Teen Vanishes After Meeting Up with Girl From School

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scene there's a lot of blood over there there's blood everywhere the two girls they were just standing there but they weren't moving much and then the guy was moving around the fire just throwing more gasoline do you know how much true crying i watch you can't get away with nothing there's jesus there's cameras everywhere where you you you you you you miramar florida it's a sleepy suburb of miami lies between the everglades and the atlantic coast this is more of an immigrant community where people who have come to the united states for a better life raise their children and are sending their children to the local high school hoping that they will make it to college and get better jobs and the the american dream lives in miramar for lack of a better term but that dream of a better life for magellan emile turns into every parent's worst nightmare her 18 year old son dwight dj grant is missing and every second that he is not standing there with her feels like an eternity okay i'm going to uh i'm on my way to the office right now okay okay man officers immediately ask friends and neighbors about dwight grant to find out where he might have gone he's a good kid he's a good kid he doesn't think he doesn't smoke he goes out he has a plan he goes out with his friends he calls literally all of us all the time to let us know like what's up how you are okay dwight grant lived in miramar with his mom magellan emile and he split time with his dad dwight grant senior dwight grant is high school student he's a great student and there's no reason why he would just suddenly up and vanish that's a kid yes she's putting flyers and the mother told me that she's been looking for her she went to hospitals too and he's not there miss emile takes it into her own hands and starts trying to do everything she can to figure out where her son is because he was 18 there was no kind of amber alert but he was reported missing as an adult and his family began printing up flyers with his picture on it and doing the hard work of trying to discover what had become of him they go out searching far and wide for him but they can't find him anywhere now before police became involved dwight's mother is essentially investigating her own son's disappearance and she discovers something that is chilling i just looked at the camera for the um the office and i saw two people hurting my son miss emile she was able to access with staff from the community the video footage that covered the outside area that was just to the east of her apartment and the stairwell she described seeing two individuals she thought they were men fighting with her son i cannot even begin to understand why i can't find my son i cannot even begin to understand why i can't find my son i cannot even begin to understand why i can't find my son i cannot even begin to i cannot even begin to understand why i can't find my son i cannot even begin to fathom the pain that the mother i cannot even begin to fathom the pain that the mother felt at that moment where she felt at that moment where she visually bore witness to this recording visually bore witness to this recording visually bore witness to this recording of her son being attacked there's a of her son being attacked there's a of her son being attacked there's a certain amount of hopelessness that sets certain amount of hopelessness that sets certain amount of hopelessness that sets in but there's also something else in but there's also something else in but there's also something else that's very key here that occurs with that's very key here that occurs with that's very key here that occurs with families families families there's a certain level of anger have you there's a certain level of anger have you there's a certain level of anger have you ever seen her son around ever seen her son around ever seen her son around no they're good people like you know you no they're good people like you know you no they're good people like you know you only see the bad ones you know what i only see the bad ones you know what i only see the bad ones you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah mean yeah yeah yeah yeah mean yeah yeah yeah yeah the tenants that give you trouble i don't the tenants that give you trouble i don't the tenants that give you trouble i don't think you know okay so these are think you know okay so these are think you know okay so these are just people that don't bother anybody just people that don't bother anybody just people that don't bother anybody so this is what it is so this is what it is so this is what it is after reviewing this surveillance after reviewing this surveillance after reviewing this surveillance footage a miramar police officer does footage a miramar police officer does footage a miramar police officer does a foot search for any sign of dwight a foot search for any sign of dwight a foot search for any sign of dwight officer de maso espirito santo goes to officer de maso espirito santo goes to officer de maso espirito santo goes to the location they go to this stairwell the location they go to this stairwell the location they go to this stairwell there's a lot of blood over there there's a lot of blood over there there's a lot of blood over there okay there's blood everywhere there's blood everywhere there's blood everywhere there's blood that's been cleaned up but there's blood that's been cleaned up but there's blood that's been cleaned up but poorly there's broken bushes poorly there's broken bushes poorly there's broken bushes there are questions