[crowd cheering]
Coach Kinne built the best football team Canton, Texas ever had.
Play a little now, and a little later.
Right now, it's time. You gotta play it now.
He was intensely competitive.
We've never seen anything like that in Canton.
When we came out of the locker room, we were fired up.
We had something to prove.
If your son didn't love the game of football,
then you weren't gonna be on that field.
But Kinne had a lot of power,
and if you start messing with someone's children,
well, you need to expect you're gonna have a problem.
[siren wailing]
[theme music playing]
[siren wailing]
[crowd cheering]
That day, it's like a video tape in my head.
I can see it. I can remember it.
[indistinct conversation]
I remember the smells.
Talking about it now, I'm right there.
It was a Thursday and,
you know, school day starting like normal.
I did parking lot duty in the back of the school
and making sure everybody gets where they're supposed to be.
I went by the field house.
And, of course, I mean, it was April
football, that time of the year
they just do an off season and things like that
so, there wasn't much going on.
[Eric Crapanzano] The field house there, it has our lockers.
Then right in the middle of all the lockers
is the coach's office.
I'd seen Coach Kinne that morning was in his office.
We come in a little early,
before first period to work out.
[KeaVon Milton] After we lift, we do our athletics stuff,
you know, early morning for half the period.
Then you go up to the school.
[school bell ringing]
The bells rang, and I... I get the stragglers...
inside the building. It's a decent walk
from the back of the building to my office.
So, by the time I get to my office,
it's getting close to the end of first period.
And I sit down at my desk and just start getting out
whatever I need to do for that day.
And I had barely got settled in and, uh...
Janet Casey, who is our secretary
got a phone call...
[phone ringing]
And I could see her eyes...
get huge instantly.
I could just see the... the urgency.
I left at that moment and headed to the field house.
[Milton] So, I remember sitting down in my desk.
I just pulled my books out of my bag.
And the intercom kicks on,
and it was a, you know,
"Hey, school is on a lockdown. This is not a drill."
Everything kinda stopped.
[alarm beeping]
[Milton] We got up, shut the door.
Turned the lights off.
And we're sitting there waiting.
Waiting instructions. We have no clue what's going on.
[alarm continues]
[Raina Varner] I just remember hearing the alarm go off.
And our teacher was like, "Okay, you know, like,
let's get up against the wall."
She immediately, like, goes and shuts the door.
Covers our blinds.
And... I just knew looking at her face...
she just looked terrified.
I remember trying to get myself
as far to the wall
out of the sight of the doorway,
in case someone opened the doorway
that I wouldn't be shot first,
and I know that's really messed up.
[Crapanzano] It was very shortly after, our parents were texting us,
like, you know, "What's going on?
There's a shooting in your school.
You know, your coach got shot."
[Milton] You know word-of-mouth going around
that Coach Kinne got shot.
And I remember sitting there thinking like,
"We were just down there.
How? Why? What happened?"
And it didn't seem real.
'Cause when, you know, you see Coach Kinne, you hear him talk and...
a man this tall becomes, you know, through the ceiling.
Just through his presence alone,
in a sense he's like, almost like Superman.
And that's just like, Superman doesn't get hurt,
what happened?
Who would do that?
[Truman Oakley] I was running for the field house.
My mind is going a thousand miles an hour.
Well, I'm thinking, "There's got to be
a reasonable explanation for this."
And I know coaches, they like to hunt,
and that's the only scenario I could come up with,
was a coach has brought a gun up to the field house
to show it off and there's just been some kind of accident.
When I got there, Coach Kinne was just kind of spilling out on to the ground.
I saw him, I saw the blood.
And I still, as I talk about it,
I can... I can envision that blood.
Gary had put his hand right against the wall
and when he slipped down,
there was a long trail of blood.
Just inside his office was a big high-back chair
with the deep buttons
and that chair was level with blood.
You knew how grave this was, I mean,
it was obvious he had lost of lot of blood.
Gary's bullet wound was right about here, and, uh...
it was... you know, that was eerie,
his skin was so white,
the bullet hole was so round
and, you know, every time his heart beat
blood was coming out and...
We were grabbing everything we could,
towels and socks and things and just putting it on there,
but, you know, in my mind,
I know any blood we're stopping from there is minor
to the blood that's spilling through his body.
Gary was scared. I mean obviously, he was scared.
"Tell Laurie I love her, tell Kelly I love her, tell GJ I love him."
GJ, his son, he was freshman that year.
[sirens wailing]
Very quickly the sirens were there.
