October 18, 2023 • 44 mins
This week’s story involves the shooting death of a Columbus, Ohio man named VonMason Walker. On October 16, 2015 he was visiting the home of acquaintences. Before the night was over, he would be dead. VonMason Walker was born on December 24, 1990 in Columbus, OH. His parents are Willie Walker and Jennifer Gillman. He had graduated from high school in Muncie Indiana and had received his CDL so that he could become a truck driver. He was found dead in the home of an acquaintance on October 16, 2015.
His father Willie Walker described his relationship with son as close. Willie had become VonMason’s primary caretaker when he was a child. Willie considered his son a good man who was motivated to make his own way. He eventually become a security guard. But after some time on the job, VonMason followed in his father’s footsteps and became a truck driver.
Willie felt that his son had made a great career choice and was on his way to getting set for life. Unfortunately, Willie’s life changed forever when he learned that his beloved son had died from a gunshot wound on October 16, 2015. According to Willie, he was told that VonMason was dancing around with a gun and tripped over a toy and accidentally killed himself.
Willie said this was a deduction made from the Columbus police department because no one in the house corroborated this story. Willie found the explanation ludicrous. He would hire a private investigator who looked into the matter further. Based on the investigator’s findings, VonMason’s death was no accident.
Willie has spent the past several years trying to get the Columbus Police Department to change VonMason’s death from accidental shooting to a homicide. He has been unsuccessful. Willie shared VonMason’s story with me hoping that someone will listen to his pleas for help in getting to the truth of what really happened to his beloved son.
What truly happened to VonMason? Was the shooting accidental or did someone kill him and get away with murder? Willie Walker doesn’t believe the Columbus Police Department will do anything with any tips they might receive. If you have a valuable tip, please contact Willie Walker directly at (614) - 441-6911. He would like to screen out tips and then discuss them with law enforcement personally.
Please also visit my website for more information about my true crime and paranormal newspaper columns at www.themarcabe.com. You can also help support my podcast by purchasing a cup of $5 coffee every month. To help support the podcast, please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/catchmykiller. If you would like to contact me about this podcast, please visit my websites www.catchmykiller.com or www.themarcabe.com where you can submit a case. And if you are a parent, Law enforcement, official friend or relative seeking justice for an unsolved homicide case. Please visit my website and complete the contact form.
His father Willie Walker described his relationship with son as close. Willie had become VonMason’s primary caretaker when he was a child. Willie considered his son a good man who was motivated to make his own way. He eventually become a security guard. But after some time on the job, VonMason followed in his father’s footsteps and became a truck driver.
Willie felt that his son had made a great career choice and was on his way to getting set for life. Unfortunately, Willie’s life changed forever when he learned that his beloved son had died from a gunshot wound on October 16, 2015. According to Willie, he was told that VonMason was dancing around with a gun and tripped over a toy and accidentally killed himself.
Willie said this was a deduction made from the Columbus police department because no one in the house corroborated this story. Willie found the explanation ludicrous. He would hire a private investigator who looked into the matter further. Based on the investigator’s findings, VonMason’s death was no accident.
Willie has spent the past several years trying to get the Columbus Police Department to change VonMason’s death from accidental shooting to a homicide. He has been unsuccessful. Willie shared VonMason’s story with me hoping that someone will listen to his pleas for help in getting to the truth of what really happened to his beloved son.
What truly happened to VonMason? Was the shooting accidental or did someone kill him and get away with murder? Willie Walker doesn’t believe the Columbus Police Department will do anything with any tips they might receive. If you have a valuable tip, please contact Willie Walker directly at (614) - 441-6911. He would like to screen out tips and then discuss them with law enforcement personally.
Please also visit my website for more information about my true crime and paranormal newspaper columns at www.themarcabe.com. You can also help support my podcast by purchasing a cup of $5 coffee every month. To help support the podcast, please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/catchmykiller. If you would like to contact me about this podcast, please visit my websites www.catchmykiller.com or www.themarcabe.com where you can submit a case. And if you are a parent, Law enforcement, official friend or relative seeking justice for an unsolved homicide case. Please visit my website and complete the contact form.
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Hello, and welcome to the CatchMy Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.
My name is Mark. For overeight years, I've written a weekly
newspaper column about true crimes and missingpeople for the Claremont Side Newspaper in Ohio.
With a column and podcast, ithas always been my objective to bring
attention to those cases that have notreceived much media attention, if any.
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This week's story involves the shooting deathof a Columbus, Ohio man named von
Mason Walker on October sixteenth, twentyfifteen. He was visiting the home of
acquaintances for unknown reasons. Von Masonwas shot in the head and died.
According to his father, Willie Walker, the shooting death was ruled an accident.
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Willie was told that his son wasplaying with a gun and it discharged.
He has disagreed with the ruling ashe has spoken to people who are
inside the house and also a womanwho said Von Mason's death was no accident.
She claimed that he was killed overa debt that he owed to one
of the men in the house.Was Von Mason's death in accident or did
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someone intentionally kill this young man?Von Mason Walker was born on December twenty
fourth, nineteen ninety in Columbus,Ohio. His parents are Willie Walker and
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Jennifer Gilman. He had graduated fromhigh school in Mundsey, Indiana, and
had received his CDL so that hecould become a truck driver. He was
found dead in the home of anacquaintance on October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.
The only information that I was ableto find was his obituary. His father,
Willie Walker, would have to provideme the details about his son's death.
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Willie described his relationship with his sonas close. WILLI had become von
Mason's primary caretaker while von Mason wasa child. Von Mason was considered a
good son and was motivated to makehis own way in life. While discussing
career options, Willie encouraged his sonto hit the streets and talk to people
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about career options. Von Mason wouldtake his father's advice. For instance,
he had an interest in working security. He had spoken to different security guards
and asked questions about the profession.He would eventually become a security guard,
but after some time on the job, von Mason decided that he would follow
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on his father's footsteps and become atruck driver. Willie had felt that his
son had made a great career choiceand he was on his way to getting
set for life. Unfortunately, Willie'slife changed forever when he learned that his
beloved son had died from a gunshotwound on October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.
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According to Willie, he was toldthat von Mason was dancing around with a
gun and tripped over a toy andaccidentally shot himself. Willi said that this
was a deduction made from the ColumbusPolice Department. Because no one in the
house corroborated this story, Willie's deathwas ruled an accident. He would find
the explanation ludicrous and unbelievable. Hehired a private investigator who looked into the
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matter further. Based on the investigator'sfindings, von Mason's death was no accident.
Willie's private investigator spoke to a womanwho had knowledge about the incident.
She had spoken to someone who wasin the house and had witnessed the shooting.
She claimed that someone had he killedvon Mason because he owed money to
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someone. She also said that hewas lord to the home that night so
that he could be killed. Williehas spent the past several years trying to
get the Columbus Police Department to changeVon Mason's death from accidental shooting to a
homicide. As of today, hehas been unsuccessful. WILLI shared Von Mason's
story with me, hoping that someonewould listen to his pleas for help and
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getting to the truth of what reallyhappened to his beloved son. This is
part one of a two part story. Please be sure to listen to the
conclusion next week. And now onwith von Mason Walker's story, as told
by his father, Willie Walker.I was trying to find information about your
son online. Unfortunately, there's nothingabout the shooting. The only thing I
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could find was the obituary of yourson. I'm assuming this is because his
death was ruled as an accidental shooting, which you dispute. Yes, Columbus
police just swept it all up underthe rug. The night of the murder
twenty fifteen, we did see Channelsix out there, and later I found
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out by Detective Warnick that he toldthe news member that there is nothing to
report here, it's just an accidentalshooting. And at that time, I
was like, why would you dothat? Because being it when the news
can put fear in to the perpetratorsor something, and he just said it
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was an accident, and so theybasically shut everything down. Anything that could
have exposed the case to a homicide. They just basically just discredited everything.