as to what's happened there are questions as to what's happened there are questions as to what's happened at this location the officers start establishing a crime the officers start establishing a crime the officers start establishing a crime scene scene scene the one piece that's missing is still the one piece that's missing is still the one piece that's missing is still this child the child is not there the this child the child is not there the this child the child is not there the child is somewhere else child is somewhere else child is somewhere else this is initially going to be your this is initially going to be your this is initially going to be your primary scene primary scene primary scene hold on you want me to get on a cover hold on you want me to get on a cover hold on you want me to get on a cover rescue they start putting up the crime scene they start putting up the crime scene they start putting up the crime scene tape tape tape and they aren't expecting to see the and they aren't expecting to see the and they aren't expecting to see the body and they almost and they almost and they almost stumble across it because it was hidden stumble across it because it was hidden stumble across it because it was hidden behind some bushes behind some bushes behind some bushes just steps away from dwight's mother's just steps away from dwight's mother's just steps away from dwight's mother's front door front door front door this almost looks like a classic what this almost looks like a classic what this almost looks like a classic what we refer to as a dumping when they we refer to as a dumping when they we refer to as a dumping when they actually actually actually lifted his sweater they noticed that he lifted his sweater they noticed that he lifted his sweater they noticed that he had what appeared to be a stab wound to had what appeared to be a stab wound to had what appeared to be a stab wound to his chest and further examination his chest and further examination his chest and further examination reveal that he had even a larger injury reveal that he had even a larger injury reveal that he had even a larger injury to his neck that was consistent with an to his neck that was consistent with an to his neck that was consistent with an edged weapon as well edged weapon as well edged weapon as well the three main injuries there are three the three main injuries there are three the three main injuries there are three stab wounds there's one to the back stab wounds there's one to the back stab wounds there's one to the back right of the neck one to the torso and right of the neck one to the torso and right of the neck one to the torso and one to the abdomen one to the abdomen one to the abdomen while officers are securing this crime while officers are securing this crime while officers are securing this crime scene members of dwight's family are scene members of dwight's family are coming out of the apartment to see coming out of the apartment to see coming out of the apartment to see what's going on what's going on what's going on can you go back inside for me please can you go back inside for me please can you go back inside for me please please just give us a few minutes and please just give us a few minutes and please just give us a few minutes and we'll come in and talk to you just go we'll come in and talk to you just go we'll come in and talk to you just go back inside back inside back inside can you go back inside please don't can you go back inside please don't can you go back inside please don't just do as i ask please just do as i ask please just do as i ask please in a few minutes an officer will come in a few minutes an officer will come in a few minutes an officer will come talk to you go back inside as a mother myself i found it torturous as a mother myself i found it torturous as a mother myself i found it torturous to watch and listen to the body cam to watch and listen to the body cam to watch and listen to the body cam footage of dj's mother not finding out footage of dj's mother not finding out footage of dj's mother not finding out that he was deceased but that a body has that he was deceased but that a body has that he was deceased but that a body has been found been found been found it was so close to the apartment it was so close to the apartment it was so close to the apartment complex complex complex that she must have known that she must have known that she must have known in that moment in that moment in that moment what was awaiting her in that moment what was awaiting her what was awaiting her can you guys just stay inside for me can you guys just stay inside for me can you guys just stay inside for me please just let us do the investigation please just let us do the investigation please just let us do the investigation the police the police the police i think are fairly short with her i think are fairly short with her i think are fairly short with her because all they know here is that they because all they know here is that they because all they know here is that they have a crime scene have a crime scene have a crime scene their allegiance is the decedent here their allegiance is the decedent here their allegiance is the decedent here they want justice for him they want justice for him they want justice for him you need to be in the moment that is an you need to be in the moment that is an you need to be in the moment that is an undermanned scene you need to get the undermanned scene you need to get the undermanned scene you need to get the rest of the police department there you rest of the police department there you rest of the police