[indistinct radio conversation]
[Crapanzano] We realized something seriously wrong,
'cause here comes an officer.
They came and got GJ out of the room. It was right outside.
He pulled GJ outside the class
and, to talk to him and you can see him talking,
through the little glass window in the door.
You see GJ start crying, get upset.
Coach Kinne was dead.
That's what the officer told GJ.
He was gone.
[Milton] Not only is it our coach, his coach,
but that's also GJ's dad.
That's Coach Kinne. That's his dad.
I couldn't imagine what GJ was going through.
At the same time, I was kinda, I guess,
kinda focused on my own little world,
trying to figure out what's going on.
I don't know if it's one person,
I don't if it's many people or what.
How the hell am I getting out of here?
[Tim McLemee] In '05, we had already began
the training for active shooters
on school campuses.
Columbine was in everybody's head.
We had a full response team to it.
We asked for assistance from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
They sent everything they had.
State troopers, the Texas Rangers, uh, immediately responded.
I was there within just a few minutes.
We have an active shooter. We don't know where he's at.
We need to pin that person down.
We need to put him down as quick as possible.
[Oakley] I still had no idea what had happened.
We just knew a coach had been shot at a school,
and the man who shot him was unaccounted for.
There'd been Columbine, and there had been those things
and seldom did somebody walk in a school
and shoot one person and leave.
They were usually about shooting more people.
I fully was prepared that...
"We're about to get shot."
[reporter] This was scene at Canton High School shortly after the shooting.
Justin...
[voice breaking] Are you okay?
Are you sure?
[McLemee] The students were totally locked down,
until we could get the shooter in custody.
[Varner] The scary thing was just not knowing
if they were in the school or not.
We just didn't know.
And eventually you hear choppers
and people walking through the hallways
and coming up and rattling the door
and making sure doors are locked,
and we didn't know who the shooter was yet.
My daughter's panicking more in there,
'cause they're watching the news wherever she's at.
[McLemee] Once we had the field house secured,
we go through the rest of the school,
so, it's time to, attempt to identify
and locate the shooter.
In the very beginning, all the scenarios
start running through your mind of,
"Do we have a school shooter? Do we have multiple shooters?
Was it a family event,"
uh, which we have seen in work.
It could have been anything,
from the hit man hired by the ex,
to, just some random act of violence.
Now, not being from Canton,
I was unaware of
all of the problems, if you will.
The background problems
that led up to the actual crime.
Because, and speaking with the Canton officers
and then talking to some other people,
it become very apparent to us,
a lot of people dislike Coach Kinne.
[Crapanzano] Canton is a very small town in East Texas.
You got your different cliques.
Big into farming, ranching, and then of course
and everybody is connected to the football team
one way or another.
[Milton] Friday night lights.
We played fast, we played hard.
We played with heart.
Everybody rallies around, you know, the football team.
That's one of things that I loved about the town.
When the lights come on, you can feel the cheers, you can feel everybody,
you know, screaming for you.
You can feel the energy.
You can get through Canton pretty quick on a Friday, because everybody is here.
Everybody is here at the game.
When I arrived in Canton in the summer of 1994,
the Canton football program
was not in a very good place.
Their last playoff victory was in 1964.
But it did start to turn a corner
with the hiring of a new coach.
It was like this huge weight had been lifted off
the entire community of Canton.
Their Eagles were back.
Play a little now and a little later.
Right now, it's time. You gotta play it now.
-Break! -[all clap]
Coach Kinne built the best football team Canton, Texas ever had.
We did something that wasn't done before
and brought attention to a small, little area
and something in Texas
where high school football is everything.
The year before, we had made the playoffs.
We know we were good, but we had high expectations.
It was time to take it to next level.
[players talking indistinctly]
[coach] Toss it back, toss it back.
Coming from Canton, I went to the NFL.
I've been around some pretty great coaches,
Sean Payton, Bill Belichick, Tomlin.
Coach Kinne will still always be one of my top guys.
Coach Kinne changed everything.
Now with change, we have to always remember,
change creates good and bad.
And change sometimes is very difficult,
very difficult for people to accept.
Coach Kinne was described to me as a difficult person.
I had one man that summed it up
'cause I asked him, "Describe Kinne."
He said, "A dictator."
When I played football,
we had coaches that would grab us by the face mask
and throw our heads around and call us everything
but child of God. That was Texas football.
However, it was described to us that Kinne
would carry it to a different levels,
and then he would get personal about it.
