Sheriff Nearly Committed SUICIDE After What He Witnessed | Disturbing True Crime Documentary
Sheriff Nearly Committed SUICIDE After What He Witnessed | Disturbing True Crime Documentary
“And he showed me like a gun, and I was like, ‘You got a gun, okay, like what does it mean?’ And then he was like, ‘Well, I picked up this dude.’ He didn’t give me no names; he just said he picked up a dude, and um, when he picked them up, he was going to pick up a girl, and then he was taking them to go, I guess, have sex.”
“Well, he completely fell to the ground.”“I knew then that my… my baby was never coming home again.”
There’s a stretch of land outside Efland, North Carolina, that most people never have a reason to walk. It runs along a utility access road, boxed in by trees and cut through by a line of power towers—the kind of place that’s empty on purpose.
On the morning of September 18th, 2022, two ATV riders came around a bend on that trail and found two teenagers lying in the brush, close together, not moving. At first, there may have been a half-second of hope that it was nothing: kids passed out, a bad prank. It wasn’t.
The victims were 14-year-old Lyric Woods and 18-year-old Devin Clark, and almost nothing about the scene made sense. They didn’t go to the same school. They didn’t live in the same town. They were four years apart in age, from two different corners of the county, with no obvious reason their lives should have ever crossed. And yet here they were, together in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.
Whoever did this hadn’t left much to go on. Both of their phones were gone, along with whatever those phones might have said about how the two of them ended up on that road in the first place. For the investigators standing over that scene, it must have felt less like the start of a case and more like staring at a wall.
Except the wall wasn’t as solid as it looked. Buried in call logs, cloud backups, and message threads nobody thought would survive, a trail was still there—one that would eventually explain exactly how a freshman and a high school senior who barely knew each other ended up dying side by side on that road. It just hadn’t been found yet.
“When we found them, we actually discovered two dead bodies. They were… they were just laying on the side of the road.”
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A Normal Friday Night Turned Tragic
Friday, September 16th, 2022, started out like any other night in the Woods household. Elizabeth Woods got home later than usual that evening. Her mother-in-law had taken a fall earlier in the day, and she’d spent hours at the emergency room making sure she was all right. While she was out, Lyric and her younger sister had been off getting ice cream with their grandparents—the kind of small, unremarkable evening nobody thinks to hold on to until it turns out to be the last one.
By the time Elizabeth got home, it was close to 11:00. She sat down on the couch next to her husband, and a few minutes later, Lyric came up behind them, wrapped her arms around both of them, and told them she loved them. She said she was going to shower and head to bed. Her mom told her not to take an hour and a half in there, half-joking about how long Lyric’s showers always ran. It was an ordinary thing to say to your daughter on a Friday night. It was also the last thing Elizabeth would ever get to say to her.
The next morning, when Lyric still hadn’t come out of her room, Elizabeth sent her younger sister, Govia, in to check on her gently. Govia came back out crying. Lyric wasn’t there. At first, it didn’t register as anything serious. Elizabeth went to check the room herself, half expecting to find Lyric hiding as some kind of joke. She wasn’t hiding. She was simply gone. And there was no version of a normal morning where that made sense.
Elizabeth called Lyric’s father, Brady, on the chance he’d shown up in the night to pick her up. He hadn’t. That was the moment she turned to her husband and told him to call 911.
Across town, in a different house, Devin Clark’s father had no idea anything was wrong yet, either. Devin was 18, old enough that a night or even a full weekend away with friends didn’t automatically raise alarms. Nobody in the Clark house was reaching for the phone—not yet. Two households, two versions of the same missing night, and neither family had the slightest idea that their child’s disappearance was tangled up with the other’s.
Remembering Lyric Woods and Devon Clark
If you asked anyone who knew Lyric Woods to describe her in one word, most of them would land somewhere near joy. She was a freshman at Cedar Ridge High School, still new enough to high school that most of her world was volleyball practice, group chats, and whatever her friends were laughing about that week. And she was always laughing about something. People who knew her described someone who couldn’t walk into a room without lightening it, the friend who turned an ordinary afternoon into something worth remembering, mostly by being ridiculous on purpose.
Scroll through the photos her family has kept of her, and there’s a pattern: in almost every single one, she’s smiling. Not posing. Smiling. Mid-laugh, caught off guard by her own joke. She loved to sing. She loved to dance, badly and without shame, the way 14-year-olds do when they don’t know to be self-conscious about it. Her prized possessions were about as 14 as it gets: an eyelash curler she was fiercely attached to, and a growing collection of Air Jordans she was clearly proud of.
