Episode 192: VonMason Walker (Part 1 of 2)

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Hello, and welcome to the Catch
My Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.

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My name is Mark. For over
eight years, I've written a weekly

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newspaper column about true crimes and missing
people for the Claremont Side Newspaper in Ohio.

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With a column and podcast, it
has always been my objective to bring

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attention to those cases that have not
received much media attention, if any.

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This week's story involves the shooting death
of a Columbus, Ohio man named von

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Mason Walker on October sixteenth, twenty
fifteen. He was visiting the home of

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acquaintances for unknown reasons. Von Mason
was shot in the head and died.

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According to his father, Willie Walker, the shooting death was ruled an accident.

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Willie was told that his son was
playing with a gun and it discharged.

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He has disagreed with the ruling as
he has spoken to people who are

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inside the house and also a woman
who said Von Mason's death was no accident.

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She claimed that he was killed over
a debt that he owed to one

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of the men in the house.
Was Von Mason's death in accident or did

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someone intentionally kill this young man?
Von Mason Walker was born on December twenty

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fourth, nineteen ninety in Columbus,
Ohio. His parents are Willie Walker and

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Jennifer Gilman. He had graduated from
high school in Mundsey, Indiana, and

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had received his CDL so that he
could become a truck driver. He was

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found dead in the home of an
acquaintance on October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.

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The only information that I was able
to find was his obituary. His father,

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Willie Walker, would have to provide
me the details about his son's death.

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Willie described his relationship with his son
as close. WILLI had become von

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Mason's primary caretaker while von Mason was
a child. Von Mason was considered a

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good son and was motivated to make
his own way in life. While discussing

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career options, Willie encouraged his son
to hit the streets and talk to people

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about career options. Von Mason would
take his father's advice. For instance,

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he had an interest in working security. He had spoken to different security guards

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and asked questions about the profession.
He would eventually become a security guard,

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but after some time on the job, von Mason decided that he would follow

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on his father's footsteps and become a
truck driver. Willie had felt that his

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son had made a great career choice
and he was on his way to getting

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set for life. Unfortunately, Willie's
life changed forever when he learned that his

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beloved son had died from a gunshot
wound on October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.

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According to Willie, he was told
that von Mason was dancing around with a

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gun and tripped over a toy and
accidentally shot himself. Willi said that this

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was a deduction made from the Columbus
Police Department. Because no one in the

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house corroborated this story, Willie's death
was ruled an accident. He would find

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the explanation ludicrous and unbelievable. He
hired a private investigator who looked into the

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matter further. Based on the investigator's
findings, von Mason's death was no accident.

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Willie's private investigator spoke to a woman
who had knowledge about the incident.

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She had spoken to someone who was
in the house and had witnessed the shooting.

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She claimed that someone had he killed
von Mason because he owed money to

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someone. She also said that he
was lord to the home that night so

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that he could be killed. Willie
has spent the past several years trying to

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get the Columbus Police Department to change
Von Mason's death from accidental shooting to a

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homicide. As of today, he
has been unsuccessful. WILLI shared Von Mason's

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story with me, hoping that someone
would listen to his pleas for help and

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getting to the truth of what really
happened to his beloved son. This is

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part one of a two part story. Please be sure to listen to the

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conclusion next week. And now on
with von Mason Walker's story, as told

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by his father, Willie Walker.
I was trying to find information about your

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son online. Unfortunately, there's nothing
about the shooting. The only thing I

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could find was the obituary of your
son. I'm assuming this is because his

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death was ruled as an accidental shooting, which you dispute. Yes, Columbus

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police just swept it all up under
the rug. The night of the murder

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twenty fifteen, we did see Channel
six out there, and later I found

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out by Detective Warnick that he told
the news member that there is nothing to

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report here, it's just an accidental
shooting. And at that time, I

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was like, why would you do
that? Because being it when the news

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can put fear in to the perpetrators
or something, and he just said it

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was an accident, and so they
basically shut everything down. Anything that could

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have exposed the case to a homicide. They just basically just discredited everything.

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So then you're telling me that you
would like to have Columbus, Ohio police

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change the death from accidental shooting to
a homicide. Is that what you're trying

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toccomplished? We had the case of
homicide before. When I hired the private

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investigators and gave them the same information
that I gave PPD and my investigator Confidential

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Services, we have found a witness
that them guys told her what happened.

