911 call leads police
To a father shot dead inside his business.
- There was a possibility that it was a professional hit.
No murder weapon was present, no signs of struggle.
- There was an absence of a lot in that crime scene.
- [narrator] investigators uncover a struggling business
As suspects take shape.
- We had an ex disgruntled employee,
Upset investors, and there was an ex-girlfriend.
- [narrator] as detectives narrow in,
A complicated family dynamic emerges.
- The relationship was not as loving as it seemed.
- I wanted to be like the two had gotten in a fight
And then I found out it was much more diabolical.
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- At 3:18 pm on may 30th, 2011,
A call was received by 911 dispatch.
- [narrator] 33-year-old averill easley reports
That her fiance, 24-year-old chris northam jr.,
Called her as he was driving away from his family business.
As she speaks to 911, averill meets chris pulled over
On the road near their home.
- Within minutes, roseville police department responded
To the skim x warehouse.
What they first saw was the doors
To the business appeared open.
- Nobody really knew what was going on,
So we called out extra resources to clear the building.
- [narrator] soon after, the roseville swat team
Arrives on scene.
- We make tactical entry into the building.
Lying just a very short distance away was a victim.
- There was a male on the floor,
Approximately 30 to 40 feet from the door.
- It was clear that this was a decedent.
- [narrator] the swat team continues to clear the building,
Finding no other victims or a shooter.
Detectives and the forensics team begin their work.
- The victim was essentially in the middle
Of this open area in this warehouse.
There was a pool of blood around the head.
- He had one gunshot wound to the lower part of his face.
- There's a second shot into his shoulder,
The damage is significant.
- There was no other items and no weapon around the victim.
- This was not a suicide, this was a murder.
- [narrator] while searching the victim,
Police discover a wallet
And a cell phone in his back pocket.
- We were able to identify him on scene.
He was chris northam sr.
Inside the building, there was nothing going on.
It was just basically an empty building
Other than construction and some tools and supplies.
- No murder weapon was present.
No shell casings, no footprints, no signs of struggle.
- Detectives looked for evidence
Of a forced entry into this warehouse like pry marks
Or a broken window,
Any indication that the killer got in by force
And there was none.
That would tend to indicate that somebody
Who had access to that warehouse was the killer.
There were no eyewitnesses that reported anything important.
No gunshots, no arguments, nothing.
- We did search for cameras
And we weren't successful in that venture.
There was an absence of a lot
In that crime scene, that was unusual.
- It's not beyond the realm of possibility
That it was a professional hit.
- A patrol met with chris jr. And averill,
And he was told that his father was dead.
- Chris jr. Was very tearful, crying,
Grieving the loss of his father.
- We were barbecuing and I got a phone call
And it was my cousin.
He goes, "there's been a shooting death at skim x."
"what do you mean?"
He goes, "it's your brother,"
And I'm like (beep), "my brother's been killed."
Like I was just (beep) sobbing, right?
- [narrator] 44-year-old chris northam sr.
Was a local businessman with a tenacious personality.
- Chris was a serious guy.
Like I was the jokester
And that's the one thing I could always do is get my brother
To like laugh like this super hearty, genuine laugh.
Nobody else could get him
To laugh the way I could get him to laugh.
- He was super engaging, sometimes over the top kind
Of personality, all energy all the time.
- Chris was incredibly focused and driven.
When he came across something that resonated with him,
He would just sort of dive in.
- [narrator] shortly after high school, chris sr. Marries
And has two sons by the age of 22.
- Both the boys idolised their dad,
Chris jr. And his brother codi
And their dad appeared to have a great relationship.
- He got them motorcycles, he got them into motocross.
He was a very involved dad.
- [narrator] after a troubled marriage,
Chris sr. And his wife divorce when the boys are 12 and 14,
Leaving chris sr. Open to follow his entrepreneurial dream.
- My brother didn't go to school to get a degree.
He was doing construction.
When chris jr. Was born, we grew up pretty poor,
And so I think he was pretty motivated
To kinda create a better life for himself.
He would come up with these sort of get rich quick schemes,
Selling vitamins, and then he got
Into the motocross industry.
- His interest was always about these adrenaline sports.
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- [narrator] in September, 2008,
While watching his sons compete
In a local skimboarding competition,
Chris northam sr. Is inspired
And creates the concept behind his business skim x.
- It was going to be an indoor water park
Where there would be skateboard like ramps.
