both happen to be at the alameda county jail during our extended stay shoot there. he s in a pissy ass mood today. he s starting to piss me off. they had a lot in common. they grew up in oakland s foster care system. they had both joined a gang, but dropped out shortly before we met them. and they both told us they were finally ready to give up their revolving door relationship with jail. one of the things about both gabriel and ezekial was their honesty. and i appreciate it. they were pretty honest about their lives. and when i asked ezekial how he made a living, how he used to make a living, he was very forthright and he told me he made a living robbing drug dealers. i only rob dope boys. what you re doing is illegal, so chances are if i do something illegal too, just going to chalk it up to the gang. there s a dangerous aspect to that. do you have any problems with that? i ve been shot. i ve been shot in my face, in my
you haven t been down to see your little brother yet? are you going to see him? i m serious, we on 23 and 1. we separated. no, we don t put felons in family members together. this situation right here, i can t help my brother, that s the scariest thing i can honestly say. not being able to help my my family member when they really need me. that s scary. coming up, the younger hammond siblings and their mother arrive at court to support paris on the day he is sentenced. and i m telling america before i m telling gabriel. what? that i m about to have a kid. ezekial seemed on a very clear path. you can call them anytime you feel like saving money. it don t matter, day or night. use your computer, your smartphone, your tablet, whatever. the point is, you have options.
all right. i raised him, he raised me. and we all we got. you re his older brother. does that make you feel a little more responsibility? it does, but at times, he s been my older brother. more often than not. nah, but in a way, i ve been struggling with an addiction, like crystal meth, man, that is a hell of a drug, man, and i m new to it, and you know what i mean, and i ve seen my brother crying, looking at me like, you re a dope fiend. at times, he plays the big brother role. but there s times he would still clothes and put them on my back. addicted to heroin or whatever, my brother s going to take care of me, period. that s my brother. take care of my back like his. i named two of my kids after him. one has his first name, ezekial, and one is justin. i ve got his name across my back, the only tattoo on my back, and i leave that for a
long as it go in, right. it ain t got to be pretty. see what you got? don t want it? can t get hurt on the job? ezekial said he had traded in a job of robbing drug dealers for a job as a roofer. i make pretty good money. better than robbing drug dealers? it s not as fast or as easy, but at the end of the day when you get home, when you take your boots off and you just feel like you accomplished something. that s how you got to do. with his first child to be born shortly after his release, ezekial said he had a new motivation to do well. i never had nothing to lose. that s always been my opinion. but now, a child changes the game. i mean, i have something to lose. but as ezekial s release date approached, gabriel feared for his brother. he was afraid their former gang affiliations could bring harm to ezekial. they don t play games in
and after that, i figured i had to reach out to the rest of the people that had worked on the show and people back at the office. so i was up the rest of the night, writing e-mails and just trying to process this. i was filming at the tulsa county jail, and it was the middle of the day, and i get this e-mail from jake. and he was telling all of us that ezekial had been shot and killed. and i was shocked. i actually think i started to cry a little bit, but because i was in the midst of this other shoot, you know, i had to stay professional. but it just haunted me. a few days later, an article had been written that actually named a suspect, and i read this article and right after that, i received a text from the jail saying that the suspect had, in fact, been an inmate at the jail while we were filming. once i heard that, i decided to look at our release log for all the inmates that we had signed,