He wasn't telling the kids,
you got to get your job right, essentially.
He was telling them that, "You're a piece of junk, you're not worth a flip.
You're not gonna play. Get on the sideline."
That's Gary's mentality. He was intensely competitive.
I mean, he was a leader.
He was take charge. He was, "I'm gonna handle this stuff."
[Crapanzano] Coach Kinne gets pretty intense when he was coaching.
If you were messing up, you know, he would be
quick to let you know about it,
and then show you the correct way to do it.
What people didn't understand about Coach Kinne,
what they didn't like about him was that,
"If your son, or you the player,
didn't love the game of football,
then you weren't gonna be on that field."
And he knew how to weed that out,
for what it took to make a championship level team.
Generally, when a school brings in a new head football coach,
they want someone to come in
maybe bring some different approaches
and help the program get back to winning ways.
And that was the stage set for
when Coach Kinne took over the program in late 2003.
[Crapanzano] When Coach Kinne first came to Canton,
the biggest adversity he had to overcome
was GJ starting as a freshman over a senior quarterback
that had been there the year before.
He named GJ as starting quarterback
and then the town's like, you know, "What's going on?
How is this freshman replacing a senior?
Is it just because he's the coach's kid?"
[Britt] In the case of Coach Kinne and GJ,
it was a really difficult situation.
The way I looked at it to basically come in and say,
you know, "We're gonna get this done,
but my freshman son is going to be
directing the offense on the field."
That, I would imagine, would raise quite a few eyebrows,
and probably some disgruntled murmurs.
I mean, everybody loves to be a second guesser.
Everybody loves to be a Monday morning quarterback.
But it can lead to some
very ugly moments in time.
The rumor was that the reason Coach Kinne had been shot
had to do with playing time
and that there was another player
who had gotten brought in.
It was his first year in Canton
and he was getting more playing time.
That's always going to stir some controversy.
It matters to the kids so much
and to their parents, because to be honest,
for probably 90% or more of them
these are their playing days.
They will not see a down of college football.
They certainly will not see even a try out
on the professional level.
This is their playing days
and it means a lot to them.
Especially in Canton.
Being that the shooter essentially
had stopped, went in, carried out the crime,
and then immediately fled, that's a personal crime.
We knew that right out the gate.
This was someone mad at the coach.
This is a personal axe to grind with Coach Kinne.
This was one of the longest days ever.
Just being stuck there in that chair,
stuck there in that class.
We were upset, 'cause we heard Coach Kinne was dead.
We didn't understand why.
I think everybody was still in a, like a,
state of shock, like, "No, that couldn't happen."
You know, Coach Kinne
is almost movie-like.
But, you're like, "Oh, man, that couldn't happen in real life."
And, you know, it kinda did.
[siren wailing]
[Oakley] When Gary was shot,
the emergency response was very fast.
Think I've heard it was four minutes.
When the paramedics got there,
I mean, before I could realize it, they're rolling him away.
And that was it.
That was the last I saw Gary.
Due to the shock effect of the bullet,
it bore a hole the size of your fist all the way through the liver.
So, it's a very significant injury.
Uh, it's usually one that is fatal.
[Oakley] But then a miracle happened...
at the hospital.
I called our superintendent
and it was, "We've gotten word he died."
"No, he... he didn't."
Whatever people told you,
that was wrong.
He's alive and he's stable.
But he is not out of the woods at all.
And now we've just got to move on to next steps.
Prematurely, GJ had been told
that, uh, Coach Kinne, his father had passed away.
I can't fathom
how difficult and terrifying that must've been.
So, now it comes down to the questions of,
"Do we know who the suspect is?"
It appeared that underlying issue
was absolutely Texas football.
Texas football, it has a lot of real weird things to it.
Many school districts,
the head coach as Kinne was,
essentially makes the same money the superintendent does.
So, he had a lot of power.
And he had a lot of coaches
that didn't care for him either.
It seems like the vast majority,
even players that started,
even starting athletes,
we spoke to some of them and their parents
and they even shared a lot of the same
disgust and dislike of Kinne.
That's one thing about East Texas,
if you start messing with someone's children,
well, you need to expect you're gonna have a problem.
[Crapanzano] It's not like Coach Kinne was getting into parents all the time.
Didn't happen all the time.
But that was his football team.
You know, we were his players.
If you were gonna be on that team,
you were gonna do things his way.
[McLemee] Kinne has a son
that was the quarterback of the team
and his son was a very good quarterback.
But it appeared to some that everything Kinne did
was simply to promote only his own son.