Water would be forced along the ramps
And the people would be doing skimboarding
In a skateboard park, essentially.
- [narrator] chris sr. And his then 20-year-old son,
Chris jr., set out to turn their backyard idea
Into an international sensation.
- Oh my god, that's so sick.
- They wanted to establish themselves
As these successful entrepreneurs in this new sport.
- Chris jr., he didn't really have any in-depth schooling,
But he sort of learned from his father.
- Chris sr., he was able to sell a lot of people
On the idea of this business.
It was a new idea, but he got money from family
And friends and acquaintances.
- They had been working on it, I think three,
Four years maybe, and they put some time into it.
They really did.
They talked about skim x and he would kind of come alive
About his plans.
And so, when chris was killed,
It was such a devastating event
That kind of came from outta nowhere, you know?
It's just super, super, it was just brutal.
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- [narrator] while police continue working the crime scene,
Chris jr. And averill are brought
Into the roseville police station for questioning.
- The initial 911 call
And how that all unfolded was very perplexing.
And so, we first talked to averill.
- Averill reported that on that day,
Chris was stuck at work with his dad.
- Averill told us how dedicated chris jr. Was
To the business and how loyal he was to his father.
- [narrator] averill explains that chris jr. Called her
In a panic at 3:15 that afternoon.
- Chris jr. Had told her that he had heard gunshots
And that there was possibly a break in.
- [narrator] after getting averill's statement,
Police interview chris jr.,
Hoping he has crucial information about his father's murder.
- Chris jr. Told detectives that on the morning of that day,
He and his dad were together taking a conference call
With an investor from south africa.
The south african investor invested quite a bit of money
In the skim x business, they said that they were concerned
About how it was being spent.
- Chris sr., he had entrusted chris jr. With this position
Of basically being like the business manager.
- [narrator] according to chris jr.,
Sometime after 2:00 pm,
His father drove to the warehouse located
On the opposite side of the industrial park.
- Around 3:00 pm, chris jr. Left at the office.
That's when chris sr. Called
And said there had been a break-in at the warehouse.
- Chris said he pulled around
And parked at the north entrance to the building
While his dad was at the front entrance
On the east side of the building.
- He was too scared to stay near the building,
And so he drove away in a panic
And his first thing that he decided to do
Was to call averill.
- Most people, the natural inclination
Is to you yourself call 911,
But in that circumstance,
Averill was almost operating like a buffer or a go-between,
And that was extremely unusual.
- Chris jr. Possibly was a suspect.
- [narrator] investigators are suspicious
Of chris jr.'s story, but he tells police
That it wasn't just investors.
Employees were also frustrated
With his father's business practises.
- We could tell there's this money
That was just getting syphoned out of these accounts.
- He suspected that chris sr. Made him scamming him.
- Chris sr. Felt like he could be threatened at any time.
- It was possible that this simmering feud
Had reached a boiling point.
- [narrator] the night of chris northam sr.'s murder,
Investigators interview his son, chris jr.,
Who has a possible lead on a suspect.
- Chris j.R reported that there was problems
At the business, that his dad received death threats
From someone that used to work at the business.
- Chris sr. Had hired ron conn to help build
This skim x business
And actually construct the ramps and make it safe and doable
And the two butted heads over the course of several months
About each other's competence and qualifications.
- Chris jr. Says
That ron had left the business two months prior
To the murder and left work with chris sr. Very upset.
- On his last day of work in March, ron conn threatened
To kill chris sr. In front of other employees.
- Chris jr. Indicated that ron conn
Was a very likely suspect for this murder.
- We had several working theories of potential suspects.
We had an ex disgruntled employee, possibly upset investors,
And we still have to eliminate chris jr.
Potentially being involved.
- There was a lack of strong physical evidence at the scene,
So the cell phone data for both chris jr.
And chris sr. Was immediately important to the detectives.
- [narrator] investigators submit paperwork
To obtain the cell phone records.
They also request a list of phone numbers
That pinged the cell tower near skim x
At the time of the murder.
- Getting those cell phone records, super critical
Just to basically kind of identify who was in the area
And then just kind of start checking the boxes
When it came down to alibis.
- [narrator] as news of chris sr.'s death spreads,
Loved ones begin gathering at roseville police station.
From them, police learn a vital piece of information.
- They found out that chris northam sr.
Often kept an ar-15 rifle behind his desk
At the skim x business. (suspenseful music)
- He felt like he could be threatened at any time
And it was perennially in his possession.
