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He was very friendly. Everybody loved him.
He did not have one enemy.
She sees two men pointing guns at her.
He was declared dead at the scene.
He did have a criminal record. Domestic violence related.
He laid hands on her, choked her, pointed a gun at her head.
We're trying to get away from this man, not antagonise him.
She was afraid that he was gonna take her out
as the only witness to this murder.
It was the worst day of my life.
She opened the door to
two of the worst people that she could have ever opened the door to.
South Bend is almost in the middle of the state of Indiana.
The South Bend originally founded its name
through the southernmost bend in the St Joseph River.
I think the heart and soul of South Bend
is based off of the University of Notre Dame
cos it is such a staple in the area
and it brings a lot of infrastructure to South Bend.
It's Christmas Eve 2015 in South Bend, Indiana.
It's a relatively quiet day.
Nothing really going on.
It was 43 degrees.
Hadn't had much snow. Decorations are up.
Everybody's getting ready.
Typically around the holidays,
there's not as much crime or activities
cos most people are with their loved ones.
Cleeve Chick and his girlfriend were
at Miami Hills third floor apartment
visiting with family for Christmas.
Christmas is very important to me and my family.
We celebrate it, we love it.
It's a time that we enjoy being around each other.
It's Meaghan and my son Dominic's apartment.
Me and Cleeve were staying there.
My daughter, Angelica, and her children were sitting on the couch.
We laugh and we giggle all the time.
We're really, really close family.
At 12:30pm, there's a knock at the door.
Meaghan Lloyd opens the door without checking the peephole first.
And upon opening the door, she sees two men in the stairwell
pointing guns at her.
Seconds later shots ring out.
I was at home
when I received a phone call saying I needed to come in.
We heard the dispatch of somebody shot in Miami Hills.
We were close by, so we responded to that.
We went up stairs
not really knowing where the threat was.
We're taking it pretty cautiously.
As we're going up the stairs,
you could smell a very distinct burnt gunpowder smell.
Once we get up to the third floor,
we see casings and bullet holes in the door.
The first officer makes contact, knocks on the door,
announces the police department.
When they said, "It's the police",
I had to literally move his body out from front of the door
cos they couldn't get in.
Clay Shaefer is the first one that opens the door
and tells us that his cousin, Cleeve Chick, was shot.
You could hear people screaming from the inside.
I'm down there holding the towels
on his head until the paramedic got there.
I didn't... I wasn't gonna let go.
I wasn't.
Cos he didn't deserve that.
I really thought when they came in,
I thought he was gonna make it. I really did.
They told us all to leave the apartment, go outside.
We were still in our pyjamas.
We were crying. We were... It was just horrible.
Cleeve Chick was very friendly, very funny, liked to dance,
had very good sense of humour, and everybody loved him.
Everybody loved him. He did not have one enemy.
Cleeve had one daughter that was six years old.
He tried to be a good dad all the time.
I didn't like him at first.
I said he's too outspoken, he's too goofy. Liked to jump around.
And I'm like, "No, just stay away from me."
And then he grew on me and we started dating.
We were talking about getting engaged
and we hadn't made our mind up.
We went back and forth and then finally he bought me a ring
and we were gonna get married.
He was just a good man all the way around.
The victim was slumped over, his back was still against the door.
He had one gunshot wound to the right shoulder
and one gunshot wound to the back of the head.
By the time paramedics arrived on scene,
Cleeve was declared dead at scene.
My dad actually called me and told me my boyfriend had passed away,
and I just broke down.
But I knew in my heart that he was gone before I left,
but I didn't want to hear it.
I wasn't ready.
We had four shell casings in the hallway.
The door itself was hit with four bullet holes.
Two were high, one was medium, and one was low.
The two bullets - I believe - that were fired low,
the medium and the low one, were the ones that actually struck Cleeve.
The two high ones travelled further into the apartment
and went down into the far closet.
We knew that there were two guns involved.
We can tell that the weapons used were semi-automatic pistols,
but no guns, no weapons were found in the apartment.
This was a very lacking of evidence kind of case.
