[Faith] Makeva Jenkins is a single mother
with a zest for a life
and a drive to succeed.
- Hi, guys, it's business tip Tuesday.
- She was passionate about helping people.
- Don't give up on your dreams.
Remember why you became an entrepreneur
or a business owner in the first place.
[Faith] She builds a profitable business.
- I'm like, golly, you getting all this money.
[Faith] Marries a handsome man.
- She was crazy about Euri.
- That was your business.
I don't know what to say.
[Faith] And creates a loving family.
- She had a glow.
She said, "All my blessings are coming together."
[Faith] But just when all her dreams are coming true...
- Then all of a sudden, this masked gunman
walks into the garage.
[Faith] ...a single bullet turns her dream
[gunshot]
into a nightmare.
- All because of a killer relationship.
[dramatic music]
- We all have that person we turn to
when times are tough,
that ultimate cheerleader
who makes everyone and everything around them better.
Makeva Jenkins is that person for so many people.
A determined dreamer
who shines a light
on all who cross her path.
Until that light is snuffed out
in an instant.
[dramatic music]
- When Makeva came, it was like a remarkable thing.
It was almost like she was untouchable,
like you just couldn't go and crowd around her
inside of the room where she slept.
We knew she was special from day one.
- When Makeva was born, my mom, Quest, was a single mom
and I know my mom, she can be a real hurricane at times.
My grandma just was like, "Hey, Quest,
you're not getting her, she's coming with me."
My grandma just fell in love with her.
[Faith] With her parents largely absent,
Makeva's grandmother provides an abundance
of love and guidance throughout childhood.
- She was a hard worker,
a model student.
Good grades were like mandatory in our house.
- She was very energetic, very social,
always had friends around.
[Faith] Makeva is elected homecoming queen
and graduates high school at the top of her class.
She heads off to college
at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
- But she got a surprise in college.
She ended up being pregnant
with Ceniya,
her oldest daughter.
She was fantastic mom.
Her and Ceniya was just the best of buddies.
- Makeva is like a powerhouse.
She still push and pressed,
still graduated college.
[Faith] And she continues to push and press,
balancing motherhood and work like a pro
at just 24 years old.
But Makeva wants more for herself and for her daughter,
so she enrolls in business school,
earns a master's degree
and launches several small companies.
- In less than a year,
she opened up her own tax office.
- She started doing a lot of weddings,
planning baby showers.
She did pretty good with that.
She did a lot to promote her business
through social media.
- Hi, Instagram.
Hello, Facebook, hello business friends.
Don't give up on your dreams.
Remember why you became an entrepreneur
or a business owner in the first place
and make it a great day.
- She was passionate about helping people
make their dreams come true.
- We would do chat rooms on Facebook late at night.
When everybody's sleeping, we're talking about business.
- Hi, guys, it's business tip Tuesday.
- We prayed, we'd talk about God
and how He's impacting our lives and our visions
and she wanted a family.
That was something that she longed for.
[Faith] As 2009 comes to a close,
He seems to answer Makeva's prayers.
- New Year's Eve, the pastor does
like a big celebration.
One of the other members at the church, her son came.
We met Euri and Makeva took notice of him.
- She had the biggest smile on her face
when she was talking about him.
[Faith] A 23-year-old barber
and the son of a pastor,
Euri Jenkins is tall, good looking
and shares Makeva's Baptist religious background.
- She was crazy about Euri.
If Euri told her the sky was red,
she would say, "Well, Euri said it's red."
- That's your business.
I don't know what to say.
- I said, "Listen, give yourself time to get to know him."
So, fast forward a few months,
imagine my surprise when she was like,
"I'm pregnant."
- Makeva wanted a family,
so meeting Euri was like a second chance for her
from the first relationship
that she had Ceniya with that didn't work out.
- The birth of baby Euri kind of signified
their love for each other.
She was happy.
[Faith] And after a whirlwind few months,
Euri makes the relationship official.
- They got married.
I ended up walking her down the aisle.
That was the happiest I ever seen her.
[Pastor] Oh, now, come on.
- After her wedding, she posted this.
I am forever grateful to be on this journey
with my soulmate,
my supporter,
my backbone,
my best friend,
my forever.
[gentle music]
[Faith] Forever sounds nice,
but as most newlyweds will tell you,
if they're being honest,
those first few years are tough.