So then you're telling me that youwould like to have Columbus, Ohio police
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change the death from accidental shooting toa homicide. Is that what you're trying
toccomplished? We had the case ofhomicide before. When I hired the private
investigators and gave them the same informationthat I gave PPD and my investigator Confidential
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Services, we have found a witnessthat them guys told her what happened.
So my private investigators located her askedher does she have any information about what
happened to by Mason Walker? Andthey was telling me that she cried and
she said yes, them guys murderedmy son and told everything and it's all
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on recording and I had the report. She said they set him up because
my son owed them some money andthey just wanted to get the money back
from him, and he resisted andthey didn't even shoot him, but they
put the gun up to his headand shot it and my private investigators asked
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her, did anyone say anything toyou far as moving the body, and
she said yes. They told herthat they moved his body somewhere in the
house. They didn't give her alocation of where they moved him, but
yes, they moved him. Andshe was telling on my private investigators that
they set it up to make itlook like a accidental shooting. That's where
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that toy truck come in. ThatColembus police was telling me that night that
my son, because I asked hetake the warning, what happened in that
house and he said, well,your son, with Danton in the kitchen
with gun in his hand and flippingon a toy truck, accidentally shot himself
in the head. He said,everything matches him holding the gun, the
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high velocity blowback on his right hand. Their overall evidence that he was holding
the gun, the head wound,he told me, And that audio recording
is missing. They got rid ofit because we did a public record request
and that wasn't with everything else.So he told me that night that if
you take your hand and make agun and bring it towards your head,
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you fit the direction of the gun, and everything fit. My son holding
the gun and I'm like, noway, no way, no no,
I know these people in this house. We then trying to get my son
to stop hanging around these people,and because they're a dark cloud, we
know who's shot him. The storyis crazy. So tell me more about
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your son as a person. Whatkind of a young man was he and
when was he born? And canyou tell me about his career aspirations.
My son's name is by Nathan Walker. He was born nineteen ninety twenty fourth
of Decemberary. He was a ChristmasEve baby boy, so he had Christmas
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and his birthday all tangled together,so he was special. He was born
at Grant Hospital and we brought himhome and I ended up with him because
he was a little too much atschool. So I was the constolio parent
of Bom Mason Walker. So Iraised him from the year of four or
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five all the way up into hisadulthood. So Von Mason was a typical
young man. He loved to rollerskate and do all the normal things kids
do at that age. He wasjust some normal kid. His grades were
like D in C plus, soI had to stay on him and he
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did graduate. I let him goto Indiana, where his mom lived at
the time, and he graduated fromhigh school and Mufee, Indiana. So
when he graduated, he came backhome and he started working at different little
places. I was showing him howyou find jobs. You look into paper
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and see what's going going on inthe newspapers, and I was telling him
sometimes you just got to fill upthe car and just go out to certain
areas and check out warehouses and talkto people security guards. So he wanted
to do that one time, andI told him sure, So we went
out. We had a great timeinteracting with security guards and they giving another
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information how to be a security guardbecause he was interested in a security guard.
So next thing you know, Iturned around he had a security guard
uniform. More life, so you'retelling on people. Now, he like,
I'm checking in truck driver and allthis kind of stuff. So from
that point he realized I met himfind his way because in my family we
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basically all in transportation, some kindof a truck drivers. Basically I'm a
truck driver. So when by Masonbecame a security guard and he was talking
truck drivers in and out, helearned where the money was at. So
he talked to me about it.He's like, Dad, why you didn't
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tell me about truck driver man.I said, I did say something to
you a little bit, but I'lljust let you try to find your way.
So he wanted to be a truckdriver, and he went to Columbus
State. They had this program overthere, and he found out about it
that he can join this program andthey will pay for a trade if you
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find a trade. So the truckdriving was a trade. So he fined
up for it. And I waslike, wow, Mason, you left
man because truck driving man, itcost out eleven twelve, sometimes fifteen thousand
dollars to get your endorsement. Sohe went through that. We was all
excited. It was almost like whenhe graduated and stuff. So he ended
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up with this flatbed job and hewas calling me. He was somewhere way
up in Wisconsin and he was sayingthat he got this big old machinery freight
on his flatbed and it's snowing andit's blowing. And Vob mclan was a
little guy. He wasn't no bigguy. He about five eight and a
half or five nine, maybe oneten or something like that. So he
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was telling me the tark that's supposedto secure the machinery. He grabbed hold
of it and he was like,Dad is just blooming me with the tarth.
I'm like, man, figure outthe tightest thing down, talking tow
him and everything. So he hada very interesting career. And the night
that he was murdered, he hadapplied for a new job where he was
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going to take on responsibility traveling thecountry side. He wanted to get away
from everything, and that job startedthat Saturday. So that Saturday, October
the seventeenth, and he was murderedOctober the sixteenth of twenty fifteen. So
that night, October the sixth,I was out of town because I'm a
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truck driver and I'd run out ofDayton. So I was coming back from
Dayton, Ohio, and my eldestson has sent me a strange peck and
I wasn't communicating with him very wellbecause he was all street. Anything he
do, it's all street and andthat was the type of person that he
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was. So he was doing alot of things and people was being hurt
around him. So that's when hewas trying to tell Va Mason to stay
Wapron damn because a dark cloud overthem. Family members are being basically killed
around my elder son. So Igot this strange picked that night, Friday,
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the sixteenth of twenty fifteen, Iwas coming from Dayton and it said
Dad. It then used to belike this, so it's cool, homeboy,
coming homeboy. Everything has changed bad. So he said something like you
shoot down everything that we talked about, so remember that shooting your stun down
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like that can have a change onyour life or something that he had said.
And I like, good rhythm tomy son, I'm like, man,
he finally got the message. Ididn't want to deal with him anymore
because he was too much in thestreet. So that's about around six point
twenty three ish that evening, andI was going to go by the house
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where my son later on was murdered, and I went to KOs and Bradnington
outfit and went home. So whenI got home and got myself together and
got ready to go to bed,the phone just kept ringing ringing. So
when I picked the phone up,that's when my brother out of town.
He's a driver from Arizona. He'slike, man, they trying to save
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Vam. Mason killed himself. SoI flipped out from that moment. I'm
like, what are you talking about? Like, get over there and get
over there, man. So I'mscreaming and hollering everything, and I finally
got myself together telling what they tryingto say. Mason killed himself and everybody
screaming and it was just all justa nightmare. So I finally naked over
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there and I saw my eldest son. He was at a distance, but
I saw the main person that lateron we found out that he was the
shooter, and I didn't know thatat the time. So I asked him
where was he at when all ofthis happened, and he said that he
was down the street at the barbershop, and They're like okay. Then I
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asked for the detective that was incharge to come out and talk to me,
and I asked him, I'm like, it's my numb Mason did in
that house and he like, yes, sir. I'm screaming, you know,
my mind going and stuff. I'mthrowing all out. I'm like,
no, what happened? And that'swhen he told me that by Mason Walker
was in the kitchen and he wasdancing with a gun in his hand and
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slipped on a toy truck and accidentallyshot himself in the head, and that
just didn't resonate with me. I'mlike, no way, I said,
are you sure? So he like, yes, sir, mister Walker.
Everything matches your son holding the gun. He said, if you take your
hand and make a gun and bringit towards your head and matches the wound
that's embedded in your son. Paidhe said, the blood on your son's
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right hand is high velocity blowback,and that's their only physical evidence that he
had his hand on the gun.And he said, mister Walker, my
only concern is your son's body positionis in between a playpen and this refrigerator.
