shawn had been stormy. she d tell me little thing here and there. her friend say shawn had a temper and caitlyn witnessed it firsthand one night after a dinner. shawn was drunk, she 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. brook felt shawn was stalking 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.
nobody knew that she even had contact with him. but to investigators there was something about this particular order of protection. brooke had asked the judge to 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. i wanted them to envision
going on that shouldn t be going on? uh-huh. brooke left the job after just a few months. but it was clear, to investigator at least, that brooke and shawn was still in touch. her phone showed calls between them on the day of the football game and they d been texting back and forth. did you call him? my attempt to call him wasn t successful. another one whose not around? that s correct. detectives decided not to wait for shawn to pick up his phone. they went to his house in the early morning hours after brooke s murder. is he home? he is. shawn told investigators he had seen brooke the day before. she called from downtown knoxville asking for help. remember, brooke s tailgating plans had gone awry and she wanted to go home and change her clothes. she needed a ride to her car which had been left at a restaurant the night before. shawn said he agreed to give her a lift, but said they went to a
here had the car in view. it was still sitting here the day after brooke died. so, they decided to trace his steps. they pulled his cell phone record and found something unusual. in the 2 1/2 hours after shawn and brooke had last been seen together there was no activity on his cell phone. at 11:00 p.m. his phone started pinging off towers at this major interstate heading out of knoxville. then it lacked looked like shawn turned around. his phone started pinging in the other direction all the way back to his house. did he talk about why he was about to leave town and didn t or why he turned around? in initially talking to us he told us he was home all night. so that s an inconsistency for you. it is. investigators were becoming suspicious of shawn smoot. and they weren t the only ones. brooke s closest friends never suspected clayton or daniel hopkins. they knew the relationship with
the 21st century task force report. if you go to the report, it has six pillars, and it covers accountability, procedural justice, and covers everything that the mayor is talking about. you don t need to reinvent the wheel, but what you need to do is to pick up the 21st century task report, and go through it and look at the 59 recommendations, and see what is relevant to your community there in chicago, and make use of it. it is wonderful to put together the selective and the reputable panel together, and that is great, but what i would encourage them to do is to look at the 21st century task force report, and in illinois, you have shawn smoot who is the chief council for police benevolent there in the state of illinois who has done a fantastic job on that panel that i served with him on. and great resource along with tracy meres who is a full