Jones shouts as he travels deeper insidehis weapon drawn. Less than a month after her hospital-bed interview, Matthew was verbally cleared by the GBI, according to his chief. After Jessica was shot, Matthew, then-20, was back on duty with his gun on his hip, before key interviews were conducted and the GBI director wrote an official letter about the cases conclusion, stating that the shooting was ruled a suicide.. I f***ing love her. Her mouth covered with a breathing apparatus and several machines attached to her monitoring her condition. "He told 911 that he was so worried and he was trying to get back to the house as fast as possible. That's what Jessica and Matthew Boynton thought would happen when they said "I do.". I was, he says to the GBI agent. Did he cause his estranged spouse's injury? Cops do find Jessica's DNA on the gun. He said the description of a self-inflicted gunshot wound didn't fit, noting her pristine and unmarked hands and calling it a very unusual direction in which to point the gun at one's self with the intention of committing suicide., First of all, the wound that she suffered was toward the vertex of her skull on the right side of her head; this would imply that she shot herself with a gun pointed downward near the top of her skull., The second most striking observation he said he made while assessing Jessica was neither of her hands had any evidence of any gunpowder stippling from gunpowder blowback.. BROTHERHOOD does not mean coverup or being above the law. She thinks he found it before the incident. And with that Matthew Boyton's questioning was over. There was most likely a struggle with the gun and he assumed she was dead. Around 9 o'clock on the night of Thursday, April 14, 2016, Matthew Boynton calls a lieutenant on duty and reports Jessica is hitting him again. giving him custody, and granting Jessica once-weekly. The glowing yellow and black, blocked letter sign illuminates his truck driving past. OMG this is a total disgrace to the Uniform.I have looked over several different articles and maybe im missing something here but, in all that i had seen it states that he was questioned in his wifes shooting what the hell folks.SHE WAS NOT SHOT!!!!! One of those bullets went through the roof, the other lodged into the baby's bedroom wall. The other problem: she said she didn't know how to get his gun out of his holsternor has she ever held or shot a gun. The first bullet went upward at 54-degree angle. Law enforcement was in his genes. The next door neighbor interview was conducted after Matthew returned to full duty. At that exact point the interviewing officer detected something fishy, forced him to stop giving himself away and ended the interview and therefore night of investigation. I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. I do not have any other items of Jessicas.. She said there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent it. He hears a baby crying as he carefully steps into the bedroom where a dark brown crib is situated. Officer Adam Trammel reports to a non-emergency call from the Boynton residence at Ashford Place on Ashford Way, in Griffin, Ga. | Examine the evidence yourself, calls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. She remembered an instance when Matthew asked her grab his gun. We're going to be doing that to do touch DNA on the gun, and um, and why we're doing that is obviously one to corroborate everything that's what believed happened, and that way it also, it also eliminates the possibility of her family saying, you had something involved in this, or whatever, the GBI agent said to him. The remaining items such as a hope chest, clothing and other miscellaneous items were returned to Jessica. Matthew met Jessica during her sophomore year of high school at open house in 2012. "Nobody would shoot themselves like this," said retired homicide detective Tim Miley. "The second shot that was fired, it entered the back wall of the closet approximately a foot, no more than a foot off the ground. "If he would have just been a regular person he would have been taken to jail," said Jessica. As he drove he received a text message from Jessica's phone. The agent continues to interview Matthew, who's wearing a red hoodie, asking him if the clothes he was wearing were the ones he was wearing the entire night. "He stated that he was too frightened. Her ex-husband and former Griffin police officer Matthew Boynton was investigated in the case, but was only charged with making . "The Walmart surveillance camera shows that they did exit the building together, and it does show her re-entering and, it shows her leaving again later," said Sheila Mathews. It's locked. [I'm] gonna have to kick that door in Jones relays to the other officers standing on the other side of the closet, barreling through it in just two swift and deliberate kicks. Minutes later, just as Matthew pulls into the Waffle House parking lot, he says he receives a chilling message from Jessica, what he calls a "suicide text," that