While I was interviewing Christy, she was very upset.
Clearly she had been crying. It was a very emotional,
bad, bad day for her.
12:30 that day, there was a knock at the door.
We thought it was our next door neighbour,
which is a good family friend of all of ours,
which is Cleeve's best friend.
Me and Meaghan were going to the door
to see who was gonna answer it.
Meaghan is only 4'4", maybe.
She's real short. We had a peephole she couldn't see through it.
Angelica and her children were sitting on the couch,
and Cleeve was sitting behind the door.
Meaghan opened the door, and when she opened the door,
we seen two guns pointing at us.
We both at the same time said, "They have guns!"
And I tell all the girls, "Go! Go! Go!"
Angelica grabs her children in the car seats,
she lays down on the floor in the living room,
and Meaghan takes off down the hallway
to the back bedroom.
Her child, which was just a newborn, was in the back area.
Cleeve jumped up out of the chair
and he pushed his hand against the door
trying to close the door
while two people were pushing on the other side.
And he finally got it shut and he locked it with the deadbolt.
And then all of a sudden, all I hear is gunfire.
He slid down the door and I'm right there with him.
I didn't know if they were gonna kick the door in.
I was talking to him, telling him, "I'm here.
I'm not going nowhere. I'm staying here with you.
You'll make it. Don't leave me."
And he wasn't responding.
Cleeve's actions were definitely heroic,
and I think he saved the people inside the apartment
from also being shot.
A good man lost his life saving our lives.
It was the worst day of my life.
Worst.
Christy was able to see the two men at the door.
She positively identified one as being Tyshawn Williams.
She did see the face of the second man,
but she did not know who he was.
Christy Harper knew who Tyshawn Williams was
because he had been in a four-year-long relationship with her
daughter Angelica Jones, and he was the father of her two children.
Tyshawn did have a criminal record.
Most of it was domestic violence related.
Tyshawn is very violent and he's just unstable.
There's something wrong. He needs help.
So, next, Meaghan Lloyd was interviewed.
So, we prepared a photo lineup and showed them to her,
and she was able to positively identify Tyshawn Williams
as being one of the men at the door with a gun.
We didn't have a name or face for the second gunman at that point.
Meaghan was able to describe the second gun as being a male, black.
That was the extent of it.
I want justice for all victims.
It was a tragedy that happened to Cleeve,
happened to the other individuals that were there at the home.
They had to see and witness all these horrible things happening.
I wanted to do right by them and find the men who did this.
We didn't know where they were.
We were really scared.
We were so scared, we went to family members, friend's house.
Every few hours we would move around because we were scared.
We're hoping to figure out where we may find Tyshawn
and potentially who the second shooter would've been.
Angelica sits down for the interview.
She's holding one of her children at the time.
She's very upset.
It's not a good day for her as well.
Angelica's version of events mirrored
pretty much everyone else's.
She was present when the shooting took place.
She saw Tyshawn Williams at the doorway.
So, she knows what happened and who did it.
And she also sees the hand
and gun of the second person,
but she does not see a face.
She did not know who the second person was.
But Angelica Jones and Tyshawn Williams had been
in a four-year-long romantic relationship.
They had actually lived together at Tyshawn Williams's house
with his mother.
She's the mother of Tyshawn's two children,
a three-month-old and a one-year-old.
Angelica and Tyshawn's relationship was tumultuous,
filled with domestic-violence related incidents,
often gone unreported.
Angelica left Tyshawn because he had become violent with her.
He laid hands on her, choked her, pointed a gun at her head,
and made threats that "I will kill you if you ever leave me."
The very next day after that happened,
she takes the kids and goes off.
She went to the YWCA for protection
because he was threatening her, and she went there to live.
The night before the shooting,
Angelica had posted a picture on social media
of her snuggled up on a sofa with another man.
That man was Clay Shaefer, who is Meaghan Lloyd's brother.
Angelica and Clay had relations back in the past.
Angelica said that Tyshawn Williams had been calling
and texting her and sending her social media posts all night long,
threatening her, and wanting to see the children and see her.
