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He begged me to not let him pass away.

And I felt --

I felt like I was a failure to him.

But it wasn't my will.

We could not get the subject to respond to any command.

He did have a gunshot wound to the upper chest.

Detectives felt like delvin most likely knew who his killer was.

We were talking to him about a robbery.

All of a sudden, the interview

just changes directions into a homicide.

If you've got this information then you need to

tell US what you know about it.

A woman has just discovered a man shot

outside her house in the center of town.

Blytheville police department dispatch officers to the scene.

It was unknown at the time if the subject was alive

or if he was deceased.

It's important in the seriousness of these calls

to try to get there as quickly as possible.

When I arrived on the scene, I activated my body camera,

and I observed a African-American male

bleeding profusely from the mouth.

We could not get the subject to respond to any commands.

He did have a gunshot wound to the upper chest,

below the neck area.

He was not breathing.

The situation was very dire.

Paramedics arrive and immediately take over.

We done everything that we could, but the victim did

end up dying while on scene.

It is very tragic for somebody to lose their life,

but it is very necessary to keep emotions out of these type

of cases and get all the information we need.

Officers start by speaking with the 911 caller,

teaosha rudd.

Teaosha then explains that she can

only remember the man's neighborhood nickname -- buckii.

The night that buckii got shot,

it was just unreal.

I couldn't think of his real name for anything.

My mind was blanking, that's all I knew to call him,

like, buckii, because

that's what I've been calling him my whole life.

When the police got there, and I'm screaming and hollering,

and I'm realizing that this is real life,

he passed away,

so I really felt like I was helpless,

and I felt -- I felt like I was

a failure to him, because he begged me,

before he passed, to not let him pass away.

But it wasn't my will.

Nothing in the world could have

prepared me for that.

She had trouble telling US what she had seen.

We felt like she needed time to collect herself

before we continued to question her.

Back outside,

officers begin to canvass the area for

anything that might be relevant to the shooting.

We're looking for anything of evidentiary value.

Could be shell casings, blood trails,

anything that could potentially help US in

this case.

But after conducting a thorough search,

officers fail to turn up anything.

And without knowing the victim's full name,

detectives fear they can't move forward.

We can't figure out what happened

if we don't know what happened to who.

We need to figure out what his real name is,

that way we can continue the investigation.

As word of the shooting gets out,

onlookers begin arriving at the scene.

When talking to the man,

it was discovered that buckii had several different nicknames.

Growing up as kids, whatever our nickname is,

that's what we go by.

His name buckii -- that's what he go by.

He ain't call hisself big glo, like, that's

what I've known him by my whole entire life.

Now we know the name of the victim.

Now we need to find out who his killer was.

Hours after delvin "buckii" meadows

was shot and killed,

investigators are no closer to identifying a suspect.

Police in blytheville, Arkansas,

are looking for a killer tonight.

When officers got to a home in the 2200 block of west Rose,

they found a man.

They say he had been shot in the chest.

Now, detectives must break the news to

delvin's family that their loved one is dead.

My brother got shot on my dad's birthday.

And our cousin called the same day it happened.

I just felt weird,

and I got on the phone, she was cryin'.

And I was like, "what's wrong?"

She was like, "your brother got shot.

He dead."

So I just got so numb to it, but...

I think about him every day.

He worked so that he can try to provide.

And he had a couple jobs.

I mean, he always talked about he want to be a rapper,

but at the same time, he was working,

trying to help out his family, because his mother had

passed away.

He was one of those that

he was real about things, and at the same time,

funny and, like,

he...he was just buckii.

He was goofy.

He was, like, the type of person that liked to laugh.

It can be a messed up situation,

he gonna find a way to make everybody laugh.

He was a hard-working person, because we come from nothing.

He worked hard, went to school,

graduated.

He was caring.

You know, um...

He was a mama's boy.

She passed, like, nine months before him.

So, like, at that moment, it was just like,

first I lose my mom, then I lost my brother.

The next day, detectives are still no closer

to finding the person responsible for killing

delvin meadows.

We got the results back from the autopsy,

and it was determined that the victim died

from the gunshot wound to the upper chest,

lower neck area.