She was the oldest of several younger siblings, including her sister Govia, and by every account, she took that role seriously in the way only an older sister can—equal parts protector and instigator. Her family remembers her as someone with an unusual gift for making people feel like they mattered to her, a warmth that didn’t seem to take any effort on her part. And underneath the jokes and the noise, the thing she loved most, without question, was her own family. Home videos of her are full of it: surprising her dad on his birthday, teasing him, hanging all over him—the kind of footage that only means something different in hindsight.
“Hey guys. So, I’m about to surprise my dad. Uh, he just walked in the restaurant. And I actually can’t get out of the car. Oh my god, I can’t get out of the car?”[Just kidding]“Happy birthday!”“Baby girl!”“I didn’t know you already started it. I love you, Daddy. I cannot believe you thought I forgot your birthday.”“I love you.”“I definitely would not forget your birthday.”
Devon Clark’s world looked almost nothing like hers. He was 18, a senior at Eastern Alamance High School, and on Friday nights in the fall, he was the reason the crowd got on its feet—a wide receiver good enough that his name got called by the announcer more than most. He played basketball, too.
“Come out of action in the pass from Hunter Douglas. He’s going to find Devon Clark. There he is, down the sideline, and see you later. Clark’s going to take it in for the EA touchdown.”
But if you’d asked the people closest to him what actually defined him, most of them wouldn’t have started with sports at all. Devon wanted to make music. He spent hours in makeshift studios recording rap songs with his friends, treating it less like a hobby and more like something he was actually building toward. When he wasn’t on a field or in a booth, he was almost certainly on an ATV or a dirt bike tearing up trails with the same friends who’d later organize a memorial ride in his honor, doing the one thing everyone agreed he loved more than anything else.
“He loved rifles and dirt bikes. It was always something he loved to do with all his other friends and stuff like that. So, this is how we going to, you know, memorialize him and put all respect onto that.”“It was just unnecessary. It’s tragic, uncalled for, uh, evil. I mean, we’re talking about a kid. These kids… these were kids. These were babies.”“Two families got to go to bed without kids… without their kids tonight. Um, and that’s the most sickening thing I’ve ever seen.”
People who knew him describe him in strikingly similar terms: a good friend, a good heart, someone who, in the words of more than one person who lost him, had never hurt anybody in his life. Two teenagers, two completely different lives running on two completely different tracks. One just starting high school, the other about to finish it. Neither of them had any reason to know the other existed. That was about to change in a single night in a way that would end both of their lives and leave two families searching for answers they wouldn’t get for months.
“He was an athletic person. He was a good person. He was a good friend. He had a good heart, but he never hurt nobody. And for him to get done like this… is… I have to have answers. Where is the other person? Who is the person that picked either one of them up? Who is the person or people that dropped them off?”
The Scene on Buckhorn Road
When investigators processed the scene on Buckhorn Road, the physical evidence told a story before anyone had a single suspect in mind. Scattered across three distinct areas, they recovered 13 spent shell casings. And the way those casings were grouped mattered almost as much as the number itself. A small cluster sat near where the two teenagers had first been standing, suggesting that’s where the confrontation began. A second, larger group turned up further off along a nearby trail—evidence of movement, of somebody running. The last casings were recovered right beside the bodies themselves.
Read together, it wasn’t hard to reconstruct the shape of what happened. This hadn’t been one sudden burst of violence. It had started, paused, and then escalated into a chase before ending, cold and final, exactly where the two of them fell.
Neighbors near the scene backed that theory up without even realizing it. Several of them independently told investigators they’d heard gunfire early that Saturday morning: first a longer volley, then a stretch of silence, then several more shots roughly 10 minutes later.
“Close to 10 shots going off, fucking automatic gun, and then a pause for a little bit, and then five more shots went off.”
Two separate bursts, minutes apart. It matched the casings almost perfectly. There was something else, too: Devon’s body showed signs of having been moved after he died, dragged a short distance and turned onto his back, as if whoever did this hadn’t wanted him left exactly where he fell. Why go to that trouble? Nobody could say yet. And the one piece of physical evidence investigators wanted most—the gun itself—was nowhere on that road. Whoever fired it had taken it with them. By the time all of this was mapped out, investigators understood almost everything about Lyric and Devon’s final minutes. What they still didn’t have was a name.