says: "I can't do this anymore. Do you think Matthew did something? he asked her bluntly. "He believed that the shots he heard fired were fired from his duty weapon," said Sheila Mathews, publisher of The Grip. But, Jessica said regardless of her knowledge of guns, she had every reason to live. I mean he might have grabbed my arm before, but I don't think he would intentionally do anything to hurt mebut like I said, he's changed so much here, lately, she said. Stay outside.. "To help cover his tracks.". GRIFFIN, Ga. Standing inside her closet, wearing tan slippers adorned with fur, black yoga pants and a red T-shirt, Jessica Boynton contemplates what to wear. nd police notify Jessicas family that she has died. After you got on the radio and you were outside communicating on the radio, you never went back in to actually check, check on the kids, the agent questioned Matthew about once he removed himself from the apartment. Theres a lot of speculation and a lot of theory, but evidence is not there to cause me to do that., When told The GRIP had received information that the Griffin Police Department had contact the GBI Friday morning prior to Boyntons arrest, and asked the basis of that call, Yates said, That would be just to let them know what were doing.. She also stated that she just wanted her things back, so I informed her that I would do a report on the incident.. "She was actually happy, she was thrilled because she finally got that closure that she needed," says the neighbor. The doctor was not contacted by the GBI until July 20. It's just one piece of the brand new beginning the young mother and wife has been putting together for her and her sons. After three weeks, she woke up. Most of the cases that he would have made or would be involved in would also have, or should have, body worn camera video, car video, things of that nature, so the fact that his statement to us was compromised would not necessarily taint everything else. I told him, You're going to have to go get it, because I cant get it out of the case., Do you know how it was that you got shot?, Have you ever had any type of thoughts about hurting yourself?. She also says she couldn't have written the text because it said "I love you.". "Well listen, if you're going to start quoting, you gonna start recording these things, you need to let me know ahead of time before you do, before I'm starting answering questions," DeMarco ordered the reporter. "I would not have said that to him," said Jessica. The agent had that phone, I think DeMarco, Chris DeMarco had the phone and they was [sic] trying to get in the gate, and, uh, he accidentally hit, I guess, the last number dialed, called or whatever. Griffin, Georgia is the kind of small Southern town where high school sweethearts stay married forever. Jessica Boynton says she's free as a bird'. On Dec. 19, 2016, Lester met with GPD Investigator Dexter McCune regarding property she alleged Boynton had stolen. Thank God she fought and he was in there with her. Get him downstairs, one of the officers whispers to another. After you got on the radio and you were outside communicating on the radio, you never went back in to actually check, check on the kids, the agent questions Matthew about once he's out of the apartment. Clearly we touched a nerve in Griffin, but we're not about to be scared off. While GPD Chief Mike Yates said he is unable to release specific information due to the criminal nature of the case, he did confirm information The GRIP provided during a July 31 interview. 2023 Telepictures Productions Inc. A body-cam captures her inconsolable baby boy in the arms of an officer. My kids are at home with her, so I'm trying to hurry up and get back there., I'm driving. Matthew admits to having an affair. Jones removes the gun, which has a tactical flashlight attached to the bottom of its barrel, and places it on the kitchen counter and heads outside. It appears to be either an assault or maybe something accidental," said Miley. And Jessicas trauma surgeon was not interviewed by the GBI until July 20. But Jessica still can't remember what happened that terrible night in the closet, and she's says there is only one person with the answers. But what about that 911 call Matthew made just minutes before the shooting, claiming he got a text from Jessica saying she was going to kill herself? Matthew, who's wearing a gray sweatshirt, says he called Lt. Curtis Keys and asked him what he should do. "He stated that he heard two shots fired, 'pop pop,' rapid succession," said Sheila Mathews. That stuff apparently, from what we were able to discover through our investigation, went through several different peoples hands, which taints our chain of custody, Yates said. How does Jessica explain the "suicide text" sent from her phone less than 10 minutes before her husband Matthew called 911 in a panic? She's having suicidal thoughts," he calmly says about Jessica to the dispatcher. But they have no idea what's waiting for them behind a locked closet