The autopsy report indicated that

the shooting happened at a close range.

But that information being said, detectives felt like

delvin most likely knew who his killer was.

With delvin's death officially ruled a homicide,

detectives decide to speak with

the 911 caller, teaosha rudd, again,

this time at the station.

She told US that there was a rumor

that buckii had been arguing with another individual.

She didn't know the name of this person,

but apparently he had been arguing back and forth

with somebody.

I didn't know what he was beefing about,

the in and outs about it, but I felt the need to tell

the police, because I just wanted justice for him.

I was trying to find everything by

any means to get to the bottom of it.

No one deserve to lose their life,

especially someone like buckii.

Teaosha explains that she's not sure what the argument

was about,

but this information is enough to provide detectives with

their first solid lead.

We definitely wanted to follow up on this information.

It could possibly be delvin's killer.

While detectives work to track down

this unknown individual,

they get word that another man has been arrested for

an unrelated robbery.

He was wanted for an aggravated robbery.

Once he was arrested,

myself and detective Chelsey grimes,

we wanted to interview him regarding

the aggravated robbery allegations.

At first, the conversation has nothing

to do with buckii's murder.

At that moment,

once he started telling US that,

seeing him break down like that,

it was something out of the ordinary.

So it was kind of

a wow factor to know that he was actually wanting

to come out and give US the information he had.

Detectives with the blytheville police

department have just learned that a man arrested on

a robbery charge claims to have information about

the murder of delvin "buckii" meadows.

We were talking to him about a robbery,

and all of a sudden,

the interview just changes directions into a homicide.

But it was an exciting thing -- when he told US

he had information on this homicide

and who had killed buckii,

we definitely wanted to get as much information as we could

from him while he was willing to tell US that.

At that time, I decided to step out of the room and call

the prosecutor so he would know that we were being serious on

trying to get him

whatever help he was asking for.

It's important to US to -- to know

who was involved.

It's important to US to know what happened.

But we, as law enforcement,

we don't negotiate with people.

We -- we're unable to do that.

If you've got this information, then you need

to tell US what you know about it.

We felt that he would cooperate, because he had

so much on the line at this point.

Realizing what's at stake,

the man agrees to come clean about what he knows.

He begins by telling the prosecutor that

everything started

when he was driving over to his friend's house.

He contends he saw the man with the gun,

as well as another man, Dante Reed,

run past him.

With all the information that he was giving US,

what we really needed was the name of the killer.

Although they have the potential suspect's name,

detectives must confirm

that the man is telling the truth.

The prosecutor talking to him,

just because of his history, his credibility issues,

she wants to make sure that,

is there anybody else that can corroborate

what you're saying, an independent witness

who we can talk to

not around you that says, "yeah,

this is what happened."

At that point, we let him make the phone call to talk to him.

At that time, we really needed to know what this person knew.

Once the call is completed,

detectives locate the man's friend

and bring him into the station for questioning.

Detectives also learn that delvin apparently had

an argument with Quincy's sister,

and Quincy seemed very upset over the incident.

After speaking with these two,

we were able to corroborate both stories.

At this point, we feel as if

we have a motive behind the murder,

but there's two people that we haven't spoken to

that were there that night.

And their name is Dante Reed and Quincy Whitfield.

Blytheville police have just spoken to two men

who have revealed

the potential suspect and motive for the killing of

delvin "buckii" meadows...

While buckii's friends and family quietly lay him to rest.

I went to buckii's funeral.

We also had a candlelight before the funeral

at my house.

A lot of his relatives, a lot of friends

came out, and we had prayer,

and sung a song.

He had a lot of support.

Buckii's death took an impact on me

and a whole lot of others,

because he was loved by a lot of people.

He was my baby brother, he was the best.

I was crying.

He buried right beside my mom,

so it was kind of -- a surreal episode,

because I wouldn't never think my little brother

would get killed.

And just to see somebody that don't do no wrong

get dead like that,

it's, like, traumatizing.

That, like, leave you shell-shocked.

And as the investigation wears on,

delvin's family continues to feel the effects

of his tragic loss.

