the 11-year-old girl who had seen the shooter running told cops that just before the shot rang out, she heard a man and woman arguing. was that a clue? detective williams learned crystal had a boyfriend named dino. just a hardworking guy. was in a relationship with crystal on and off. and this is coming from the family and friends that knew about dino. and there was kenneth woods, father of krystal s ten year old, javonte. javonte s but has got to be somebody s father going to look that look at. most definitely. kenneth wasn t helping with javonte, but there had been conflict over child support in the past. crystal had obtained a court order requiring kenneth to pay. so, two possible leads. and a third surfaced when williams went to crystal s office. we get to her place of employment. we talked to several young ladies that identified themselves as being her friend.
is going to kill mama too. nothing worse than bearing your kids. no. when you are already so sick. i remember when i was talking to my mom i was like, don t you leave me. telling crystal s ten year old son was even harder. we sat next to him like, javonte, your mom died. and he crossed his arms like this. and screamed. and he just kind of lean back. your mom died. they didn t see how. you all kind of shielded javonte from what had happened. yes. we were older and couldn t grasp what had happened to her. so, why give it to him? so in one day, his whole world goes away. no more mom, no more home, no more life as you know. and he taught himself to just not even talk about it. you don t even know javonte is in a room. he learned it to just, i don t know, he just shut down. even now, javonte seems almost numb when talking about
is to just know a little bit about police brought in chavonna whole, the 11 year old school girl who saw the running man. do you have and did he have any ice? with her mom at her side, she worked with a forensic artist from the los angeles sheriff s department on a sketch of the suspect. why don t you tell me about his nose, his eyes, his brows? michelle worked with the same artist. does the description of the guy crystal sister says was we ve noticed a care staircase, matched the description of the guy people say were running away after the shooting? almost identical. here s the sketch. john from both their descriptions. were you happy with a final sketch? it looked like the guy. oh yeah, it looked like him. but he didn t look like any of the men in crystal taylor s life. not derek, not dino and not javonte s father, kenneth, who. cops would have to figure out who he was and where to find him. monika and michelle didn t want to wait for that.
boy javonte, against the wishes of the boy s father. he came in the room when we re in there and said, i want his name to be junior. in labor, stop labor, no. i said, she said, well, no because i m not get marrying him. and if i get married to someone else i don t have to have to juniors. so she already made the decision she was gonna have a baby but not gonna be his wife? that was christy, she made a decision. there was no change in her mind. wrapped in the blanket of her big family, crystal knew she and javonte would do just fine. we are some baby whispers in a sense. we love babies. strangers babies, anybody s babies. anybody say, too young to be having a baby? no, we all had babies young. we still said it. it was still be said. but it was also be followed by you re still going to finish school. your life isn t over. you made your bed harder, but
you re going to lay in. and we re going to love this baby. those were rules set down by momo. everyone finish school, started as career and raise their children on their own, successfully. as javonte grew, crystie grew up. she just released took care of her baby, went to work and brought her lunch, because she wasn t gonna spend any money. if you went to the movies with her son, no, he knew not to ask for snacks. she just wouldn t spend any money. money was for the important things like javonte s education. she always talked about his prom or when he goes to college, or what she wanted him to do with his life. and you know, how she wanted him to be different. she took her job as a mother really seriously. by 2001, michelle and crystie and their kids were living in separate apartments in the same apartment building in hawthorne. even momo lived there until her health began to fail and she moved to texas were her sister in law, a nurse, can take care of her. the soon came