01x06 - Mr. Untouchable

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Terrance Kelly!

Terrance Kelly
with a 38-yard run.

Terrance Kelly, what a run!

Terrance Kelly rumbled
to a 65-yard touchdown.

All-star football
player from the best

high school football
program in the country.

He was going places.

He was one of our brightest
and one of our best.

The great ones want to win at everything,
no matter what it is. That was TK.

TK had the ability to
do whatever he wanted.

I've seen this dude
work. He's Superman.

Shots fired.

Then he took it upon himself

to reload and hit him
three or four more times

with the same g*n.

That's not just a m*rder.

That's a straight assassination.

"Rich City" was our
name for Richmond.

Rich with friendship,

rich with family.

The city of pride and purpose,

and it really is that.

You know, you have pride in
being from Richmond because

it's a small city.

Um, the stigma of Richmond, of
it being negative and violent

and not having too many
positive things coming from it,

you know, we take pride
in being the opposite.

I would classify
Richmond, California

as a community between
100 and 110,000.

Built of people, really
hardworking people.

I mean, there's not a great
deal of money in this city.

Uh, there's no major business.

Richmond doesn't even
have a mall anymore.

But that's the place I
grew up with my kids.

That's the place
my wife grew up.

Home is where family
and friends are.

Football is our safe haven.

Football in Richmond gave
us a sense of community.

Everyone from the coaches to the
parents had a duty to the kids,

you know, and the kids had a
duty to being great players.

Plenty weekends where coaches would take in
players who had it a little harder at home,

and, you know, we'd all sleep
together, big sleepovers.

A lot of kids from different
parts of Richmond knew each other,

grew up together 'cause
we played football.

My cousin, Terrance Kelly,
was a son of Richmond.

He wanted to show
the city, the world

that you don't have to be a
product of your environment.

Put the time in and just have
some focus and have a purpose.

And Terrance had purpose.

He was our out.

He was the first one
that was gonna get out,

you know, the first one that was
gonna take us out of our struggle.

[Rodney "Alamo" Brown]
Terrance Kelly, TK, man,

was what we call
a hometown hero.

Very phenomenal, great athlete.

He emulated exactly what
that Richmond moniker meant,

uh, in terms of having
a prime purpose.

He was pretty much my
lifeline. He was my blueprint.

"Hero" might be
an understatement.

I was his shadow, doing
everything that Terrance did,

wanted to be like
him in all ways.

Terrance was a great guy,
uh, really well-rounded guy.

Somebody who was
able to effectively

be a bridge between two
very different worlds,

Richmond, California and then
affluent East Bay suburbs

where De La Salle was
located in Concord.

Only 14 miles away but
two different Americas.

I think the transition
going from Richmond

to De La Salle High School was pretty
much a totally different world for him.

But like anything else,

if anything is worth having,
it's worth struggling for.

You know, it is tough for a person
of color to come to De La Salle.

If a kid is zoned to go to
a public school down there

and comes to De La Salle,

he becomes kind
of like a pariah.

They call him "traitor,"
"stabbed us in the back..."

That type of thing,
especially the athletes.

Terrance had a life out here
and he had a life back there,

one in Concord, one in Richmond.

You could see Terrance
torn between the two.

He had that ability to
really touch every crowd,

which is why he felt it was on him
to bridge those gaps he was seeing.

He could do things and go places
that other people couldn't.

He knew that, he embraced it, he
accepted it and he handled it well.

When you first get to high school,
you're skinny, you're scrawny,

you're not, you know, built, but
what he had was he had all the...

the attributes of
an athlete, right?

Long arms, long legs, high cut.

So he had everything.

We had to be there at
6:00 a.m. in the morning.

We lifted until 8:00.

Then you roll into class,

so you're in class
for all day long.

After class, you had football
practice, normally two and half hours.

Then after that, now
you gotta go back home.

You're not getting home
sometime until 7:00 at night,

even on the weekends.

