of tommy's house...
- The relationship was toxic.
I told them that I felt like it was connie,
'cause he didn't have any enemies.
- Just as the interview is wrapping up,
Andrea receives a bizarre text message.
- She said, "hey, I just want to let you know
"I just got a text message from tommy."
It was a response
To one of her previous text messages
Asking where tommy was.
He said, "hey I'm going to el paso,
"my girlfriend's pregnant.
"what do you want?"
- I was shocked, because at that point,
I already know that he's been murdered.
- Coming up,
A new suspect comes into focus.
This is the first time that we hear the name braylon ellis.
- Leading to a tell-all interview
From the man behind it all.
- I mean to be honest, uh,
The person I fell in love with was a lie.
Yeah, I was just like, you know, nah,
It ain't going down like that.
I'm about to go ahead and confess to everything I did.
- The sister of murder victim tommy brown
Has just received a text from her deceased brother,
Leading detectives to theorize that the killer
Is trying to cover their tracks.
- And so, what I asked andrea to do was to go ahead
And text back saying,
"listen, if you're outta town, that's fine,
"just call me when you get back in town."
And what that did was that allowed them
To feel confident that number one,
Tommy wasn't found yet.
And number two, we could continue to use this phone.
- While andrea is cleared to go home
And wait for a response,
Detectives get to work trying to track down the two women
In tommy's life, starting with connie.
- I was finally able to contact, uh,
Connie and I was able to interview her.
- She was at a relative's during the time period
Where they believed tommy was murdered.
They were able to eliminate her.
- Connie urges detectives to look into cristina rodriguez.
Cristina and tommy's relationship was
All over the place.
There was a number of times, number of reports,
That showed she had stolen from him,
Taken his wallet, tvs, playstations,
Things like that, and-and for some reason,
He would let her back.
- It seemed tommy was extremely forgiving.
There was something special he saw within her.
And I think that speaks to cristina's character
And manipulation of constantly winning him over
After she's hurt him.
- I was trying to be as diligent as I could
To at least talk to cristina and find out what she knew.
It just proved to be a difficult task to locate her.
- While authorities issue an apb for cristina,
Detectives take a closer look at her record.
- I did a national criminal history on her,
And at that point had seen that she had, uh,
Served ten years for robbery.
- In 2002, when she was living in el paso,
The family of an 82-year-old gentleman had put an ad
In the el paso newspaper for a nurse.
And she answered it, right?
This 82-year-old gentleman was almost legally blind.
Um, he was almost deaf,
And he really needed some help.
- Detectives discover that after just a few hours
With cristina on the job,
The elderly gentleman
Summoned his daughters in a panic.
- When the two daughters get there,
He is tied up with a phone cord,
He's been assaulted,
And the house has been ransacked.
- I don't quite remember what took place.
I ended up leaving.
I didn't want to take care of the man no more.
And I just took off.
He ended up pressing charges
Saying that I robbed him
And I had hit him or something,
Which I didn't do.
When I went to prison for 10 years,
I was scared.
I chose the life in prison
To be bad, to act out.
I just had this whole different attitude.
- After serving her time for aggravated robbery,
Cristina had landed herself in trouble again.
- In 2013 there were two separate reports.
There was one in July, and there was one in August,
And both almost mirrored each other.
It had to do with tommy calling,
Saying cristina had taken his wallet,
Had taken his tv.
- We have a potential suspect of cristina rodriguez.
We've already got this report that she had stolen
His bank cards in the past,
So could this be happening again?
- Detectives secure a search warrant
For tommy's financial records.
- At 1:47 a.M. On Friday morning,
That debit card gets used at a 7-eleven
In fort worth after the murder.
- Convenience stores or gas stations
Have video surveillance systems,
And you're going to use someone's, uh,
Credit card or debit card that was just murdered?
That's probably not the smartest thing to do.
But it also shows maybe a little bit of desperation,
That there was no other means or financial means
To escape this area.
- Detectives review surveillance footage
From the store where tommy's card was last used.
- We see a tall black male, uhm,
Coming into the store,
And he had a bandage wrapped around his hand.
That was consistent with our belief
That somebody had injured themselves
In the crime scene.
- And we were seeing cristina.
You could make out clear as day that it was her.
Authorities now focus all of their efforts
On finding cristina and her associate.
Two days after the discovery of tommy's body,
Detectives receive a tip from tommy's employers.
- Deborah grimes got a text message
From tommy's phone on September ninth.
- He texted, "I need you to do me a favor,
I need you to get my pay
And send it to me western union.
I need some money." and then I get a text that says,
"don't send the money in my name,
Because I don't have my id."
- He said, "if you can, send the money to my cousin,
His name is braylon ellis."
- This is the first time
That we hear the name, braylon ellis.
They run him,
And they look at his drivers' license
And figure out, "this is probably our suspect
In all of these surveillance videos."
♪♪
- My name is braylon dominique ellis,
And I'm choosing to do this interview because, um,
I feel as though people need to know the truth,
What really happened, and why things happened.