They were trying to get him to stop calling the phone,
and they trying to tell him, "Look,
she's moved on, stop texting, leave her alone."
I believe Tyshawn had seen the picture on social media
and it infuriated him.
Clay was definitely in shock
when he came into the interview.
Clay was in a neighbouring apartment building,
smoking weed with another female friend
at the time that the shooting occurred.
When Clay heard shots fired in the apartment complex...
...and looked out the window, he'd seen two men
jumping into a green Bonneville
SS that he described as having a sagging rear bumper.
I think he described one of the men
as having a red sweatshirt in the backseat,
and identified a third person
because one of the two men got in the front passenger's seat
and the other one got in the rear seat.
And it sped away from the apartment complex.
Clay doesn't know who the third person is.
Then he described going up the stairs,
seeing bullet holes in the door.
Clay describes the scene inside as people crying, chaos,
not really understanding what's going on.
We learned from Clay Shaefer that he had recently moved back
from Indianapolis to South Bend
and was currently staying at his sister's apartment.
He knew Tyshawn was very jealous
and thought Angelica and Clay had something going on.
Clay Shaefer received a Facebook friend request from Tyshawn
and asked Angelica why her baby daddy
was sending him a friend request.
After Clay Shaefer accepted the friend request, the hostility began.
Tyshawn would post publicly to, what they call, throw the ones,
which is fight fist to fist.
But privately Tyshawn was sending Clay text messages
talking about how he was going to shoot him,
how he was gonna kill him and his child.
I don't think Clay wanted to fight with Tyshawn, but then again,
he posted that picture with him and Angelica.
I did not know.
I would've made sure we would've took
whatever picture was posted down.
I would have made my daughter delete her Facebook.
We're trying to get away from this man, not antagonise him.
But Tyshawn is very mad at this point. He's extremely angry.
He sends a picture of himself holding a gun pointed at the camera
to Clay and Angelica.
Clay talked to Angelica about it.
Angelica told Clay how crazy Tyshawn was
and the volatile relationship that they had.
And I don't think Clay took them seriously.
From the witnesses, we knew that
Dominic Paterson had not been at the scene,
but they told us where he was.
He was selling plasma.
So we sent officers to pick him up
and bring him to the Metro Homicide Unit for an interview.
Dominic was the son of Christy Harper
and the brother of Angelica Jones.
Dominic didn't know about the shooting.
He was actually shocked and surprised.
Didn't know what was going on.
Dominic was aware of the threats that were being made to Angelica
from Tyshawn because she had shown him the threats on her phone.
Nobody at the apartment thought that he knew where she was at.
The apartment was a secret to Tyshawn.
He didn't know where it was, or so they thought.
With search warrant in hand, we go to the house of Tyshawn's mother.
We knock on the door.
Initially nobody's home, but Mom shows up shortly thereafter.
Show her the search warrant, tell her why we're there,
what we're doing,
and she begrudgingly lets us into the house.
We looked throughout the house,
found several cartridges,
ammo boxes,
spent shell casing.
The spent shell casing from the basement
of Tyshawn's mother's house
was a ballistic match to the two of the four shell casings
that were found in the hallway outside the murder scene.
We identified the cabinets in the basement
to be similar to the photo that Tyshawn had sent Clay
with Tyshawn pointing a gun at the camera.
I told his mother that I really wanted to talk to Tyshawn.
She didn't know where he was.
And Tyshawn had been in the habit of using
burner phones or spoof numbers,
so he never really used the same phone number twice.
Spoof numbers are an application that you can pay for
and it masks your phone number to be something else.
Well, at this point, we have two armed gunmen out on the streets
of the city of South Bend, and we don't know where they are.
It becomes extremely frustrating
not knowing where the killer is,
because then he becomes a threat to everybody else around him.
In these types of circumstances
where you have a suspect known to be violent,
who's a known felon, you're not only conducting your investigation,
but you have to think about officer safety.
So, it's a combination of investigative
and sort of tactical considerations
that need to be constantly evaluated.
Christy Harper calls and says she has more information
about who she thinks the second shooter is.
