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-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
-[ screams ]

Narrator: a big-hearted family
Man is shot to death

For no apparent reason.

Responding to a homicide scene,
Your mind is speedballing.

This shouldn't have
Happened to him!

As the investigation unfolds,
Detective rod demery is visited

By a ghost
From investigations past.

You got to be kiddin' me!

He had gone a real dark road.

He was a gangster now.

Police!
Drop that.

Get your hands up.

Narrator: to solve the case,

Demery must wrestle
With a painful reality.

Why are you lying to me?

There's a humanistic side
To everybody,

And, you know,
My human instinct kicked in.

I think for the first time
In my homicide career,

I wondered did I still
Want to do this?

Not in my house!

Murder and me, we go way back.

When I was a child,
Murder took my mother.

Years later,
It came for my brother.

That's when I found
My mission in life.

Every case I worked, I solved.

Every case I solved,
I got a confession.

I'm detective rod demery.

I didn't choose murder.

Murder chose me.

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It's just after dark in sunset
Acres neighborhood.

Mike williams walked out
Of his apartment

To take his trash
To the dumpster.

♪♪

He notices a woman getting
Into a car that's running.

He doesn't think anything
About it.

He throws his trash
In the dumpster,

When all of a sudden --

[ gunshots ]Tameka: [ screams ]

He hears a barrage of gunfire.

[ screaming ]

He sees the same car...

Ah! Ah!

...And it's careening
Across the parking lot.

[ crashes ]

Ah!
Oh, my god!

Redford: he runs over to the car
To see what's going on,

See if he can help.

He sees the female passenger
Who's seemingly unhurt.

Oh, my god!
Ah! Ah!

I'm gonna go get some help.

But the driver is covered
In blood,

And he's clearly been shot.

Oh, my god. Oh, my god!

♪♪

On this particular evening,
I'm in my garage

Polishing the chrome on my bike.

Been riding motorcycles
Since I was about 18.

My bike is an escape.

It takes you away
From everything.

It's almost as if no one
Can reach you.

[ cellphone buzzes ]

This is demery.

When my phone rings,
I'm told that there's a victim

That's been shot
In sunset acres.

I know what's going
To happen next.

I'm going back to reality.

Yeah, sunset acres,
I know it.

All right.
I'm on my way.

See you later.

♪♪

I've been to sunset acres
On numerous calls --

Violent crimes, drugs,
Domestic-abuse-type calls.

Jackson: sunset acres has
Certainly transitioned

To a more dangerous place.

The economic devastation
That has happened is clear

When you drive through there.

[ indistinct talking ]

Demery: the first thing I see
When I get to the crime scene

Is a vehicle that's collided
Into a wall,

And there's some broken glass
About 50 feet from the car.

The first question I have is,

What does this vehicle
Have to do with this crime?

What's happening, guys?
What are we looking at here?

We're not real sure yet,
But we got two victims.

Both have been transported
To the hospital.

Driver's in much
Worse shape.

The responding officers tell me
That the victim is

42-year-old rodney hill.

Mack: rodney was a hard worker.

He was helping support
His sister

And his sister's children.

Hill has been shot
Several times.

He's in critical condition.

The passenger is
Tameka williams.

Williams
Has superficial injuries.

Anybody take a look
At the car yet?

No, sir.Let's go do that.

♪♪

♪♪

When I look at the vehicle,

I notice there's limited damage
To the front of it.

Well, he must have not been
Going very fast

When he hit this wall.

[ police radio chatter ]

So I'm guessing the glass we saw
Down there is from this window.

Mack:
When investigators look hard,

They can see a spent projectile
Inside of the vehicle.

There's also a bullet hole
On the seat back

Of the driver's side,

And there's blood
All over the car.

Okay, so I'm thinking the first
Shot shattered the window.

Second shot hits our victim.

Did you say
The passenger was hit?

Negative.

Huh.

I don't want to jump
The gun here,

But this is making me think this
May have been a targeted attack.

Responding to a homicide scene,
Your mind is speedballing.

You can't make any assumptions,

And you can't
Hold anything as solid,

But it's a good idea to kind of
Get a handle of what's going on.

I mean, otherwise the rest of
The vehicle would have been hit.

The passenger
Would have been hit,

Would have been more
Randomness to this crime.

Yeah.Hey, detectives?

Yeah.

Got someone you want
To speak to.

Okay.

Demery: as I'm surveying
The crime scene,

The patrol officers tell me
That there was a witness

That may have seen
What happened.