We were here on
weekends watching film,

you know, Saturday mornings.

So six days a week, we're
literally here at De La Salle.

TK was always on time.

He always had a smile on his face
and he always busted his butt.

He knew there was something bigger for
him out there and he was gonna go get it.

Terrance never lost a
varsity football game.

His play definitely secured him a
Division 1 scholarship to Oregon.

It was amazing to see all
these colleges come after him.

I graduated with
Terrance Kelly in 2004.

He started Oregon
over the summer.

He went out early
for summer workouts

'cause they had foreseen him being
a key role player coming right in.

Everyone was just so excited,

so excited and, you know,
we all just seen it as

if he makes it, we make it.

He came home for a few days.

Just a few days.

That night was just gonna be our
last time to really, you know,

hang out and kick it before...

Before he left for college.

I told my dad, "Hey, I'm about
to go out with Terrance."

It was probably about five minutes after
that call came through and it was a...

It's still unbelievable,

you know, to this day,
to hear those words,

you know, "Terrance is dead.

"Terrance's been shot."

I don't even think I thought...
Honestly, I couldn't even fathom...

fathom the words
that I was hearing.

The scene was pretty chaotic.

The police tape was,
uh... a lot of bystanders,

a lot of people looking,
a lot of people screaming.

To see him laying
there in blood...

I'm crying, but I can't
even hear my voice

because I'm just hearing, you
know, the pain of my family.

Everybody's breaking down.

And then you hear Landrin.

TK's dad, Landrin,
was out of himself.

Kept repeating
himself over and over,

screaming, crying, "What
am I gonna do now?"

"My baby, my baby. What
am I gonna do now?"

All I could do was grab him
and hold him and just squeeze.

I... I had no
words to give him.

Our grandmother got to the scene

and she was just so heartbroken
and it was so painful

that she had a heart attack and had
to be taken to a hospital right here.

18 years of work, 18 years of
sacrifice and doing right for your kid,

just to see them lying in
the middle of the street,

you know, dead.

That would take anybody's heart.

I remember getting
a text from...

a text from one of
my other teammates.

The text came across
like, "Man, TK got shot."

And I'm thinking it's a joke.

Like, "What are you... What
are you talking about?"

Then my phone starts blowing up,
so I know something's going on.

I didn't sleep that night because
now I'm calling all my boys.

Everyone's trying to
figure out what's going on.

I might have slept
maybe 30 minutes.

I found out the next
morning that he had died,

which was, you know, it's
heartbreaking, right?

It made life tough for a
lot of us for a long time.

An East Bay high school football
star who had everything to live for

is now just a legacy.

Terrance Kelly, a top football player
at undefeated De La Salle High School...

The former star of Concord's
undefeated De La Salle High School

football team was
shot to death...

I wasn't expecting to see
him laid out in the streets.

We were in a state of disbelief.

Shot and k*lled.

We were like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, this has gotta be a mistake."

You know, "It can't be him."

Step back, please. Step back.

I was home on call
for any homicides,

and I got the call
probably 10:45.

They don't give me a
lot of information.

"Hey, we've had a homicide.
You and your partner are up."

The m*rder happened near the
intersection of 7th and Nevin,

in Central Richmond.

It was a hectic scene.

Lot of lookie-loos.

We had several police
officers on scene for patrol.

Uh, family members were there.

We got to the scene, it was a
couple of hundred people out there

'cause maybe the word got around
in town that Terrance got shot.

I tried to go under
the police line,

'cause I just couldn't
believe that he was...

You know, I wanted to shake and
wake him up, you know, like,

"TK. TK." You know, "wake up."

We had to kind of tread lightly with
the family trying to get information,

who may have done this,
what the motive was.

I saw the father very overcome with
grief but trying to hold it together.

He's like, "Ask me anything. Let
me..." You know, "I wanna help you."

Once people found out
who the victim was,

it wasn't your normal
Richmond homicide.