With a newborn baby in the mix,
well, that's even tougher.
Two years after Makeva and Euri exchange I dos,
there's trouble I paradise.
- She's deep into her entrepreneur dreams
and money is like really, really tight.
Euri would be gone for like a day, two, three
and Makeva, she learned that he was seeing somebody else...
[dramatic music]
this girl named Tiffany.
And Makeva discovered
Tiffany is pregnant.
- That just broke her heart.
Yeah, she ended up kicking him out.
[melancholy music]
- You might think the dream was over for Makeva and Euri--
85% of marriages that experience infidelity, don't survive.
But there are always exceptions
and the key to forging a new bond,
forgiveness.
- I knew she still loved Euri.
- So, she ended up letting him come back
and, you know, they worked it out.
You know, she was still trying to make ends meet
and Euri helped her with an idea
of business planning,
like, you should write business plans for people
and that's when she was like, you know what,
that wouldn't be a bad idea.
So, Makeva named her business
the Prime Enterprise Group.
And that's when it just blew all up.
[inspirational music]
- By 2014, she's paying rent in excess of $2,500,
so she's really making good money.
- I'm like, golly, you getting all this money.
- She had a glow and it was just like, "Kim,
all my blessings are coming together.
[Faith] The blessings keep coming.
In May of 2016,
Makeva gives birth to their second child,
a daughter named Zoe.
- We're all living in this big house now.
It's me, Makeva, Euri,
baby Euri and Ceniya and Zoe.
Everything was just looking good.
[Faith] It made have been a messy path to happiness,
but on June 23, 2017,
Makeva posts this heartfelt note on her Facebook page.
[] I've been with my husband for seven years
and every time I look at him,
it feels like New Year's Eve 2009
when I saw him in church.
I thought he was the most handsome guy I'd ever met
and we've been making history ever since.
I love me some Mr. Jenkins.
[dramatic music]
[Operator] 911 emergency.
[dramatic music]
- Euri is crying, holding her head,
telling Makeva, "I can't do this without you,
don't leave me."
- It just felt like a bad dream,
like this isn't real.
[dramatic music]
[Faith] On June 29, 2017, a 911 call comes
into the West Palm Beach Sheriff's Office.
Makeva Jenkins' brother, Quay, begs for help.
[dog barking]
- I received a phone call from my sergeant
about 2:30 in the morning
on June 29th.
When I arrived on scene,
I was advised that a woman named Makeva Jenkins
had been shot in the head
by a masked intruder.
She was on her way to the hospital.
Makeva is still alive.
The children are with a next door neighbor.
There were three people in the house
when the masked shooter came in
and one was the husband.
[Oliver] One was a friend of the husband.
- And one was the brother of the victim.
- I did not do a really tour of the house
until I did the interviews.
[radio traffic chatter]
[Faith] While deputies speak to the neighbors,
Detective Oliver gets Euri's consent
to enter the home.
Then, one by one, he has the three men detail
the sequence of events.
- I'm in the garage with Euri and Dametri.
This was going on 12 at night.
Euri comes to me and tells me,
"Quay, let me cut your hair."
Hop into the chair,
I put my phone on the barber counter
and he put the cape around me
and all of a sudden,
this masked gunman walks into the garage
with a gun pointed at us.
All you could see was his eyes.
He's asking, "Where the money at,
where the money at?"
- All three subjects described a tall,
over 6-foot Black male wearing all black.
- I told the detective that gunman seemed so familiar.
- He couldn't be 100% sure,
he just thought it was important for me to know.
But he definitely couldn't ID the guy
because the guy had a mask.
[dramatic music]
She shooter directs all three of them
into the house
up the stairs
where Makeva Jenkins' bedroom is,
along with the bedroom of the kids.
- Ceniya was in Tampa with her father.
Makeva was sleeping,
baby Euri is in his room asleep
and Zoe was asleep.
- I thought, well, that's kind of odd
for a gunman to leave two people upstairs,
but let one person go downstairs
with a kid and possibly escape.
- In that moment, I'm just thinking
about this gun going off
at me.
I'm basically helpless at this point.
- So, the suspect just leaves Dametri Dale downstairs
and escorts Quay back up at gunpoint.