Piecing Together the Digital Trail
The next thread came from an unexpected direction: Devon’s own family. When his father, Dexter, reported him missing that Sunday, he mentioned something else that had also disappeared from the house—his own 9mm pistol, along with a box of ammunition he normally kept for weekend trips to the shooting range. That detail stopped being a footnote fast. The rounds matched the casings from the scene. Devon had taken his father’s gun with him the night he died. And somewhere between leaving that house and ending up on Buckhorn Road, it had ended up in someone else’s hands.
That left one obvious question: Who had he been with? The answer had been sitting in his phone the entire time. Investigators just had to get to it first.
Devon’s phone itself was never recovered, but his carrier held records of app activity, and slowly, a partial picture of his final hours surfaced. Most of his conversations ran through Snapchat, an app built to erase itself, which meant investigators were reconstructing a night with entire pieces missing. Even the fragments they recovered were enough to change the direction of the case.
Just after midnight, Devon had messaged a group of friends, openly looking for a ride and making clear that whoever gave him one wouldn’t be doing it out of the goodness of their heart. In a separate, more private conversation, he spelled it out further: he was planning to meet up with a girl that night, and he was dangling something sexual as payment to whoever was willing to drive him there. One friend showed interest, then said he was out of gas. The conversation went quiet for a stretch, then hours later picked back up just long enough to suggest the two of them had worked something out. Whoever that friend was, Devon now had a way to get where he was going.
Then investigators turned to the other side of the conversation. And what they found there was harder to sit with. Lyric hadn’t been texting from her own phone—her parents took it from her every night. She’d been using an iPad instead, and through it, she’d spent hours quietly planning to slip out of her own house without anyone noticing. She sent Devon her address, then a screenshot marking exactly where to park—off to the side, out of sight of the house. Her last instruction was simple: headlights off before he got there, and wait for her. She’d be the one coming out to the car.
It was the last message anyone would recover from her that night. Nothing in her side of the conversation suggested she knew anything about the arrangement Devon had made to secure that ride. As far as the evidence showed, she believed she was sneaking out to see one person. Whatever Devon had promised his friend, she had no part in it. She just wanted to get in that car without her parents ever knowing.
And she did get in that car. That much investigators were now certain of. What they still couldn’t answer was who else had been inside it.
Christian Sykes Comes Forward
Investigators didn’t find their answer through forensics. They found it because someone came forward. In the days after the murders, both families made public pleas for information, including an emotional post from Devon’s mother, Tiffany, that spread across social media faster than almost anything else connected to the case. One of the people who saw it was a young man named Christian Sykes. He’d never met Lyric Woods or Devon Clark in his life, but he knew someone who had told him a story a few months earlier that at the time he’d written off as nonsense.
“I guess we just start from the beginning and I’ll let you talk a little bit…”“Okay, so everything that I know basically is… so, I met this… I met the boy Isaiah. I don’t know his last name, but I have his Snapchat name, and that’s usually how we converse. I gave the other officer his phone number ’cause I do have his phone number.”
That someone was a 17-year-old named Isaiah Ross. Christian and Isaiah weren’t especially close; they’d crossed paths through a cousin, hung out occasionally, nothing serious. But during one video call, Isaiah had shown him a gun and then, almost as an afterthought, started describing a night that had gone badly wrong.
“And I was like, ‘What happened?’ And he showed me like a gun.”“Okay, go ahead.”“And he was showing me like a gun, and I was like, ‘You got a gun? Okay, like, what does that mean?’ And then he was like, ‘Well, I picked up this dude.’ He didn’t give me no names. He just said he picked up a dude. And um, when he picked him up, he was going to pick up a girl, and then he was taking them to go, I guess, have sex. So, he’s like, ‘But I kept them.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And he was like, ‘Well, the dude was holding the beam on me.’ And I’m assuming he meant like the gun had like a…”“A laser?”“…a laser type of thing on it. But he was like, he was pointing it at him. He was like, ‘I don’t like that.’ And I told him to stop. And I told him multiple times to stop, but he kept doing it. And he said the gun had bullets in it. So, then he said he grabbed the gun, and they was wrestling with the gun. And then, I’m assuming Devin was like, had his finger on it, he pulled the trigger, and he said that the bullet went like near his legs, like that way. He said in between his legs, but that’s what he said. And then he said that he like… and got, I guess, got the gun from him. And then he said he shot him. And then he said that the white girl—well, he didn’t say white girl, but he said the girl that was in the backseat, he said she saw everything. So, I turned around and I shot her. Now, this is Sunday…”
He talked about picking someone up, about that person planning to meet a girl, about an argument over the gun that escalated into something neither of them could walk back from, and about the girl in the backseat who’d seen enough that she couldn’t be left as a witness. What unsettled Christian wasn’t just what Isaiah said; it was how he said it—no hesitation, no visible guilt. At one point, he was laughing. Christian didn’t believe a word of it, not until the news broke about two teenagers found dead on Buckhorn Road and the details started lining up in a way that stopped feeling like a coincidence.