I just end up snapping.
But I did not murder him.
♪♪
- Detectives have identified cristina rodriguez
And braylon ellis as their primary suspects
In the murder of tommy brown.
- We knew that time was of the essence.
All of our transactions gradually did
Lead out of the state,
And they were leading east through mississippi, uh,
And then ultimately to georgia.
- The u.S. Marshals have an ability
To ping a cell phone,
And they were able to tell that the cell phone was pinging
At a location in snellville, georgia,
Which is just a little northeast of atlanta.
- Authorities determine
The address is registered to braylon's mother.
- To be honest, I really didn't even know we
Was on the run.
Last time I seen mr. Brown, he was alive.
He was messed up, but he was still alive.
- The local police go in.
They take them into custody.
They completely lock down
And freeze braylon's mother's house,
So nobody can tamper with any evidence.
- My stepdad was like, "what's going on?"
I'm like, "I don't know," but in my head,
I'm thinking like, man, I know what I did.
It's not at-- at this extent though.
As they put me in the car, my mom pulls up,
She's coming from work and she's like shaking her head.
I'm like shaking my head.
I'm like lost for words.
That was an experience,
That was an experience going through that.
- When I got the information that they were arrested,
I was on a plane probably two hours later.
I had made contact
With the gwinnett county sheriff's department,
And they were able to assist me
In obtaining a search warrant.
- Detective o'brien,
When he goes into braylon and cristina's room, right,
He searches the room, uh, and what does he do?
Detective o'brien takes out his cell phone,
Calls tommy's phone.
- I figured the phone was probably on,
And so I just called it. [phone ringing]
And then I heard it ringing
Basically in the back of the dresser.
[phone ringing]
- It was like the air went out of the room.
It was like, "oh, my god."
This dead man's cell phone rings.
I mean, that is a damning piece of evidence
Against braylon and cristina.
- Braylon used to tell me,
"why did you keep the phone?
Why-- it's the phone that they found us
'cause of the... Duh duh duh" whatever.
I wasn't payin' him no mind.
I kept his phone because I knew--
I knew that they'd find us.
I knew they would.
I did it intentionally,
Because I wanted them to find me.
- Outside, detectives locate more evidence.
- In the car
That braylon and cristina were driving
Was tommy's wallet,
His I.D., his debit card.
- At the local police station,
Detective o'brien attempts to interview cristina.
- Cristina pretty much right away
Invoked her right to have an attorney present,
And so, uh, I didn't have a conversation with her.
- In another room, braylon agrees to talk,
But he is anything but forthright.
- Detectives try a different route
And begin asking braylon
About his relationship with cristina.
- I met him during one of my bus trips
From the greyhound.
- I actually met cristina going to california
To pick up my son.
I seen her.
At that time, I liked what I saw.
I was a single parent. I was working,
And I was looking for a woman to be there
To raise my son with.
- He was very nice.
Very-- a gentleman.
We exchanged numbers.
And we kept in time--
We facetimed.
We did-- we did a lot of things together.
- Our relationship was, like, nine months.
She brought me around her family.
I know her moms. Her moms is a really sweet person.
I met her sister, her father.
You know, I'mma just give all my love to this one
And see how it turns out.
- My parents adored braylon.
Braylon ended up moving in with me.
We ended up living together in el paso.
It was awesome. It was the total opposite
Of what me and tommy had been going through.
- We had many plans of living together,
Getting married, and having more children.
- I loved braylon dominique ellis.
Eventually I found out I was pregnant.
- When cristina told me she was pregnant with my child,
I felt, uh... I felt good.
I was like, I'm gonna commit to this woman.
- Braylon appears to have just fallen in love, uh,
Pretty hard for cristina.
- Under pressure, braylon begins to backtrack.
- Braylon admits knowing that tommy and cristina
Have a complicated relationship.
- Cristina told me
That he had a history of beating her.
And at that time,
I thought she was pregnant with my child.
So, I was real mad at that.
- Around the same time I was with braylon,
I had told tommy,
"well, since you're not going to leave connie alone,
I'm not going to leave braylon alone."
Tommy would call me and call me. I used to ignore his calls.
And braylon would answer the phone and would tell him,
"stop putting your hands on her." you know?
And/or "I'm going to beat you up."
But never once did braylon said, "oh, I'm going to kill you,"
Or nothing like that.
- It seemed like cristina was setting up,
Like, tension between both braylon and tommy,
You know, wanting them to be at odds with each other.
And braylon would do anything for her.
- I didn't think
I would have been getting played
On the level that she was playing me on,
You know, for the simple fact
I didn't think she was that type of person.
Braylon continues to deny any connection
To tommy brown's murder,
So investigators terminate the interview
And charge both braylon and cristina
With capital murder.
- To be honest, the person I fell in love with
Was a lie.
Coming up, the once happy couple turn on each other.
- He knew he got got by cristina.
