Bill Baxley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Queasy, the one who had a crush on Taforist, also grew up there.
Taforest and his little brother moved there when Taforest was 16.
When he was 17, Taforest was shot in a drive-by shooting and spent three months in the hospital.
Taforest's mom told me the bullet is still lodged in his chest.
During this period, seven of Tafor's friends would be shot and killed.
No one was ever prosecuted for any of these crimes.
And it was around this time that Taforist dropped out of school.
Several family members tell me that at 22, Taforest was somewhat adrift.
He spent his time working on old cars and playing video games.
He was having a good time dating different women.
He had five children who he loved, but he was also unsettled.
And he didn't know he was running out of time.
On June 11, 1998, a deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went missing.
Is this the story of a man who just got lost in the desert?
Or of a cover-up inside the nation's largest sheriff's department?
As Taforist and Ardragus wait outside of T's, Ardragus' beeper goes off a few times.
The beeps are from a girl he met a few nights before, but he ignores her, hoping to meet someone else inside T's.