01x08 - The Streets Are Talking

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You know, our whole world
collapsed in that day.

Whatever coward did this,
I hope you're caught.

Turn yourself in.

It was willful,
deliberate, premeditated.

They wanted Lamont Adair dead.

He was a good child.
He was a good guy.

He was doing something
that, you know, mattered.

The video is chilling,
because you just see

the brazen act very clearly.

- My brother did
not leave the house

thinking that he was
going to die that day.

He was the one who
made the call for him

to come up there.

He was the one who put
Lamont in a location

to be a victim of this m*rder.

- Summer, 2018...

Seat Pleasant, Maryland,

a tough suburb just
outside of Washington, D.C.

A 24-year-old
aspiring basketball

star, Lamont Adair,

has just earned the
opportunity of a lifetime...

The chance to play
professional ball in China.

He loved basketball.

It didn't matter
what was going on.

If someone called him, "Lamont,
you want to play ball?"

He was there.

I'm Urania Jackson.

I am Lamont's older sister.

He always had a basketball
somewhere in his hands.

Next to family,
basketball was everything.

You think it's funny, too?
You think that's funny?

He was just really excited.

My name is Darlene Rainey.

I'm Lamont William
Adair Junior's mom.

He didn't care if
he went overseas.

He didn't care if he
played for the NBA.

He just liked to play ball.

I thought he played better
than Michael Jordan,

but, you know...

For him, it was like the break

that he's been waiting for.

Everything was
falling into place.

Everything was going the
way he wanted it to go.

Lamont's past professional
success was full of adversity,

but he's always had the support

of an adoring family.

Lamont was born on
October 23, 1993.

In the morning the
day of my baby shower,

I was helping...

Well, I wasn't supposed to be
helping with the baby shower,

but I was.

So I started having labor pains.

We were setting up
decorations and everything,

and she started
having contractions,

and she drove herself
to the hospital.

I was in the sixth grade,

and I remember being so excited.

You know, he had
everyone's heart

wrapped around his
fingers, basically.

A little spoiled, but in a
sense that that's family,

and he's the baby brother.

Whatever he wanted, he could
have gotten from any of us.

Oh, Lord. As a child,
Lamont was very busy.

Anything that we were
doing, he wanted to do it.

That's where his
basketball career came in

because we would play
basketball across the street

from my grandmother's house.

So, whenever we played,
we didn't go easy on him.

We would just play him just
like anyone else, like,

"You're going to have to
beat us to get to the court."

So I think him
going through that,

it actually helped
build his skill.

He started to really
hone in on his craft.

Like, he was really good at
it and really competitive,

and then when he
started getting taller,

it was just like, "Wow."

We called him Monty,

but on the basketball
court, they called him Tree.

He did own the name Tree,
just, like, in his reach,

reaching for the ball,
being able to dunk.

High-school success
leads to a chance

to play college
ball in the Midwest.

He's the first out of
all of my mom's kids

to go away to college.

So we're excited.

Iowa was a bit far for us,

but, you know, you
know where he is,

and you know he's
going for a purpose.

I said, "So what do you
do out there in Iowa?"

He's like, "They
don't do anything

but tip cows out here." I
was like, "What is that?"

He's like, "They
tip cows over."

I think he really
missed home a lot.

After some basketball injuries

and bouts of homesickness,

Lamont drops out.

Back in Seat Pleasant,

he must contend with a
different set of concerns.

The level of violence
is escalating here.

It worried him,
to come back home.

He was scared that something
would happen to him.

You would hear of g*n violence.

You would hear of, you
know, different tragedies.

If you cross out of Maryland,
you're right there in D.C.,

and sometimes the
crime from D.C.

would come over into
Prince George's County.

But Lamont continues
to work on his game

and in 2018 earns his shot

to play in China.

Months earlier, he received
even more thrilling news

from an ex-girlfriend.

Lamont is going to be a father.

His son's name is Makai.