I'm hoping that this information that she's coming with
is going to be the linchpin that brings us who the second suspect is.
Christy had told me that she had heard on the streets
that possibly the second party with Tyshawn had been Levon Ellison.
I did reach out to them trying to get them to see
if that was one of the people that was involved in the shooting.
Christy Harper and Meaghan Lloyd come in for a second interview
on December 28th, 2015.
At the time, Levon did not have any criminal history to speak of.
It was actually very hard to try and find a photograph of him.
I had to dig all the way down into his driver's licence.
We showed them photo lineups of Levon Ellison
in the hopes that they could identify him as the second shooter.
Both ladies looked at the photo lineups, did their due diligence,
but neither one of them could make a positive ID.
We tracked down Levon Ellison's parents,
spoke with them, and they claimed not to know where his son was.
It was suspicious that Levon wasn't around
and couldn't be talked to.
But suspicion is not the same thing as proof.
I'm splitting my attentions between several things at this point.
I'm working on trying to find Tyshawn Williams,
still trying to find associates of his,
and trying to find other associates of Levon Ellison.
The Department of Children's Services did reach out
to the Metro Homicide Unit and told us that
Angelica Jones was secretly communicating with Tyshawn Williams
via several social media apps.
They knew this only because Angelica Jones had been staying
at the local YWCA after the shooting.
She needed a safe place to go with her children.
They don't want Tyshawn Williams showing up at their door as well.
So, they're trying to give us information to find him
and get him in custody.
We arranged with YWCA to pick up Angelica Jones
and bring her back to the Metro Homicide...
and just have a conversation with her about what's going on.
She finally admitted that she had been in communications
with Tyshawn via spoof numbers.
And in doing so, he had explained to her
his version of events of what happened that day.
His explanation was he had received an invite from a friend of his
to go to the apartment to commit a robbery.
Tyshawn was trying to spin this fantastical story
about how it was a total random occurrence
that he wound up at the same door where she was.
Tyshawn told Angelica that
the other suspect is the one who fired all the gunshots.
The physical evidence that the Metro Homicide Unit has
can prove that what Tyshawn is telling her is inaccurate.
We've already identified that there were
two guns that were fired at the scene.
On January 20th, 2016, we get a bunch of tips
saying that Tyshawn Williams is
hiding out in the Cobus Green Trailer Park,
which is just over the border into Elkhart County.
We send the US Marshals out,
we send the Elkhart County deputies out to the trailer park.
All they have is a general location.
They just have the park.
They don't know which trailer it is,
they don't know which street it's on.
They don't have anything. They're just driving around randomly
in the trailer park and hoping to find something.
And that didn't come to anything.
I posted on my social media
what I was going through with Cleeve,
and a girl reached out to me
and she said that she was on a dating site,
that Tyshawn was reaching out to her,
and trying to meet up with her.
I reached out to Detective Wiley and had him check into it.
Somebody was actually communicating with Tyshawn via
a romantic social media app, I'll say.
So, that person knows where he's at in the trailer park -
which street it's on. They just don't know which trailer it is.
So, that person is calling Crime Stoppers
and the next day the tips just keep coming in, keep coming in.
It is essential that every one of these tips be followed up,
even if it seems to be bunk on the surface.
I mean, there are countless cases throughout history
where the case goes cold and when it's solved years later,
we see that, in fact, there was one tip never followed up on.
Those lessons have been learned
to the extent that now every tip and every case is followed through.
My partner and I end up going out to the trailer park ourselves.
We go out, we start checking the empty trailers.
Maybe he's squatting one of these empty trailers within the park.
That came up with nothing.
We're about to leave and we're randomly driving down
one of the streets in the trailer park, and I happen to look up
to my right, and I see Tyshawn Williams in a window.
We go up to the door of the trailer, knock on the door.
Young lady answers the door and I say who I am...
...and "I'm looking for Tyshawn Williams.
I just saw him in your window. Where is he?"
And she denies, denies, denies.
Say, "No, he is not here, he's not here, he's not here."
When we asked for permission to come in
just to look around, she denied our entry.
