Shoot Your Shot | Death Comes Knocking | Forensic Files

[AUDIO LOGO] [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: In the early hours of the morning, on a quiet suburban street--
- Don't move. Don't move. NARRATOR: --a man is ambushed in his driveway. - Don't move.
Let me see your-- DREW TAYLOR: Do they know him? Where'd they come from? Did they follow him?
[GUNSHOT] - Oh! KAREN OLIVER: We screamed. I grabbed my chest because there were so many shots fired.
[GUNFIRE] - Whoever is shooting at Andre is trying to hit him. - What happened? Who did it?
REPORTER: This video, provided by a neighbor, shows a threatening man. He's seen walking past a home, holding an ax.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING] [THEME MUSIC] [INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: After a busy night, Dallas clubs and bars
are closing-- [LINE RINGING] --when a call comes in to 911. DREW TAYLOR: A bartender was driving home,
and he saw someone in the street, crawling. He just thought the person was intoxicated or in some kind
of other distress. [SIRENS BLARING] NARRATOR: First responders head to the street
in Old East Dallas. DREW TAYLOR: The police arrived within minutes and realized that he was in a very bad state.
He had a gunshot wound to his side. And he could speak but barely, and was just asking for help.
[SIREN BLARING] NARRATOR: Too weak to give his name, the young man is rushed to the hospital.
- The police had no idea what had happened because there were no shell casings in the area.
All they had was blood. So they thought maybe his body had just been dumped there.
What's going through the police officer's head is, where is the crime scene? How did he get here?
What happened? [SOLEMN MUSIC] NARRATOR: Three hours after the bleeding man was found,
Regina Oliver is heading to East Dallas with her son Andre's young daughter. REGINA OLIVER: I had to get up early
to deliver Andre's golden child to him because I was starting my new job. She was to be with her dad all day.
When I was leaving the house, I kept calling. No response. And I'm calling and calling, and I'm like, what is going on?
I got to his house. The car was in the driveway. The passenger door was open. And I called, and I called.
And all of a sudden, I spotted Andre's phone sitting on the armrest. I saw the cheeseburger was over in the car seat,
and it was smashed. Some fries were on the floor. I said, there's something-- no, something ain't right,
something ain't right. I'm a little freaked out. I'm a little scared. So I called 911.
DREW TAYLOR: Regina called the police. And the description that she gave of a tattoo
that he had triggered one of the officers to recall that the person they had found a couple of blocks
away had that same tattoo. [SIRENS BLARING] NARRATOR: Dallas PD officers head straight to Regina's son's
home. REGINA OLIVER: The officer kept questioning me. He said, what does your son look like?
I said, he has a short haircut, a little blonde on the top. He said, he's about how tall?
I said, he's 6' 5". He said, can you identify your son? I said, of course. I had my phone.
I said, this is my son right here. I showed him pictures of him. NARRATOR: Police are in no doubt.
Regina's son is the young man found gunned down in the street, who sadly didn't make it.
He died from his injuries in the hospital. [GENTLE MUSIC] - I-- I lost it. I lost it.
NARRATOR: He is not just Regina's adored son. He is also the much-loved local hero and NBA basketball
superstar Andre Emmett. - Half my heart was taken, my heart, my soul, my mind. It was-- it was a nightmare.
NARRATOR: News of Andre's death spreads quickly among friends and family. BRIAN EVANS: His mom calls me, hysterical, you know.
And her words, I'll never forget them. She was like, "They done killed my baby."
It was devastating, man. Like, it was a surreal moment. KAREN OLIVER: I broke down.
I just could not understand why something this is tragic were to happen to someone as sweet as Andre.
I just could not fathom us not having him around. It's just a day that changed our lives forever.
NARRATOR: Growing up in a tough area, 37-year-old Andre Emmett defied the odds
to become a sporting hero. [CHEERING] PLAYER 1: Hey, hurry up, man. PLAYER 2: Dre.
PLAYER 1: Hey, hurry up, Dre! - It's your boy, A to the E. [BACKGROUND CHATTER] PLAYER 1: Chill out, man!