Through the course of the investigation,
we did identify some other events that occurred
where there was some issues between Coach Kinne
and one of those players
that wasn't getting the playtime.
At that point, you start hearing these things, you know, like,
"Hey, well, it was this person, it was that person.
You know, hey, it was Baron."
Baron played JV at football,
but he wasn't a football player.
I mean, just being a JV, Baron just wasn't an athlete.
I mean... he just... just wasn't.
[Varner] What I've heard was that Coach Kinne
would move players from out of town,
and it was affecting Baron's playing time
and he was upset. That is the rumor.
[Crapanzano] Baron wasn't a star athlete.
He was a JV. Baron didn't want to be a star athlete.
Baron, he was kind of punk.
We all were. But, like, he was a little extra.
Baron liked to fight.
Guys will be guys. Especially the older you get,
guys cracking jokes on each other,
guys, you know, crack the mama jokes and stuff.
And maybe a joke or two
might have been taken a little bit too far.
It might have been perceived a different way.
[Crapanzano] When you're dealing with high school boys,
you know, macho football players,
there's a lot of giving and taking out there.
Making fun of each other, you know, out of love
and it seemed that Baron was, you know,
better at giving than he was taking it.
[Oakley] You know there was one story
I'd heard that
these older boys had put
Baron's shoulder pads in a bunch of fire ants.
And then he put 'em on
and got all the fire ants on him.
I heard about it,
considerably after the fact.
[Crapanzano] Baron was not getting bullied.
Baron was a very tough guy, you know.
He stood up for himself.
Plus from my recollection, Baron seemed to be
little bit hard to coach, just,
he kinda wanted to do things his way
instead of the way the coach wanted us to do things.
And then he wasn't shy with his tongue.
Coach Kinne had a... had a very high standard for his players.
And he kicked Baron off the team.
[Milton] That happened last July,
year before Coach Kinne got shot.
You won't think that all that bad blood
would still be going on and explode like that.
Was Baron in school that day?
I heard stories he wasn't.
I really thought in my mind, I had seen him that morning.
But after the fact,
I really don't know,
if he was there or not.
[McLemee] I believe that some of the Canton officers attempted to speak to him,
but you have to also understand that
this thing is fluid, it's moving,
and it is moving very, very fast.
The Canton PD guys
were talking to different people
to figure out who would be shooting who on a school campus.
I did not realize at the time
there was a couple of student athletes
that were down around the field house
when the shot occurred.
One of them had been right there at the time.
We learned that this young man,
he knew who the shooter was.
A recap of our top story now, an East Texas high school
football coach is in critical condition.
The coach had a greater likelihood
of passing than surviving.
It was a brutal gunshot.
It was a large caliber handgun
and it was to center mass, a little low.
So, we did not know if he was still alive.
All we knew is he was in the operating room.
The threat wasn't still on campus.
But the school was still totally locked down.
Just for safety.
But now we have the suspect identified
because of the eyewitness.
This young man, this student athlete knew him by name.
And seen him getting into his truck.
And he give us a fair description of him.
That he was a white male.
He was approximately 6' tall.
He had a unique tattoo on his shoulder.
of Yosemite Sam, said, "Born to raise hell."
And then, we instantly get a name right thereafter.
When I heard Jeff Robertson,
you know, I wasn't shocked.
I didn't know Jeff personally.
You know, he's few years older than me.
But I'd known Jeff's name since I was...
since I was a little kid.
Jeff played football at Canton High School.
I knew he had a reputation as having...
anger issues and this and that.
There was a time in the '70s,
and, uh, it was rural legend
that there were a group of guys in that day that,
they just liked to fight.
They had bicycle chains and knives and they fought.
Jeff's name was one of those names
that got tossed around in that.
[McLemee] It was made known to me that
Robertson is a well-known man there in Canton.
He grew up there. Owns a local business.
He was well-liked by a lot of people.
And he knew Coach Kinne.
Canton High School football was important to him.
And it was obvious Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
was mad at the coach
because of the coach's perceived behavior.
And his perception of how it is, how it should be
versus the athletic director's, the victim's.
[Oakley] That fall I saw Jeff at games
and he got intense and he...
he would get down by the rail
and he would yell, and so you keep an eye on that
as an assistant principal,
but he would dial back and sit down.
[Britt] You see it in amateur athletics all the time.
Unfortunately sometimes,
you know, parents don't agree with a call
by one of the officials.
And sometimes parents in those situations,
do become belligerent and will make a scene
and that's kinda scary,
to everyone concerned.
