clayton and they had shared custody of the baby. was it an amicable divorce or did they fight? they had some disagreements, you know. they definitely had disagreements. ex-husbands, husbands, spouses are always looked at? they are. did you feel he was an person important to talk to as well? we did. did you call him right away? we actually went and seen him. it was the middle of the night just hours after brooke s body was discovered when investigators arrived at clayton s house, chief philips woke him up. what did you say to him then? we didn t tell him that brooke was deceased. and our goal was to fine out what he was doing this evening. you wanted to hear the story as it relates to brooke? that s right. clayton told investigators he had their son that weekend.
we found out he ran an allstate office there in west knoxville. married, children? children. no longer married at that point in time. what were you impressions of shawn? seem like a nice enough person, outgoing. typical sales, easy to get along with. shawn smoot, the name ring a bell with brooke s family and friends. not long after brooke s divorce, shawn had hired brooke as an assistant in the office. i remember the day that she had the interview, we had lunch right before and she was so excited, you know. it was a real job. and i said, there s going to be so much potential for you to move up in this company, you know. i was really proud of her. did you feel like this was kind of a fresh start brooke needed? yeah we did. we all thought it was going to be a good thing for her. did she seem happy? oh yeah, she loved it. i think there was a couple other ladies in the office that she worked with. everybody got along and she
the restaurant and drove with friends to the concert. she spent the night at dena s house. i called it hotel dena. everyone just stayed. left it unlocked for everyone. the next day, saturday was the lsu game, everyone was looking forward to tailgating but the next day turned sour. brooke borrowed something out of dina s closet, the two girls got into an argument. i found out she wore it without asking. it was a silly fight but it stuck with brooke. she didn t tailgate for long. she was calling all these people to take her to her car because she wanted to change her outfit that night. her friend albert had been tailgating with her earlier in the day. we would break off and i was with some other friends of ours at that time. so i m not really sure where she was. neither dina nor albert ever saw brooke again. with more than 100,000 football fans flooding the city for the
did that make it all better? it absolutely did. how was brooke as a mom? did she just take right to it? oh yeah. oh yeah. they moved into a house and both had jobs. but the young couple soon realized that family life came with grown-up responsibilities and problems. did she confide in you at all about how thing were not great at home? yeah, of course she talked to her friends about it. tried to be as supportive as we can but we were on such a different level than she was. here we were still single and she was married with a baby. so hard pressed to kind of relate in that area. i think she knew that it wasn t going to work, you know? after two years, the couple split. brooke moved out and clayton stayed in the house with their son. but brooke s family says she and clayton were committed to raising the child together. she lived a few doors up from
couch and we sat there for a second. and i said, is brooke morris your daughter. and said she is, and i said, well, she s been murdered. she passed out cold, so we had to get her to come back to and i think we were just all shocked. when tina came to she could hardly process what had happened. it was almost like it was not real. you know. you ve got the wrong person, it s not her. but it was real. brooke was dead. she d been shot three times, once in her neck, once in her chest and then execution style shot to the back of her head. i could not believe that another human could be so heartless. you know, they re asking us these questions like, do you know anybody that would want to harm your sister? we re like, we don t have a clue. i could not even think of someone that would want to hurt brooke in any way.