department there you need to cut everything off you need to need to cut everything off you need to need to cut everything off you need to get up the tape you need to start a get up the tape you need to start a get up the tape you need to start a crime scene log crime scene log crime scene log this is a crime scene now so we need you this is a crime scene now so we need you this is a crime scene now so we need you to go back inside okay to go back inside okay to go back inside okay it's important that you confirm the id it's important that you confirm the id it's important that you confirm the id though because though because though because i have a strong suspicion that it's i have a strong suspicion that it's i have a strong suspicion that it's dewight grant it seems and appears to dewight grant it seems and appears to dewight grant it seems and appears to look like him look like him look like him but it's not until the medical examiner's but it's not until the medical examiner's but it's not until the medical examiner's office responds and they take a photo office responds and they take a photo office responds and they take a photo of the body and they show it to dwight of the body and they show it to dwight of the body and they show it to dwight grant senior grant senior grant senior who's able to positively identify that who's able to positively identify that who's able to positively identify that as his son as his son as his son go back in your apartments for me please go back in your apartments for me please go back in your apartments for me please the medical examiner determined multiple the medical examiner determined multiple the medical examiner determined multiple sharp force and blunt force injuries as sharp force and blunt force injuries as sharp force and blunt force injuries as the cause of death and the manner as the cause of death and the manner as the cause of death and the manner as homicide homicide homicide it was absolutely apparent that dj had it was absolutely apparent that dj had it was absolutely apparent that dj had bled out from those wounds those wounds bled out from those wounds those wounds bled out from those wounds those wounds were the cause of death and the manner as were the cause of death and the manner as of death, this was a homicide. also some blunt force injuries that are consistent that Dwight was fighting for his life. It makes no sense. Dwight D.J. Grant was kind, smart. He was described as an old soul. Who could have wanted to kill him? Good morning Miramar. Dante Felix here and I'll be introducing you to the very wonders of Miramar High. All the things that make it enticing, interesting, and all around just a fun place to be around. Dwight was a sweet, funny, young kid. He had just turned 18 in September of 2021. He enjoyed Roblox video games. He loved anything to do with computers. Everybody that met Dwight was changed for the positive by him. He was described as kind, funny, always nice to be around. He never caused trouble. Come when you get lost, buddy. Dwight's body provides investigators with some clues. The stab wounds make one thing very clear: this was personal. Let's just talk about beating in and of itself, particularly when you're talking about striking somebody over and over and over and over again. That's flesh on flesh contact and that's the most intimate that it can possibly be. You couple that with what I believe is probably the most violent way to die as far as a homicide goes and that is sharp force injuries. Because it is incumbent upon the person that's wielding the blade to drive this blade into the body. What investigators have to do now is go back and talk to anybody within Dwight's intimate circle. The big question has to be asked: who hates Dwight this much? Nobody noticed all that blood under the stairs? How it is right now? Yeah. Yeah, that is the blood. So, at this point, law enforcement is trying to recover and pursue the investigation, but they're not doing it. Until then, they were arguing - What were you doing, and then what happened? - They were arguing. They were like, "Girl, blah, blah, blah." He tried to run away, and then they grabbed him. They started to beat his ass, started to talk. At that point, my back was just turned completely away 'cause I did not want to hear anything, I did not want to say anything. I did not want to be a complete witness of the entire thing. - Christy says that they start getting into a fight with Dwight, and that she just turns around and doesn't look. - What were you doing the whole, like, 15, 20 minutes? - I'm standing right there with my back turned and not wanting to see anything that's going on. - But you could hear the-- - I could hear the movements, I could hear the pow, pow, pow, nothing wrong. I turned back once in a while, and I said, "Stop," and they didn't stop for me to shut up. - Christy then goes on to reveal something even more puzzling to investigators. - I gave him the knife. - What knife? - It was a knife. - Come on, girl, why are you holding back on me? - It was a knife. - But why didn't you tell us that before? - 'Cause I was scared. I'm sorry. - So, they beat up Dante, they handed you the knife, you went to the corner, then they threw him over the railing, then you handed them the knife. - To call that an unbelievable statement is not to do it justice. You would have to believe that she's making out with somebody, they're attacked by people in all black. He's stabbed, he's bleeding, he's on the ground, but instead of calling for help, she said, "Here's your knife." It defies all comprehension that you would hand somebody who has just