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So my private investigators located her asked
her does she have any information about what

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happened to by Mason Walker? And
they was telling me that she cried and

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she said yes, them guys murdered
my son and told everything and it's all

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on recording and I had the report. She said they set him up because

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my son owed them some money and
they just wanted to get the money back

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from him, and he resisted and
they didn't even shoot him, but they

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put the gun up to his head
and shot it and my private investigators asked

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her, did anyone say anything to
you far as moving the body, and

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she said yes. They told her
that they moved his body somewhere in the

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house. They didn't give her a
location of where they moved him, but

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yes, they moved him. And
she was telling on my private investigators that

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they set it up to make it
look like a accidental shooting. That's where

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that toy truck come in. That
Colembus police was telling me that night that

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my son, because I asked he
take the warning, what happened in that

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house and he said, well,
your son, with Danton in the kitchen

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with gun in his hand and flipping
on a toy truck, accidentally shot himself

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in the head. He said,
everything matches him holding the gun, the

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high velocity blowback on his right hand. Their overall evidence that he was holding

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the gun, the head wound,
he told me, And that audio recording

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is missing. They got rid of
it because we did a public record request

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and that wasn't with everything else.
So he told me that night that if

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you take your hand and make a
gun and bring it towards your head,

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you fit the direction of the gun, and everything fit. My son holding

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the gun and I'm like, no
way, no way, no no,

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I know these people in this house. We then trying to get my son

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to stop hanging around these people,
and because they're a dark cloud, we

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know who's shot him. The story
is crazy. So tell me more about

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your son as a person. What
kind of a young man was he and

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when was he born? And can
you tell me about his career aspirations.

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My son's name is by Nathan Walker. He was born nineteen ninety twenty fourth

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of Decemberary. He was a Christmas
Eve baby boy, so he had Christmas

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and his birthday all tangled together,
so he was special. He was born

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at Grant Hospital and we brought him
home and I ended up with him because

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he was a little too much at
school. So I was the constolio parent

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of Bom Mason Walker. So I
raised him from the year of four or

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five all the way up into his
adulthood. So Von Mason was a typical

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young man. He loved to roller
skate and do all the normal things kids

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do at that age. He was
just some normal kid. His grades were

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like D in C plus, so
I had to stay on him and he

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did graduate. I let him go
to Indiana, where his mom lived at

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the time, and he graduated from
high school and Mufee, Indiana. So

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when he graduated, he came back
home and he started working at different little

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places. I was showing him how
you find jobs. You look into paper

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and see what's going going on in
the newspapers, and I was telling him

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sometimes you just got to fill up
the car and just go out to certain

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areas and check out warehouses and talk
to people security guards. So he wanted

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to do that one time, and
I told him sure, So we went

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out. We had a great time
interacting with security guards and they giving another

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information how to be a security guard
because he was interested in a security guard.

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So next thing you know, I
turned around he had a security guard

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uniform. More life, so you're
telling on people. Now, he like,

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I'm checking in truck driver and all
this kind of stuff. So from

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that point he realized I met him
find his way because in my family we

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basically all in transportation, some kind
of a truck drivers. Basically I'm a

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truck driver. So when by Mason
became a security guard and he was talking

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truck drivers in and out, he
learned where the money was at. So

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he talked to me about it.
He's like, Dad, why you didn't

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tell me about truck driver man.
I said, I did say something to

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you a little bit, but I'll
just let you try to find your way.

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So he wanted to be a truck
driver, and he went to Columbus

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State. They had this program over
there, and he found out about it

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that he can join this program and
they will pay for a trade if you

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find a trade. So the truck
driving was a trade. So he fined

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up for it. And I was
like, wow, Mason, you left

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man because truck driving man, it
cost out eleven twelve, sometimes fifteen thousand

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dollars to get your endorsement. So
he went through that. We was all

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excited. It was almost like when
he graduated and stuff. So he ended

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up with this flatbed job and he
was calling me. He was somewhere way

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up in Wisconsin and he was saying
that he got this big old machinery freight

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on his flatbed and it's snowing and
it's blowing. And Vob mclan was a

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little guy. He wasn't no big
guy. He about five eight and a

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half or five nine, maybe one
ten or something like that. So he

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was telling me the tark that's supposed
to secure the machinery. He grabbed hold

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of it and he was like,
Dad is just blooming me with the tarth.