I remember the first
time meeting him,

I was like, "He is the
epitome of his father."

It just is amazing how DNA is
passed to the next generation,

because he acts just like him.

His stance and everything
is just like him.

On August 7th, Lamont shares
exciting news about his son

with his sister Urania.

And I remember he came
and showed me a video,

and he's like, "Did
you see Makai walking?"

He shows me the phone.

He was like, "He's walking."

Oh, my gracious!

And this is as he's
leaving out of the door.

I give him a hug, and I
said, you know, "I love you.

Be safe."

And he was like, "Okay.
I'll see you later."

And, you know, I
hold that memory,

and I cherish it because...

who would ever think that
that would be the last time

I see my little brother alive?

The next day,

Lamont's older sister
receives an alarming call.

I'm at the gas
station pumping gas,

and the phone rings.

This guy that Lamont
grew up with, he's like,

"Your brother just got shot."

"Just got shot? Like, what do
you mean, he just got shot?"

"I don't know. Your
brother just got shot."

And so, like, I started crying.

I asked where it was.

He said it was on Greig Street.

And when I called 911,

I told the operator that
somebody just called me

and told me that my
brother was shot.

Could they send an ambulance?

And she said the
police were there.

I'm praying that
he's okay, like,

"Please keep the blood
flowing to his heart."

I'm Jonathon Church. I am
a Deputy State's Attorney

in Prince George's County
State's Attorney office.

The police get a 911
call for the shots fired

on Greig Street, and when
they arrive, they find

that a man was suffering
from multiple g*nsh*t wounds.

My name is Thea Zumwalt.

I'm an Assistant
State's Attorney

in Prince George's
County, Maryland.

The paramedics arrived
within minutes of the call.

He was found between a car,
parked car, and then the curb,

and they determined that
he was unresponsive.

So, as soon as he
is pronounced dead,

homicide unit shows up.

One goal was to come collect
all the forensic evidence

that they can find.

He has his phone with him,

so they do identify
him as Lamont Adair.

And then that starts the
homicide detectives running.

The reports that
they were getting was

that a car drove
by and was firing.

So they had casings
all along the road

that they had to make sure
that they got them all.

It was somewhere

in the neighborhood of 12
fired cartridge casings,

which really indicates to
us that the g*n was fired

probably to the point
of where it was empty.

It was apparent based on the
location of the g*nsh*t wounds

that some of those are what's
called defensive wounds,

where he was moving and
trying to avoid being shot at,

which would give
you an indication

the person was walking up on him

as he was firing as well.

There were several
buildings to this complex,

and that apartment complex
did have several cameras.

So they made it a priority to
secure the footage for that.

They don't get to
view it right away,

so they're really...
they're dragging in

as much potential evidence as
possible that might help solve,

number one, what
that vehicle was

and then who was in
the vehicle at the time

and then who would have
had a reason to do this.

Once the initial
scene is secured...

And in this case,
there was no one

who committed the
crime who was on-scene.

So they were able to
secure it pretty quickly,

and it was a pretty large area
that they had to cordon off.

So, when we got there,
they had it taped off

and wouldn't let us
get to where he was,

and they was, you know,
not letting me see him,

like, "No, you
can't come close."

I said, "No, I'm
going to see him."

When you deliver a baby

and they cut the umbilical cord,

it's still an invisible
umbilical cord still there...

'Cause you could feel
one of your kids,

that's something going wrong.

I just think about how waste...

You know, a waste
of life it was.

Investigators discover
critical clues

in Lamont's final moments.

This person who shot
Lamont knew him.

A surprising motive emerges.

The phrase everybody uses is,
"The streets are talking."

There were several rumors

that he was a snitch
for the police.

And the k*ller's inner
world is revealed.

- On 8/8/2018,

this is where Lamont
William Adair Junior,

Tree, Monty was m*rder*d at.

Today is his 27th birthday.

We miss you, Monty.

Rest in peace.

Baller for life.