How you doing, mr. Booker?
I'm detective demery.

Listen, I know this is probably
Not an easy time for you,

But if you could just take me
Through what you witnessed?

I came out of my crib
For a smoke

When I saw the girl
Get into the car.

Okay.
Did you see them pull off?

They didn't even get
A chance to.

Dude came from up there,

And then he started
Yelling at the driver.

And then he just started
To light them up,

And then the car
Just ran into the wall.

Did you see which way
The shooter went?

He jumped into a wagon
Right up there.

Booker said after the shooting,

The suspect ran back
To a vehicle,

And that station wagon
Sped away.

Now, they said that you heard
The shooter

Say something
Before he shot?

I mean, I wasn't close,
And I'm not really sure,

But it sounded
Something like,

"You thought you can
Get away with that?"

Really?
Yeah.

Okay.

That statement kind of starts
To lean

Even further towards
A targeted attack,

So it appears that somebody was
Taking revenge upon the victim.

The question now is,
What would the victim

Be trying to get away with?

To answer that question,
I go straight to the source,

But with rodney in surgery,
His passenger,

Tameka, is my best witness.

Hey, tameka?
I'm detective demery.

I'm hoping you might be up to
Answer a few questions for me?

About rodney?
Yeah.

I'm hoping you can
Take me through

And tell me
What happened tonight.

It wasn't supposed
To happen.

Oh, my god!

He was shooting,
And he hit rodney...

Okay, tameka....In the car, and --

Listen, I need you
To calm down.

Tameka is pretty shaken up
About what happened.

The challenge now is to get her
To focus

And try to give me a logical
Explanation of what's happening.

Take a deep breath.

Now, what were you guys
Planning on doing?

I-I-I-I was waiting for chester
To come pick me up

And take me
To the grocery store.

Tameka tells me
That she's at home,

And she needs a ride
To the store,

So she calls her friend
Chester

To come pick her up
And give her a ride.

Tameka doesn't have a vehicle,
And she said

Chester is the person she calls
When she needs transportation.

But when the car pulled up,
Rodney was driving it.

Why was rodney driving
Chester's car?

They're friends.

According to tameka,
It's a close relationship.

She didn't think it would be odd
For rodney to be driving

Chester's vehicle.

But before I could even, uh,
Ask rodney where

Chester was, there was a guy
At the window with a gun.

Okay. Now, the guy
With the gun,

Do you know what
He looked like?

No.

I mean, he had, like,
A bandana on his face.

[ screams ][ gunshot ]

I thought I was gonna die!

Tameka says she ducked down
And heard the gunfire,

And when it stopped
And she looked up,

Rodney was slumped
Over the steering wheel,

And the car was moving.

Did you hear him say
Anything before he shot rodney?

[ sniffles ] Yeah.

Tameka corroborates booker.

She said that the suspect
Did shout

Something prior to shooting.

You heard him say, "Rodney,
You thought you were gonna

Get away with this?"

Now, what would rodney have been
Trying to get away with?

Rodney?

That's not what
The guy said.

Hmm, okay.
What all did he say?

He said, "You thought you were
Gonna get away with that,

Chester?"

Tameka confirms
What the other witness said,

But adds the name chester.

Demery: at this stage, I still
Don't know who chester is,

But I'm thinking that bullet
Was meant for him.

So the shooter thought
Rodney was chester?

[ sobs ]

I don't know.

The fact that tameka
Added the name chester

Changes everything.

Now we know that whoever shot
At rodney hill

Was actually trying
To shoot someone else.

♪♪

Tameka: [ screams ]

[ glass shatters ]

I'm investigating the shooting
Of 42-year-old rodney hill.

At first, I thought someone
Wanted revenge on rodney,

But after talking
To tameka williams,

This sounds like it may be
A classic case

Of mistaken identity.

Tameka says the shooter said,

"You thought you were gonna get
Away with that, chester?"

So potentially this means
Rodney hill

Was a completely
Unintended target.

[ siren chirps ]

Demery: and to make matters
Worse, I've just learned

That rodney hill has died
From his injuries.

Ms. Hill?

I'm detective demery.

Listen, before
I go any further,

Let me just say I'm -- I'm
Really sorry for your loss.

The first person I talk to
From rodney's family

Is his sister, amanda.

Amanda is clearly devastated
About what's happened.

Why did this
Have to happen?

Oh, my gosh.

♪♪

Let me ask you,
Is there anything or anyone

That he was involved in that
Could have led to this?