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I'm like, man, figure out
the tightest thing down, talking tow

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him and everything. So he had
a very interesting career. And the night

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that he was murdered, he had
applied for a new job where he was

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going to take on responsibility traveling the
country side. He wanted to get away

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from everything, and that job started
that Saturday. So that Saturday, October

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the seventeenth, and he was murdered
October the sixteenth of twenty fifteen. So

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that night, October the sixth,
I was out of town because I'm a

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truck driver and I'd run out of
Dayton. So I was coming back from

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Dayton, Ohio, and my eldest
son has sent me a strange peck and

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I wasn't communicating with him very well
because he was all street. Anything he

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do, it's all street and and
that was the type of person that he

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was. So he was doing a
lot of things and people was being hurt

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around him. So that's when he
was trying to tell Va Mason to stay

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Wapron damn because a dark cloud over
them. Family members are being basically killed

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around my elder son. So I
got this strange picked that night, Friday,

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the sixteenth of twenty fifteen, I
was coming from Dayton and it said

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Dad. It then used to be
like this, so it's cool, homeboy,

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coming homeboy. Everything has changed bad. So he said something like you

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shoot down everything that we talked about, so remember that shooting your stun down

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like that can have a change on
your life or something that he had said.

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And I like, good rhythm to
my son, I'm like, man,

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he finally got the message. I
didn't want to deal with him anymore

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because he was too much in the
street. So that's about around six point

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twenty three ish that evening, and
I was going to go by the house

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where my son later on was murdered, and I went to KOs and Bradnington

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outfit and went home. So when
I got home and got myself together and

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got ready to go to bed,
the phone just kept ringing ringing. So

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when I picked the phone up,
that's when my brother out of town.

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He's a driver from Arizona. He's
like, man, they trying to save

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Vam. Mason killed himself. So
I flipped out from that moment. I'm

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like, what are you talking about? Like, get over there and get

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over there, man. So I'm
screaming and hollering everything, and I finally

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got myself together telling what they trying
to say. Mason killed himself and everybody

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screaming and it was just all just
a nightmare. So I finally naked over

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there and I saw my eldest son. He was at a distance, but

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I saw the main person that later
on we found out that he was the

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shooter, and I didn't know that
at the time. So I asked him

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where was he at when all of
this happened, and he said that he

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was down the street at the barbershop, and They're like okay. Then I

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asked for the detective that was in
charge to come out and talk to me,

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and I asked him, I'm like, it's my numb Mason did in

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that house and he like, yes, sir. I'm screaming, you know,

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my mind going and stuff. I'm
throwing all out. I'm like,

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no, what happened? And that's
when he told me that by Mason Walker

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was in the kitchen and he was
dancing with a gun in his hand and

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slipped on a toy truck and accidentally
shot himself in the head, and that

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just didn't resonate with me. I'm
like, no way, I said,

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are you sure? So he like, yes, sir, mister Walker.

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Everything matches your son holding the gun. He said, if you take your

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hand and make a gun and bring
it towards your head and matches the wound

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that's embedded in your son. Paid
he said, the blood on your son's

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right hand is high velocity blowback,
and that's their only physical evidence that he

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had his hand on the gun.
And he said, mister Walker, my

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only concern is your son's body position
is in between a playpen and this refrigerator.

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And he did not elaborate with me
much more, but he had issues

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with my son's body provision. So
that night went on and late wrapping us

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the crime scene, we stayed out
there screaming and hollering, and my eldest

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son still wasn't coming to me telling
me what's going on. And really he

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street that's all he does, black
market dealing. He's a street guy,

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period. So I thought that was
weird, and I told him that he

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better not have anything to do with
this. None of your family, and

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we got into it because I was
screaming and hollering at the police that something

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is wrong. No, my son
didn't dancing in the kitchen and shoot itself

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in the head. So my eldest
sound was like, damn, you better

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stop cussing like that and talking about
my brother like that. I'm like,

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you ain't saying nothing something is wrong. This ain't right, man, I'm

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not going to buy that now.
He shot himself in the head. So

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the night ended and months had went
by it and I wasn't getting no calls

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from CPD about the issue that detected
warning with the crime scene. So I

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started calling and I was wanting to
come in and look at the crime tune

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fold and he was telling me all, mister Walker, I don't think you