As investigators process

the scene of Lamont
Adair's m*rder,

local media race to
cover the tragedy.

And whatever coward did
this, I hope you're caught.

Turn yourself in.

- So a crowd starts
to gather because it's

a very populated
area, and it's midday.

There's an entire team of
detectives that spread out

and look at different things.

Knocking on every door
of every apartment

that had a window that
oversaw where this happened,

asking people's names and
identification information

and phone numbers...
"What did you see?"

- There really
wasn't anything clear

in the immediate information

that the detectives
received for them to go...

To figure out why
this... Why him?

In search of leads,
detectives turn back

to a piece of evidence

recovered from the crime scene.

When Mr. Adair is found,
he has his phone with him,

and phone can be,
like, a wealth,

a treasure trove of information.

They can identify who
his family members are,

who he is in particular,

start talking with
family members.

Later that evening,
investigators ask Darlene

about Lamont's movements
that afternoon.

I told them that they
were living at my house,

Lamont and Makai.

Lamont had his room downstairs.

So he was down there about 3...

Maybe 2 or 3 hours
playing with Makai,

and then I think he got a phone
call, 'cause he came upstairs,

and he went in the... He
said, "Here, Ma, take him."

He was going out to work
out, like he normally did,

but he was meeting somebody.

What she didn't realize
is what seemed like

an everyday moment would
be one of Lamont's last.

I don't know why, but
something just told me,

"Look out the door,"

when I saw him walking
down the street...

and he was gone.

So, initially,

after talking to family and
friends of Lamont Adair,

there isn't somebody
that readily stands out

as a suspect

because he's not
involved in anything

that we're aware of that
would have made him a target.

Investigators then
turn their focus

to Lamont's online activity

in the days leading up
to his final moments.

There are a team of detectives

checking his social media

to see who he posted
recently with,

what he might have said,
whether it was something

that might have been
responded to hostilely.

From what was in his phone,

he lived a normal
20-something-year-old,

talented, handsome
individual's life.

I mean, he played
basketball. He dated women.

He loved his little
boy, loved his family.

- Rawr!
- Raaawr.

There's videos of
him on Instagram,

and Makai would be on his legs,

you know, around Lamont's neck,

and he's up here
rocking him to sleep,

and he'll fall asleep like that,

like, laying on his head.

On August 4th, just 4 days
before he was m*rder*d,

Lamont posted images from
a local charity event.

Lamont did a benefit
basketball game

for an organization
called Hoops for Peace.

Lamont was actually cautioning

the kids about the streets
not having anything for them,

and so it's like...
It's chilling.

He was saying, "I'd rather
be in the gym playing ball

"than to be getting
somebody else's b*llet

or somebody sh**ting me."

- On August 6th, 2 days
before he was k*lled,

Lamont posted this
image on social media.

His reputation was that he
was active in his community.

He was trying to inspire
others to be better people.

There really wasn't anything
definitive in his phone

that pointed us in any
direction about who did it.

Lamont's family, however,
believe his growing notoriety

and recent success may
have made him a target.

A lot of people were
upset with Lamont

because of the
opportunities that he has,

and we're all like,

"We know he was just about to
go play basketball overseas,"

and really, a lot of
people were jealous of him.

He was headed to
the basketball court

not far from where he
was shot and k*lled.

Who was he meeting there?

Were the people there that
were supposed to be there?

Where were the people that
he was supposed to meet

if they weren't there?

One of the people that Lamont

may have been going to
play basketball with

was a name by the
name of Thomas.

As they process the
events of August 8th,

Lamont's family have grown
suspicious of the friend

who invited him to play
ball that afternoon.

My brother did not leave
the house thinking that

he was going to die that day.

Thomas told Lamont, "Let's
go play basketball."

People were going around
saying that Thomas set it up,

which we felt that way anyway

because it was just too
coincidental that you call him

and tell him to
come up and play.

Rumors suggest that Thomas
may have coordinated

with the g*nman to get
Lamont to Greig Street.