- His wife's in the bedroom
and the gunman goes downstairs,
but he doesn't do anything.
Okay, maybe he's scared.
[gunshot]
As soon as the gun go off,
the gunman shoots out of the room
down the stairs and he's out the garage.
But me and Euri, we go into the room,
turn the light on
and we look at Makeva
and she has like a hole under her ear
about the size of a nickel
and it got blood coming out.
[dramatic music]
Euri,
he's crying holding her head,
telling Makeva, "I can't do this without you.
Don't leave me."
And, you know, he's telling her to "Breathe.
You can fight it, just fight it," you know,
and it was just hell from there.
[Faith] Miraculously, Makeva is still alive
when first responders arrive.
- The deputies said when they encountered Makeva,
she was lying on her side with a visible gunshot wound
to the head and they actually did apply pressure
to try to save her life until fire and rescue arrive.
[Faith] While Makeva fights for her life
at a nearby hospital,
Detective Oliver takes DNA from Euri, Quay and Dametri,
who are witnesses and persons of interest in the crime.
Then he begins combing through the house for evidence.
Investigators don't find the gun,
but they do locate Dale's car,
which the gunman drove from the crime scene.
[dramatic music]
- That Charger was found
less than a quarter-mile from the scene by a deputy,
but we weren't gonna touch it until I got a warrant.
- While he waits for that warrant,
Detective Oliver continues to push Quay, Euri and Dametri Dale
for more information,
including the answer to an all important question:
If the gunman was looking for money,
why would he shoot Makeva?
There was an incident where
my mom was in Belle Glade
giving fake money to a drug dealer
and the dude ended up getting mad with her
about the counterfeit money.
I know my mom, so I'm thinking like, dang,
could it really be this serious?
[dramatic music]
- Of course, I'm gonna look at the husband,
but all three subjects said
that the masked gunman came in looking for Quest.
I needed to pursue the angle
that the subject was looking for her.
[Faith] There's not enough evidence to hold the men,
so after an initial round of questioning,
Euri, Quay and Dametri are allowed to leave the scene.
[Quay] I went with Euri to the hospital.
As soon as I got to the hospital,
Euri's father told us that she didn't make it.
When I seen Euri get the news, he sobbed.
He just was like oh, man, my kids.
You know, he just broke down,
like he fell to the ground.
I was just lost at that point.
You know, screaming, crying.
My grandma and my aunts, they were all there
and everybody just couldn't believe it.
It was just something out of a horror movie, you know.
My mom was trying to bust through the door
to see Makeva
and I'm frantically crying
and I'm like, "Mom, what did you do?"
[dramatic music]
- The early hours of June 29, 2017 were a night of lasts
for Makeva Jenkins,
only she didn't know it.
The last Facebook photo,
the last Instagram post,
the last kiss on her children's cheeks.
The driven businesswoman,
the devoted mother,
the beacon of light
is permanently extinguished.
And as a new day breaks over South Florida,
the news of Makeva's death makes waves
through her community.
- I'm getting up
and I'm preparing for work,
but I see like missed calls, like 26.
And then one of my friends called me
and my friend said,
"Brenda, is it true?
They were saying on Facebook rest in peace, Makeva."
And, of course, I screamed, I yelled
because I just couldn't believe it.
- It just felt like a bad dream,
like, this isn't real,
but it very much so was real.
- Once I seen my mom at the hospital,
I was like, "Mom, what did you do?"
And she looked at me with a face
and like, "What is you talking about?"
And she's going and saying,
"I didn't do nothing."
Somebody just came in this house looking for her.
How could she not have nothing to do with it?
[Faith] Just four hours after Makeva is pronounced dead,
Detective Oliver is face-to-face with Maquesta Harold,
known as Quest,
but is she just a grieving mother
or was she the intended target?
- Quest lived in an apartment on Belle Glade,
which is probably a 45-minute drive away.
If anyone wanted to find her,
all they had to do was go to Belle Glade.
It didn't seem to add up.
- We come from a small town.
If someone was looking for Quest,
they would've kicked Quest's door in.
Makeva address is not public.
- The likelihood was that Makeva was the target all along.
- It looks like Quest is being set up
in the cruelest of ways.
Not only is her daughter dead,
but the gunman seems to have falsely implicated her
in an effort to throw investigators off his trail,
but the larger question still looms.