And he did not elaborate with memuch more, but he had issues
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with my son's body provision. Sothat night went on and late wrapping us
the crime scene, we stayed outthere screaming and hollering, and my eldest
son still wasn't coming to me tellingme what's going on. And really he
street that's all he does, blackmarket dealing. He's a street guy,
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period. So I thought that wasweird, and I told him that he
better not have anything to do withthis. None of your family, and
we got into it because I wasscreaming and hollering at the police that something
is wrong. No, my sondidn't dancing in the kitchen and shoot itself
in the head. So my eldestsound was like, damn, you better
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stop cussing like that and talking aboutmy brother like that. I'm like,
you ain't saying nothing something is wrong. This ain't right, man, I'm
not going to buy that now.He shot himself in the head. So
the night ended and months had wentby it and I wasn't getting no calls
from CPD about the issue that detectedwarning with the crime scene. So I
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started calling and I was wanting tocome in and look at the crime tune
fold and he was telling me all, mister Walker, I don't think you
want to see it is too gruesometo graphics. So I bought that and
I was like, so how canI understand what you saying? Like the
bottom line, miss Walker, weunderstand you grieving your son shot and killed
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himself. And I was like,no way, and I'm not buying that,
not in that house where everybody amastermind criminal that hangs out in this
house. No, I know toomuch that's been happening with different individuals that's
hanging in that house. I'm notgoing to buy that. So some more
months went by and I went downtownto get the police report. Everybody kept
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saying, go downtown, get thepolice report. It is teddy everything.
So I go downtown and got apolice report, and I saw that he
was going to be a big file. So I looked at the information that
they gave me. I'm like,what is this. It's just saying accident
on shooting Mason Walker, d Steveblah blah blah blah blah blah, nine
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one one calls on the CD.So I'm like, wow, that is
of a police report. So Iwas went on home and start listening to
some of the audio recording the No. One one calls and everybody that was
calling in for help, I knewtheir voices and I heard some of the
perpetrators that later that I found outthat was involved. So that's when I
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hired a attorney and he did apublic record request. So when that came
back, we had everything, crimescene photographs, the full police reporting of
what happened, and we're going throughit and we're looking at the crime scene,
looking at my son laying in betweenthat position that the detectives were saying,
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and we're like, why this islike that? Why that gun is
over there on his less side andhe's right handed, and we were digging
into it, you know, themore photographs coming. Nothing was making sense
from that detective was telling me.So I took everything home and I stayed
up for nights just going over allthe information, listening to all the audio,
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recording the crime scene photographs. Nothingwas adding up. So when I
learned that something was wrong, whenI tried to talk to the textaves about
my son's body position, that itlooked like he was flid into that position
because it looked like that his tshirt was killed it halfway up his chest,
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like someone was right handed, wasmore stronger in their right hand was
pulling him. And the way thathis legs were stretched out up against the
wall, his head the baseboard,and his body was stretched out and his
feet was stretched out his seat.His foot the side was leaning left,
the right side was leaning right.So his hands was over laughing each other
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on his twists sole and his fingerswas crossing each other. And I'm looking
at the photographs, I'm like,wow, down the world. He was
dancing in a kitchen and flipped ona toy truck and shot himself and landed
like that. It looked like somebodyto me with common scent that God gave
us. It just didn't look right. And I'm looking at the photographs and
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I said, wow, they lookedlike somebody's slitting. Oh. I kept
digging and kept digging. Months andmonths was going allience stuff and I wasn't
hearing anything from Columbus police. Andthen I was looking at the high velocity
blowback that they said that was onmy son's right hand, and I'm doing
it in and out and I'm bringingit up and I'm like looking at my
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son's hand, crying because I seenhim in the terrible situation here. My
mind was like gomb So I'm lookingat the blood that they called physical their
only physical evidence, and I'm like, wow, why did look like it
just hit his arm his wrist ina downward motion, And then you can
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see where it bubble or tear withblood, I mean with brain matter in
the end of the blood, itstopped and it bubbled like a tear.
It didn't look right to me atthe time, and I didn't know what
blowbacks supposed to look like, soI thought that was strange. So Clembing
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police still wasn't interacting with me,and almost double back because we had to
go back to the corner's office topick up my son's belonging. And I
think that was the nineteenth of Octobertwenty fifteen. That was that Monday.
He was murdered that Friday the sixteenth, so that was October to nineteenth.
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We went to the corners to retrievemy son's belongings. So they had a
cell phone in the bag, hiswatch, and his walllet and we're looking
in his wallin, like where isID, where's his CDN license? Where
the honey that this girl love him? Were asking all these questions why his
phone likes Somebody try to open hisphone with a swipe in and his phone
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was all bloody. Then take thatinto evidence. So we're looking through his
phone with blood all on the phoneat the corner's office and we figured out
the past code was the last fourdigits of his social security numbers. So
the phone came on. We likeall the phone is on, so were
looking at his tags and trying tohear all his voice messages. So we
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saw a text in my son's phonefrom one of the perpetrators that was in
the kitchen that night said prepare yourselfstraight beef on site when I see you.
And I'm like, they did dosomething my son. They did do
something my son. So I endedup going home and I called the detectives
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that was over my son's case,and I had to basically buff him out
to come to get my thumb phonebecause there's crucial evidence in my son phoned
that he had a threat in hisphone. So he finally came. I
gave depected warning the phone and that'swhen we ended up getting the police report,
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the public record request because we heardhim investigating some of the perpetrators and
people that was all involved in whathappened but transpired that night. Willie Walker
was having a difficult time understanding justwhat exactly happened to his son. He
just could not understand how his son'sdeath could be considered an accident. We
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will take a short break and listento will he provide more details about what
transpired inside the home where his sondied. So tell me about who exactly
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was in the house with your sonwhen he died. Someone had to have
said that he was dancing around andplaying with a gun. Who actually said
that? Do you know nobody wassaying he was dancing. There was about
seven people that was in the kitchenand what was said that my son had
came from outside into the house.And a witness has said, now this
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is on audio recording on CPDE audiorecording, this is not for me.
This is what I heard on CPDaudio recording. The women said that my
son had came in to the house. He came in and two other kids
was feuding over a toy. Hegave one kid a toy and gave the
other kid a toy. It wasboth toy trucks, and he was playing
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with the kids on the floor andthe witness said, that's when my ma
thing got up and walked into thekitchen and immediately a gunshot went off.
So another audio recording of the perpetratorhad PPD had interviewed this perpetrator that we
know shot my son. His audiorecording. At first, he said that
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on the nine one one call,he was saying that he was in the
living room and he just heard apile and he grabbed his kids and ran
outside, and the nine one oneoperator was like, is the man still
breathing? And he said, Idon't know. I'm not going nowhere near
him, so let me get thatout the way. So the detectives was
asking him where was he because healready gave a statement where he was at.
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He was saying he was coming outof the kitchen. And remember the
girl, the witness had said thatmy son was walking out of the family
room into the kitchen. So thisperpetrator, the suspect, has said he
was coming out of the kitchen.And the detector said, so you guys
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pass each other through the threshold together, did you see a gun? And
vom makes in his hand and theperpetrator said no, and the suspect,
I'm calling the perpetrator and suspecting thesame thing the thus bac said and straconds.
Later the gun shot went off andhe turned around and saw my son
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sliding down the side of the refrigerator. So the detective was arguing with the
suspect, saying, no, yousaid that you were in the family room.
Now you saying that you was comingout of the kitchen. And the
detective was saying, we'll see,this is what muddies the water. Because
why is everybody lying? Everybody islying. If it's a simple accidental shooting,
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it should be one story. Istoo many different stories. So the
detective says, so what story youwant want to stick with? And that's
when we flipped, like why ishe letting this guy recap or just come
up with a different complete story thatwhat he had said from the beginning talking
to the nine one one operator andthe private detected. So that's when my
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private detected, you know, wefound the witness and she said, them
guys murdered my son and going backto the female started going back to the
other witness that was in the familyroom that said that my son was playing
around with the kid and walked intothe kitchen. The detected said, so
you think somebody did something and shesaid, yes, they shot that man.
