the complex. but college was quickly notified, as was denita s family. ms. smith, denita fell. she is unconscious but they re trying to revive her. he said are you coming to durham? and i m still trying to wrap my head around you fell, unconscious, revived. i said, yes, i m coming. sharon and her other two children lived in charlotte, almost a three-hour drive from durham. on my way there, i did call jamere. that was jamere straud, her fiance, a police officer who worked in greensboro. much closer to durham. i said i need you to get to durham now. denita has fell. she s unconscious. they re trying to revive her. so he said okay. because i knew from greens greensboro to durham, he would
polite. he was very respectful. i would always tell jamere, you take care of my baby. this is precious cargo. and he promised me that he would. that he wouldn t let anything hurt her. i said, okay. now, police wanted to talk to jamere stroud. greensboro police have confirmed smith was engaged to officer jamere stroud. stroud has been an officer with the greensboro police department for four years. the fact that he was her fiance, immediately made stroud a person of interest. jamere insisted he knew nothing about who killed denita. jamere was at home asleep because he had just worked night shift the day before. so he was off duty. he was off duty. it s not unbelievable. it just makes it harder to rule him out. so there s no proof that he was anywhere. except for the fact that his phone was, you know, at his house on his nightstand plugged in. but by all accounts, jamere
and i was hurt. and i was in shock. just disbelief because i had i had nothing bad to say about him. this wasn t jamere. yes. i mean, that s exactly, more or less, how i felt. it was just like a nightmare. like, this wasn t reality. denita had trusted jamere. the man investigating her death did not. now, the man who once made denita so happy was in the cross hairs of a murder investigation that was quickly ramping up. and though jamere stroud seemed genuinely devastated by denita s death, openly crying throughout his interview with detectives, he wasn t getting much sympathy. when i first spoke with him, i thought i had my man. jamere? jamere. coming up. what does shannon know? and what is she hiding? as we re leaving, getting