- Got Dre, you dig? BRIAN EVANS: When I first met Andre, we were actually eighth graders at the time.
We were actually playing one-on-one basketball. And I got lucky. I won the first game.
And after that, I can't tell you the next time I beat him. So, you know, that's how it started.
KAREN OLIVER: Everybody just recognized his talents at a very early age. And I knew then we had a superstar.
NARRATOR: Starting his career in college basketball, Andre played for Texas Tech's Red Raiders.
REGINA OLIVER: He always had a trick. He always had a slick move that he thought he could, you know,
capitalize on. [CHATTER] - I charged it to him being a good dancer, because on basketball courts, you got to be
able to move a little bit. Literally, man, he would make a move, and it looked good
and scoring it easy. NARRATOR: Andre is still Texas Tech's all-time leading scorer.
- Good. Let's change it. Ready? Go. That's one. Practice. You got it? My name is Charlie Miller.
And I was a mentor, coach, friend, brother. Watching him play live, Andre was larger than life.
He had a knack for scoring. NARRATOR: Drafted to the NBA, Andre played for teams including the New Jersey Nets and
the Memphis Grizzlies. - Andre wanted to make his mom proud. And that's exactly what he did.
Every accomplishment, every award, every trophy is-- went to his mom. [CHEERING]
REGINA OLIVER: Andre was a good person. He never tried to hurt anybody. [TENSE MUSIC]
NARRATOR: As the police examine the crime scene, they begin gathering evidence.
- They believe that Andre had been shot near his condo. Crime scene found a number of shell casings, about five
near his Range Rover, and then some more were found down the sidewalk near a blood trail
that was leading in the direction where he ultimately collapsed, where the 911 caller found him.
NARRATOR: Devastated by their loss, Andre's family gather close to his apartment.
KAREN OLIVER: When I got there, I ran up to my sister, and I said, "I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry." And at that point, I just remember being very, very angry. Very angry.
And I started to ask questions. What happened? Who did it? - Why would you shoot someone outside their house?
What is this over? Is it over money? Is this just a personal vendetta. Is this a robbery?
Is it a deal gone bad? [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Officers canvass the neighborhood.
DREW TAYLOR: They're looking for any kind of witnesses. They're looking for any kind of surveillance
that may assist in their investigation of why this happened and what happened. One of the big breakthroughs that the police had
was Andre's own Ring camera footage in front of where Andre was shot. Was Andre's killer caught on camera?
[SENTIMENTAL MUSIC] REGINA OLIVER: What I have here is something I'll always cherish--
Andre's personal phone. It has a lot of memories of him, his children, and some fun
videos of him and the kids. Andre is the father of two beautiful girls. The last video in here is when he took his babies to the park.
They played in the water. [SPLASHING, LAUGHTER] This has to be the last memory that they have with their dad
because that was the last time they saw him. They were having fun with Dada. He loved being a father.
He did. And they loved their daddy. He was weak behind the girls, very weak behind those girls.
Yes, he was. [SOMBER MUSIC] NARRATOR: Raised by his single mom Regina, Andre was born in Dallas in August 1982.
- Andre and my relationship was tight. KAREN OLIVER: He loved his mom. They were very close.
They talked every single day. REGINA OLIVER: Andre was-- he was an awesome kid. He was full of life.
He was fun. Everybody loved Andre. He was not a fighter. Mm-mm, he was not like that.
He was not like that. [TENSE MUSIC] - So a piece of information that the family provide
to the police is that Andre always wore two necklaces and then a custom Rolex that
was valued at about $80,000. At the time Andre was found, he did not have the watch or the necklaces that the family
said he always wore. The police suspected that this was a robbery. NARRATOR: When police view Andre's Ring doorbell footage,
it appears to confirm their theory. Andre had just arrived home after being at a local nightclub.
DREW TAYLOR: So finding this footage showing the events that happened was devastating.