No, rodney
Wasn't like that.

He earned an honest living,
Helped put food on the table.

According to amanda,
Rodney was a hardworking man.

He was very responsible,
And he did what he could to help

Take care of his family.

Mack: rodney hill didn't have
Any children of his own,

But he loved his nieces
And nephews

Like they were
His own children.

What's up, girl?Hey, rod!

What you doin' here?

Sis, for your rent.

You know I appreciate this,
Right?

Don't worry about it.
Where the kids at?

They're back there in the room.I'm-a go say hi.

All right.

Amanda told me that rodney
Was a pretty good role model

For her children and a lot
Of other youngsters around him.

Did rodney have a problem
With anyone

That you're aware of?
No.

According to amanda,
Rodney had no enemies.

He was just a happy guy.

It's been reported that rodney
Was driving a car

That belonged
To somebody named chester.

Do you know who that is?

Chester.
Yeah, that's family.

He is?
Yeah.

Amanda hill identifies
Chester as chester brown.

He's actually a relative
Of the hill family.

That boy always
Getting into trouble.

He got caught up with
The wrong kind of people.

Amanda doesn't seem
To be surprised to learn

That someone is after chester

Just from the lifestyle
That he lives.

I promise you I'm gonna
Find out

Who did this
To your brother.

Thank you.
[ sobs ]

Now that I've found out
That rodney hill

Didn't live that type
Of lifestyle and chester did,

I want to find out
More about chester.

♪♪

Well, I'll be damned.

When I look up
Chester's record,

I find out that he was into
All kinds of stuff --

Robbery, drugs,
Even kidnapping.

Okay, chester.
Who did you piss off this time?

If I found out who
Wants to kill chester,

I can find out
Who killed rodney.

♪♪

So now I want to go back
To tameka.

I don't know what her
Relationship is with chester

Or how much
She actually knows.

Hey.

Listen, I'm wondering if I can
Ask you a few more questions.

Do you have a minute?

Um...

Okay.

Look, I'm pretty sure
I told you

Everything I know
From that night.

Okay.

Well, I want to ask you some
Questions about your boy chester

And why you think somebody
Might want him dead.

I have no idea.

Okay, you understand
I'm just trying to investigate

Rodney's death, right?

So I need to know
What chester was up to.

Nah. I mean, look,
We friends and all,

But his business,
That's his business.

Demery: tameka tells me that she
Doesn't know anything about what

Chester is involved in
And wouldn't have a clue

About what type of lifestyle
He lived.

Okay, where can
I find chester?

He's, um...

He's in between places
Right now.

Really?
Mm-hmm.

I asked tameka where chester
Is now,

And there's a distinct
Change in her voice.

Those subtle changes in tone
And inflection

Show deception
Or nervousness,

And I'm really
Interested in that.

You know it would be
In your best interest

To be honest with me
And tell me.

Where's chester at?

He's at the inn
On jewella street.

The inn on jewella?
Mm-hmm.

You mean the one that
Closed last month, right?

Why are you lying to me?

So now I'm getting into it
With tameka.

Don't particularly care
For people to bull[bleep] Me.

The success of my career
Is my being able to see

Bull[bleep] And get
To the truth.

Let me tell you something --
There's two ways

That this can go.

I can bring your ass down
To the station

Right now and charge you
With obstruction of justice,

Or you can stop
Playing with me

And tell me where
Is chester at.

I'm sorry.
Look, I just --

I don't want to go to jail.

Then stop playing with me
And tell me.

Where's chester?

At this point, tameka clearly
Knows that it's not a game

And that I'm going
To be relentless,

And I'm not going to stop.

He's at the motel
On monkridge drive.

Tameka tells me that chester
Has heard about the shooting,

And he thinks
That he may be a target

And he's kind of laying low.

It's room 226...

And it's in my name.

Thank you.

You should have done this
From the beginning.

♪♪

I'm feeling good about
What tameka has told me,

So I head straight for the motel
On monkridge drive.

When I go to chester's hotel,
I take more officers with me.

I don't know what I'm going
To walk into.

All right.
We think he may be in room 226.

We're not sure if he's
Gonna be in there,

So let's be careful.

♪♪

The fact that I'm going to
Tameka's room with her key,

And I have her permission, I
Don't have to knock on the door.

I can just walk in.

♪♪

Police!
Drop that.

Get your hands up.

When I get inside the room,

I'm really shocked that
There's actually someone there.

