Episode 192: VonMason Walker (Part 1 of 2)

0:14 Hello, and welcome to the Catch My Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening. My name is Mark. For over eight years, I've written a weekly newspaper column about true crimes and missing people for the Claremont Side Newspaper in Ohio. With a column and podcast, it has always been my objective to bring attention to those cases that have not received much media attention, if any. This week's story involves the shooting death of a Columbus, Ohio man named von Mason Walker on October sixteenth, twenty fifteen. He was visiting the home of acquaintances for unknown reasons. Von Mason was shot in the head and died.

0:57 According to his father, Willie Walker, the shooting death was ruled an accident. Willie was told that his son was playing with a gun and it discharged. He has disagreed with the ruling as he has spoken to people who are inside the house and also a woman who said Von Mason's death was no accident. She claimed that he was killed over a debt that he owed to one of the men in the house. Was Von Mason's death in accident or did someone intentionally kill this young man? Von Mason Walker was born on December twenty fourth, nineteen ninety in Columbus, Ohio. His parents are Willie Walker and Jennifer Gilman. He had graduated from high school in Mundsey, Indiana, and had received his CDL so that he could become a truck driver. He was found dead in the home of an acquaintance on October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.

2:01 The only information that I was able to find was his obituary. His father, Willie Walker, would have to provide me the details about his son's death. Willie described his relationship with his son as close. WILLI had become von Mason's primary caretaker while von Mason was a child. Von Mason was considered a good son and was motivated to make his own way in life. While discussing career options, Willie encouraged his son to hit the streets and talk to people about career options. Von Mason would take his father's advice. For instance, he had an interest in working security. He had spoken to different security guards and asked questions about the profession. He would eventually become a security guard, but after some time on the job, von Mason decided that he would follow on his father's footsteps and become a truck driver. Willie had felt that his son had made a great career choice and he was on his way to getting set for life. Unfortunately, Willie's life changed forever when he learned that his beloved son had died from a gunshot wound on October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.

3:15 According to Willie, he was told that von Mason was dancing around with a gun and tripped over a toy and accidentally shot himself. Willi said that this was a deduction made from the Columbus Police Department. Because no one in the house corroborated this story, Willie's death was ruled an accident. He would find the explanation ludicrous and unbelievable. He hired a private investigator who looked into the matter further. Based on the investigator's findings, von Mason's death was no accident. Willie's private investigator spoke to a woman who had knowledge about the incident. She had spoken to someone who was in the house and had witnessed the shooting.

3:58 She claimed that someone had he killed von Mason because he owed money to someone. She also said that he was lord to the home that night so that he could be killed. Willie has spent the past several years trying to get the Columbus Police Department to change Von Mason's death from accidental shooting to a homicide. As of today, he has been unsuccessful. WILLI shared Von Mason's story with me, hoping that someone would listen to his pleas for help and getting to the truth of what really happened to his beloved son. This is part one of a two part story. Please be sure to listen to the conclusion next week. And now on with von Mason Walker's story, as told by his father, Willie Walker. I was trying to find information about your son online. Unfortunately, there's nothing about the shooting. The only thing I could find was the obituary of your son. I'm assuming this is because his death was ruled as an accidental shooting, which you dispute. Yes, Columbus police just swept it all up under the rug. The night of the murder twenty fifteen, we did see Channel six out there, and later I found out by Detective Warnick that he told the news member that there is nothing to report here, it's just an accidental shooting. And at that time, I was like, why would you do that? Because being it when the news can put fear in to the perpetrators or something, and he just said it

5:31 was an accident, and so they basically shut everything down. Anything that could have exposed the case to a homicide. They just basically just discredited everything. So then you're telling me that you would like to have Columbus, Ohio police change the death from accidental shooting to a homicide. Is that what you're trying toccomplished? We had the case of homicide before. When I hired the private investigators and gave them the same information that I gave PPD and my investigator Confidential Services, we have found a witness that them guys told her what happened.