But it also told the story of the last moments of Andre's life. The surveillance video captures Andre in his driveway,
and he's sitting there. And we come to find out that he's actually eating Whataburger.
And you see one of the suspects approach and then point a gun at him. - Don't move.
Don't move. Don't move. DREW TAYLOR: Andre, he's got his hands up. And now you see the second individual come.
And so Andre's gonna get out. At this point-- and I'll pause it right here-- you can see it's kind of blurry.
And so you can't really see the people's faces. And you see him taking off his jewelry.
And he gives it to him right there and takes off. [GUNSHOT] - Oh! - And you hear the first gunshot,
and you see Andre begin to run away. NARRATOR: A neighbor's doorbell camera captures what happens next.
[GUNFIRE] DREW TAYLOR: And so that was very shocking. Then you see the two suspects run away--
[GUNSHOT] --and another gunshot. That many gunshots tells me that whoever is shooting
at Andre is trying to hit him. The footage is great in the sense that you now have an idea of what happened.
But because you can't see their faces, you don't know who did it. The fact that Andre gave up his jewelry and the shooter
still shot him leads you to believe that maybe this was something more, something more personal.
NARRATOR: Police turn to Andre's family for help. REGINA OLIVER: Nobody I knew or ever thought of
wanted to hurt Andre. BRIAN EVANS: I can't think of anybody that would want to harm Andre.
He was a great individual, all smiles, always giving. - This is the nicest kid in the world who
would do anything for anyone. Didn't have any enemies. Gave back to the community.
Was a good kid. [GENTLE MUSIC] KRISTA TORRALVA: Andre was known in Dallas as a really upstanding individual,
a role model to the youth. He was a hometown hero. Andre's story is definitely inspirational
for kids in Dallas, especially in the neighborhood of Oak Cliff. That area is historically lower income
and has higher than average high school dropout rates. CHARLIE MILLER: Andre was well-loved in the community
because Andre was a hooper. Everyone in every neighborhood loves hooper in the urban community.
Andre would go play in the parks, and that's what made Andre relatable. He was a people's person.
He just had a big smile. He'd light up the room. He had an aura about himself. You know, a lot of people looked up to Andre.
BRIAN EVANS: Dre was very charismatic naturally. It wasn't something that he put on.
He had, you know, an it factor about him that everybody knew about. REGINA OLIVER: The neighborhood kids loved to see him.
They thought he was a big brother. They called him Big Bro, you know, Big Dre. BRIAN EVANS: He's a natural hero.
When I say that, I mean that he's always going to want to give back. He wants to do the right thing.
And he's just a gentle giant at heart, man. - Woo! [BACKGROUND CHATTER] [INTRIGUING MUSIC]
NARRATOR: Despite the video of Andre's murder, police still have no leads on the shooter.
So they continue canvassing the neighborhood. DREW TAYLOR: They were able to locate a witness that
heard the gunshots, looked out of a window of his apartment that was across the street, and saw
two men running into a white Chrysler 300 and then driving off. NARRATOR: Security footage with a timestamp
matching the door cam footage shows the white car. DREW TAYLOR: This video you're about to see right
now is from someone's apartment complex. And it captures the white Chrysler right here, arriving.
The people in the Chrysler 300 parked minutes before Andre had arrived. It's almost as if they were expecting him.
And so they were only there for a few minutes before the shots happened. And then they ran back into the Chrysler, and then drove away.
Then you see the car drive off. This video made it that much easier to say, yes, this
is, in fact, our suspect vehicle. - Don't move. DREW TAYLOR: Those two individuals were
waiting for Andre to rob him. [GUNFIRE] No one was able to positively identify the individuals.
How did they know he was going to be here? Why are they waiting? Where did they come from?
Did they follow him? [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: As police check local traffic cameras,
hoping to follow the Chrysler's movements, Andre's postmortem report is released.
DREW TAYLOR: That autopsy told the investigators that Andre was killed by a single gunshot
wound that entered his shoulder and went to his chest. KAREN OLIVER: One bullet.