It was a tragedy.

To me, all my murders
that I work are tragedies,

but this took on
a different vibe.

It was up close and friendly.

Pretty much in my mind,
it's an assassination.

2719 Florida Ave.

My auntie ran the daycare
out of this house.

Everything sprang
from this house,

from Thanksgiving dinners
to family functions.

This is where we all migrated to and
we all got to see our cousins come up

on Christmas, see them open their
presents and... She believed in family.

We just stayed at my
grandmother's house growing up.

Shared a bed, shared clothes.

We pretty much did
everything together.

Bevlyn Kelly, TK's grandmother.

She basically raised Terrance
when TK's father was at work.

Terrance called her "Mama."

Bevlyn was a truly
special woman,

a really one-of-a-kind
mother to not only Terrance

but a lot of these kids
in the neighborhood

who didn't maybe
have a place to go.

Grandma was our first
coach growing up.

We always played sports in
the backyard at a daycare.

Um, little league
baseball was our first,

football when we turned eight.

There was a lot of his friends that
were in their daycare with him,

and from there those guys became the
core of Terrance's first sports teams,

from tee-ball on up.

Terrance's dad Landrin sacrificed
two jobs, three jobs, four jobs,

all day if he had
to, for Terrance.

Landrin worked nights and during the
day and then coaches in the afternoon.

Thank you to the coaching
staff, Landrin Kelly.

Landrin put everything
into Terrance's sports.

He coached every team.
He was hard on them.

He trained them nonstop.

He wanted Terrance
to have better,

and so he gave everything
to make that happen.

It was our grandmother's idea to
put TK and me in private school.

She wanted us to experience
something that, you know,

most kids probably wouldn't get to experience
coming from the inner cities of Richmond.

At the time, De La Salle was
the number one high school

football program in the country.

Go, baby! Go, baby! Go!

Terrance became their
number one player.

He had prepared for that moment,

and he was most deserving of it.

Good job, Terrance!

Those, uh... We had a
144-game winning streak.

The winning streak obviously was
a big part of putting us on TV.

Team in the green,
De La Salle High,

number one-ranked
team in the nation.

Kelly again! Terrance Kelly
first and through, touchdown!

De La Salle!

I remember him scoring his
first touchdown at this...

You know, pointing to
where his family was.

Like, "I'm doing this for
y'all." You know, "We're here."

You know, "This is what we've
been waiting on. Our time is now."

Terrance Kelly looks for
the second touchdown.

Oh! That is done.

Can Terrance push through?

First down and much more.

We won the game. 27-10.

No doubt that night was Terrance
Kelly's coming-out party,

where everyone on national TV saw
how great of a player he really was.

At that time we hadn't lost

a high school football game. We're
putting guys into the college like crazy.

The team that we all played on, 12 of
us went to the National Football League.

We were the most dominant
football team there ever was

in the history of
high school football.

And yet when you
have so much success,

it just reminds you that there are people
that are lurking that don't like it.

Before it happened,
I'm calling him.

"Hey, TK. I'm home.
I'm all right."

He was supposed to leave
straight and come get me.

He says, "Yeah, yeah. I just gotta
make a quick stop right quick."

Picking up Brandon Young.

Terrance's father was
dating Brandon's mom,

and all four of them were living
in the same house together.

Brandon and TK considered
themselves brothers.

Terrance will put
anybody before himself.

So if Brandon's calling him
and say, "Hey, I need a ride."

Terrance is gonna stop.

That night, TK went to Central
Richmond to pick up Brandon,

who was there visiting
his girlfriend.

Terrance was driving
his dad's Oldsmobile.

Terrance wanted
Brandon to be outside.

Brandon responded,

"No, I don't wanna stand outside,
just text me when you get here."

And so that's what Terrance did.

Brandon did provide a
statement to the police.

Brandon said he
heard the g*nsh*t,

then made it out of the house.

