matched the mashes on the bullet in shawn s home. missing was the murder weapon. that s a connection. it s pretty much the connection. eight months after brooke was killed, shawn smoot was charged on murder. did you identify with her as being this woman who was vulnerable? absolutely. prosecutors saw this case as a relationship turned deadly. we re still talking about domestic violence, we re still talking about orders of protective, and all of the thing that go wrong in these situations. you had no witnesses, you had no dna from your suspect, you had no murder weapon, that s a lot of things you didn t have? if we didn t feel like we couldn t prosecutor it and feel successful we wouldn t indict it.
shawn was drunk, katelyn says so she didn t want brooke to drive home with him. he did not like that. he d get very angry, we drove just down the street pulled into the parking lot and i pulled up right beside her car. she opened the door and shawn was like right there. grabbed her by the arm. i told her, brooke just get back in the car and so she did. she got back in the car and drove off. friends say similar incidents followed. brooke felt shawn was stocking her, showing up unannounced and uninvited when she was out with friends, even after she stopped working for him. she definitely knew something was wrong, you know, after he was obsessive with her, calling her mumble times, texting and stalking her. she knew that this man has got some issues, i ve got to try to
i think there was a couple other ladies in the office that she worked with. everybody got along and she enjoyed it. she had formed a really i guess tight relationship with her boss. but brooke s family had no idea how close brooke s relationship with her boss, shawn smoot actually was. some of her friends did. well, she had told me in the beginning that she had started working for this guy, shawn smoot, and a little down the road, i had like saw them out eating or something like that. as things progressed in their relationship, i was like, what s going on here? i was like, this guy he seems a bit older. does he have a family or anything like that? and she was like, i yes, he s married. an affair with a married man. i don t think she was committed to that relationship. i think it was just her just coming through a divorce and she had attention from this man. but there s still something going on that shouldn t be going
allow her and shawn to have social contact. and sure enough they had continued to talk and spend time together. so, they had to wonder if thing were really that bad between brooke and shawn. the investigation dragged on for weeks, then months. it was almost too much for tina to bear. i got really frustrated, yeah i did. you know, and i m sure they had to hear my wrath a few times because, you know, i m a mother and i wanted to know who did it, and i wanted them put behind bars. a major break in the case was coming. would a jury be able to put it all together. i said were you directly or indirectly involved. coming up, a murder charge at last and a powerful moment in court. silent, and brooke morris is dead. i wanted them to envision this young woman being shot three times. there s little rest for a single dad,
get away from him. brooke reached her breaking point. and in january 2011, did something she thought would get shawn out of her life forever. she was like i m done with this situation, he wouldn t leave me alone. i m going to the wife, she needs to know about the situation. i think she was probable tired of living in the secret. she wanted to be free from the situation. the wife knows, he ll leave me alone. yeah, if i m honest with the wife, then maybe, you know they can try to work out their problems and he ll leave me alone. but it backfired. shawn s marriage imploded. she was just like, i ve gone to the wife, she s getting a divorce, she s made him move out. he lost everything after that. and friends say shawn continued to harass brooke. in fact, they saw thing on intensified. beyond emotional abuse was it physical? uh-huh, yes.