I kept saying, one bullet to the back of the shoulder. I said, that one bullet would not have killed him.
He was in such great shape. [GUNSHOT] DREW TAYLOR: The kind of bullet that hit him was an RIP bullet, a Radically Invasive Projectile,
that had eight prongs, that once it hit his body and got inside, those prongs spread.
They went into his shoulder bone, into his lungs. I believe it hit his heart. There is a world that someone shot with a regular
bullet survives. Someone who uses this kind of ammunition does not have much regard for human life.
That's just a cold killer. NARRATOR: The search for the white Chrysler draws a blank.
Investigators are struggling to find new leads. DREW TAYLOR: Despite the police's best efforts,
the search for Andre's killers went cold. [SOMBER MUSIC] REGINA OLIVER: September 30, 11:00 AM,
the day of Andre's funeral. Crazy. BRIAN EVANS: The funeral, man, it was really sad, man.
His mom, his aunt, the babies, they're not knowing what's really going on. REGINA OLIVER: I told his girls,
"Jesus needed a superstar." Andre had a beautiful service. And I'm glad I was able to at least touch his hand
and kiss him before I was able to lay him to rest. KAREN OLIVER: He meant a lot to the people here in Dallas.
So we had to allow the people who have supported him throughout the years to pay their respects.
REGINA OLIVER: It was police, FBI all over the church. It was crazy, because the guy was still out.
[TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Andre's doorbell footage is the best evidence investigators have.
Forensic video analyst Nick Barreiro is routinely called to help solve difficult cases like this.
NICK BARREIRO: Having video footage for a police investigation, not only can it corroborate
what a witness may have said on the scene, it might be the only witness. And so what I do is I make that truth as clear
as it possibly can be. We use a wide variety of different pieces of software to authenticate, enhance, analyze video footage.
[GUNFIRE] When we watch this footage back, we can see the suspect come into frame behind the victim,
chasing the victim down the street here. But the suspect is almost entirely in shadow.
So what I've done is I've adjusted the brightness and contrast, just to see if we can
get a slightly better view. So, unfortunately, the level of detail in this video
is not quite enough to see their faces. But there's important details that can be extracted from this with just
a little bit of enhancement. We can tell that the suspect was using a handgun, likely with an extended magazine.
We can see that the suspect was right-handed. We can see that the suspect was wearing
what appears to be a light-colored, maybe a gray hooded sweatshirt, whereas none of that
was visible in the original unenhanced footage. We get a pretty good view of his stature, his body type,
the way that he walks, the that he runs. All of that can be critical in positively
identifying the suspect. The video footage is important from the investigative side.
If you don't have a suspect, you know, all of these things that we've learned about the suspect from enhancing the video can help
to narrow your suspect pool, can help to eliminate suspects, and help to confirm a suspect.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Police appeal directly to the public. KRISTA TORRALVA: Dallas Police released video surveillance
footage showing the crime, hoped that they would get tips to find out who those two people were.
KAREN OLIVER: We cut on the TV. We all sat in the living room, and we watched the news.
[GUNFIRE] We saw the footage. We screamed. I grabbed my chest because there were so many shots fired.
And again, I became very, very angry. - Andre's murder in the driveway of his own home
was shocking. He complied with these robbers and gave them what they wanted and then tried to flee,
and they shot him in the back. And I think that that was especially really shocking
for the community, that he had given these robbers what they wanted, and they still took his life.
NARRATOR: It doesn't take long for tips to come in. DREW TAYLOR: Releasing this footage paid off
so well because Andre was very well-respected, but also because of the heinous nature of the offense.
The way in which he was gunned down helped the public want to help out the police
in this kind of Investigation. NARRATOR: Two men are mentioned by several callers,
Michael Lucky and Keith Johnson. DREW TAYLOR: Now that we had names in this investigation
and we have a white Chrysler, what became of the paramount importance was identifying and linking somebody of these names
to that white Chrysler. [TENSE MUSIC] The police were able to identify that Keith Johnson had
a girlfriend who had recently purchased a Chrysler 300 from a used auto dealership.
