Our card this week is Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson, the King of Hearts from Connecticut.Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson was 26-years-old when he was fatally shot outside his mother’s apartment in the Hockanum Park apartment complex in East Hartford, Connecticut. Dae Dae was killed just a few days before Christmas in 2017 and left behind three children, all under the age of five. His family and the detectives working his case are confident that someone in their neighborhood must have seen or heard something that could help investigators figure out who killed Dae Dae, they just need them to finally come forward. If you or anyone you know has information about Dashaun Lawon’s murder, please call Detective Paul Sulzicki directly at 860- 291-7544 or contact the East Hartford Police Department at 860-528-4401. View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/dashaun-dae-dae-lawson Let us deal you in… follow The Deck on social media.Instagram: @thedeckpodcast | @audiochuckTwitter: @thedeckpodcast_ | @audiochuckFacebook: /TheDeckPodcast | /audiochuckllcTo support Season of Justice and learn more, please visit seasonofjustice.org. The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers. Instagram: @ashleyflowersTikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkieTwitter: @Ash_FlowersFacebook: /AshleyFlowers.AFText Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!
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Our card this week is Deshawn Day-Day Lawson, the King of Hearts from Connecticut. Three days before Christmas in 2017, a group of kids piled off a school bus in East Hartford, Connecticut. But instead of happily rushing home to start their winter break, they stepped straight into a crime scene.
A single gunshot had echoed through the parking lot minutes before, and 26-year-old Deshaun Lawson lay bleeding to death on the cold asphalt. Two separate sightings of a metallic car could hold the key to who killed him, and police hope to track that car down with your help. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. Deshawn, also known as Day Day to his family, was close to his mom.
So close, in fact, that he stopped by her place in the Hockenham Park apartment complex almost every day for one reason or another. And on December 22nd, 2017, his reason was to pick her up so they could go shopping and get some last-minute Christmas gifts for his sister and his kids. But just as they were heading out the door, they got distracted by a particularly dramatic episode of Chicago Fire.
Day-Day was the first to tear himself away from the TV and went outside to wait for his mom by the blue Lexus that they shared as she finished getting ready. But his mom, who will call Cynthia to protect her privacy, got caught up in the show again. And she didn't have her hearing aids in, so if he called out to her or honked the horn, it didn't register.
The TV was all she could hear until there was a sudden knocking on her door. When she answered, Cynthia saw her neighbor, Josh, who calmly said something she almost couldn't make sense of. Someone shot Day Day.
That's when I opened the door and I just ran out. No nothing on my feet. I had socks because I like to be in the house with just socks on. And I just ran outside, no coat, no nothing. And Day Day was on the ground on his back.
That was Day Day's mom you just heard. Day Day was lying next to the car, a pool of blood spreading out beneath him as neighbors looked on in horror. Cynthia shouted to one of them to bring a towel to try and stop the bleeding. She could see her son's eyes moving, so she just kept talking to him, letting him know that he wasn't alone and that help was on the way.
Cynthia remained by Day Day's side till help got there, and she even stayed with him as he was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. About the same time, Detective Paul Sulzycki, who would become the lead investigator on the case, rushed to the scene with his partner after hearing a radio dispatch about the shooting.
And as we were coming into town, it was broadcasted that a gold car was seen leaving the area. And a patrolman had stopped that gold car at a local gas station. So myself, Frank, my partner at the time, we go to that secondary scene, if you will. And a patrol was interviewing the driver of that gold car.
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