Jeff Robertson was Baron's dad.
It's my understanding that
Jeff felt his son was being mistreated
by Coach Kinne.
I also learned from
stories and interviews
with people in the community that, you know,
he tended to, uh, get angry and, um,
there were some incidents where that was evident.
The barbecue, we were all getting together,
all the parents and the community
to just celebrate the football team, you know,
um, just kinda socialize.
And then I heard some hollerin'...
[indistinct shouting]
...and some, some shouting going on.
And then, you know, I saw Coach Kinne and Jeff
just having some words, you know, it was pretty aggressive.
I just remember Mr. Robertson walking up,
uh, yelling, screaming, cursing, whatever, you know.
Some of the coaches had to hold him back.
He was trying to get to Coach Kinne.
[Crapanzano] And then Coach tell him that, you know,
he can't come to these events no more.
He was the athletic director, and that was his right.
[indistinct shouting]
[Milton] I just remember that they made him leave.
So, when, you know, that happened
I didn't think anything, uh,
like anything else would happen
that would come after that.
[McLemee] It was common knowledge
that there had been a problem at a barbecue
between Robertson and Kinne.
It was common knowledge that Robertson did get mouthy,
but at the same time
Kinne bowed up and played that dictator.
"You're gone! You're out of here! Your son's off the team!"
You know, you don't ever
step back on a school property.
You're telling a man who has spent his entire life
fighting for that school either as an athlete himself
or as a supporter and paying taxes,
that he can't step foot on that campus?
That's not gonna go well.
[reporter 1] Shortly before nine o'clock this morning,
Canton police say 45-year-old Jeff Doyal Robertson
drove on to the campus and entered the field house
near the football field.
Police say a single witness saw
Robertson shoot football coach Gary Kinne.
Baron getting kicked off the team was the last straw for Jeff.
[reporter 2] Detectives say he had been banned from the high school
after allegedly assaulting another coach last August
at a football picnic.
[McLemee] So now we pretty much
had got a pretty good picture forming for us.
We had a suspect identified
including the vehicle he was driving.
That's when the manhunt for Robertson busted loose.
[indistinct radio conversation]
The capture teams on this event
actually broke into multiple smaller units
because Jeffrey Doyal Robertson,
he's a Van Zandt County boy. He's from Canton area.
There's not a county road over there he doesn't know.
So he could've went any direction
because he knew every direction.
This is a typical everyday school day
and this man just totally sent it into chaos.
So, if he's gonna do that,
what else is he gonna do?
Does he have other people he wants to take out with him
before we get to him?
[Britt] It didn't take long before
word was going around that it was
uh, one of the player's parents
who was the suspect in the shooting.
People everywhere
were waiting and watching and wondering
what's gonna happen next.
[Crapanzano] Once they were hunting Jeff, we turned on the news
and then we were just watching it
and that was scary.
I can remember just, you know, aerial view
of, you know, the helicopter,
you know, as it was moving and stuff like that.
And I just kinda closed my eyes and prayed.
I just prayed for the safety of everybody.
[McLemee] Just a few minutes later
we get a report of a vehicle matching the description
east of Canton.
And once we got confirmation
that we had the vehicle in sight, someone did,
the entire world showed up.
[reporter] Dozens of law enforcement agencies
converged on County Road 422
just a mile south of I-20.
[McLemee] So we got him in the wood line,
and we seen him from a distance in some leaves.
We knew he was armed.
He raises that hand gun, you're going to get killed
in the state of Texas by a police officer.
It's just that simple.
[reporter] Police say Robertson shot Canton High football coach
and athletic director Gary Kinne in the chest once
with a large caliber handgun.
He was totally surrounded.
There was probably 20 officers
on him at that point.
There was nowhere for him to go.
[indistinct radio conversation]
He wasn't really moving.
So we thought, "Well, maybe he took his own life."
But then he begins moving.
He was laying in the woods semi-conscious.
He had injury to his wrists
where, apparently is self-inflicted,
uh, a cut on his wrist.
We put him in custody right there.
[Milton] I still didn't know what happened
as far as Coach Kinne,
not until I got home and saw the news.
We have an update tonight on the East Texas
high school football coach that was shot.
He's in critical condition.
The alleged gunman, Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
is charged with aggravated assault
with a deadly weapon.
I remembered my parents telling me that Coach Kinne
ended up living.
So, finding out that he'd actually survived it
was incredible.
[reporter] A blood drive was held today in the coach's honor.