NARRATOR: It's a significant break. She's brought in for questioning. - What I'm going to talk to you about is a murder, OK?
- Murder? - It's a murder case, yeah. So this is the case about the basketball player, Andre Emmett.
They shot and killed him after he gave them their stuff, right? And he took off running, OK?
Now, I also released that the car that they used was a white Chrysler 300, OK? And I've got the car on video leaving the scene, OK?
So I know you're the owner of the car. - But that car had been stolen. I can't report no stolen car.
I ain't even use my real information to get the car. I can't report no car stolen.
NARRATOR: Police know this claim is false, as the car was sold with a GPS tracking unit.
- Your car had a tracker on it, OK? And that tracker shows everywhere the car went, OK?
DREW TAYLOR: So with this GPS tracker, the GPS data showed that that Chrysler 300 was
around Club Theory, the club that Andre had been at that night he was murdered. And it showed that that Chrysler followed Andre
from Club Theory to the Whataburger, and then back to his home. As great of information as this GPS tracking data was,
it still didn't tell us who killed Andre. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: But the Chrysler's tracker
does reveal something else. DREW TAYLOR: The police eventually discover through the tracking of this Chrysler 300's
movements that it was taken to a salvage yard, or what's commonly referred to as a chop shop,
and that Keith Johnson and Michael Lucky had driven that Chrysler 300 there and asked that it be destroyed.
NARRATOR: Using the tracker's last known location leads police to the man they believe
helped dispose of the car. - Tell me what you did with the car. - We just parted the car out, sir.
- So you parted the car out? - Yes, sir. - OK. Where did you take the parts? - Like, I just sold them in different places,
different people. - Now, with regards to the car, where's the body? Where's the body?
- I sold it. - What junkyard do I need to go to, to find the frame? - The-- I was at Sunshine.
- Sunshine. NARRATOR: Police head straight to the auto parts scrapyard, where they find the crushed body of the Chrysler.
DREW TAYLOR: So this became a huge breakthrough because based on the fact that people fitting the description
of Keith Johnson and Michael Lucky destroyed that Chrysler 300, and the fact that there were tips that they were
the individuals in the surveillance video, we now had evidence linking them to the murder.
NARRATOR: Police waste no time. 32-year-old Keith Johnson and 29-year-old Michael Lucky are arrested on suspicion of murder.
- Keith Johnson was already in jail on suspicion of prior crimes. Michael Lucky turned himself in on a warrant.
DREW TAYLOR: I think for the police, this was a huge success. You started with a case that had few leads, a little bit
of camera footage. You get the public involved, and now you have two individuals arrested
for Andre Emmett's murder. [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Then the case takes a dramatic turn.
Tips come in saying a third person was involved in Andre's killing. BRIAN EVANS: I did some searching,
and I came up with some valuable information. I did go down to Dallas Police with audio, video,
where there's people stating clearly from a certain part of town saying, hey, this guy was the one that did it.
DREW TAYLOR: Tips were coming in that Keith Johnson and Michael Lucky were in the car and involved in the planned
robbery, but that neither one of them was the actual shooter. These tips were coming from people
with extensive criminal history. I believe the fact that Andre was so well-respected,
even known criminals are trying to help the police out. NARRATOR: One name stands out--
23-year-old Larry Jenkins. BRIAN EVANS: They had been ringing that name for a while, Larry Jenkins.
People had been saying that he was the one. [GUNFIRE] DREW TAYLOR: An individual stated
that he had heard whispers on the street that Larry was involved, and he was the one that shot Andre.
And so that person had met up with Larry a few days later at a smoke shop. And he asked him, why did you shoot that man if you
already had his valuables? And he said, he shouldn't have run and that he'd do it again.
NARRATOR: Another witness who knows Larry Jenkins comes forward. - I don't like people who kill people.
I just don't like it, and it bothers me. You know what I'm saying? Especially this deal.
Let me show you this, OK? So you see-- - The other guy hit him in the face with the gun.