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want to see it is too gruesome
to graphics. So I bought that and

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I was like, so how can
I understand what you saying? Like the

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bottom line, miss Walker, we
understand you grieving your son shot and killed

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himself. And I was like,
no way, and I'm not buying that,

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not in that house where everybody a
mastermind criminal that hangs out in this

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house. No, I know too
much that's been happening with different individuals that's

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hanging in that house. I'm not
going to buy that. So some more

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months went by and I went downtown
to get the police report. Everybody kept

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saying, go downtown, get the
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So I go downtown and got a
police report, and I saw that he

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was going to be a big file. So I looked at the information that

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they gave me. I'm like,
what is this. It's just saying accident

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on shooting Mason Walker, d Steve
blah blah blah blah blah blah, nine

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one one calls on the CD.
So I'm like, wow, that is

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of a police report. So I
was went on home and start listening to

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some of the audio recording the No. One one calls and everybody that was

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calling in for help, I knew
their voices and I heard some of the

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perpetrators that later that I found out
that was involved. So that's when I

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hired a attorney and he did a
public record request. So when that came

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back, we had everything, crime
scene photographs, the full police reporting of

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what happened, and we're going through
it and we're looking at the crime scene,

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looking at my son laying in between
that position that the detectives were saying,

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and we're like, why this is
like that? Why that gun is

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over there on his less side and
he's right handed, and we were digging

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into it, you know, the
more photographs coming. Nothing was making sense

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from that detective was telling me.
So I took everything home and I stayed

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up for nights just going over all
the information, listening to all the audio,

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recording the crime scene photographs. Nothing
was adding up. So when I

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learned that something was wrong, when
I tried to talk to the textaves about

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my son's body position, that it
looked like he was flid into that position

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because it looked like that his t
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like someone was right handed, was
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pulling him. And the way that
his legs were stretched out up against the

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wall, his head the baseboard,
and his body was stretched out and his

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feet was stretched out his seat.
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the right side was leaning right.
So his hands was over laughing each other

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on his twists sole and his fingers
was crossing each other. And I'm looking

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at the photographs, I'm like,
wow, down the world. He was

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dancing in a kitchen and flipped on
a toy truck and shot himself and landed

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like that. It looked like somebody
to me with common scent that God gave

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us. It just didn't look right. And I'm looking at the photographs and

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I said, wow, they looked
like somebody's slitting. Oh. I kept

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digging and kept digging. Months and
months was going allience stuff and I wasn't

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hearing anything from Columbus police. And
then I was looking at the high velocity

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blowback that they said that was on
my son's right hand, and I'm doing

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it in and out and I'm bringing
it up and I'm like looking at my

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son's hand, crying because I seen
him in the terrible situation here. My

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mind was like gomb So I'm looking
at the blood that they called physical their

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only physical evidence, and I'm like, wow, why did look like it

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just hit his arm his wrist in
a downward motion, And then you can

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see where it bubble or tear with
blood, I mean with brain matter in

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the end of the blood, it
stopped and it bubbled like a tear.

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It didn't look right to me at
the time, and I didn't know what

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blowbacks supposed to look like, so
I thought that was strange. So Clembing

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police still wasn't interacting with me,
and almost double back because we had to

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go back to the corner's office to
pick up my son's belonging. And I

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think that was the nineteenth of October
twenty fifteen. That was that Monday.

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He was murdered that Friday the sixteenth, so that was October to nineteenth.

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We went to the corners to retrieve
my son's belongings. So they had a

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cell phone in the bag, his
watch, and his walllet and we're looking

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in his wallin, like where is
ID, where's his CDN license? Where

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the honey that this girl love him? Were asking all these questions why his

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phone likes Somebody try to open his
phone with a swipe in and his phone

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was all bloody. Then take that
into evidence. So we're looking through his

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phone with blood all on the phone
at the corner's office and we figured out

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the past code was the last four
digits of his social security numbers. So

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the phone came on. We like
all the phone is on, so were

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looking at his tags and trying to
hear all his voice messages. So we

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saw a text in my son's phone
from one of the perpetrators that was in

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the kitchen that night said prepare yourself
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And I'm like, they did do
something my son. They did do

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something my son. So I ended
up going home and I called the detectives

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that was over my son's case,
and I had to basically buff him out

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to come to get my thumb phone
because there's crucial evidence in my son phoned