I'm even more shocked
That the person in there

Is doing lines of cocaine.

Chester is straight 1980s
Snorting a pile of cocaine

When demery walks in.

Now it's kind of clear why
Tameka would not want me

To know where
Chester is.

So looks like you having
Quite the party, huh?

This ain't mine.

Right. Right.

Well, look, I'm not here
About the drugs.

If I start focusing on drugs,

Chester is going to be concerned
With self-preservation.

He's not going to want to do
Anything except try to

Figure out how he can
Get out of his drug charge.

What I am here about
Is who killed your family

'cause I have a feeling
That they were looking for you.

Am I right?

Yeah.

So as chester and I
Begin talking,

I find out that, yeah, somebody
Is actually gunning for him.

This dude p.J. Been after me
For a minute.

P.J. Who?

P.J. Russell.

Chester tells me that he has
An issue with a drug dealer

By the name of p.J. Russell.

He bought some drugs
From p.J.

Using counterfeit money.

Once he figured it out,
He started sending me texts

Sayin' he gonna kill me.

From what I gather about p.J.,

He's serious about his business

And finally decided that he had
To take care of chester.

So let me get this right.

You know p.J. Is lookin'
To kill you,

But you let rodney
Drive your car

And take a bullet for you?

Nah, man,
It wasn't like that.

I didn't think they'd shoot him
Once they saw it wasn't me.

Right.

Chester is clearly in a place
Where he has no respect,

No regard, or no concern
For anyone but himself.

Where can I find p.J.?Man, I don't know.

He ain't the one you should
Be looking for anyway.

Why's that?He too smart to pull

The trigger himself.

It's definitely
One of his boys.

Chester says he doesn't know
The name of the shooter,

But he believes that it's
An individual that works for

Or is friends with russell.

Like who?
If I knew,

I'd be after him myself.

You good?
We done now?

I'm good, unfortunately, you,
Not so much.

You want to come cuff
This jerk, please?

Rodney dies as a result
Of somebody after chester,

And he doesn't
Go to the hospital.

He doesn't pay any respects.

He doesn't try to help
In the investigation,

And it's just
An animalistic way of living.

Now, you said you didn't care
About the drugs!

I lied.

He's got 8 grams of cocaine...

Put your hands
Behind your back.

...And it's not just
Some amount you can ignore.

It's something that has
To be dealt with.

It really makes my blood boil
That someone like rodney hill

Is murdered
Because of the lifestyle

That chester
And his friends live.

Innocent people shouldn't
Be hurt by people

Who choose to use,
Sell, or trade in drugs,

So now I'm going to go out
And get justice for rodney hill.

♪♪

Rodney hill took a bullet that
Was intended for his relative,

Chester brown.

Chester says a dealer
Named p.J. Russell

Has a bounty on his head.

Before I can verify
Chester's claims,

I have to turn him in
For drug possession

Hey, your next customer.

Demery, someone
Said you had an early

Christmas present for me.

Yep.

Chester brown, I haven't heard
That name in a while.

Figured you'd know
This chump.

When I bring chester in, I take
Him to the narcotics unit.

They are familiar with chester.

Chester has acted
As an informant in the past.

You know what?
We can use him.

Instead of booking him
On those charges,

They're going to
Put him to work.

Usually narcotics likes
To catch a small fish

And send it back out
To catch a bigger fish,

And that's the hope
In this case.

Fine by me,
He's your christmas present.

At this point, I'm going to go
Back out on the streets.

I'm going to do some gumshoe
Police work.

Mack: in a small neighborhood
Like sunset acres,

Word travels fast, so you'll get
A lot of street talk

About who committed the crime.

Hey, bro.

I was just wondering, man,
What could you tell me

About the shooting
That happened over on janey?

I don't know nothing
About that.

You sure about that?

A lot of times, "I don't know
Anything" means,

"I actually know something, but
I don't want to be involved."

I can't help you.

How about this dude,
You know him?

Could you just take a look,
One second?

Redford: some parts of
Shreveport, you talk to police,

Then you're talking
To your maker the next day.

Demery: still, I need answers,

[ knocking ]

So I decide to do
A little door-knocking.

Hey, I'm detective demery.

Listen, I'm hoping you can
Give me some info

About that shooting
Over on janey?

I'm sorry.
I don't think I can --

Hey, hold on a second.

You got kids?

Yeah, I got two.
Why?

When people are so dismissive,

It's difficult to break
Through that barrier,

But there are some cases
Where you have to find somebody.

