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Hi guys. I'm Courtney and I'm Lisa, and welcome to
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the next chapter in the Book of the Dead. Brought
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Then They Were Gone. We're a weekly show that covers
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Some of you might remember I covered the murder of
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DeAndre Matthews as a true crime quickie a few episodes back.
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Just a quick recap. DeAndre, who went by Dre, was
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a gay, black nineteen year old man, and he asked
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to borrow his mom's jeep because he loved to drive.
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Drey had two jobs and he went to school, but
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in his free time, he was mostly a homebody, and
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he loved playing video games and spending time with his family.
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After borrowing his mom's jeep one night in February of
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this year, twenty twenty three, he didn't show up back home.
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His mom's jeep was found burnt not far from his
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home after she reported her son missing. Trey's body was
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found the following day near some railroad tracks in Flatbush,
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New York. Drey had a couple gunshot wounds to his
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head and went to his back. He was also set
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on fire. His mom said she didn't think he was
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seeing anyone, and I made the comment he was working
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two jobs and going to school. I thought it would
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be hard to see anyone with this busy schedule. Well,
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some good news towards justice in that case, Drey's alleged
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killer has been captured, and kudos to the police for
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actually searching Dray's phone. They found pictures of Drey along
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with another nineteen year old man named Isaiah Baez who
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lived in Flatbush, but there's been no confirmation about exactly
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what the relationship between the two young men was, only speculations,
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as they seemed to have known each other for a
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little over a year. Isaiah was arrested and he was
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charged with Drey's murder. Also, a twenty four year old
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man was arrested in connection for tampering with evidence he
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suspected of helping Isaiah dispose of Drey's body. I'll keep
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my ears open for any new developments in this case.
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Also in the case of Ray Haynish that I covered
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way back in September eighteenth, twenty twenty. This was season three,
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episode ten. There's finally been a little bit of movement
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now that that asshole prosecutor Robert Guy is no longer
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the da of the county Ray was murdered in. I
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still keep in contact with Ray's mom, Dotty and his
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sister Shah on Facebook. Just as a reminder, Ray was
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murdered by a local thug named Garrett Kurtz, and this
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was in Indiana. Kurtz also had tortured and murdered a
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thirty year old woman that he had been romantically involved with.
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Her name was Nicole Bowen. All of this happened the
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end of March twenty nineteen. Kurtz admitted to killing Ray
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and Ray's home. Then Kurtz canued to party in Ray's
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home with his group of thug friends. After Kurtz was
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arrested for Nicole's murder, he was accused of Ray's murder too,
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And even though Kurtz admitted to killing Ray, the prosecutor,
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Robert Guy, didn't want to touch Ray's case. Many believed
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it was because of Robert Guy being homophobic. Kurtz even said, oh, yeah,
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I killed him. It was an accident during rough sex.
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I accidentally strangled him to death, which I have to
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tell you is complete and utter unicorn shit. Then Kurtz
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proceeded to still raise car and other items as well.
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Kurtz received fifty five years of incarceration for Nichole's murder.
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Let's hope he gets another fifty five added on for
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Rais Ray's sister and mom just posted that killer Kurtz
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had a hearing already and raised murder. But the hearing
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was simply for Kurts to request another attorney because his
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family couldn't afford the one they had. And this is
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just idiotic as hell, But the court said they pay
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for Kurt's attorneys. To me, that suspicious as fuck. Why
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would taxpayers money go to an attorney for this asshole
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who's already been convicted of one murder. There's something called
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a public defender. Hey, they're free and for low income people.
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Give the asshole Kurts a public defender. What I want
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to know is why is this piece of shit so
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much more important than anyone else that the court is
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going to pay for his attorney? Okay, I just wanted
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to update you on those cases. So this man who
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works or work for Fox News is a crime analyst.
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His name is Rod Wheeler. He went on to the
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Bill O'Reilly show, and I'm sure Bill was criming genes
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with what Rod Wheeler was about to expose. No was
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in his penis. But what those two men did after
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the show, hey, that's their business. Rod was apparently doing
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a segment on ruthless black lesbian gangs that originated out
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of Tennessee called Dikes taking Over the origins of this
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gang and why they were even formed, was to deal
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with homophobic bullying in an urban American school district. Well,
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that sounds reasonable to me. However, their way of handling
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their bullying experiences apparently was to turn it around on
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the bullies and do exactly the same thing their bullies
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were doing to them, fighting fire with fire, so to say, Well,
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that didn't go over so well. A series of alleged
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incidents of same sex harassment by Dikes taking Over that
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was forced on heterosexual students was used by these women
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to re establish a power differential after they experience bullying
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based on their sexuality and their gender expression. While I
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can appreciate the sentiment behind the group, their means intact
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it sound like it was a really poor way to
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handle the situation. But going back to the Bill O'Reilly
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episode with Rod Wheeler which aired in two thousand and seven,
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Rod tells Bill Yo just Bill.
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In addition to carrying weapons and violently attacking people, these
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lesbian gangs are alleged to have rape girl victims they recruit.