6:18 So my private investigators located her asked her does she have any information about what happened to by Mason Walker? And they was telling me that she cried and she said yes, them guys murdered my son and told everything and it's all on recording and I had the report. She said they set him up because my son owed them some money and they just wanted to get the money back from him, and he resisted and they didn't even shoot him, but they put the gun up to his head and shot it and my private investigators asked her, did anyone say anything to you far as moving the body, and she said yes. They told her that they moved his body somewhere in the house. They didn't give her a location of where they moved him, but yes, they moved him. And she was telling on my private investigators that they set it up to make it look like a accidental shooting. That's where that toy truck come in. That Colembus police was telling me that night that my son, because I asked he take the warning, what happened in that house and he said, well, your son, with Danton in the kitchen with gun in his hand and flipping on a toy truck, accidentally shot himself in the head. He said, everything matches him holding the gun, the high velocity blowback on his right hand. Their overall evidence that he was holding

7:49 the gun, the head wound, he told me, And that audio recording is missing. They got rid of it because we did a public record request and that wasn't with everything else. So he told me that night that if you take your hand and make a gun and bring it towards your head, you fit the direction of the gun, and everything fit. My son holding the gun and I'm like, no way, no way, no no, I know these people in this house. We then trying to get my son to stop hanging around these people, and because they're a dark cloud, we know who's shot him. The story is crazy. So tell me more about your son as a person. What kind of a young man was he and when was he born? And can you tell me about his career aspirations.

8:41 My son's name is by Nathan Walker. He was born nineteen ninety twenty fourth of Decemberary. He was a Christmas Eve baby boy, so he had Christmas and his birthday all tangled together, so he was special. He was born at Grant Hospital and we brought him home and I ended up with him because he was a little too much at school. So I was the constolio parent of Bom Mason Walker. So I raised him from the year of four or five all the way up into his adulthood. So Von Mason was a typical young man. He loved to roller skate and do all the normal things kids do at that age. He was just some normal kid. His grades were like D in C plus, so I had to stay on him and he did graduate. I let him go to Indiana, where his mom lived at the time, and he graduated from high school and Mufee, Indiana. So when he graduated, he came back home and he started working at different little places. I was showing him how you find jobs. You look into paper and see what's going going on in the newspapers, and I was telling him sometimes you just got to fill up the car and just go out to certain areas and check out warehouses and talk to people security guards. So he wanted

10:13 to do that one time, and I told him sure, So we went out. We had a great time interacting with security guards and they giving another information how to be a security guard because he was interested in a security guard. So next thing you know, I turned around he had a security guard uniform. More life, so you're telling on people. Now, he like, I'm checking in truck driver and all this kind of stuff. So from that point he realized I met him find his way because in my family we basically all in transportation, some kind of a truck drivers. Basically I'm a truck driver. So when by Mason became a security guard and he was talking truck drivers in and out, he learned where the money was at. So he talked to me about it. He's like, Dad, why you didn't tell me about truck driver man. I said, I did say something to you a little bit, but I'll just let you try to find your way.

11:13 So he wanted to be a truck driver, and he went to Columbus State. They had this program over there, and he found out about it that he can join this program and they will pay for a trade if you find a trade. So the truck driving was a trade. So he fined up for it. And I was like, wow, Mason, you left man because truck driving man, it cost out eleven twelve, sometimes fifteen thousand dollars to get your endorsement. So he went through that. We was all excited. It was almost like when he graduated and stuff. So he ended up with this flatbed job and he was calling me. He was somewhere way up in Wisconsin and he was saying that he got this big old machinery freight on his flatbed and it's snowing and it's blowing. And Vob mclan was a little guy. He wasn't no big guy. He about five eight and a half or five nine, maybe one ten or something like that. So he was telling me the tark that's supposed to secure the machinery. He grabbed hold of it and he was like, Dad is just blooming me with the tarth.

