Justice for Seany - Help Solve Sean Cameron's Murder

In this episode we ask the public for help in solving the murder of 21 year old Sean Cameron in Hampton, Virginia on June 25th, 2019.

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Episode Transcript

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This past Saturday, June twenty fifth, marked the three year anniversary of the
unsolved murder of twenty one year oldShaun Connor Cameron. That day, June
twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, wasan ordinary day until around four pm,
when news reported a body found withmultiple gunshot wounds near a subdivision in Hampton,
Virginia. Shawn's family lived in Newport, News, just down the road,

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and it wasn't long before authorities wouldcontact Shawn's family and give them the
news. It was Shawn's body.The police had found. He had been
shot multiple times that afternoon, hiscar stolen, and his body dumped on
a quiet road, all in broaddaylight. Three years later, a little
more is known about what happened toShawn Cameron that day, and his mother
and his sisters have been outspoken onFacebook and in the media, trying to

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get the word out about the brutalmurder of their beloved little brother. A
fun loving kid. He can't helpbut remember because of his smile. You
know. That's how I came toknow of this story. Actually, I
regularly search missing persons cases and unsolvedcrimes in Virginia, hoping to come across
an opportunity to make myself useful,to amplify cases for a family, you
know that sort of thing. Andit was the nickname Shawnee in pictures of

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a happy, go lucky looking kidwith long hair and a big smile that's
stuck in my brain for so long. The thing is, I am awful
with names, and I could rememberthe last name to find the case and
reach out to his family, justthe name Shawnee and that big smile.
Recently, though, on another searchand his page just popped up again,
And this one was the one startedby his family to help bring attention to

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his case and the hopes that somebodywho knows something will finally speak up.
It just so happened to coincide withthe third anniversary of his unsolved murder.
Sean Cameron's sister, Samantha was generousenough to let me ask her some questions
so we can all learn more aboutthis case and start the conversation up again,
the hopes that this time somebody comesforward with some new information, because

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this is one of those cases thatwill hinge on somebody who knows something saying
something. People know who did this, They just need to talk, So
please take a listen to this interviewwith Sean Cameron's sister Samantha, and she
walks me through what happened to herbrother Sean that day now what they know
so far. At the end ofthe show and on the website, I'll
have a list of contacts for youif you know anything that might help.

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Hello, friends, I'm your host, Jenny. Welcome to Vile Virginia.

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Thanks so much for taking the timeto talk with me. Did you tell
us about your brother? Well,pretty much what happened was, I don't
know, like everything was going allright for him, and then I don't
know where some of his old friendscame back into his life, like the
weekend before he was killed, andI don't know, things just changed within

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a matter of a couple of days. And the next thing you know,
the cops are showing up at mymom's house and saying, like, they
found my brothers shot to death onthe side of the road. But he
wasn't shot where he was found.He was dumped off there, so we
had to figure out where he wasshot at. And pretty much it came
down to they found his car inthe next city over and they found out

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he was shot inside his own car. So yeah, the person was actually
driving my brother's car and my brotherwas in the passenger seat. The police,
I don't think they put out enoughinformation at first, because when I
would talk to reporters, like Italked to a couple of news reporters,
and they would speak to the chiefof police first before talking to me,

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and the chief of police would allowthem to know that he was killed in
his vehicle, but they kept ontelling us we couldn't release that, but
the police were allowed to say it. So we were just saying, like
as it, We're just going tosay, yeah, that's where he was
killed with his car because somebody's gotto release it. My brother is sitting
in the passenger seat of his car. My brother did not let anybody ever

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drive his car, so I'm assumingas friends of his brother, it's a
very paranoid person. He just didn'tlike people touching his stuff unless he actually
knew them. But they pretty muchI mean, they only kept his car
for like a month. I thinkI don't even know if it was a
whole month, but they did theforensics testing and then kind of had a

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toe yard pick it up and toldus we had a pretty much like go
pick up the car and they don'tclean out crime scenes. So we were
like, no, can we destroythe car. So we went and took
the title to the toe yard andhad them to destroy the car, which
we kind of regret because it's threeyears later and nothing still came out of
it. He always loved to jokearound and stuff like that. He that

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was his main thing. He justgoofed around too damn much. But yeah,
he was a very friendly person andhe helped out a lot of people,
So it was just it was avery big shock to everybody. There
was almost two people at his funeral, like everybody was shocked that it happens.
Do you talk to detectives much still? Yeah? Yeah, I was.
I still deal with detectives every singlemonth. I still talk to them

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and tell them anything I hear,and it's just still like it's pretty much
a talking game at this point.They're just waiting for somebody to fess up
because it was done very calculated forsomething that was done in the middle of
the day, so it was justlike a normal day for you guys.
Then, yeah, he was.He was hanging out with friends that morning

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and the last thing we know ishe dropped a friend off and then forty
minutes later they get a call abouta body on the side of the road.
So was it weird, like hadnobody heard from him or is it
just it hadn't been that long soyou didn't have any idea he was really
missing or anything. Yeah, mymom's always been like even us in our

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twenties. My mom's the type ofmom that always has to keep in contact
with us, and she always feelsif something's off even if she doesn't hear
from us, like when she contactsus. So she couldn't get ahold of
my brother, and so she gotmy their sisters Samantha involved, and they
were trying to contact my brother andhe just wasn't replying. So there's a

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news news article that came out aroundfour pm about a man being found,
but they still we still didn't knowit was Sean. And then around probably
ten PM, detectives showed up atmy mom's house and told her, and
then she called my sister over,and then my sister showed up at my
apartment to tell me, and wekind of just all brushed over to my