If anyone were able
to call him somewhere,

it would be Thomas
because he trusted him.

The indication was
that he was plotting

to do this to Lamont.

There were rumors.

Lamont's family have tipped
off investigators to a friend

who may have been
involved in the m*rder.

Thomas was somebody
who was on-scene

at the time of the m*rder.

Detectives were looking at
him as possibly being involved

or at least not telling what
he really knew about it.

Thomas was one of
the first names

that I gave to the detectives.

He was the one who made the
call for him to come up there.

He was the one who got him
to come out of the house.

He was the one who put
Lamont in a location

to be a victim of this m*rder.

Police actually
interviewed Thomas.

He came into the station, and
they interviewed him there

to determine whether he
might have been involved

or what he knew.

Investigators begin
by questioning Thomas

about his plans for that day.

So when police talked to
him, he was very quiet,

trying to figure things out.

You can tell he's contemplative.

He had not yet met with Lamont

and didn't know anything
that was useful.

They just didn't get anything,

any information that
was usable from Thomas.

Detectives then
set out to validate

his version of events.

We had six or seven

cell phone dumps
that we went through.

His phone was pulled, and
there was no indication

that he had anything to do

with the m*rder of Lamont Adair.

They could tell that he
called Lamont up to the scene.

He was the one who
made the call for him

to come up there,

but they didn't feel
like he was involved.

After clearing Thomas,
detectives gain access

to the footage from
the housing complex

that could reveal
Lamont's final moments.

So, when police actually

pull the footage of
this video camera

that's on the corner of one
of the apartment buildings,

it does a 360-degree pan.

Every couple seconds,

it starts to pan away to
the back through an alley,

to another street and then
back around to the front.

And we have very
small snippets of it

because it's rotating
the entire time.

Detectives then cue the tape up

to the moment in question.

And at about 3:49,
3:50 that afternoon,

you can see an individual
who we know is Lamont Adair

based on where he falls
and where police find him,

and then eventually you see a
gray Toyota Corolla pull up.

And that's when the
driver's door opens,

and the driver jumps
out of the vehicle

and approaches Lamont Adair.

The video is chilling because
you see the figure just fire,

sh**ting in broad daylight,

and you see Lamont
get down to his knees,

and he's trying to fight.

But he's just ex*cuted

on the street in
front of everybody.

And then the camera
pans out of view.

When the camera
returns to the scene,

the final moments of
the tragedy unfold.

After he had shot Lamont,

he runs back to
the driver's side.

He can't get into
the driver's side.

He hops to the back of the car.

He gets in, and the
car drives away.

We couldn't identify
any movement in the car,

but we were able to determine
that there was somebody else

in the car at the time who
was in the driver's seat,

because the car drove away

with the defendant in the back.

We know there's another person

who witnessed the sh**ting,

the person who slid
into the driver's seat

and shut the door.

To me, this person who
shot Lamont knew him.

I mean, it was willful,
deliberate, premeditated.

They wanted Lamont Adair dead.

I am Aisha Braveboy,
State's Attorney

for Prince George's
County, Maryland.

Surveillance video can
be extremely helpful

in identifying suspects.

In this case, however,
it was very, very grainy,

so it was very difficult

to make out the
features of the suspect.

You can tell that the driver
who exited the car had dreads,

was an African American male.

Beyond that, there was
nothing in that video

that could tell us who that was.

It was a very small,
common car, gray in color.

There was nothing
unique about it.

There was no way to
tell the license plate.

But upon rewatching
Lamont's final moments,

they observe someone else

who may be able to
identify the k*ller.

So the sh**ting takes place
right here, but in the video,

you actually see this
maintenance worker

had pulled up to the main street

where the defendant's
car was traveling.

But you saw in the video
that he saw everything.

And then, initially, when
I reviewed this video,

I said to John, "Let's get
this maintenance worker in."

Days later, investigators
bring this eyewitness

in for questioning.

