what s your choice? and i knew he had his gun. after arriving at the complex, shannon sticks by her story that jermeir went up to denita s apartment. leaving her behind in the suv. i got to the sidewalk and i heard a shot. reporter: you think jermeir killed denita? i absolutely believe that he did. reporter: what would possibly be his motive for that? i don t know. reporter: i mean, if he didn t want to be with her anymore, they weren t married, he could have just broken up with her. i don t know. i don t know. i don t think he had a plan at all. i think he just he acted in the spur of the moment. but i don t believe that he set out to deliberately go there and shoot her. i believe that he was he was after me. that was how he made me feel. when we left my house that day, i never expected to come back home. i honestly believed that he was going to kill me. reporter: shannon says the investigation doesn t support
married to her college boyfriend. and then denita was found unconscious at the bottom of her apartment stairs. it was a tragedy no one who knew denita saw coming. to them, she was a focused, young photographer with a bright future. here the dark room is where a photographer s vision comes to life. allowing others to see the world through their eyes. and with these shots, we can learn a little about the world this young photographer saw. and her sense of exactly when to snap the shutter to capture the world in front of her. it s an impressive portfolio belonging to a young woman named denita smith. she began looking through a lens in childhood. and never stopped as her mother sharon remembers. she s always loved the camera. the camera was her friend.
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department, detectives wanted to know more about shannon s relationship with jamere stroud. so they interviewed jamere, who was cooperative but guarded. he said, yeah, she caught my eye. i mean, she s 5 10 . long, pretty hair. thin. we spoke for a short time. that was in 2000. around 2004, they bumped in again through work. and he asked her for her number. and at this point, he s involved with denita. involved with denita. and he actually said that he told shannon in 2000 that he was involved with denita. well, in 2004, they start having a relationship that actually started kind of like friendly. but then turned sexual toward the end of 2004. and shannon drives a burgundy suv. correct. first, detectives had a murder. now, a love triangle. detective pate pressed jamere for more details about the two women in his life. i said, well, have they ever
regardless of what department they re in. there are always that few, not many. reporter: to the contrary, assistant district attorney david saacks, who was assigned to prosecute, says he was extra careful in building his case against shannon precisely because jermeir was a police officer. i needed to make sure that everything was done by the book and we vetted everything as well as we could, and delved into everything as deep as we could because he was a cop. because if you clear him, you know you re going to get that criticism. absolutely. we ended up having to have several different interviews with jermeir. and each time we would get maybe a little something more. and so it took a little while sometimes to pull all that stuff out. reporter: investigators say he appeared devastated. jermeir stroud insisted he had no idea that his secret romance might place denita in danger. but detective pate still thought jermeir was not entirely forthcoming.