Went to the street and saw that

the car that TK was driving
at the time, the Oldsmobile,

had come to rest against the
bumper of another parked vehicle.

He saw TK partially laying
outside the vehicle.

Brandon ran back to
his girlfriend's house,

beat on the door, he yelled
for them to call his mama.

"Call an ambulance.
Do something."

And Brandon then left and ran

just up the street, one
block to Kaiser Hospital.

TK was pronounced
dead at the scene.

Terrance Kelly was shot,

multiple times, at
very close range.

Richmond Police Department
discovered shell casings from a .22.

They also found a knit
hat left at the scene.

Our crime investigators came
out. They used a police K9

to search the area for evidence.

In the backyard of Brandon's
girlfriend's house,

wrapped up, they found a .22
caliber bolt action r*fle.

They find a total of three
expended casings in the street,

near the vehicle,
near the victim,

and they find one expended
case still in the r*fle.

By the location of the expended
casings from the r*fle,

we are able to surmise that

the suspect was moving

at the same time he was
sh**ting and reracking.

At this particular time,

we didn't really have a motive.

Just very, very limited physical
evidence. We had casings,

we had a g*n, we had a beanie.

We have a body.

A lot of things go
through your head.

Uh, was it a drug rip?

Uh, was it a drive-by and he
was not the intended victim?

Was it a beef over
where he lived?

Was he from Central?

'Cause if you're not from Central,
you shouldn't be in Central, right?

When crack cocaine
emerged in the '80s,

that's when Richmond
really turned.

It became very territorial.

Richmond's divided by North,
South, Central Richmond,

and you pretty much had
to stay where you're from.

It's amazing. People identify with
the area of town they're from.

If they believe you're
not from that area,

there's a good chance
you're gonna get shot

or at least get beat up.

TK grew up on the south side,

but athletes seemed
to have gotten a pass.

There was no place in
Richmond Terrance couldn't go,

because he wasn't into
the street politics.

People would vouch for him.

"No, that's TK, he's cool."

Or, "No, he's not into that."

He was off-limits based on the
fact that he was a star athlete.

Nothing like that
happens on a fluke,

you know, someone like that.

I personally thought
it was premeditated.

You sh**t somebody one
time and you run away,

like a lot of people do, this suspect
sat there and shot him four times.

When you're using a bolt action,
you gotta mentally think,

"Oh, I gotta put another b*llet
into the chamber and sh**t again."

So he had to think, "I'm
sh**ting this guy again."

"I'm sh**ting him again.
I'm sh**ting him again."

It's beyond belief that
kind of pent-up rage.

He was Richmond,
all of Richmond,

so why would anybody from
Richmond do such a thing?

Then when you find out the
real reason why it happened,

that didn't make any sense.

That shouldn't have
never happened.

When I heard how
Terrance died, um...

Uh, that was

the last thing I expected.

You know, it was...

Maybe it was just
my own naivete,

you know, I knew he
was from Richmond,

but all the time we
had him here, you know,

the thought of him being involved
in and k*lled by street violence

blew us away.

I've been coaching 39 years,

and I've been around,

but the tragedy of this one was the
hardest death I've ever had to deal with.

It still haunts me.

Never really gotten over it.

What happened right after, uh,
Terrance Kelly got m*rder*d,

had a chapel service here.

But the first formal
thing we did as a team

was get on the bus and ride out
to Richmond for his funeral.

Today is the day we let go of Terrance
and turn him back to the Father,

so he can love him even
more than we could ever do.

I was trying to make
sense out of the tragedy.

It was hard.

Service's, "Like, well,
he's in a better place.

And this was meant to be
or this was God's plan."

I don't think anybody
felt that way.

It's just... It was horrible.

After Terrance's death,

it just seemed like a lot
of people were just like,

"Oh, no, this is Richmond,
no one's gonna make it out."

It kind of just took life
out of a lot of people,

where they had hope.

There he is, right there.