Right.

We miss them.

Lamont's 27th birthday,
baller for life.

Celebration of his life.

This is Lamont's niece
that he never met.

She'll be a year old
already this month.

It's Kyle, a friend of Monty.

Man, we miss you down here.

You know, you going
to live forever.

We your family, real friends.

Happy birthday, happy
27th birthday, man.

Love you. Miss you.

Happy birthday,
Monty, 27th birthday!

Investigators are
questioning a witness

who observed Lamont Adair's
final moments in hopes

of identifying the sh**ter.

This maintenance worker,
he didn't see anything.

So it was a very frustrating,
you know, moment for us.

The witness' failure
to identify the sh**ter

highlights a major challenge
detectives are facing.

Sadly, there is an
anti-snitching mentality

for witnesses,

and a lot of that
probably is out of fear

that they've got to
live with the people

that may have been
involved in the incident.

I understand the
very real danger

that people may feel if
they do talk about cases,

but in this particular case,

it was so frustrating to see
the number of people out,

and nobody saw anything

who could really
tell us where to go.

In the face of
community silence,

Lamont's family
decides to speak out.

The neighborhood didn't talk,
so we got together as a family,

and we're like, "Well, we need
to go up there and protest."

We walked from the street
where he was m*rder*d

all the way down
to the rec center.

What do we want? All: Justice!

When do we want it? All: Now!

The thing that mattered
to me most was making sure

someone opened
their mouth enough

to find out who did
this to my brother.

Don't sit and hide behind
the windows and curtains.

Tell what you know!

I said, you know,

"Today it's my son, Lamont
William Adair Junior.

"Tomorrow it could be
your father, your brother,

"somebody you love,

"so you want to
tell what happened

"because you would want
somebody to tell you

what happened to
your family member."

In the days following
the protest,

it's apparent that their
message is getting through.

People had started inboxing
me from seeing us on the news,

from seeing us up
there protesting,

from us pleading with the
community members to speak up.

The detectives fielded many
reports from the family

about what they'd heard,
who they heard it from,

and the family was really active

in trying to just
find out information

and funnel it to the detectives.

One rumor suggests that an
incident in Lamont's past

made him a target for revenge.

There were several rumors...
One of them was that

he was possibly a
snitch for the police.

That was basically...

That came up because
he had recently,

prior to this, had
acquired a weed charge

where he was found in a
car smoking some weed.

Like most of the kids his age,

Lamont had started recreational
use of, like, marijuana.

I think that's the way
that he, you know, detached

from his issues or problems.

And he had gotten
into some trouble,

and they arrested him.

It seems that after the arrest,

some individuals may have
viewed Lamont with suspicion.

I don't believe he was
in jail for very long

when he had been
arrested for that,

and, certainly, some of the
rumors that circulate is

that if you're out quickly,

that you must be
working with the police,

and I guess the phrase
everybody uses is,

"The streets are talking."

And so some of the original
rumors that went around

were the potential suspects

who'd be people who
weren't happy about that.

Detectives reach out
to their partners

in the narcotics unit.

It wasn't a big charge.

There would be no reason for him

to want to subject
himself to the dangers

of becoming a snitch to
work off a weed charge.

We had no knowledge
that he had been working

with the police on anything.

Lamont didn't tell on
anybody... he took the charge,

and then he put that
moment behind him,

and he moved forward.

Like, that little scare
turned his life around.

It's another dead end,

but then a friend of
Lamont approaches police,

claiming she has knowledge

about the g*nman seen on
the surveillance video.

Kenya had asked to
talk to the detectives

in charge of the case
because she believed

she had some information
about who had done it.

And that's when the
case really got started.

Detectives begin

by asking Kenya about
her connection to Lamont.

Kenya then reveals something

that she previously kept secret.

She and Lamont were
more than just friends.

According to Kenya, the
relationship with Lamont

pushed her ex over the edge.

