and then wanting to share it with others. but for paris, the experience was bittersweet. i don t know if i m going to have a pastry shop when i come home. why? too much time already lost. under the terms of his plea deal, paris would be sentenced to between five and 18 years in prison. the final decision is up to his judge. it s crazy. just everything just going so fast. life is just passing by so fast. i think about it every night. did you know he had dreams of becoming a pastry chef? i know he liked baking. i know he d be high as hell he could go in the kitchen and cook a cake or cookies or something. so, yeah, i knew he wanted to do something. paris hammond s older brother, ramal, a high-ranking member of the heartless felons gang, remained in lockdown. ramal, like many other heartless felons, joined the gang during his stay in juvenile detention. be the biggest thing this century.
ohio versus paris j. hammond. mr. hammond, you put in your form here that you filled out that you were a member of a gang. i was a heartless felon ogys. is that what you told the folks in the jail, you were a part of the heartless felons and you don t want any part of them now? yes, your honor. anything else you want to tell the court? i m sorry for what happened. i take full responsibility of my action. i m sorry to him and his family and just hoping that i get a second chance. i want to come home and change my life and be able to do right. i ve looked closely at your prior criminal history. now that i know and you admit that you re part of a gang and this is what heartless felons do. and for that reason, you need to be punished, you need to be separated from society. this is the life you chose. this is the consequences you must accept.
ohio versus paris j. hammond. mr. hammond, you put in your form here that you filled out that you were a member of a gang. i was a heartless felon ogys. is that what you told the folks in the jail, you were a part of the heartless felons and you don t want any part of them now? yes, your honor. anything else you want to tell the court? i m sorry for what happened. i take full responsibility of my action. i m sorry to him and his family and just hoping that i get a second chance. i want to come home and change my life and be able to do right. i ve looked closely at your prior criminal history. now that i know and you admit that you re part of a gang and this is what heartless felons do. and for that reason, you need to be punished, you need to be separated from society. this is the life you chose. this is the consequences you
a year from now, i ll be collecting my tax return from working my two jobs, one under the table and one on the books, and i ll take that and i ll buy cars. you buy a car for $1,000 and put a price tag on it for $1,300. all five you sell all five of those cars, you just made what, 12? $1,200 profit. and keep doing it. it s just like selling dope, but you re selling a commodity. everybody needs a car. a lot of the guys i talk to, for them a tax-paying citizen is a good citizen. it s somebody who is living on the right side of the law. and he was one of the rare people who referenced that as a goal. so a year from now, that s where i see myself. and then after that, talk to me in a year, then we can talk about five years. coming up as i spoke with him more, i found out what he liked to read. a lockup sound mixer shares an interest with ezekiel taylor. and the judge hands down his sentence on paris hammond.
it was at the cuyahoga county corrections center in cleveland that we met 18-year-old paris hammond. he said he once had dreams of becoming a pastry chef, but instead he followed his older brother ramal, a known shot caller in the jail s largest gang, the heartless felons. we were with paris on the day he was sentenced on two counts of felonious assault for shooting a 15-year-old boy and leaving him paralyzed. his plea deal called for a sentence between five and 18 years in prison. outside the courtroom, the hammond brothers mother, tanya, had just arrived with several of ramal and paris younger siblings. i m here with my children and my nephew and a family friend. i m hoping that the judge will give my son leniency. how you feeling about today