Who would want Makeva dead?
[dramatic music]
[Oliver] Based on the evidence,
the shooter was just in and out,
the money, the jewelry maybe.
He didn't try to take anything.
For some reason, the shooter just runs in the bedroom,
fires one round.
[gun fires]
Runs out, didn't make sense.
[Faith] Detective Oliver shifts his focus
back to Quay Greer, Dametri Dale
and to the love of Makeva's life,
her husband, Euri Jenkins.
They all made it out alive that night
and are still persons of interest.
- I spoke with Euri within 36 hours
of his wife being murdered.
[phone ringing]
- The policy that Makeva Jenkins had taken out
to cover the family, that was for $500,000.
It seemed to me that that was a pretty good motive
if Euri did have involvement in his wife's death.
[Faith] While Detective Oliver talks to Euri,
CSIs get the chance
to search Dametri Dale's white Dodge Charger,
which the killer drove from the crime scene
on the night of the murder.
- The car was scoured for any possible evidence,
but, unfortunately, there was nothing left
that we could determine was left by the suspect.
But there were McDonald's receipts,
there was a Miami Subs receipt.
These receipts were only from the 28th,
the day of the murder.
[Faith] The receipts could mean nothing.
But they will help Detective Oliver establish
a timeline for Dametri Dale on the day of the murder.
- Video surveillance obtained from Miami Subs
showed Dametri Dale in the white Charger
in the drive-thru.
They can't get the car to move,
so the passenger gets out of the car
to help push it.
[dramatic music]
Who was in the car with him?
After the Miami Sub footage was observed,
Dametri Dale was called in for an interview.
Dametri Dale identified his passenger
as Joevan Joseph
and they drove out to Euri's house.
Joevan got a haircut and then they left.
Dametri Dale came back that night
in the Charger without Joevan.
When I was interviewing Quay,
he mentioned to me that he recognized the shooter.
Joevan had the same body style as the shooter.
Could this shooter have been Joevan?
[dramatic music]
- Forty-eight hours after Makeva Jenkins' murder,
Detective Oliver wants to know why
a masked gunman forced his way into her home
and shot her while she slept,
but while the killer's motive is a mystery,
Oliver may be a step closer to unmasking him.
He's identified a new suspect,
a 19-year-old named Joevan Joseph,
who was at the Jenkins' home with Dametri Dale
just hours before the shooting.
[dramatic music]
- I called Joevan Joseph.
He came in for an interview.
[interview audio] All right, this is the deal.
It was important to find out if Joevan Joseph
had an alibi.
- He said he was at a hospital visiting a friend
in West Palm Beach,
a good 20 or 30-minute drive from the murder scene.
- It didn't really strike me odd
that he would go visit someone who's sick
in the hospital at 2:30 in the morning.
If I had someone who was sick, I would do it, too.
[Joevan exhales]
[dramatic music]
- So, immediately after the interview with Joevan,
I went to the hospital to verify his alibi.
- Law enforcement gets the video from the hospital
and, indeed, he's on the video visiting a friend
with one issue,
it's not time stamped.
So, his alibi could be true.
So, law enforcement then has to subpoena
the hospital to get access
to the digitized version of the video
to know when Joevan Joseph was at the hospital.
[Faith] While investigators wait for the subpoena,
Makeva's autopsy is completed.
The results are heart wrenching.
- Makeva was pregnant when she was murdered.
[dramatic music]
I asked Euri why he didn't tell me his wife was pregnant
when she was shot and he kind of said,
"I thought I did."
So, that was pretty alarming.
- She never told me she was pregnant.
No one knew she was pregnant but Euri.
[Faith] It's a big detail to omit,
but is Euri a grieving spouse who simply forgot
to tell Detective Oliver about Makeva's pregnancy?
Or did he withhold the information intentionally?
If so, why?
Before those questions can be answered,
Makeva's loved ones gather to remember her life
and say goodbye.
- Euri sat with me on the first row.
I just couldn't bear the fact
that she was just sitting there in that casket,
knowing that I'll never see her again.
I kissed her and told her I'd never forget about her.
Always here, I'll always love her.
I'm gonna make sure baby Euri and Zoe and Ceniya
are taken care of just how you would them to be.
[dramatic music]
[gentle music]
- Euri sat not to far from the body.