On August 10, 2018,

a woman named Kenya
tells investigators

that her ex, Franklin Scott,

may have k*lled Lamont Adair.

She wanted the police to know
that she and Franklin Scott

had a pretty tumultuous
relationship,

consisting of several
protective orders

but also two young children,

so they were
on-again, off-again.

I believe there was allegations

that he had Tased her.

So there was definitely a
rocky relationship there.

That relationship
officially ended

in the beginning of May of 2018.

Franklin Scott was clearly
obsessed with Lamont Adair

and the relationship that
Lamont had had with Kenya.

He lost it, knowing that she ran

to, basically, his
worst nightmare...

A talented, tall,
good-looking guy.

Then she offers more details

that increase the
detectives' interest.

He had long dreads.

He matched the physical
description of the person

who conducted the sh**ting.

Franklin Scott did have
a prior firearms charge,

so we knew from that that
he had access to weapons.

So that also was something

that we were looking
at as important.

When they asked Kenya what
type of vehicle he drives,

she says that he
used to drive a BMW

and that that was in the shop.

She mentions that she
believes he's been driving

a rental vehicle,
possibly a gray Toyota.

The same type of car

observed in the
surveillance video.

Investigators then ask
about her contact with Scott

on August 8th.

She told police that she
received a phone call

from Franklin Scott
the day of the m*rder.

She was at work at the time.

She said she recognized

that voice to be
Olajuwon Jackson

because his voice is
characteristically raspy.

It was OJ Jackson.

He had a nickname
of "OJ the sh**ter."

He had a prior record as well.

At the time, the detectives
were looking everywhere

for him.

They put out feelers everywhere,

trying to track him down,

but after the m*rder,
they were already gone.

To narrow the search,
they continue to focus

on the vehicle
spotted in the video.

It's not until Kenya
kind of comes out,

and we find out that the
suspect rented a vehicle.

She mentions a gray Toyota.

Eventually they do
locate the rental vehicle

parked on a street in
the Seat Pleasant area.

After the m*rder,

Franklin Scott basically parked
the Corolla and walked off.

A search of the car reveals
b*llet fragments inside,

but there's no sign
of the m*rder weapon.

Then in their quest
to locate Scott,

investigators recall a detail
from his criminal past.

They knew that he had to report

for his pending g*n charge
in Anne Arundel County.

One of the detectives
realized that Mr. Scott had

a court date, and
so on August 23rd,

Prince George's County
Police Department

were sitting on the Anne
Arundel County Courthouse

in Glen Burnie, Maryland,

waiting for Mr. Scott to
show up for his court date.

And it was then

that they arrested him for
the m*rder of Lamont Adair.

If he had thought that Kenya
would be likely to talk,

I think he wouldn't have
set foot in that courthouse.

He's taken to the Criminal
Investigation Division

for the Prince George's
County Police Department,

and he asks for a lawyer.

So the police never get
a chance to speak to him.

Eager to collect more
evidence against Scott,

detectives begin monitoring
his phone calls from prison.

Within the week that
he was arrested,

he had made some jail calls,
asking his acquaintance

to help him get
rid of his babies,

which the detectives
were able to determine

he was talking about his g*ns.

Locating the weapon
used in the m*rder

would bolster the
prosecution's case.

Unfortunately, they listened
to the jail calls a couple days

after they were made.

So, by the time they were
able to get a search warrant

and search the house,

there was no indication
of any firearms there.

The failure to find the weapon

is a blow to the investigation.

What we had at that
time was not enough.

It was enough for
probable cause,

which got Franklin
Scott to be arrested,

but it wasn't enough
to find him guilty

beyond a reasonable doubt.

We knew we needed somebody
involved in that moment

to be able to be in court
and point at Franklin Scott

and say, "He's the one who shot

repeatedly at Lamont
Adair and k*lled him."

That man is Olajuwon Jackson.

If we wanted who was truly
responsible for this,

we had to find him.

So police immediately
zeroed in to track him down.