- Yeah, he's already here. But let me just play it. - He just wasn't thinking it was going to hit.
- Don't move. Don't move. Give me everything! I want everything! - Yep, that's Larry right there.
"Give me everything." That's Larry. Larry's gonna hit him in the face with the gun.
- So you see he's taking the necklace off. - Yeah. - He's handing it over. Who's he handing it to?
[GUNSHOT] Who? - Oh! - Keith Johnson. Keith Johnson right there. [GUNFIRE] - Where was Mike then? - That's Larry.
Mike might have been in the car. - He stayed in the car? - Yeah, that's Larry right there.
DREW TAYLOR: He was able to identify Larry Jenkins's voice as being the shooter.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Jenkins is brought in for questioning. DETECTIVE: So we got a lot of people
that are calling in, saying, man, that guy's voice, that's Larry Jenkins, OK? - Man, I was [MUTED].
But I ain't did nobody. I'm telling you the truth, sir. I heard about it. Everybody talking about it.
Everybody saying they did some crazy [MUTED]. But it ain't got nothing to do with me, sir.
I promise you it don't. - All right. So you don't have any information on this case?
- No, sir. I don't know nothing about what happened besides what the news said. - Like I said, I just wanted to let
you know that you're a potential suspect in this case, OK? [TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Police believe Larry Jenkins is their shooter.
But to build a case, they need more. So they access his phone to trace his movements
the night Andre was killed. NICK BARREIRO: CellHawk is an amazing piece of software.
It allows investigators to see suspect's movements in a way that was never possible before.
Everybody that's walking around with a cell phone in their pocket is essentially walking
around with a tracking device. Every time your cell phone interacts with a cell tower,
it's logging that location. And it can actually animate this trail on a map so you can see, visually, in real-time exactly
where this device was, creating a timeline of everywhere that that cell phone has gone and the time that it was there.
DREW TAYLOR: When they placed the information in the CellHawk, they were able to see
that Larry Jenkins's phone number identically tracking Chrysler 300's GPS location
the night of the murder. - What are you doing, man? - Don't move. I want everything!
DREW TAYLOR: Not only do you have two witnesses who identified that Larry Jenkins stated that he shot him,
but you now have information that shows that Larry Jenkins's phone is following that Chrysler 300.
This is why we now had enough to charge Larry Jenkins with capital murder. [SOMBER MUSIC]
NARRATOR: The three suspects are all charged with murder. Larry Jenkins is the first to face trial.
He pleads not guilty. REGINA OLIVER: My thoughts going into the trial, was, this has got to be the end.
The jury has to see what criminal act was committed toward an innocent person who
did nothing. DREW TAYLOR: I could not lose this case. It was important for me to secure justice for Andre.
REGINA OLIVER: Seeing the guy, I couldn't sit still. I was a nervous wreck. I couldn't take my eyes off the back of his head.
DREW TAYLOR: The first big piece of evidence that we introduced was, of course, the surveillance video.
- Don't move. Don't move. DREW TAYLOR: That piece of evidence was super important because it showed just
the brazenness of the robbery. [GUNSHOT] That was going to be powerful for the jury to understand,
these people got what they wanted. They robbed him. But they didn't have to kill him.
[GUNFIRE] - It's heartbreaking, the fact that he died behind some material. For me, it's heartbreaking.
Andre gave you the jewelry. To shoot him in the back after you already have what
you came for. DREW TAYLOR: When we played that piece of evidence of the surveillance for the jury,
you could look over and see they were mortified. BRIAN EVANS: It just puts a stamp on why he should never
see the light of day again. DREW TAYLOR: When you look at all the evidence, you basically get a version of events
that Michael Lucky, Keith Johnson, and Larry Jenkins followed Andre to the club, knew
that he had expensive jewelry. They followed him back to his home. They went up to rob him.
Andre gave them his jewelry, then he ran. And that's when Larry opened fire, shooting at him.
[GUNSHOT] And when you go through all the motives, it's pure and simple-- just greed.
NARRATOR: The trial lasts four days. The jury find Larry Jenkins guilty of capital murder.