12:24 I'm like, man, figure out the tightest thing down, talking tow him and everything. So he had a very interesting career. And the night that he was murdered, he had applied for a new job where he was going to take on responsibility traveling the country side. He wanted to get away from everything, and that job started that Saturday. So that Saturday, October the seventeenth, and he was murdered October the sixteenth of twenty fifteen. So that night, October the sixth, I was out of town because I'm a truck driver and I'd run out of Dayton. So I was coming back from Dayton, Ohio, and my eldest son has sent me a strange peck and I wasn't communicating with him very well because he was all street. Anything he do, it's all street and and that was the type of person that he was. So he was doing a lot of things and people was being hurt around him. So that's when he was trying to tell Va Mason to stay Wapron damn because a dark cloud over them. Family members are being basically killed around my elder son. So I got this strange picked that night, Friday, the sixteenth of twenty fifteen, I was coming from Dayton and it said Dad. It then used to be like this, so it's cool, homeboy,

13:54 coming homeboy. Everything has changed bad. So he said something like you shoot down everything that we talked about, so remember that shooting your stun down like that can have a change on your life or something that he had said. And I like, good rhythm to my son, I'm like, man, he finally got the message. I didn't want to deal with him anymore because he was too much in the street. So that's about around six point twenty three ish that evening, and I was going to go by the house where my son later on was murdered, and I went to KOs and Bradnington outfit and went home. So when I got home and got myself together and got ready to go to bed, the phone just kept ringing ringing. So when I picked the phone up, that's when my brother out of town.

14:48 He's a driver from Arizona. He's like, man, they trying to save Vam. Mason killed himself. So I flipped out from that moment. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, get over there and get over there, man. So I'm screaming and hollering everything, and I finally got myself together telling what they trying to say. Mason killed himself and everybody screaming and it was just all just a nightmare. So I finally naked over there and I saw my eldest son. He was at a distance, but I saw the main person that later on we found out that he was the shooter, and I didn't know that at the time. So I asked him where was he at when all of this happened, and he said that he was down the street at the barbershop, and They're like okay. Then I asked for the detective that was in charge to come out and talk to me, and I asked him, I'm like, it's my numb Mason did in that house and he like, yes, sir. I'm screaming, you know, my mind going and stuff. I'm throwing all out. I'm like, no, what happened? And that's when he told me that by Mason Walker was in the kitchen and he was dancing with a gun in his hand and slipped on a toy truck and accidentally shot himself in the head, and that just didn't resonate with me. I'm like, no way, I said, are you sure? So he like, yes, sir, mister Walker.

16:10 Everything matches your son holding the gun. He said, if you take your hand and make a gun and bring it towards your head and matches the wound that's embedded in your son. Paid he said, the blood on your son's right hand is high velocity blowback, and that's their only physical evidence that he had his hand on the gun. And he said, mister Walker, my only concern is your son's body position is in between a playpen and this refrigerator. And he did not elaborate with me much more, but he had issues with my son's body provision. So that night went on and late wrapping us the crime scene, we stayed out there screaming and hollering, and my eldest son still wasn't coming to me telling me what's going on. And really he street that's all he does, black market dealing. He's a street guy, period. So I thought that was weird, and I told him that he better not have anything to do with this. None of your family, and we got into it because I was screaming and hollering at the police that something is wrong. No, my son didn't dancing in the kitchen and shoot itself in the head. So my eldest sound was like, damn, you better stop cussing like that and talking about my brother like that. I'm like, you ain't saying nothing something is wrong. This ain't right, man, I'm not going to buy that now. He shot himself in the head. So

17:40 the night ended and months had went by it and I wasn't getting no calls from CPD about the issue that detected warning with the crime scene. So I started calling and I was wanting to come in and look at the crime tune fold and he was telling me all, mister Walker, I don't think you want to see it is too gruesome to graphics. So I bought that and I was like, so how can I understand what you saying? Like the bottom line, miss Walker, we understand you grieving your son shot and killed himself. And I was like, no way, and I'm not buying that, not in that house where everybody a mastermind criminal that hangs out in this house. No, I know too much that's been happening with different individuals that's hanging in that house. I'm not going to buy that. So some more months went by and I went downtown to get the police report. Everybody kept saying, go downtown, get the police report. It is teddy everything.