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He said, so you think theykilled him or shot him and she
said yes, and he said whywould they do that? She like,
I don't know. She said thatshe did not see a gun nowhere on
my son because his clothes wasn't thatmuch and he gets something in the kitchen
and then the other suspects said theypassed each other in the shot happened immediately,
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so me and the detectives listening tothat, that's when we were saying,
well, that detective knew at thatmoment that this shouldn't be no accidental
shooting, that this should be ahomicide case. So they kind of swept
all of that fronder the rug,and we saw that witness that was saying
that my fellow was playing with thetoys and she mentioned that they shot that
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man. On his report, hesaid the witness said that Blank was sitting
in a living room and heard abang. Blank said, they ran out
of the house. And this iswhat I'm quoting. Blank said that they
were uncertain what happened to by Matsand Walker, and that's not what she
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said. She said they shot thatman, and they did not report the
right information. Everything was kept beingswept under the rug. So when I
had went back to my attorney's officeand we was talking about some things and
gave me some more stuff, andI learned that the reason why CPD wasn't
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working my son's case because they basicallytampered with the crime scene. They changed
the crime scene from homicide to accidentalshooting. Because me and the private investigators,
CPD wasn't cooperating with the So whenI got the private investigators involved and
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they was trying to work with CPDand realize that they wasn't going to get
anywhere, that's when we discovered thereason why, and it was the gun.
If you look at the crime scenephotographs that I have on vom Mason's
page on Facebook is photographs nineteen wherethe gun is laid on the kitchen floor
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next to von Mason's body. Sothe gun is on Vonasan's body left side,
and remember he's right handed, andwhen you zoom in you can see
blood. I'm gonna say about sevendistinctive blood dropping on this gun that you
can identify and photograph thirty four.Now this is the TPDE crime them photographs
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that we're looking at and you cansee and photographs thirty four that forensic blood
asident was white clean off the gun. The seven blood dropping and photographs nineteen.
It was cleaned off and then itwas manufactured bluod spatter on the back
end of the gun. I hadthis experts look at the gun. I
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didn't say much to him, andin his reporting all of this is documented
on the gun's flyer. If youjust stand the top right, QR code
it all. Everything that I'm talkingabout is on this path. So that's
when you could see the reason whyCPD wasn't working the case because it turned
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into a policemist on the case becausethey tampered and altered the gun. And
when they did that, they basicallyhelped them guys get away with murdering my
son. And that's why we hadvio cooperation with Colembus polief and they continued
to sweep the cap under the rug. My detectives try to bring that witness
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in that they set my son up. They brought the witness down to THPD
headquarters. Is this witness, thisgirl that you're talking about, Is she
the same girl that said that?No? Different, Okay, So this
is a different woman, not theone that said that he was playing with
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the kids. Yes, a differentfemale. So was the female witness that
you spoke to. Was she alsoin the house. She wasn't there.
They came to her house three dayslater and she heard them talk about it
and they told her what happened.Columbus Police, it's hearsay. So the
way they worked the cave is theyeluded their felth away from the truth because
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of what they did with the gun. Willie's investigator spoke to the woman who
claimed that von Mason's death was noaccident. She claimed that he owed money
to someone and was lured to thehouse to be killed. Willie has been
fighting with Columbus PD to investigate hisson's case as a homicide. We will
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take a final break and listen toWillie discuss his frustration with law enforcement's decision
to rule his son's death as anaccident and not a homicide. They wanted
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the case to be accidental shooting,and they didn't think that me, as
a parent, will get the publicrecord request. They thought that we was
going to believe everything that that theytell us, which we're supposed to because
they are the police. This istheir job. This is what they supposed
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to do. This is what theysigned up to do. We didn't ask
for none of this, and Iwasn't taking their word because it didn't make
sense to me. That night,my son dancing in the kitchen and flipped
on a toy truck and shot itselfin the head. I'm thinking when we
saw the gunshot wound to my son'sheyd that it was going to be from
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a distance. It's up close inBennett and my sons, and so all
of that is wrong. So PPDjust basically lied to my private investigators they
was going to pick up three ofthese suspects and bring them in, and
they never done that. We hadtwo of these suspects polygraph tested and they
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failed their test, and one ofthe questions was did you shoot or see
anyone shoot Vonason Walker that night?And they both failed miserably high numbers of
my investigator polygraph examiner explained, andTHPD was interested in that because they wanted
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to know the outcome. And whenI told Detective Warranted that both failed their
polygraph test, and what I gotback from him was like, that's two
guys from the same crime scene.He'd said, that's unheard of. I'm
like, yes, them, guyhas murdered my son, so what they've
done. Then they say we're gonnapolygraph these guys, and that never happened.
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So they just prolong and it justa prolethera alive. It just continued
and we solved my son's case.We know who shot him. Columbus police
even know that he was shot,and they know who's all involved? And
I have another story. When Iwent on December be stacking of twenty sixteen,
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I had a meeting with Detective Walkletand at the end of that meeting,
I said, Detective walk Lit,these guys murdered my son. He
said, Willie, I know,it's just a matter of proving it.
So I was like, dumbam foundit. I didn't have no response to
that, because if you know why, you're not doing nothing. They were
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just sitting on the case. Theywould take your information and just sit on
it and tell you things that they'regoing to do, which is not true.
They didn't do anything. And thatnight that detectives told me the bullet
went through my son's head. Ithit a critical old bottle on top of
the refrigerator, penetrated the wall fromthe inside and exted it out from the
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outside wall. And they couldn't findthe bullet flug. He said, it
is lost. I said, youguys can't find it. He's like,
no, they couldn't find it.But it took me two years to go
by that house. And I wentby the house. Lord behold their goal.
The bullet flood. Now, whenI was looking at the crime scene
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photographs. I thought the bullet wentinto the gutter system, and because it
looked like it was a hole.So when the people that was living there
at the time, you know,I told her what happened, and she
let me walk through the house.The bullet is still lodged in the house
inside the kitchen is still there,making it ever patch the walls or anything.
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So she let me get a ladderand I put it on. I
placed the ladder on the side ofher house and climbed up the ladder and
I'm looking at the exit hole.And when I looked up cop at the
what I thought was a hole,it was a dirt spot. I'm like,
that's dirt. Wow. The picturesit looked like it that's where the
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bullet went into the flug So immediatelyall you had to do, well,
all I did is turned around andI saw where the bullet ended up.
It was launching in the house nextdoor or so. Columbus police lied to
me that night, playing that theycouldn't even fund the bullet slug. So
I did a video of me andthat's also on Mason's flyer or me removing
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the bullet plug that Columbus police saidthat they could not find and I dug
it out. There was no othergunshot holes in the side of the house.
That was the only hole. Andit matched the bullet that I dug
out of the house, matches theexit you know, on the house next
to me where he was murdered atIt all linked up, man and so
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I put it in a bag,and I was happy that I retrieved the
bullet, but I was like,my mind was like gone, I'm like,
why are they lying to me?So I had a meeting with deathly
Chief Becker and Commander Gray. Ithought I was doing something going that high
up the ladder. It does notmatter when a crime happened like this and
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if the police misconduct, because it'snot the officer this time, it's all
the Texas in the crime scene unitthat need attention because they changed cases from
homicide to accidental shooting. So meclimbing up that CPD ladder, I'm getting
higher and higher. I'm like,whoa, I want to give them the
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bullet slug and my family like,no, no, no, don't give
it to them, don't get itto him. I'm telling them, I'm
getting ready to go and talk tothe commander and the Deputy chief. I'm
turning this bullet slug in. SoI went and gave them, gave them
the story, showed them the picturesof the gun with CPD betaked this did
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They wiped the gun clean and Ishowed them the bullet and they was like,
where that comes from? I said, this is the bullet slug that
CPD said that they couldn't find thatnight. And they kind of got quiet,
and they like, you found this, I said, I went knocking.