And the line of donors included citizens, parents
and quite a few members
of the Canton High School football team.
[McLemee] The entire town, even a lot of the county
that didn't know Coach Kinne, rallied around him,
and was there.
They put their hard feelings aside because of what occurred.
But I will say the Robertsons did have
a lot of their own family and friends rally around them.
[Crapanzano] Jeff's from here. Just being here that long,
you know, Coach Kinne was new, was an outsider.
To the people outside of that locker room,
or outside of the football part of Canton,
they were close with Jeff and were there for him.
[McLemee] In the beginning you initially think, "Well,
who's gonna rally around a man that shot a coach?"
But then later on you realize that
there are still a lot of other people
that's been affected by Coach Kinne.
My heart goes out sincerely to Kinne family.
But, you know, like, to stop and think about his son,
like, the Robertsons' son,
it's just, you know, it's probably so hard on him,
you know, and like, I feel for him, too,
just as much as like... as the Kinne family.
[Oakley] Baron didn't come back to school for a little while.
I don't remember exactly how long.
But ultimately, they decided he's gone to school in Canton
all his life, he needs to be back with his friends
and he came back to school.
I was fine with that.
We don't treat kids a certain way
because of what their parents did.
It was not Baron, it wasn't his actions.
There's no reason to be mad.
The East Texas football coach shot earlier this month
is back home tonight.
Gary Joe Kinne was released
from a Tyler hospital last night.
I think a lot of people, myself included,
were quite surprised
to learn that not only did he recover
and get out of the hospital
but he was back to work
as head coach of the Canton Eagles that fall.
This is what I've always done.
I mean, I've always been an athlete
and, uh, I have always wanted to coach,
and, uh, I knew that,
uh, I wanted to come back and, um...
There was... there was just really no doubt I was,
it was just when I was gonna come back,
and, uh, just... just wanted to be out here.
That season when we came out of the locker room,
we were fired up.
I feel like we had something to prove.
I just remember...
coming out and just that feeling of knowing
"we weren't gonna lose," just took over.
And then the team carrying on and winning like never before.
First district title since 1980.
First playoff win since 1964.
It was suddenly the kind of feel-good story
that I think we all like to read about or hear about,
"bouncing back from tragedy."
[crowd cheering]
-[woman] Mr. Robertson, is that correct? -Yes, ma'am.
[reporter] Robertson made his initial courtroom appearance today.
He's charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
A conviction could mean up to 20 years in prison.
[woman] You have the right to retain counsel.
When we took Jeffrey Doyal Robertson into custody,
he really wasn't saying much.
And then, he lawyered up pretty quick.
Come to find out, Kinne was his only motive and target.
So we go to trial on it.
The jury came back with guilty for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
So that means that Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
cannot go to prison for more than 20 years.
[Oakley] I was really shocked
at things I learned about the legal system.
I mean, the man almost died.
I mean, he pointblank shot him,
but aggravated assault is
about the best charge they can bring.
It's like, "Well, why not attempted murder?"
And they're like, "It's so hard to prove. You can't prove that
he intended to kill him.
All you can say is he shot him."
[McLemee] Kinne was mad as hell at the jury.
He wanted Jeffrey Doyal Robertson to serve life in prison.
He didn't get it. He threw a temper tantrum.
It's my opinion that had Jeffrey Doyal Robertson
walked in that field house unarmed
and just whoop the fire out of Kinne or took a whoopin' from him,
he would've got a little misdemeanor assault
and everybody would have got a kick out of it.
[Britt] I think it speaks to a dark side
of high-school athletics today
and a lot of lives have been adversely affected.
Coach Kinne left the following year for an opportunity
as an assistant coach at Baylor.
GJ decided to transfer.
Canton football, I don't think they've quite reached,
you know, that pinnacle of that 2005 season,
the last season under Coach Kinne.
[Crapanzano] Coach didn't wanna be here anymore.
You know, then GJ didn't wanna be here. You can't blame 'em.
There's people in the community that might be understanding,
but just on a selfish level
for sports reasons, they're upset.
When you get down to Gary and Jeff,
two incredibly passionate, intense guys.
So, if I'm really honest
without the passion and the intensity
that comes with high school football, especially in Texas,
I can't imagine that it would've happened.
I would think you could very safely say
in the biggest picture
it happened because of the intensity
that comes from high school football.
I didn't think it could have been
anybody that I knew that would have stabbed me.
This is, like, a crazy story.
We started interviewing the entire 80-person football team.
This case went in a direction that no one was expecting.
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