Didn’t the father and son report a handgun stolen from a pick up truck they owned parked outside their home? This just seems odd to me, especially if they were concerned about break-ins. Why leave a gun in a unprotected vehicle?
Someone with LE experience should know better...
In addition, it is a convenient detail considering they claimed the victim put his hands down his pants as if he was going to draw a gun in a previous confrontation. Its just too much of a coincidence to me and too convenient for the perps for me. If I were a more suspicious person I might come to all sorts of conclusions.
The call details/narrative for that alleged theft raise the level of hinky, imo.
Already known (of the story told by GM): on New Years Day, around 9:30AM, GM is at TM's address, and for some unknown reason goes outside to move TM's truck to another spot, still on TM's property. He says he forgot to lock the truck after he did so.
TM said when he went outside within a short while after that, he noticed an empty holster on the front seat and then called LE.
According to the LE call detail report, TM told LE when he called at 11:07AM that the gun "had been taken within the hour." He also told LE that he didn't have a serial number for the gun. What he was quite clear about, though, was that he wanted to make an official report about the theft of his gun.
Suspicious mind at work here. The circumstances of the alleged theft are pretty curious, but also and very much is the timing.
Plucking out bits and pieces from the other call details, it's possible to put together a timeline:
October 25, 2019. English calls LE at 10:04PM to report a trespasser he is watching in real time on his CCTV. He described the man ("tattoos down both arms, curly hair"), and asked LE to "find out what he's doing and to have him removed."
At 10:18, without intervention by LE, the trespasser exits the site, heading across the street (towards 221 Satilla Drive). English sent LE a description of the trespasser after this call.
November 18, 2019. English calls LE a second time, about a man "who isn't supposed to be there, walking around under the carport, looking around." English said he looked like the same man from the first incident, but that the night before other trespassers had been on the site, and that he had "had to call LE on offender."
From the call details and narrative written about the incident on February 11, what's clear is that after this second trespass at the latest, English did indeed "distribute" videos of these incidents, both to the neighborhood FB page and to their NextDoor app, as well as the description of the trespasser he had sent to LE in October.
The LEO who wrote the Feb 11 incident report noted that he had personally canvassed the neighborhood "during the day," asking peeps if they had seen anyone who matched ( English's ) description of the trespasser.
In other words, by the end of November, 2019, English and LE had put the Satilla Shores neighborhood on the alert and on the lookout for a young black man. (Who had, at worse, twice committed the misdemeanor offense of trespassing onto an open construction site. As had others and in the same timeframe, according to English, but mysteriously, even with 24/7 CCTV and active interest, English doesn't seem to have shared video or descriptions of those other trespassers).
Then, on January 1, TM reports a gun he can't provide a serial number for stolen. And he is specific that he wants an official report. Other neighbors who speak to the media after AA is killed say that although there were other thefts in the neighborhood, including from cars, no one wanted to report the thefts "because their insurance might go up."