It's a difficult balancing act,
But it can be done.

Because I figure
If you got kids,

You probably know
That talking to me

Is gonna help make
Your neighborhood safer

Than not talking to me.

Some other cop told a friend
Of mine the same thing.

Next thing you know,
She's getting called

Into court to testify.

Two guys end up
Breaking into her house.

Listen to me,
I'm not some other cop, okay?

I tell this woman that the
Information that she gives me,

I'm going to keep it
Confidential.

Look, you can ask about me
On the streets.

Your name won't never
Come out of my mouth.

All right?I heard of you before.

Come on.

Okay. Um, some people are saying
This dude called hammer

Shot up
That car the other night.

When I first hear
The name hammer,

It sounds really
Familiar to me.

I just can't place it.

Okay.
Hammer got a real name?

No, but he's always rolling
Around the neighborhood

In some white lady car.

In a white lady's car?

I don't know, some black
Volvo station wagon.

She described the vehicle that
She's known hammer to drive,

And that same vehicle
Is the vehicle described

In the murder of rodney hill.

That's all I know.All right.

Thank you.

You've been helpful,
And I promise you

Your name will never
Come out of my mouth.

I hope so.

So the pieces are starting
To fall together.

This woman has given me
Some very important information.

She's given me the nickname
Hammer.

Now I just need to find out
Who hammer is.

Once I get back
To the police station,

I start to research
The nickname hammer.

Our police management system
Allows you to put in a moniker,

And it can be matched
To a particular name.

You got to be kiddin' me.

After I put in the name hammer,

It matches to a 25-year-old
Sirdarren jackson.

When I pull up the mug shot,

I realize I know exactly
Who hammer is.

Hammer has a pretty
Significant and healthy record,

But I remember hammer
When he didn't.

When I first met jackson,
He was 19 years old.

He had gotten shot
In the shoulder,

And I visited with him
While he was in the hospital

To work this case.

He and another one
Of his friends

Got into a shootout
With some other guy.

You know you almost
Got killed, right?

Yeah, I know.What are you doing, man?

Listen, you're too young
For this.

This is not the way
You want to go.

Yes, sir.

Crime is one of
The magnetic components

In inner-city
Communities.

When it's easier to get a gun
Than it is to get fresh fruit,

Then you tend to gravitate
Toward that kind of a lifestyle.

Now, I done had a lot of people
Go down this same road.

I got friends
And I got family,

And they went down this road,
And they didn't come back.

I promise you,
That gangster lifestyle

Is not what you think
It's gonna be.

Yes, sir.Now, you're young.

You don't have to do this.
You can do something else.

You can turn
Your life around.

I'll do better.

I didn't feel like jackson
Knew the gravity

Of what was going on
At that point.

I'd hoped my words
Meant something,

But I didn't feel like
They went very far with him.

Over time, it became clear that
Jackson didn't take my advice.

About a year ago, I was
Investigating a drug kingpin

By the name of waco collins.

I ran into
Sirdarren jackson again.

I realized that
He wasn't involved

In the particular murder
That I was working,

But he had gone down
A real dark road.

He was definitely not the
19-year-old that I met.

He was a gangster now.

There was no innocence left.

You understand that waco, man,
He don't care about you.

Waco don't care
If you live or you die.

Do you understand that?

It is what it is, man.

I got to do
What I got to do.

Listen, you don't have
To do this.

You can still get out.
Man, there's time.

I think the way that I talked
To sirdarren

Was on a more personal level.

I showed a genuine concern.

I think I almost appeared
Desperate

To try to stop him
From doing what he was doing.

Look at me.

You mark my words --

If you keep going
The way you going,

You gonna be
Dead in a year.

And there's options for you.

I can help you get a ged.

I can help you get
In the job program.

There's a lot of --

For whatever reason,
He began to cry.

Then he gave me this hug
Like he'd known me

Or we were friends.

Maybe if I had a father
Like you,

I wouldn't turn out
Like this.

When jackson hugged me,
That was the oddest thing

I've ever felt in my career.

Now, I don't know if it was
A premonition on his part

Or my part,
But I absolutely saw his life

Taking a horrible turn,
And I think he did, too.

Despite my personal connection
With sirdarren jackson,

I still need to do my job.

The thing about police work
Is that

I am very capable
Of compartmentalizing.

While I can have a genuine
Concern for someone,

I can take him out in 2 seconds,
But I need more.