They lost a star,

somebody that was, like, born and
bred and represented their community.

After that, I didn't look at
Richmond the same no more.

I thought, you know, nothing can
happen to family in Richmond,

and when a family member's
taken from you in that way,

you look at the world different.

Good job, Terrance!

This is gonna be the guy.

We're gonna buy his jersey
when he make it to the NFL.

He was our hope.

He was our possibility
and probability.

The whole community was
just... was just at a loss.

Seeing what happened to TK,

it changed the way that I... I
personally started to live my life.

This easily could have been me.

Anyone can be touched, right?

So many times, we...

especially in the
Black community,

uh, and under-privileged
communities

and communities of
poverty and ghettos,

they do everything they
can to help you get out.

Your parents are doing
everything they can,

and there's getting 'em up,
taking to school every day.

You know, they moved him out of that
school district, put him in De La Salle.

They did all the necessary things that
happened and it still wasn't enough.

The biggest challenge
in this case

is one, getting people to
talk about what they saw,

to convince them to come
forward and tell the truth.

That really holds
true for the streets.

Keep it to yourself or you're
subject to some type of retaliation.

If you are seen speaking
to the police officer,

you could end up in the same
position as a victim of a homicide.

He had no weapon on him, he
had no defensive wounds on him.

It came as quite
a surprise to him,

from looking at the
way the b*ll*ts struck.

TK's foot was on the brake,

when he had stopped
to pick up Brandon.

After receiving the first shot,

his foot came off the brake,

- and the vehicle
started to lurch forward.

The sh**ter was, uh, keeping
pace with the moving vehicle.

sh**ting through the
passenger window.

c*ck it, firing it.

Operating, c*ck, firing.

Terrance Kelly was hit three
times in the face and/or head.

And that fourth round,

it was in the back and he probably
received that after he slumped forward.

It wasn't a drive-by.

It wasn't a walk-by.

It's four shots
fired, four hits on.

That's not just a m*rder,
that's a straight assassination.

I'm not a big CSI guy,

but the .22 caliber long r*fle

recovered near our crime scene,

inside of it was
an expended casing

that matched the casings
near the vehicle.

We had a m*rder weapon.

We were trying to track down,

you know, everybody that
could've known Terrance,

could've seen him,
could've been with him.

We found out TK did have a
few different girlfriends.

He's always had
a way with women.

Terrance was a player of
all, at sports, women.

Terrance loves to play.

He didn't turn
away any attention.

One of the scenarios

that we looked at was that
it could be a jealous,

uh, boyfriend of one the girls

that he had been dating
or seeing before this.

TK's father told
me that he thought

that if there was anyone
mad at TK down in Central,

it was about the girls, and
that that was a problem.

But that possibility
wouldn't have worked.

The only person that
knew Terrance Kelly

would be at that location,

at that time, was Brandon Young.

After the m*rder,
Brandon was brought in

for questioning by the police
and given a lie detector test

and he failed the
lie detector test.

He was very, very deceptive.

To me, Brandon was the number
one suspect from the beginning.

TK's father, Landrin,

had a really tough
time talking about it.

The hurt was too much,

that Brandon could've had
something to do with this.

Brandon was living with
Landrin and Terrance.

Landrin gave
Terrance everything.

He was not willing to
do all that for Brandon

when he knew that Brandon

was living more of
that street life

and not bringing
home the best grades.

And there were
some clashes there

between Landrin and Brandon.

The question was,

was it normal brotherly
rivalry and jealousy,

and there was still love there,

or was there something
more deep-seated and angry?

Word on the streets about
Brandon and TK's death

was Brandon had
something to with it.

He possibly set him up.

Because Brandon was jealous

of what Terrance was
possibly coming up on.

Good job! Get in there!

I grew up playing with Brandon.

I think there
could've been some,

some feels of jealousy.

But more so outside voices
and influences saying,

"You know, you're living in
a house with a star athlete

"and you're not
a star athlete."