murdered somebody you were making out with, "Oh, here, here's your knife." - That's a big tell here for the investigators. They know that she's not fleeing, even though I think any rational person that had witnessed the level of violence that would have been witnessed on that stairwell would have tried to create as much distance between themselves and these perpetrators as possible. That ain't what happened in this case. - Christy, come on, man, stop lying. Stop lying, that's it, like, honestly, like, you're going around in circles and you're saying one thing and saying another, and you keep going back and forth. - And I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm here, like, to kind of, like, help you and all that, but you sound like my son when he's telling me a story. - She makes up these two individuals, and she says she thinks they live at Building B in the same apartment complex that she lived in. And what Ms. Parisian didn't know is Detective Interion was a participant in the Officer Next Door program. So at the time of this incident, Detective Interion lived in Building B, and so he knew there were no such individuals that fit that description that lived in his building. - When pressed further by the detectives, Christy says that after this incident with the two hooded figures, she meets up with two friends that she just happened to run into, and they walk out of the apartment complex together. - On the way back, she meets up with Andre and Jazlyn. And you guys went to your apartment first, or you guys went to Jazlyn's? - We went to the Jazlyn's apartment first, but then we got something, and then we went outside, and they wanted to burn old clothes, so they burned old clothes by the lake. - Jazlyn Smith comes up because Christy Parisian gives her name as well. So Jazlyn's a little bit younger than Andre and Christy. She is 16 at the time. Jazlyn is also in the marching band at Miramar. Close with Andre, she sees him as a brother, a mentor, someone that she can learn from. - Burned old clothes by the lake. Why would they, what clothes did they burn? - My baby clothes. - Baby clothes? Why would they burn it? - They were like, "What time did you feel "that you looked sad? "I didn't know Marshall was old." - It continues on with, she was depressed about this murder, and the other two decided to give her a bonfire to cheer her up. At this point, law enforcement is already aware that Christy, Andre Clements, and Jazlyn Smith were together the evening of the homicide, because there's the report that was called into security about a bonfire, where they were lighting things on fire behind Jazlyn Smith's apartment. - The two girls, they were just standing there, but they weren't moving much. The chubby girl, she was just like moving back and forth, but like standing in the same spot, but moving a little bit. - The guy was moving around the fire, just throwing more gasoline. - Did you recognize any of them? - No, 'cause it was pretty far, but seeing them on the news, their faces, that's when I could like-- - You remember that they were the same one that you saw that night? - Yes. - Okay. - So detectives question Christy further about this bonfire. - Whose clothes are they wearing? - It was their clothes. - Christy's and Jazlyn's? Okay, so Andre, did he have the clothes with him? - No. - It was his own clothes, the clothes he was wearing? - Mm-hmm. - Okay, so he took off, what did he put on? Was he just naked then, or? - No, he had a separate pair. - He had a separate pair of clothes? Okay, so he took off his clothes and he burned it by the lake. - Yeah, they said more about him fighting somewhere, like having a rough housing. - Christy Parisian is confronted with some of the surveillance footage, and she identifies herself in that footage. However, she still denies that the individuals that are pictured alongside of her are Andre Clements and Jazlyn Smith. She goes so far in the interview as to say things like, "I asked Andre and Jazlyn if they had anything to do with it," and she says they had nothing. - Investigators end the interview, but before Christy leaves, they ask if they can take a look at her phone. - Christy gives them her passcode to her phone and allows law enforcement to do a forensic download of all the data on her phone. - It's borne out that she's not necessarily as innocent as she may have let on because they start to search her text messages, and they find a text message that she received from her boyfriend, Andre, that said, "Murder is gonna happen soon." - Police also get this tip from a concerned citizen about this suspicious text chain among teenagers at Miramar High School. - I'm seeing on the news that they found a body over by Sherman Circle, and they keep showing the picture of the kid that goes to Miramar High, saying they can't guarantee that it's him, basically. But on my phone, all the texts are coming through that there's people from school there, and they know it's him. - Okay. Did he speak to a detective or anything like that? - No, I haven't spoke to anybody. I just came here because told me that she had got these texts from this girl yesterday. She said it was the most traumatizing day of her life when she seen him yesterday, which would have been Sunday. - I'm not saying she did anything, but I'm not saying I can't come here and not show you either, because she keeps saying how many people she's killed, and she's in the gang. - Now, the big question for investigators, are these text messages just, you know, loose talk among teenagers, or are they connected to the murder of Dwight Grant? - There's a lot of text messages between Andre