An anonymous tip and a few vague

Descriptions is not enough
For me to go get him.

[ telephone rings ]

This is demery.

Hey, what's up, ivy?

My phone rings,
And it's sergeant craig ivy.

He tells me he has someone
He's just arrested

That I need to talk to.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I'm on my way.

Thanks.

This could be what blows
This case wide open.

♪♪

Demery: my search for
Rodney hill's killer

Led me to a familiar suspect --

25-year-old sirdarren jackson,
Nicknamed hammer.

A few years back,
I'd met jackson,

And I tried to set him
On the straight and narrow,

But he's fallen to
A life of crime.

I need more evidence
Before going after jackson,

And now a phone call
From a fellow detective

May solve that problem for me.

♪♪

Hey, ivy.
Hey, demery.

Thanks, man. This could
Actually be really helpful.

No problem.

Ivy tells me that he's arrested
An informant of his

For a misdemeanor theft,

And that informant
Is telling ivy

That they have intimate
Knowledge of a crime

In which the wrong person
Was killed.

This is our guy here?Yes, sir.

All right.

Usually when an informant
Has information,

They got a charge
That they want to get rid of.

They can have a very, very
Small misdemeanor charge

And break open a murder case.

So I hear you have some
Information about a murder.

We're talking about
The shooting

At the apartment
On janey, right?

Yes, we are.

Yeah, that boy
Hammer did that.

Huh.

Mack: the informant backs up
What demery has already heard,

That sirdarren jackson
Is responsible

For the murder
Of rodney hill.

And how do you know that?

It's in my phone.

Demery: in addition to what
The informant is telling me,

He's giving me
Corresponding text messages

From sirdarren jackson to him.

One of the messages said,
"Hey, I just shot up,"

Basically saying that they fired
Shots and killed somebody.

Let me see
The time and date.

What's important is the time
Stamp on the text messages

Correspond with when
Rodney hill was killed.

Okay.

Can you do me
A favor, please?

Run this number to see
Who it belongs to.

Yes, sir.Thank you.

Demery:
The information is huge.

If I can show that it's
Sirdarren jackson's phone...

It's definitely him, man.

If jackson is responsible
For the murder of rodney hill,

I need to find out how he's
Connected to chester brown

And p.J. Russell.

Why would hammer be doing
Dirty work for p.J. Russell?

Because they were like family.

How so?

Mack: the informant tells demery
That p.J. Russell

Has a baby
With sirdarren jackson's cousin,

So the two run around
In the same crowd.

Do you know if hammer
Knows chester brown?

Yeah, them two
Used to be tight.

"Used to be,"
What do you mean?

The informant also tells demery
That sirdarren jackson

And chester brown
Used to run together.

They would do home invasions
For drugs and money,

And they were ripping
Local dope dealers.

That all ended when
Chester ripped off p.J.

So chester actually has
A relationship with jackson,

And they have
Committed crimes together.

Chester knows exactly
Who jackson is.

He just didn't want
To give me his name.

You know where
Jackson's at?

Nah, but he be
In cedar grove

A lot doing rips
In that wagon of his.

He own a station wagon?Mm-hmm.

What color is it?

It's a black ugly thing.

His information is corroborated
By everything else

That I've heard thus far,
Giving me reason to believe

That this informant is
Absolutely telling the truth.

[ door opens ]

Anything?

Goes back to
A sirdarren jackson.

Perfect.

We good in here?

Yeah, your boy has been
Very helpful.

Come on.[ door closes ]

♪♪

At this point,
There's no denying

That jackson has become
The savage killer

I feared he would.

This isn't enough information
To arrest jackson,

But it's certainly
Enough to go get him

And bring him in
To interrogate him.

So I start going to people
That know jackson,

Some of his hangouts

And some of the places
That he's normally at.

I feel like I have to take him
Off the streets

Before he brings harm
To anybody else.

Hey, bro, you know where
Sirdarren jackson stays?

Know it used to be
Over on cooper road.

But he's not there anymore?Nah, man.

Hammer never stays
In one place too long.

He don't like people
Knowin' where he at.

Okay.

All right, brother, thank you.
Have a good one, man.

Jackson is a little
More difficult

Than the typical suspect.

Jackson
Is not only hiding from me.

He's robbed several people,

So he's very careful
About where he goes

And who knows where he is.

My search for sirdarren jackson
Goes on for days,

But I wasn't ready
For what would happen next.

One morning,
I walk into the office,

And I hear some
Of the guys talking.

