South Bureau Homicide Page #6

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I have measurements,

if you wanna go off

the measurements I have.

Okay, and I'm gonna

get the light closed.

I have the light closed,

I have this light closed,

and that light closed.

Almost like you've

done this before.

Never done it before

in my life, really.

First time out

here, solid, shew.

Mel Hernandez and I will be

personally assigned to this case

until we leave.

I don't plan on leavin',

I plan on retiring

from this division.

In that case, it'd be

assigned to me until I retire.

We form a bond with that family,

and we know the

investigation best

because we were the

first homicide detectives

who got a look at

the crime scene,

who talked to the people who

were involved that night,

to the community members.

So as a result, you have

some personal attachment to

the homicides that

are assigned to you.

My only child was murdered,

Reginald Lakeith Reese,

December the sixth,

1995, in San Pedro.

To have your kid

leave before you,

at the hands of someone else,

that they have touched your kid.

It's like your brain's

suppose to be in a circle

but when that happens it leaves

a little dent in your brain

that will never, ever close.

You take this to your grave.

You will never,

ever get over it.

You will do anything,

move the world,

that havin' them, never bein'

able to smell 'em again,

never bein' able

to kiss, don't hug,

you don't get none

a that no more.

And everybody tell you

it's suppose to be okay,

that's bull, it don't

suppose to be okay.

Because a the way it

suppose to been okay

was you suppose to been left,

and they suppose to a been here.

This is not right.

All these kids bein' murdered,

and everybody's

tellin' us it's okay.

No, uh-uh, parents

never get over it.

They will take it

to their grave.

Never, ever.

Birthdays, worst.

Anniversary dates,

that's what we call,

when the day they were murdered,

it's like a knife in your heart,

you can't even pull

out if you wanted to.

And make it right.

It's like, I can't explain it.

But you don't want nobody

else to ever experience it.

Because you don't know if

they gonna get through it.

A lot a people don't.

They lose they mind behind this,

we've had parents kill

theyself behind it,

tryin' to get to they babies.

And it's just horrible,

it's nothing like this.

There's no medication

they can give you,

'cause they give you somethin',

they gonna put you to sleep.

And that ain't gonna solve it,

'cause when you wake up you

think, "Where's my child,

"where's my kid?"

And you look in the room,

you grabbin' the clothes,

you're asking everybody,

so it doesn't work that way.

Our spiritual leaders seem,

they don't understand it either,

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