and Christy that kind of make you raise your eyebrows. For example, they talk about Bonnie and Clyde syndrome, someone who is romantically interested in someone who commits murder. They talk about stabbing people to death weeks before this homicide occurs. At one point, Christy writes a comment about what color she's going to get for a pedicure so that it will be red to match the blood when they stab someone to death. - Now, while the texts speak to premeditation, investigators still don't know exactly what happened on the day that Dwight was murdered. So they turn their attention to 16-year-old Jaslyn Smith, the friend that was with Christy and Andre at the bonfire where they burned their clothes. - When law enforcement goes out and makes contact with Jaslyn Smith, she's home, she's with both of her parents, and she speaks to law enforcement on her front porch with her mother. Jaslyn's father is bedridden and unable to leave the apartment. - Andre told me that somebody had pissed him off and somebody was messing with somebody else's girl or something. It had to do with some kind of chick. And he was upset that he needed some backup for a fight. He told me it was just a fight. - Eventually, it starts coming out that Andre had an ex-girlfriend and that this ex-girlfriend had somehow hooked up with DJ and that Andre needed to do something to DJ about it. - He told me to dress up in all black and follow him. - Andre? - Yes. - Okay. - And blue-red and everything. And we walked up the stairway, and Chrissy was there. Chrissy had seduced him, from what I know, and Andre told me to follow him down the stairs, stay here, and just look intimidated, just scare him. And then we're rushing down the stairs 'cause he got scared, and Andre's grabbing him. And we're both chugging him into the corner of the stairway. We pushed him in. And we were fighting. - Jazlyn Smith tells law enforcement she doesn't think that any murder is going to happen. Jazlyn is told that they are going to have a complete change of clothes and then be prepared to get rid of all of the clothes that they used and burn them after. - Andre was talking to him, and I was just scared. He said this was a fight, and then he pulled out. There was a weapon. I was told to hold it. - Jasalyn thinks that any weapons that are brought are just there for intimidation. She doesn't think anyone is actually going to get hurt. - Andre took the weapon, and they were tussling, and he told me to hold down the lights. And he. He hurt him. - Which one? - He hurt him. He hurt him very badly. And then he told me to help him move him. - Jasalyn. - Jasalyn. - Jasalyn. - Now, Jasalyn's mom is clearly upset by what she's hearing, but she decides to come back and give her daughter some motherly advice. - Do you know how much true crime I watch? You can't get away with nothing! There's. Jesus, there's cameras everywhere! - She's not wrong, because in this particular case, they actually have videography of her daughter along with this perpetrator, Andre, and along with Christy, emerging from that stairwell on videotape. They can place them there at that specific location when Dwight's life was taken. - This is some stupid. Stupid. Over some girl? Seducing some boy? - What adds even more to the senselessness of all of this is that all of this violence appears to be over Andre's ex-girlfriend, not even over his current girlfriend, Christy Parisian. - Jasalyn, would this stop? - No, no. No, no. I need for you to keep talking. - It stopped, and it was over, and everything stopped. I was trying to just pretend and forget that it didn't happen. I already knew that if something like this was gonna happen, I already knew the cops were gonna show up sooner or later, and I had already started preparing myself for the worst, Ma. - What do you mean by preparing yourself for the worst, Jasalyn? - If they sent me away, Ma! - - "Because by everything I've already said, I'm an accomplice, and I know this, and I'm sorry." - I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. - Jasalyn Smith is then interviewed by detectives in the back of the squad car with her mother present. I'd like for you to kind of to kind of tell me, step by step, on how everything occurred. - We had walked up the stairs. We had walked through the front gates of the complex. Immediately when we got in there, we had walked over to where the stairwell was, while Keaton was telling me to move this way to avoid a camera and to avoid being seen. And then he got a signal from Chrissy to walk downstairs. We walked downstairs, and he had a weapon with him. He told me to hold the weapon. He had approached the boy, and Chrissy had moved back and walked down the stairs. - And who was the first one to say something to the boy? - Andre. - Andre. And do you remember exactly what it was that he said? - No, but I do remember him saying, "I'm pretty sure you know why I'm here and exactly who I am. So we're not gonna sit here and pretend that you don't know." Any reason why I would be here or who I am. - Okay. Did the boy say anything back then? - He said, "You, you're Andre." The boy said that Andre had also taken off his mask. The boy tried to make a run for it. I ran and I helped Andre to tackle him and put him onto the ground. We're just holding him down. I'm telling him to calm down, calm down. We just wanna talk. Had him into a corner. Chrissy came back down with the weapon. And gave it back to me and I'm just standing there, holding it, using it as a form of intimidation. Andre is talking to him, saying everything he has to get off of his chest and saying how mad he is. And then he proceeded to