You see the date, I said, I went two years later and
that's where that bullet slug left.They didn't even look for it, So
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this is it. So the testresults came back inconclusive, you know.
Talking to people, they say,how is a bullet inconclusive? When a
bullet is far out of a gun, it leaves marking. So everything is
false. It's fiction with CPDE changingit from homicide to accidental shooting. So
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I'm gonna jump up ahead. Sowhen all of that was taking place and
my investigators got tired, So inthe house that von Mason died in,
did he live there? No,it was one of the perpetrators that lived
there, where my eldest son hungout at So why was your son at
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that house on that particular evening.Was he just hanging out with his brother
or friends? What was he doingthere hanging out? My son loved the
female, so he was being thethiequal to his female. So he had
a female to come over there todrop them all, and she was leaving,
and he was going to leave fromthere to go to his mom's house
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because he had another female over therewaiting on him because they were going to
go get them betting for his truckbecause he had that new job to start
that next day, so he wasexcited about that. That's why he ended
up over there. And that concludesthe first half of this week's story about
von Mason Walker. On October sixteenth, twenty fifteen, he was found deceased
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in a home in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Police Department has rolled Von
Mason's death as an accidental shooting.However, his family does not believe this
to be true. What truly happenedto Von Mason was his shooting an accident
or did someone kill him and getaway with murder. Willie Walker does not
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believe the Columbus Police Department will doanything with any tips that they might receive.
So he has asked that if youhave a valuable tip to please contact
him directly at six' one fourfour four one, six' nine one,
pint one. He would like toscreen out tips and then discuss the
ones that he keeps with law enforcementpersonally. I will be sure to include
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his contact information in the case storynotes, and if you are a parent,
law enforcement official, friend, orrelative seeking justice for an unsolved homicide
case, please visit my website andcomplete the contact more. Thank you for
listening up.
Hello, and welcome to the CatchMy Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.
My name is Mark. For overeight years, I've written a weekly
newspaper column about true crimes and missingpeople for the Claremont Side Newspaper in Ohio.
With a column and podcast, ithas always been my objective to bring
attention to those cases that have notreceived much media attention, if any.
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This week's story involves the shooting deathof a Columbus, Ohio man named von
Mason Walker on October sixteenth, twentyfifteen. He was visiting the home of
acquaintances for unknown reasons. Von Masonwas shot in the head and died.
According to his father, Willie Walker, the shooting death was ruled an accident.
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Willie was told that his son wasplaying with a gun and it discharged.
He has disagreed with the ruling ashe has spoken to people who are
inside the house and also a womanwho said Von Mason's death was no accident.
She claimed that he was killed overa debt that he owed to one
of the men in the house.Was Von Mason's death in accident or did
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someone intentionally kill this young man?Von Mason Walker was born on December twenty
fourth, nineteen ninety in Columbus,Ohio. His parents are Willie Walker and
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Jennifer Gilman. He had graduated fromhigh school in Mundsey, Indiana, and
had received his CDL so that hecould become a truck driver. He was
found dead in the home of anacquaintance on October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.
The only information that I was ableto find was his obituary. His father,
Willie Walker, would have to provideme the details about his son's death.
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Willie described his relationship with his sonas close. WILLI had become von
Mason's primary caretaker while von Mason wasa child. Von Mason was considered a
good son and was motivated to makehis own way in life. While discussing
career options, Willie encouraged his sonto hit the streets and talk to people
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about career options. Von Mason wouldtake his father's advice. For instance,
he had an interest in working security. He had spoken to different security guards
and asked questions about the profession.He would eventually become a security guard,
but after some time on the job, von Mason decided that he would follow
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on his father's footsteps and become atruck driver. Willie had felt that his
son had made a great career choiceand he was on his way to getting
set for life. Unfortunately, Willie'slife changed forever when he learned that his
beloved son had died from a gunshotwound on October sixteenth, twenty fifteen.
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According to Willie, he was toldthat von Mason was dancing around with a
gun and tripped over a toy andaccidentally shot himself. Willi said that this
was a deduction made from the ColumbusPolice Department. Because no one in the
house corroborated this story, Willie's deathwas ruled an accident. He would find
the explanation ludicrous and unbelievable. Hehired a private investigator who looked into the
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matter further. Based on the investigator'sfindings, von Mason's death was no accident.
Willie's private investigator spoke to a womanwho had knowledge about the incident.
She had spoken to someone who wasin the house and had witnessed the shooting.
She claimed that someone had he killedvon Mason because he owed money to
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someone. She also said that hewas lord to the home that night so
that he could be killed. Williehas spent the past several years trying to
get the Columbus Police Department to changeVon Mason's death from accidental shooting to a
homicide. As of today, hehas been unsuccessful. WILLI shared Von Mason's
story with me, hoping that someonewould listen to his pleas for help and
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getting to the truth of what reallyhappened to his beloved son. This is
part one of a two part story. Please be sure to listen to the
conclusion next week. And now onwith von Mason Walker's story, as told
by his father, Willie Walker.I was trying to find information about your
son online. Unfortunately, there's nothingabout the shooting. The only thing I
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could find was the obituary of yourson. I'm assuming this is because his
death was ruled as an accidental shooting, which you dispute. Yes, Columbus
police just swept it all up underthe rug. The night of the murder
twenty fifteen, we did see Channelsix out there, and later I found
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out by Detective Warnick that he toldthe news member that there is nothing to
report here, it's just an accidentalshooting. And at that time, I
was like, why would you dothat? Because being it when the news
can put fear in to the perpetratorsor something, and he just said it
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was an accident, and so theybasically shut everything down. Anything that could
have exposed the case to a homicide. They just basically just discredited everything.
So then you're telling me that youwould like to have Columbus, Ohio police
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change the death from accidental shooting toa homicide. Is that what you're trying
toccomplished? We had the case ofhomicide before. When I hired the private
investigators and gave them the same informationthat I gave PPD and my investigator Confidential
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Services, we have found a witnessthat them guys told her what happened.
So my private investigators located her askedher does she have any information about what
happened to by Mason Walker? Andthey was telling me that she cried and
she said yes, them guys murderedmy son and told everything and it's all
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on recording and I had the report. She said they set him up because
my son owed them some money andthey just wanted to get the money back
from him, and he resisted andthey didn't even shoot him, but they
put the gun up to his headand shot it and my private investigators asked
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her, did anyone say anything toyou far as moving the body, and
she said yes. They told herthat they moved his body somewhere in the
house. They didn't give her alocation of where they moved him, but
yes, they moved him. Andshe was telling on my private investigators that
they set it up to make itlook like a accidental shooting. That's where
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that toy truck come in. ThatColembus police was telling me that night that
my son, because I asked hetake the warning, what happened in that
house and he said, well,your son, with Danton in the kitchen
with gun in his hand and flippingon a toy truck, accidentally shot himself
in the head. He said,everything matches him holding the gun, the
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high velocity blowback on his right hand. Their overall evidence that he was holding
the gun, the head wound,he told me, And that audio recording
is missing. They got rid ofit because we did a public record request
and that wasn't with everything else.So he told me that night that if
you take your hand and make agun and bring it towards your head,
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you fit the direction of the gun, and everything fit. My son holding
the gun and I'm like, noway, no way, no no,
I know these people in this house. We then trying to get my son
to stop hanging around these people,and because they're a dark cloud, we
know who's shot him. The storyis crazy. So tell me more about
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your son as a person. Whatkind of a young man was he and
when was he born? And canyou tell me about his career aspirations.
