Beth Shelburne

You know, you can either be a witness or you can be a defendant.

You can only be either a witness or you can be a defendant, okay?

It's your choice.

You make it.

You tell me what you want to do.

One of the people Tony Richardson uses this tactic on is Yolanda Chambers' friend, LaTanya Henderson, who was in the car with DeForest, Ardragus, and Yolanda the night Deputy Hardy was killed.

LaTanya, I am working a homicide, okay?

And in working this homicide, people have choices.

It's a choice whether you want to be a witness or you want to be a defendant.

LaTanya is 16 years old.

She's in high school and lives with her mother and brother.

And as she's questioned about the night of the murder, she's alone in the room with detectives.

No lawyer, no parent present.

I'm not saying anything about

to entice you to say something.

You tell me what's the truth and you tell me that's the truth and I'm going to take it like that.

But I do want you to know that some people are going to be witnesses, some are going to be defendants.

Defendants going to jail, okay?

After giving LaTanya this choice, Detective Richardson asks her where she was that night.

Were you at, near, or around that hotel when this officer was shot?