I legitimise in my own mind
that I wanted to see him so bad that I saw him.
So, I had that moment of doubt.
So, we leave the trailer park and we go back to the office.
And I get a call from a tipster.
He says, "I know where Tyshawn Williams is."
And my ears perk up.
So, he comes on down to the office.
The tipster said that he had heard from his brother,
who lived in the Cobus Green Trailer Park,
that Tyshawn Williams was in the trailer park
and that he was actually hiding underneath a nearby trailer.
What the tipster said was when the police came to the trailer park
and knocked on the specific door,
Tyshawn was inside and the young lady was hiding him in the trailer.
After the police leave, which would've been myself and my partner,
Tyshawn leaves that trailer
and goes and hides underneath another trailer.
And he was hiding under that other trailer waiting for nightfall
so that he could actually slip out under the cover of darkness
because he thought that we had the trailer park on surveillance.
By January in South Bend, Indiana,
it's getting dark pretty early.
So, there's a time clock for me at this point.
I'm like I need to get back out to the trailer park.
Detective Wiley reaches back out
to the outside agencies for help
to send them back out there, and he eventually meets them out there.
We go out to that trailer, start yelling under the trailer,
"Tyshawn Williams, come out, come out, come out."
Nothing. Nobody's moving, nothing happening.
I had asked for a canine, a dog to come out to help pick him up
and get him out there. The dog was not available.
So, in a moment of,
I don't know, genius or stupidity,
I start making fake barking sounds.
And he panics thinking that there's an actual dog, a canine.
And he says, "OK, I'm coming out, don't let the dog bite me."
So, he comes out from underneath the trailer and I got him.
And I was able to put my cuffs on him.
It was the culmination of over a month's worth of work
of trying to find him.
My heart was... through the roof.
They said he is under arrest.
Oh, I screamed, I cried, I yelled.
I was happy cos now we could sleep better at night.
For the time being.
After reading him Miranda, Tyshawn agrees to speak with us.
During Tyshawn's version of what occurred,
he claimed that he rode a bus to the Miami Hills Apartment Complex
through an invite from Angelica.
And when he arrived, two unknown male blacks
had followed him up the staircase.
He says he gets up to the apartment door,
the two male blacks that followed him,
brought up their guns and just started shooting at him.
That he's able to get out of the way of the bullets,
by dodging the bullets somehow.
He says somebody from inside of the apartment
ups a gun themselves and starts shooting out of the apartment.
And then everybody runs away.
That was his story.
Well, I told him that we had cameras
at the apartment building complex area
and that his version of events did not in any way match
with what we had on video.
They did have cameras at one time,
but they had been struck by lightning about two months prior
and they stopped working, and nobody knew about it.
Once Tyshawn realises that that lie has been busted,
he conforms to another lie.
So, he says he gets an invite from Angelica
to go down to the apartments.
He goes down there with his friend.
Tyshawn says that his friend's first name is Bruce,
but he doesn't provide any additional information
on who Bruce is.
During the interview with Tyshawn,
he claims to never have a gun of his own.
So, I showed him the picture of the threat of him
holding a gun to the camera
and he says, "Well, yeah, I only had that gun,
but I don't have it anymore and I didn't have it
on the day of the shooting."
When Tyshawn's pressed further, he stops the interview.
Tyshawn is then taken to jail and booked on the charge of murder.
The next day, Tyshawn reaches out to the jail staff
and asks to speak with investigators again.
Tyshawn claims that he is now ready to tell
what really happened during the shooting.
Tyshawn Williams tells investigators
that he wants to apologise
for what took place the day of the murder.
Tyshawn says that he did get an invite from Angelica
to come down to Miami Hills.
And Bruce had been with him when he hears this phone call from Angelica.
The threats that were coming into Angelica from Tyshawn,
Tyshawn says Bruce is the one who was using his phone
and his social media account to send those to Angelica.
He was present when the threats are being sent,
but he says it's all Bruce doing all the texting
and all the messages and sending all that to Angelica.
This is the first time we've heard of Bruce's last name being Thomas.
