him to look me up if he ever got out to new york. i don t know if he read the book. did you say good-bye to your brother? yeah, i kind of teared up. i hate that he s leaving. i used to sit in here every day and get the paper and we would go straight to the local section and you ll find in briefs, shootings in oakland. and i always read to see if i see my brother s name there. i don t know what i would do. that would devastate me. i d probably lose my mind. while i was on the road, working out in grand rapids, i was in bed one night at the hotel and my phone started going off. and i woke up and i grabbed my phone and i had gotten a text message from a deputy in oakland telling me the news that ezekial had been murdered. i immediately grabbed my computer and started searching for news articles online and,
condition as well. the driver of the tractor-trailer has been charged with causing the accident. a manhunt is under way after prisoners escaped with the help of a helicopter. this is the second prison break in a year in quebec involving a shopper. now back to lockup. announcer: due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. we ve covered dozens of gang stories on lockup. but the ones that really stay with us are about the young men who have tremendous potential, that they ve squandered away by joining a gang. the story of two brothers in oakland struck us that way. and their story had a deeper impact on our crew and our staff than possibly any story we ve ever told. gabriel and ezekial taylor both happen to be at the alameda county jail during our extended stay shoot there.
the first time i went to jail, i was 11 years old. we re not even going to count how many times i ve been in jail. let s count how many times i ve been out of jail. that s easier. from 11 to right now, to 26, i ve been out of jail totally 3 years and 9 months. one thing that had kept the taylor brothers coming back to jail was also a source of division between them. coming up my daddy ain t raise no dope fiend. why all of a sudden do you want to start using drugs? and i start making red velvet cake, peach cobbler, strawberry cheesecake. only days from his sentencing, paris hammond reveals his passion.
unfortunately, i was able to pull one up that confirmed that it was, indeed, true. 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 the 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
reason, he s the only man who s got my back. i am my brother s keeper. and we ve lived by that motto since we was kids. the last blood relation to my father. i m my brother s keeper. i m my brother s keeper. before i met ezekial, the way gabriel used to talk about him, i just assumed the two were twins. and then when i actually saw them together, the way they were together, they would finish each other s sentences, they knew each other s histories, they just had such a bond together, that i was very surprised when they actually told me they were a year apart. keeping up with the kardashians ain t got nothing on us. i tell y all. both brothers have had a revolving door relationship with the jail since they were juveniles, growing up in oakland foster homes. i just did the math the other day. and so far, i ve done 8 years and 2 months. i ve been in jail over 20 times, from juvenile hall time as well.