18:45 So I go downtown and got a police report, and I saw that he was going to be a big file. So I looked at the information that they gave me. I'm like, what is this. It's just saying accident on shooting Mason Walker, d Steve blah blah blah blah blah blah, nine one one calls on the CD. So I'm like, wow, that is of a police report. So I was went on home and start listening to some of the audio recording the No. One one calls and everybody that was calling in for help, I knew their voices and I heard some of the perpetrators that later that I found out that was involved. So that's when I hired a attorney and he did a public record request. So when that came back, we had everything, crime scene photographs, the full police reporting of what happened, and we're going through it and we're looking at the crime scene, looking at my son laying in between that position that the detectives were saying, and we're like, why this is like that? Why that gun is over there on his less side and he's right handed, and we were digging into it, you know, the more photographs coming. Nothing was making sense from that detective was telling me. So I took everything home and I stayed up for nights just going over all the information, listening to all the audio, recording the crime scene photographs. Nothing was adding up. So when I

20:19 learned that something was wrong, when I tried to talk to the textaves about my son's body position, that it looked like he was flid into that position because it looked like that his t shirt was killed it halfway up his chest, like someone was right handed, was more stronger in their right hand was pulling him. And the way that his legs were stretched out up against the wall, his head the baseboard, and his body was stretched out and his feet was stretched out his seat. His foot the side was leaning left, the right side was leaning right. So his hands was over laughing each other on his twists sole and his fingers was crossing each other. And I'm looking at the photographs, I'm like, wow, down the world. He was dancing in a kitchen and flipped on a toy truck and shot himself and landed like that. It looked like somebody to me with common scent that God gave us. It just didn't look right. And I'm looking at the photographs and I said, wow, they looked like somebody's slitting. Oh. I kept digging and kept digging. Months and months was going allience stuff and I wasn't hearing anything from Columbus police. And then I was looking at the high velocity blowback that they said that was on my son's right hand, and I'm doing it in and out and I'm bringing it up and I'm like looking at my son's hand, crying because I seen him in the terrible situation here. My mind was like gomb So I'm looking at the blood that they called physical their

21:53 only physical evidence, and I'm like, wow, why did look like it just hit his arm his wrist in a downward motion, And then you can see where it bubble or tear with blood, I mean with brain matter in the end of the blood, it stopped and it bubbled like a tear. It didn't look right to me at the time, and I didn't know what blowbacks supposed to look like, so I thought that was strange. So Clembing police still wasn't interacting with me, and almost double back because we had to go back to the corner's office to pick up my son's belonging. And I think that was the nineteenth of October twenty fifteen. That was that Monday.

22:41 He was murdered that Friday the sixteenth, so that was October to nineteenth. We went to the corners to retrieve my son's belongings. So they had a cell phone in the bag, his watch, and his walllet and we're looking in his wallin, like where is ID, where's his CDN license? Where the honey that this girl love him? Were asking all these questions why his phone likes Somebody try to open his phone with a swipe in and his phone was all bloody. Then take that into evidence. So we're looking through his phone with blood all on the phone at the corner's office and we figured out the past code was the last four digits of his social security numbers. So the phone came on. We like all the phone is on, so were looking at his tags and trying to hear all his voice messages. So we saw a text in my son's phone from one of the perpetrators that was in the kitchen that night said prepare yourself straight beef on site when I see you.

