Renee Roberts
Appearances
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
With her job, too, you know, her job, when they needed her to go work at another store, she went to work at another store, you know. Over time, no questions, you know, she would always work it. She would never let anybody down, you know. If she knew you needed something, she was there.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I was getting ready for work that night. It was like around 10 or 5, the 10 o'clock news came on. But my phone rang, and it was one of our mutual friends. And she said, Renee, have you talked to Tara today? I said, yes, I talked to her this morning. I said, I kept waiting for her to call me back because, you know, she said she would call me when she was done and we could meet up.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
But since she never called me, I just stayed home. Why? And she said, somebody with her name. And Riverview was killed today. I was like, what? I said, no way. There's not another, you know, Tahiri D'Angelo. I'm sure, you know, it can't be her. It can't be her. So I called her sister and she answered the phone. Yes, Renee, it's true. Tara's gone. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
What did you just say? She's like, Renee, she's gone. I'm like, no, she's not. Let me talk to her. You know, and she kept, Renee, she's gone. I'm like, there's no way Tara's gone. Like, I just talked to her this morning. There's no, no, there's absolutely no way that she's gone.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I called her that morning, like around 10-something in the morning. I called to tell her happy birthday and see what she was doing for the day because I wanted to spend some time with her for her birthday because we always did that together on our birthdays. I asked her what she was doing and she told me she was going to the mall and, you know, she worked hard.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I said, okay. I said, let's go ahead and go bye-bye. So we go to the door and it's literally like something stopped me and said, Renee, don't go over there. Wait for her to call you. Because it was a ways away. It probably would have took me an hour at least to get there from where I lived at the time. But I was going to just surprise her, you know, with some flowers and stuff at her house.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I don't consider him my godson anymore. I do not. People ask me, you know, have you forgiven him? You know, have you forgiven him for what he did? You know, are you mad at him? I'm like, well, how can I forgive someone who killed my best friend? You know, it's not like, you know, she was killed in a tragic accident. You know, it's not like, you know, she passed away in her sleep.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
You know, it wasn't an accidental death. You know, this was on purpose. You know, he wanted her dead. And, you know, and that's the part that hurts me the most. You know, it's like, how could you want your own mother who gave you life to die? Why would you want to hurt her? You know, I will never understand that. So when people ask me, have asked me, have you forgiven him? No, I have not.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I will never forgive him. How can I forgive someone who took away my best friend from me? She was someone, you know, that would give you the shirt off her back if you needed it, literally. She would do anything for anybody. She would never do anything to hurt anybody. And the fact, you know, of her getting hurt just, it really upsets me because she didn't deserve it.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I met her in high school, and we were in JROTC together. I think I was 15 and she was 14. I was older, so I graduated first, and then she graduated the following year. And that's how I met her, and we became friends that way.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I think he was just ungrateful because he wanted a new baseball bat, which she bought for him. And in my mind, I've always thought, I wonder if that's the baseball bat that he used. You know, is that why he wanted that baseball bat? Because he intended to use that specific one to hurt his mom, you know? So those questions have crossed my mind, and I probably will never get the answers to that.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
She had asked me to be his godmother before she even gave birth to him. And then once, you know, she got word that she was going to have him, you know, I went to the hospital. You know, I went up there and I was in the delivery room whenever he was born. That was my godson, you know, and I loved him to death.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I got pictures of me with her and Joshua when he was like two years old, you know, so I have a lot of pictures, so.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
He was a good baby. He was a good baby, you know. He didn't cry much. I watched him during the day for her to work, you know, because at the time I wasn't working because my ex-husband was taking good care of me. I didn't have to work. So, you know, I just took care of Joshua. I treated him as if he was my own child, you know.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I used to say, Joshua, you know I'm your godmother. And he would just ignore me and go in the other room. Then I'm like, why would he ignore me? But when I asked her, she's like, he don't really like talking to people. He really didn't like talking to people. So he would just never say nothing back to me. He was not a people person.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
I know if he got older, you know, she'd call me because she was upset, you know, with him, you know, like he did something, you know, maybe he, you know, because he would always ask her for money and stuff. And, you know, there just comes a point, you know, where you can't give your last dollar every time, you know.
Sword and Scale
Episode 296
And so she would do everything she could for him, you know, but it's almost like if she couldn't do something or she couldn't buy him the best of this or the best of that, then, you know, he would get kind of angry, you know.