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As a matter of fact, some of the kids have
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actually reported that they were actually forced into, you know,
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performing sex acts and doing sex acts with some of
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these people. Rod goes on to tell Bill O'Reilly that
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there are even now gays taking over gangs out there.
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They sodomize their victims with sex toys. Brodden, Bill, can
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you just stop already? Although Bill O'Reilly had to apologize
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for the lies about a national epidemic of black lesbian
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gangs coming after female children, the story had nonetheless achieved
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the desired goal of infotaining its audience by perpetuating both frightening,
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racist and homophobic stereotypes. I consider that to be media
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right wing sensationalism at its finest. And even after that segment,
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Bill O'Reilly attributes murders with lesbians involved to the gang
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dykes taking over. So this case is actually about a
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young girl, a fifteen year old girl named Sakia Gunn.
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And while I was researching.
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Sakie, that's how I stumbled upon this Fox News piece,
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and I didn't want to get too off topic. Well,
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I'm telling you Sekia's story, so I thought i'd lead
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with the bullshit media that actually came up in an
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article about Sekia May eleventh, twenty twenty three, was like
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just last week or a week and a half ago.
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It was the twenty year anniversary of the murder of
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a fifteen year old black lesbian named Sakia Gun. She
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was only fifteen years old, and she was murdered for
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living her truth.
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Now.
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I've had Sakia's case on my paper list and my
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dry erase board, and even my website to cover for
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quite some time. Now with the recent passing of the
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twentieth anniversary of her death, now is the time wow.
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That means she'd be thirty five years old today had
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she been given the opportunity to live out her life.
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And we have no idea what she might have become
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or what greatness she might have achieved. Her tale is
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another tragic story of homophobic hate at the hands of
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misogynistic men grown as men who thought it fitting to
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pick on and torment teenage girls, children and ultimately murder one.
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Something else that is tragic in this case, in spite
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of Sequiah's murder occurring nearly five years after Matthew Shepherd's murder,
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Matthew's murder had over six hundred and fifty articles written
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about it in a seven month timespan. Sakia's brutal killing
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only garnered about twenty five articles total, and that was
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in the same time span seven months after her murder.
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So what does that say about mainstream media? It either
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says Sequia's murder wasn't gruesome enough for media outlets, or
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it says that a teenage black girl murdered wasn't important
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enough for them to cover. Possibly it's a little above.
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Sekiya was a masculine presenting lesbian and researching this case,
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I learned a new term, or maybe it's a very
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outdated term I've never heard of for butch lesbians. It's
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two letters AG and it stands for aggressive. Does that
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mean if a woman is masculine presenting, there are automatically
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assumed to be aggressive. Does that mean all men who
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are masculine presenting are aggressive? Really not fond of that term,
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and I'm surely not aggressive assertive maybe a leader definitely,
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but the word aggressive has total negative connotations to it.
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Sakiah lived with her mom and her grandmother. She came
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out as a lesbian at the age of eleven. She
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was a high school sophomore a ten and she earned
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all straight a's Saquia's love was basketball. She had dreams
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of playing professional basketball someday. The evening of May eleventh,
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two thousand and three, Sakia and four of her female
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teenage friends they took a bus into New York City's
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Greenwich Village from Newark, New Jersey. This was only about
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thirteen miles away. In Greenwich Village, they could live their
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truth without judgment because of the large LGBTQ community in
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Greenwich Village. They visited the Christopher Street Pier, where a
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number of people just like them were known to hang
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out and socialize. It was an evening of fun with
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her friends and other like minded people.
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The girls were.
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Dropped back off by a bus after three am, and
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then they were waiting for another bus that would transport
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them to their home. And as a mom, my first
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thought is nope. But perhaps the parents and guardians of
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these girls thought safety in numbers, and they all ventured
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out together before they would be okay. Or perhaps, like
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many teenage girls, they each told their parents they were
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staying over another one's house. Nevertheless, the night was never
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supposed to head in the direction it did. While the
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girls waited for their connecting bus, a car an old
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white station wagon with two men, twenty eight year old
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Richard McCullough and his friend Alan Parris, drove slowly near
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the girls. The men were whistling and cat calling at
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the young girls. Now, the girls tried to ignore the
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two men, and they even turned their backs to them,
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but not to be deterred, the men stopped their car
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and it kept talking to the girls, encouraging them to
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come closer. They even propositioned them for sex. The girls announced,
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no thanks, we're all lesbians, and for some reason this
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pissed the men off. They got out of the car
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and started to approach the girls. Richard McCullough got physical
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and he grabbed a girl and put her in a chokehold.
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That's when Sakia and her friend Valencia started to combat
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the men. They were hitting the men and trying to
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deflect their unwanted advances. Sekiah was a petite girl, only
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five three and one hundred and ten pounds. At that point,
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Richard McCullough pulled a knife and he lunged it in
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Saquia's chest. Sakia slumped to the ground as the two
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men got back into their car and they sped away.
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Quick thinking Valencia saw another car stopped at a red light,
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and she ran to it started pounding on the driver's
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side window. She was begging for the driver to help.
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The driver was a man, and he agreed to help