23:44 And I'm like, they did do something my son. They did do something my son. So I ended up going home and I called the detectives that was over my son's case, and I had to basically buff him out to come to get my thumb phone because there's crucial evidence in my son phoned that he had a threat in his phone. So he finally came. I gave depected warning the phone and that's when we ended up getting the police report, the public record request because we heard him investigating some of the perpetrators and people that was all involved in what happened but transpired that night. Willie Walker was having a difficult time understanding just what exactly happened to his son. He just could not understand how his son's death could be considered an accident. We will take a short break and listen to will he provide more details about what transpired inside the home where his son died. So tell me about who exactly was in the house with your son when he died. Someone had to have said that he was dancing around and playing with a gun. Who actually said

25:15 that? Do you know nobody was saying he was dancing. There was about seven people that was in the kitchen and what was said that my son had came from outside into the house. And a witness has said, now this is on audio recording on CPDE audio recording, this is not for me. This is what I heard on CPD audio recording. The women said that my son had came in to the house. He came in and two other kids was feuding over a toy. He gave one kid a toy and gave the other kid a toy. It was both toy trucks, and he was playing with the kids on the floor and the witness said, that's when my ma thing got up and walked into the kitchen and immediately a gunshot went off.

26:07 So another audio recording of the perpetrator had PPD had interviewed this perpetrator that we know shot my son. His audio recording. At first, he said that on the nine one one call, he was saying that he was in the living room and he just heard a pile and he grabbed his kids and ran outside, and the nine one one operator was like, is the man still breathing? And he said, I don't know. I'm not going nowhere near him, so let me get that out the way. So the detectives was asking him where was he because he already gave a statement where he was at. He was saying he was coming out of the kitchen. And remember the girl, the witness had said that my son was walking out of the family room into the kitchen. So this perpetrator, the suspect, has said he was coming out of the kitchen. And the detector said, so you guys pass each other through the threshold together, did you see a gun? And vom makes in his hand and the perpetrator said no, and the suspect, I'm calling the perpetrator and suspecting the same thing the thus bac said and straconds.

27:22 Later the gun shot went off and he turned around and saw my son sliding down the side of the refrigerator. So the detective was arguing with the suspect, saying, no, you said that you were in the family room. Now you saying that you was coming out of the kitchen. And the detective was saying, we'll see, this is what muddies the water. Because why is everybody lying? Everybody is lying. If it's a simple accidental shooting, it should be one story. Is too many different stories. So the detective says, so what story you want want to stick with? And that's when we flipped, like why is he letting this guy recap or just come up with a different complete story that what he had said from the beginning talking to the nine one one operator and the private detected. So that's when my private detected, you know, we found the witness and she said, them guys murdered my son and going back to the female started going back to the other witness that was in the family room that said that my son was playing around with the kid and walked into the kitchen. The detected said, so you think somebody did something and she said, yes, they shot that man.

28:42 He said, so you think they killed him or shot him and she said yes, and he said why would they do that? She like, I don't know. She said that she did not see a gun nowhere on my son because his clothes wasn't that much and he gets something in the kitchen and then the other suspects said they passed each other in the shot happened immediately, so me and the detectives listening to that, that's when we were saying, well, that detective knew at that moment that this shouldn't be no accidental shooting, that this should be a homicide case. So they kind of swept all of that fronder the rug, and we saw that witness that was saying that my fellow was playing with the toys and she mentioned that they shot that man. On his report, he said the witness said that Blank was sitting in a living room and heard a bang. Blank said, they ran out of the house. And this is what I'm quoting. Blank said that they were uncertain what happened to by Mats and Walker, and that's not what she said. She said they shot that man, and they did not report the right information. Everything was kept being swept under the rug. So when I had went back to my attorney's office and we was talking about some things and gave me some more stuff, and I learned that the reason why CPD wasn't

30:18 working my son's case because they basically tampered with the crime scene. They changed the crime scene from homicide to accidental shooting. Because me and the private investigators, CPD wasn't cooperating with the So when I got the private investigators involved and they was trying to work with CPD and realize that they wasn't going to get anywhere, that's when we discovered the reason why, and it was the gun. If you look at the crime scene photographs that I have on vom Mason's page on Facebook is photographs nineteen where the gun is laid on the kitchen floor next to von Mason's body. So the gun is on Vonasan's body left side, and remember he's right handed, and when you zoom in you can see blood. I'm gonna say about seven distinctive blood dropping on this gun that you can identify and photograph thirty four. Now this is the TPDE crime them photographs that we're looking at and you can see and photographs thirty four that forensic blood asident was white clean off the gun. The seven blood dropping and photographs nineteen.