Man: had an ak-47.

He friggin' blew
The guy away.

Hey, guys.
What's happenin'?

Oh, you haven't heard?Heard what?

Your guy jackson,
He was killed last night.

What?

Apparently the night before,

Jackson had committed
A home invasion robbery

And was shot in the head.

Was he armed?

Yeah, cleared
As self-defense.

The fact that jackson
Was committing

A home invasion robbery armed,
That murder is justified.

No one is going to be charged
With killing sirdarren jackson.

What's the problem,
Demery?

You should be happy,
Less work for you.

Yeah, man, whatever.

When I found out sirdarren
Jackson had been killed,

I was bothered by it.

I was very comfortable
With putting sirdarren jackson

In prison.

I don't know that I was prepared
To hear that he was murdered.

Hey, I'm not feeling well, man.

Tell the lieutenant
I went home sick.

Yeah, sure thing.

There's a humanistic side
To everybody,

And, you know,
My human instinct kicked in.

The fact that I had some sort
Of a knowledge of this kid

From his teen years up
Until now was disturbing.

I went home, took the rest
Of the day off.

Sirdarren's death
Is a reflection

Of a vicious cycle
Of violence that has continued

And seems to not have
An end in sight.

For a kid to be 19,
Barely make it to 25

And be killed
Is all too commonplace.

Mack: you get emotionally
Invested in people

You see over
A long period of time,

And sirdarren was somebody that
Demery thought might make it.

It's kind of heartbreaking
Because you can't save them all,

And you want to.

Demery: I felt like my efforts
Were in vain.

I think for the first time
In my homicide career,

I wondered did
I still want to do this?

I'm watching people die.

I'm watching young kids
Go to prison forever,

And after a while,
You start questioning

Whether or not what
You're doing is effective.

[ cellphone rings ]

Just as I'm thinking about
All this stuff, my phone rings.

This is demery.

Oh, hey, amanda.

And it's amanda hill,
Rodney hill's sister.

Really? Wow. Okay.

And she tells me
That she believes

Jackson's murder was a setup,

And she thinks
She knows who did it.

Yeah, yeah.
I'll head over now.

When I get this phone call,
It reminds me of what it is

About this job
That I love to do.

You want to get all the answers.

That phone call brings you
Back to reality.

♪♪

I'm now confident that sirdarren
Jackson killed rodney hill,

But before I'm able
To make an arrest,

Jackson was killed during
A home invasion robbery.

Jackson's death has me
Questioning whether or not

This is even the career that
I want to continue with.

I'm on my way.
Bye.

But I get a call from amanda
Hill, rodney hill's sister,

And it pulls me
Right back into the case.

Quitting homicide
Is not an option,

And it never really was.

It's what I'm supposed
To be doing.

This is what I wanted
To show you.

What is this?

Chester's facebook page.

Amanda hill shows him
A facebook post

That chester brown made.

"Justice for rodney
Has been served"?

Demery:
The last time I saw chester

Was when I handed him
Off to narcotics,

Who planned to send him back out
On the streets as an informant,

But it looks like chester
May have had other plans.

The message on chester brown's
Facebook page

Kind of made me feel,
And I think it did amanda,

That he was
The person responsible

For sirdarren jackson
Getting killed.

When was this posted?

Late last night.

Okay.

When I look at it now,
I realize that chester

Was never telling me
The whole truth,

And I think he always knew who
It was that killed rodney hill,

And he wanted to exact
His own revenge.

Okay, look, thank you
For your help.

I'll see myself out.

After I speak with amanda,

I call narcotics to find out
Where chester is,

And they tell me that
Chester failed.

He didn't do what he said
He was going to do,

And they were currently
Looking for him

Because they wanted
To charge him with the narcotics

He originally
Was found with.

Within the hour, the narcotics
Team locates chester

And bring him
Back to the station.

I want to talk to chester.

I want to find out
If he actually set

Jackson up to be killed.

♪♪

[ sighs ]

I hear things didn't work out
So well for you with narcotics.

Well, they weren't gonna
Let me walk either way.

It is what it is.Uh-huh.

When I sit down with chester,
He seems very calm.

He seems very accepting
Of what's going on.

So you want to tell me
What happened to rodney?

What you want to know?

I want to know who killed
Your boy.

I heard it was this dude,
Hammer.

So why didn't you say that
In the first place?

I told you it was one
Of p.J.'s boys, didn't I?

But you did not tell me
That it was hammer.

I must have
Forgot his name.