- [narrator] on the evening of chis sr.'s murder,
Detectives obtained search warrants for the skim x office
And his residence.
- We went through the office
But there was no firearm that was found at the business.
- However, in the course of executing a search warrant
At chris sr.'s house, detectives locate an empty gun case
In his master bedroom area.
That was for a ar-15 styled rifle.
The gun was conspicuously absent during the search.
- [narrator] the next morning,
The medical examiner performs the autopsy
On chris northam sr.
- The medical examiner confirms that chris sr.
Was shot twice and that he was shot at a distance
And not at close range.
He may not even have known what hit him.
- The pathologist found numerous small shrapnel.
- They were able to confirm
That those worked from a .223 round
Or the round that you would expect to come out
Of like an ar-15 style firearm.
- The detectives made the connection
That this very well could have come
From chris sr.'s missing ar-15 styled rifle.
- That told us we're looking for somebody who has knowledge
That chris sr. Has a rifle.
- [narrator] with the initial searches and autopsy complete,
Investigators look into ron conn,
The former skim x employee
Who chris jr. Claims threatened his father.
- This isn't just chris jr. Saying it.
Other employees were aware of this threat.
We learned ron had major issues with chris sr.
Ron conn, he was the one that was responsible
For building this park two months before the homicide.
Chris sr. Was very upset with ron
For basically walking away from the project
And they had words that were exchanged.
- Chris sr. Was threatening to go after ron,
After his contractor's licence.
- Ron conn then threatened him in return.
(suspenseful music) it was akin to a death threat,
So obviously we took that very seriously.
He had definitely earned a spot on the suspect list.
- [narrator] detectives bring in ron conn for questioning
To find out if his feud with chris sr.
Could have resulted in murder.
- When questioned, ron conn admitted
That he and chris sr. Had a very strained relationship
And when he quit two months earlier,
It had gotten pretty heated
And that at that moment he threatened to kill chris sr.
Ron claimed that he had nothing to do
With chris sr.'s murder.
- Ron claims that he was at a family event
At the time of the murder.
They spoke to family members who reported that he was
With them at the time when chris sr. Was killed.
- He had a a strong alibi
And we were able to eliminate him as a potential suspect.
(suspenseful music) - I did feel extremely nervous
That I was considered a suspect in this,
But I completely understood why I was being questioned.
I did have a tumultuous relationship with chris sr.
- [narrator] ron, wanting to be helpful,
Provides valuable information to the investigators.
- I had mentioned to him that the business
Was not going as planned and the relationship
Between chris sr. And chris jr.
Was not as loving as it seemed.
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- [narrator] investigators continue speaking with ron conn,
A former employee of skim x who threatened
To kill chris northam sr.
A few months before his murder.
Ron conn is cleared as a suspect,
But he has new insights for detectives.
- When I spoke to the investigators,
I told them I got involved with skim x mid to end of 2010.
There were a bunch of us that were brought in
Around the same time to get this business underway.
None of us were making a lot of money on this project.
We all bought into it that this could be pretty cool,
But it was not as exciting
To everyone else as it was to chris sr. And chris jr.
They both had these big dreams
Of becoming multi-millionaires off of this idea.
- [narrator] ron tells investigators the project
Seemed interesting at first, but he and chris sr.
Were soon at odds.
- When I got involved with skim x,
The plan was to open July 4th, 2011.
We spent the first six months that I was there
Sitting in the office coming up with plans.
Chris sr. Wouldn't listen to anyone else
Who told him how things needed to be done.
It was blatantly obvious
That he had no idea what he was doing.
- Ron didn't have any faith
In the fact that this was ever gonna be a viable.
- Christopher sr. Was a salesman
And he was able to raise money,
But he basically had run through a lot,
If not most of the investment money.
Then nothing had been purchased as far as materials
To build out the ramps.
- Chris sr. Was very capable
Of exciting people about his ideas,
But was constantly changing deadlines,
Moving the goalpost somewhere else in the future.
- It became a very toxic place to be.
He would try to tell us that he was going
To pay us whatever he thought we were worth that day.
We explained to him that that's illegal.
- I was aware that there were some unhappy employees.
My brother had a temper and could be a hothead
And he was kind of explosive.
- He bullied people through words and through threats,
But he treated chris jr. The worst.
- We learned he
Would sometimes tear chris jr. Down in public
In front of people if he thought chris jr.