31:36 It was cleaned off and then it was manufactured bluod spatter on the back end of the gun. I had this experts look at the gun. I didn't say much to him, and in his reporting all of this is documented on the gun's flyer. If you just stand the top right, QR code it all. Everything that I'm talking about is on this path. So that's when you could see the reason why CPD wasn't working the case because it turned into a policemist on the case because they tampered and altered the gun. And when they did that, they basically helped them guys get away with murdering my son. And that's why we had vio cooperation with Colembus polief and they continued to sweep the cap under the rug. My detectives try to bring that witness in that they set my son up. They brought the witness down to THPD headquarters. Is this witness, this girl that you're talking about, Is she the same girl that said that? No? Different, Okay, So this is a different woman, not the one that said that he was playing with the kids. Yes, a different female. So was the female witness that you spoke to. Was she also in the house. She wasn't there.

33:00 They came to her house three days later and she heard them talk about it and they told her what happened. Columbus Police, it's hearsay. So the way they worked the cave is they eluded their felth away from the truth because of what they did with the gun. Willie's investigator spoke to the woman who claimed that von Mason's death was no accident. She claimed that he owed money to someone and was lured to the house to be killed. Willie has been fighting with Columbus PD to investigate his son's case as a homicide. We will take a final break and listen to Willie discuss his frustration with law enforcement's decision to rule his son's death as an accident and not a homicide. They wanted the case to be accidental shooting, and they didn't think that me, as a parent, will get the public record request. They thought that we was going to believe everything that that they tell us, which we're supposed to because they are the police. This is their job. This is what they supposed to do. This is what they signed up to do. We didn't ask for none of this, and I wasn't taking their word because it didn't make

34:36 sense to me. That night, my son dancing in the kitchen and flipped on a toy truck and shot itself in the head. I'm thinking when we saw the gunshot wound to my son's heyd that it was going to be from a distance. It's up close in Bennett and my sons, and so all of that is wrong. So PPD just basically lied to my private investigators they was going to pick up three of these suspects and bring them in, and they never done that. We had two of these suspects polygraph tested and they failed their test, and one of the questions was did you shoot or see anyone shoot Vonason Walker that night? And they both failed miserably high numbers of my investigator polygraph examiner explained, and THPD was interested in that because they wanted to know the outcome. And when I told Detective Warranted that both failed their polygraph test, and what I got back from him was like, that's two guys from the same crime scene. He'd said, that's unheard of. I'm like, yes, them, guy has murdered my son, so what they've done. Then they say we're gonna polygraph these guys, and that never happened.

35:52 So they just prolong and it just a prolethera alive. It just continued and we solved my son's case. We know who shot him. Columbus police even know that he was shot, and they know who's all involved? And I have another story. When I went on December be stacking of twenty sixteen, I had a meeting with Detective Walklet and at the end of that meeting, I said, Detective walk Lit, these guys murdered my son. He said, Willie, I know, it's just a matter of proving it. So I was like, dumbam found it. I didn't have no response to that, because if you know why, you're not doing nothing. They were just sitting on the case. They would take your information and just sit on it and tell you things that they're going to do, which is not true.