- Cristina used me.
She was trying to frame me for the whole thing.
- I hated him after that,
'cause I couldn't believe he said those lies.
♪♪
- On September 10th, 2013, authorities in fort worth
Charge 37-year-old cristina rodriguez
And her boyfriend, 25-year-old braylon ellis,
With the murder of tommy brown.
- We didn't have the dna results
Until months after the murder.
Now, we had the results of that.
We've got ceramic pieces with tommy brown
And braylon ellis' dna on it.
- It's enough for a texas jury
To find braylon guilty of murder in March of 2016.
- It was a capital murder trial.
I got convicted of aggravated murder,
And I was sentenced to, on the record, life with parole.
If they would've convicted me of capital murder,
I woulda never went home.
I wouldn't have the opportunity to say
I can go home one day.
- Ten months later in January of 2017,
Cristina's trial begins.
To help walk jurors through what really happened
On September 5th, 2013,
Prosecutors call a surprise witness:
Braylon ellis.
- I think braylon was upset.
He knew he got got by cristina.
And he on his own decided to come back and testify,
Because he knew she was the ringleader here.
- According to braylon,
One of cristina's lies in particular
Cut him to the core.
- When I found out she wasn't pregnant
And she was trying to frame me for the whole thing,
Yeah, I was just like, you know, nah,
It ain't going down like that.
I'm about to go ahead and confess to everything I did.
- I was made to believe that mister brown
Had harmed cristina by what she told me,
So it was my idea to fight him.
So, I was protecting her and, uh, my child.
- Braylon claims while tommy was out running an errand
On the night of September 5th,
Cristina used the spare key from the mailbox
To sneak him into tommy's house.
- Next thing you know,
I hear them come through the door
And I just picked up the toilet tank lid,
And I hit it as hard as I could.
And then it broke in pieces.
He hit the ground.
I didn't stop.
I just snapped.
As I look to my right,
I see cristina standing there
Holding like a-- a pot.
So, I take the pot out her hand,
And I start just beating him with the pot.
- That's not true.
To lie in the courtroom
And say that I gave him a pot
To hit him with it?
That just threw me off.
- It was just blood everywhere.
I ended up leaving the house.
Keep in mind, when I left,
She stayed in the house.
Last time I seen mr. Brown, he was alive,
So, what she did in that house, I don't know.
- Braylon stated in court
That when he left,
Tommy was still alive.
That's not true.
He had put a bag over his head,
So that he wouldn't breathe.
- When I heard braylon's testimony,
I hated him after that,
'cause I couldn't believe he said those lies.
Nearly broke my heart inside.
- Braylon testifies that he and cristina hit the road,
Determined to start a new life together.
- Braylon's mom lives there in georgia.
We were-we were gonna go live over there with her.
- Some people fall in love hard and quickly.
And it seems like braylon did that for cristina.
- I don't believe cristina was actually pregnant.
We didn't find any anything that would support that.
- She was playing them both,
Telling each one of them
That she was pregnant with their child
So, again, not only would they be fighting for her,
But for the baby that she was supposedly,
But falsely, right, carrying for both of them.
She was just very manipulative.
- When you're consistently lying to a person
To the point where an innocent man gets murdered?
Nah. That's not love right there.
That's being manipulative.
Cristina used me.
- There was no evidence
That tommy was abusing her.
I think she's just a cold lady and just wanted him gone.
- After braylon's compelling testimony,
Cristina's attorneys decide against
Putting her on the stand.
- I know that everybody thinks
I'm the mastermind
'cause that's what they're sayin' in court,
But that is not true.
I did not convince braylon to do anything.
Braylon went in there
With the intentions of fighting tommy,
And a fight was all that was supposed to take place.
- When the case goes to the jury on January 31st, 2017,
They are quick to find cristina rodriguez guilty.
- I ended up getting life with parole.
[sighs] how do I feel?
Well, I feel like I deserve it.
Yes, I do, because at any time and moment,
I coulda had stopped that fight.
I coulda had called 911.
- I wanted tommy's family to know
That I'm sorry.
From the deepest of my heart, I am-I really am sorry.
I didn't think things would turn out to be
The way they turned out to be.
- For cristina, the love she once shared with braylon
Is long gone.
- He's a monster now to me.
I don't have nothing else to say.
Braylon, you're a liar.
- Cristina, hopefully everything works out for you.
I do forgive you for, um, the lies.
- Nearly a decade later,
Braylon has made peace with his sentence.
- I wasted a lotta time in prison
As far as not being there for my son,
Not being there for my moms,
Not being there for my father.
But this place can rehabilitate your mind
If you let it.
So, I surround myself with positive people.
People that's doing something with their life
And want something in life,
Compared to a person that just wanna do they time,
Get out, mess up, and come back.
I'm not gonna be one of those people.
- I would like to take a moment to apologize
To the brown family.
Uh, I've tooken time now to, uh,
Think about what I did in this crime,
And, uh, I apologize for my actions.
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