He had his phone in his hand
and he was listening to a recording of Makeva talking.
[Makeva] Look at that boy learning how to swim,
all right!
- And I went over and I said to him,
"She really loves you."
And he said, "Oh, yeah?"
And he shook his head.
I didn't see any tears.
I didn't see any sadness.
And my husband grabbed me and said,
"We're getting the hell out of here now."
[dramatic music]
My husband got me in that car and he was like,
"That man, he has everything to do with this."
- The truth is, there's no one right way to grieve
and Euri may be dealing with the tragedy
in his own way
or maybe there's another reason entirely
for his distant reaction.
Hours after Makeva's memorial,
a chilling video circulates online
and it may lead investigators straight to a killer.
- Trust me, she knew how I felt
when she was here.
[Oliver] I showed up at her house unannounced.
The interview lasted maybe 45 minutes.
We have multiple motives here.
- Financial jealousy, child support.
It opened up the doors for a potential lead.
[Faith] It's bee
was ruthlessly shot dead
while sleeping in her Lake Worth, Florida home.
Police have made no arrests,
but a new person of interest
has just come into focus.
- Tiffany Webb, a woman who claims to have had a child
with Euri Jenkins while he was married to Makeva
broadcast a hate-filled rant on Facebook Live.
Could Euri's extramarital affair be linked
to his wife's death?
- I first learned of Euri's ex-girlfriend
and baby's mother when I was told
that she had posted on Facebook some kind of rant.
- Almost like indicating she may have had involvement.
[Kimberly] Me and Makeva had plans to meet up for lunch
the day before the murder.
She talked about Tiffany.
She showed me threatening text messages from her,
saying that Makeva was keeping Euri from his child
and you think you're better than me
and I'll beat your ass.
I made Makeva block her.
[Faith] Detective Oliver tracks Tiffany down
in West Palm Beach just a few miles from Lake Worth
where Makeva lived and was murdered.
- And when I confronted Tiffany Webb,
she stated that she knew about Makeva's murder
and she admitted to posting something on Facebook
that she regretted doing.
Seemed to me that Tiffany really was leading her own life
and based on talking to her,
it was reasonable that she had nothing
to do with the murder.
But she did reveal to me that Euri showed up
at her house the day after the murder
and he wanted intimate relations with her.
Tiffany Webb was a little frustrated with Euri
because all these years he's never paid her child support.
Actually, she said that he was in arrears almost $20,000
and that he was gonna pay her
with the insurance money he gets.
And he said Euri had been confronted by Makeva
and she had threatened divorce
because he was communicating too much with her.
- Euri wasn't clearing any money
because of child support for Tiffany,
Makeva was telling Euri,
"She's not getting a dime from me."
- Makeva's told me more than one time
that she was gonna get a divorce
before she let Tiffany get any of her money
and, I mean, if she divorced him,
who would lose?
She's the bread winner.
She's the brains.
- Love, loathing and loot.
Three of the most popular motives for murder
that I've seen play out in courtrooms
time and time again.
And with no income of his own,
Euri Jenkins would be practically destitute
if Makeva divorced him.
But investigators need more than motive
to make an arrest.
They need hard evidence.
Six weeks after the murder,
the hospital finally produces
the time-stamped surveillance footage,
subpoenaed two days after Makeva was shot
and all roads lead to Joevan Joseph.
- Joevan says that he was at Good Samaritan Hospital
around 2 a.m. on June 29th,
but when the information comes back,
they learn it was 4 a.m.
Hmm,
it's not an alibi
when you're doing something
two hours after something occurs.
[Faith] Detective Oliver now knows
that Joevan lied to him.
He wasn't at the hospital when Makeva was murdered,
but can he put Joevan at or near Makeva's home
when the murder occurred?
- So, I went and got video surveillance
from a road that leads into the development.
I was able to see Dametri Dale's Dodge Charger
traveling towards the home
and right behind it,
like right on its tail is a smaller four-door vehicle.
Joevan Joseph told me he had a Mazda four-door.
[Faith] The footage suggests Joevan was
in Makeva's neighborhood
minutes before the masked gunman entered her home,
making both he and Dametri Dale
part of the plot to kill Makeva.
[dramatic music]
- After reviewing the video surveillance,
this is what I surmise happened
the night Makeva was killed.