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that he had a threat in his
phone. So he finally came. I

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gave depected warning the phone and that's
when we ended up getting the police report,

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the public record request because we heard
him investigating some of the perpetrators and

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people that was all involved in what
happened but transpired that night. Willie Walker

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was having a difficult time understanding just
what exactly happened to his son. He

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just could not understand how his son's
death could be considered an accident. We

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will take a short break and listen
to will he provide more details about what

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transpired inside the home where his son
died. So tell me about who exactly

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was in the house with your son
when he died. Someone had to have

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said that he was dancing around and
playing with a gun. Who actually said

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that? Do you know nobody was
saying he was dancing. There was about

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seven people that was in the kitchen
and what was said that my son had

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came from outside into the house.
And a witness has said, now this

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is on audio recording on CPDE audio
recording, this is not for me.

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This is what I heard on CPD
audio recording. The women said that my

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son had came in to the house. He came in and two other kids

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was feuding over a toy. He
gave one kid a toy and gave the

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other kid a toy. It was
both toy trucks, and he was playing

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with the kids on the floor and
the witness said, that's when my ma

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thing got up and walked into the
kitchen and immediately a gunshot went off.

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So another audio recording of the perpetrator
had PPD had interviewed this perpetrator that we

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know shot my son. His audio
recording. At first, he said that

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on the nine one one call,
he was saying that he was in the

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living room and he just heard a
pile and he grabbed his kids and ran

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outside, and the nine one one
operator was like, is the man still

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breathing? And he said, I
don't know. I'm not going nowhere near

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him, so let me get that
out the way. So the detectives was

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asking him where was he because he
already gave a statement where he was at.

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He was saying he was coming out
of the kitchen. And remember the

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girl, the witness had said that
my son was walking out of the family

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room into the kitchen. So this
perpetrator, the suspect, has said he

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was coming out of the kitchen.
And the detector said, so you guys

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pass each other through the threshold together, did you see a gun? And

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vom makes in his hand and the
perpetrator said no, and the suspect,

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I'm calling the perpetrator and suspecting the
same thing the thus bac said and straconds.

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Later the gun shot went off and
he turned around and saw my son

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sliding down the side of the refrigerator. So the detective was arguing with the

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suspect, saying, no, you
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Now you saying that you was coming
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detective was saying, we'll see,
this is what muddies the water. Because

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why is everybody lying? Everybody is
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it should be one story. Is
too many different stories. So the

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detective says, so what story you
want want to stick with? And that's

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when we flipped, like why is
he letting this guy recap or just come

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up with a different complete story that
what he had said from the beginning talking

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to the nine one one operator and
the private detected. So that's when my

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private detected, you know, we
found the witness and she said, them

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guys murdered my son and going back
to the female started going back to the

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other witness that was in the family
room that said that my son was playing

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around with the kid and walked into
the kitchen. The detected said, so

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you think somebody did something and she
said, yes, they shot that man.

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He said, so you think they
killed him or shot him and she

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said yes, and he said why
would they do that? She like,

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I don't know. She said that
she did not see a gun nowhere on

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my son because his clothes wasn't that
much and he gets something in the kitchen

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and then the other suspects said they
passed each other in the shot happened immediately,

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so me and the detectives listening to
that, that's when we were saying,

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well, that detective knew at that
moment that this shouldn't be no accidental

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shooting, that this should be a
homicide case. So they kind of swept

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all of that fronder the rug,
and we saw that witness that was saying

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that my fellow was playing with the
toys and she mentioned that they shot that

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man. On his report, he
said the witness said that Blank was sitting

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in a living room and heard a
bang. Blank said, they ran out

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of the house. And this is
what I'm quoting. Blank said that they

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were uncertain what happened to by Mats
and Walker, and that's not what she

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said. She said they shot that
man, and they did not report the

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right information. Everything was kept being
swept under the rug. So when I

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had went back to my attorney's office
and we was talking about some things and

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gave me some more stuff, and
I learned that the reason why CPD wasn't

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working my son's case because they basically
tampered with the crime scene. They changed

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the crime scene from homicide to accidental
shooting. Because me and the private investigators,

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CPD wasn't cooperating with the So when
I got the private investigators involved and

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they was trying to work with CPD
and realize that they wasn't going to get

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anywhere, that's when we discovered the
reason why, and it was the gun.