It was clear that chester
Didn't want to give me

Sirdarren jackson's name.

Now that sirdarren is dead,
He's comfortable telling me.

You heard what happened
To hammer?

Yeah, but I swear I had
Nothing to do with that.

I never said you did.

Without prompt,
He just blurts out,

"I didn't have anything to do
With jackson being killed."

People have just been
Saying that I did,

So I just want
To let you know.

Yeah, okay.

The fact that chester
Just starts talking

About his possible involvement
In jackson's death

Shows sort of a consciousness
Of his own guilt.

Maybe people are saying that
Because of your facebook post.

Man, I just said that
Because my family

Didn't deserve
To die like that.

So you're saying you didn't
Have anything to do

With hammer's death.

Nah, man.
Okay.

I don't believe chester even
For a second.

But the truth is,
It's not possible to prove

That he set jackson up.

In fact, investigators
Have already

Deemed the shooting justified,

So there's nothing else
That can be done.

At this point, all I can do
Is speculate

About what really happened.

On the night rodney hill
Was murdered,

I believe that chester brown
Knew he was being stalked,

And he didn't feel safe
Going to give tameka a ride.

[ cellphone buzzes ]

What up?

Hey, rodney.
Uh, it's chester.

Sup, fam?
Headed to your place now.

Hey, man. You mind giving tameka
A ride to the store for me

Before you come through?

Yeah, I can do that.
She still at her place on janey?

Uh-huh.Yeah, I got you.

So he let rodney hill
Go in his place.

Rodney hill drove his vehicle.

When hill got to
Tameka's house...

...Jackson was waiting,
Thinking it was chester.

P.J. Russell had already
Put in motion his hit

On chester brown.

♪♪

Tameka: rodney?What's up, girl?

What you doing here?
Where's chester?

He told me
To come pick you up.

All right.

[ gun cocks ][ screams ]

You thought you would get away
With this, chester?

What he meant was getting away

With using counterfeit money
To buy drugs.

Rodney:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

[ screams ] Oh, my god!

[ screaming ]

Demery:
After jackson shot him,

Jackson jumped in his vehicle
And took off.

[ tires screech ]

[ screams ]

Rodney hill was slumped
Over the steering wheel.

His foot accidentally
Hits the gas pedal...

[ glass shatters ]

Ah!

...And he runs into a wall.

Once chester found out
About the murder of rodney hill,

He kind of laid low
And began to plot his revenge.

Police!
Drop that.

When I talked to chester,

He refused to give me
The name of jackson,

Even though he knew his name,
And he held off

Until he could set things up
To have jackson killed.

Tell him there's a trap house in
Cedar grove that he should hit.

Tell him the house is full
Of cash and dope.

Word.

At some point, he was able
To have someone convince

Jackson that this
Particular house

Was packed
With drugs and money.

Then he tells those
Potential victims

That they're targets
Of a home invasion.

And when sirdarren jackson comes
To rip the drugs and money...

...He's met with an ak-47.

[ gun cocks ]Not in my house!

Demery: they shot him in the
Head with an assault rifle.

He died at the scene.

Based on what I know,

I believe that sirdarren jackson
Killed rodney hill.

The fact that sirdarren jackson
Is dead,

There's no way
To possibly prosecute him.

Chester brown is charged with
His original cocaine possession

And sentenced to 5 years
In prison.

Watch your step.
Watch your head.

As for his involvement
In jackson's death,

That's purely my speculation,
And it hasn't been proven.

Though I'm upset I couldn't find
Sirdarren jackson

Before he was gunned down,
I'm even more upset

That I couldn't deliver
Justice to rodney hill.

This case is reflective
Of the vicious cycle of crime.

Violent crime
Doesn't encase itself.

It bleeds into the community.

It touches innocent people.

Rodney hill doesn't fit
In any of this.

He's not taking part
In any of this crime

That's happening around him.

The way rodney hill was killed
Is heartbreaking.

He shows up to take a friend
To the store,

And he's gunned down
For doing the friend a favor.

The reason that
Sirdarren jackson

Ended up the way he ended

Is because
He was playing that game,

And it was russian roulette.

Sooner or later, that bullet
Was going to go off.

Sirdarren jackson
Is the poster boy

Of what's going on
In these communities.

We can't ever stop crime,
But we don't have to contribute

To the breeding grounds
Of criminals...

[ engine revs ]

...And when we start
To remove that environment,

Then we'll see some progress.

It's that simple.