My son's name is by Nathan Walker. He was born nineteen ninety twenty fourth
of Decemberary. He was a ChristmasEve baby boy, so he had Christmas
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and his birthday all tangled together,so he was special. He was born
at Grant Hospital and we brought himhome and I ended up with him because
he was a little too much atschool. So I was the constolio parent
of Bom Mason Walker. So Iraised him from the year of four or
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five all the way up into hisadulthood. So Von Mason was a typical
young man. He loved to rollerskate and do all the normal things kids
do at that age. He wasjust some normal kid. His grades were
like D in C plus, soI had to stay on him and he
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did graduate. I let him goto Indiana, where his mom lived at
the time, and he graduated fromhigh school and Mufee, Indiana. So
when he graduated, he came backhome and he started working at different little
places. I was showing him howyou find jobs. You look into paper
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and see what's going going on inthe newspapers, and I was telling him
sometimes you just got to fill upthe car and just go out to certain
areas and check out warehouses and talkto people security guards. So he wanted
to do that one time, andI told him sure, So we went
out. We had a great timeinteracting with security guards and they giving another
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information how to be a security guardbecause he was interested in a security guard.
So next thing you know, Iturned around he had a security guard
uniform. More life, so you'retelling on people. Now, he like,
I'm checking in truck driver and allthis kind of stuff. So from
that point he realized I met himfind his way because in my family we
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basically all in transportation, some kindof a truck drivers. Basically I'm a
truck driver. So when by Masonbecame a security guard and he was talking
truck drivers in and out, helearned where the money was at. So
he talked to me about it.He's like, Dad, why you didn't
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tell me about truck driver man.I said, I did say something to
you a little bit, but I'lljust let you try to find your way.
So he wanted to be a truckdriver, and he went to Columbus
State. They had this program overthere, and he found out about it
that he can join this program andthey will pay for a trade if you
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find a trade. So the truckdriving was a trade. So he fined
up for it. And I waslike, wow, Mason, you left
man because truck driving man, itcost out eleven twelve, sometimes fifteen thousand
dollars to get your endorsement. Sohe went through that. We was all
excited. It was almost like whenhe graduated and stuff. So he ended
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up with this flatbed job and hewas calling me. He was somewhere way
up in Wisconsin and he was sayingthat he got this big old machinery freight
on his flatbed and it's snowing andit's blowing. And Vob mclan was a
little guy. He wasn't no bigguy. He about five eight and a
half or five nine, maybe oneten or something like that. So he
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was telling me the tark that's supposedto secure the machinery. He grabbed hold
of it and he was like,Dad is just blooming me with the tarth.
I'm like, man, figure outthe tightest thing down, talking tow
him and everything. So he hada very interesting career. And the night
that he was murdered, he hadapplied for a new job where he was
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going to take on responsibility traveling thecountry side. He wanted to get away
from everything, and that job startedthat Saturday. So that Saturday, October
the seventeenth, and he was murderedOctober the sixteenth of twenty fifteen. So
that night, October the sixth,I was out of town because I'm a
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truck driver and I'd run out ofDayton. So I was coming back from
Dayton, Ohio, and my eldestson has sent me a strange peck and
I wasn't communicating with him very wellbecause he was all street. Anything he
do, it's all street and andthat was the type of person that he
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was. So he was doing alot of things and people was being hurt
around him. So that's when hewas trying to tell Va Mason to stay
Wapron damn because a dark cloud overthem. Family members are being basically killed
around my elder son. So Igot this strange picked that night, Friday,
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the sixteenth of twenty fifteen, Iwas coming from Dayton and it said
Dad. It then used to belike this, so it's cool, homeboy,
coming homeboy. Everything has changed bad. So he said something like you
shoot down everything that we talked about, so remember that shooting your stun down
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like that can have a change onyour life or something that he had said.
And I like, good rhythm tomy son, I'm like, man,
he finally got the message. Ididn't want to deal with him anymore
because he was too much in thestreet. So that's about around six point
twenty three ish that evening, andI was going to go by the house
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where my son later on was murdered, and I went to KOs and Bradnington
outfit and went home. So whenI got home and got myself together and
got ready to go to bed,the phone just kept ringing ringing. So
when I picked the phone up,that's when my brother out of town.
He's a driver from Arizona. He'slike, man, they trying to save
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Vam. Mason killed himself. SoI flipped out from that moment. I'm
like, what are you talking about? Like, get over there and get
over there, man. So I'mscreaming and hollering everything, and I finally
got myself together telling what they tryingto say. Mason killed himself and everybody
screaming and it was just all justa nightmare. So I finally naked over
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there and I saw my eldest son. He was at a distance, but
I saw the main person that lateron we found out that he was the
shooter, and I didn't know thatat the time. So I asked him
where was he at when all ofthis happened, and he said that he
was down the street at the barbershop, and They're like okay. Then I
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asked for the detective that was incharge to come out and talk to me,
and I asked him, I'm like, it's my numb Mason did in
that house and he like, yes, sir. I'm screaming, you know,
my mind going and stuff. I'mthrowing all out. I'm like,
no, what happened? And that'swhen he told me that by Mason Walker
was in the kitchen and he wasdancing with a gun in his hand and
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slipped on a toy truck and accidentallyshot himself in the head, and that
just didn't resonate with me. I'mlike, no way, I said,
are you sure? So he like, yes, sir, mister Walker.
Everything matches your son holding the gun. He said, if you take your
hand and make a gun and bringit towards your head and matches the wound
that's embedded in your son. Paidhe said, the blood on your son's
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right hand is high velocity blowback,and that's their only physical evidence that he
had his hand on the gun.And he said, mister Walker, my
only concern is your son's body positionis in between a playpen and this refrigerator.
And he did not elaborate with memuch more, but he had issues
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with my son's body provision. Sothat night went on and late wrapping us
the crime scene, we stayed outthere screaming and hollering, and my eldest
son still wasn't coming to me tellingme what's going on. And really he
street that's all he does, blackmarket dealing. He's a street guy,
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period. So I thought that wasweird, and I told him that he
better not have anything to do withthis. None of your family, and
we got into it because I wasscreaming and hollering at the police that something
is wrong. No, my sondidn't dancing in the kitchen and shoot itself
in the head. So my eldestsound was like, damn, you better
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stop cussing like that and talking aboutmy brother like that. I'm like,
you ain't saying nothing something is wrong. This ain't right, man, I'm
not going to buy that now.He shot himself in the head. So
the night ended and months had wentby it and I wasn't getting no calls
from CPD about the issue that detectedwarning with the crime scene. So I
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started calling and I was wanting tocome in and look at the crime tune
fold and he was telling me all, mister Walker, I don't think you
want to see it is too gruesometo graphics. So I bought that and
I was like, so how canI understand what you saying? Like the
bottom line, miss Walker, weunderstand you grieving your son shot and killed
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himself. And I was like,no way, and I'm not buying that,
not in that house where everybody amastermind criminal that hangs out in this
house. No, I know toomuch that's been happening with different individuals that's
hanging in that house. I'm notgoing to buy that. So some more
months went by and I went downtownto get the police report. Everybody kept
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saying, go downtown, get thepolice report. It is teddy everything.
