Nine years old would trust me to negotiate with him I felt like he was the only real eyewitness in that car we needed to hear the most important thing that the police needed to hear from him at the time I thought someone had tried to hurt us or hurt my father and I could have been me.
I had to be strong for my siblings as a mother, I had no idea what this little girl was like and she poured her heart out to me that day.
I saw the boy pointing a gun at me and I saw a car and I saw a lot of people just sitting there looking out of my window at the music when I heard a loud noise and saw the car speeding away but I didn't catch it.
They got out of the road and crossed a fenced fence. I don't know how my children got out of that accident. I like rice all over my father.
A child seeing his father's last moments was not the most fun so Makayla got it getting out of the car, he pulled the little children out of the back so they could no longer see their need and they ran into the woods to the church for help.
I wish they would reopen the case and try to resolve it. I want to find out what happened. My cousin was a good man doing another doc.
Michaela, she had the paper in her hand and I was like what that Michaela was it was a car I saw while riding on the side of the road following mine my dad had just been shot and I just looked at all the details in his car.
It was a green car with a black pinafore and I looked at it
I promise I will do my best to get you answers and get your father justice and everyone knows the truth so mom is patient.
This makes sure they listen to you ok I promise you that so I can contact the Chesterfield Police Department I was very open about them.
I made no secret in fact, I was expecting that aha, a moment of lure here's what you can't and they couldn't give me that because they had to defend their investigation.
So I said go ahead and we'd like to give you a chance to do an interview they refused at the time and gave us a statement another important part of the matter.
That we need a firearms expert to show us which bullets entered which gun and tell us exactly what we were hearing in others that they were not.
It may not even fit into the bin so what I am telling you today in all that you have shown me the papers you have shown me is that there is no way that this gun was found in that car.
The police department said that since the new witnesses had appeared, we would also look for signs of bullets that could have been fired at the 380 relatives found in the car.
This and then you see a gun expert who hears in music and hears from nine-year-old Michaela because of his heart in one of the most heartwarming interviews in my career within 24 hours of my report, which I heard from at least two witnesses in the congregation. day saying thank you for making this story those kids from the moment.
They came out of the woods and said to us that someone had just shot our father. I did not know where the information was lost. At that time, the witnesses were afraid to speak to us, but they went to the police after our report.
the department said because these new witnesses have appeared we will take a good look at you to sit down you have something to tell you ok then today.
I have a meeting with the captain of the Criminal Investigations and they will remove the case and wait for it which means they will review all case files and would like to discuss you again.
Opening a case also gave her the comfort of knowing that someone believed her and that little reassurance has helped her heal and helped her move forward in her grief.
But I feel like they said from the beginning that the evidence was not there. 'I will not support anything but this has been an accident so about a month after the police turned the case into a standstill, we learned from the music.
That the FBI was now intervening and we learned that they would re-examine Nick's gun so imagine then he saw this
it’s not just lip service that they’re going to do something about it too.
The only thing she wanted in all of this was for her children to be heard because they were one of the few people to see for themselves that day even.
They beat the whole stadium to the brim we wanted to make sure we did the right thing and it was true in our work you know we said we would fully review and that is exactly what we wanted to do in our first report. was distributed in May of 2017.
My contact with the police was monthly I went into it every few weeks to see if there was a change in the situation with the clavier investigation so December 2017 is coming and music is still informing us that.
The field where Nick’s car crashed. will be completely cleared I want to give you an idea of this field was very full of brush and trees and you know the tall grass and weeds and they even pull out that they are bushwhacking.
The whole field down the dirt and they brought in a pile
they hire and have these metal trackers and they pass
inch by inch through this field that December 2017 is the day when I felt like.
There has been a real change in communication with the police department for the first time Chesterfield police set a record.
I went into the camera and explained why they were outside
it is the only way we can say that we have done everything we could to find out that the truth is not where the truth is now.
Accident although ballistics had shown that the bullet in his brain did not match his gun but it was starting at the bottom so, at this point, the field is removed and the gun is re-examined by the children and interviewed by the FBI.
You would think you know they don't I'm just trying to comfort a grieving widow who knows that they've put a lot of staff into the investigation and I know that music had a lot of hope.
They went on to look at all the factors that may have been the new case of these new eyes were not just ordinary investigators.
These new eyes were part of a group called the unresolved investigative team that particular unit was established.
Looking at some of the most challenging cases that traditional investigative methods have not yet resolved the case we will find that.
They will have this roundtable meeting and they will discuss the whole theory someone in this roundtable interview says let's take it again and visit the wound of your entry you know where the bullet went in the next time.
They thought that helper. from next to the gun let's take a closer look at this they say now remember the weather we took off the car the piece around the window was missing the cracked cover.
What if that was what was in Nick's head because the bullet came out of where they started something and I believe that's exactly what made them think this shot.
It didn't come out of the car this shot came out of the car and we need to turn this case into a murder investigation ATF appeared and gave a $ 5,000 reward for information.
This was a big part of the controversy you don't want. self-consciousness glad that your husband was killed but in our case, we had to fight for so long to find someone who admitted that.
It was great for us and brought us closer as a family to finally let the whole world know for sure that Nick was gone. a form of fashion or fashion.