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mom's house to figure out what wasgoing on. How long before they found
his car. The next I believeit was the next day or the day
after. It was like I guessit was parked weird and a tote yard
came and picked it up and randomin number and seeing it was being looked
for, did any nearby cameras catchanything? Now? Actually, like,

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there there's one camera, a seveneleven camera that caught his car going past
it and then going back past it. But that's that's if they don't have
anything else. Yeah, they couldn'tsee inside the car. What was the
circle of friends? Like, hehad a big group of friends. He
had He had a pretty big groupof friends. It's just like some of

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them just started doing their own thingsin life, and then he got back
up with friends that he hung outwith like a year prior that. Really
the person he was hanging out withreally wasn't getting into good things. But
I don't know, it just it'sa weird coincidence to me. To me,
I personally think it was one ofhis friends and he was letting them

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drive because he usually he wouldn't justhe wouldn't let no random person drive.
And honestly, I don't think mybrother would allow somebody to shove him hostage
wise into a car. Yeah,I think he probably would have had,
like I don't know, had themtake his life outside the car before ever
jumping inside of a car and somethinglike that was going to happen. I

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can't imagine what this has been likefor your family. Can you tell us
a little bit about that. It'sbeen really hard actually, Like I had
my twins after my brother was born, and I named my son after my
brother, So my son's named Sean. My mom she's been it's hard watching
my mom more than anything because Seanwas her baby and he I don't know,

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we always knew, like he notsaying favorites or anything, but you
know what I'm saying, he's theboy. He's a baby boy. It's
just it's been more hard watching iton my mom than anything. Like I
do my therapy, my sister doesher therapy. We still got a lot
of anger and stuff like that.But yeah, it's just trying to work

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through it. I think the realgrieving and process into this will start when
somebody gets caught. But just becauseit's so up in the air, still,
like I don't know, it stillkind of feels like he's missing not
really, it's weird. I don'tknow, it doesn't feel like he's gone
all the time. I'm sure thatnot knowing has been especially difficult. Yeah,

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I'm not bad anxiety, so likeI overthink things, so I try,
I go through all these different scenarios, and I still go through the
scenario that maybe he's just missing somewhere. My dad got a pretty bad depression
and kind of moved. He movedback to Scotland, and my brother's friends
that they still post about him andstuff like that, which is really nice
to see. And yeah, someof his friends like do want to celebrate,

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like when his birthday comes and hisanniversary comes. So I don't know,
there's still people there that cared andthat's good to see. What do
you think is going to finally kindof crack open the case and get you
the answers you need, well informationwise, Like I I don't know.
I just I wish somebody would comeforward if they heard any gunshots from that

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day, because that's what's getting meis I know it's inside of a car,
but I don't feel I feel likeyou would be able to hear multiple
gunshots going off or something. Interms of evidence, do you think the
cops got the appropriate forensic evidence atthe time before the car was destroyed.
Yeah. Yeah, I made sureto ask the detectives about that. I

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was like, y'all made sure youwent through every single bit of that.
Yeah. Did they say at thetime if they had found much of anything.
No? Not. From from whatthey said, there wasn't really any
much DNA or anything. That's whatI'm saying. It was done pretty calculated
and goods for the middle of theday. That's pretty surprising that they wouldn't

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leave anything. Oh, I definitelythink it was a premeditative thing. I
think they were planning on taking hislife. I don't know if the whole
plan was to take his car andit just got too messy, or take
money from him, because he didn'thave any money on him, So I
assume maybe they took some money fromhim, but he had nothing on him,

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and so we don't I mean,I would assume it would be money
or his car that they were tryingto take. So he did usually carry
money and things like that. Hehad nice stuff. Yeah, he had
a job, so I mean,like he he was one of those people
that liked to dressed nice, likehe liked to shoes and everything, so
and he had his nice car.So yeah, I think it was a

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jealousy thing. Honestly, what doyou hope happens moving forward? I don't
know. I just want it solved. My brother was an amazing boy,
and he didn't deserve having his lifetaken away at twenty one. I was
just too young. Just I justwant people to come forward and know that
he was really a really amazing personand he wouldn't have let things drag out

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this far with somebody he cared about. So I just need people to step
up and say something. So manypeople go missing, and so many murders
go unsolved in this country. Yeah. I never realize that until I started
this show, that there are alot of people out there with broken hearts

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because they have questions that need answers, and they need to know where their
loved ones are or what they wentthrough in their last moments. That's the
only way they're going to get anew peace. I like to be useful,
so anytime I can amplify the voiceof a family who needs help,
I'm glad to do it. Soif you have a story you'd like me
to help get the word out about. Please don't hesitate to let me know
and we'll see what we can do. Also, you know, life is

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hard, y'all, and there area lot of mean people out there.
I hope everyone's taking good care ofthemselves right now, or at least trying
to try to get some rest.Drink water, wash your face, for
God's sake, eats something we needto drink for the challenges ahead, but
also for the good things, becausethere are a lot of good things there
really are. For example, Iimpulsively got a puppy this weekend, and

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she is very soft and patting heris a pleasure, you know. I
know not everybody can impulsively get apuppy, but there's other good things.
Peaches are amazing right now, standingover the sync eating a drippy summer peach
is almost recent enough by itself toget up in the morning. So I
hope you all find your puppy oryour peach or whatever else helps you go.
Hang in there, y'all. There'smore good guys than bad guys.

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