“Okay, so showing that he emptied the…”“Yeah, basically. Like, and it was crazy ’cause it was like no remorse, which was why I was… ’cause I’ve never like looked at him as like a person that’s like, in my eyes, that’s like evil. If you could murder two people like that and then show no emotion… that’s why I was thinking the story was just something that he came up with, because you’re not showing no emotion, you’re laughing on the video call, like…”
Arrest of Isaiah Ross
Isaiah Ross had only lived in North Carolina a few years, having relocated from Delaware to live with his mother and younger siblings. To the people who knew him at home, he came across as quiet, easygoing, unremarkable—the kind of description that, in hindsight, families of suspects give more often than anyone would like. It didn’t entirely square with the version of him that had already started accumulating trouble with the law before that September night.
“No, no cap though. Let me show you… hold on. Let me show you how [they] gave me five charges.”
Cell phone records confirmed what Christian’s tip suggested. Isaiah’s phone had traveled alongside Devon’s for the exact stretch investigators had already mapped out: leaving Devon’s house, picking up Lyric, heading toward Buckhorn Road, arriving in the same narrow window the shell casings and gunshots pointed to. Afterward, his phone placed him alone at a gas station a couple of miles away, where surveillance cameras caught him on foot wearing a distinctive jacket over a black hoodie, the tips of his hair dyed, driving his mother’s white SUV. And then, instead of going home, he drove back toward the crime scene first.
Nobody could say for certain why, but it was enough, combined with everything else, to make Isaiah Ross the center of the investigation. He didn’t stay put waiting to find out. Within days, after an unrelated argument with his mother over damage to her car, Isaiah found himself locked out of the house. His stepfather, trying to help, bought him a bus ticket back to Delaware without any idea he was helping a wanted teenager disappear across state lines. There’s a detail in that moment that still doesn’t sit easily: the stepfather helping him leave happened to be Devon Clark’s own cousin.
Because Isaiah was still a minor, his name couldn’t legally be released to the public, even after charges were filed and a warrant went out for his arrest. For weeks, the public knew almost everything about this case except the one name that mattered most. That ended on October 2nd, when Delaware authorities took him into custody. The following day, prosecutors charged him with two counts of first-degree murder, and despite his age at the time of the killings, announced he’d be tried as an adult.
“So, at this point, personnel with the sheriff’s office have concluded their investigation, and the case has been turned over to the district attorney’s office for prosecution.”“Yeah, um, we have some, um, theories and we have some evidence, but we can’t speculate as to motive at this time. And, um, another important thing to forecast is I don’t know that we’ll know in this case or that we’ll be… that we will find out collectively. Unfortunately, a lot of times cases go all the way through the court system and even get convicted, but if evidence convicts, and, um, the defendant does not speak, we don’t always know the motive, and we… that may very well be what happens in this case. It may not be made public.”
The Trial
For over three years, the case crept toward trial. Then, on the eve of it finally starting in January of 2026, prosecutors made an offer: plead guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree murder on both counts, and take a sentence of 20 to 25 years for each killing, instead of gambling on a jury and risking life in prison. It was, by any measure, a significant offer. Isaiah turned it down flat. No counter-offer, no negotiation. He wanted a jury to decide.