So I go downtown and got apolice report, and I saw that he
was going to be a big file. So I looked at the information that
they gave me. I'm like,what is this. It's just saying accident
on shooting Mason Walker, d Steveblah blah blah blah blah blah, nine
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one one calls on the CD.So I'm like, wow, that is
of a police report. So Iwas went on home and start listening to
some of the audio recording the No. One one calls and everybody that was
calling in for help, I knewtheir voices and I heard some of the
perpetrators that later that I found outthat was involved. So that's when I
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hired a attorney and he did apublic record request. So when that came
back, we had everything, crimescene photographs, the full police reporting of
what happened, and we're going throughit and we're looking at the crime scene,
looking at my son laying in betweenthat position that the detectives were saying,
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and we're like, why this islike that? Why that gun is
over there on his less side andhe's right handed, and we were digging
into it, you know, themore photographs coming. Nothing was making sense
from that detective was telling me.So I took everything home and I stayed
up for nights just going over allthe information, listening to all the audio,
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recording the crime scene photographs. Nothingwas adding up. So when I
learned that something was wrong, whenI tried to talk to the textaves about
my son's body position, that itlooked like he was flid into that position
because it looked like that his tshirt was killed it halfway up his chest,
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like someone was right handed, wasmore stronger in their right hand was
pulling him. And the way thathis legs were stretched out up against the
wall, his head the baseboard,and his body was stretched out and his
feet was stretched out his seat.His foot the side was leaning left,
the right side was leaning right.So his hands was over laughing each other
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on his twists sole and his fingerswas crossing each other. And I'm looking
at the photographs, I'm like,wow, down the world. He was
dancing in a kitchen and flipped ona toy truck and shot himself and landed
like that. It looked like somebodyto me with common scent that God gave
us. It just didn't look right. And I'm looking at the photographs and
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I said, wow, they lookedlike somebody's slitting. Oh. I kept
digging and kept digging. Months andmonths was going allience stuff and I wasn't
hearing anything from Columbus police. Andthen I was looking at the high velocity
blowback that they said that was onmy son's right hand, and I'm doing
it in and out and I'm bringingit up and I'm like looking at my
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son's hand, crying because I seenhim in the terrible situation here. My
mind was like gomb So I'm lookingat the blood that they called physical their
only physical evidence, and I'm like, wow, why did look like it
just hit his arm his wrist ina downward motion, And then you can
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see where it bubble or tear withblood, I mean with brain matter in
the end of the blood, itstopped and it bubbled like a tear.
It didn't look right to me atthe time, and I didn't know what
blowbacks supposed to look like, soI thought that was strange. So Clembing
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police still wasn't interacting with me,and almost double back because we had to
go back to the corner's office topick up my son's belonging. And I
think that was the nineteenth of Octobertwenty fifteen. That was that Monday.
He was murdered that Friday the sixteenth, so that was October to nineteenth.
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We went to the corners to retrievemy son's belongings. So they had a
cell phone in the bag, hiswatch, and his walllet and we're looking
in his wallin, like where isID, where's his CDN license? Where
the honey that this girl love him? Were asking all these questions why his
phone likes Somebody try to open hisphone with a swipe in and his phone
(23:10):
was all bloody. Then take thatinto evidence. So we're looking through his
phone with blood all on the phoneat the corner's office and we figured out
the past code was the last fourdigits of his social security numbers. So
the phone came on. We likeall the phone is on, so were
looking at his tags and trying tohear all his voice messages. So we
(23:32):
saw a text in my son's phonefrom one of the perpetrators that was in
the kitchen that night said prepare yourselfstraight beef on site when I see you.
And I'm like, they did dosomething my son. They did do
something my son. So I endedup going home and I called the detectives
(23:52):
that was over my son's case,and I had to basically buff him out
to come to get my thumb phonebecause there's crucial evidence in my son phoned
that he had a threat in hisphone. So he finally came. I
gave depected warning the phone and that'swhen we ended up getting the police report,
(24:15):
the public record request because we heardhim investigating some of the perpetrators and
people that was all involved in whathappened but transpired that night. Willie Walker
was having a difficult time understanding justwhat exactly happened to his son. He
just could not understand how his son'sdeath could be considered an accident. We
(24:38):
will take a short break and listento will he provide more details about what
transpired inside the home where his sondied. So tell me about who exactly
(25:08):
was in the house with your sonwhen he died. Someone had to have
said that he was dancing around andplaying with a gun. Who actually said
that? Do you know nobody wassaying he was dancing. There was about
seven people that was in the kitchenand what was said that my son had
came from outside into the house.And a witness has said, now this
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is on audio recording on CPDE audiorecording, this is not for me.
This is what I heard on CPDaudio recording. The women said that my
son had came in to the house. He came in and two other kids
was feuding over a toy. Hegave one kid a toy and gave the
other kid a toy. It wasboth toy trucks, and he was playing
(25:57):
with the kids on the floor andthe witness said, that's when my ma
thing got up and walked into thekitchen and immediately a gunshot went off.
So another audio recording of the perpetratorhad PPD had interviewed this perpetrator that we
know shot my son. His audiorecording. At first, he said that
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on the nine one one call,he was saying that he was in the
living room and he just heard apile and he grabbed his kids and ran
outside, and the nine one oneoperator was like, is the man still
breathing? And he said, Idon't know. I'm not going nowhere near
him, so let me get thatout the way. So the detectives was
asking him where was he because healready gave a statement where he was at.
(26:47):
He was saying he was coming outof the kitchen. And remember the
girl, the witness had said thatmy son was walking out of the family
room into the kitchen. So thisperpetrator, the suspect, has said he
was coming out of the kitchen.And the detector said, so you guys
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pass each other through the threshold together, did you see a gun? And
vom makes in his hand and theperpetrator said no, and the suspect,
I'm calling the perpetrator and suspecting thesame thing the thus bac said and straconds.
Later the gun shot went off andhe turned around and saw my son
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sliding down the side of the refrigerator. So the detective was arguing with the
suspect, saying, no, yousaid that you were in the family room.
Now you saying that you was comingout of the kitchen. And the
detective was saying, we'll see,this is what muddies the water. Because
why is everybody lying? Everybody islying. If it's a simple accidental shooting,
(27:52):
it should be one story. Istoo many different stories. So the
detective says, so what story youwant want to stick with? And that's
when we flipped, like why ishe letting this guy recap or just come
up with a different complete story thatwhat he had said from the beginning talking
to the nine one one operator andthe private detected. So that's when my
(28:17):
private detected, you know, wefound the witness and she said, them
guys murdered my son and going backto the female started going back to the
other witness that was in the familyroom that said that my son was playing
around with the kid and walked intothe kitchen. The detected said, so
you think somebody did something and shesaid, yes, they shot that man.
(28:42):
He said, so you think theykilled him or shot him and she
said yes, and he said whywould they do that? She like,
I don't know. She said thatshe did not see a gun nowhere on
my son because his clothes wasn't thatmuch and he gets something in the kitchen
and then the other suspects said theypassed each other in the shot happened immediately,
(29:06):
so me and the detectives listening tothat, that's when we were saying,
well, that detective knew at thatmoment that this shouldn't be no accidental
shooting, that this should be ahomicide case. So they kind of swept
all of that fronder the rug,and we saw that witness that was saying
that my fellow was playing with thetoys and she mentioned that they shot that
(29:32):
man. On his report, hesaid the witness said that Blank was sitting
in a living room and heard abang. Blank said, they ran out
of the house. And this iswhat I'm quoting. Blank said that they
were uncertain what happened to by Matsand Walker, and that's not what she
(29:56):
said. She said they shot thatman, and they did not report the
right information. Everything was kept beingswept under the rug. So when I
had went back to my attorney's officeand we was talking about some things and
gave me some more stuff, andI learned that the reason why CPD wasn't
(30:18):
working my son's case because they basicallytampered with the crime scene. They changed
the crime scene from homicide to accidentalshooting. Because me and the private investigators,
CPD wasn't cooperating with the So whenI got the private investigators involved and
(30:40):
they was trying to work with CPDand realize that they wasn't going to get
anywhere, that's when we discovered thereason why, and it was the gun.
If you look at the crime scenephotographs that I have on vom Mason's
page on Facebook is photographs nineteen wherethe gun is laid on the kitchen floor
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next to von Mason's body. Sothe gun is on Vonasan's body left side,
and remember he's right handed, andwhen you zoom in you can see
blood. I'm gonna say about sevendistinctive blood dropping on this gun that you
can identify and photograph thirty four.Now this is the TPDE crime them photographs
(31:22):
that we're looking at and you cansee and photographs thirty four that forensic blood
asident was white clean off the gun. The seven blood dropping and photographs nineteen.