say, "You know what I have to do, right? That I have to hurt you. Like I have to get you back for what you did." And the boy is like, "You don't have to do this. I won't bother you. I won't say nothing. I haven't seen you guys. I won't say anything. Nothing." DJ, for all intents and purposes, pleads for his life, says, "You don't need to do this." There's an out there. This is classic premeditation because they went there with the instruments to commit the crime. And then there was a pause before committing the crime. He was just standing there and he was explaining why he was mad. And the boy tried to run against Andre, punched him. And he had him right there, right where he wanted him. And then Andre had continued his little rant or his speech of what he was giving the boy. And then explained to the boy that he was going to kill him. - Jaslyn lays out what happened to Dwight Grant very matter-of-factly. She doesn't seem to show any emotion or have any remorse for what's happened. At this point. - Andre asked for the weapon after explaining to him that he was going to kill the other boy. And I just handed it to him. And I was like, "I don't know about this, but I'm like, okay, maybe you're joking." And he had taken the weapon and he had pushed the other boy through the corner and he was begging not to get hurt. Andre told me to come here and help him. And I was like, "Okay." And I'm just holding him. And then Andre proceeds to rapidly punch him. And then after a while, Chrissy said, "There's a lot of cars here. There's a lot of people watching. There's kids out. You need to hurry it up." So I'm like, "Andre, do what you gotta do. Just hurry it up, bro, we gotta go." Andre is looking at me and he says the weapon is his. And the other boy, he has the weapon, just like waving it, just like trying to not get home. And then he had another smaller weapon and he took that out and he, I have him right here. Where's right here? On the neck, like, back side of the neck? Like, side. On the right side? Did you do it on the right side? Jaslyn Smith gives a very accurate description of where the injuries are on Dwight's body. You had said that the weapon that Andre was using, he used it to stab the boy. I'm assuming it's a knife, then, that he had? There is a knife and there is a longer sword. A longer what? Sword. A sword. So it was a small knife and then the long sword. There were apparently two weapons at the scene. She does confirm that there was a smaller knife that she knew that Andre used to stab Dwight with. The boy was just like, "You're gonna kill me. "Just choke me out," or like, "End it," because he kept going in and out. He's like, "Choke me out, end it." And Andre stabbed him again. Jaslyn Smith describes that Dwight Grant begged for them to end his life, to just do it to kill him already 'cause he was in so much pain. He still wasn't, like, dead. And he was coming in and out. So Andre looked at me, and he was like, "Just hold him." And I held down his one arm and one leg, and Andre had taken the larger sword and stabbed him right through the chest. Okay. Jaslyn was very consistent in both of her interviews, which is something that can tell investigators that's what actually happened. She's not making things up. She's not trying to kill him. She's not trying to remember a story. She's consistently saying the same thing over and over. She states that Andre took the sword and he drove it into Dwight's chest. And, of course, that eventually leads to Dwight's death. None of this trio showed any mercy, particularly Andre. Andre was holding him by the mouth and the nose and had a hand over his chest where he had stabbed him, and I was holding his legs. Okay. Quieted down, and then he slowly just died. Law enforcement was able to identify via Amazon purchase records a snake-eye tactical weapon set that Andre Clements has purchased. Law enforcement was first made aware of this weapon set because an anonymous teacher submitted a photo of this large black-and-red knife and three smaller, dagger-type knives that Andre Clements had taken a picture and sent to another student, so that's how long enforcement knew what type of weapon was a possible murder weapon in this case. On October 23rd, 2021, less than one week after Dwight Grant's body was found, Christy Parisian and Jazlyn Smith are arrested for his murder. When Christy and Jazlyn were picked up, they were transported to the Miramar Police Department. The car was audio and video recorded for that entire transport. Jazlyn and Christy start talking about the fact that they are going to go to juvenile detention, that they're going to have to wear uniforms, that they think that they're going to get some sort of a probationary sentence based on their involvement in this. I think that they're getting a little closer. I think they're getting hit. Or somebody's getting hit. They also talk about, where's Dre? Why hasn't he been picked up? They make comments about, well, if they picked us up with a police car, they're going to send a whole SWAT team after him. Let's do this. Let's do that. He says, let's do this. Let's do that. He says, we listen. Oh, my God. You know, there's two things. If he's the one that talked, out of the three of us, and I find out, he's not being picked up, too? If he ain't being picked up. He's not being picked up. Okay. Law enforcement tried to take Andre Clements into custody the same night they did Jaslyn Smith and Christy Parisian. They were not able to do so. Mr. Clements turned himself in to the Miramar Police Department the next day. You're going to go with this gentleman, okay? Hey, one second. I'm placing