So, Bruce Thomas and Tyshawn go down to the Miami Hills area together
and they go to the apartment door.
Tyshawn says that when they get down to the apartment door,
the door opens,
and Dominic and Bruce Thomas begin firing guns at each other.
Tyshawn says that Bruce catches a bullet
in one of his fingers on his right hand.
Well, eventually we start confronting Tyshawn more and more
about we know ballistically that there are two guns,
not just one gun.
We explained to him what ballistics are, how ballistics work,
and the imprint pattern that's on the back of a shell casing.
Finally he says, "OK, I did have a gun,
but I only fired it in surprise one time
when the other gunfire is going off."
And he's still claiming that Dominic is in the apartment shooting out,
which again, that does not match
with any of the physical evidence that we have.
There are no gunfire behind where the shooters would've been.
But Tyshawn says right after the shooting,
he fled the apartment with Bruce.
They go down and get into a green vehicle
that had been waiting for them.
Tyshawn said that the driver of the car
was a woman named Tania.
Tyshawn said Tania was driving a green Pontiac Bonneville.
After figuring out
Bruce Thomas was the second person involved in the shooting,
we began looking around for him,
and ultimately find out that he was arrested
and sitting in the St Joseph County Jail.
Bruce had been arrested for an unrelated burglary charge
and was actually on a warrant arrest.
We go to the jail, my partner and I,
we go and we try to talk with Bruce Thomas,
explain that "we're with the Metro Homicide Unit,
wanna talk to you about a homicide investigation we're conducting."
He totally rejects our invitation for an interview.
But while he's sitting at the table, he puts his hands on the table
and he has a bandage on the ring finger of his right hand.
Bruce wouldn't really tell us what happened to his hand.
but he was trying to hide it.
We show her a photo lineup, which does contain Bruce Thomas.
We're asking her if this is the second gunman from the hallway.
She looks at the photo lineup, but she does not identify anybody.
At this point, it's possible that Tyshawn didn't know
who Bruce Thomas was and that he was just making it all up.
He used Bruce Thomas as a scapegoat for his real friend
who was still out and about. So, we got to do more digging.
Through Tyshawn Williams' several social media accounts
we found him having other communications throughout the day,
asking people to give him a ride.
And Tania Mosly agrees to pick him up
and take him to Miami Hills.
We identify where Tania Mosly lives down in Tippecanoe, Indiana.
We invite her back for an interview at the Metro Homicide Unit.
She agrees.
During Tania's interview, she wasn't very forthcoming
with information until she was explained
that she's just as guilty as pulling the trigger
and killing Cleeve Chick being the getaway driver.
Once Tania decided to open up,
she gave us what we needed to close the case.
Tania was a reliable witness for identification purposes
on Tyshawn and Bruce because she had been romantically involved
with both of them at one point.
Tania said Tyshawn had asked her to pick him up
and take him to the Miami Hills Apartment Complex,
which she agreed to do.
Her and Tyshawn saw Bruce walking on the road
entering Miami Hills Apartment Complex.
Tyshawn asked Bruce if he would come with him,
in which Bruce agreed to.
I don't know if she knew the magnitude of...
Tyshawn going there to shoot the place up,
but she had to know something was going on.
Tania parked the car while Tyshawn and Bruce
went into one of the buildings.
Tania stated while she was waiting in the car,
she heard several gunshots.
A short time later,
Bruce and Tyshawn come running out of the apartment building,
get into the car and drive away.
Tania said she knew both Bruce and Tyshawn
to carry guns on their persons,
but she didn't see a gun that day on either one.
Tania heard Tyshawn apologising
to Bruce multiple times in the car
as they were leaving about Tyshawn shooting Bruce in the finger.
Tania drove Tyshawn to his mother's house
and then she took Bruce down to her house the same night.
Later the same night of the shooting,
Bruce is convinced to go to the hospital by Tania and her father.
They go up to receive a medical treatment for a gunshot wound.
Bruce told the hospital staff there
that he had simply shot himself accidentally.
Tania said that she was afraid of Bruce.
She knew that a murder had taken place in South Bend
and that Bruce was totally involved in it.