That could injure or endanger our children ATF came forward and offered a $ 5,000 reward for information, in this case, this was a big piece of the puzzle sometimes taking the next witness.
That was never before and we will learn that what they needed came from someone who knew exactly what was going on that day that would lead.
Them to someone who would support the story and talk about other crimes that happened. After 12 hours the headlights lit up one of the South Side areas around 12:30 on Sunday morning last night but it did not happen.
Police have not yet been arrested. We are still searching for a male suspect named Mark Jefferson who will be killed in the town of Richmond hours.
After Nick and it will be the facts from both crime scenes that will tell the police that a bullet was fired in both of these murders.
He was fired from the same weapon and this time we were able to make a match and found out that the title that killed Mr. Clavier was taken again.
Someone else’s life than in Richmond that day and I couldn’t believe I would ever see this case resolved I felt like I would ever have all the answers and seeing September 25, 2018, for about three years one month is embarrassing. Three years after.
I was shot I walked into a meeting and was told we had all the answers but there was a street riot on Hall Street that day which led to the lighting of the weapons and the shooting that resulted in him being shot dead and I immediately broke down.
When they showed the picture they had of the slide.
presentation to me and as soon as they showed me the picture.
I just cried and walked away and it was very difficult to look at the picture knowing it was the man who took my husband’s life years before Nicola Vera’s murder. Chetan was considered the most sought-after refugee in the world u.s. shawls were on the list who felt like his violent.
The crime has been going on since he was about 14 years old. The charges will not be brought against him since he passed away.
Within 24 hours so within 24 hours police said the man Dirk weld Cheatham killed two people and destroyed two families in the hope that he would be prosecuted by a senior official. they saw a dangerous man and a man from a car full of children pull that trigger further history.
I know you look at them I know you are proud of us and I know you are happy that we fought for him the first night after finding out.
What happened that day we found out that Cheatham was dead for the first time that night. that Jacob didn't wake up in the middle of the night.
I was glad of that because now I don't have to sit in fear asking the kids how they feel about all this you know I said you know what you are.
He felt so quiet Jacob said he was fine and he said he was really sorry for his mother me so why are you so sad for his mother he said well I know.
He shot my father, how are you but I 'sure his mother really remembers him and it just broke my heart but at the same time, I felt so proud of that boy he has gone through it with compassion.
I was relieved that Mary would not be able to hurt anyone and would not be able to harm anyone in my family from the beginning. Mikayla did not change her story.
Exactly the car that stopped next to them that day for even nine years.
An old man watching his father get shot and try to stop the bleeding and get his siblings out of the car to a safe place and draw a picture of a speeding car in the blink of an eye using a brave girl.
Such people serve law enforcement people who have cool morals and know. look sadness in the face and doing the right things may not be liked but they are right.
So I hope she will come and see me for work it has been a very difficult journey as a mother I can say that the hardest thing.
I have ever been through and I would not wish this to any mother after it emerged that both men Nick and Raquel Cheatham showed off their weapons. , yes there were people who asked if the father would take out his weapon and his children from the car.
So I had to ask that question to my mother and the music I had
I'm thinking about that a lot I'm trying to photograph you but when Nick saw that there were bad people very bad people and almost unthinkable.
He thought he knew I had to protect my children Nick wasn't this kind. retreat and I know that Nick would not have pulled out his weapon with the children unless.
He heard that there was a threat he would shoot himself and he knows he will pass things as if you have never pointed a gun at someone unless.
She intends to shoot them now as our report as this was changed to murder Nick's death certificate has been changed and that was too much for the music not because of insurance or anything else.
But because she has that piece of paper showing that her husband did not. shot himself but someone else did it that day and took his life of birth dear dad is a good father to you his life was quickly taken away from us.
But no one can take away the idea that he left this world as everything has been done as just a few minutes has been a much longer journey.
Then the most rewarding feeling in the end. to see the changed family accompany the music that day she went to one of the private areas.
Where she went to the cemetery and went with the flowers and told her husband that I should always try my best not to get too involved because at the end of the day.
I have to make sure I tell every side of the story assurance that I am still strengthening my integrity as a journalist but it will not help to invest in the soul as a person as a mother as a wife I know there is no way we could have come without the media reports.
We may not have had a reason to say that to Kahless let's take a look and I hope that protocols can be revised for the sake of children.
Because I believe things were handled differently there and that would improve their chances we hear. family concerns we looked at ourselves and asked some questions that we had invested heavily in this case and in the end.
Fix it not as fast as we would like it or the family can light up but our job is to fix it don't happen so fast I have a lot of respect for the police department and the men and women.
Who spend hours investigating the lows with them and I can tell you that has it has been one of the most funds stories I've made I become emotionally attached to these families and me in the way.
I would like someone to treat my own family god forbid let me deal with a story like this end of the chapter.
I miss you so much Nick I can't believe you're not home anymore is a reminder of how much we need you, Michaela has a really hard time without accepting that.
She's gone others are as sad as ll Nikki I love you so much and I feel lost waiting for you to call home it was your breath I promised.
I would not go. you and the hardest thing I ever did to get out of that hospital room even though you were gone it was hard to leave the man I loved the light.
When I don't even know where to look from here it was my world and now. my world is ruined I missed you I love you forever I think he can be proud of us.
I think he can be proud of not only the way we fight for him but also how we survived.