you under arrest. You have an active warrant out for your arrest. You understand that? Yes, sir. Do you have anything on you that's going to stick me, poke me, or hurt me? No, no, no. Do you have anything on you that you're going to want to give to Mom before you go? You want to see? Okay. Good? Yeah. All right. You're going to go right this way. Mr. Clements surrenders. He asks to speak to an attorney. He doesn't give a statement at that time. He is taken to a holding cell, and he asks when he will get a psychiatric evaluation. Now that Christy has officially been arrested and is in custody, investigators need to interview her, for the second time. I can tell you that some of the things that you told us on Tuesday, we know for a fact to not be true. Right now, I think the best thing for you to do is to be honest, be upfront. Let's start on about the 11th of this month. Mm-hmm. You mean the 8th of November? Yeah. Mm-hmm. So that Monday, you dropped me off home, and you found out that his ex-girlfriend was, who was he, who are you talking about? I don't know who I'm talking about. He's Andre. Okay. Andre. Is that the Andre Clements? Mm-hmm. I'm just very much in love with him. I'm paranoid, I'm sorry, sorry. I understand, don't worry. Do you want to protect your boyfriend? I do, but I don't want to go to jail, so. It kind of puts you in a predicament, right? You're sitting here talking to us because of him, but you want to protect him? No. Christy did express some sort of fear and almost paranoia about Andre knowing that she was the one that spoke. Andre and I were talking about how with the girl I was in school. And Andre, we had this debate. And he found out that and Dante had sexual relations with each other. And he got really upset about it, texting her, telling her, so one was this, blah, blah, blah. How did you find out this? Did had sex with Dwight or Dante? So basically, we were talking about it in the car. He was like, so I know has hoes and stuff like that. And I was like, yeah, of course we don't keep hoes. He was like, yeah, I know that Dante is one of those hoes. I'm like, I know that. He's like, blah, blah, blah. The whole conversation. Was it a rumor? Did he see it on social media? It was a rumor, rumor around the school. And he got in the house and he started talking to her, texting her about it. And he was like, murder is going to happen soon. You know the messages. You read my phone. You read his messages too. You understand. I didn't think you meant, like, actually murder. Some of these text messages that occurred prior to the homicide really took away the argument of, oh, I just thought we were going to beat him up. Because it's very difficult to take a text like murder is going to happen soon as a, I didn't mean it like that, especially once somebody is actually murdered. I mean, you know, fighting him, beating him up or something. A classic high school, you know, boy, boy, I mess with your girl. You mess with my girl type fight thing. But I didn't know it was going to be, like, actual murder. So, you know, I saw the message. I quit. So, yeah, hell, I didn't think it would be actual murder. When Christy is downplaying what the plan was for the murder of Dwight Grant, she was doing that to minimize her own involvement. As well as to try and protect Andre because at the time when everybody is arrested, they're still dating. She is still in love with him. From the 5,000 some odd messages they exchanged from just October 1st to October 19th, she is head over heels for Andre. After that, he was just like, so how are we going to do this? Blah, blah, blah. Christy actually relates to the police that there was a plan in place. Apparently prompted by Andre, she was told to, in effect, seduce Dwight, compel him to enter the stairwell. Christy is then going to wait a couple of minutes, and there was some sort of prearranged signal where Andre and Jaslyn would then come down and confront Dwight. They walk out this door. They go upstairs, you know, on 10R in the staircase. Start to kiss, hands on boobs, hands on behind, and they come down. Christy was the bait. He sends his own girlfriend out to be bait for this homicide, and then he and Jaslyn come upon them later and attack. He pulls out the big red and black knife, which you've found out by now, the big red and black sword knife thing that he got from Amazon. I didn't know until it was in front of him. victim she had confronted him and said you weren't serious about that were you and he just said we're not going to talk about that with all the suspects now in custody investigators can now do a more thorough examination of all the communications between the trio the text messages were a treasure trove of evidence they showed that andre clements had premeditation more than a week before this crime occurred he had decided that this was going to happen on the sunday and it had to happen before homecoming he and christy parisian went back and forth coming up with ways to figure out exactly where dwight grant lived christy parisian also sent messages indicating that she had a family birthday party that she had to go to but she was going to do whatever she needed to fake crying fake some sort of emergency to not attend the family birthday party while these messages are important digital evidence investigators still need physical evidence to tie these three suspects to the murder of dwight grant from the messages we know there's a missing necklace andre clements and christy parisian had matching gold heart necklaces that they wore as part of their relationship detectives they eventually locate the necklace the charm