This Season on Somebody

Chicago mom Shapearl Wells investigates her son Courtney’s murder on her own, teaming up with journalists to challenge the police’s story of what happened.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This season on Somebody, and so every black person in
this country must rise up and say I'm somebody. I
have a rich, proud and noble history, however painful and exploded.
It has been approximate round two fifteen am, I received

(00:26):
a thunderous beat on my door. Cover up happens after
the first day or so, but in the beginning you
get the truth. I was working in the emergency room.
I remember a call coming on the radio, so it
was a gunshot victim, and I remember him specifically being
handcuffed to the bed. My theory is that the gang bangers,

(00:47):
the police, everybody is a suspect until they rule themselves out.
I have to see the video in order to rule
them out. And though there was a shooting movie here
right in front of the rectory, in the middle of
the conversation, they said, you killed my cousin, and they

(01:08):
punched me in the face. Y'all we're talking to Hilp
me 'all were talking to hip me. We're talking to y'all, Lord,
what did you say? I'm a chance to wrap, you know,
walking in the room and seeing all these familiar faces,
just like realizing like that that somebody had taken him.
It was just hard for me to to deal with
that ship there the last few moments is right here.

(01:32):
I believe that somebody knows something and it just takes
a lot of courage to tell what they saw. Find
somebody on the I Heart radio app or wherever you
get your podcasts.