Wasn't performing well or had made a mistake.
- Most of it was verbal abuse, a lot of degrading him.
He would make chris jr. Write letters in front of everyone
Like you were back in school and you did something wrong,
Letters begging to stay at the company
And please don't fire me and I will do better.
- My brother always had some anger on him.
And so, I think that he was incredibly hard on jr.
And it's tough to have gone through that.
- Chris jr. Would never stand up to him.
He always just took it and then internalised it.
You could tell by his body language
That it was affecting him,
But he would not stand up for himself.
- Chris jr. Struck me as a young man
That wanted to please his dad at all costs.
Whatever his dad said to do, he did.
- It was a one-sided view
Where chris sr. Would just belittle his son relentlessly.
- [narrator] under this new light,
Chris jr. Becomes even more suspicious to investigators,
But they decide to eliminate other potential leads
Before setting their sights on the victim's son.
- Chris jr. Reported in the interview
That there were some investors
That were concerned about the business.
Specifically, there was a investor in south africa
Who had provided a significant amount of money to chris sr.
For the skim x business.
- It was between 500 and $600,000.
- Chris jr. Told us chris sr. Was being pressed
By his investors to show the books
And somebody who has invested all this money in the business
And maybe you're never gonna get their money back,
That might be a motive to confront
And ultimately kill somebody.
- [narrator] police contact the investor in south africa
To question him about skim x and chris northam sr.
- The investor expressed some unhappiness
With the pace of the construction at the business.
They told detectives there was a call
That morning of the murder about that topic.
- We were told that the conversation was heated
And went along the lines of, where's my money?
Show me where my money went.
- He suspected that chris sr. May have been scamming him,
So he was putting immense pressure on chris
To prove it wasn't one big con job.
- As they dug deep into whether this investor
Could have anything to do with the murder,
They quickly learned that there was no possibility
That the south african investor could have done it.
- The fbi confirmed that they were not in the united states
At that time.
- If chris sr. Couldn't do a proper accounting
Of his business, the police were gonna dig in
And see if they could.
They were trying to find out was it just bad management
Or something more nefarious?
- [narrator] detectives interview skim x employees
About the business financials.
- The office staff at skim x said
That chris sr. Had told them
That there was roughly half million dollars
In skim x accounts at around the time of the murder.
- Just prior to the murder, a bookkeeper
Was concerned that there were discrepancies
Between the quickbooks accounting and the bank accounts.
- She had told chris sr.
That in fact there may be much less money in this business.
- Skim x and multiple accounts.
And so, there were some business practises
That weren't very sound
In terms of keeping accurate financial records.
- There was a quickbooks account
That showed there might have been half a million dollars,
But bank statements were needed to confirm the actual amount
Of money in those bank accounts.
- In reviewing the bank records, it was evident
That chris sr. Had obtained a lot of money from investors,
But we discovered that there was only roughly $44,000 left.
- That's a major discrepancy from half a million dollars.
- We could tell there's this money
That was just getting syphoned out of these accounts
On a continuous basis.
- At that time, we were not able to establish
Where all the money went.
- This was potentially major corporate fraud,
A serious crime with potential jail time.
The fbi was important to the case
To do a forensic accounting
And to determine who was embezzling the money.
- There was a very finite list of people
That had access to those accounts.
You had chris sr. And then you had chris jr.
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- [narrator] as the fbi attempts to uncover
Who was embezzling money from skim x, roseville police
Continue investigating the murder of chris northam sr.
- We were exploring the potential
That chris jr. Killed his own father.
We knew that his relationship
With his father was extremely strained.
- Also, chris jr. Might be stealing money from the business
And if chris sr. Thought that his son was taking this money
And using it for his personal gain, he would be upset
And remove chris jr. From this business.
That could create a motive.
- It's one thing to have that as a theory,
But now can you prove it?
- The police did execute a search warrant on the home
Of averill and chris jr.
- Detectives were looking for financial records
That related to the business,
Items such as the gun, ammunition,
Anything related to chris sr.'s death.
- It was a new suburb type of cookie cutter house.
They didn't seem to own anything extravagant,
Nothing of evidentiary value was discovered.
- It seemed like the case stalled.
They were still working on stuff,
Waiting on cell phone records,
Doing analysis on financial records.
That stuff takes time,
But it just seemed like there was a lull.
- [narrator] while looking into chris sr.'s personal finances,
Investigators learned he had a life insurance policy
And will with peculiar circumstances.