door. "Matthew," said Jessica. When the officers pull Jessica's body out of the closet, they find Matthew's gun right underneath her, a .40-caliber Glock. Which is very off that this happened, because I never, ever had any thoughts like this before. The court ruled in his favor, giving him custody, and granting Jessica once-weeklysupervised visitation. Mass shooters. "She suspected Matthew was cheating on her and so she dug for information, and we found it," the neighbor said. Jessica Boynton was found shot in the closet with her. GBI conducts canvas and begins interviewing neighbors. Barely clinging to life, Jessica spent three weeks in a coma before waking up, according to 11alive. She would never have done this. I told him, 'You're going to have to go get it, because I can't get it out of the case. One of about 70 messages they exchange throughout the night. When asked to confirm that a July 26 appointment with Lesters orthodontist was pivotal in the Internal Affairs case, Yates said it was. He says, he got out of the shower and asked her for his phone back several times, but she refused, he says, until he admitted to her that he was cheating on her. Hewrote a letter to Jessica's attorneyJune 10, in which he questioned the finding that Jessica's head injury was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, saying there was no investigation at the hospital. The 20-year-old says he's heading to Waffle House for a late night food run with on-duty cop and best. I can't keep doing this.. Armed with bodycams attached to their uniforms, the officers burst through the door, quickly passing Matthew's phone, a black and grey Verizon LG smartphone, on the kitchen counter. A text messages is sent to his phone from Jessica's phone. And I could have been the next target.. Matthew Boynton allegedly deprived ex-wife Jessica Lester of her belongings and lied to the authorities about doing so, Griffin police Lt. Michael Natale said in a statement. He's a truck driver. It was sitting out in the open, caught on police body-camera when cops kicked in the closet door. "I know for a fact that Jessica was not suicidal," said the neighbor. But it was used after Matthew had said he left the apartment in fear of his life, and did not return. Crime Watch Daily investigates what really happened to Jessica Boynton, something even Jessica herself wants to know. "How did his phone get in there? "I believe it's both, it's sloppy and a cover-up," said Jessica. Matthew immediately calls a friend at dispatch. nd police notify Jessica's family that she has died. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service. Matthew and Jessica's two sons are still inside. Chris DeMarco, GBI's assistant special agent in charge, arrives on the scene and meets with Griffin Police Chief Michael Yates for a briefing. GBI agents, however, have closed her case. I think it just kind of happened. It is unknown what effect his arrest may have on Boyntons criminal cases. Jones checks on a locked closet door between the master bedroom and hallway, across from the bathroom. The odd thing is a few pages have been ripped out. "My wound was on the top of my head. Jones eyes a small child sleeping on a bottom bunk bed in the back bedroom. It can be inferred that approximately half or more cops are abusive husbands/wifebeaters. It was retrieved from the kitchen counter in front of the microwave oven," she probed further. Their neighbor says Jessica wasn't suicidal at all. To stage a suicide," said the neighbor. At the time of the shooting Jessica was looking to make a new start for herself and two young sons. It's a question 11Alive investigators asked a few months ago, when Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton's wife, Jessica, allegedly shot herself in the head with his service weapon,. Matthew claims they returned home just after 11 p.m. His proof? "Her hands appeared to be pristine, but also he noted that she had no gunpowder burns.". "It's just inconvenient. Maybe Jessica would remember why and when the door knob was swapped because it happened before that night. He assigns another officer to standby at the door until the rest of the apartment is cleared. Jessica has given Will every piece of evidence in her case, including that divorce diary. She told me she loved me right before she did it," Matthew says, sobbing, as the paramedics roll her gurney into the ambulance and slam the doors shut. He's hoping if the case gets reopened, any possible clues will be preserved. It doesn't sound like anything I would say. Her complaint, which she checked on, was never filed. Any weapons inside the house? the dispatcher inquires. "Police department!" The paramedic begins accessing her head wound, but they're having a hard time finding it through her hair and thick blood. Nearly four years later, questions persist about what happened to the young. Once the investigation was closed, reporter and publisher, Sheila Mathews, investigated the shooting for her newspaper, The Grip. "He tried to kill her.". When they