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If you look at the crime scene
photographs that I have on vom Mason's

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page on Facebook is photographs nineteen where
the gun is laid on the kitchen floor

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next to von Mason's body. So
the gun is on Vonasan's body left side,

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and remember he's right handed, and
when you zoom in you can see

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blood. I'm gonna say about seven
distinctive blood dropping on this gun that you

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can identify and photograph thirty four.
Now this is the TPDE crime them photographs

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that we're looking at and you can
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asident was white clean off the gun. The seven blood dropping and photographs nineteen.

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It was cleaned off and then it
was manufactured bluod spatter on the back

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end of the gun. I had
this experts look at the gun. I

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didn't say much to him, and
in his reporting all of this is documented

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on the gun's flyer. If you
just stand the top right, QR code

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it all. Everything that I'm talking
about is on this path. So that's

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when you could see the reason why
CPD wasn't working the case because it turned

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into a policemist on the case because
they tampered and altered the gun. And

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when they did that, they basically
helped them guys get away with murdering my

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son. And that's why we had
vio cooperation with Colembus polief and they continued

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to sweep the cap under the rug. My detectives try to bring that witness

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in that they set my son up. They brought the witness down to THPD

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headquarters. Is this witness, this
girl that you're talking about, Is she

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the same girl that said that?
No? Different, Okay, So this

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is a different woman, not the
one that said that he was playing with

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the kids. Yes, a different
female. So was the female witness that

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you spoke to. Was she also
in the house. She wasn't there.

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They came to her house three days
later and she heard them talk about it

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and they told her what happened.
Columbus Police, it's hearsay. So the

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way they worked the cave is they
eluded their felth away from the truth because

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of what they did with the gun. Willie's investigator spoke to the woman who

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claimed that von Mason's death was no
accident. She claimed that he owed money

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to someone and was lured to the
house to be killed. Willie has been

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fighting with Columbus PD to investigate his
son's case as a homicide. We will

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take a final break and listen to
Willie discuss his frustration with law enforcement's decision

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to rule his son's death as an
accident and not a homicide. They wanted

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the case to be accidental shooting,
and they didn't think that me, as

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a parent, will get the public
record request. They thought that we was

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going to believe everything that that they
tell us, which we're supposed to because

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they are the police. This is
their job. This is what they supposed

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to do. This is what they
signed up to do. We didn't ask

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for none of this, and I
wasn't taking their word because it didn't make

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sense to me. That night,
my son dancing in the kitchen and flipped

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on a toy truck and shot itself
in the head. I'm thinking when we

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saw the gunshot wound to my son's
heyd that it was going to be from

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a distance. It's up close in
Bennett and my sons, and so all

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of that is wrong. So PPD
just basically lied to my private investigators they

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was going to pick up three of
these suspects and bring them in, and

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they never done that. We had
two of these suspects polygraph tested and they

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failed their test, and one of
the questions was did you shoot or see

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anyone shoot Vonason Walker that night?
And they both failed miserably high numbers of

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my investigator polygraph examiner explained, and
THPD was interested in that because they wanted

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to know the outcome. And when
I told Detective Warranted that both failed their

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polygraph test, and what I got
back from him was like, that's two

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guys from the same crime scene.
He'd said, that's unheard of. I'm

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like, yes, them, guy
has murdered my son, so what they've

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done. Then they say we're gonna
polygraph these guys, and that never happened.

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So they just prolong and it just
a prolethera alive. It just continued

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and we solved my son's case.
We know who shot him. Columbus police

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even know that he was shot,
and they know who's all involved? And

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I have another story. When I
went on December be stacking of twenty sixteen,

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I had a meeting with Detective Walklet
and at the end of that meeting,

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I said, Detective walk Lit,
these guys murdered my son. He

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said, Willie, I know,
it's just a matter of proving it.

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So I was like, dumbam found
it. I didn't have no response to

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that, because if you know why, you're not doing nothing. They were

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just sitting on the case. They
would take your information and just sit on

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it and tell you things that they're
going to do, which is not true.

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They didn't do anything. And that
night that detectives told me the bullet

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went through my son's head. It
hit a critical old bottle on top of

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the refrigerator, penetrated the wall from
the inside and exted it out from the

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outside wall. And they couldn't find
the bullet flug. He said, it

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is lost. I said, you
guys can't find it. He's like,

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no, they couldn't find it.
But it took me two years to go

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by that house. And I went
by the house. Lord behold their goal.