Or, "You're not
doing anything."

It can definitely, you know,

take a toll and play
a role on a person's,

you know, feels about them.

And if Brandon feels
a type of way about,

you know, Terrance's dad,

"Okay, well, I'mma hit
you where it hurts."

I didn't really trust TK's
stepbrother, Brandon Young.

He just didn't seem
right from the beginning.

TK had asked Brandon
to come outside

and wait for him to show up.

Brandon told him that

he was not gonna go
outside and just hang out

'cause Brandon, like TK,
was not from Central.

So he's in the process
of getting his jacket,

getting his phone charger.

He hears shots.

Which wasn't 100% believable

because a .22 is a
very, very low sound.

He runs outside, he sees TK,
he starts yelling, "TK! TK!"

We found out Brandon was part

of this little Deep C group

and he was, you
know, in my opinion,

a little baby gangster
trying to be somebody.

Brandon lived off of TK's
coattails a little bit

because of the possible
stepbrother status.

But TK was leaving, right, so now
he's gotta... he's gotta do something.

In my mind, he was...

He knew that his meal
ticket was leaving

and he had to figure out,
you know, his life after TK,

which was going
to be with Deep C.

There was resentment
and jealousy

with Brandon Young towards TK.

We kept interviewing Brandon
and he changed his story

a little bit from time to time.

Brandon had gotten
interrogated so many times.

The police walked
through everything,

went after, uh, witnesses.

Brandon loved TK and
TK loved Brandon.

Brandon was gonna
benefit off of Terrance.

So, I don't believe Brandon
had anything to do with that.

There was nothing that
I had that indicated

conclusively or substantially
that Brandon Young

participated in the
k*lling of Terrance Kelly.

Brandon did provide a
statement to the police.

He remembered seeing
two of his friends,

Larry Pratcher and
Darren Pratcher,

outside the residence
where the m*rder happened.

Larry was the same age
as TK, 18 years old.

His younger brother
Darren was 15 years old.

Brandon, he said he looked
outside of the window

and saw Darren Pratcher
with a skull cap on

that turned out to be the
one that we found on scene,

or something similar to that.

That was one of, I think,
one of the main giveaways.

TK knew the Pratchers,
definitely knew Darren.

TK and Larry played football
together growing up.

And Landrin was the coach.

Terrance is busy with everything

that's going on
out at De La Salle.

And Larry and Darren,

like some of his friends
back in Richmond,

are going into a
different direction.

They're heading more
towards the streets.

They were a part of Deep C.

And they would attack people

who were not from
Central Richmond.

But there was nothing
to indicate that Deep C

was responsible for the m*rder.

There was no indication

of any type of bad feelings,
any type of ill-will.

When were considering
the Deep C g*ng,

the little baby gangster angle,

we were able to start
picking up members,

get them to talk.

But everybody seemed to love TK.

You know, he was a prodigy.

He could've had
problems with people,

but, you know, once dead,
now everybody is his friend.

The only person that we
found that had beef with him,

the name kept coming
up, Darren Pratcher.

Terrance Kelly was going places

and everybody knew
he was going places.

Darren Pratcher was
not going anyplace.

Darren wanted to
fight Terrance Kelly,

but Terrance would
never oblige him.

It could've been jealousy,

but it was also driven
more so, uh, out of ego.

Darren Pratcher
was approximately

between 5'5 " and 5'7",
maybe 140 to 155 pounds,

maybe, soaking wet.

Where you have Terrance Kelly,

who was 6'1", 230 pounds,
a physical specimen.

The problem with Darren

was potentially because
of three reasons,

one being that Terrance was
coming into Central Richmond

as a guy from south
side Richmond.

Darren was not liking that.

Two, because of girls,
that Terrance is coming in

and the girls in Central
Richmond like him.

And then, three, is that
Terrance may have been

playfully ragging on
Larry a little bit.

Darren took it personally.

