Detective Scott Roberts
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295 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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In Moss Point, when we have something, the crowd starts growing. There's usually on an average 50 to 200 people that are up and down the street because everybody knows it's such a small community with 13,000, 14,000 residents that when something happens... Everybody, not because everybody gets on their phones and everybody knows somebody that knows somebody that knows the relative.
And relatives usually will arrive on scene, which is sometimes problematic because we have crime scene tape up for a reason. People will try to get into the crime scene and it's insane. Here's Asia's uncle, Terrence.
I mean, we had a lot of information. We had an overabundance of information, but nothing was firsthand information. So it was a lot of speculation and rumors that came in initially in the case.
Who did they hang out with? Who did they have problems with? What hobbies they have? What interests? Tell me about their social aspects. Do they get online a lot? So we try to immerse ourselves with knowing as much about that victim so we can narrow who that person, you know, who had access. You know, with this house, did somebody, was it somebody they knew?
Did the door stay locked or unlocked all the time? Did somebody just walk in? Did somebody break in? We didn't see the house was secured with the exception of the front door at that time. So we're like, did they know this person? So those are questions that we try to figure out early on.
He was a person we were familiar with from calls that we've answered or responded to. He had been arrested a few times. So we knew him. We were familiar with him.
To be honest, we were hoping that she was going to pull through and that we would be able to get some information to help us in the case, but unfortunately, she passed.
The motive doesn't appear to be robbery, so the motive appears to be personal, like there was some personal conflict between someone in that home and our suspect. Up close and personal, pretty much. I mean, don't see where anything was taken, don't see where anything was left. You know, it just seemed like they wanted them not around.
We started getting information, quite a bit of information from confidential informants that, you know, we have in the city, people that we talked to about the case that led us to, you know, we do have a person of interest. Several names come up, but through those different names that came up, this one sticks out the most.
So there are other persons of interest, but there is one main person of interest, yes. He's a known user, known to move stuff on the street quite often, whether it's stolen stuff, personal stuff, just move and sell on the street, you know, kind of hustling.
If we convicted on the rumor mill, half the city would be locked up right now. If we could just go, oh, the whole community here just said this person did it and you're going to jail. We can't do that. But half the city would be locked up right now because everybody's about telling on somebody else but not wanting to go to jail.
the courtroom and testify under oath that they're swearing, you know, the information because they heard it from so-and-so, they heard it from their hairdresser, they heard it from their mechanic, you know, so it's constantly chasing down those things.
We heard that too, but that was early on. There still is gang activity that may possibly be cartel-related or believed to be cartel-related that are in this area as well. And that was one of the rumors. But we almost hear that same rumor come up with each homicide case that we have. We can't rule that out.
So there again, we have Charlie, who is our most probable person of interest, but we're open-minded that there could be something else. Maybe Charlie was, you know, contacted by this alleged cartel. You know, anything's possible. My thoughts, my intuition tells me it's one person. It was personal, and others were witnesses, and they didn't want witnesses.
And solving this case is going to depend if that person responsible shared any information with somebody about it, then that person he shared or told it to, those are the people I need to come forward.
Disheartening to us because we want to speak for the victim and we want to try and help the victim's family because it weighs on us heavily. You know, when we have these cases that we know somebody's got that bit of information, we know it's there and they don't come forward, then there's nothing that we can do. I always have hopes that we'll talk to that right person.
As time goes on, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes it's a good thing. When time goes on, people may not be in the same situation themselves as they were in 2019. And you come right back around and loop with them and meet up with them and everything you needed is right there. There is some other things that the crime lab at that time wasn't taking that they would take now.
As I reviewed some of this stuff, I thought, I'm going to follow up with some of those items just to see. Because you don't always send everything you got to the crime lab. You send what you think is relevant. But we have a lot of evidence, so could other things be submitted? Yes, absolutely.
There could be some other stuff, but I want some relevance before sending that, you know, not just, are we going to get something from this? Are we going to get something from that? It's, you know, definitely the shell casings and things like that went, and I hope that there will be a connection with that at some point.
We've got a lot of older cases, too, that we're working on. And I always try to explain to the families, there's hope. As long as you have somebody willing to try and keep the case alive and the momentum going, there's hope. Don't ever give up on hope. Sometimes we can solve a case, and sometimes we can't.
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