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The bullet flood. Now, when
I was looking at the crime scene

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photographs. I thought the bullet went
into the gutter system, and because it

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looked like it was a hole.
So when the people that was living there

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at the time, you know,
I told her what happened, and she

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let me walk through the house.
The bullet is still lodged in the house

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inside the kitchen is still there,
making it ever patch the walls or anything.

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So she let me get a ladder
and I put it on. I

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placed the ladder on the side of
her house and climbed up the ladder and

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I'm looking at the exit hole.
And when I looked up cop at the

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what I thought was a hole,
it was a dirt spot. I'm like,

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that's dirt. Wow. The pictures
it looked like it that's where the

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bullet went into the flug So immediately
all you had to do, well,

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all I did is turned around and
I saw where the bullet ended up.

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It was launching in the house next
door or so. Columbus police lied to

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me that night, playing that they
couldn't even fund the bullet slug. So

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I did a video of me and
that's also on Mason's flyer or me removing

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the bullet plug that Columbus police said
that they could not find and I dug

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it out. There was no other
gunshot holes in the side of the house.

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That was the only hole. And
it matched the bullet that I dug

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out of the house, matches the
exit you know, on the house next

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to me where he was murdered at
It all linked up, man and so

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I put it in a bag,
and I was happy that I retrieved the

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bullet, but I was like,
my mind was like gone, I'm like,

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why are they lying to me?
So I had a meeting with deathly

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Chief Becker and Commander Gray. I
thought I was doing something going that high

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up the ladder. It does not
matter when a crime happened like this and

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if the police misconduct, because it's
not the officer this time, it's all

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the Texas in the crime scene unit
that need attention because they changed cases from

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homicide to accidental shooting. So me
climbing up that CPD ladder, I'm getting

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higher and higher. I'm like,
whoa, I want to give them the

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bullet slug and my family like,
no, no, no, don't give

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it to them, don't get it
to him. I'm telling them, I'm

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getting ready to go and talk to
the commander and the Deputy chief. I'm

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turning this bullet slug in. So
I went and gave them, gave them

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the story, showed them the pictures
of the gun with CPD betaked this did

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They wiped the gun clean and I
showed them the bullet and they was like,

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where that comes from? I said, this is the bullet slug that

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CPD said that they couldn't find that
night. And they kind of got quiet,

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and they like, you found this, I said, I went knocking.

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You see the date, I said, I went two years later and

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that's where that bullet slug left.
They didn't even look for it, So

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this is it. So the test
results came back inconclusive, you know.

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Talking to people, they say,
how is a bullet inconclusive? When a

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bullet is far out of a gun, it leaves marking. So everything is

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false. It's fiction with CPDE changing
it from homicide to accidental shooting. So

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I'm gonna jump up ahead. So
when all of that was taking place and

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my investigators got tired, So in
the house that von Mason died in,

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did he live there? No,
it was one of the perpetrators that lived

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there, where my eldest son hung
out at So why was your son at

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that house on that particular evening.
Was he just hanging out with his brother

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or friends? What was he doing
there hanging out? My son loved the

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female, so he was being the
thiequal to his female. So he had

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a female to come over there to
drop them all, and she was leaving,

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and he was going to leave from
there to go to his mom's house

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because he had another female over there
waiting on him because they were going to

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go get them betting for his truck
because he had that new job to start

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that next day, so he was
excited about that. That's why he ended

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up over there. And that concludes
the first half of this week's story about

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von Mason Walker. On October sixteenth, twenty fifteen, he was found deceased

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in a home in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Police Department has rolled Von

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Mason's death as an accidental shooting.
However, his family does not believe this

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to be true. What truly happened
to Von Mason was his shooting an accident

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or did someone kill him and get
away with murder. Willie Walker does not

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believe the Columbus Police Department will do
anything with any tips that they might receive.

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So he has asked that if you
have a valuable tip to please contact

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him directly at six' one four
four four one, six' nine one,

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pint one. He would like to
screen out tips and then discuss the

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ones that he keeps with law enforcement
personally. I will be sure to include

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his contact information in the case story
notes, and if you are a parent,

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law enforcement official, friend, or
relative seeking justice for an unsolved homicide

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case, please visit my website and
complete the contact more. Thank you for

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listening up.