mr. pittman very well may have fired the fatal shots that killed avis banks. and keyon appeared to be unconcerned. he was laughing. i had to remind him that he had a fiancee and a baby that were dead. and he said at that point, oh, yeah. when keyon called his lawyer, his anger was clearly evident. anger not towards the killer. but the police. i don t like this at all. the [ bleep ] think i had something to do with it. i came home. i knew something was up. keyon had no criminal record. but he wore size 8 1/2 shoes. consistent with the shoes the killer was wearing when he tried to kick in the back door. and that wasn t all.
avis marie banks. life couldn t have been better for avis banks, she graduated from college, found a job she loved in a daycare center and met the man she planned to marry. but an unexpected pregnancy changed some of her plans. when i learned ava was pregnant, i wasn t thrilled. i know avis asked for forgiveness, that she was going to make it right by marrying him. her fiance was keyon pittman, a middle school teacher and basketball coach. mr. pittman was excited about the family that they were beginning, they had already picked the name out for the child. avis and keyon bought a house together in the suburb of jackson, mississippi. but tragedy struck just a few months before the baby was due to be born. when keyon came home from work and found avis lying on the
she was two month s pregnant and about to be married to the baby s father. the day before the wedding he called it off. carla hughes was a door mat for men, her cousin did tell me that whenever she fall for a guy, she fall hard and most guys just take advantage of her. investigators believed carla saw keyon pittman as the answer to her problems. carla wanted to be where avis was, she wanted to be the one who was getting married, who the man truly loved her and they were going to have a family together. but that wasn t the case. prosecutors believe carla hughes wanted to eliminate the only person standing between her and keyon. avis banks. so she borrowed her cousin s gun and knife. and went to the home avis and keyon shared.
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home. we believe, where he knew that avis was laying in the garage. and the background check revealed keyon was a player. he had a lot of girls had he was playing at the time. one of the women was 30-year-old brenda martin, the mother of one of the boys on the basketball team keyon coached. ms. martin and mr. pittman were in the early stages of a relationship. that was in the form of flirting, telephone calls, text messages, things of that nature. brenda martin had no desire the talk to police. brenda didn t want to have anything to do with this whole situation because she was married. she was married with children. brenda denied any involvement in avis murder and she had an alibi for the time of the crime. we didn t find anything with her that would put her at the scene. phone records or anything. brenda wasn t keyon s only love interest. another was carla hughes, the