Dametri Dale
and Joevan Joseph both agreed
to drive down to commit this murder at Euri's request.
Now, once arriving at the house,
Dametri gets out of the car,
he goes and hangs out with Euri in the garage
until Quay arrives
and at that point,
Joevan followed what he was told to do.
[dramatic music]
Ask for Quest to convince Quay
that maybe his mother's lifestyle
caused his sister's death
and he went into that room
and just shot Makeva in the head.
[gunshot]
However, it wasn't as easy to prove it.
I knew I had a lot of work ahead of me
to convince Dametri Dale to spill the beans.
[dramatic music]
- I confronted him with everything I had,
especially the video surveillance.
- He just lied, lied, lied.
When confronted with this video surveillance,
Dametri Dale came
and said that Joevan Joseph,
his friend,
was the one that shot and killed Makeva.
- He was gonna go down as an accessory to a murder,
so he wanted to save himself.
- Dametri Dale agreed to subversively record
a conversation between him and Joevan Joseph.
Joseph admits there was some money gonna be exchanged
for the murder.
- Makeva Jenkins was gunned down inside her home
in late June by a masked man.
Tonight, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says
this 19-year-old is responsible for her death.
- After Joevan is arrested,
the prosecution and I were hoping
that his defense attorneys would convince him
to maybe flip on Euri
and get Euri arrested.
[dramatic music]
[Dave] Euri is the mastermind,
but we don't want to charge
until you've got enough evidence
to get a conviction beyond any reasonable doubt.
You can't charge if you think
you're gonna get the evidence later on
because then the person could end up going free.
[Faith] Joevan isn't talking,
but 19 days after his arrest,
the investigators get one more gift from Dametri Dale.
- Not at my request, he recorded some conversations
he had with Euri and they were pretty enlightening.
[dramatic music]
- Eight weeks of investigation
into Makeva Jenkins' shooting death
boils down to this one moment.
A phone call that Dametri Dale surreptitiously recorded
with Makeva's husband, Euri Jenkins.
- Even though Dametri's telling him
that Joevan's the shooter,
he doesn't say Joevan's the shooter, like surprised,
but at this point he's just like,
"No, don't talk about this."
[Faith] Euri's telling reaction
combined with Tiffany's testimony,
Dametri Dale's account
and Euri's interest in the insurance money
is enough for a grand jury to indict him.
- Joevan's not gonna kill her for no reason.
He's gotta get something out of it.
All that put together,
it just kind of showed that Euri had
to be involved in his wife's murder.
He insistently denied having any involvement.
- [bleep] God will vindicate me.
[Reporter] You say you're innocent?
- Yes, I am.
[Faith] Despite his claims of innocence,
on December 15th of 2017,
Euri Jenkins is charged with first degree murder
in the death of his wife, Makeva.
- I just couldn't believe Euri had something
to do with that.
You know, because I had loved him so much as a brother.
[dramatic music]
[Faith] In May of 2022,
after procedural delays and the global pandemic,
Euri Jenkins finally stands trial.
[Lawyer] On the floor, do you know what this is?
- This is the part of the trial that haunts me.
When Quay left the room to go get help
and it was just Euri and Makeva in there,
what was he doing?
Was he saying I hope you die?
What was he doing?
We will probably never get an answer from Euri.
But there's no doubt that Makeva is dead at this hands.
[Faith] The jury agrees and makes their decision
in three hours.
Guilty.
Euri Jenkins is sentenced to life in prison.
Because they helped investigators bring Euri down,
Dametri Dale and Joevan Joseph
both received breaks on their sentences.
Joevan is convicted of first degree murder
and will spend 15 years in jail,
while Dametri is convicted of manslaughter
and receives only 45 days.
[dramatic music]
- I lost a confidant,
a friend.
[somber music]
- And, you know, I've cried so much
to the point that I just can't even cry no more,
but everywhere I go, just try keep strong
and be strong for her.
[gentle music]
- Makeva Jenkins' grit and tenacity
helped her achieve extraordinary success in life.
But she didn't just believe in herself,
others believed in her
and saw her as an aspirational beacon of light.
Tragically, the same light
that drew so many good people to her
also attracted a man who took everything Makeva gave
before turning her beautiful life
into a killer relationship.