36:46 They didn't do anything. And that night that detectives told me the bullet went through my son's head. It hit a critical old bottle on top of the refrigerator, penetrated the wall from the inside and exted it out from the outside wall. And they couldn't find the bullet flug. He said, it is lost. I said, you guys can't find it. He's like, no, they couldn't find it. But it took me two years to go by that house. And I went by the house. Lord behold their goal. The bullet flood. Now, when I was looking at the crime scene photographs. I thought the bullet went into the gutter system, and because it looked like it was a hole. So when the people that was living there at the time, you know, I told her what happened, and she let me walk through the house. The bullet is still lodged in the house inside the kitchen is still there, making it ever patch the walls or anything.

37:47 So she let me get a ladder and I put it on. I placed the ladder on the side of her house and climbed up the ladder and I'm looking at the exit hole. And when I looked up cop at the what I thought was a hole, it was a dirt spot. I'm like, that's dirt. Wow. The pictures it looked like it that's where the bullet went into the flug So immediately all you had to do, well, all I did is turned around and I saw where the bullet ended up. It was launching in the house next door or so. Columbus police lied to me that night, playing that they couldn't even fund the bullet slug. So I did a video of me and that's also on Mason's flyer or me removing the bullet plug that Columbus police said that they could not find and I dug it out. There was no other gunshot holes in the side of the house.

38:42 That was the only hole. And it matched the bullet that I dug out of the house, matches the exit you know, on the house next to me where he was murdered at It all linked up, man and so I put it in a bag, and I was happy that I retrieved the bullet, but I was like, my mind was like gone, I'm like, why are they lying to me? So I had a meeting with deathly Chief Becker and Commander Gray. I thought I was doing something going that high up the ladder. It does not matter when a crime happened like this and if the police misconduct, because it's not the officer this time, it's all the Texas in the crime scene unit that need attention because they changed cases from homicide to accidental shooting. So me climbing up that CPD ladder, I'm getting higher and higher. I'm like, whoa, I want to give them the bullet slug and my family like, no, no, no, don't give it to them, don't get it to him. I'm telling them, I'm getting ready to go and talk to the commander and the Deputy chief. I'm turning this bullet slug in. So I went and gave them, gave them the story, showed them the pictures of the gun with CPD betaked this did They wiped the gun clean and I showed them the bullet and they was like, where that comes from? I said, this is the bullet slug that CPD said that they couldn't find that night. And they kind of got quiet, and they like, you found this, I said, I went knocking.

40:15 You see the date, I said, I went two years later and that's where that bullet slug left. They didn't even look for it, So this is it. So the test results came back inconclusive, you know. Talking to people, they say, how is a bullet inconclusive? When a bullet is far out of a gun, it leaves marking. So everything is false. It's fiction with CPDE changing it from homicide to accidental shooting. So I'm gonna jump up ahead. So when all of that was taking place and my investigators got tired, So in the house that von Mason died in, did he live there? No, it was one of the perpetrators that lived there, where my eldest son hung out at So why was your son at that house on that particular evening. Was he just hanging out with his brother or friends? What was he doing there hanging out? My son loved the female, so he was being the thiequal to his female. So he had a female to come over there to drop them all, and she was leaving, and he was going to leave from there to go to his mom's house because he had another female over there waiting on him because they were going to go get them betting for his truck because he had that new job to start that next day, so he was excited about that. That's why he ended up over there. And that concludes the first half of this week's story about

41:47 von Mason Walker. On October sixteenth, twenty fifteen, he was found deceased in a home in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Police Department has rolled Von Mason's death as an accidental shooting. However, his family does not believe this to be true. What truly happened to Von Mason was his shooting an accident or did someone kill him and get away with murder. Willie Walker does not believe the Columbus Police Department will do anything with any tips that they might receive. So he has asked that if you have a valuable tip to please contact him directly at six' one four four four one, six' nine one, pint one. He would like to screen out tips and then discuss the ones that he keeps with law enforcement personally. I will be sure to include his contact information in the case story notes, and if you are a parent, law enforcement official, friend, or relative seeking justice for an unsolved homicide case, please visit my website and complete the contact more. Thank you for listening up.