KRISTA TORRALVA: I looked across the courtroom to Andre's mother, and she was hunched forward, crying softly.
And I can't imagine what that moment was like for her, to secure a conviction but know that her son was not going to be coming home.
- To me, looking at him, knowing what he had did, [CLICKS TONGUE], he didn't look remorseful, not at all.
He had no heart. He had no-- no soul. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] KRISTA TORRALVA: The video footage
was a major role in this case and the cornerstone of the prosecution's case at trial.
NICK BARREIRO: The prevalence of Ring doorbells, Arlo cameras, Nest cameras, that footage has proved
pivotal in so many criminal investigations that the world that we live in now, I'm not going to say it's
impossible to commit a crime and not be captured on video somewhere, but it's practically impossible.
NARRATOR: Jenkins is sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
BRIAN EVANS: I think he got what he deserved-- life in prison. You have to be behind bars.
You can't see and be out in the world. KAREN OLIVER: I'm sure he's going to run into some Andre Emmett fans in prison.
So he will be constantly reminded of the horrible, horrific thing that he did to our family.
DREW TAYLOR: This event didn't just result in Andre Emmett's loss. A mother lost her son.
A community lost a local hero. But most importantly, two little girls, they lost their dad.
That's the totality of what happened when these individuals took Andre's life. [SOMBER MUSIC]
NARRATOR: Jenkins' accomplice, Keith Johnson, takes a plea deal and is convicted of aggravated robbery
and sentenced to 20 years. Murder charges against Michael Lucky are dropped. - Andre, being a local hero, a city legend of Dallas, Texas,
they took one of their own. BRIAN EVANS: Andre grew up maybe a block or two away.
And we would come here in the past and play pickup games, you know, just have fun in the summertime and stuff like that.
NARRATOR: Today, this basketball court in Oak Cliff, Dallas, pays tribute to Andre.
BRIAN EVANS: The city knew that Andre played here a lot. It was named after him, you know,
just in honor of the person he was and the athlete that he was. The most important memory on this court
specifically was the day that they opened it as Dre's court. - 1, 2, 3. ALL: Long live Dre!
BRIAN EVANS: This whole place was packed. The city stepped out for Andre on that day.
[CHEERING] He'd be happy to know that there's something with his name on it in his community,
right by where he grew up at, right near his high school, where kids can go and enjoy themselves.
I've seen more kids trickle in, playing full court. And so to see that and to know when they say,
Where are y'all going to go play basketball at today? they're going to say, we're going to Andre Emmett's
court, right? That's the part that, like, makes my heart smile. That's the part where I'm like, good job, well done, Andre.
There we go. REGINA OLIVER: I'm so grateful to have had him 37 years. He was a big part of me.
He'll be forever remembered, forever loved. I just miss him so much. My angel. He is my angel.
He is. [THEME MUSIC] [AUDIO LOGO] [AUDIO LOGO]

When former NBA player Andre Emmett is gunned down outside his Dallas Home, doorbell camera footage eventually leads police to the shooter. The motive is nothing personal, but rather, greed.

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Brief Summary

Andre Emmett, an NBA player, was murdered in Dallas, leading to a complex investigation and a community in mourning.

Key points

Andre Emmett's Tragic Death. NBA superstar Andre Emmett is shot in his driveway, leaving his family devastated.
Community Grieves a Hero. The news of Andre's death spreads quickly, leaving friends and family in shock.
The Search for Justice. Police investigate the murder of Andre Emmett, gathering evidence and leads.
Breakthrough in the Case. Police discover the Chrysler's last known location, linking suspects to the murder.
Larry Jenkins Identified as Shooter. Witnesses identify Larry Jenkins as the shooter in the murder of Andre Emmett.
Jenkins Found Guilty. Larry Jenkins is found guilty of capital murder after a four-day trial.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I lost it. I lost it.

Regina Oliver's emotional reaction to her son's death.

5:23WatchMar 5, 2026

Tension

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