- About a year before the killing,
Chris sr. Had taken out a life insurance policy on himself.
It was a $3 million policy
And it left $1 million to the business,
$1 million to chris jr.
And $1 million to chris jr.'s brother, codi.
There was also a hand-drawn will
Which left skim x, the business and assets
To a female friend of chris sr.
That's important because if the female friend
Was aware of this will,
That could create the motive for murder.
We also learned that she was married
And that she did have a personal relationship
Of some sort with chris sr.
- [narrator] while police begin digging
Into chris sr.'s girlfriend,
They received the cell phone records
From the tower near skim x.
- When they compared her phone number to the numbers
That pinged from the cell phone tower near skim x,
They got a hit.
- She was near the warehouse at the time of the murder.
- A piece of hard data
That places her near the scene at the time
Of the crime was a big deal.
That was a big potential lead.
- There's an old saying, follow the money
Or follow the sex, one or the other.
This case, it could beat the little bit of both.
- [narrator] investigators bring in chris sr.'s girlfriend
For questioning and she admits they
Were engaged in an affair.
- She claims that the relationship
Started six months earlier
And that chris sr. Was far more serious than she was.
- She was questioned about the situation
With a handwritten will basically
In which chris sr. Left her the business.
- She told us she'd injected cash into the business
By refinancing her house and it was a promise for repayment.
- She had said it was just done literally on a whim.
- [narrator] when asked why she was near skim x
At the time of chris sr.'s murder,
She claims she was only driving by.
- We had to chase that down to eliminate her
As a potential suspect. - As investigators looked
At the girlfriend's cell phone location information,
They saw that there was a path of travel
That began well before the murder and it kept travelling
At almost the same speed after the murder.
Detectives were able to conclude
That she was travelling past the area.
She couldn't have committed the murder.
- It's actually encouraging to eliminate suspects
With confidence and redirect your attention back
To other working theories.
- [narrator] investigators hone in on chris jr.
The cell tower records verify
That he was near the crime scene at the time of the murder.
- That really didn't explain whether
Or not he was the killer as opposed to what he contended
That he was outside the warehouse
When his father was killed by someone else.
- [narrator] however, when police look
At chris jr.'s call history and compare it to the timeline,
They discover a glaring discrepancy.
- Chris jr. Told investigators in his initial interview
That he spoke to his father
On the phone just before there were gunshots.
And then he immediately called his fiance averill,
Who then called 911 at 3:18 pm.
However, according to the cell phone data,
Chris jr. Was on the phone with his father at 2:40
And did not call averill until 3:15.
- The cell phone evidence would seem to indicate
That there was this unaccounted for time, about 30 minutes.
- Enough time to have easily cleaned up the scene
And gotten rid of the murder weapon.
- That's a very large red flag that you don't ignore.
- [narrator] after learning that chris jr.
May have waited 30 minutes to call for help,
Investigators return to the 911 call,
Listening for anything that seems out of place.
- During that 911 call,
The dispatch operator asked averill whether chris sr.
Had any weapons.
- And it definitely piqued our interest.
The middle of this 911 call that he was so distraught
And so upset, that it was really important
For him to interject
That his dad had actually gotten rid of the gun.
Super suspicious, added to the pile of red flags.
The pile just kept getting bigger
And bigger and bigger and bigger.
- [narrator] investigators, hoping
To catch chris jr. Off guard,
Question him over the phone to get answers.
- [narrator] when chris jr. Also denies embezzling money
From the business, law enforcement turns the conversation
To the timing of the 911 call.
- Chris tells investigators
That more time must have elapsed than he remembered
Between calling his dad and hearing the shots.
- They asked chris why he said on the 911 call
That his dad had gotten rid of the gun.
- The questions that we were asking,
He didn't really necessarily have good answers for.
- [narrator] chris jr. Stands firm
That he was not involved in his father's murder
But has done nothing to alleviate investigators' suspicions.
- Chris jr. Can't explain away the inconsistencies,
But again, that's not conclusive evidence.
It's not a slam dunk.
- We will believe that chris jr. Was the killer
And as the months passed, we got closer
To having the evidence to file charges.
- [narrator] as the fbi continues to analyse
The skim x financials, the roseville police department
Receives a surprise visitor, averill easley.
- Averill easley came back to law enforcement.
She told police that she was afraid of chris jr.
And they no longer had a relationship.