“I ask you to listen to the testimony and review the evidence, that you keep these things in mind: the timeline, the physical evidence, and the defendant’s confession. And when you’ve heard it all, when the truth is laid bare in front of you, I will ask you to hold the defendant accountable. I will ask you to find him guilty.”“It was Friday the 16th. Um, I had come home late because my mother-in-law had fallen, so I took her to the ER. My parents picked up both Lyric and Gennevieve and took them to have ice cream, and then went to my house. And it was about 11:00. Me and my husband were sitting on the couch. She came behind us, gave us both a hug, and told us she loved us, and then she was going to take a shower. And I told her, ‘Don’t take an hour and a half,’ because she always took really long showers. And that was the last time I saw her. I know her weakness was her phone, so I had Gennevieve go in there to wake her up and try to do it in a sweet way. And she came back out crying, and said that… she wasn’t there. And it just didn’t make sense. So, I went in there and I said, ‘She’s probably hiding from you.’ Again, that didn’t make sense to me either ’cause I knew she’d be asleep. Um, and realized she wasn’t there. And then I immediately called Brady to see did he for some reason come pick Lyric up in the middle of the night.”“And who’s Brady?”“Um, Lyric’s dad. Um, and he said no. So, while I was on the phone with him, I told my husband, ‘Call 911 right now.’ It’s not like her to worry me. And it was the last thing she’d want to do.”
That decision meant two very different versions of what happened on Buckhorn Road were about to be put in front of 12 strangers. And only one of them could survive the trial.
The prosecution’s case leaned heavily on Christian’s account of that video call. But under cross-examination, his story didn’t hold together as cleanly as it once had. He remembered the gun as black, whereas Devon’s father had described his missing pistol as gray and green.
“You said that the vehicle that his mom had was black.”“Do you recall hearing that?”“Yeah.”“Okay. You remember kind of seeing her car there and…”“Not there. I just remember seeing her pick him up. Her car was black. Most people don’t… they have one car. So.”“And was the idea that this event took place in a car, was that actually said, or was that also leading to?”“Well, if he said he shot somebody and then turns around and shoots somebody, you can’t turn around unless you’re in a car, right? I… I… that’s just what I’m assuming.”“Talk about… I only… I only know his mom to have a black truck. Fuck, I ain’t never owned a black truck in my life. You suck another…”“Remember the vehicle is black.”
The SUV Isaiah’s mother owned was white. He’d assumed the shooting happened inside a car, but investigators had found no forensic trace—no blood, no DNA, nothing at all to suggest either teenager had ever been inside a vehicle when the shots were fired.
“Another thing that you testified to was that you saw the firearm and that it was black. Is… do you… do you recall that?”“I saw a firearm that was black on video. I don’t know if it was that one, ’cause I was not there.”“Okay. Thank you. So, you saw a firearm and it was black.”“Yes.”“Okay.”
Four years is a long time to hold on to every detail of a second-hand story. Whether Christian had simply misremembered or Isaiah had told it differently than what actually happened was left for the jury to sort out.
“And Mr. Sykes, do you know Isaiah Ross?”“Yes.”“How do you know him?”“Uh, we were cool once upon a time.”“Cool, did you say?”“Yeah.”“What [did] Isaiah tell you?”“Yeah.”“And what did he tell you?”“Um, you want me to tell the whole story?”“Yes, please.”“Okay. Um, well, he told me that he was going to hang out with a… he hung out with somebody and they were going to… Do you want me to say it all like… Okay.”“…been said before, probably.”“All right. Well, he said that they were going to, um… that they went to [meet] a white girl. Um, when they got there, uh, they were hanging out and stuff, and somehow, uh, another… the other boy had a gun, and he was like playing with the beam and pointing it on him, and he told him to stop, and he did it again, and he told him to stop, and he said the third time he went for the gun, they wrestled for the gun, and I don’t remember exactly if he said the gun went off, but I do know he said that… he shot them and dumped the bodies. And then, yeah, that’s pretty much it.”
Then the defense called its only witness: Isaiah Ross himself. His version flipped the story on its head. He testified that he genuinely believed the night was just about a ride and a hookup.
“That’s when he… he asked me if I minded if he went first. So, it’s kind of where I really got the idea that there was only one person that we were going to pick up. Entered into the situation thinking we were going to go like pick up one person and then another person, but… that confirmed that it was just one person.”
And that he had no idea what Devon was truly planning until they were already on the road.
“Explain to me what you heard or what you remember you heard when Lyric and Devon got out [of] the car.”“She was… she was yelling at Devon, saying that, um… I don’t… I can’t say word for word, but I remember she saying she… she wasn’t a… [expletive] and, um, she wasn’t going to let him pimp her around anymore, and that she was… she was going to get police involved.”“Okay. And how did Devon respond?”“He ultimately… he retrieved the gun out of the car and then shot her with it.”