So, she was afraid that Bruce was gonna take her out
as the only witness to him being involved in this murder.
Tania didn't like Bruce's behaviour
so she reported him having a burglary warrant
out of St Joe County to her probation officer.
Bruce Thomas was later arrested and sent to the St Joseph County Jail
for his burglary warrant.
We reached out to get the medical records for Bruce Thomas,
and upon receiving them,
it was confirmed that he did have an injury to his finger
that they believed to be a gunshot wound.
Tania did face charges for this case.
We never did take her into custody
with the understanding that if we called for her,
she would come testify and she'd be truthful
about what she testified about,
but that we were not gonna file charges against her.
An old ATF agent friend of mine used to tell me,
if I'm gonna make a case against the devil,
I got to interview demons to make the case.
Tyshawn Williams was arrested for the murder Cleeve Chick
on January 21st, 2016.
Bruce Thomas was arrested for the murder of Cleeve Chick
February 5th, 2016.
We now believe we know what happened in the murder of Cleeve Chick.
On December 12th, 2015,
Angelica Jones moves out of Tyshawn Williams's mother's house
after he had choked and put a gun to her head.
Angelica decides to take the kids
and move into the YWCA for their safety.
Angelica takes the kids to her brother's place
so they can celebrate Christmas Eve.
Clay Shaefer is also staying with Meaghan Lloyd.
Tyshawn is suspicious
that Angelica and Clay Shaefer are romantically involved.
Tyshawn begins to threaten Clay and Angelica
after a picture is posted to social media
of the two of them snuggling on the couch.
Clay receives a picture from Tyshawn
depicting Tyshawn pointing a gun at the camera.
So, earlier the same day,
Tyshawn Williams reaches out to Tania Mosly
and asks her to give him a ride to Miami Hills. She agrees.
While en route to Miami Hills,
they see Bruce Thomas on the side of the road.
Tyshawn asks Bruce to come with him.
He agrees.
Tyshawn and Bruce knock on the door of Meaghan,
hoping to find Angelica and Clay inside the apartment.
I personally believe Tyshawn is looking for Clay
because of the relationship that he manufactured in his own head
between Clay and Angelica.
When the door opens, Meaghan sees them in the hallway.
She yells out, "They got guns!" Door gets slammed in their face.
In an act of heroism, Cleeve Chick pushes the door closed,
holds it closed with his own body,
saving the lives of the women and children in the apartment.
During the barrage of gunfire,
Bruce gets hit in the finger.
Cleeve is shot multiple times
and dies as a matter of his injuries.
I believe Tyshawn Williams went to that apartment with the intention
of causing havoc and perhaps even more murders.
The trial for Bruce Thomas is held July 2016.
After two hours of deliberation, the jury comes back
with a guilty verdict on Bruce Thomas for the murder Cleeve Chick.
Bruce was sentenced to 55 years in prison.
The trial for Tyshawn Williams is held in January of 2017.
Me and my sister went every single day,
and we sat there for countless hours.
I owed that to Cleeve. I owed him justice.
After four hours of deliberation,
the jury finds Tyshawn Williams guilty of reckless homicide
but not murder.
Tyshawn Williams is sentenced to six years in prison.
I feel like it's not fair.
The mastermind of it should have got just as much time
as the person that was brought to the scene of the crime.
I don't know if Tyshawn will ever
come after my daughter Angelica again,
but I feel sorry for the next woman that he does deal with,
because it's a pattern.
It bothers me that Tyshawn Williams didn't feel
the full force of justice for having committed this murder.
In my heart, I believe he should have been found guilty of murder.
But that is the way of our system.
The system works, it just doesn't always work the way we want it to.
If anything stays with me in the case,
it's the fact that this happened on Christmas Eve.
You know, that's a time of celebration,
not a time to bury a loved one.
Cleeve Chick will always be right here.
I got him forever on my arm.
He's always gonna be part of my life.
And I'm sorry that he's not here with us today.
Even if it ain't with me, with us,
the people in this world,
cos he was a good, kind-hearted person.
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