finally shove their way in, tragic heartbreak is lying in front of them. Ironically Jessica first met that man while she was out scouting for a wedding venue to marry Matthew. I hadn't really put much thought into it, Jessica told him. Guthrie calls Matthew and they chat for two minutes. Show the world how smart you are and uncover what the Wannabe investigative reporters couldn't figure out. Dr. Vernon Henderson, chief of Trauma and Critical Care at Atlanta Medical Center was on-call the morning Jessica came in and treated her for the next month while she was in the hospital. I wouldn't trade those two boys for anything," she said, swiping away tears streaming down both cheeks. It appears she's been shot in the head. Matthew makes it back to the apartment before help arrives and hears baby Tyler crying -- and then heartbreak. Running across the parking lot and up the stairs, responding officers, Keys, Jones and Gresham head toward the apartment. What Sanders found most alarming was the time frame Matthew Boynton says he heard those two gunshots. "That was when approximately 24 minutes into the conversation, his demeanor changed and everything flipped," she recalled. I just came up the stairs, two rounds," Boynton says on the recorded call. He grabs his police radio from the kitchen counter and runs outside and makes a desperate call. She's moaning.. They discover two shell casings and two bullet holes in the closet wall. Jessica Boynton, once declared dead, is alive and talking. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Crime Watch Daily reached out to Officer Matthew Boynton and got no response. I left a message with the lady that answered for her to call me. With his gun raised, holding it out and in front of him with both hands, Jones passes by a framed portrait hung on the wall. He lied about the lock then he says he kept his gun in there hmmm. This is who he's sleeping with, points to the Facebook post that she says she was holding for Jessica for her divorce. The doctor said the second most striking observation while assessing Jessica was that neither of her hands had any evidence of gunpowder. Here's where things get blurry. They had Tollin soon after, and were married on Oct. 24, 2015. Ashamed the FBI hasnt picked up on this yet . I dont have the authority under our charter to hire or fire; it has to go to the city manager, so when you move toward a termination, it has to go through a process. Please wear sturdy shoes. I'm sure as you've heard, I'm getting a divorce. The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. Its a question 11Alive investigators asked a few months ago, when Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boyntons wife, Jessica, allegedly shot herself in the head with his service weapon, inside the master bedroom closetlocked from the inside. It entered at an upward leftward trajectory angle," said Sheila Mathews. Henderson said in the letter, that he did not believe that Jessica's head injury was the result of a gunshot wound, and furthermore, questioned how she got the injury at all. I finally had the evidence that I needed that Matthew was cheating on me. And now Jessica is telling a completely different story. Then he hits investigators with a jaw-dropper. RE-open the case Georgia!!!!!! I didnt know if I was dealing with a possible active active scenario where she still had the gun and she had shot Tyler, he replied. Police investigate further and find a gun underneath Jessicas limp body. | Examine the evidence yourself. She had an appointment Monday.. God damn it, man! She told the agent, they were at home when they argued about his girlfriend and the photo that Jessica found on his phone that night. His phone was given to someone else at Griffin PD, they put the phone in the thing because they knew GBI wanted it, and that's where we're gonna be while he was taken to the police department. He's asked me to go get it out before. His flashlights beam reveals a smiling family of four. Uh, just my service weapon, he responds. She's having suicidal thoughts. I was looking for a job and I finally found one. The one seen in the police body-cam is not the same gray sweatshirt he was wearing at Walmart earlier that night. (whit his baton I would guess) ..is every person in the police department total idiots? Just one minute later, Matthewcalls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. "It doesn't sound like anything I would say," said Jessica Boynton. Once established as her personal belonging, this one piece of physical evidence contradicted Boyntons January written civil statement in which he denied possessing any of Lesters property. She says under the helm of Wendell Beam, the sheriff's department had a reputation for protecting its own. She had a job interview and it was going to be her first step to freedom. They're forced to kick it in. Uh, just my service weapon, he responds, ending the call just a minute later. A Griffin Police Officer's wife herself, the reporter called DeMarco, on Sept. 