There was a rumor that Darren
threw some eggs at TK's car.

Another rumor, he'd had some
issues with TK at a party.

TK shows up and he's walking in,

he's big man on campus.

Everybody's like, "TK!"

Everybody's high-fiving him,

hugging him, giving
him the bro hug

and, you know, he's
talking to everybody.

He's going down the line

of all these other
guys in the party

and he gets to Darren and
he doesn't high-five him,

doesn't hug him, doesn't say hi,

doesn't do anything,

walked on by.

Later, there were
some words exchanged.

And Darren challenged
Terrance to fight.

And from what I was told, uh,

TK's response was...
"I'll break you in half.

"You're not even worth it."

And Darren's response was,

"What, you gonna treat
me like I'm a [bleep]?

"You can't even fight me?"

"Like I'm a[bleep]? You
gonna treat me like that?"

TK just wasn't
concerned about Darren.

Looking at the case,

there were some issues
dealing with the problem

of who was the actual m*rder*r.

The case against Darren
Pratcher was a weak one.

The standard for a
district attorney's office

is proof beyond a
reasonable doubt.

We didn't have testifying
witnesses documented.

There were holes.

I kept getting word that a
kid possibly had k*lled him.

I'm like, "A kid! No way
a kid would do this."

We interviewed some g*ng members

who were able to give
us some information

about a certain apartment
in the Barrett apartments,

which was right across the
street from the m*rder scene.

We go to that apartment,

speak to some young females
who had a lot of knowledge

about the r*fle that was,
uh, used in the m*rder.

And they were holding the
weapon in their apartment

for the Deep C g*ng members,

and they told us who they
gave that weapon to that day.

TK didn't stand a
snowball's chance in hell.

When we found out

Terrance was k*lled
with a .22 r*fle,

back then, young kids,

you don't have access to a
g*n or anything like that.

The m*rder weapon was
given to Darren Pratcher.

We ex*cuted a warrant

for Darren's arrest for m*rder.

Darren's picture was everywhere,

and there was a manhunt for him.

It was all over the news.

We were all just in shock.

You know, we were all in shock.

How at 15 are you making a
decision to k*ll somebody?

I just can't even
begin to fathom

how he came to the
conclusion that,

"Yeah, I'm about to
sh**t him, right now."

Richmond Police Department

ex*cuted their search warrant
at Darren Pratcher's residence.

They had arrested Larry Pratcher

because they knew he was at
the scene of the homicide.

Darren wasn't there.

Five days after the m*rder,

Mr. Pratcher
turned himself in.

He had no place to go

and it was just a matter of time

before he was caught.

So, Darren comes in,

we read him his Miranda
rights and then go from there.

He denied everything.

He denied being there

when they told Darren

that they located a
beanie, a skull cap,

uh, at the scene of the homicide

and they had it in the evidence.

He admitted that he
had a beanie cap,

that he lost it, he
dropped it somewhere

and didn't remember where.

So, he did not deny
that that was his cap.

Remember that Brandon
Young had seen him earlier

with that same beanie cap.

When we were transporting, uh,

Darren Pratcher to
the juvenile hall,

he asked to wave his
Miranda rights again

and gives another statement.

This time, he tells us he
was there when it happened.

He did not see the sh**ter, uh,

but he was the last one
to run from the scene,

so that's why everybody
thought he did it.

Now the police knew Darren
was in fact on scene.

They knew where the
beanie cap was located.

Darren Pratcher's
left ring fingerprint

was found on the
stock of the r*fle.

The only fingerprints
found on the r*fle

belong to Darren Pratcher.

We had the fingerprint,
we had his beanie.

We had the motive with the
disrespect and jealousy.

We have him telling us
he was at the scene.

He was the last one to
run away from the scene,

so, with that, we
were able to get

the district attorney
to file charges.

And once we got him in custody,

we got a lot more
cooperation from witnesses.

