imagine the horror of brooke s last moments. i d ask you to all close your eyes for a few minute this morning. were you hoping having the jurors close their eyes would have a powerful impact? i wanted them to try to envision this young woman out in the middle of nowhere being shot three times by an angry man she was afraid of. all goes silent and at 23 years old brooke morris is dead. the jury sentenced smootd to life without the possibility of parole. that conviction and the sentence have provided comfort for brooke s family, but not closure. i can t make any more memories with her. the only memories have are past memories. i mean it s hard. she s always in my heart. she will always be in my heart. you know, we had i had 23
investigators he was at the stadium watching the football game as he texted with brooke on and off throughout the name. the game ended just before 7:00 p.m., brooke s body was found just after 8:00 p.m. if daniel was telling the truth, investigators had to figure out if he had enough time to get through the crush of vol fans, meet up with brooke and make the drive here to roan county to commit the murder all in about an hour. as investigators looked at daniel s tameline they found he was still texting brooke long after the game ended. the last text was just a little past midnight? it read, where are you darlin ? but then, brooke had been dead for almost four hours. until we clear him and rule him out we do consider someone like daniel hopkins person of interest. dan hopkins wasn t the only person texting with brooke. who else had brooke been texting with? shawn smoot. what did you learn about him?
admits to being in denial about brooke s death. i kept thinking, she s going to call, she s going to call. i know she s going to call and say, mom, you know it was a big mix up, you know. just couldn t grasp that she was gone forever. tina had a very hard time. i remember being at her funeral and tina was holding this picture of brooke, just crying hysterically. two people had to carry her to the grave site. along with grief there was something else. how scary was it to you that whoever did this was out there? very scary. i mean, because they d taken something from you, what are the motives for us.
standard that shows that every firearm makes unique marks. as for the volatile relationship described in the order of protection, the defense pointed out that smoot never admitted to any of the allegations, and he was never charged. the order doesn t mean that mr. smoot ever did anything. it doesn t mean that mr. smoot admit thad he did anything. and the order of protection didn t prevent them from seeing each other, which they clearly did. miss morris told the judge that she wanted to have social contact with mr. smoot. jolly argued if brooke was so afraid of smoot, why would she keep seeing him? after all, phone records showed she was the one who called him that day. she conned to treat shawn as a friend, as someone she could do activities with. were you worried that could
because of the time the game ended, detectives concluded daniel couldn t have been in roan county at the time of the murder. he was eventually cleared by authorities. here s video of them at one of the restaurants he said they went to. here they are taking their drink on to the patio. another camera captured the couple leaving 6:30 p.m.. brooke is walking several steps ahead of shawn. something chief philips thought was telling. normally people were happy and all that stuff, you d think they d walk out together. if there was something going on, maybe she was like, i want to get away from him or whatever. i ll be glad when he droops me off at my car. this is the parking lot where smoot says he dropped brooke off at her car. none of the security cameras