It was cleaned off and then itwas manufactured bluod spatter on the back
end of the gun. I hadthis experts look at the gun. I
(31:45):
didn't say much to him, andin his reporting all of this is documented
on the gun's flyer. If youjust stand the top right, QR code
it all. Everything that I'm talkingabout is on this path. So that's
when you could see the reason whyCPD wasn't working the case because it turned
(32:07):
into a policemist on the case becausethey tampered and altered the gun. And
when they did that, they basicallyhelped them guys get away with murdering my
son. And that's why we hadvio cooperation with Colembus polief and they continued
to sweep the cap under the rug. My detectives try to bring that witness
(32:30):
in that they set my son up. They brought the witness down to THPD
headquarters. Is this witness, thisgirl that you're talking about, Is she
the same girl that said that?No? Different, Okay, So this
is a different woman, not theone that said that he was playing with
(32:51):
the kids. Yes, a differentfemale. So was the female witness that
you spoke to. Was she alsoin the house. She wasn't there.
They came to her house three dayslater and she heard them talk about it
and they told her what happened.Columbus Police, it's hearsay. So the
way they worked the cave is theyeluded their felth away from the truth because
(33:16):
of what they did with the gun. Willie's investigator spoke to the woman who
claimed that von Mason's death was noaccident. She claimed that he owed money
to someone and was lured to thehouse to be killed. Willie has been
fighting with Columbus PD to investigate hisson's case as a homicide. We will
(33:36):
take a final break and listen toWillie discuss his frustration with law enforcement's decision
to rule his son's death as anaccident and not a homicide. They wanted
(34:06):
the case to be accidental shooting,and they didn't think that me, as
a parent, will get the publicrecord request. They thought that we was
going to believe everything that that theytell us, which we're supposed to because
they are the police. This istheir job. This is what they supposed
(34:27):
to do. This is what theysigned up to do. We didn't ask
for none of this, and Iwasn't taking their word because it didn't make
sense to me. That night,my son dancing in the kitchen and flipped
on a toy truck and shot itselfin the head. I'm thinking when we
saw the gunshot wound to my son'sheyd that it was going to be from
(34:47):
a distance. It's up close inBennett and my sons, and so all
of that is wrong. So PPDjust basically lied to my private investigators they
was going to pick up three ofthese suspects and bring them in, and
they never done that. We hadtwo of these suspects polygraph tested and they
(35:10):
failed their test, and one ofthe questions was did you shoot or see
anyone shoot Vonason Walker that night?And they both failed miserably high numbers of
my investigator polygraph examiner explained, andTHPD was interested in that because they wanted
(35:30):
to know the outcome. And whenI told Detective Warranted that both failed their
polygraph test, and what I gotback from him was like, that's two
guys from the same crime scene.He'd said, that's unheard of. I'm
like, yes, them, guyhas murdered my son, so what they've
done. Then they say we're gonnapolygraph these guys, and that never happened.
(35:52):
So they just prolong and it justa prolethera alive. It just continued
and we solved my son's case.We know who shot him. Columbus police
even know that he was shot,and they know who's all involved? And
I have another story. When Iwent on December be stacking of twenty sixteen,
(36:15):
I had a meeting with Detective Walkletand at the end of that meeting,
I said, Detective walk Lit,these guys murdered my son. He
said, Willie, I know,it's just a matter of proving it.
So I was like, dumbam foundit. I didn't have no response to
that, because if you know why, you're not doing nothing. They were
(36:38):
just sitting on the case. Theywould take your information and just sit on
it and tell you things that they'regoing to do, which is not true.
They didn't do anything. And thatnight that detectives told me the bullet
went through my son's head. Ithit a critical old bottle on top of
the refrigerator, penetrated the wall fromthe inside and exted it out from the
(37:02):
outside wall. And they couldn't findthe bullet flug. He said, it
is lost. I said, youguys can't find it. He's like,
no, they couldn't find it.But it took me two years to go
by that house. And I wentby the house. Lord behold their goal.
The bullet flood. Now, whenI was looking at the crime scene
(37:23):
photographs. I thought the bullet wentinto the gutter system, and because it
looked like it was a hole.So when the people that was living there
at the time, you know,I told her what happened, and she
let me walk through the house.The bullet is still lodged in the house
inside the kitchen is still there,making it ever patch the walls or anything.
(37:47):
So she let me get a ladderand I put it on. I
placed the ladder on the side ofher house and climbed up the ladder and
I'm looking at the exit hole.And when I looked up cop at the
what I thought was a hole,it was a dirt spot. I'm like,
that's dirt. Wow. The picturesit looked like it that's where the
(38:09):
bullet went into the flug So immediatelyall you had to do, well,
all I did is turned around andI saw where the bullet ended up.
It was launching in the house nextdoor or so. Columbus police lied to
me that night, playing that theycouldn't even fund the bullet slug. So
I did a video of me andthat's also on Mason's flyer or me removing
(38:32):
the bullet plug that Columbus police saidthat they could not find and I dug
it out. There was no othergunshot holes in the side of the house.
That was the only hole. Andit matched the bullet that I dug
out of the house, matches theexit you know, on the house next
to me where he was murdered atIt all linked up, man and so
(38:53):
I put it in a bag,and I was happy that I retrieved the
bullet, but I was like,my mind was like gone, I'm like,
why are they lying to me?So I had a meeting with deathly
Chief Becker and Commander Gray. Ithought I was doing something going that high
up the ladder. It does notmatter when a crime happened like this and
(39:17):
if the police misconduct, because it'snot the officer this time, it's all
the Texas in the crime scene unitthat need attention because they changed cases from
homicide to accidental shooting. So meclimbing up that CPD ladder, I'm getting
higher and higher. I'm like,whoa, I want to give them the
(39:39):
bullet slug and my family like,no, no, no, don't give
it to them, don't get itto him. I'm telling them, I'm
getting ready to go and talk tothe commander and the Deputy chief. I'm
turning this bullet slug in. SoI went and gave them, gave them
the story, showed them the picturesof the gun with CPD betaked this did
(40:00):
They wiped the gun clean and Ishowed them the bullet and they was like,
where that comes from? I said, this is the bullet slug that
CPD said that they couldn't find thatnight. And they kind of got quiet,
and they like, you found this, I said, I went knocking.
You see the date, I said, I went two years later and
that's where that bullet slug left.They didn't even look for it, So
(40:22):
this is it. So the testresults came back inconclusive, you know.
Talking to people, they say,how is a bullet inconclusive? When a
bullet is far out of a gun, it leaves marking. So everything is
false. It's fiction with CPDE changingit from homicide to accidental shooting. So
(40:45):
I'm gonna jump up ahead. Sowhen all of that was taking place and
my investigators got tired, So inthe house that von Mason died in,
did he live there? No,it was one of the perpetrators that lived
there, where my eldest son hungout at So why was your son at
(41:05):
that house on that particular evening.Was he just hanging out with his brother
or friends? What was he doingthere hanging out? My son loved the
female, so he was being thethiequal to his female. So he had
a female to come over there todrop them all, and she was leaving,
and he was going to leave fromthere to go to his mom's house
(41:28):
because he had another female over therewaiting on him because they were going to
go get them betting for his truckbecause he had that new job to start
that next day, so he wasexcited about that. That's why he ended
up over there. And that concludesthe first half of this week's story about
von Mason Walker. On October sixteenth, twenty fifteen, he was found deceased
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in a home in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Police Department has rolled Von
Mason's death as an accidental shooting.However, his family does not believe this
to be true. What truly happenedto Von Mason was his shooting an accident
or did someone kill him and getaway with murder. Willie Walker does not
(42:16):
believe the Columbus Police Department will doanything with any tips that they might receive.
So he has asked that if youhave a valuable tip to please contact
him directly at six' one fourfour four one, six' nine one,
pint one. He would like toscreen out tips and then discuss the
ones that he keeps with law enforcementpersonally. I will be sure to include
(42:39):
his contact information in the case storynotes, and if you are a parent,
law enforcement official, friend, orrelative seeking justice for an unsolved homicide
case, please visit my website andcomplete the contact more. Thank you for
listening up.
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