We shared clothes, the same mother and brother.

He just always wanted the best.

He went to school. He went to college.

He worked. He was ambitious.

And me and him used to share a room,

so he used to sit in the room and listen to me rap,

and over the years, he started doing it.

And he started making videos on Facebook.

He had started his own little TV show,

called the glo TV.

I just can't wrap the thought around he gone.

It just don't seem real.

Back at the station, detectives dig into

the backgrounds of

the two men witnesses say were there when buckii was killed --

Quincy Whitfield and Dante Reed.

So we did our research

and discovered that Dante was currently incarcerated

in the Arkansas department of corrections

on an unrelated homicide that he had been convicted for.

With Dante being incarcerated,

we knew he wasn't going anywhere.

Our next step was to locate Quincy Whitfield.

Quincy did have a minor record as a juvenile,

but he wasn't in jail.

So we needed to learn as much information

on Quincy as we could.

Since detectives believe that the bad blood

between Quincy and delvin started

because of Quincy's sister,

they decide to bring her in for questioning.

It seemed very odd to investigators at the time that

this woman did not know anything about her brother

and had no information on the case.

This person was not cooperative.

There was no reason in questioning her any further.

We just felt like we really need to focus on talking to Quincy.

Detectives then have Quincy Whitfield

brought into the station for questioning.

He was very nonchalant about his story.

That's all he would say was

he was in Missouri with his girlfriend.

He had no other details.

As a detective, people who are telling the truth

are gonna give more details than just two things.

You know, he was obviously lying.

I felt like at that went in the interview that I was gonna

have to change my tactics with him,

because just asking him questions

wasn't getting me anywhere.

We have to become more aggressive.

We have to get the truth out of this individual.

I was tired of the lies that he was telling.

I don't think he understood the --

the gravity of the situation.

This kid is literally looking at a lot of jail time.

And he would -- he really needs to come clean.

Detectives investigating the murder of

delvin "buckii" meadows have just finished

questioning their prime suspect,

Quincy Whitfield.

But Quincy insists another man,

Dante Reed, is responsible.

We heard Quincy's side of the story.

So now, at that point, we need to go talk to Dante.

Detectives travel to the prison where Dante is

currently incarcerated and have him brought in

for questioning.

While speaking with Dante,

he gave pretty much word-for-word

of what the other witnesses had said happened that night.

Dante had no reason to lie to US.

He had nothing else to lose,

and he came clean and told US that it was Quincy,

that he was there with him that night.

And that Quincy's the one who killed buckii.

Based on what we had learned from all of

our witnesses and everybody that we had talked to,

we had an understanding about what had happened that night.

We don't know if the true motive of

the case involved delvin calling out Quincy's sister,

but we do know that Quincy targeted delvin

solely that night.

We believe Quincy ran up on buckii

and began shooting at him.

Buckii later died because of the gunshot wound.

Based off the statements

made by all three witnesses,

Quincy Whitfield is arrested

and pleads guilty to second-degree murder.

He receives 15 years for his involvement

in the killing of delvin "buckii" meadows.

Being able to close this case, it felt amazing,

you know, dealing with buckii's family, knowing buckii's family,

it was a great weight off the chest to get,

you know, the person behind bars.

We know as officers that

we can't bring that person back.

That person's gone, but what we can do is try

to bring justice for that person's family

to help them gain closure.

His death -- it affected me so bad.

Like I got anger problems.

I don't trust people.

I miss him a lot. I think about him every day.

And it's kind of hard, because he ain't never did

no wrong.

It probably should have been me, because I did

a lot of wrong in life.

If he was here, I probably would have told him,

I wish I was there instead of him.

At the end of the day,

I got to go through the rest of my life

without my little brother.

If I could talk to buckii or see him or anything,

I tell him to just stay a little longer, like...

Well a couple more hours,

just to sit there or anything just to pass time.

And I'd tell him that I'm --

I'm sorry that I couldn't save him.

And if I could turn back

the hands of time to do something different

to try to save him, that I would.

I think people remember his music and, like, little jokes

he used to bust over social media.

Like, they gonna remember everything basically about him.

And they don't, I know for sure I will.