Witnesses put the g*n in
Darren Pratcher's hand

and watched Darren
approach the vehicle.

One witness asked him

if he was actually the one
who committed the crime,

sh**ting Terrance Kelly.

His response to her was,

"I had to do what
I had to do."

I think it was an ambush.

Just too many hands involved,

too many people were
there at the time,

too many people knew.

Darren had to ask
somebody for the g*n.

I highly doubt a 15-year-old
would wake up and say,

"I'm gonna k*ll this guy today,"

without any type of
outside influence

or even not telling
somebody about it.

Because of the g*ng ties,

the brother ties,

I believe that Brandon
Young set it up.

Terrance calls Brandon,
says, "Hey, I'm on my way."

They know they have
a 20-minute window

to make this happen.

Darren is on the side of
house where the r*fle is.

Brandon Young's inside

because he's gonna
have to have his alibi.

Terrance drives up,

Brandon ran downstairs

and said, "Oh, I
forgot my jacket."

So, he runs back
upstairs to get a jacket.

Then he runs
downstairs and says,

"Oh, I forgot my
phone charger."

So, he runs back upstairs
to get his phone charger.

While he's doing all
that inside the house,

Larry walks up,

looks in through the
passenger window,

uh, Terrance rolls
the window down,

"Hey, what's going
on?" Blah, blah, blah.

Darren comes walking
out, Larry steps aside,

Darren starts sh**ting
through the window.

I cannot prove Brandon
Young was a co-conspirator.

The district attorney
tried only Darren.

Mr. Pratcher was
tried as an adult

and convicted of
first-degree m*rder.

To get a first degree,

it is pre-meditated.

He planned it.

Because you obtained
a weapon for a reason.

You then approached a
target for a reason.

You then fired that
first shot for a reason.

But what took this over the top

was the fact that you had
to recock that weapon...

three additional times.

It was precision.

Decision, decision,
decision, decision.

For the first-degree m*rder,

Darren Pratcher received a
25-year-to-life sentence.

And then with the enhancement,
for use of a firearm,

another 25-year-to-life
to run consecutively.

So, Darren received
50-years-to-life.

When they gave him his sentence,

he didn't even react.

Somebody gives you 50-to-life

and you don't even blink.

You know, cold.

I feel no better than I
felt the day it happened.

But one thing that I know,

justice was
prevailed here today.

TK's death popped
everyone's balloon.

And there was no correcting it.

Our team was down,

and, man, those guys struggled.

Not just athletically,
they struggled emotionally.

First game of the
season, we got creamed.

We lost the winning
streak, 151 games.

It's the longest-running
high school win streak

in football history.

That was a great achievement,

but I can honestly tell
you, with all that going on,

I could care less.

The community was
very proud of him,

that he was gonna
go on to Oregon.

He was determined to make
something out of himself.

He never got a chance
to live his legacy.

It wasn't that we
just lost a friend.

He was like the beacon, he
was the light of our group.

I would just love to see

what his life
would've been like.

Right?

To know, like, if he
did make it to the NFL,

would he have a family?

Or, how would he be as a father?

What was his other
interests in life?

Maybe he wanted to
be a world traveler.

Maybe he wanted to be a chef.

We'll just never know.

And I think that's what
hurts more than anything is,

is not that his legacy...

It's just that he
never got to live life.

So, this is Terrance's
personal statement to Oregon.

"Many people imagine
the life of a teenager

"as being carefree and simple,

"but that is not the case
in the city I live in.

"Many youth place
more importance

"on being in a g*ng
than in education.

"A large number of the youth

"don't even graduate
from high school.

"They either drop
out, go to jail

"or unfortunately get m*rder*d.

"I am determined not to end
up like many of my peers.

"I have a strong
sense of purpose

"and direction for my life.

"I am motivated to strive to
be the best person I can be."

That was Terrance in a nutshell.

I don't think I'd be
the man I am today

had I not had him in my life.

Number 28, Terrance Kelly.