To bring the k*ller of
Lamont Adair to justice,

investigators must track down
his suspected accomplice,

OJ Jackson.

I had been watching
social media,

and OJ was traveling.

He would go to Texas or Florida,

I think it was, come back.

Like, he's active on
his social media page.

But 16 days after the homicide,

police get word

that Jackson has returned
to the Seat Pleasant area.

On August 24th, police find

Olajuwon Jackson at his home,

and that's when they bring
him in to interview him

about his involvement.

They interviewed him
pretty extensively

for a couple hours.

At the end of the interview,
he got real quiet,

and the detectives
asked him something,

and he indicated that he
wanted to talk to his mother,

and his mother came in, and you
saw a pretty profound exchange.

His mother tells him,

"You need to tell
the police the truth.

"You don't need to be
going down for this.

You need to be honest."

Olajuwon Jackson is
finally ready to provide

a firsthand account
of the tragic events

captured by the security camera.

He made it sound like he
bumped into Franklin Scott

as he was walking.

I think that Franklin
Scott picked him up.

He hears Franklin Scott
say, "There he goes."

The car slows down.

He pulls a g*n out of
the driver's side door.

Handle shoots out the window
a few times, opens the door,

and jumps out of the car.

And he says the car keeps
going, and then he jumps

over into the driver's
seat and put the brake on.

Then Jackson observed
Lamont's final moment.

Scott is standing over
Lamont Adair and firing.

I think it all happened so fast,

and it was a surprise to OJ.

OJ Jackson just wanted
to get out of Dodge.

OJ indicated that he
was not expecting it.

However, he did get into the
front driver's side seat.

He was ultimately charged
with accessory after the fact.

Franklin Scott
accepted responsibility

for what he did as well

and primarily because he
knew that Olajuwon Jackson

was going to offer
testimony against him.

Franklin Scott plead guilty
to first-degree m*rder.

I'm pretty proud of that.

It's a more certain outcome
than going to trial,

so I'm happy with the results.

Olajuwon Jackson is
serving a 6-year sentence.

Franklin Scott is
serving 50 years.

The heartbreaking
part about it was,

if I recall correctly,

the mothers knew each other
from the neighborhood.

That was a really profound
thing to sit and observe.

I mean, I know
Franklin's mother,

but I hadn't seen
Franklin in a long time.

So I couldn't identify
him from a cracked egg.

I walked up. I said,
"Hi, how you doing?"

Ad she just started
shaking and crying.

"My son was the one
k*lled your son."

Of course, me, I hug her,
and my kids are like,

"Mom, why are you hugging her?"

And I felt one
mother to another.

You know, my son is dead.

Yours going away for 50 years.
It's like he almost dead.

I told him, I said, "I have to
forgive you for the God in me,

"but I'll never forget
what you have stole

"from me and my family.

You took something very dear
from us, Lamont, Tree, Monty."

"You had no right to do that.

You weren't God, but you
tried to play God that day."

With the m*rder case resolved,

the family continues to
process their grief...

and replay Lamont's
final moments.

Makai had just started walking

right before Lamont passed.

He shows me the phone,
and I'm just, like,

trying to hold back the tears.

I had a feeling about Lamont,

like it was the last time
I was going to see him.

It was very weird when I
think about it and how I felt.

Like, I had to just let him go

because I was
getting teary-eyed,

and that was the last
time I saw Lamont.

Him sharing a moment from
Makai being able to walk.

I wish I had offered
him a ride that day.

There's a lot of things you
look at, and you're like,

you could have done
differently, but...

I don't know.

I just...

Like... I think about
him all the time.

You know, Lamont knew we
loved him, and he loved us,

and at the end of the
day, nothing else matters.

Go ahead.

When you look at the person

that touches, like,
so many people,

and it's disappointing

'cause he had a bright
future ahead of him.

I'm just proud of him
for the man that he was

and who he was trying to become,

you know, for his family.

Gone too soon.

Very, very hard.