28, the investigator who was in charge of the investigation for the GBI, to question him about the case and the photo that nagged her, and that for her, called into question how anything they investigated was trustworthy. He's not a cop or even a private investigator. It's back in the headlines with the "Mystery in the Closet" story on the HLN network s well as "The Officer's Wife" podcast from Vault Studios.. Listen. That bastard is so guilty every time they show the door knob and any badge that doesnt know that shouldnt have one. Still peering down at his phone, Matthew also sends a text to his girlfriend, a Spalding County dispatcher. By the time Jessica was twenty, she'd had enough of Matthew, and their crumbling marriage had driven her to a dark place. A lot," said the neighbor. Excessive force. There's so many useless words thrown in there, then there's so many words left out, she said. Is there a loaded pistol with a hair-trigger on the other side? And, the first officer on scene, as recorded by body cam footage, was not interviewed by the GBI for months after the incident. She was hit over the head. Her shoulder-length, blonde hair is saturated in red. The report states Matthew left Walmart without Jessica. Jessica Boynton is found unconscious, her body on top of her husband's service revolver. Reliving his steps inside the apartment after he heard gunshots fired, he said, My whole upper body went numb. GRIFFIN, Georgia, April 15, 2016: Police are breathlessly racing to save a life. What are my kids going to do? he pleaded, his voice cracking with emotion. But Jessica's trauma surgeon, a 30-year veteran in the field, had a few thoughts of his own about what could have happened and what likely did not happen that night. Who does she think hit her over the head? But Yates told 11Alive, Matthew was not the shooter and trusts the investigation's outcome. "I think what happened after they come home from Walmart, Jessica and Matthew got into an argument. Click here for "Trigger: The Last Word" | And we talk to Jessica Boynton again here: "Trigger: Free as a Bird" | Anda story when the officer was arrested and kicked offthe force (but not for shooting his wife ). Cops do find one bullet. "Well, how do you come to that conclusion?" "They did not. Hewrote a letter to Jessicas attorneyon June 10, in which he questioned the finding that Jessicas head injury was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, indicating that there was no investigation conducted by authorities at the hospital. Furthermore, she said, there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent a text like that. Two shots had been fired. "When the GBI concluded their case they gave it back to Jessica, and I got it from Jessica," Sanders said. "I don't want to put all the blame on him but he's the only person that could have done it," said Jessica Boynton. And the doctor in the emergency room didn't find any bullet holes. The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. He also reported hearing two gunshots and. Unfortunately, the only person who may be able to answer that question is Jessica, and she was in a coma. Trammel records the 10:53 p.m., incident report from April 14. ", Following that phone call, Mathews, perceiving that she was threatened, called the GBIs director of professional standards to file a formal complaint and to gain clarity about what he meant by, Were gonna have a problem.. While sifting through pages and pages of the report, a GBI evidence photo caught her attention. Before he leaves, Matthew says Jessica makes a bizarre request: She asks him to call an ambulance. If he's willing to cheat on his wife, he's willing to cheat the law., She wanted to file for divorce, says Kshywonis. "According to my interview with Griffin police chief, that second shot had to have been fired while the gun was either on the floor or almost on the floor very close to that wall.". Furthermore, he said, it's his observation that self-inflicted gunshot wounds are very unusual among women. Her husband is cheating on her with another woman, reveals Browning, who said, they called dispatch a few nights earlier because he took the kids. Donald Britt, Lt. Darrell Dix, Lt. Keys and Beam are also present. On something like this, does it usually take a while?, Right now it depends on what happens with Jessica, too. However, he did not confirm that sequence. She says there were pages missing. I don't know if it's just his job or what, but like I said I don't think he would intentionally hurt me.. They're saying it was self-inflicted, she said. Was the investigation a mess up or a cover up? The only person who truly knows what happened behind that closet door was jessica -- and she's now out of her coma. Did investigators look for a blunt object? The agent asked her if she had ever held her husbands service weapon. According to Sanders, these items were obtained from a woman who contacted him and claimed to be Boyntons girlfriend.
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