She said she had remembered more about the incident.
- She tells investigators
That chris jr. Did not tell her that he overheard shots.
- [narrator] in late December, 2011, seven months
After chris northam sr.'s murder,
Detectives speak with averill easley,
Who shockingly says that chris jr.
Is responsible for his father's death.
- All a sudden, averill, she recalled
That chris jr. Confessed that he had killed his father.
- Averill claimed that this memory
Was somehow suppressed in her mind,
That she just now remembered what exactly chris
Had said on may 30th.
- She explained that she just
Couldn't imagine chris jr. Shooting his dad,
But as time went on,
It became more clear to her that he was involved.
- Averill, she tells the police
That she enjoyed a certain standard of living.
Chris jr. Was the provider in that relationship
And the expense that they incurred were things
That she expected him to cover.
- We were sceptical that she just had recalled
What exactly was said by chris on the day of the murder.
If there was soon to be some prosecution,
She was possibly concerned
About what side she might fall on.
- What averill told us was questionable,
So we had both averill and chris jr. Under surveillance
While we waited for the financial analysis.
- [narrator] in January, 2012, the fbi provides the results
Of their forensic analysis of the skim x bank accounts.
- We were able to see that chris jr.
Was actually taking a lot of the funds
Right out of the corporate account.
- [narrator] from January, 2011 until chris sr.
Was killed in may,
Chris jr. Had taken $160,000 from the skim x accounts.
(suspenseful music)
- When you look at all of the evidence, it appeared
That there was a conflict that occurred in the afternoon
Of may 30th and that conflict involved chris sr. Suspecting
That chris jr. Was stealing money from the business.
We believe that chris jr. Obtained the firearm,
The ar-15 belonging to his father,
And went to the warehouse where he was lying in wait.
- He lured his father into the warehouse
Where he was shot at a distance two times.
- This was a circumstantial evidence case
That was built around a strong motive.
- But when you added up all the inconsistencies
In chris jr.'s story, the embezzlement,
The abusive relationship, there was enough evidence
To charge him with murder.
- [narrator] on February 12th, 2012, chris northam jr.
Is arrested for the murder of his father.
- Chris jr. Was arrested
In the course of a routine traffic stop
And put into custody.
- [narrator] at the same time chris jr. Is arrested,
Police take averill easley into custody outside her gym.
- Averill easley was charged for her part
As an accessory after the fact.
- What averill was held to account for
Was misstatements that she made to law enforcement.
- Averill pled guilty.
She received a two month jail sentence, which was suspended.
- [narrator] chris jr., on the other hand,
Continues claiming his innocence and pleads not guilty,
Creating a new feud within the extended northam family.
- I want this to be like some sort of an accident, and like,
So I want him to not be the guy that did this,
And then I found out it was much more diabolical
And over money.
- Shon was the only member of the northam family really
To actually be in favour of prosecution in the case.
Chris sr.'s parents, which is jr.'s grandparents,
Were absolutely adamant against prosecution.
- I think that for my mom and dad and codi,
Their brains couldn't really accept that he did it.
- There's a large rift between the family now
Because of the position that shon maintains to this day,
That chris jr. Killed his brother.
- Over months and months through litigation
And conferences with the family
And the lack of strong physical evidence, a decision is made
That the case should resolve as opposed to proceed to trial.
- [narrator] in 2015, four years after the murder,
Chris jr. Remains adamant of his innocence,
But agrees to plead guilty to lesser charges.
- Chris jr. Pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter
And admitted using a firearm
In the course of that manslaughter.
The court sentenced chris jr. To 13 years in state prison.
- I was disappointed that chris tried to use me
As a scapegoat, but I don't feel any anger
Or any animosity toward chris jr.
But to kill your father is something horrific.
How do you live a normal life
After doing something like that?
He has to be tormented by this.
- When I found out they struck the deal, I was angry.
I was so angry, I wanted him to get the death penalty.
I think for anyone who's ever gone through a homicide,
There's the wound that's always gonna be there.
The pain's not as prevalent as it once was,
But there's days where I get hit with it
And it feels like a mack truck
And like you just feel like you're just getting stabbed
And it's just brutal.
- Shon wanted to see justice for his brother,
But other than him, the family never wavered
In their support of chris jr.
And so if the family of the victim,
Who is also in this case the family of the defendant, says
That justice was served and they're satisfied,
Then I suppose the community needs to accept that.
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