Ashley Flowers

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The comment that appeared on the News Channel 3 website, the one where a community member implied that a St.

Francis County deputy shot Tripp and then hung him, that didn't just come out of nowhere.

There are a number of discrepancies and gaps and red flags in this death investigation that led people, specifically Tripp's family, friends, and a private investigator, to the conclusion that everything is not as it seemed.

And for you to understand, we need to go back to the beginning, to hear about the events of November 3rd from a different perspective, Tripp's parents.

But before I go any further, I want to note that Deputy Trey Bynum, Sergeant David Kinney, and SSA Andre Mack declined to speak with us for this episode.

So their side of things comes from the investigative files.

Those files, though, and what we learn from speaking to Tripp's parents and the PI that they later hired to help them, leave a lot of unanswered questions.

So let's rewind.

Jennifer and Gil Brazil shared that on Saturday, November 2nd, Tripp was riding four-wheelers all day with his brother and his younger sister.

According to them, riding was Tripp's passion.

He was a pro rider at 15, wearing out three dirt bikes a year.

Jennifer said that if it did not involve riding a dirt bike or a four-wheeler, Tripp wasn't interested.

It's part of the reason that he was homeschooled.

Now, when Tripp wasn't doing schoolwork or laying tile with the flooring company that he worked for, he was riding.

So the night of November 2nd, after he's riding with his siblings, he goes to a birthday party before then meeting up with his uncle and a family friend to ride around some more.

That's who Tripp was with when Sergeant Kinney approached him in the early morning hours of November 3rd, right before Tripp took off and the pursuit began.

But what deputies didn't know is that about 40 minutes after Tripp jumped off his ATV and ran into the woods, while they had deputies out actively looking for him,