Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
An all-new 2020 starts right now.
Good morning, everyone. It's Friday with our temperature today high of about 78.
The morning of October 2nd, 2020, we were at a diner here in Carrollton having a little meeting breakfast with our sergeants. This was on a Friday, so that was one of our regular days off. I occasionally will work off-duty jobs. I happened to be working at a bank that morning. I had my very first mammogram ever that morning. You have to put everything in a locker and lock your things up.
It was during that meeting that we got a radio that there was a shooting at the Green Tree Apartments in Carrollton, Texas. I was just down the street from Green Tree to get a call from my sergeant. He asked me to come help.
Chapter 2: What events led to the tragic shooting at Green Tree Apartments?
Amazing. My phone went off. It was a Facebook notification. And the exact words were, is it true? I just heard about Alyssa. What happened?
911, what is the address of the emergency? It's 1120 MacArthur Drive.
I need an ambulance immediately.
OK, I'm going to get some help headed that way. Now tell me exactly what happened. Someone came up and just shot my assistant manager. I need someone here immediately.
Don't touch anything, okay? This is an active crime scene, okay? Who all's in here?
Just me and my co-worker. We're just getting our day started.
I came in at 9 o'clock. I was in the computer working and then Tony comes in around 9.06.
When suddenly we heard like a car really close to the parking lot.
And we're like, what the hell is he parking like that?
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Chapter 3: How did the police respond to the shooting incident?
She's 24 years old. Do you know who she is?
Growing up, she was very headstrong, but she also had like the heart of gold. We had our times, right? Like mothers and daughters do. But I can say she's the one who anytime I needed anything, she was there. I am Melissa's sister. We're six years apart, I believe. She was always the cooler, older sister that I always looked up to.
For my 18th birthday, my mother did this huge party and she actually got Alyssa to make a video. Hey Taylor, happy birthday, 18. Now that you're getting into adulthood, We're gonna become best friends and we're gonna make lots of new memories. We can do everything together now that you're older and so that was like really awesome for me at that time.
Me and Alyssa became friends in the sixth grade. I was kind of getting bullied and she asked me to ride the bus home with her and we were inseparable ever since. She's always been like a mama bird. And she was bold and strong and had to teach me kind of how to stand on my two feet. She gave me my braveness. There was not a room that she could walk in that her presence wouldn't be known.
Whenever she got pregnant, it was very out of the blue. She was very scared, but determined she was going to go through with it. As soon as her baby came, she was all mom mode. I think that the most beautiful part of Alyssa's life was when she became a mother to Willow. We support her for changing her whole lifestyle for that kid.
You have this beautiful 24-year-old mom who is trying to make a life and just was one of the absolute best moms.
Shortly before 9 a.m. on October 2nd, Alyssa Burkett pulled into the parking lot of the Green Tree Apartments where she worked as an assistant office manager. She was likely sitting in her car when an assailant dressed in all black approached her car from the driver's side. The assailant, he pulled right here and he got out and he shot her through the driver's side window.
And he got back in, started to back out, thinking that he had done his job.
I heard that pop. I turned around, I knew it was a gunshot. So I was like, what the ****? So I turned around, I peeked out the window, I see a Ford Explorer. It's like a black, navy blue, something like that.
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Chapter 4: What details emerged about Alyssa Burkett's life and background?
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October 2nd. Unfortunately, it is the day that I replay a lot. The whole world was spinning. I felt my heart break that day. I remember pulling up. I see all of the lights, the ambulance, the police. And I remember asking, she didn't make it, did she? And he was like, no, she didn't. And then I remember just losing it from that point on.
I just didn't want it to be true that Alyssa had died and that they didn't know where Willow was. We're in the parking lot of the Green Tree Apartments. This is where we were for the murder investigation of Alyssa Burkett. When I arrived, it was the most brutal scene I think I'd ever been to. You could just see the rage and the hate that was in the killer's mind and heart.
Don't touch anything.
This is an active crime scene. We knew we had a lot of evidence. We had Alyssa's car. That was a crime scene in and of itself. We also collected the knife sheath that was here on the sidewalk. That the suspect had dropped. We want to talk to everybody that's on scene. All the witnesses had very similar descriptions.
The one consistent thing that I remember is them describing him as an African-American male. Alyssa had this feeling that someone was watching her. After Alyssa's murdered and the police are examining her car, they find a tracker. It seemed like there was something else that we were missing pretty early on, and we were. It's kind of murder 101.
I mean, you always start with the closest circle to that victim. Then you work out. Alyssa had told me that she had met someone, that they had been dating a little bit. When we met, I just thought, you know, oh, okay. He seems like he's this nice guy, and okay, we're good to go. Alyssa and Andrew met online in 2018. He was 10 years older than her.
And he told me on the phone that at the time they met, he was well established. He owned his own house, he had a great job selling power tools, and he even owned his own airplane. She seemed like a very caring, funny, loving person. Andrew wanted eventually to settle down and have children. He was this warm, giving, loving man that put others first.
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Chapter 5: What evidence was found at the crime scene and its significance?
Yeah, I can go double check now. She has her bottle. She should be OK. Andrew and Holly had said they'd been at the house. They were relaxing all morning. We're just going to brunch. TLC on the way. OK. What in the world? Holly was overly cooperative, too. I asked for consent to search her purse because she wanted some stuff out of it. I just need my small Louis Vuitton bag. Just the small? OK.
And she was like, oh, yeah, yeah, go ahead. Can we leave your passport in the truck? Is that cool? Because obviously you're not going out of the country today. No, no, no. I just got back from Mexico a couple days ago, actually. I'm not leaving the country, so as long as I can have it back in the near future. Yeah, you'll get it back eventually. Yeah, it's going to be in the truck.
We're not taking it. I was in Granite Bay in California, and I get a call from Holly. And she goes, Andrew and I got pulled over. And, you know, it was horrible. They pulled guns, and I was like, what? I'm taking your phone and her phone right now. But I will allow you to call me . Take it.
And then if you can leave here and just go straight to the Carrollton Police Department, and they'll advise you. They were just trying to do everything they could to try to get him back to the PD for an interview so that we can get him in a room and talk to them, kind of figure out what they knew, kind of see if there's anything that would lead us down to a suspect.
We asked for consent to search the vehicle at the scene, and Andrew told us we couldn't search the truck. But we had enough developments coming from the crime scene to get a search warrant for the truck. We told them that they weren't allowed to go back to the house. They wanted to keep it where no one came in and no one went out. The decision was made, he's not leaving with the truck.
If he wants to go, they can go to the police department. So we see Andrew and Holly leaving with Willow, carrying her in her car seat, and they go to get an Uber because they can't go home. The order was given to us, like, hey, stay with Andrew. Like, make sure that they don't throw anything out of the car. And as we're traveling, they take an exit that we weren't expecting.
It was at that point the attorney was on the phone.
Yes, ma'am.
Andrew and Holly had originally agreed to come to the police department to speak to us.
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