Once they arrived, he said, Devon and Lyric spent several minutes alone in the backseat while Isaiah waited outside holding Devon’s vape. DNA evidence would later support that some kind of physical contact had taken place between them. But according to Isaiah, whatever happened back there ended in an argument—Lyric yelling that she wasn’t going to be controlled, that she was done being used, that she’d go straight to the police. That’s when, Isaiah claimed, Devon grabbed the gun and shot her himself.
“I swear it was her. Like a punch.”“Yeah, you’re pointing to an area that would be what part of your body?”“My chin.”“Which…”“My right side.”“All right, so what happens then?”“Um…”“And then, according to Isaiah, Devon turned the gun on him next and said only, ‘You know what time it is.’ Isaiah said he took it as a threat on his own life, and that what followed was a desperate struggle over the weapon—one he barely won despite being smaller and less athletic than Devon.”“I had trouble finding it, but I had left my… my Under Armour hoodie there. Not really a hoodie, it was a quarter zip, but I had left it there and I was just going back to… to grab it. It just honestly, if I were to describe it, I… it just felt like my brain was literally like melting. I… I didn’t know what to do. I was… I was afraid. Honestly, I just wanted to go home and that seemed like the answer to all of my problems at the time. So, I… I just went home.”
Afterward, panicked, he said he moved Devon’s body off the road so it wouldn’t be hit by a passing car, then left, stopping for gas with an empty tank before doubling back to retrieve a hoodie he claimed he’d left behind at the scene.
“He wanted to… know basically… he didn’t necessarily tell me that he wanted to know this, but I… I think he feared that I would like expose him to somebody.”“Hold on.”“Just let us know what you said and what was in your mind.”“What was in my mind was, uh, he was… he just wasn’t someone that I would want to be around necessarily. He is embarrassed. He… he… I shouldn’t have seen something like that, and, uh, he wanted to know if I wanted to smoke and kind of talk about it more. I was just… I… I didn’t want to do it.”
It was an account with more holes than answers. If Devon fired the first shots at Lyric, why did witnesses describe two bursts of gunfire 10 minutes apart when Isaiah’s own version had the struggle happening almost immediately after? If he never turned Devon’s body over, why was there dirt on the front of it? And if Devon had handed him the vape before ever getting out of the car, how did investigators later find that same vape back in Devon’s own pocket?
Isaiah didn’t have an answer for all of it. What he did have by the end of his testimony was an accusation of his own: a claim that Christian Sykes had his own reasons to lie, rooted in something Isaiah said he’d witnessed and never should have.
The Verdict
By the time both sides rested, the jury was left holding two competing stories, a mountain of physical evidence that fit neither one perfectly, and a job that was about to take far longer than anyone expected.
The jury spent six hours across two days trying to reconcile what they’d heard before an ice storm shut the courthouse down entirely and forced everyone to wait it out. When deliberations picked back up, they spent a full additional day locked in that room and then told the judge they were stuck—split eight to four with the majority favoring conviction on at least one of the charges. The judge sent them back to try again. Four more hours followed.
When the jury finally returned, the verdict landed strangely—not because it was surprising in one direction, but because it pulled in two at once. On the murder of Devon Clark, they were unanimous: guilty of second-degree murder. Whatever they made of Isaiah’s claim of self-defense, they didn’t buy it, not entirely.
“Unanimous verdict for the killing of Devon Clark. We remain deadlocked for the killing of Lyric Woods. So, let me make first make this inquiry, uh, Mr. Foreman. Do you feel that any further deliberations will assist you in the jury being able to reach a unanimous verdict in the charge, uh, involving Lyric Woods?”“Honestly, your honor, I… I don’t believe, uh, more time would, uh, based on everything that we’ve gone through over the last two days, I… I don’t believe more time would do anything more.”
Okay. But they also hadn’t been convinced this was the calculated, premeditated act that a first-degree conviction would have required. On Lyric Woods, they couldn’t agree on anything at all. The judge declared a mistrial on that count alone.
It’s a verdict that still doesn’t fully add up, even now. Four jurors, by the room’s own account, had been ready to convict Isaiah of first-degree murder in Lyric’s death, while others remained deadlocked or unconvinced. The legal battle over that part of the tragedy remains incomplete.
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