are going to do later today it is a veil this indo-pacific economic frame or. that is essentially an agreement between 13 different countries in the region. where they have agreed to consider negotiations on a number of fronts. on trade, for instance. on dealing with supply change, on climate change. so a lot to come, a lot was said at that press conference. and the two leaders are now going to go to talk about other issues. particularly north korea. caralee, thank you so much. nbc news white house correspondent traveling with the president. we ll have much more on the presidents trip tomorrow morning, and now we go back to our program, a dateline in progress. progress 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
through work. it got physical. she got pregnant. she had an abortion. and the romantic part of their relationship ended a year before denita s murder. they both agreed to end it in january of 2006. that relationship was over. they both gave the same date, the same incident and reason that it ended. shannon said she didn t think jermeir was capable of murder. and insisted she didn t even know denita smith. then detective pate zeroed in on the last time shannon was in durham. the city where denita was murdered. she said she s never been to durham. i ask her about owning a gun. and she tells me that i ve never owned a gun. i can t stand guns. i m scared of them. i said, okay. i can understand that. a lot of people feel that way. and as for where she was on that chilly january morning? she told me she was at a doctor s appointment with one of her children. that was easy to check out. her supervisor
was on scene and she did tell her supervisor that she was taking her child to the doctor. shannon s story seemed to add up. maybe she wasn t the distraught woman the eyewitness saw leaving the scene of denita s murder 50 miles away from where shannon lived and worked. detective pate was just about out of questions. and then. an interesting thing happened. as we re leaving, getting ready to finish up the interview with her, someone hands me a note. and it s from a supervisor and it says a gentleman, one of her co-workers, would like to speak with you before you leave. and what that co-worker had to say would raise serious questions not just for shannon crawley but also for her former lover, jermeir stroud. coming up. did someone want shannon dead, as well? she says, you know, i m kind of in fear of my life. when internal affairs
thinking about denita s family. the family is suffering. let s go ahead and give them a little peace right now. five days after denita smith s murder, detective pate drove back to greensboro with a warrant to arrest shannon crawley. she and her children were staying at her sister s house when police arrived. shannon comes out. they cuff her. she walks out the door as though she s going to check the mail. pate says shannon did not seem surprised to see him. there s no no sad look or anything like that. she stand in the driveway, she looks at her family and says waves to them li waves those are the word of a woman who does not expect to be raising her own children. shannon s family watched their daughter be cuffed and taken away. more upsetting. i was angry. i was afraid for her. knowing in my heart that my my daughter could never ever have done that.
we did gunshot residue test on the car. the steering wheel, the gear shifter, and comes back there is gunshot residue. and if all that didn t look bad enough, shannon s alibi now started to fall apart. she had told her supervisor and detectives she was taking her child to the doctor at the time of denita s murder. but the pediatrician told police shannon didn t show up that day. the story starts to unravel. nothing is adding up. shannon was looking like a prime suspect. but one thing was missing. motive. then detective pate remembered shannon s account of how she and jermeir had decided that she would have an abortion. and the way she told the story made an impression on pate. when shannon said, jermeir, i m pregnant, what are we gonna do? he said i don t want to have a baby with you. he told