that was missing from andre clements at the site where the bonfire the burn site occurred behind jocelyn's apartment the dna results that come back also show jocelyn's dna on part of a rubber latex glove that was found search warrants are executed at both christy and jocelyn's homes and there investigators find even more evidence at christy parisian's house they'd find the boots that christy was wearing subsequent dna testing of those boots would show that dwight grant's blood was found on them they also find the very distinct orange and pink purse that christy parisian brought to the crime scene that contained the items that she was using to help clean up after the homicide occurred between the statements from christy and jocelyn the surveillance footage the phone data the dna evidence investigators now have a solid theory as to what happened the night dwight was murdered dwight fought and tried to escape but was pulled back in he was held down he was told he was going to be killed he was hit he was stabbed three times he was muffled the statements from the witnesses that were there christy parisian and jocelyn smith both put the sword in andre clements hands when dwight was killed for the killing of dwight graham all three defendants are charged as adults for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and it is clear to investigators that andre clements is the mastermind andre clements had the motive based on his statements and his ill will towards dwight for dwight having started dating andre's ex-girlfriend while andre clements had moved on and was dating someone new he didn't feel his ex had that same right andre clements orchestrated this entire homicide the murder of dwight grant because of his jealousy you know this case had all the makings of a big public trial but in august of 2024 christy and jocelyn make an unexpected move christy parisian and jocelyn smith both decided to take pleas christy and jocelyn both pled to the lesser included offense of murder in the second degree and both were sentenced to 25 years in florida state prison but andre clements still wants to take his chance with the jury when andre clements is set for trial we take depositions from both jaslyn smith and christy parisian in anticipation of trial we get all of our witnesses lined up we make sure that we have what we need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that andre clements committed this crime but on the eve of andre clemens trial the prosecution is approached by his attorneys andre's attorneys approached us asking if we would consider a plea under the florida constitution victims and their next of kin have important rights and we take that very seriously so we met with miss emil and dwight grant senior and from that they decided they would extend that grace and allow a plea to occur the plea happened right before we were about to start jury selection andre clements was convicted of murder in the first degree of dwight grant he knew a virtue of all of the evidence digital evidence the videography and of course eyewitness evidence that demonstrates him actually committing the fatal act that's powerful it's it's almost insurmountable so i'm not surprised at all that he copped a plea here at sentencing mageline emil the mother of dwight grant gives a heartbreaking victim impact statement i would never walk my son down there he would never come and say anything to me because he's not here i would never come and say anything to me because he's not here i would never walk my son down there he would never come and say anything to me because he's not here i would never come and say anything to me because he's not here but he's arrested in power dwight's mom is one of the sweetest human beings i've ever had the opportunity to meet she brought everyone in the courtroom to tears even the judge was in tears and had to run off the bench couldn't sleep last night thinking about this case how the hell comes in the case was presided over by judge ernest cholera he was absolutely devastated by the impact that this case had on everyone involved there were so many parents that lost their children you had dwight grant's family who will never get to see him again but you also had christy parisian's mother jaslyn smith's family and even andre clement's mother who were losing their children as a result of these actions the judge expressed how senseless he felt it was it's just some petty indiscretion committed in a high school and somebody decides that the penalty for that is death the escalation there it really blows the mind andre clements was sentenced to 40 years in florida state prison followed by lifetime probation justice for dwight is the most important thing true justice would be bringing him back and the court system can't do that we feel that the sentence that was imposed is a measure of justice for dwight grant he's gone forever and ever and all because somebody got jealous it's tragic beyond belief four families shattered because of one teenager's jealousy and rage dwight grant had a wonderful future ahead of him he had family that loved him friends that cared deeply he was looking forward to going to college and pursuing a career the senseless nature in which he was taken from his family and his friends by andre clements jaslyn smith and christy parisian will haunt his family and friends for the rest of their lives all right hold on good morning miramar uh is there like a like a format for this no we're going to be doing the first lyric grandma got rid of who i already knew i had to make it easy for you you don't know that uh some being come when you get lost buddy you